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Embarrassed Banks. SPRINGFIELD, Mo., July 12.-The Bank of Commerce has failed. The last statement showed assets, $256,000; surplus, $10,000; deposite, $176,000. GARNETT, Kan., July 12.-The Bank of Garnett, one of the leading institutions of Anderson county, has failed. The bank held $13,000 county funds. It is believed to be able to pay in full. WASHINGTON, July 12.-The comptroiler of currency has appointed E. R. Fogg receiver of the Nebraska National bank of Beatrice, Neb.
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CONCERNING BUSINESS AND FINANCE. GARNETT, KAS., July 11.-The Bank of Garnett, one of the leading institutions of Anderson county, closed its doors this some morning, catching depositors for rather heavily, and the county treasury $13,000 county money. A statement of liabilithe bank will be but now ties pay thought out, and assetts considerable is unobtainable. able excitement in time It to is prevails. The banks here are prepared to withstand any run that may be started. SPRINGFIELD, Mo., July 11.-The Bank of Commerce has failed. It is the first bank failure in the history of Sprinfield, Mo. The last statement showed $256,000 in resources, a surplus of about $10,000 and $176,000 in deposits. T. J. Ray, an extensive dry goods dealer, has failed for $15,000. CHICAGO, July 12.-Chas. M. Barnes, stationer and bookseller, assigned to-day. Assets, $171,000; liabilities, $118,000. Confessions of judgments entered last night in the Superior Court caused the suspension. WASHINGTON, D. C., July 12.-The offers of silver for sale to the Treasury Department aggregated 375,000 ounces at prices ranging from 72a7316 perounce,all of which were declined and 711/6 tendered. MILWAUKEE, July 12,-The grand jury, after investigating the failure of F.A. Lappen & Co. and the Plankinton bank, has reported indictments for all the officers and directors of the Plankinton bank. They are: F. L. Day, president; Wm. Plankinton, vice president; Wm. H. Momsen, cashier, and Eugene Elliott, F. W. Noves, C. L. Clason, and Judge James J. Jenkins, directors. Judge Jenkins was the first of the indicted bank officials to be placed under arrest. The others soon followed, and Judge Walker fixed their bail at $5,000 each. The bank officers, with the exception of Mr. Day, are charged with receiving money when the bank was insolvent. It is understood that Mr. Day will have to answer the charge of embezzlement Day is at the Indiana Sanatarium and officials of that State have been directed to hold him until a requisition can be obtained. It is understood that another indictment has been suppressed. It is supposed to be that of Owen A. Lappen, brother of Frank Lappen, and a member of the wrecked firm of Frank A. Lappen & Co. The announcement of the indictments and arrests caused intense excitement throughout the city. The parties are all prominent in business and society circles and their unfortunate predicament is the subject of general regret. Mr. Noyes, one of the indicted directors, is too ill to appear in court and consequently is under surveillance at his house. The bail in the case of the indicted bankers was fixed at $5,000 on each count. This makes Wm. Plankton's bail $30,000 and that of the other prisoners $15,000. WASHINGTON, D. C., July 12.-The gold reserve to-day increased $599,898, the total amount being $97,886,575. The currency balance remains at about the same figure, $27,353,881. CRAWFORDSVILLE, IND., July 12.-Robinson & Wallace, book dealers, one of the most extensive and oldest firms in this city, assigned to-day. All of their home creditors are preferred, but it is thought that the astets will nearly equal the liabilities.
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EMBARRASSED NATIONAL BANKS. Trenton. N. J.. July 12 (Spectal.-William Y. John son Assistant Attorney-General of the State, was today appointed as receiver of the broken Comerset County Bank. Shareholders r presenting a little over one-half the stock of th bank. objected to the appointment of any receiver. Alvah A. Clark. speaking for them before ChanceHor MeGIII. expressed the lear that the more valuable assets of the bank would be sacrificed If not handled by the present managers of the institution. Inspector Large, for the other sharehosders, demanded a receiver. and Chancellor MeGIII thought a wholly disinterested party bught to wind up the affairs of the bank. He then named Mr. Johnson for the duty. Ex-Congressman Pidcock. whose failure is said to have brought about the suspension of the bank, had a receiver appointed for his New-Jersey Sheep and Wool Company, John Garrick, of Jersey City, being the man. Garnett. Kan.. July :-The Bank of Garnett. one of the leading institutions of Anderson County. closed its doors this morning, catching some depositors rather heavily and the county treasurer for $13,000 of county money. A statement of liabilities and assets is nnobtainable. It is thought that the bank will be able in time to pay out. but much exettement now prevails. The banks are prepared to withstand any ran that may be started. Shelbyville, III., July 12.-The sensation in regard to the failure of the Thornton Bank has been heightened by the failure of the Starr mill for nearly $80,000. The bank has long carried the mill and among the 11a. bilities of the latter is about -70,000 dae Thornton & son. The promised statement of the bank's fallure is not yet ready to be given out. springfield, Mo., July P.-The Bank of Commerce has failed. It is the first bank failure in the history of Springfield. The last statement showed *256,000 in resources, a surplus of about $10,000 and $176,000 in deposits. J. T. Gay, drygoods dealer. has failed for $15,000.
