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HARRISONVILLE, O., October 3.-The Farmers' and Merchants' Bank, of Creighton, assigned yesterday. Its statement shows its assets to be $124,000, and its liabilities $60,000. mostly in real estate. The officers say the suspension is only temporary, and that the depositors will be paid in full.
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The Farmers' and Merchants' bank, of Creighton, Mo., has made an assignment for the benefit of its credit. ors. The statement filed shows assets to the amount of $124,000, and liabilities amounting to $60,000, mostly in real estate paper. The officers of the institution say that the suspension is only temporary and that the depositors will bo paid in full. The cashier of the bank, D. B. Wallis, is designated as assignee.
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### A Priest Arrested.
Father Wagner, a St. Joseph priest, was arrested in that city. Miss Maud Steidel, aged 15, disappeared from St. Joseph, and was found in a Chicago convent, and it is claimed that Father Wagner was the cause of her leaving home. Ugly charges are made, but Father Wagner stoutly maintains his innocence, and asserts that it is a plot to ruin him. He was held for the grand jury.
### WANTS TO MARRY HER.
A dispatch from St. Joseph says that Father Wagner has agreed to transfer all his property and money, amounting to about $10,000, to the girl, and marry her, if the prosecution will be dropped. It is also claimed that the priest has confessed that the girl's story is true.
### A Boy Tired of Life.
Richard Fluhr, aged 18, committed suicide at Herman by shooting. He had been working in St. Louis, but returned at night, and without stopping at the home of his parents, went to the base-ball park and shot himself. His body was found next morning. In his pockets was found a card on the back of which was written the following note to his parents:
I came back to-night. I am tired of this life and have therefore shot myself.
RICHARD FLUHR.
### Result of a Crossing Accident.
Suit has been filed at Nevada by attorneys for Mrs. Sarah B. Kelsey against the Missouri Pacific Railroad Co. for $25,000. Mrs. Kelsey was driving across the Missouri Pacific track near Nevada, September 13, 1892, when a passenger train struck her. She was badly hurt, her horse being killed and the buggy smashed to pieces. She first sued for $5,000 and was given a verdict by the circuit court. The case was taken to the state supreme court, where it was remanded.
### Kansas City Carnival.
The festivities attending the Kansas City carnival began with an immense parade of bicyclists, headed by a platoon of mounted police. Several hundred riders, men and women, boys and girls, each vieing with the other in the grotesqueness of costume, scurried through the principal streets, which were crowded by thousands of spectators. At night the annual ball of the Priests of Pallas was held, and proved to be the most successful in the city's history.
### Bank at Creighton.
The Farmers' and Merchants' bank of Creighton, Cass county, has made an assignment for the benefit of creditors. The statement filed shows assets to the amount of $124,000 and liabilities amounting to $60,000, mostly in real estate paper. The officers of the institution say that the suspension is only temporary, and that depositors will be paid in full. The cashier of the bank, D. B. Wallis, was designated as assignee.
### State Christian Endeavor Convention,
The ninth annual convention of the Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor of Missouri will be held at Hannibal, October 25, 26 and 27. The railroads have made a rate of one and one-third fare for the round trip, and it is expected that one thousand delegates will attend this annual gathering. Board and room at the hotels can be had at $1.50 per day, and in private families at $1.00 per day.
### Missouri Finances.
During September Secretary of State Lesueur received and paid into the state treasury fees as follows: Notaries public, $285; miscellaneous fees, $229.65; land department fees, $20.75; corporation tax, $4,875; endowment tax (from scholarship), $740; total, $6,150.
### John T. Teel.
Ex-Representative John T. Teel, of Lawrence county, died at the Nevada asylum for the insane. He was a member of the legislature which located the asylum at Nevada, and often referred to this act while an inmate of the institution.
