19110. Merchants National Bank (Rutland, VT)

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Bank Information

Episode Type
Suspension → Closure
Bank Type
national
Bank ID
3311
Charter Number
3311
Start Date
March 26, 1900
Location
Rutland, Vermont (43.611, -72.973)

Metadata

Model
gpt-5-mini
Short Digest
633d5f3aa0e726af

Response Measures

None

Receivership Details

Depositor recovery rate
96.5%
Date receivership started
1900-03-26
Date receivership terminated
1906-03-31
OCC cause of failure
Fraud
Share of assets assessed as good
35.1%
Share of assets assessed as doubtful
17.2%
Share of assets assessed as worthless
47.7%

Description

Articles (Mar 26, 1900) report the Merchants' National Bank of Rutland closed its doors and National Bank Examiner D. D. Muir was appointed temporary receiver after discovery of a $145,000 shortage by cashier Charles W. Mussey, who confessed to embezzlement. No run is mentioned; the bank was placed in receivership and did not resume business (receiver later declared dividends).

Events (5)
1. February 25, 1885 Chartered
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historical_nic
2. March 26, 1900 Receivership
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historical_nic
3. March 26, 1900 Receivership
Newspaper Excerpt
Bank Examiner D. D. Muir has been appointed temporary receiver by the controller of the currency today.
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newspapers
4. March 26, 1900 Suspension
Cause
Bank Specific Adverse Info
Cause Details
Cashier Charles W. Mussey misappropriated funds (confessed shortage reported as $145,000) leading to immediate closure and examination; directors surprised by discovery of defalcation.
Newspaper Excerpt
The Merchants' National Bank of this city closed its doors today ... the cashier, Charles W. Mussey, is under arrest, charged with the misappropriation of the funds of the bank.
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newspapers
5. August 3, 1900 Other
Newspaper Excerpt
Receiver D. D. Muir ... received an order from the comptroller of the currency to declare a 50 per cent dividend to depositors.
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newspapers

Newspaper Articles (22)
1. March 26, 1900 Evening Star Washington, DC
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BANK CLOSES ITS DOORS. Cashier of the Merchants' National of Rutland Under Arrest. RUTLAND, Vt., March 26.-The Merchants' National Bank of this city closed its doors today and the cashier, Charles W. Mussey, is under arrest, charged with the misappropriation of the funds of the bank. The exact amount of the shortage will not be Known until after a thorough examination of the bank's books, which is now in progress, has been completed. The closing of the bank was a complete surprise to the business community of Rutland. J. A. Mead, the president, is well known in commercial circles, and besides being the head of the Merchants' Bank is president of the State Trust Company. The trust company, however, is not affected by the suspension of the national bank. The closed institution is in charge of National Bank Examiner D. D. Muir, who was appointed temporary receiver by the controller of the currency today. Mr. Muir recently discovered evidence which led him to belleve an inspection of the accounts of the bank was necessary. It soon appeared that the finances of the institution were in a condition which called for the arrest of the cashier and a more thorough and systematic investigation was begun. The controller of the currency has received word that the Merchants' National Bank of Rutland, Vt., closed its doors this morning. Following is the synopsis of the report of the condition of the bank made to the controller of the currency under the call of February 13, 1900: Liabilities: Capital, $100,000; surplus and profits, $3,383; due to depositors, banks and bankers, $351,549; circulation, $21,870. Resources: Loans and discounts, $361,363; other assets, including cash, $115,438; total, $476,802. Bank Examiner D. D. Muir has been appointed temporary receiver.

2. March 26, 1900 The Evening Times Washington, DC
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Receiver for a Bank. The Comptroller of the Currency today placed the Merchants' National Bank, Rutland, Vt., in the hands of D. D. Muir as temporary receiver. The condition of the above bank, as reported to the Comptroller of the Currency under call of February 13, 1900. was as follows: Liabilities-Capital, $100,000; surplus and profits, $3,383.47; due to depositors, banks and bankers, $351,549.26; circulation. $21,870. ResourcesLoans and discounts, $361,363.75; other assets, including cash, $115,438.98. Total, $476,802.78

3. March 26, 1900 Las Vegas Daily Optic Las Vegas, NM
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Four Bank Failures. Keene, N. H., March 26-The bank commissioners of New Hampshire have filed petitions with the clerk of the Cheshire county supreme court, asking that assignees be appointed for the Keene Guaranty Savings bank, and the Keene Five Cents Savings bank. Neither bank has received deposits of late, owing to the general belief that they sustained losses through western investments. Five Cents owes $1,449,058. Guaranty Savings bank $718,873. Washington, March 26-The comptroller of the treasury received word that the Merchant's national bank, of Rutland, Vermont, had closed this morning. Rutland, Vt., March 26-The Merchant's national bank closed its doors today. Cashier Charles W. Mussey is under arrest charged with misappropriation of funds. The amount of shortage is not known. The following is a synopsis of the report of the condition of the bank made by comptroller of currency under call of February 13th: Liabilities, capital $100,000; surplus and profits $3,383, due depositors and bankers $351,549; circulation $21,870. Resources: loans discounts $361,363; other assets including cash $115,438. Bank Examiner D. D. Muir has been appointed temporary receiver. Rutland, Vt., March 26-It is announced that the shortage of Cashier Mussey amounts to $145,000. The cashier was arrested at Albany, N.Y.