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NEWS NOTES. Five new cases of cholera and four deaths from the disease, occurred in Toulon, France, yesterday. The comptroller of the currency has appointed E. R. Fogg receiver of the Nebraska National bank of Beatrice. Lord Chief Justice Coloridge of England has entirely recovered from his indisposition, and is again upon the bench. The trustees of Lane Theological seminary have accepted the resignation of Professor Henry Preston D. Smith. The remains of Justice Samuel Blatchford were placed in the family vault at Greenwood cemetery at noon yesterday. The total value of exports of domestic breadstuffs from the United States during the month of June, was $15,912,751. Offers of silver to the treasury yesterday aggregated 375,000 ounces at $0.72 to $0.735; all were declined and $0.715 tendered. The town of Luckey, o., near Toledo, last night suffered from fire which destroyed the entire business section. Loss $100,000. An incendiary fire destroyed a large part of the business section of Maxwell, Cal., yesterday morning, involving a loss of $100,000. Three cases of typhus fever have been discovered among emigrants who arrived at Philadelphia from New York in the last ten days. The Bank of Commerce of Springfield, Mo., has failed. The last statement showed assets of $256,000; surplus$10,000; deposits, $176,000. The main building of the John Morrell company packing house at Ottumwa, Ia., burned last night. Loss $500,000, fully covered by insurance. In a letter to A. J. Richard of Fort Scott, Attorney-General Little of Kansas intimates that the state administration has thrown prohibition over. The negro Henry Fleming who stabbed to death Mr. Mincher, Monday night was taken from the officers at Columbus, Miss., on yesterday and hanged. The government of Indfa has agreed to accept silver of the exchange banks which will lose the insurance, freight and charges, but will save seignorage. A negro named Robert Larkin was lynched shortly after noon yesterday by citizens of Citria, Fla., and vicinity, for ravishing Miss Fannie Alexander last Monday noon. The Bank of Garnett, Kan., one of the leading institutions of Anderson county, has failed. The bank held $13,000 of county funds. It is believed it will be able to pay in full. Charles W. Barnes, stationer and bookseller of Chicago, made an assignment yesterday. Assets, $177,000; liabilities, $113,000. Judgments entered against him caused the assignment. The gold reserve yesterday was increased $599,898, the total amount being $97,886,575. The currency balance remains at about the same figure, $27,353,881. Oscar Neebe, the anarchist recently released from the penitentiary, was married yesterday afternoon to Mrs. Eliza Hepp. The bride is the owner of a flourishing saloon. Two men were killed, two fatally injured and two badly hurt by an explosion of gas in the Ettebone mine, operated by the Lackawanna company at Wyoming, Pa.. last evening. The National Retail Liquor Dealers association in Chicago spent yesterday in the adoption of a constitution and the election of officers. W. E. Beatty of Indianapolis, was elected president and R. J. Hall of Chicago, secretary. After which they adjourned to meet in St. Louis at the call of the committee.
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CAUGHT THE COUNTY. Bank Failure at Garnet, Kan., Ties Up Public Funds. GARNET, Kan., July 12.-The Bank of Garnet closed its doors this morning, catching some depositors rather heavily and the county treasurer for $23,000 county money. It is thought the bank will be able on time to pay in full. No further statement is obtainable. NEW YORK, July 12.-C. H. Burrel, H. S. Tober and W. Barrow failed on the Consolidated exchange today. The failures are small ones. HARRISBURG, Pa., July 12.--In response to the application of Attorney General Stanahan, the court has granted orders on the Philadelphia Mutual Life Insurance company and the Keystone Benefit Association of Beaver Falls, requiring them through their counsel to appear on Sept. 25 and show cause why their business should not be closed and a distribution of their effects made. CHICAGO,July 12.-Charies M.Barnes, stationer and book seller, assigned today. Assets, $175,000; liabilities, $113,000. Confessions of judgment entered last night in the superior court caused the suspension. DEDHAM, Mass., July 12.-0. E. Nettleton, a stock broker in Boston, failed today. Liabilities, $41,000. CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., July 12.Robinson & Wallace, book dealers. one of the most extensive and oldest firms in this city, assigned today. PHILADELPHIA, July 12.-Judge Butler, in the United States district court. has confirmed the report of James C. Sellers, the master who audited the account of Thomas Montgomery, the receiver of the Universal Order of Co-operation. The members will receive 30 per cent on their claims. SPRINGFIELD, Mo., July 12.-The Bank of Commerce here has failed. It is the first bank failure in the history of Springfield. The last statement showed $256,000 in resources, a surplus of about $10,000 and $176,000 in deposits. J. T. Gray, an extensive dry goods dealer, has failed for $15,000. New YORK, July e.- Harris Bros., dealers in gloves, have assigned. Liabilities, $100,000; assets, $50,000. TRENTON. N. J., July 12.-John Garry was today appointed receiver for the New Jersey Sheep and Wool company. Ex-Congressman J. W. Pidcock was a large stockholder in this concern. The court also issued an order restraining Mr. Pidcock from disposing of a chattel mortgage of $43,000 which he boids against the sheep and wool company.
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Telegraph Notes. OSCAR NEEBE, the released anarchist, was quietly married the 12th to Mrs. Eliza Hebb. She owns a saloon in Chicago. THE Minneapolis Evening Journal of July 12th has the statement that all banks belonging to the clearing house, except the Nicollet National bank, have signed an agreement to protect each other by paying a pro rata sum into the clearing house, should it be needed, for the protection of any Minneapolis bank. This is equivalent to saying there can be no bank suspensions in Minneapolis. THE South Dakota building at the world's fair was dedicated the 12th. C. A. SMITH, of Denver, Colo., challenges any man in the state to an onion eating match. THE Bank of Commerce, Springfield, Mo., has failed. It is the first bank failure in the history of the city. `The Charles Parker company of Meridan, Conn., manufacturers of lamps, screws, etc., shut down the 12th, for an indefinite period. THE negro, Henry Fleming, who stabbed Mr. Michner to death, was taken from the jail at Columbus, Miss., the night of the 12th and hanged by a mob. The entire family of Isaac Mitchell, consisting of five persons, of Charleston, S. C., were poisoned the 12th. Mitchell and his daughter, Ada, are dead and the others critically ill. Physicians state the victims died from arsenical poisoning. FIRE the 12th destroyed nearly all of the town of Princeton, Ind. One death is reported. Loss, $250,000. Two distinct shocks of earthquake were felt at Albuquerque, N. M., the 12th. Two men were killed, two fatally injured and two badly hurt, the 12th, by an explosion of gas in the Pettibone mine at Wilkesbarre, Pa. ROBT. LARKIN was lynched by a mob at Citrio, Fla., the 12th, for assaulting Miss Fannie Alexander.
