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FORCED TO THE WALL. Banks and Business Concerns Fail Under the Pressure. HUTCHINSON, Kans., July 19.-Owing to the financial stringency. the Hutchinson National Bank did not open its doors this morning. Assets, $251,000; liabilities, $131,000. There is no doubt but that the depositors will be paid in full. Other local banks are well fortified and no further trouble is anticipated. TOPEKA, Kans., July 19-The State Bank Commissioner is informed of the failure of the State Bank of Parker and Wood & Sons at Yates Center. Both are small. MOBILE, Ala., July 19. - The Daily Register, one of the oldest newspapers in the South, has made an assignment. The publication will be continued under authority of the court. WASHINGTON, July 19.-The Comptroller of the Currency is informed of the failure of the Bozeman National Bank of Bozeman, Mont. CHICAGO, July 19.-Dickinson Brothers & King, dealers in cement and building material, went into the hands of a receiver to-day, through the filing of a bill by stockholders in Brooklyn. It is claimed the firm has assets of $260,000 in excess of its liabilities, but the pressure of the times and sharp competition have made the business unprofitable, and the business should be wound up. It is claimed the creditors will be paid in full and a substantial balance left. BROOKLYN, July 19.-The large carpethouse of Hardenburg & Co. has assigned. OKLAHOMA CITY, July 19.-The Bank of Oklahoma City, which closed its doors to-day, is only temporarily embarrassed and will open to-morrow, giving certificates of deposit in lieu of cash, which the leading merchants of the city will accept as cash. The liabilities of the bank are $95,000 and the assets $170,000. The Oklahoma National Bank also closed its doors. President Stiles says the assets are abundant and can be utilized a/most immediately. The First National has withstood a steady withdrawal for thirty days, culminating in a free run this afternoon. All checks were paid as fast as three tellers could count the money, and President Richardson announced that they would keep open until midnight, adding that the crowd might hang him if any depositor lost a dollar. DETROIT, July 19.-A Free Press special from Negaunee, Mich., says: Judge Burke of the Cleveland (Or.) commission firm of Corrigan, Ives & Co., now in the hands of a receiver, claims that Ferdinana Schlesinger owes the firm $270,000. which Schlesinger says is $70,000 ab ve the real figures. Burke also says the Buffalo Mining Company owes them $2,000,000. This, also, is alleged to be erroneous. Representatives of the creditors will confer with Schlesinger at Milwaukee to-morrow. NEW YORK, July 19.-The Farmers' Loan and Trust Company, as trustee, has brought suit against the D. G. Yuengling Jr. Brewery Company to foreclose a mortgage of $1,500,000 given on the brewery property to secure bonds. A lis pendens was to-day filed against the property.