4. March 26, 1900 Deseret Evening News Salt Lake City, UT
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A NATIONAL BANK FAILS. Cashier Under Arrest for Misappropriation of Funds. Vermont Institution in the Hands of a Receiver-Amount of Shortage $145,000. Rutland, Vt., March 26.-The Merchant's National Bank of Rutland closed Its doors today and the cashier, Charles W. Muzzey, is under arrest, charged with misappropriation of funds, Following is a synopsis of the report of the condition of the bank made to the comptroller of the currency under the call of February 13: Liabilities, capital, $100,000; surplus and profits, $1,383; 'due to depositors, banks and bankers, $351,549; circulation, $21,870. Resources: Loans: Loans and dis. counts, $361,363; other assets, including cash, $115,438. Bank Examiner D. D. Muir has been appointed temporary receiver.

5. March 27, 1900 The Daily Morning Journal and Courier New Haven, CT
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The Comptroller Notified. Washington, March 26.-The comptroller of the treasury has been notified that the Merchants' National bank of Rutland, Vt., closed its doors this morning. Following is the synopsis of the report of the bank's condition February 13, 1900: Liabilities-Capital, $100,000; surplus and profits, $3,383; due to depositors, banks and bankers, $351,549; circulation, $21,870. Resources-Loang and discounts, $361,363; other assets, including cash; $115,436. Bank Examiner D. D. Muir has been appointed temporary receiver.

6. March 27, 1900 Daily Kennebec Journal Augusta, ME
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$145,000 SHORT. Cashier of Merchants National Bank, Rutland, Vt., Under Arrest--Confesses to Embezzlement and Falsifying Accounts. Bank in Hands of Receiver-Great Surprise to Business People. Rutland. Vt., March 26.-With its doors closed and its cashier, Charles W. Mussey, in jail, having confessed a shortage of $145,000. the Merchants' National Bank of this city, formerly one of the strongest institutions in the state, stands, tonight, on the verge of ruin, unless its stockholders come to its assistance and help the remaining assets to pay off the $351,000 due its depositors. Mussey confessed his guilt in the early hours of the morning to the entire board of directors, having come back from Albany at the earnest solicitation of a local detective, who traced him to the New York capital, when he failed to appear before his employers. late Saturday afternoon. He remained in close detention in the bank all day. practically under arrest in a civil suit brought by the bank for $50,000, but, tonight, the United States authorities after an examination into the bank affairs, formerly arrested him on a charge of embezzlement and lodged him in the county jail. It is understood that the United States circuit court has placed his bail at $100,000. Coincident with Mussey's confession came the closing of the musical store of H. A. McClure, Jr., the business of which, according to the confession of the cashier, has been supported wholly or in part by the funds of the bank. Mussey's story of his peculations from the bank have a very familiar sound, beginning as they did nearly 6 years ago with a comparatively small amount and gradually increasing until the amount became too great to remain hidden. Still, even the national bank examinor D. D. Muir was deceived by

