mated to have decreased 50,000 tons in October. In finished material the activity is most marked, and mills are generally well supplied with orders and indifferent to future business at present rates. A fair business is doing in rails. at the West. Twenty-eight dollars per ton is the price talked of. The railways are free buyers of cars and other material, and structural material tends upwards, although the intention of beam manufacturers to advance prices is not confirmed. The awarding of the government contract for armor plate at $425 per ton will swell the output of the steel industry by $15,000,000. Hardware is on improved distribution at nearly all points, and tin is higher in sympathy with wire advance at London.

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Wheat, including flour, shipments for the week aggregate 4,062,000 bushels, against 3,555,507 bushels last week, 4,540,007 bushels in the corresponding week of 1899, 5,569,141 bushels in 1898, 6,653,792 bushels in 1897, and 3,937,234 bushels in 1896. From June 1 to date this season's exports are 71,474,091 bushels, against 81,779,865 bushels last season, against 81,299,357 bushels in 1898-99.

Failures for the week in the United States number 227, against 161 last week, 199 in this week a year ago, 229 in 1898, 235 in 1897, and 308 in 1896.

Canadian failures number 27, against 17 last week, 19 in this wek a year ago, 24 in 1898, 31 in 1897, and 47 in 1896.Bradstreets.

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Prices of commodities advanced almost without exception, and all the changes in manufactured goods are in the direction of firmer quotations. The smallness of stocks of goods carried is a feature of our reports from most of the leading centers. Scarcity of labor gives manufacturers in the middle states great conceri. Activity at Cincinnati and steel mills steadily increases, and there is an equally uniform advance on the quotations. The gain has been more general this week than at any previous time this season, pig iron moving up to 25 cents a ton, and corresponding gains appearing in billets, plates and structural materials generally.

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White resigns.

2 Kt-Q B 3

3 P-B 4

4 Kt-B 4

5 P-Q5

6 P-Q (a)

7 B x P

8 B x P

9 P-Q 6 (b) 10 B x QP

11 R-K B sq (c) 12 P-K 5

13 Kt-Q 5

14 Kt-B 7 ch

15 B x P (e)

16 Kt-K 6 ch 17 Kt-B 7 ch (g) 18 B-Q 5 ch

19 Kt-K ? ch

20 Q-Q 2 ch

21 B-B 3 ch 22 Q-B 2 ch

23 Q-Kt 2 ch

24 Q-R 3 ch

25 Q-Kt 4 ch

C. A. Walbrodt, Black.

P-K 4

Kt-Q B 3

Px P

P-K Kt 4

P-Kt 5

P x Kt
Px P

Q Kt-K 2
Px P

Kt Kt 3

Q-Kt 3 (d) B-Kt 2

Q x P

K-Q sq
B x P (f)
K-K sq (h)
K X R
K-Kt 2
K-R 3
K-R 4 (i)
K-R 5
K-Kt 4
K-R 3
K-Kt 4

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