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OUR PROSPERITY( is situation "They Say" the the Financial Banks and Under- Business A Better, but to Go are Men Continue of the Largest Few Reported Below. merchant a large the 10th. Mr. D. D. C., failed manufac Winston, Schouler, N. Lunn, made on an at tobacco assign Hodgin Winston, & have $50,000. turers, Liabilities over Twosmall failures Both on are ment. LONDON, announced July 11. this change, morning with small liabilities. are brokers Ill, bankers. July 11.-Thorn with de have SHELBYVILLE, & Co, private of a million, of ton posits of a quarter In Flour failed bank for $500,000 failure the Star with liabilities the were forced to assign, of $75.000. county, Lakey, of accounts Yadkin and taken the is short Ex-Sheriff $9,000 commissioners in his have upon which some county from him the tax $4, 000 books, of back taxes due and there incollected. are O. July S.-The dealers business in iron The of CLEVELAND Carrigan, the Ires hands & Co., of a receiver. ores, liabilities OGDEN, is in are Utah, heavy. Oscar July 10. Hill, It Bank, cashier has been is of a defaulter to the into voluntary the bank discovered Commercial will go that amount National of $65,000. 11.-The liquida The tion. GALVESTON, Texas, Land July and Improve. hands Galveston went into the liabili ment North receiver Association yesterdooo, 000, The of various which of ties a are estimated contractors at and $160,000 are due in the city. Hercules other CHICAGO, parties July 11.-The owner of fair the Iron storage Works Company, warehouse at the for the cold made an assignment this Title grounds, benefit of their creditors and Trust The assets Company estimated at at $200,000. are ties is The named Chicago estimated as the $400,000. assignee. The New The Zealand liabiliLoan and LONDON. are Mercantile July offices 10. of Agency which Company, are in conse at the limited, Portland quence have of the house, the lately reflex failed occurred action to The day in of the concern crashes Aus that world. engaged tralian financial of the most important affairs. The M. was Australian one financial company is Henry in of the directors are Among Postmaster Hinistry James manager Paul. Ferguson, the 's recent General Sir to in Lord Jno. Salisbury Gorst, Financial the same Secretary adminis- the and of the are The capital of $400,0 000 the tration others Sir treasury members Sir under Geo. which Russell. the present company All Par had liament. $4,500,000, of Three quarters of the was been called fall up. on peoplein Great M Britain. Barnes, loss CHICAGO, will July 12 seller, Chas. signed $113, to $175,000. stationer and book Liabilities entered day. Confession Assets of Superior judgment Court for 000. last night in the suspention. caused 12 MILWAUKEE, Bank the of the under the law of $75,000 directors the Wis Blakington July All of have the been indicted the responsibility G. Jen State directors. defining Judge James and Eugene Elliott have bail. kins, bank Wm. appeared Blakington in court and presumably will give 12. The failure broker, of William LONDON, 'Baker July Gardens, Moore, was stock announced 9 Draper's afternoon. the wholesale Abraham New York, at No. and exchange shoes, Levy, this about dealer assigned $35,000. in boots the 10th. Liabilities silk manufacturer, Marlborough on Theodore Tietz, Mills, Conn., has assigned. Liabilities heavy. &Son, Trenton, N.J., in have wool and hides. assigned. L. Simon Wholesale dealers Manufacturing Company, Liabilities New The York, New have assigned. $182,000. David C. Robinson, New York, as signed J.S. on Conover the 10th. & Co., N. Y., assigned on the Brittanica 11th. Publishing 11th. Company, New The F. F. York, Morton, assigned New on York, the assigned on the 11th. Amweg, Philadelphia, assigned F.J. the 11th. Liabilities $300,000. contractor, on Brookline, E. F. Knapp, Mass., assigned large July on the 12 11th The SPRINGFIELD, Mo., with a capital Bank of $50,000, Commerce, deposits of $17,600, closed stock of to the last statement, its doors Col., July 10. One failures in the according DENVER, yesterday. West was an. Chamberlain of the heaviest to day when the its doors. nounced Company closed real is one of the in This concern investment companies United Investment estate States. largest failure the PHILADELPHIA, July 10. broker, -The tradof A. Y. Davidson, stock & Co., was aning as A. on the Stock House, one of afternoon. nounced Kennard Y. Davidson Exchange Ohio, the lead- was this The hotels of Cleveland, this placed ing in charge of refitted an assignee and newly opened morning three It was months ago, but the
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LATE TELEGRAPHIC JOTTINGS BOTH FROM HOME AND ABROAD. What is Going On the World Over. Important Events Briefly Chronicled. Financial and Commercial. The following are among the failures chronicled on Tuesday: The Kansas City Safe Deposit Company: assets $2,000,000, liabilities $1,700,000; the North Galveston Land and Improvement Association, liabilities $500,000; the Star Mills at Shelbyville, Ind., liabilities $75,000. assets $55,000; the Camp Creek Coal Company, of Cleveland, O., liabilities and assets each $30,000. The banking house of W. T. Thornton & Son, of Shelbyville, Ill., liabilities $500,000; assets unknown. The Hercules Iron Works Company, own. er of the cold storage warehouse at the World's Fair that burned down Monday, made an assignment. The assignment was caused by the loss at the fire. The assets are estimated at $400,000 against $200,000 liabilities. The fire caused a loss of $200.900. The Terre Haute, Indiana, car works, one of the largest plants of the kind in the country, made a voluntary assignment without preference. The liabilities are $191,000 with 884,000 contingent liabilities. The assets amount to $600,000. Over 900 men are thrown out of work. The Bank of Commerce, of Springfield, Mo., with a capital stock of $50,000 and deposits of $17,600 closed its doors. The Bank of Garnet, Kansas, closed its doors catching the county treasurer for $23,000. The Bank of New Castle, Col., a private institution, assigned. Liabilities $27,000; assets $33,000. The bankers of Harrisburg, Pa., in inter views on Wednesday, declared in favor of the repeal of the Sherman silver law. They said the financial situation was already improving and would grow better.