7. March 27, 1900 The Portland Daily Press Portland, ME
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RUINED HIS BANK. A Vermont Cashier Has Gone Wrong. C. W. Mussey Confesses to Defalcation of $145.000. Merchants Bank of Rutland Victim. Has Closed Doors and is in Hands of Receiver. Rutland, Vt., March 26. -The Merchants' National bank of Rutland closed its doors today and the cashier, Charles W. Mussey, is under arrest, charged with misappropriation of the funds of the bank. The exact amount of shortage will not te known until after a thorough examination of the bank's books, which is now in progress, has been completed. Bank Examiner D. D. Muir was appointed temporary receiver of the bank by the comptroller of the currency. Following is the synopsis of the report of the condition of the bank made to the comptroller of the currency under the call of February 18, 1900: Liabilities: capital, $100,000; surplus and profits, $3,388; due to depositors banks and bankers, $51,492, circulation, $21,870 resources; loans and discounts, $861,363; other assets including cash, $115,436 The closing of the bank was a complete surprise to the business community of Rutland. J. A. Mead, the president is a well known business man and besides being head of the Merchants bank is president of the State Trust company. This institution, however, is not affected by the suspension of the national bank. The closed institution is in charge of National Bank Examiner D. D. Muir, who was appointed temporary receiver by the comptroller of the currency this forencon. Mr. Muir has had his eye on the bank for some time, and recently he had reason to believe that there was a leakage in its funds. A hurried investigation led to the detention of Cashier Muir. An examination of the books is in prograss. At two o'clock this afternoon it was announced that the shortage of Cashier Mussey amounted to $145 000. The cashie had left the state and was arrested in Albany, N. Y. Cashier Mussey reached here from Albany at an early hour, and later he admitted to the government officials that he had misappropriated the bank's funds and had falsified the accounts. Mussey remained in close detention in the bank all day, practically under arrest in a civil suit brought by the bank for $50,000, but tonight the United States authorities after an examination into the bank's affairs, formally arrested bim on a charge of embezzlement and lodged him in the county jail. It is understood that the United States circuit court has placed his bail at $100,000. Cc-incident with Mussey's confession came the closing of the musical store of H. A. McClure, Jr., the business of which, according to the confession of the cashier, has been supported wholly or in part by the funds of the bank. Mussey's story of his speculations from the bank have a very familiar sound, beginning as they did nearly six years ago with a comparatively small amount nd gradually increasing until the attunt became too great to remain hidde Still, even the national bank examiner, D. D. Muir, was deceived by the cashier only a few months ago, the entire deficit being made to appear good through a large number of forged notes which Mussey inserted. Mussey told the directors this morning that he loaned McClure $2,000 six years ago and that the]amount was returned. Since then, however, other loans were made without the knowledge of the directors until the ball rolled up to the suth half as much again as the entire capital stock of the bank. Still the directors remained in the dark and would have been there today if one of their number last week had not heard from an outside source of Mussey's loans to McClure. The inevitable day arrived last Saturday when Mussey was called before the board and asked for the bank's a sets. Mussey put on a bold face and at once offered to go across the street to the safe deposit for the securities. The directors waited an hour for his and them sent for a detective. The cashier went from the bank to his house where be took & few hundred dollars and then

8. March 28, 1900 The Providence News Providence, RI
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McClure Admits That He Borrowed the Entire $145,000 From Mussey. BELIEVED IT WAS LATTER'S MONEY Mr. Mu'r, Temporary Receiver, Has Arrived at Rutiand and Taken Charge of Alfairs of Broken Merchants National Bank. Rutland, Vt., March 28.-Charles W. Mussey, the self-confessed defaulting cashier of the Merchants' National bank, is not likely to be heard in court Friday, as intended, by réason of the absence of District Attorney Martin of Brattleboro, who is in Texas. A telegram has been received from Mr. Martin saying that he has started for Rutland. Mussey is in a pitiable physical condition, and some of his friends fear that he will not survive his trial. George S. Newell of Boston, attorney for the United States Fidelity and Guarantee company of Baltimore, which concern was represented on Mussey's bond for $20,000, and Secretary George R. Calls, of the same company, are here. but both decline to discuss what action, if any, will be taken against the cashier. The chief interest now centres around Mr. McClure's affairs, and he is credited with saying that while he borrowed of Mussey all of the $145,000, he adds that he thought the money came from Mussey's personal resources. He also is quoted as saying that Mussey had often warned him not to mention the transactions. H. O. Edson, whose name has been brought into the case, is alleged to have said that he received 5 per cent. for endorsing notes, but as he thought the money came from Mussey he did not keep track of the amounts. Temporary Receiver D. D. Muir arrived from Washington yesterday and took charge of the bank without delay and will make an examination of the books. The financial condition of the other Rutland banks is of the best and all have prepared for whatever demands might be made. As yet there has been no other call for money by the deposftors, showing that the people of Rutland have great conndence in the institutions of the city. H. O. Carpenter, a business man, went to New York Sunday night and secured a loan of $30,000, which he placed at the disposal of the banks. As the events would lead one to suppose the defalcation has caused much talking and the speculation is all about McClure's piano business and how it absorbed the $145,000 missed from the bank. Mussey is still at the county jail, and it is not likely that anyone will try to raise $100,000 bail. The charges in which he will be heard, unless he waives the reading of the same and is held for the grand jury, are larceny, embezzlement and misapplication of the funds of the bank. There weren't many developments in the case yesterday. The cashier having been examined by the official board of the bank and attachments having been levied on the property of M. A. McClure, on whose notes Mr. Mussey claimed to have advanced the money missing from the bank, and of Henry O. Edson, who endorsed McClure's notes, there was little further to be done until D. D. Muir, temporary receiver of the bank, shall arrive. Mr. Muir, it is understood, is in Washington in conference with the comptroller, and the bank officials do not know just when to expect him. As far as can be learned nothing has developed to show in what way the money has been usel. It is said by those acquainted with Mr. McClure that he never has been known as a speculator, although there is a possibility that he may have had dealings with bucket shop operators without even his friends becoming acquainted with it. It was thought yesterday that the depositors of the bank would be paid in full, but there was considered to be no possibility that the bank would resume business.

