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Other: Sought appointment of a receiver to prevent attachments (i.e., requested receivership); bank closed its doors and was guarded by the sheriff; officers left the city.
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A Big Bank Failure. LEADVILLE, Jan. 27.-The First National bank of this city closed its doors, after a heavy run this afternoon. Preparations were made for a disastrous run in the morning. At midnight, to-night, it was made public that the bank would not open in the morning. To prevent an attachme. t the bank has aske for the appointment of a receiver. It is thought that the deposits will reach over $300 000. At this hour the streets are lined with excited people.
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Telegrams to The Star. THE SITUATION IN CHINA. YOUNG NUTT SET AT LIBERTY. SEARCHING FOR BODIES AT GAY HEAD FRATRICIDE IN PORTLAND. A Leadville Bank Closed. DENVER. Col., Jan. 23.-A special to the Repuirlican from Leadville says:-The First National bank of this city closed Its doors after a heavy run yesterday afternoon. Preparations were being made for a disastrous run in the morning, but at midnight it was made public that the bank would not open this morning. To prevent attachments the bank has asked for the appointment of a m celver. It is thought that the deposits aggregate over $300,000. The people are much excited A Reduction of Wages. PORTLAND, OREGON, Jan. 23.-The Iron manufaoturers here have given notice to their employes of a reduction of 12% per cent in wages. It is be Heved that a majority of the workmen will accept the reduced wages. The reduction affects 420 men. Dr. Bruce Committed for Trial. PHILADELPRIA, Jan. 23.-Dr. Dorival B. Bruce, socused of causing the death of Harrlet Scholl, of Mount Joy. Pa., by criminal malpractice, was w day committed to answer the charge here. He will not therefore be taken to Lancaster for trial Nutt Released from Custody. PITTSBURG, PA., Jan. 23. James Nutt was m leased from custody at 10 o'clock this morning.
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he was insane, and ordered him bound to an iron bedstead. The next morning the man was dead. His flesh was dreadfully cut from the cords with which he was tied. A committee will investigate the matter. Desperate Attempt to Break Jail. WHEELING (W. Va.), January 22d.Shortly after 6 o'clock this evening Jailer W. S. Colby went into the main corridor of the Belmont county jail, at St. Clairsville, Ohio, to inspect the cells before locking up for the night. One of the prisoners locked in a cell asked for a drink of water, and as the jailer handed it to him several prisoners caught his arms and held him, while one prisoner, named Cass, took his revolvers. They all then began beating Colby, knocking him down and kicking him brutally. A small boy confined in a cell raised an alarm, when Cass threatened to shoot him. He hid in a corner under the bed and kept up his yelling, which attracted the attention of & domestic in the jailer's family, and she closed and locked every door. The prisoners then started to climb through the skylight upon the roof, but the girl had given the alarm and citizens had gathered. Promiscuous firing was indulged in by the prisoners, and they retreated into the jail and were secured in their cells. Colby was found lying in the corridor insensible, and with serious wounds on his person from the kicking he received. He was revived, but the extent of his injuries is not yet known. A Steubenville (0.) wild man, who had been carrying off sheep and pigs and committing petty thefts for several weeks, was confined in the jail. He is described as the most brutal specimen of animal creation seemingly human ever seen. Another Colorado Bank Gone to the Wall." LEADVILLE, January 22d.-The First National Bank of this city closed its doors, and preparations were made for a disastroas run in the morning. At midnight to-night it was made public that the bank would not open in the morning. To prevent attachment the bank asked for the appointment of a receiver. It is thought the deposits will reach over $300,000. At this hour the streets are lined with excited people. A Comet Cutting Capers." NASHVILLE (Tenn.), January 22d.- E E. Barnard, the astronomer of Vanderbilt University, reports remarkable changes in the Brooks comet on the nights of the 20th and 21st. Sunday night the nucleus was surrounded by a faint envelope, and numerous dark rifts were visible in its tail. Monday night the tail separated into three distinct branches, showing dark sky between, and rapid pulsations of light one degree back of the nucleus. The City of Columbus Disaster. NEW BEDFORD, January 224.-The tug Nellie, which departed for the wreck of the City of Columbus, has returned, the sea being 80 rough she could not land at Gay Head. The body of Edward T. Hutchinson, of Cape Elizabeth, Me., has been identified. Another body has been identified as August Pearson, of Taunton, Mass. Use of a Church Offered. NEW YORK, January 22d.-Rev. Dr. Tal. mage has offered the use of the Brooklyn Tabernacle for the funeral ceremonies over the remains of Lieutenant De Long and companions in the Jeannette expedition, on their arrival in New York. The National Temperance Society. NEW YORK, January 22d.-The National Temperance Society has issued an address to the national parties, urging the nomination of a President and Vice-President favoring the prohibition of the liquor traffic. Thermometrical NEW YORK, January 22d.-Highest temperature to-day, 35°; lowest, 10°. It is now thawing, and threatening rain.