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GENERAL NEWS NOTES. Quarters. Items of Interest Gathered From Various Harry Tingle, of Ottawa, who was was bitten by a dog twelve years ago, attacked with hydrophobia last week. Henry Fleming, a negro, was lynched a at Columbus, Miss. He had stabbed white man. At Parkersburg many prominent citihave been indicted for renting property zens for immoral purposes. A fire at Princeton, Ind., destroyed 25 of business houses, entailing a loss $300,000. Twenty five families at Mansfield twelve were poisoned by eating cheese, and persons were not expected to recover. After being fed three tramps set Dun- fire to the house of Mrs. Herrick, near kirk. The Viking ship has arrived at Chicago. The Bank of Garnet, Kansas, treasurer closed its doors. catching the county for $23,000. a Bank of New Castle, Colo., Liabiliprivate The institution, assigned. ties, $27,000; assets, $33,000. The Bank of Commerce, of Springfield, and with a capital stock of $50,000 of $17,600, closed its Enochs, Ironton deposits Mo., Congressman of the doors. Tenth Ohio, was found dead in bed at on Thursday morning. A new party has been formed in New York to down Tammany. A new comet has been discovered. and is It is visible to the naked eye located in constellation Lynx. wreck on the West Shore road, In a Newburg, N. Y. five people were killed near and a dozen badly injured. Dr. Henry Meyer and wife have been arrested at Detroit charged with poisoning persons to get their insurance money. There is a prospect of large shipments a to Europe and consequently in this good of hay price for that product country. Paul Clauch died from sunstroke at Sandusky. Ironwood, Mieh. a town of 10,000 population, At there are 350 cases of typhoid fever. At Port Clinton, O., Mary Gear, aged aged and Annie Schrober, exseventeen, were burned to death by the five, of a two-gallon can While shocking wheat near plosion of lightning gasoline. Gutman, O., John Powell was struck by and killed. French Gunboats forced their way up Menam river in Siam, and fourteen twenty Siamese the were killed and wounded in the fight. The World's Fair will hereafter be closed on Sunday. About three thousand pensions have been suspended for further investigation. Sturgis F. Dick, a banker, shot because and killed himself at Meadville, Pa., of run on his bank. a tornado at Stillwater. Minn., killed A men and injured several others. two The fall of the Bastile was scarcely celebrated at all in Paris. has been decided that all Keeley tax. Institutes It must pay the government Yellow fever has made its appearance shipboard at Norfolk, Va. on tornado demolished a Catholic church A and several dwellings at Leipsic, Ohio. A suspicious case resembling vessel cholera at discovered on board a Philadelphia was just in from France. was arrested in Pike county the A man exhumed a corpse, taken clothes who had off the body. and was wearing them. The Kaufman Brewing Co., of Cincinnati, has failed. Baighle shot his mother water at Tontogany, George O., for throwing some his face to wake him. in Ironton Vira White had her skull crushed At by a runaway horse kicking a of wheels her. Harety Higginbotham train was he crushed was attempting under the to board at Massillon. end collision on the Panhandle and at A Jewett rear demolished one engine fifteen freight cars. stand containing 1.000 persons col- by A at Montreal causing a panie which lapsed many were injured. The German army bill passed the reichstag 201 to 185. Two hundred homing pigeons were liberated at the World's Fair. Rev. Henry A. Adams, formerly Baffalo, pastor Paul's Episcopal church. Redeemer, New of St. of the Church of the Roman and later York, has joined the Catholic church. Columbian Liberty Bell, removed recently to The Troy, N. Y.. is to be Sepcast at Francisco and is to be rung the 43rd San 9 at the celebration of of Calianniversary tember of the admission fornia as State. Omaha George Williams They hacked were At Andrew Rying. disreputable rivals to pieces for the affections of a in woman. Cleveland was account burned of effigy President at Kingman, A. T., on his attitude on silver. a of the Grand Trunk struck Four A train street car in Chicago. others persons crowded were killed and many injured. Kaiser, of Germany, is not a repre- coming to the The Fair, but will send sentative. Branch a runaway horse diffi- ran into At a Long hotel bedroom and was with culty gotten out. Amos L. Newell, of Fairmont and his W. body Va., robbed and murdered track. placed was on the railroad is a movement on summer. foot to keep There the World's Fair next open premature explosion of two a bomb were By a Italian pienie at Chicago at killed an and others seriously injured.
