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CONCERNING BUSINESS AND FINANCE. MILWAUKEE, WIS., July 19.-A special dispatch received by the Sentinel late last night from Shell Lake, Mich., says that C. Probert and Edwin Probert, the Wisconsin bankers who operated banking institutions at Washburn, Ashland and Shell Lake, were arrested at Washburn yesterday, charged with having violated the banking laws, The three banks iu which the prisoners were interested failed recently, and an examination has shown, it is said, that all the institutions were in bad shape, and that deposits were received over their counters after it must have been known that they were insolvent. The Proberts, up to the time of the failures, always stood high in northern Wisconsin financial circles and the news of their arrest will cause a sensation throughout the state. Frederick T. Day, the president of the Plamkinton Bank in this city, which recently failed, was located in Flint, Mich., by Sheriff Dunn, of Milwaukee county, yesterday and the capias for his appearance to answer for the grand jury indictment recently rendered against him, served upon him. The banker is in a sanitarium at Flint and as his attending physicians have made an affidavit that to move him now would endanger his life, he will be allowed to remain there under a guard until his health is improved. CHICAGO, July 19.-Dickinson Bro. & King, dealers in Portland cement and building material went into the hands of a receiver to-day. Complainants say the firm has property valued at $260,000 in excess of liabilities. The pressure of the times is said to have made the business unprofitable and it should be wound up. WASHINGTON, D. C., July 19.-The Comptroller of the Currency has been advised that the Hutchinson National Bank, Hutchinson, Kansas, closed its doors this morning. NEW YORK, July 19.-Three judgments aggregating $10,399, against Erastus Wiman in favor of James M. Fitzgerald on three notes, were filed to-day. OKLAHOMA CITY, O. T., July 19.-The Bank of Oklahoma City and the Oklahoma National Bank closed their doors this afternoon. Statements are unobtainable now. WASHINGTON, D. C., July 19,-The mint bureau has succeeded in getting offers of silver at what it considers a fair market price-711/6 cents per ounce-while the gold reserve recovered the ground it lost Monday and again began its "cat in the well" climb toward the hundred million mark. The reserve to-day amounts to $98,387,709, against $97,672,852 yesterday. The currency balance to-day amounts to $25,324,713. TOPERA, KANSAS, July 19.-Information has been received at office of State Bank Commissioner of the failure of the State Bank of Parker, Linn county, and of the Woodson State Bank of Yates Centre, Woodson county. Both are small concerns. WASHINGTON, D.C., July -The Comptroller of the Currency is informed of the failure of the Bozeman National Bank, of Bozeman, Montana.