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TO-DAY'S TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. James Nutt was released from custody at Pittsburg, Pa., to-day. Perkins' stove foundry, at Port Jackson, N. Y., was destroyed by fire last night. Six cardinals will be created at the consistory to be held in Rome on the 21st of February. The Portland, Oregon, iron manufacturers have cut down their employees' wages 121 per cent. Charles Plynn died last night in Portland, Me., from injuries supposed to have been inflicted by bis brother during a row. B. W. Mason, a broker of Cairo, III., was knocked down and robbed in that city last night. He died soon after from the injuries received. The First National Bank of Leadville Col., closed its doors yesterday after a heavy run upon it. The bank officers have asked that a receiver be appointed. Great excitement prevails. A Hong Kong dispatch points out that the French occupation of Chusan, Formosa, or Hai-Nan, would amount to a casus belli with England, as according to the treaty of 1846, it was stipulated that upon the evacuatian of Chusan by the British, that Island should never be ceded to any other foreign power.
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Bank Suspension at Leadyille, DENVER, Col., Jan. 22 The Republican's Leadville special says: The First National Bank of this city closed its doors after a heavy run this afternoon. Preparations were made for a disastrous run in the morning. At midnight to. night it was made public that the bank would not open in the morning. To prevent attachment the bank has asked for the appointment of a Receiver. It is thought the deposits will reach over $300,000. At this hour the streets are lined with excited people.
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Miscellaneous. New York, 22.-The National Temperance Society has issued an address to the national parties, urging the nomination of a president and vice-president favoring prohibition in the liquor traffic. London, 22. "he East India Associa ion has 7 memorial to the President of the uncil of India, urging the desirability of ex'ending railways in India, to enable India to compete with America in the supply of wheat and seed cotton. Denver, 22.-Republican's Leadville: The First National bank of this city closed its doors after a heavy run this afternoon. Prepara. tions were made for a dieastrous run in the morning. At midnight to. night it was made public that the bank would not open in the morn ing. To prevent an attachment the bank has asked the appointment of a receiver. It is thought the deposits will reach over $300,000 At this hour the streets are lined with excited people. San Francisco, 22.-The Queen of Tahiti and suite arrived this evening on the steamer City of Papeete. Tombstone, Ariz,22.-Delaney,the last of the Brabes murderers, was delivered by the Mexican authoritles to the jailor here to-day. Portland, Or, 20.-The iron m anufacturers have given notice 0' 8 reduction of twelve and a half per cent. in wages. It is believed the majority will accept. It affects 420 men. Dublin, 22.-After consultation with counsel, it bas been determined in behalf of the Cathelics and nationalists in North Ireland to seek official inquiry into the legality of the Orange Society and to make its members amenable for present events.
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FINANCIAL. Run Upon a Leadville Bank. LEADVILLE, Col., Jan. 23.-The First National Bank of Leadville closed its doors after a heavy run yesterday afternoon. Preparations were being made for a disastrous run in the morning, but a midnight item made public that the bank would not open this morning. To prevent attachments the bank has asked for the appointment of a receiver. It is thought that the deposits aggregate over $300,000. The people are very much excited. It is rumored that President DeWatt's account is $50,000 overdrawn. Other Colorado banks are not affected. The bank is guarded by the sheriff. President De Watt and Vice President Finn of the bank left the city in a carriage at daybreak this morning. Their destination is unknown.