9. March 31, 1900 The Democratic Advocate Westminster, MD
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News of the Week. D. Appleton & Co., the well-known publishers of New York city, have failed. Strikes have greatly delayed the completion of the Czar's Transsiberian Railway. Thirty-six bicycle factories have been closed for lack of business in Germany in a year. Sarah Paxson, aged 91 years, died Monday, near Lambertville, N. J., the result of fall. From 1870 to the close of 1899 there were 9,575 lives lost in and about the coal mines of Pennsylvania. An official estimate of the damage to property in Prussia last year from flood shows an approximate total of 21,000,000 marks. Two savings banks at Keene, N. H., have been placed in the hands of receivers. One owes $1,449,058, and the other $718,873. The Bachman Planing Mill at Columbia, Pa., owned by the Columbia First National Bank, was burned Monday; loss $15,000. Miss Dunning, the daughter of a rich tobacco merchant of Paterson, N. J., married'one of her father's delivery wagon drivers on Saturday last. After a quarrel with her lover in Paterson, N. J., on Sunday Miss Anne Volande laid her head on a railroad track and allowed a train to decapitate her. The Merchants' National Bank of Rutland, Vt., has closed its doors, and its cashier, Charles W. Mursee, arrested on the charge of misappropriation of funds. As a result of a conference at Chicago a few days ago of manufacturers of wagons, carriages, ect., an average advange of 20 per cent. over the old scale is now in effect. Thirteen young girl students of the Western Seminary for Girls, in Oxford,O. have been suspended for indecorous conduct in holding an initiation in a cemetery vault. The several Mormon colonies in Chihuahua, Mexico, have been increased in population by the arrival of over 5000 Mormon immigrants from Utah during the last two months. Robert Baldwin Davidson, the oldest alumnus of the University of Pennsylvania and the oldest member of the Philadelphia, Pa., Stock Exchange, died Monday, aged 91 years. Charles Scott nearly killed his wife and her mother by gashing them in the head and face with a chisel at their home in Owosso, Mich., Sunday night, and then committed suicide. The plant of the Hanover (Pa.) Foundry & Machine Company has been leased to the Automatic Packing & Labeling Company, of New York, which will soon begin operations with 80 hands. The Berwind- White Coal Mining Company, at Windber, Pa., has increased the wages of its 10,000 employes 20 per cent., which makes their earnings the highest received for mining in 30 years. The Delaware Railroad has notified its agents not to receive for shipment any of the bids to be killed by Milford people under contract to furnish New York milliners with 2000 crows and blackbirds. In order to prevent futher exposure,the Frick Carnegie Company have settled and a new reorganization charter has been signed by the thirty-six parties interested, who subscribe to $160,000,000 of the stock. The Comptroller of the Currency says that 400 national banks are in process of organization under the provisions of the Financial bill, approved March 14, 1900. With the exception of 10 or 12 each will have a capital of $25,000. Spreading rails wrecked the fast mail, south bound, on the Atlanta and West Point Railway, near Cusetta, Alabama, Monday. The express messenger was killed, a baggageman fatally injured and several passengers hurt. The clockmakers of the Black Forest, Germany have taken preliminary steps to turn the entire industry there into a large company, with capital supplied by Berlin financiers, and to devote especial attention to the manufacture of American clocks. Germany, for the first time in its history, is unable to employ about a million toilers, not for lack of work, but because of lack of fuel and raw stuffs. The Austrian coal strike is partly responsible for this, and all the industries are overcrowded with orders, the iron industry being the most af fected, the Prussian Government alone having recently placed orders for 600 locomotives and 9600 cars. James Dunlap, one of the most noted safe blowers and bank robbers in the country, was arrested in Chicago Saturday evening with a satchel full of safe blower's tools in his hand. He is best known in police circles for having helped to rob the Northampton National Bank, of Northampton, Mass., in 1876. He served about twenty years for that robbery, then went to Chicago and opened a saloon. The contest over the will of the late Governor Charles Polk, which has been in the Probate Court of Kent county, Delaware, for forty years, was decided Saturday last, by Register Harrington. The late Governor's will in 1858 disposed of a 100