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TOLD INAFEW WORDS WEEK'S NEWS FROM ALL SECTIONS BOILED DOWN. Everything but Facts Eliminated For Our Readers' Convenience The Many Happenings of Seven Days Reduced From Columns to Lines. Thursday, July 18. Judge Pryor of New York denied the motion of Alexander Pollock for a new trial in the case in which his wife secured a verdict of $37,000 damages. Jim Bell, a notorious and much wanted thief, was captured in New York. Serious political troubles are brewing in Peru. A barrel of turpentine exploded in a paint factory in West Superior, Wis., and blew the engineer out of the window. Another person of the number injured in the Iowa cyclone died at Pomeroy. Milwaukee bankers have been indicted by the grand jury for illegal banking. The Viking ship arrived at Chicago. When Edward Geoghegan, the Brooklyn wife murderer, was resentenced to be executed on Sept. 4. he tried to break his handcuffs and had an epileptic fit, all of which created a great sensation in the courtroom. Friday, July 14. The Falcon, Lieutenant Peary's ship, arrived at St. John's, N. F. There will be an international exposition at Antwerp next year from May till October. General Jardine's condition is very critical. Mrs. Jardine, who was taken ill owing to her long vigil at the bedside of the general, is slightly better. S. S. Garrison, superintendent of the Home For Feeble Minded, at Vineland, N. J., is hiccoughing to death. President T. E. Burlingame of the Bank of Commerce, Springfield, Mo., which failed, has been arrested here charged with fraud. Admiral Kaznakoff and officers of the Russian war vessels were given a reception in New York at the city hall by Mayor Gilroy. General W. H. Enochs, an Ohio congressman, was found dead in bed at Ironton, O. Governor Jones of Indian Territory says the condemned Choctaw Indans must be shot. Active hostilities have broken out in Samoa. Saturday, July 15. Visitors are not allowed on the roofs of the big buildings at the World's fair now. Two men while intoxicated and fighting on the railroad track near Pelhamville, N. Y., were killed by an express train. Sturges T. Dick, cashier and son of the founder of the Meadville (Pa.) banking house of J. R. Dick & Co., committed suicide in his bedroom. Michael Winchelf, a wealthy contractor of Erie, Pa., was killed on the Lake Shore railroad. Twenty Siamese were killed and 14 wounded during the exchange of fires between the forts at the mouth of the Menam river and the French gunboats. United States Attorney Mitchell has requested the Washington authorities to secure evidence against John C. Eno, the defaulter president of the Second National bank of New York, who recently returned from Canada. Edward Thomas and Stephen Wocineck of Milwaukee were sunstruck, and both died. President Cleveland will be unable to attend the celebration to be given today by the citizens of Caldwell, N. J., his birthplace. An army of crickets is stripping the vicinity of Casper, Wy., of all vegetation. Monday, July 17. Rev. Henry A. Adams, an Episcopal minister of New York, has written a letter declaring his intention to join the Catholic church. t Daniel Burke walked into the court room at Cloverport, Ky., and announced that he killed Joseph Cartwright, for whose murder two men were about to be tried. Reed Relois of Hyde Park, Pa., attempted suicide because Elsie Smith's parents refused to let her marry him, recovered, married Elsie and then poisoned himself again. Richard P. Roughton and Fred. T. Rawlings killed each other in a street duel at Louderville, Ga. Sheriff Werner of Crittenden county, Ark., claims to have been robbed of $11,500 by highwaymen. Two freight trains were in collision near Radford, Va., and an engineer and brakeman killed. The Atlantic Yacht club took its annual cruise down the sound. Tuesday, July 18. Remarkably rich gold fields are said to have been discovered in British Guiana. The national alliance of stage employees is in session in New York. f The New York health authorities are experimenting with electricity as a purifier for croton water. The request of Mayor Boody of Brooklyn to inspect the testimony given to the grand jury, which expressed its regrets that it could not indict him, has been granted. Superintendent Byrnes of New York is taking his annual 40 days' vacation at Red Bank, N.J. Three banks in Denver and two in Kansas City suspended. Daniel Leary, a lineman, was instantly killed in Jersey City while at work at the top of pole. The deers in the New York state deer park are to be turned loose in|the Catskills. French marines captured two small Siamese forts. o The court martial of the British officers who disobeyed Rear Admiral Tryon's fatal order is in session.
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Luedero. removed. Fyan. Laclede county. W. R. Bench. vice J. W. Brownfield. removed. Walnut Shade. Taney county. Mary M. Sellers. vice B. L. Waddle. resigned. Asper. Carroll county. Samuel Millay, vice W Doniphan Stephens. Ripley resigned. county, Edwin Ferguson, vice F. W. Bell. removed. Cave Spring. Greene county, W. R. McLinn, vice Nancy Vestal. resigned. Eldon. Miller county. T. M. Silvey, vice Rosa Eaton. removed. Gordonville. Cape Girardeau county. Peter Horman. vice Claus Kerstner. removed. Granby. Newton county. W. W. Hamilton, vice W. W. Hudson, removed. Hinton. Boone county, C. W. Martin. vice T. J. resigned. Ironton. Gallup. Ironton county, A. P. Vance, vice Thomas Beard. removed. Jake Prairie. Crawford county. L. D. House wright. vice George McAllister. resigned. Locust Hill. Knox county. R. H. Payne, vice James Sherer. removed. Medicine. Livingston county, G. W. Babb, resigned. vice Morrisville. C.V. Sampson. Polk county, T. C. Mitchell, vice H. M. Rhynes. removed. Oran. Scott county. Alexander Wright, vice removed. R. Roy. H. Queery. Douglas county, W. A. Hartin. vice J.E. Smith. resigned. Vienna. Maries county. S. A. Gremp, vice J. F. Rowan. removed. Coatsville Schuyler county, J. M. Guin. vice H.S Albert. removed Hockman Benton county, A. H. Gist, vice F. L. Bagwell. removed. Martinstown. Putnam county, T. P. Martin vice H.R. Archer. removed. Summersville. Texas county, Mrs. M. E Smith, vice P. Baskett. removed. NEW POST OFFICES. Ulf. Phelps county. Edward J. Kendall, post master. Drum. Bollinger county, John W. Laird, postmaster. Panama. Vernon county. Mark M. Woodson, postmaster. A Bank Failure at Springfield. The Springfield bank of Commerce, capital stock $50,000 and deposits of $17,600, according to last statement, has failed. BANK OFFICIALS ARRESTED. SPRINGFIELD. Mo.. July 14.