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LEADVILLE BANK Run to the Earth, Leaving Depositors Starving at the Hole. DENVER, Col., Jan. 23. The First National Bank of Leadville closed it doors after a heavy run yesterday afternoon. Preparation were being made for a disastrons run in the morning, but at midnight it was made public, the bank would not open this morning, To prevent attachments the bank has asked for the appointment of a receiver. It is thought the deposits aggregate over $300.000. The people are very much excited. The bank is guarded by the sheriff. The president and vice president of the bank left the city at daybreak this morning; destination unknown.
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A RUN ON A LEADVILLE BANK. HEAVY DEPOSITS-ASSETS SCARCE - THE DOORS CLOSED-A WRATHFUL PUBLIC. DENVER, Jan. 23.-A dispatch to The Republican from Leadville says The First National Bank of this city closed its doors after a heavy run yesterday afternoon. Preparations were being made for a disastrous run in the morning, but at midnight it was made public that the bank would not open this morning. To prevent attachments, the bank has asked for the appointment of & receiver." The news was received here with considerable surprise, although the ultimate failure of the bank had long been anticipated in financial circles. A statement of the exact condition of the finances of the bank is at present unobtainable, but the failure is generally believed to be a very bad ORO. The deposits probably amount to $325,000 with no tangible assets. It is rumored that President Dewalt's account is $50,000 overdrawn. Other Colorado banks are not affected. A dispetch to The Times says: "The bank is guarded by the sheriff. President Dewalt and Vice-President Finn of the bank left the city in a carriage at daybreak this morning, but their destination is unknown. It is feared that when the miners get down from the mines $ere may be trouble. There is much talk of crookedness the part of Dewalt and Finn."
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Suspension of a Leadville Bank. [By telegraph to the Dispatch.] DENVER, CoL., January 23.- A special to the Republican from Leadville says: The First National Bank of this city closed its doors after a heavy run yesterday afternoon, preparations having been made for a disastrous run in the morning, but at midnight it was made public that the bank would not again open. This morning. to prevent attachments, the bank has asked for the appointment of a receiver. It is thought that the deposits aggregate over $300,000. The people are much excited. DENVER, January 23.-A dispatch to the Times from Leadville says: The failure of the First National Bank here absorbs public attention to the exclusion of everything else. No one at the bank is able to give any statement whatever. The bank is guarded by the sheriff. President Dewalt and Vice-President Finn, of the bank, left the city in a carriage at daybreak this morning, but their destination is unknown. It is feared that if the miners get down from the mines there may be trouble. There is much talk of crookedness on the part of Dewalt and Finn. A statement of the exact condition of the finances of the bank is at present unobtamable, but the failure is generally believed to be a very bad one. The deposits probably aggregate $325,000, with no tangible assets. It is rumored that President Dewalt's accounts are $50,000 overdrawn. Other Colorado banks are not affected.,'
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Commercial,Crashes. LEADVILEE, CoL., Jan. 23,-The First National bank of this city has closed its doors. There was a disastrous run yesterday afternoon. To prevent attachments. the bank has asked for the appointment of a receiver. It is thought the deposits will reach over $300,000. The president, and Finn, vice-president, left the city by carriage at daybreak this morning. Their destination is unknown. It is feared that when the miners get down from the mines there may be trouble. There is much talk of crookedness by De. walt and Finn. DENVER, Jan. 23.-The announcement that the First National bank of Leadville had closed doors at midnight was received with considerable surprise here, notwithstanding that its ultimate failure had long been anticipated in financial circles. The enact condition of its finances is at present unobtainable. The failure is believed to be a bad one. The deposits probably aggregate $325,000, with no tangible asse's. It is generally known that President Dewalt is an inveterate gambler and it 18 rumored that his account is $50,000 overdrawn. Other Colorado banks are unaffected. EAUX CLAIRE, WIS., Jan. 23.-P. Clancy & Co., proprietors of the Golden Eagle dry goods store, were closed this morning. They always stood well financially. No particulars are given, and all kinds of rumors are afloat.
