14753. First National Bank (Angelica, NY)

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Bank Information

Episode Type
Suspension → Closure
Bank Type
national
Bank ID
564
Charter Number
564
Start Date
April 16, 1886
Location
Angelica, New York (42.307, -78.016)

Metadata

Model
gpt-5-mini
Short Digest
4c79da93

Response Measures

None

Receivership Details

Depositor recovery rate
100.0%
Date receivership started
1886-04-19
Date receivership terminated
1888-03-02
OCC cause of failure
Fraud
Share of assets assessed as good
37.7%
Share of assets assessed as doubtful
17.9%
Share of assets assessed as worthless
44.4%

Description

Multiple contemporaneous articles (dated April 16–19, 1886) report the First National Bank of Angelica 'closed its doors' or 'suspended' due to a $50,000 defalcation by cashier J. E. Robinson. A national bank examiner took charge and a receiver (Edgar W. Chamberlain) was appointed shortly thereafter. Later (Aug 17, 1886) the receiver paid a dividend, consistent with permanent closure and receivership rather than a temporary suspension and reopening.

Events (5)
1. November 3, 1864 Chartered
Source
historical_nic
2. April 16, 1886 Suspension
Cause
Bank Specific Adverse Info
Cause Details
Suspension caused by alleged defalcation of cashier J. E. Robinson amounting to $50,000, reportedly squandered in wheat speculation; cashier fled to Canada.
Newspaper Excerpt
Great excitement was occasioned at Angelica to-day by the announcement that the First National Bank of that place had closed its doors.
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newspapers
3. April 19, 1886 Receivership
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historical_nic
4. April 19, 1886 Receivership
Newspaper Excerpt
EDGAR W. CHAMBERLAIN has been appointed receiver of the First National Bank of Angelica, N. Y.
Source
newspapers
5. August 17, 1886 Other
Newspaper Excerpt
The receiver of the First National Bank of Angelica, N. Y., has paid a dividend of 50 cents.
Source
newspapers

Newspaper Articles (13)
1. April 17, 1886 Savannah Morning News Savannah, GA
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FLIGHT OF A CASHIER. A National Bank Closes its Doors-The Official in Canada. ROCHESTER, April 16.-Great excitement was occasioned at Angelica to-day by the announcement that the First National Bank of that place had closed its doors. It is said that J. E. Robinson, the cashier, is a defaulter to the amount of $50,000. When last heard from he was in Canada, whither be had gone for the purpose of "recovering his health." Mr. Robinson had been the cashier of the bank for 25 years and the utmost confidence in his integrity had prevailed. It is believed that speculation in wheat was the cause of his alleged defalcations. National Bank Examiner Clark is at Angelica and will remain in charge until a receiver is appointed. The directors are persistent in the claim that depositors will be paid in full.

2. April 17, 1886 New-York Tribune New York, NY
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BANK SHUT AND THE CASHIER IN CANADA. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF ANGELICA CLOSES UP-CASHIER ROBINSON $50,000 SHORT. ROCHESTER, April 16.-Great excitement was occasioned at Angelica, N. Y., to-day, by the announcement that the First National Bank of that place had closed its doors. It is stated that J. E. Robinson. the cashier. is a defaulter to the amount of $50,000. When last heard from he was in Canada, whither he had gone for the purpose of "recovering his health." Robinson had been cashier of the bank for twenty-tive years. and the utmost confidence was had in his integrity. It is believed that speculation in wheat was the cause of his alleged defalcation. National Bank Examiner Clark is at Angelica and will remain in charge of the institution until a receiver is appointed. The directors are persistent that the depositors will be paid in full.