-T. E. Burlin game. president, and E. P. Newman. cashier of the suspended Bank of Commerce. have been arrested on a warrant sworn out by Jack Carr. one of the depositorsof the defunct institution. charging the defendants with receiving money after they knew that failure was inevitable. The bank officials were taken before Justice Faith and held on n bond of $1,000 each. The arrest of Burlingame and Newman caused considerable feeling. and the uneasiness in business circles continues to prevail. Attachments against the Bank of Commerce aggregating about $18,500 are on file in the circuit clerk's office. The Springfield Savings bank has posted a notice on its doors saying that the 30-day rule respecting the withdrawal of deposits will be enforced. This does not mean a failure. as the bank is in a safe condition. the Exchange tank of this city having recently bought controlling interest of the stock. The Exchange is one of the strongest banks in the city and can easily sustain the Savings bank in this crisis. LOOKS BAD. SPRINGFIELD. July 15.-The most serious eature against the bank officials is that for several days before the failure Mayor Parce and T. C. Burlingame were making conveyances of property to various persons. About thirty deeds were executed in favor of members of their families and other persons. thus conveying a large amount of valuable real estate in Springfield. In the face of this apparent preparations for a crisis. the bank continued receive deposits up to within an hour of its suspension. The Gray failure. which occurred at the same time the Bank of Commerce closed its doors. is said to have been a little peculiar. Mayor Parce. T.C. Burlingame and J. T. Gray are brothers-in-law. It is claimed that these three men had borrowed of the Bank of Commerce from $56,000 to $96,000. No Militia Encampment. There is an impression that there will be an encampment of the national guard of Missouri at the World's fair during August. This is not the case. however. for the very excellent reason that the Thirty-seventh general assembly did not appropriate any money for an encampment at Chicago or elsewhere. Adjt.-Gen. Wickham states that if there is to be an encampment at Chicago he is not cognizant of it and that the soldier boys will have to foot the expense accounts themselves. The only encampment that he has any knowledge of is one at Nevada. Vernon county, by the First battalion of the Second regiment. co mmanded by Col. Coffee. and this will be paid for by the members of the companies partic. ipating. Missouri Sunday Schools. The Missouri state Sundays-chool convention was held at Springfield. Much interest was manifested in the reports. The large increase in the percentage of Sunday-school attendance in some of the counties of the Ozarks called forth applause. Stone Taney. Hickory and Polk counties were thus honored. There have been 64 000 persons added to the Sunday schools of the state during the year. but still there are 415,000 children in Missouri who have no religious instructions of any kind. Forty-eight denominations are engaged in Sunday-school work in the state. Appointed by the Governor. JEFFERSON CITY. July 17.-The governor has appointed Richard I. Pearson lieutenant colonel and assistant adjutant-general of the First brigade. to rank from July 10. W. P. Davis. inspector of oils at Richmond Bates county, for two years from July 12. A Sleeping Man's Misfortune. D. L. Momoyer. of Cameron, is a victim of somnambulism. The other morning he walked out of a window in the third story of a hotel. He struck upon a cellar door. crashing through the planks. This probably saved his life but he was hadly hurt. Both his wrists are frac tured and he has severe bruises. His physicians believe that he will recover. Drowned Herself. Mary Lippe, wife of a prominent Pettis county farmer, insane for some time. escaped from her watchers the other night and drowned herself. To Close on Sunday. The Barbers' union of Kansas City has issued an order requiring all barber shops in the city to be closed on Sunday, beginning July 15. Missouri State Fair Association. W. J. Millby has been appointed. by the Pettis county circuit court. receiver for the Missouri State Fair association. He gave bond for $30,000. Missouri Sunday Schools. There are 6,166 Sunday schools in Missouri, with an attendance of 504,151. St. Louis has 332 schools, 5,335 teachers; 76,950 attendance. Without Water. On account of a decision against the water-works company of the place. Lamar has been left without water for
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# LATE TELEGRAPHIC JOTTINGS BOTH FROM HOME AND ABROAD. What is Going On the World Over. Important Events Briefly Chronicled. Financial and Commercial. The following are among the failures chronicled on Tuesday: The Kansas City Safe Deposit Company; assets $2,000,000, liabilities $1,700,000; the North Galveston Land and Improvement Association, liabilities $500,000; the Star Mills at Shelbyville, Ind., liabilities $75,000, assets $55,000; the Camp Creek Coal Company, of Cleveland, O., liabilities and assets each $30,000. The banking house of W. T. Thornton & Son, of Shelbyville, Ill., liabilities $500,000; assets unknown. The Hercules Iron Works Company, owner of the cold storage warehouse at the World's Fair that burned down Monday, made an assignment. The assignment was caused by the loss at the fire. The assets are estimated at $400,000 against $200,000 liabilities. The fire caused a loss of $200,-900. The Terre Haute, Indiana, car works, one of the largest plants of the kind in the country, made a voluntary assignment without preference. The liabilities are $191,000 with $84,000 contingent liabilities. The assets amount to $600,000. Over 900 men are thrown out of work. The Bank of Commerce, of Springfield, Mo., with a capital stock of $50,000 and deposits of $17,600 closed its doors. The Bank of Garnet, Kansas, closed its doors catching the county treasurer for $23,000. The Bank of New Castle, Col., a private Institution, assigned. Liabilities $27,000; assets $33,000. The bankers of Harrisburg, Pa., in interviews on Wednesday, declared in favor of the repeal of the Sherman silver law. They said the financial situation was already improving and would grow better.
