The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-02-20

amounting 70 more than sf7o 90 aa. was
less than TIE total Indicated assets. Only
cEse-tA1Ta shs number Of banks taas3ouaI
stare, ssvsnss. private sne trust COM
parisSA failed or suspended LAST year Ghat
we're reported embarrassed IN ISSs ard
tna reduction N total estimated liabilities
was the same IN proportion But inst
xacA szTze2rTs s.-osrts were IN enc Sensa
more serious ia ISIS than ia iSss Is plain.
3 the total Indicated assets II efsshzr-
FSSsS1 hanks IN ISS were s. GO 80 small
e. than the total estimated liabilities
There are $ business failures renartsd
from ghe Canadian 6asn;rken this week.
compared with - last week. s. IN the
week year sEo. and as compared with
q Two years 5go-
Review of the stock Market.
BraGStreets financial review tomorrow
vii say The action of the European
pawers ia Intervening in Crete revived use
pante&y feeling that was shown II ire
London and continental markets. last
week TIE situation as regards Turkey
ana Greece continues however. 50 strain
Ell That wAiSa fhere has been a recovery
q values ia the foreign markets there
nas been 80 revival ~ speculative acttS-
sfy t2ere- Ger cwn market Was helped
nv tApSa occurrences 20 tAa extent at
least ~ having the bear traders deprived
depressing Influences rem abroad
Al the same tlnse Gho ether chiof bear
tsn tSctoFs--t1r INVESTIGATION Of The ia
uASkfs&i companies hY a New York anEts-
la1iTe can8T0@tt azs-~has ceased TO have
much weight with tire street.
While inside support is stiu lack
bears upon them ceased and covering 81
taa large professional short interest
caused appreciation ga thsir prices. T'Ais
was the principal speculative movement OF
the week which indeed has been 4 iuiI
one throughout. ard given ZAP almost en-
urely 70 maneuvarinE BY heard room
traders. Among the other incidents
leading place must Do given 20 the an
thraclte ceal stocks. which were infiu-
enced BY the accounts o. continued un-
satisfactory conditions In che trade and to
a greater extent BY the decline Of Lehieh
Valley stock W Philadelphia. which broke
from 2SAs 20 Fl Emphatic denialS were
made q reports about an impending re-
Ownership. bur the action OF the market
certainly hetokened liquidation On con-
siderable scale.
The fact that sran interests largely re-
gard the disruption % the steel ran pool
with satisfaction and that tina break IN
rails has attracted large orders and STEAD
aea The. market have not yet had fayora-
be effect on the hitumlnous carving
roads. Hooking Valley. ia particular,
showed "A decline from sA 70 sis per cent.
Tor the common stories that the March /
interest might be dafaulted ana that a
readtustment OF the con1pany's finances
Was contemplated found believers ia spite
q onieial aenials. The Gould stocks have
been The object OF some attention. paFtlca-
larry Manhattan. which declined from
sesa % Ssts. The principal influenee I'm this
stock ia thu news that the management
has decided on @Quipping IL with electric
power and that - this end an application
FOR fresh capital IS necessary. Missouri
Pacific declined from aIik TO I9N ana
Western Union was affected by a renewal
OF the old story that the Baltimore g.
Ohio's block of stock was coming on the
market
Railroad earnings were irregular. though
no very unfavorabla exhibitions appeared,
aud the granger stocks generally acted
steadily.
Bank Cieartngs.
The following table. complied by Brad
streets shows the total clearancez at tho
principal cities and she percentage OF In
crease or decrease, as compared with the