3. April 17, 1886 Daily Republican Wilmington, DE
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NEWS SUMMARY. A DECORATION FOR GRANT'S GRAVE ON MEMORIAL DAY. $25",000 for a Memorial College-Vot ing Lists All to be Examined in Rhode Island-Gladstone's Bill Approved, meeting of the citizens of St. John, New Brunswick, was held on Thursday evening, to consider the propriety of sending a decoration for the grave of General Grant on Memorial Day. A committee was appointed to carry out the plan. It is proposed that the memorial shall take the form of an ever. r green shaft, seven feet in height, decorated with immortelles, and bear0 ing suitable inscriptions. Cornelius, William K, Frederick W. 9 and George W. Vanderbilt have given to the College of Physicians and Surt geone in New York $250,000 for the . erection, as a memorial of their father, of a building on the college land at II Sixteenth street and Tenth avenue, to be known as "The Vanderbilt Clinic of d the College of Physicians and Surgeons." The erection of the building will begin at once. st A telegram from Newport says it is al underetood that "the voting lists in e, every city and town in Rhode Island are to be examined to ascertain when each voter registered and by whom his be tax was paid, with a view to obtaining h a decision of the Supreme Court as to the legality of votes cast by persons re whose registry taxes have been paid by 11 others." The object is to overthrow the a, prohibition vote if possible. . At a public meeting in Montreal on e Thursday night, which was attended by e the Mayor, Aldermen, members of Parliament and leading citizens,resolutions d rwere passed approving Mr. Gladstone's Home Rule bill. eg d Dr. T. S. Taylor, a wealthy resident of Norwood, Long Island, shot and W killed his coachman on Thursday, d of while giving an exhibition of his skill d as a marksman by shooting bottles off ed the coachman's head. a The First National Bank of Angelica, y. New York, suspended yesterday, because, it is alleged. of a defalcation of $50,000 on the part of its cashier, J. E. Robinson, who had been speculating in wheat. The Governor of Tennessee on Friday appointed W. C. Whitthorn U. S. Senator from that State, to succeed w. Howell E. Jackson, appointed U. S. Circuit Judge. Michael Eagan, 10 years of age, hanged himself in Chicago on Thursday evening. His mother is dead, and he had "for some time been deeply engrossed in reading lurid literature." A great ice "shove" in the St. Law rence river caused mon damage to property in Montreal on Friday, flood in ing the low lying streets and cellars. Ice The mills of the Waycross Lumber by Company, at Waltertown, Georgia he were burned on Friday. The loss is esti nmated at $50,000, insurance $25,000. all Robert Hamilton's tobacco factory, at nt Covington, Kentucky, was burned or he Friday morning. Loss $60,000, covered of by insurance. ful The President on Friday nominated of John O. Reiley to be Postmaster at Cin the cinnati, and Mrs. Virginia C. Thomp lo" son to be Postmistress at Louisville. ho News has reached San Francisco tha ion a French fleet is at Papeiti, one of th en Society Islands It is believed th French are about to annex the group. one of The steamer Africa was burned to th water's edge at Owen Sound, Ontario ne on Thursday night. Loss $20,000. of The local option election in Botetour enCounty, Virginia, has resulted in 26, majority of 357 for license. at

4. April 17, 1886 Telegram-Herald Grand Rapids, MI
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THE TRUSTED CASHIER. An Angelica, N. Y., Gentleman Sojourning in Canada for the Benefit of His Health ROCHESTER, N. Y., April 16.-Great excitement was occasioned at Angelica, N. Y., today by the announcement that the First National bank of that place has closed its doors. It is stated that J. E. Robinson, cashier, is a defaulter to the amount of $50,000. When last heard from he was sojourning in Canada for the "benefit of his health." Robinson has been cashier of the bank for 25 years and the utmost confidence in his integrity has prevailed. It is believed wheat speculations was the cause of his downfall. Bank Examiner Clark will take charge of the defunct institution until a receiver is appointed. The directors are persistent in the claim that the depositors will be paid in full.