10. March 31, 1900 The Democratic Advocate Westminster, MD
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News of the Week. D. Appleton & Co., the well-known publishers of New York city, have failed. Strikes have greatly delayed the completion of the Czar' Transsiberian Railway. Thirty-six bicycle factories have been closed for lack of business in Germany in a year. Sarah Paxson, aged 91 years, died Monday, near Lambertville, N. J., the result of fall. From 1870 to the close of 1899 there were 9,575 lives lost in and about the coal mines of Pennsylvania. An official estimate of the damage to property in Prussia last year from flood shows an approximate total of 21,000,000 marks. Two savings banks at Keene, N. H. have been placed in the hands of receivers. One owes $1,449,058, and the other $718,873. -The Bachman Planing Mill at Columbia, Pa., owned by the Columbia First National Bank, was burned Monday; loss $15,000. Miss Dunning, the daughter of a rich tobacco merchant of Paterson, N. J., married one of her father's delivery wagon drivers on Saturday last. After a quarrel with her lover in Pater N.J., on Sunday Miss Anne Volande son, laid her head on a railroad track and allowed a train to decapitate her. The Merchants' National Bank of Rut land, Vt., has closed its doors, and its cashier, Charles W. Mursee, arrested on the charge of misappropriation of funds. As a result of a conference at Chicago a few days ago of manufacturers of wagons, carriages, ect., an average advange of 20 per cent. over the old scale is now in effect. Thirteen young girl students of the Western Seminary for Girls, in Oxford,O. have been suspended for indecorous conduct in holding an initiation in a cemetery vault. The several Mormon colonies in Chihua hua, Mexico, have been increased in pop ulation by the arrival of over 5000 Mor mon immigrants from Utah during the last two months. Robert Baldwin Davidson, the oldest alumnus of the University of Pennsylvania and the oldest member of the Philadelphia, Pa., Stock Exchange, died Monday, aged 91 years. Charles Scott nearly killed his wife and her mother by gashing them in the head and face with a chisel at their home in Owosso, Mich., Sunday night, and then committed suicide. The plant of the Hanover (Pa.) Foun dry & Machine Company has been leased to the Automatic Packing & Labeling Company, of New York, which will soon begin operations with 80 hands. The Berwind White Coal Mining Com pany, at Windber, Pa., has increased the wages of its 10 000 employes 20 per cent which makes their earnings the highest received for mining in 30 years. The Delaware Railroad has notified its agents not to receive for shipment any of the bids to be killed by Milford people under contract to furnish New York mil liners with 2000 crows and blackbirds. In order to prevent futher exposure, the Frick Carnegie Company have settled and new reorganization charter has been a signed by the thirty six parties interested, who subscribe to $160,000,000 of the stock. The Comptroller of the Currency says that 400 national banks are in process of organization under the provisions of the Financial bill. approved March 14, 1900 With the exception of 10 or 12 each will have a capital of $25,000 Spreading rails wrecked the fast mail, south bound, on the Atlanta and West Point Railway, near Cusetta, Alabama, Monday. The express messenger was killed. a baggageman fatally injured and several passengers hurt. The clockmakers of the Black Forest, Germany have taken preliminary steps to turn the entire industry there into a large company, with capital supplied by Berlin financiers, and to devote especial attention to the manufacture of American clocks. Germany for the first time in its history, is unable to employ about a million toilers, not for lack of work, but because of lack of fuel and raw stuffs. The Austrian coal strike is partly responsible for this, and all the industries are overcrowded with or ders, the iron industry being the most af fected, the Prussian Government alone having recently placed orders for 600 locomotives and 9600 cars. James Dunlap, one of the most noted safe blowers and bank robbers in the coun was arrested in Chicago Saturday evening try, with a satchel full of safe blower tools in his hand. He is best known in police circles for having helped to rob the Northampton National Bank, of Northampton, Mass., in 1876. He served about twenty years for that robbery, then went to Chicago and opened a saloon. The contest over the will of the late Governor Charles Polk, which has been in the Probate Court of Kent county, Delaware, for forty years, was decided Satur day last, by Register Harrington. The late Governor's will in 1858 disposed of a farm on the Delaware Bay Shore of 1100 acres. William A. Polk the executor, died before fully settling the estate, and a contest arose between Theodore Polk, a descendant of the Governor, and Mrs Jo senh Truitt. a niece. The decision of