### Pettis County Fair.
The Pettis county fair, continuing
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and Atlanta trains on in the a head-on co:Railroad and EngiTwo Point passenger were Atlanta, Amos lision West at Red Oak, near wa killed. J. neer Cummings Alexan ler WAS in Atkins the nominated Tenth New for Congress York deat's disTammany Hall caused by the fill the The trict to J. vacancy Campbell Brooklyn, regular N.Y. of Andrew ization of The Democratic orga Grant for mayor. nominated E. M. Western Railro d Company's orgia Savannah and road in Alabama and committee G re418 miles sold at of public auction to a At Pemb presenting was the bondh ,Idere. Louis Wegman Henry been shot with ville, nt down Ohio, a well that Fapel !ad flow of water, and were men dynami .0 to increase suff eated the b/ polsonous gases. weal by young ordered both -L|oyd M.M.I. Scott, by a the New York man, has been former wi e,from whom courts to produce his but whom he is now Was divorced, abducted. charged he with having recently agency at Crip- Oil J. Goodwin, Con inental Arthur Creek, Colo., for the arrested in S. pie Company, of Denver, of emb was zzlement at the Louis on a charge polic of Colorado request Re Cloud Springs. of the The chief of Red Roller Cloud, Mill one E.e- of Warehouse Nebraska, at were totally plants loss will to destroyed vator and be largest by fire. in The insurance on amount building with $20,000 a weil$40,0 and machinery. 0, _Jame3 and rancher Cornell, of San killed Mateo, known prospector ambush and Ia N. M., was sh t from of renega ie Apache one of a small band been prowling about in the dians who have that vicinity. The informal States opening mountains of in the Western in Topeka, Deep-water Kan., Conference was inaugurated hotel headquarat the various band of by y serenades famous military is music ters. Marshall's ma le it plain that there in Lamflity pieces Seag, living in the air. - George a celebration of his birth- killed day years. berton, anniversary, Pa. during accidentally The shot Lawton and his son, Axle aged Works six at Brightwood, The Mass., lose Pratt completely destroyed by fire. by insurwere is about $25,000, partially covered of ance. and Merchants' Bank for The Farmers has made an assignment Creighton, Mo., creditors. The statement the benefit amount of filed shows of ass its amounting to to the to $60,000. $124,000, mostly and abilities -Edwin Bookmyer in and real his son, estate Edwin paper. arrested H., pension on a charge agent of of Lan- Chi- atcaster, Pa., fraud. were -J. P. Carruthers, of He has tempted is charged with embezzling. and William cago, arrested. _Andrew Cain Ind., lost been coon hunters in Montpelier, nitro-glycerine Grose, by an explosion of in their lives Dreher, a murderer, confined fire to Charles attempted suicide by setting Wayne St. Louis -G. W. Lawrence, of of the his cell. W. Va., drew his money then disappeared. out coun'y, Huntington, and and it bank at coat was found recently. W. Cardbelieved His bloody he was murdered. of R. the State well, defaulting bookkeeper guilty, and Bank, of Richmond, to two Va., years plead in the Penitenwa sentenced The Pennsylvania firemen's 11,000 parade men at tiary. Reading was a big Five affair, youngsters over at East being in line. O., who had been playing him Indians at a Liverpool, companion by burning six years tortured the a little fellow, who is Greenberg, but one stake, being badly injured. - gang c old, leaders of the counterfeiting N.J., made of the New York and Newark; Commissioner ture1 in to United States all the a confession in Philadelphia, implicating were known prisoners, Craig and stated that they secresy. by numbers and were sworn to Ch block of two-story frame houses were in renA were burned Ten families possessions cago homeless and lost all their dered small stores were also with destroyed. small Several The logges will aggregate $30,000, the Lillie Bay, one of women of the insurance. claims to be the lawful widow and late who Senator Fair, is now a pri-oner, zzlement. must serve ten years for emb alone Goldman, an old man living unknown Igna'z was beaten to death by wife, St. thugs.-Charles Louis, H. reters and the Bermudian, Pa., made an convention assignment of The thirty-sixth triennial of America Protestant Episcopal Church Green begun in Minneapolis Henry to Phila was and Julius Stein were brought jaile burg by secret service officials, leaders and cf delphia there on the charge of being the e gang o! conspirators. milin B.S. Chicago. Burkholder assigned & Co., to wholesale Charles statement E. Pain ers, of liabilities are $60,003, but no it The was made. Slow collections, and 0 of assets caused the failure. Chicago hackload sail, Northwestern train ran down a The driver, citizens in Manitowoe, Wis. thirty feet, bu who was drunk, was thrown Weblin, was killed not hurt. two others One man, were A. T. probably International fatally and in is and jured. A nor:hbound was wrecked Northern passenger train Barney Great Park, Texas, and Enginer and at Hulf was fagally hurt. The fireman The Lane passengers were also injured. Woods, three over a COW. -Judge o train United ran States Circuit Court in Indianap master the appointed Charles A. Corbley, suit, olis, s'oner, to settle the famous in 188 in commi $400,000, which was brought Boker d volving General Herman Strum against The sul by Schum cher et al., of New York.