5. April 19, 1886 The Argus Rock Island, IL
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THE NEWS IN BRIEF. A meeting of the Millers' National assoclation is called for May 12 and 13 at Milwaukee. The city council of Minneapolis, Minn., Friday appropriated $25,000 for the benefit of the cyclone sufferers. It is expected that navigation will be open at Duluth by April 25. Recent warm rains have rotted the ice. Maj. G. D. Smallwood, a veteran of the Black Hawk war, died, Friday, at his residence near Clinton, Ills., aged 76. The tobacco factory of Robert Hamilton at Covington, Ky., was burned Friday morning, entailing a loss of $60,000. At Hearne, Tex., Wednesday night, Thomas Hudson, in advancing to attack Dr. Bassett, was shot by Mrs. Ba sett and died R few hours later. Switchmen in the yards of the Baltimore $ & Ohio railroad in Chicago struck Friday because of the company's refu al to dis t charge non-union men. The state superintendent of public in struction reports that there are in Illinois t 2,378 persons between the ages of 12 and 21 1 who can not read or write. The governor of Tennessee has appointed the Hon. W. C. Whitthorne to succeed Sen9 ator Howell E. Jackson, recently appointed e to a United States judgeship. t At Merrick, I. I., Thursday Dr. Thomas , S. Taylor, in attempting to put a bullet , through a tomato can, placed on the head A of his coachman, Thaddeus Gretman, shot the latter dead e Michael Eagan, a boy 10 years of age, committed suicide by hanging at his home in South Chicago Thursday night. His father would not let him go with him to e call on a neighbor. t The defalcation of its cashier, J. E. Robine son, to the extent of $50,000, caused the sust pension of the First National bank of Anll gelica, N. Y. Robinson, who has gone to , Canada, squandered the money in wheat. Business failures throughout the country y for the week just ended were 135 in the United States and twenty-seven in Canada, o as compared with a total of 215 for the week preceding and 214 for the week before g that e A French fleet, in command of an ad1. miral, is said to be in the South Pacific, It with the object of annexing the Leeward e islands It is said that some of the Society r islands will also be declared French terrie tory. le The majority report of the Payne invesis tigating committee, recommending that the evidence adduced be certified to the presie dent of the United States senate, was Fri: day adopted by the Ohio house by a strict 1party vote-61 to 33. An agreement made by the district as0 sembly with the International Cigarmakers 33 Union, of Mitwaukee, has b.en re ected by e the local assembly of the Knights of Labor, , who have resolved to Loycott the union and the firms of Segnitz & Co., and L. Kindling II A watchman and a policeman tired several e shots at John B. Murphy, foreman of the , St. Paul yards, at Milwaukee Thurs lay B. night, mistaking him for a burglar. One of bullet lodge.1 in a note-book in Mr. Murphy's g breast pocket, and another found a resting l' place on the buckle of one of his suspenders. Manager W. B. Davison, of the Macon It county Illinois, Prote. tive Life Insuranceas rs sociation, has been using the mails to foster y a lottery scheme, and will be looked after d by the postal authorities At a meeting at Decatur Friday the officers of the associan tion denounced Davison and demanded his n immediate resignation. in O. W. Bair, a lawyer, assaulted C. C. Frost, an editor, at Huron, D. T., Friday, of upon which Frost drew his revolver, but in he the scuille the weapon was turned against d its owner, inflicting a slight wound in his wrist After disengaging himself I rost tired point-blank at his opponent, but missed him, and was then thamped by citizens for his reckless shooting or

6. April 19, 1886 Evening Star Washington, DC
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EDGAR W. CHAMBERLAIN has been appointed receiver of the First National Bank of Angelica, N. Y.

7. April 21, 1886 Watertown Republican Watertown, WI
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An entire family named Long, living on North Market Street, Chicago, were taken suddenly ill on the evening of the 15th and one of the children died during the night. The attending physicians think the family was poisoned by canned peaches. The First National Bank of Angelica, N. Y., closed its doors on the 16th, thesuspension being caused by the defalcation of the cashier, J. E. Robinson, amountingto $50,000. Robinson is in Canada. John Ellis, a stock man from Mexico, Mo.. put up at the Transit House, Chicago, on the night of the 14th. Next morning he was found dead in bed, having blown out the gas. Nine persons were killed and a number wounded at Ajaccio, the capital of Corsica, on the 15th, by the collapse of a building.