11. March 31, 1900 Martinsburg Herald Martinsburg, WV
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NEWS OF THE WEEK. Happenings of the Wide World Briefly and Tersely Told. Former Governor Stone of Mississippi died from erysipelas at Holly Springs, Miss. The Belgian state railways have ordered 12 locomotives from Philadelphia for September delivery. The Kansas City chief of police has offered to pay $25 out of his salary for the body of each highwayman killed in that city. The commencement of work on New York's rapid transit tunnel was celebrated on Saturday. with elaborate ceremonies. More than 8,000 women have registered in Cleveland in order to be eligible to vote for a director of schools at the spring election. The new United States naval hospital at Mare Island, Cal., has been completed and is ready to be turned over to the government. Thirty-two students at Lawrenceville (N. J.) academy have been sent to their honres to prevent the spread of diphtheria prevalent there. The Merchants' National bank of Rutland. Vt., has closed its doors, and the cashier has been arrested, charged with misappre; riation of funds. One man was killed and two men were injured by the premature explosion of a blasting charge in the copper mine near Somerville, N. J., on Friday. The jury in the trial of Camden (N. J.) reporters for publishing a report of an alleged confession of Eli Shaw was discharged, being unable to agree. George Eastman, treasurer of the Eastman Kodak company, has given to the Rochester Athenæum and Mechanics' institute property valued at $200,000. One million three hundred and three thousand dollars for the payment of Uncle Sam's soldiers in the Philippines left the New York subtreasury Tuesday. The sale of Wallace-Estill of Aberdeen Angus breeding cattle at Chicago broke all previous records. Seventy-two head brought a general average of $579 each. Admiral Watson has sailed from Manila for Hongkong on the cruiser Brooklyn. It is expected that be will transfer his command to Admiral Remey at that port. The funeral of Edward B. Webster, Jr., private of the Ninth infantry, who was killed on July 18 last near San Luis in the Philippines, was held at Genevà, N.Y. Two cases of plague in Honolulu have been reported since the 15th inst. One victim was a Chinaman, the other a Hawaiian, a guard employed by the board of health. The trials of the new Cunard steamer Ivernia, built for the Liverpool-Boston service, proved every way satisfactory. The Ivernia will sail for New York on April 14. Twelve thousand dollars was realized from a concert at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York city for the benefit of the Red Cross and Maine hospital ship relief funds. Fire has destroyed the plant of the Taber Felt works at Fredonia, N. Y., entailing a loss to the building and stock of $25,000. As a result about 50 employees will be thrown out of work. Michael Mellegin, boatswain's mate of the United States gunboat Machias, was killed and his brother Edward, fireman on the cruiser New York, was shot in the hip in a street fight at Galveston. Nearly 100 recruits have deserted from Fort Slocum, N. Y., within the past few weeks because of the delay in sending recruits at that station to Manila. Nearly 1,000 men are quartered there. Olga Nethersole, Hamilton Revelle, Theodore Moss and Marcus R. Mayer were indicted on Thursday afternoon by the grand jury for the production of "Sapho" at Wallack's theater, New York city. The fast mail on the Atlanta and West Point was wrecked at Ossanippa creek, Ga. One man, Reuben J. Oslin of Atlanta, express messenger, was killed and 15 people injured, some of them seriously. Captain Thomas Wilen, president of the Central National bank of Cleveland and a widely known vessel owner, has died in Jerusalem of pneumonia. He left Cleveland several weeks ago for an extended trip abroad. Charles A. Towne, chairman of the Silver Republican national committee, has undergone a painful, but not dangerous, operation at St. Luke's hospital in Duluth. He is now doing very well and will

12. April 4, 1900 The Star Reynoldsville, PA
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Cashier's Shortage $145,000. The Merchants National bank, of Rutland, Vt., closed its doors Monday, and Cashier Hussey was arrested at Albany, N. Y. He left a shortage of $145,000 in his accounts. The bank has a capital of $100,000 and there is due to depositors and other bankers $351,549. Its loans and discounts were $361,363 and other assets $115,438. National Bank Examiner D. D. Muir has been appointed temporary receiver. Hussey confessed that he had stolen $145,000 from the bank during the past six years and had covered his transactions by forged notes.

13. April 6, 1900 Middlebury Register Middlebury, VT
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MCCLURE ARRESTED. Only Important Development of Week in Merchants' Bank Failure. The sensation of the past week in the Rutland bank failure was the arrest on last Friday morning of M. A. McClure, to whom Cashier Mussey loaned the enormous sum of $145,000. Rumor has been rife of impending revelations, showing that other loans of like character were made to parties whose names thus far have not been connected with the case, but to the time of this writing no such bomb has burst. Mr. McClure was arrested at 1.30 o'clock Friday morning at his home on Church street by Deputy United States Marshal J M. Stoddard and Deputy Sheriff Whittaker on charges of embezzlement and grand larceny and taken to county juil. The charges are same as those on which Charles H. Mussey was arrested. The complaint was signed by Dr. John A. Mead, president of Merchants' National bank. Judge E. i. Waterman of Brattleboro, representing United States District Attorney Martin. drew the papers, and the warrant was signed by James A. Merrill as United States commissioner. Judge Merrill is counsel for McClure and his position as commissioner disqualities him to act in future proceedings in this case. The signing of the warrant was a ministerial act merely. It is expected that hearings will be conducted by United States Commissioner Johnson at Burlington. The arrest was the result mainly of the investigations of D. D. Muir, receiver of the Merchants' bank. It was thought that nothing of consequence would be done by the officers in the McClure case until the arrival this week of District Attorney Martin. who was in Texas, but matters suddenly came to a head Thursday.