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, MISSOURI STATE NEWS. , $ New Postmasters. The following new postmasters of the fourth class have been appointed for Missouri: I ) Belmont. Mississippi county. James McFadden. Jr.. vice George Watson. removed. Fayetteville. Johnson county E. J. Seigfried. , vice E. Kellar. removed Prohna, Perry county. H.G. Pallsch. vice A. Luedero, removed. Fyan. Laclede county. W. R. Bench. vice J. W. Brownfield removed. Walnut Shade. Taney county. Mary M. Sellers. vice B. L. Waddle. resigned. Asper. Carroll county. Samuel Millay, vice W.J. Stephens. resigned, Doniphan. Ripley county, Edwin Ferguson, vice F. W. Bell. removed. Cave Spring. Greene county, W. R. McLinn, vice Nancy Vestal. resigned. Eldon, Miller county. T. M. Silvey, vice Rosa Eaton. removed. Gordonville, Cape Girardeau county. Peter Horman. vice Claus Kerstner. removed. Grapby. Newton county W. W. Hamilton, vice W.W. Hudson, removed. Hinton. Boone county. C. W. Martin, vice T. J. Gallup. resigned. Ironton. Ironton county, A. P. Vance, vice Thomas Beard, removed Jake Prairie, Crawford county L D. House wright. GeorgeMcAllister. resigned. Locust Hill. Knox county, R. H. Payne, vice James Sherer. removed. Medicine. Livingston county. G. W. Babb, vice C. V. Sampson. resigned. Morrisville, Polk county. T. C. Mitchell, vice H. M. Rhynes. removed Oran. Scott county. Alexander Wright. vice R. H. Queery. removed. Roy. Douglas county. W. A. Hartin. vice J.E. Smith. resigned. Vienna. Maries county. S. A. Gremp. vice J. F. Rowan. removed. Coatsville. Schuyler county. J. M. Guin. vice H.S Albert. removed. Hockman Benton county, A. H. Gist. vice F. L Bagwell. removed. Martinstown. Putnam county. T.P. Martin, vice H. R. Archer. removed. Summersville, Texas county. Mrs. M. E. Smith. vice P. Baskett. removed NEW POST OFFICES. Ulf. Phelps county, Edward J. Kendall, postmaster. Drum. Bollinger county. John W. Laird, postmaster. Panama. Vernon county. Mark M. Woodson, postmaster. A Bank Failure at Springfield. The Springfield bank of Commerce, capital stock $50,000 and deposits of $17,600, according to last statement. has failed. BANK OFFICIALS ARRESTED. SPRINGFIELD, Mo., July 14.-T. E. Burlin game, president, and E. P. Newman, cashier of the suspended Bank of Commerce, have been arrested on a warrant sworn out by Jack Carr. one of the depositors of the defunct institution, charging the defendants with receiving money after they knew that failure was inevitable. The tank officials were taken before Justice Faith and held on a bond of $1,000 each. The arrest of Burlingame and Newman caused considerable feeling. and the uneasiness in business circles continues to prevail. Attachment against the Bank of Commerce aggregating about $18,500 are on file in the circuit clerk's office. The Springfield Savings bank has posted a notice on its-doors saying that the 30-day rule respecting the withdrawal of deposits will be enforced. This does not mean a failure. as the bank is in a safe condition. the Exchange bank of this city having recently bought a controlling interest of the stock. The Exchange is one of the strongest banks in the city and can easily sustain the Savings bank in this erisis. LOOKS BAD. SPRINGFIELD. July 15.-The most serious feature against the bank officials is that for several days before the failure Mayor Parce and T. C. Burlingame were making conveyances of property to various persons. About thirty deeds were executed in favor of members of their families and other persons, thus conveying a large amount of valuable real estate in Springfield. In the face of this apparent preparations for a crisis. the bank continyed to receive deposits up to within an hour of its suspension. The Gray failure, which occurred at the same time the Bank of Commerce closed its doors, is said to have been little peculiar. Mayor Parce. T. C. Burlingame and J.T. Gray are brothers-in-law. It is claimed that these three men had borrowed of the Bank of Com merce from 856,000 to $96,000.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY. News Condensed and Brief Bits of Telegraphic Intelligence Reduced irom Cojumns. Thursday, Aug. 3. Temperance day at the Rock River, Ills., Chautauqua assembly brought out a large crowd. Mrs. Hoffman spoke. Prisoners were discovered sawing their way out of the jail at Peru, Ind., in time to prevent a wholesale delivery. The Chicago and Central Indiana Electric railroad began the work of constructing tracks at Noblesville, Ind. M. Moak has begun a $2,000 damagesuit against Fred Osterberg at Galesburg, Ills. for alienating his wife's affections. The auditor of Iowa has granted insurance rights to the branch of the A. O. U. W. in that state which seceded from the supreme lodge. Judge Levy, of a San Francisco court, has decided that Christopher B. Ryer, an alleged son of the late Dr. Washington Ryer, is an interloper and entitled to none of the estate valued at $1,250,000. The Illinois superintendent of insurance has refused to license the Independent Order of Foresters to do an insurance business in this state, claiming that the order is barred unner the new law. A suit will be begun. President T. C. Burlingame and Cashier C. P. Newman of the defunct Bank of Commerce of Springfield, Mo., have been indicted for participation in the wrecking of the concern. Friday, Aug. 4. Boys playing with matches caused a fire in an Iron Mouutain, Mich., tool house. One of the boys was burned to death. A census of Carthage, III, shows a population of 1,948. Patrolman Douglass Friedlander was arrested at Bellville, Ill., on a charge of larceny. Will Johnson, a colored prisoner charged with burglary, jumped from a train at Mexico, Mo., and was instantly killed. Lena Ecubert, 6 years old, of Massillon, O., played with matches, set her clothes on fire and was burned to a crisp. A lone highwayman, operating in a country road in Kansas, has held up and robbed several persons. His victims were nearly all farmers. The Improved Order of Red Men of eastern Indiana elected officers at the Elwood meeting. Anderson was chosen as the next meeting place. Porter Lanier, a convict in the Ohio penitentiary, beat John Louders, a citizen shop foreman. into insensibility with a pair of tongs, ,inflictingdangerous wounds, The Tennessee penitentiary commission has selected the property of the Brusby Mountain Coal company at Harriman as Its sight for the new state prison and coal mines. Leigh O. Knapp, a brother of Charles Knapp, president and general manager of the St. Louis Republic, died of heart failure. He was receiver of public moneys at Santa Fe, N. M., during Mr. Cleveland's former administration, and in 1891 was business manager of the Rocky Mountain News. Alfred Morrisette, the alleged forger and fugitive from the Dominion of Canada, was discharged by Judge Nelson of the United States circuit court, in Boston. on the ground that the testimony presented could not be relied upon, and that no judge in Quebec would convict Morrisette on such evidence. Saturday, Ang. 5. William Horlander, 15 years of age, while bathing in the Ohio river, was drowned. William Alsop escaped from the Indiana prison south by deliberately walking away. An artesian well struck at