8. April 21, 1886 Morris Tribune Morris, MN
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At Merrick, L. I., Thursday Dr. Thomas S. Taylor, in attempting to put a bullet through a tomato can, placed on the head of his coachman, Thaddeus Gretman, shot the latter dead. Michael Eagan, a boy 10 years of age, committed suicide by hanging at his home in South Chicago Thursday night. His father would not let him go with him to call on a neighbor. The defalcation of its cashier, J. E. Robinson, to the extent of $50,000, caused the suspension of the First National bank of Angelica, N, Y, Robinson, who has gone to Canada, squandered the money in wheat, Business failures throughout the country for the week just ended were 155 in the United States and twenty-seven in Canada, as compared with a total of 215 for the week preceding and 214 for the week before that. A French fleet, in command of an admiral, is said to be in the South Pacific, with the object of annexing the Leeward islands. It is said that some of the Society islands will also be declared French territory.

9. April 23, 1886 The Kenosha Telegraph Kenosha, WI
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THE EAST. THE Governor of Pennsylvania, because of alleged mismanagement of soldiers' orphans' schools in that State, on the 16th demanded the resignation of the State Superintendent of Schools and summarily removed other officials implicated in the scandal. J. E. ROBINSON, a defaalter to the extent of $50,000, caused the suspension of the First National Bank of Angelica, N. Y., on the 16th. IT was considered certain on the 18th that it was the schooner Charles H. Morse, of Bath, Me., which ran into and sunk the steamer Oregon recently off Fire Island, N. Y. The crew of nine men on the schooner all perished. THE death of Stephen N. Gifford, for twenty-nine years clerk of the Massachusetts State Senate, occurred at Duxbury, Mass., on the 18th. ON June 9 the Maine Republicans will meet in State Convention at Lewiston. IN the foundry of Singer, Nimick & Co., at Pittsburgh, one thousand pounds of molten steel were accidentally scattered among fifty or more persons on the 17th, twenty of whom were severely burned. AFTER being totally blind for twenty-two years Miss Louisa Mann, of Plainfield, N. J., suddenly regained her sight on the 17th. She ascribed her cure to faith. EVERY surface road in New York City, with the exception of the Eighth and Ninth avenue lines, was on the 19th tied up by a. strike, caused by renewed trouble on the Third avenue line. One car was destroyed by bricks while attempting to run, and the police charged upon the rioters, injuring seventy persons. THE United Presbyterian Ministerial As. sociation of Philadelphia on the 19th adopted denunciatory resolutions against the boycott. ON the 19th the attempt to secure the bodies of the twenty-six miners buried several months ago in a mine at Nanticoke, Pa., was abandoned, it having been discovered that the fatal cavern was full of water.

