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FINANCIAL SISUATION. Stockholders of a Texas Bank Allege a Conspiracy to Wreck. FORT WORTH, Tex., May 18.-Stockholders of the Merchants' National Bank of Fort Worth ask for a receiver for the bankand an injunction to prevent the officers from longer acting. The petition alleges bribery and conto wreck the bank. Specific inof alleged misuse of bank and of taking stances of spiracy the the bribes assets by officiais of the bank are set forth in the petition. PHILADELPHIA, May 18.-Execution a judgment for $39,230 was issued yesterday upon against Edwin J. and Charles E. as Edwin J. Howlet A & bag Son, Howlet. paper trading manufacturers. be statement of the firm cannot obtained. PITTSBURG, May 18.-The Godfrey & Clark Paper company, whose financial embarrassment occurred several days will be placed in the hands of an ago, assignee and the business operated firm for the of the creditors. The that will be able to states benefit they ultimately for dollar their indebtedness dollar in a short time the and pay and hold expect of property operate again against it. to take The of judgments entered is Each the amount firm $190,000. his member real and of the firm has placed all of personal property at the disposition of the creditors. The property will aggregate half a million. NEW YORK, May 18.-There was considerable talk late this afternoon of exports of gold by Saturday's European steamer. Estimates placed the shipment on the day named as high as $3,000,000. Lazard Freres, it was said, $1,500,000, and Heidelbach, & Co., $500,000. Ickelheimer will ship At The the other subshippers were not named. treasury it was said that $60,000 gold had been received, but that no specie had been ordered as yet for shipment Saturday. LINCOLN, Neb., May 18.-A small rnn begun on the Nebraska Savings was bank I last Tuesday, which continued and in a scramble for a institution was resulted today, notwithstanding the perfectly assurances few hours solpayment of vent. that the Prompt all the demands depositquieted the nervousness of ors and the excitement was over almost as soon as it begun. Ga., May 18.-Dispatches Ga., state from SAVANNAH, Brunswick, Oglethorpe that the National bank and the of that city, and that doors First National this bank, morning, closed M. Ulman, their of the latter, banks have president cide. These committed been and looked their suiupon as shaky for some time, failure created no surprise in this city. NEW YORK, May 18.-In the United States circuit court Judge Lacoube has granted a decree of $1,671,519 in favor New of the Central Trust Company of York against the City Railway ImproveThe suit was brought foreclosure of a for ment the company. mortgage trust com- of $1,467,000 held by the pany since Feb. 1, 1889, and on which no intorest has ever been paid. The Railway Improvement comwas under pany City organized 1891, the laws with of a prior to Feb. 1, of $1,500,000, increased to subsequently paid-up capital New Jersey which $3,503,500. business was The are chiefly and the purpose of men, incorporators street the railways. company was the construction of WASHINGTON. May 18.-Comptroller Eckels this afternoon ordered Bank Examiner John T. Carskedan, of West take Virginia, to Brunswick, Ga., to charge of the First National bank and the Oglethorp National Bank of Brunswick, both of which closed their doors this morning. EVANSTON, III., May 18.-The Evanston National bank of this city closed its doors this morning at the suggestion B. of National Bank Examiner George Caldwell. The bank formerly did business with the Chemical National bank, of Chicago, but after the failure of that acinstitution it transferred its counts to the Metropolitan National bank, of Chicago. The reasons given for the suspension are heavy withdrawals and the stringency of the money market. All the men connected with the bank declare that depositors will be paid in full, and that the bank will reopen in three days. The is capital stock of the institution $100,000. The bank had $154,7 773 of less deposits subject to check, and a little than $50,000 in cash with which to meet a run. The surplus fund was $245.87.