Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-07-18
ARE HARD TO FIND.
General Situation in business Circles
Makes Signs of Trouble Dittis
cult of Location.

New York, July H.-R. G. Dun & Co.'s
weekly review of trade says: Because
every prospect pleases, it is the right time
to watch most closely for signs of trouble.
But it is not easy to find them when the
volume of business is G3.7 per cent. larger
than last year and 75.5 larger than In 1892,
the best of all years except the last or
when failures continue the smallest ever
known, or when the exports of staples be-
gin to improve materially, or when rail-
road business is by far the best ever
known, or when New York bankers appear
in international operations, listening to
Russian inquiry and undertaking a Mex
lean loan. Even the industrial disputes in
sident to the season cause less trouble
than usual, the largest of them having been
settled Thursday by the tin plate COM
pany. The Bank of England finds it diff
f1cult to borrow more from this side and
frankly raises its rate, while this country
begins to ship fresh crops for which Europe
will run into debt.
Failures for the week have been 169 in
the United States, against 215 last year, and
"a IN Canada, against 20 last year"
Bradstreet's says: New features in the
general trade situation this week are of an
almost uniformly favorable character So
rare. indeed. are tn disturbing features
as to necessitate considerable search to To-
cate them. Additional statistics of past
trade movements received are certainly of
an encouraging nature, foremost among
these being exceptionally good railway earn
ings returns for June and the first half of
the year and ascertained totals Of an enor-
nous export trade, practically equal to the
phenomenal business of the preceding fiscal
year. The record of railroad receiverships
for the first half of the year bears a strik-
Ing resemblance to the list of business NOR
talittes, inasmuch as theyare the smallest
in number reported since receiverships
first became prominent.
I'm industrial lines the outlook is a
promising one. The settlement of the coal
miners strike in Pennsylvania and of the
tin plate workers dispute bids fair to re-
suit in nearly 10000 men resumng work
after the summer shutdown. number
of wage increases are also among the
weeks developments
THE price situation is naturally strong
one, wheat and coffee alone of all promi-
nent staples being lower on the week, and
the former only fractionally SO, owing to
large receipts at the west and the check
to export demand caused by reaction from
the price reached some time ago"
Christian Unioners Elect omcers.
Lynn, Mass, July II. AT Saturdays
session of the national convention of
the Young Peoples Christian union.
President Henry N. Fowler, of Cleve.
land, was reelected. Other officers
were chosen as follows: General sec
rotary, Rev. A. j. Cardell, of South
Boston; general treasurer, Louis A.
Ames, of New York; executive board,
J. c. Bond, Georgia; Anna E. Stevens,
Lewiston, Me-; George L. Sears, Chica-
go; Cora A. Wilder, Brooklyn, Pa. O..
j. Buckley, of Chicago, presented res
olution calling upon the United States
congress to refuse to seat Congressman
elect Brigham H. Roberts,;of Utah, but
the resolution was defeated