10. April 24, 1886 Arizona Weekly Citizen Tucson, AZ
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NEW LORK. April at the Third Avenue line left the depot 8a. m. At noon twenty eight care were running, making trips from Har lem to Broome street and return. The police are aboard each car and along the route at regular intervale. Their services, however, were not required as everything remained quiet and the strik ers kept away from the avenue and depot. About six hundred men applied for work to-day in answer to the companies' advertisements, and many were engaged at once. NEW YORK, April A Seranton dis patch says: Master Workmen Powderly was a-ked to-day if there was any in mediate prospect of settling the strike in the south west. "I do not know what the business men of St. Louis may accomplish;" said he, "but I might be able to give a better opinion if I knew something about the man ipulation of stocks. I will say this If Mr. Gould 18 not making any more money out of the Missouri Pacific than he claims, we will gladly take the road off his hands. "You mean that Knights of Labor would purcha-e the road? "Precisely. We can doit and I em con fident that we could run the road to the satisfaction of the public and make mon ey without having strikes. The fact is, railroad men as class are the easiest to get along with in the world. They are steady, bard working and in dustrious. A man who cannot get along with them cannot get along with anybody. ST. LOUIS, April 17 Warrants have been issued for the arrest of Martin Irone, chairman of the Executive committee of District Assembly No. 101: A. C. Coughlon chairman of the Executive committee of District Assembly No, 93; Geo M. Jackson, former local greenback politician and S. M. Nichols, telegraph operator. on charge of felony for interferring with the telegraph wires in connection with the wire tapping al. leged to have been done two weeks ago for the purpose of intercepting dispatches between Jay Gould and Vice President Hoxie. DALLAS, Tex., April 17 United States Judge Pardee, in the the trial for contempt of court cases yesterday, passed sentence on the following persons who have been convicted of nses against the Texas & Pacific: Charles Wilson, charged with displacing switch for the purpose of derailing an engine at Denton. March are C imprisonment the county jail; of taking for Bishop, switch ot Fort Worth, April 2nd, to await found guilty and Wm. An sentence: Robert dis derson. for taking charged use. sion S1000 the Morand the Richard switchman gad, stone, for in the Barlow, Chas timidating by to the ou head, jail. While Wis April unloading from keg the it, ally dropped, Edwards, Arthur kegs. maining of had the top master, the baggage head blown off; Jas. Ringw te graph operator and Geo. H. Arms brakeman, were fatally injured. The conductor and three other train men all received injuries SCRANTON, Ps., April 17 It is understood that meeting of the leading Knights of Labor will be held here in day or two, but Mr. Powderly refuses to say anything about it. Buf Sun's NEW YORK, April 17 The The of statement falo special Rev. Wm. Cleveland, brother of the president. that the latter will marry Miss Frances Felsom, the lovely daughter of the late Oscar Folsom, together with some information glesned, leaves no doubt of the fact that the White House wedding will take place. The wedding will be of the most quiet character possible, and it will be solemnized in the White House in June. There dozen persons present and possible the time of its occurrence will be kept secret until after the mony. Miss Foleom is modest, retiring and and her wishes are that it this there shall be no display In understood the president concurs. ROCHESTER, April 17 Great excite ment was occasioned at Angelica, N. Y to-day. by the that the First Nati ional bank had closed its doors and it is stated that J. E Robinson, cashier, is defaulter to the amount of $50,000. When last heard from he was in Canada. Robinson had been cashier ut of the bank for 25 and the most confidence in his integrity pre vailed. It is believed that speculation in wheat was the cause of his alleged defalcation. The directors are persist ent in the claim that the depositors will be paid in full. LOUISVILLE, Ky April 17 Robert Smith, (colored) hanged to-day at Nicholasville, Ky before email crowd. Heascented the seaffold with trembling steps and told the story of his crime, saving he was ready to die. Smith killed his step-father. James Sea, at Pe kin Ky., November 25, 1885, by beating his braine out with while Sea was asleep. The crime was committed for $129. Smith wrappe the body in blanket and threw into the Kentucky to river, The crime was traced him. as he had tried to secure the assist ance of his brother to help him to commit the crime, Smith is only 19 years of age. WASHINGTON, April 17 The Knights of Labor of Frankford, Ind. have sent memorial congress demandi prohibition of Chinese immigr SAN FRANCISCO, April17 The steamer afternoon this City New 24; with Hong Kong dates to March with Tokohama, April 1. The Transcon NEW YORK, rates tinental ruling prices until next Saturday. Pa The April SAN rates cific Mail $30. O General SAN April FRANCISCO, to the O. appointed Howard ammand of the division of the Pacific arrived here to-day. LONDON, April The Bartlett por soning case was given to the jury to-day AttorIn closing the case for the crown that contended Ruesel General ney imwas all the from clearly possible for Bartlett have committed he doubt enicide and there could be no was killed by poison. Mrs. Adelade Bartlett who has been maintaining reations with Rev. Mr. Dyson, and who remove her husband bewas inspired to health was