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Collapse of a Leadville Bank. Leadville, Col., January 23.-The First National bank of this city closed its doors. There was a disastious run yesterday afternoon. To prevent attachment the bank has asked for the appointment of a receiver. It is thought the deposits will reach $300,000.
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Delta. Colorado. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1884. STATE NEWS. The ice crop to be put up in Denver this winter is estimated at 200,000 tons. Silverton paid over $70,000 last year in freights to and from Red Mountain. Nellie Dean. a Leadville cyprian, micided by taking morphine on the 19th. Addison Baker, a Colorado pioneer, died on the 20th, at his residence, on Grand avenue. Col. L. C. Ellsworth was on the 24th appointed Receiver of the First National Bank, Leadville. Chapman's flouring mill at Canon City burned on the 21st. Loss between $15,000 and $16,000. Insurance $11,000. The Catholics at Gunnison are buildmg a neat addition to the church, which will be used as a residence by Rev. Father Quinn. While the millers report a surplus of 100,000 bushels of wheat in Colorado, the Farmers' Alliance finds a shortage of some 50,000. Cyrus King, colored. was instantly killed at Denver on the 25th, by being thrown from a wagon, the wheels passing over his head. On the 22d, the failure of the First National Bank of Leadville was announced. Its liabilities to depositors were stated at $325. 000. Governor Grant has appointed John M. Freeman, of Weld county, a delegate to the Western Water Way convention at Washington. The Pryor brothers pay 8877.84 taxes in Huerfano county. The Denver & Rio Grande Railroad pays $11,069.11 in the same county. The Arapahoe county commissioners contemplate the purchase of an eighty-acre tract of land down the Platte on which to build a poor house. On the 21st a quarrel at Gunnison over a game of cards ended when old man Kissee was killed and Jack Kellogg war shot in the abdomen. On the 23d Jesse B. Tate. a brakeman slipped and fell under a freight car at Windsor'Station, and his left arm and left leg were terribly crushed. The City bank of Leadville has been summoned to appear in the Supreme court Ton February 11, to show cause why its charter should not be forfeited. P. M. Hinman, of Longmont, died from an over dose of morphine at the St. James hotel, Denver, on the 21st. The deceased had lived in Colorado since the war. Allen L. Johnson,a miner at Alcante, was killed on the 25th, by the explosion of a stick of Hercules powder. which he held in his hand near a fire in order to thaw it. The question of water works is agitating the minds of the people of Telluride, and there is a popular move on foot for establishing such works in the near future. A committee from the Wyoming Territorial Council and House was in Denver on the 19th, for the purpose of buying a portion of the Exposition for Wyoming exhibits. Colonel S. H. Baker, of Montrose, has a party of men at work prospecting the placers on Cutler Creek, near Portland. The result so far has been"very satisfactory. The "conservative" element in the Geeeley Alliance has been overcome, the offers of wheat at $1.25 have been withdrawn, and the asking price has been advanced to $1.50. It was recently discovered that exCounty Treasurer Blair was short in his accounts to the amount of several thousand dollars. His bondsmen will probably adjust the matter. A boulder rolling on the track wrecked Engine No. 49 near Curicanti on the Denver & Rio Grande, killing George Hutchinson, the engineer, and slightly injuring the Areman. Ex-Senator Dorsey filed his answer in the United States courts to the claims of the London creditors. He denies his responsibility for the indebtedness and sets up the plea of bankruptcy. On the evening of the 25th a meeting of bank, was were Leadville, the depositors held in and the funds First National subscribed for pursuing and capturing De Walt, the fleeing president. The residence of Samuel Jacks, at Gardner. was destroyed by fire on the 8th instant. It was said to be the largest adobe building in Huerfano county. The loss is estimated at about $1,500. A Durango hotel clerk endeavored to start a fire in the office with a pint of coal oil, and the consequences were that he caused a fire alarm, fooled five hundred people and burned his face quite badly. A terrible explosion of fire damp occurred at a mine belonging to the Colorrdo Coal and Iron Company at Crested Butte on the 24th, by which fifty-seven men were killed and many more terribly injured. Mrs. Caroline Wharton, an aged