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Firemen and police marched in review in Cincinnati befor Gov. McKinley, Gov. Brown of Kentucky, Asa Bushnell, and James E. Campbell. Gen. O. M. Poe, the well-known United States engineer, died suddenly at Detroit Wednesday morning. He had been ill for several days. Prof. E. E. Barnard has severed his connection with the Lick Observatory and will assume a position at the Yerkes observatory, Chicago. Elliott F. Rogers, of Chicago, an instructor in chemistry at Harvard College, was for nd dead in one of the laboratories. Indications point to suicide. At Minneapolis, Minn., the Grand Opera House was closed by the Syndicate Opera House Company and the bookings will be transferred to the Metropolitan. Margaret Mather, the actress, horsewhipped and beat her husband, Col. Gustav Pabst, in full view of many pedestrians at Milwaukee Wednesday. Joseph Tiernan. of St. Louis, Mo., who died Sept. 1, has been discovered to have been short $33,000 in his accounts with the Security Building and Loan Association. Another case of a dual life has come to light by the death of D. A. Martin, a prominent grain dealer of Chicago and Milwaukee, who, it has developed, left a family in each city. The North Nebraska Methodist conference, by unanimous vote, enacted the Hamilton amendment and declared in favor of the admission of women to the general conference on an equal footing with men. The National Woman's Protective Association has concluded its second annual convention in Denver. The sessions were secret, but it is understood the principal business was the adoption of amendments to the constitution and by-laws. The mother of Maud Steidel, of St. Joseph, Mo., has consented to her daughter's marriage to Father Dominick Wagner, who confessed to abducting the girl. The priest has agreed to settle all his property, amounting to $10,000, on the bride. William Henry. the Wabash engineer who fatally shot his wife at Springfield, III., and escaped, was found dead in a cornfield southeast of the city. He had cut the artery in his left wrist and shot himself through the left temple and then through the heart. First Lieutenant Samuel S. Pague, Company F, Fifteenth Infantry. tried to kill Col. Crofton Thursday afternoon at Fort Sheridan, Chicago. He shot at him three times. Two bullets pierced the Colonel's overcoat, the other went into the ground. Pague was disarmed by his wife, Col. Crofton. and two officers, and was placed in the guard house. By some Lieut. Pague's attack is attributed to alcoholic dementia. Others intimate there are personal differences between the two men. The Farmers and Merchants' Bank of Creighton, Mo., has made an assignment. The statement filed shows assets to the amount of $124,000 and liabilities of $60,000, mostly in real estate paper. The officers of the institution say that the suspension is only temporary, and that the depositors will be paid in full. The cashier of the bank, D. B. Wallis, is assignee. The State Bank of Hemingford, Neb., was taken charge of by the State Bank Examiner. No report of the institution's condition is made, but the cashier asserts that the bank will reopen soon. Reports of Chicago public school principals of the enrollment of pupils for September gives gratifying evidence of the substantial growth of Chicago and evidence not SO gratifying of the inability of the Board of Education to provide suitable school accommodations for the large number of new pupils. The total enrollment is 183,749, an increase of 11,092 over the enrollment for September, 1894.
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The Farmers' and Merchants' bank of Creighton Cass county, has made an assignment for the benefit of creditors. The statement filed shows assets to the amount of $124,000 and liabilities amounting to $60,000, mostly in real estate paper. The officers of the institution say that the suspension is only temporary, and that depositors will be paid in full. The cashier of the bank, D. B. Wallis, was designated as assignee.
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The Farmers and Merchants' Bank of Creighton, Mo., made an assignment. The statement filed shows assets to the amount of $124,000 and liabilities of $60,000, mostly in real estate paper. The officers of the institution say that the suspension is only temporary.