14. May 26, 1900 Spirit of the Age Woodstock, VT
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Was Drawn Into a Net Con. Other Alleged Conspirator Murderer Case of A Convicted -Divine tinued for New Trial October Healer" Pleade Held Until Other Law Breaks. W. Rutland, Vt. May co-charles cashier of the embezzling Rutland, pleaded Mussey, Merchants guilty, the National Wednesday bank in the of and house was of seven years Farrar, sentenced to Rutland. John C. the defaulting correction at teller of the Waterbury six to sentenced same National bank. was institution. Under the law and they m years in the the labor. prisoners were not in to hard reduction condemned behavior. secure a days their terms by good of confinement of Ave for every month. of Marvin A. McClure, CashMussey brought charged The case with in defrauding aiding and the abetting Merchants up, but 1er bank. was also case on continued National motion to of the his counsel October Ball the was term fixed of was the in United the sum States of $20,000. court. which McClure has been able to secure. to not yet Mussey and Farrar appeared exhibited Both good spirits and were little feeling be in fairly when their sentences pronounced. embezzlement for which made Mussey public received The punishment was he was arrested on March 26 last, when by the bank officials. but was he was on a complaint in the sworn soon day released out National on again $5000 ball. Later upon complaint of result of arrested Bank official's Examiner examination Fish as the of to the county the affairs that of the bank and was taken by jail. The shortage was. in round notes. numbers, dis$145,000, all without the eight counted of the for bank represented others officials for which about practice knowledge operation his had been in with years. Mussey the wrongdoing. When confronted made told a direc- clean busiof everything. He man in breast eight years ago. a proved to be who instrument ness, torshow. later musical Marvin dealer. McClure. a subsequently arrested for to aiding and asked him to and who was friend abetting and Mussey. came endorsed dis. count him as a The note was was the by a cashier business his note. consented man. After and the the deliberation beginning. note discounted. This the cashier was placed in practically As in most ran country the bank. places Mussey and as it about every was not confidence surprising that he could do as he pleased which was capitalized of at a The bank. in the hands a receiver ment upon $100,000. was and the by placed making stockholders heavy has assess- been continue business able Following to closely the sensation Rutland was embezzlement Waterbury another on the night John of caused April 14 teller in by the of disappearance the Waterbury shortage of National of Farrar, and the discovery of a Farrar's bank. $25,000 in his accounts until two about were unknown arrested in whereabouts when he was later. morning Boston. days was returned and on the Farrar to Waterbury following only 24 years in custody he of sheriff. confession the his three years, and most in old. peculations According had to his been own going on of stock for little over taken had been lost and Boston money speculation in covered New York his stealings by markets. false He footings on the the bank's fraud making and forging balances, exambooks the notice of the bank bank escaping Farrar's superiors at the also Iner and Waterbury National bank but was The into a receiver's hands, busiwas bank went later reorganized and continued capitalized at $100,000. ness. The and former Governor Dillingham was its president. Montpelier, Vt., May 24. Arguments new made on Wednesday for of trial the were Charles Doherty, convicted Waterbury. for murder of Fred Murphy at in prison. to 25 years of and sentenced counsel set up the November, plea Doherty's At the trial last Murinsanity. maintained that he killed is unfinished. Doherty phy in self-defense. The case May 24.-The funeral law of Roy W. University of structor Philadelphia. of White, the the murdered Pennsyl The de- invania. took place yesterday. convinced that the colored man comsays crime Henry tectives Ivory, are becoming he saw the murder under than mitted. rest. who knows more of the he has revealed. May 4.--Francis Truth, on Wed- the "divine indictments Boston, healer," on seven was arraigned in pursuance charging nesday using the mails not guilty, of him a scheme with and at to the defraud. until request the He of October pleaded his counsel term for trial. the case went Truth over is out on $5000 ball. Ont., May 24 The yesterday grand jury Nolin and Welland, brought Dillman. in a true They bill all Walsh. replied the against dynamiters. The counsel alleged to the charge. for short not the guilty defense then asked a delay. for which was granted. of this place Newburyport. Mass., was May convicted 24.-Thomas burnLowrey superior court of maliciously sentenced to 10 set years the ing property. the state and prison. was Lowrey causto in the barn at the atmshouse, Are ing a loss of $15,000. Instructor Took Two Falls. Conn. May 24.-Charles Naugatuck an instructor at Yale gym- falls W. Mayser, secured two successive Haven at nasium, Burns of New wrestling Frank here for the middleweight The first fall was secured in 14 from championship bow of New England. minutes and

15. August 4, 1900 The Delawarean Dover, DE
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Paying Swindled Bank Depositors. Rutland, Vt., Aug. 3.-Receiver D. D. Muir, of the Merchants National bank of this city, which was wrecked by Cashier Charles W. Mussey last March; yesterday received an order from the comptroller of the currency to declare a 50 per cent dividend to depositors. It is now expected that depositors will eventually receive full amounts due them.