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old, deserted h's sick wife and three children, and eloped with Varina Pearson. aged 13. Jenks is a merchant at Apex, N. C. The girl is a daughter of his clerk, and very small for her age. The secretary of the navy has recelved a cable message from Minister Hunt, St. Petersburg, announcing the departure of Lieut. Harber, from Moscow, with the remains of DeLong and party. Senator Ingalls says he is not a candidate for the position on the bench made vacant by the resignation of Judge McCrary Minnie Cummings, of Marshalltown, Iowa, pleaded guilty to keeping a house of prostitution. As she has before been convicted, she will have to go to the penitentiary this time. At Wyandotte, Kansas, Mrs. Jacob Hartmann, aged 67, while alone, was assaulted by an unknown person, beaten and robbed. Her son, returning at 6 o'clock, found her unconscious upon the floor, and she died soon after. One hundred and four Italian immigrants arrived at New Orleans on thesteamship Prince George, whose tale of starvation at sea and indifferent treatment caused the captain to be held for trial. A. S. Crocker, a prominent citizen of Ripon, Wis., was caught in the belt of the Ripon flouring mill and carried into the machinery and whirled around a pulley fully fifty times, breaking both arms and legs in several places. He will die. The state prison at Stillwater, Minn., was entirely destroyed by fire on the 26th. All convicts were rescued except one, who was burned to death within the walls. The defaulting president of the First National bank of Leadville has been arrested. Backwoods settlers in Ontario are threatened with starvation owing to the snow blockade and suspension of traffic. The committee on pensions will recommend a bill to relieve claimants of the burden of evidence regarding their condition when entering the service. The committee on claims has recommended a bill to prevent the duplication of army pay accounts. Hoffman, to have been executed at Port Chester, N. Y., has obtained a stay of execution.
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South and West. e 1 Ex-CONGRESSMAN Green Adams, of Kentucky, for three terms chief clerk of the House of Representatives, died of heart disease at his son-in-law's residence in Philadelphia, aged sixty-eight years. PORTIONS of North Carolina have been visited by a strongly perceptible shock of earthquake. EIGHT men were injured, three fatally, by a saw-mill boiler explosion near Columbia, Mo. JUDGE EPHRAIM K. WILSON (Democrat was elected by the Mary and legisl ture to the United States Senate as successor to Senator Groome. Judge Wilson is a resident of Snow Hill, Md., sixty-two years old, and was a member of the Forty-third Congress. Since 1878 he has been a judge of the first judicial district. LARRY DONOVAN, hanged a few days since at Rawlins for the murder of William Leighton, was the first white man who legally suffered that penalty in Wyoming Territory. A DESPERATE though unsuccessful attempt has been made to steal the body of Bishop Wheelan, buried at Wheeling, W. Va., in 1874, the motive for the robbery being to obtain a reward for the return of the corpse. A. J. JUTKINS, of Chicago, secretary of the national Prohibition committee, says that a presidential convention will be held, and a national Prohibition ticket be placed in the field in 1884. A BILL for the establishment of a home for disabled ex-Confederate soldiers, similar to the homes for Union soldiers, was introduced in the Virginia Senate. The bill proposes to establish a permanent home by government aid for disabled ex-Confederates in the Southern States. MUCH excitement prevails in the far West and Northwest over the reported discovery of a rich gold region in Washington Territory. Large numbers of miners are leaving for the new mines, and the biggest stampede ever known to the Pacific coast is expected in the spring. AN express train leaped from a trestle twenty feet high near Beavertown, Ohio, and was completely wrecked, causing serious injuries to five persons and a pecuniary damage of $10,000. AT a mass meeting of Methodist ladies in Baltimore, Bishops Simpson and Andrews spoke earnestly in advocacy of founding a Methodist institution for the higher education of the women of the conference. MR. ALLISON was re-elected to the United States Senate by the Iowa legislature. "SAM" BROWN, murderer of an old man, was taken from jail at Lockhart, Texas, and lynched. JOHN BODACHER, a young farmer, an de his wife, were found dead in bed at their th home near St. Louis. Their hea Is had been in plit open with an ax. THE national executive committee of the Y Prohibition party has issued a call to hold. bu national convention to nominate presidenm ial candidates, in Pittsburg, on May 21. be MUCH excitement prevailed at Leadvil'e. in ol., upon the suspension of the First W8 ational bank, of that city. The deposit .ar robably amount to $325,000 with no tangiCO le assets. Many miners were depositors.