11. April 24, 1886 The Livingston Enterprise Livingston, MT
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NEWS OF THE WEEK Cullom has introduced in the senate a bill to increase the pension for total disability to $72 per month. Joaquin Miller, who is now in Texas, writes that he is going back to Mexico to make that his country home. Nine persons were killed and a number injured by the collapse of a building at Abaccio, the capital of Corsica, on the 20th inst. The total value of property destroyed by the cyclone at Sauk Rapids, not including fences, horses, cows, etc., foots up nearly $300,000. The City National bank of Williamshas closed its doors. The cause asis defalcation signed port of $25,000, coupled with recent heavy losses. The governor of Tennessee has appointed Ex-Congressman W. C. Whitthorne senator of the United States to succeed Senator Jackson. resigned. On application of the Star Iron Tower Albert have been company appointed Baldwin and receivers J.H. Ogles- of the Central and exat position North, by New Orleans. South American W. C. N. Carr died Saturday, at Ashland, Wis., from a stroke of paralysis, aged 57 years. He was minister to Constantinople during the administrations of Presidents Polk and Tyler. An Ottawa, Canada, dispatch of the 20th says: The Canadian Pacific railroad is impeded by floods in the neighborbood of Lake Nipising. Since Sunday no trains have reached here from Winnipeg. The Kmghts of Labor now have a scheme to boycott the Gould system by eastern cease over those shipping ordering manufacturers roads. If manufac- to turers refuse, there will be more strikes. The Bishop of Madrid was shot on Sunday last, while entering the cathedral in that city, by a priest whom he had suspended and denied re-instatement. His wounds will probably prove fatal. The First National bank of Angelica, New York, has suspended, owing to the wheat speculations of its cashier. J. E. Robinson. Robinson is short in his accounts $50,000, and has fled to Canada. A prairie fire at Lynn, Dakota, destroyed the dwelling of Mrs. Dollinger, who lost her life trying to save the stock from the barn. Her daughter was also so badly burned that her recovery is impossible. Col. Thomas H. Ruger, Eighteenth inwhose nomination to is general fantry, pending before the senate, brigadier has been placed in command of the department of the Missouri, relieving Brig. Gen. Miles. Abe Johnson was arrested at Waco, Texas, charged with having destroyed with a house at to Sam Jones, belonging dynamite Cartersville, the evangelist, Ga., and Judge Collins' large stables at the same place. The floods at Montreal the past week have done immense damage. Seven thousand four hundred and twenty-two families were flooded out, and the total population in the district affected by the flood is about 30,000. The pupils in one of the public school buildings at Cleveland, Ohio, struck for less time in the school room, and the police were called upon to enforce the orders of the teachers. Thirteen boys were suspended and the strike is over. The house of John Douthett, a farmer living near Xenia, Ohio, was burned on 17th, and he and his wife perished in the flames. Charles Morris, employed on the farm, was arrested on suspicion of murdering the couple and firing the house. Speaker Carlisle appointed the following committee to investigate the labor troubles in the west: Messrs. Curtin, of Pennsylvania, Crain, of Texas, Outhwaite, of Ohio, Stewart, of Virginia, Parker. of New York, and Buchanan, of New Jersey. The Coke syndicate of the Connellsville coke regions of Pennsylvania has volunnotice that it will of miners and coke 5 wages tarily given drawers advance from the to cent after May in16 per 1st. who The took crease affects all of 1,000 men part in the recent successful strike. A fearful cyclone passed over Monroe township, Nodaway county, Missouri, on the 15th, destroying dwellings, barns and out-houses, and killing thousands of dollars worth of stock. Three persons were killed and many injured, and many of the wounded were not expected to live. Six thousand employes of the sugar refineries of the eastern district of Brooklyn struck because of non-compliance with the demands for an advance in estiwages presented yesterday. firm It is will be mated that the loss to one $50,000 to $100,000 on sugar now ready