Chamberlain, S. D., has a flow of 3,000 gallons of water per minute. The work of obtaining a jury to try Actor Curtis at San Francisco was resumed. But two jurors were accepted. David Simpson was overcome by gas while repairing a well at Anderson, Ills. He fell to the bottom and was killed. The First Congregational church of Waukegan, Wis., celebrated its semi-centennial with appropriate exercises. Madge Fleming, aged 13, while playing with matches at Eau Claire, Wis., set her clothes on fire, and was burned to death. The Midway Park Chautauqua encampment, between Bloomington, Ills., and Normal, opened with a good attendance. Aug. 25 has been set apart as the day for colored people at the World's fair. Mrs. Vance Smith, a widow of Sedalia, Mo., put two burglars to flight with a revolver. The Bank of California has received $5,800,000 of fine gold from California mines in the past three months. W. A. Taylor, C. W. Baker and John Forley are in the field for the Democratic nomination for governor of Ohio. Dr. R. E. Young, superintendent of the insane state asylum at Nevada, Mo., has resigned, and Dr. James B. Gordon has been elected his successor. The Baker ranch in Chase county, Kansas, on which Texas fever has ap peared, has been quarantined by the State Live Stock Sanitary commission. A supposed mad dog took possession of the lawn of the governor's mansion at Jefferson City, Mo. A policeman shot the animal. The leading bankers of Brooklyn have signed a petition to congress, asking for the repeal of the silver purchasing clause of the Sherman bill. W. W. Blackmer has been elected president, and J. C. Wallace secretary of the Railway Mail Clerks' National association. The Osage Indians in the territory have declined to treat with the United States commissioner for their surplus lands. They are well fixed financially. Mrs. Dora Webber, a pretty young grass widow of Guthrie, O. T., was arrested for horse stealing. She had started to leave the country with a livery team. County Commissioner Twombley of Arapahoe county, Colorado, has gone east to see the witnesses in the Dr. Graves poisoning case. On his visit will depend the retrial of Graves. The British board of trade report on the loss in February of the White Star steam-
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Telegraphic Brevition Geo. C. Magoun. the well-known New York banker, is dead. Fighting in the harbor of Rio Janeiro continues intermittently. Governor Mitchell says the Corbett- Mitchell mill shall not take place in Florida. Pitteburg is providing work in her parks for all unemployed men at $1 per day. In an election held on the 21st in Lancashire Mr. Gladstone's candidate won the seat. The Federation of Labor passed a resolution favoring free colnage of silver at 16 to 1. Wayne McVeagh of Pennsylvania has been appointed and confirmed as ambassador to Italy. An elaborate reception was tendered exPresident Harrison by the Philadelphia Union League Club on the 21st. An enthusiastic irrigation convention was held at North Platte, Nebraska, a few days ago with an attendance of 150 delegates. The Liberal party in Utah at a meeting in Salt Lake, decided to dissolve and its individual members join the party of their selection. The Meyer trial in New York was adjourned until Thursday on account of the condition of Juror Lowe, who is suffering from acute dementia. A large portion of the crews of the vessels bought for Brazil at New York,threw up their jobs upon reaching Brazil, as they don't relish fighting. Valuable records of $60,000 to $70,000 of money order business kept in the office of the sixth auditor of the treasury, at Washington, have been lost. A fire in the Kansas City Times office caused a panic among the compositors. They had to get out by the fire escapes. The building was not badly hurt. Chancellor McGill at Jersey City ordered the National Cordage Company sold to the United States Cordage Company for $5,000, 000, the sum bid. Chavez county produces fine sweet potatoes. One man sold his crop this year at I ve cents a pound. Sweet potatoes will be a paying crop in New Mexico hereafter. The several receivers of the Northern Pacific property ask $18,000 each for their yearly services. Judge Jenkins of Milwaukee has the petition under consideration. The depot at Fort Gibson, Indian Territory, was robbed by masked men and both mail pouches and considerable express matter and the cash in the office carried off. The great billiard game between Ives, Schafer and Slosson closed on the 16th It was won by Schafer who broke all records on the last night by making a run of 566. General B. F. Tracey, ex-secretary of the navy, says that two years from now France and Russia will have, combined, fifty modern battle ships, against England's thirty-one John C. Richardson is the name of the express messenger killed in the Southern Pacific train robbery on Monday night. He was 33 years old, married, and lived in New Orleans, A westbound passenger train on the San Antonio and Aransas Pass railroad was ditched near Winchester, Texas. and Clark Dyer, the newsboy, was killed. Several were injured. William B. Boynton, who was arrested in Rio de Janeiro for attempting to destroy, with a torpedo, Admiral de Mello's flagship, the Aquidaban, arrived in New York as a political prisoner. Nebraska papers all praise Judge Dundy for refusing to raise the salaries of the Union Pacific receivers to $1,500 a month. He said he could get competent men as receivers for 3,000 a year. Five thousand dollars was awarded to young Marchese, whose father was among the Italians lynched in New Orleans, March 14. 1891, by a jury before whom the, damage case was tried. President Dole of Hawaii, in reply to an of fer from the people of Los Angeles, California, to equip a company to enlist in the Hawallan army, states that he has force sufficient at the present time. E. D. Purce, president of the defunct Bank of Commerce at Springfield, Missouri. has been indicted for continuing the bank's busi ness when he knew it was Insolvent. Purce was also mayor of Springfield. An inquiry is being made by the geological survey to determine what water supply can be used for Irrigation in the arid lands of the West. Twelve scientists of the bureau are now at work making maps and computations It has been announced officially that the Planet carpet and yarn mills at Brooklyn, New York, would abut down for an indefinite period immediately after Christmas. By clos ing the mills 500 hands will be thrown out of employment. Advices received from Honolulu since the arrival of the Corwin state that Minister Will lis had made no new move. The provisional government had taken every precaution to defend itself against any attack from the United States warships or natives. Owing to the number of tramps, Mayor McHune of Anderson, Indiana. has issued an
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July 11th, 1893, the Bank of Commerce, of Springfield, Mo, closed its doors. The day before the bank suspended deposits were received. The president, T. E. Burlingame, was arrested for doing bus. iness when he knew the bank to be insolvent. Last week he was tried at Joplin on a change of venue, and the jury gave him three years in the penitentiary