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and 189,000 foreign voters in this State, leaving a clear majority of 40,000, foreign votes. The county clerk of New York city has confessed that he is not only ignorant of law generally, but of the duties of his office and the clerks under him. Messrs. B. F. Runyan and John T. Miller received the job of laying the new floor at the Roller Skating Rink. They have done an excellent job. The hardwood was furnished by Messrs. N. Gerard & Son, of Centralia and prepared at Tibbit's planing mill. County Tresurer Kuntz remitted $17,838,86 to State Treasurer McFetridge on the fourth instant being in part payment of our county tax due the state. This speaks well for Wood County tax-payers. Leadville, Colo., was in a hubbub the other day. The First National Bank failed with about $850,000 in deposits. The president did not wait for the miners to pass a vote of confidence in him but fled down the mountain side. Martin Benson who was injured by a falling tree a few days since at Buttons camp and brought to this city for treatment by Dr. Witter, died from his injuries Wednesday morning last and was interred Thursday. The funeral services were held at the Cong. Church, Rev. Rowland officiating. William H. Brown is at work with a crew of six men and one team putting up ice for the season of 1884. The ice is first class measuring full fifteen inches in thickness. Mr. Brown informs us that he puts up about 1000 tons each year for home consumption. Our people use a heap of ice. Any newspaper that attempts to get subscribers through a lottery scheme is a fraud, without one single exception. It has become the way of publishers of snide, good-for-nothing journals, to offer a chance in a big lottery for subscribers. All the money goes into their pockets. There is not one chance in a million for anybody to get anything in such schemes. It is thoroughly dishonest. Fine and fashionable masquerade costumes can be secured at B. Silber's store from the 7th untill the 22nd instant inclusive. Young folks wishing to enjoy the pleasures of the mask ball are invited to call early and make their selection. Charges reasonable. Parties will please call at Mr. Silber's store where Mr. H. H. Strasser, who is acting as agent, will wait upon you. Among the callers at the REPORTER office this week was Dr. J. P. Salter a Homeopathic Physician from Storm Lake, Iowa. He has come to this place with a view of locating and for the present has his office with Dr. Peeso in Centralia. Dr. Salter is a young, energetic physician of three years successful practice and brings excellent credentials. Frank Williams and John Gray, who murdered Orian Kurtz on Sunday morning at Rosita, Colorado, were taken from jail and hung, by vigilantes. Masked men took them from jail and hung them to a log cabin. A supposed accessory to the murder made his escape from the lynchers and the other one was turned over to the officials for trial. The vigilantes numbered one hundred men. A generous citizen of Milwaukee who refuses to make himself known has ordered from Italy a $12,000 bronze statue of Washington to be presented to that city. It is to be eleven feet high, and will be placed upon a granite pedestal of the same height at the east end of Grand Avenue Park. It is designed to have
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EASTERN NEWS. ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES. Arrest of a Fugitive. CANTON (O.), April 21.-Frank W. Dewalt, a former Canton young man, for two years President of the First National Bank of Leadville, Col., was arrested yesterday, charged with being a fugitive from justice. The bank failed for $250,000, and ex-President Dewalt was deficient in his accounts $50,000. He left the city the night before the suspension of the bank, and was arrested at El Paso two weeks later, but obtained a release on account of an imperfection in the warrant. A reward of $5000 was offered for his arrest.