12. August 17, 1886 Sacramento Daily Record-Union Sacramento, CA
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TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. Heavy rains in Wisconsin have dissipated all fears from further damage by forest fires. The receiver of the First National Bank of Angelica, N. Y., has paid a dividend of 50 cents. The ceremony of unveiling the statue of Baron de Kalb came off at Annapolis, Md., yesterday. The British Cabinet has resolved not to yield to the demand for an autumn session of Parliament. The issue of standard silver dollars from the mints during the week ended August 14th was 660,427. The Irish Times (Loyalist) reiterates its statement that Parnell will shortly become a Roman Catholic. The President left Washington Monday morning for his summer vacation in the Adirondack mountains. The London Times again censures the Protestants of Belfast for their refusal to submit to the authorities. Matterson, the Australian sculler, beat Perkins in a race over the Thames course, from Putney to Mortlake. The stakes were £200. General Boulanger, French Minister of War, has prohibited the publication of a pamphlet given his biography and referring to a scandal with which his name was connected. Central Russia, especially the Moscow district, has been devastated by tornadoes and water-spouts. Many buildings and bridges and whole crops have been destroyed. The United States war ships Yantic and Galena, after returning from a cruise in North Bay, anchored at the port of Hawksbury Friday night and sailed homeward Saturday. The Irish delegates to the Chicago Irish National League Convention-O'Brien, Deasy and Redmond-arrived: at New York on the Servia Monday morning. A reception committee went out in a steam launch and gave them a formal welcome. A shortage has been discovered in the accounts of J. P. Williams, late manager of D. Wright & Co., extensive lumber dealers of Bradford, Pa., and Dunkirk, N.Y. The amount aggregates about $3,000, and is partly church money. Williams is vestryman and treasurer of the Episcopal church of Bradford. The money was lost in oil speculation.

13. October 21, 1886 Evening Star Washington, DC
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Washington News and Gossin, THE SUPPLEMENT OF THE EVENING STAR To DAY contains: The new Library building, bogus and genuine Masons, the coming grand naval parade at the Bartholdi Statue ceremonies Blaine on the tariff and the color line, closing work of the Knights of Labor, telegraphic dis patches, etc. The advertisements are classified as follows: Auction Sales, Dry Goods. Ladies' Goods,Gentlemen'sGoods.Financial,Dentistry, Specialties,Housefurnishings,SewingMachines Attorneys, Books, Wood and Coal, Medical, Professional, Family Supplies, Pianos and Organs, The Trades, Railroads, Potomac River Boats, Steamers, Undertakers. GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY internal revenue, $366,539; customs, $710,880. A RUMOR ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT PRINT ING OFFICE DENIED.- STAR reporter called at the government printing office and inquired as to the truth of the rumor that five hundred new appointments are to be made there at once. The report was emphatical denied. Many of the discharged employes are still en deavoring to recover their places. A great deal of hardship and suffering has been caused by the sudden dism of so many who depended entirely upon their daily earnings for support. NAVAL ORDERS AND CIRCULARS Mr. M. S. Thompson, in charge of the files and records of the Navy department has placed in the hands of the government printer his compilation of general order. and circulars of the department and its bureaus DIVIDENDS DECLARED - The controller of the currency has declared dividends to the creditors of insolvent national banks as follows: The Marine national bank of the city of New York, seventh dividend. five per cent, making In all 50 per cent. on claims proved. amounting to $4,469,589: the Pacific national bank of Bos. ton. Mass. a fourth dividend. five per cent making in al 20 per cent. on. claims proved amounting to $2,291,997 the First national bank of Angelica. N. second dividend. twenty-five per cent. making in all seventv-five per cent, on claims proved amounting to $49,879; the tional bank irst na of Sioux Falls, Dakota. first dividend of cent, on claims proved, amounting to $49,383. THE FEVER AT BILOXI-Surgeon General Hamilton, of the marine hospital service, in speaking of the alleged existence of yellow fever at Biloxi Miss. said that there of danger disease the so effilong spreading cient quarantine the state authorities, and he added that the lateness season the of rendered spread of the disease most unlikely The he said, would take no action in the premises called on by state authorities aid. dispatch from Biloxi last night says the sick are all doing well. SENATOR BUTLER, of South Carolina, and family. arrived in this city to-day. having just returned from Europe, and took rooms at the Metropolitan. The Senator will go to Charles ton in a day or two. The earthquake occurred since his departure for Europe. ARMY LEAVES,-Lieut, Col. Wm E. Merrill, engineer corps, granted leave for two months leave of Major Warren Webster, surgeon, extended one year for sickness: leave of Second Lieut H. C. 4th Benson, extended H Lieut. Second M. three months; engineer corps. granted one month and fifteen days: First Lieut. Charles S. Black surgeon,granted two months' leave for disability: First Lieut Carter. assistant surgranted six months' leave, with permission to apply for six months' extension and to go abroad. on account of sickness; leave Second Lieut James A Cole. sixth cavalry, tended one month: first Lieut Craig, sixth cavalry granted fifteen days' leave. A CHAN IN CIVIL SERVICE RULES. Civil Service Commissioners Oberly and Lyman et applicants, whether for appointment or pronotion, shall be carried on under the supervision of civil the Wash ington, and not be lett to the discretion of the local board of examiners RESTRICTIONS UPON INDIAN AGENTS. The Secretary of the Interior has issued a circular letter, addressed to Indian inspectors, in which they are prohibited from seeking or using tree passes over railroads. or other means ublic conveyance. They are also prohibited from making requests or tions for ap pointment or employ ment of any person in the Indian service. THE PHILADELPHIA POST OFFICE INSPECTION.- The report of the commission of post office inspectors assigned to the duty of makin an examination of the post office at Philade phia Harrity. the postmaster from responsibility for irregular iu his office, and says that mistakes were made, not by new appointees, but by old carriers, who willful delayed matter. The selections of employest postmaster are commended as being well made. PENSION OFFICE BIDS. The following is a list of bids received yesterday by Gen. Meigs for furnishing materials and labor for heating the fourth floor of the Pension Office building: 38 for Bids radiators. without Nason Manufacturing Co., New York $846.72 Nason' radiators, $38 per valve. Ezra Landis, Lancaster 200; Landis radia tors and Jenkins Bartlett. Hayward & Co., Baltimore, 8848: Bart & Hay John Lyon, Washington, D. 8888 16: Bart. &Hayw.radiators, Walworth Manuiacturing Co., Boston, Mass.. 6793; Walworth radiators, and valves. Win. Rothwell, Washington, C., $911.08: Nason Wm. Rothwell Washington. $1.144 Bundy A. Covle. Washington D. $1.056: Detroit. with Marsh air valve Bids for Indiators.vk all materials in place- Pierce, Butler & Pierce. Syracuse, $1,466; Bunuy radiators. Jenkins A. Gibson, rishington, D. C., $1,525; Toy direct radiators Jenkins John Lyou asuington, D.C., $1,494. 16: Bart lett-Hayward radiators. EAH Cook Co., Ro chester. $1.756; Reed, Bundy or Harris tors, Walworth Manu.acturing Co., Boston, 81 490: Walworth radiators, valves not stated & Johnson. Washington, D. $1,995; Bundy radiators, Chapelle Co Washington, D.C., $2,338; Nason or Reed radiators. Jenkins valves. Chapelle & Co., Washington. D.C., 3,000: Gold radiators. M. Coyle. Washington D. $1,550; Detroit radiators, Marsh valves Win. Rothwell, Washington, D.C $1,446.08 Nason radia ors. Wm. Rothwell, Washington, $1,679;Bundy radiators Edw. Dart Co.. Washington, D C., $2,074.50; Bundy radiators, Breckinridge Bids for materials other than radiators and dolugal work-Jour Lyon, Washington, $606. Walworth Manufacturing Co., Boston, $697. Wm. Rothwell, Washington, $535. TREATIES WITH TURKEY CONSUMMATED Minister Cox before leaving Constantinople consummated. under instructions from the United States government, two treatles with Turkey -anextrudition treaty and naturalization treaty similar to the one nov existin between this country and Great Britain and between this country and Austi a-Hungary Some twelve or fifteen years ago treaties were drawn up between the two gov ernments and were ratified by the United States Senate. but with amendments which the sultan declined to accept. and so they fell through At the present time there is no protection in Turkey for Turks who have become naturalized itizensot the United States. Ouce Turk aways Turk is the only rule now cognized by the sublime porte. Mr. Cox per suaded the sultan to accept the amendment of the States Senate and now only re quires this govern mment to sanction and promulgate its own treaties. with its own amendments, so they may become operative now with the least delay Army Officers Transferred CHANGES IN THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT Capt. B. D. Tavlor relieved from duty in the department of the East and ordered to Columbus barracks. Ohio, Capt. L. S. Tesson relieved from duty in the departments of Texas and Arizona and ordered to the department of the East. First Lieut. Charles C. Barrows relieved