16. January 3, 1901 Herald and News Randolph, VT
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er under the act passed at the recent session of the legislature providing for the establishing of a fish hatchery at Swanton. It is reported that 75 freight cars passed over the Bellows Falls and Saxtons River electric road during November, and that the farmers of the latter village and vicinity received $6000 for apples last fall which they would not have received had it not been for the road. Wesley H. Chaffer, who has been cashier of the Central Vermont railway since 1886, has been appointed treasurer of the company to succeed R. H. Ingram, who resigned to go as secretary with Charles M. Hays, president of the Southern Pacific railroad company. The jury in the case of David Miles of Sheffield VS. C. L. Woodbury of Burlington for damages due to the defendant's alleged negligence, brought in a verdict in favor of the blaintiff to recover $600 and costs. The case will probably go to the upreme court on exceptions. Receiver Muir, of the Merchants National bank of Rutland wrecked y Cashier Mussey a year ago, will leclare a 25 per cent dividend to the lepositors this week. This will make 5 per cent paid in all. Many assets re yet in the hands of the bank, and t is now thought that the depositors vill receive 95 to 100 per cent. Mrs. Alvan Harvey of St. Johnsoury was the happy recipient on Christmas day of a check for $1,000 rom Mrs. Mary A. Hobart of Pateron, N. J., wife of the late Vice Pres. dent Garret A. Hobart, whose father vasa native of Caledonia county. Mrs. Harvey, who was a Hobart, was he vice president's only aunt on his ather's side. The contract for the construction of L Masonic Temple at Rutland has een awarded to Charles E. Paige of hat city, and ground will be broken t once. The building will be the argest in New England. Four stories with every convenience will be proided for. It is to be located on land rest of the Bardwell House given by he late John W. Cramton. The storehouse of the Burlington "louring Co. near Winooski was reently broken into by robbers and ome 15 or 20 eight-barrel and four or ive quarter-barrel sacks of flour aken. The robbery was a particulary daring one. Entrance was effected hrough a lower window between the ourly visits of the watchman. There re houses near by and an electric An ght. old hand loom, flax wheel.clock eel and swifts were recently shipped y M. E. Beckley to the Hull house indergarten in Chicago, where they ill be set up and used to instruct the hildren in ancient methods in spining and weaving. The loom was ecured from Martha Bickford of abot, and the other articles were the roperty of the late Mrs. William Vilson of Marshfield. C. D. Watkins, chief stockholder in he Owl's Head Mountain House Co. f Newport, has just been there from few York in connection with plans or the new hotel to be built at Owl's lead next spring. The structure ill be a four-story building of laborate design, to cost nearly 50,000. The new hotel will be reatly appreciated by summer isitors at Lake Memphremagog. Ira C. Calef of Washington, a ember of whose family had been fely carried through a critical peration at the Mary Fletcher ospital some years ago and who has requently remembered the hospital y timely gifts, has crowned his enefactions by sending as a Christas gift to the hospital a check for SB pasn pus eq 01 '0009 "19 008 may directors et Miss Mary L. Titcomb of Rutland, ster of Fish Commissioner John W. itcomb of St. Johnsbury, assume ebruary 1 duties as librarian of the ew free library at Hagerstown, Md. he was for some time librarian of e Rutland free library and secretary 1 the Vermont state library commison. During her term as secretary 5 libraries have been established nder state aid and the interest in brary work throughout the state has een greatly increased. Mrs. T. P. Redfield, in announcing er intention of soon presenting hrist church of Montpelier another to with a her

17. January 4, 1901 The Jasper Weekly Courier Jasper, IN
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BUSINESS FAILURES. Jan. 3-Wabasha. Minn., People's bank. 6-Rahway. N. J., Union county bank.... New York, Hulbert H. Warner, patent medicine mant.: $2,319,027. Piankington. S. D., State bank. 17-Chiengo, Francis P. Owings, real estate: $5,364,977. Feb. 7-New Bedford, Mass., Henry E. Holcomb. mant: $1,361,438.... Boston, Miner, Beal & Co., clothing firm, $450,000. 26-United States milling combine (flour trust); $15,000,000. Mar. 3-Port Jarvis (N. Y.) Nat. bank resumes; had suspended payment in December. 6-J. F. Seiberling. formerly manufacturer at Akron, O., files bankruptcy petition; $800,000. assets, $30. 19-John Kehoe, builder of New York, files bankruptcy petition: $1,520,085; no assets. 22-D. Appleton & Co., New York, publishCTS: $3,000,000. 26-Rutland, Vt., Merchanis' Nat. bank.... Keene, N. H., Five Cent savings bank for $1.449,058; and Guarantee savings bank for $718,873. Apr. 3-Cambridge (Neb.) State bank; $40,000. 10-Columbus, O., Reinhard & Co.'s bank; $140,000. 12-Yates Center. Kan., Citizens' state bank. 27-Anolph Landauer, dry goods dealer of Milwaukee: $391,945.31. May 11-Frank L. Fuller's private banks at Rockford and Cedar Springs, Mich. 21-Pentwater, Mich., Neilson & Co.'s bank. 26-Price, McCormick & Co., of New York, cotton brokers and shippers; $13,000,000. 28-Seymour, Johnson & Co., stock and cotton brokers of New York; $500,000. Jun. 5-W. C. Shields' bank at Mulberry Grove, III. 15-McNair & Alexander, cattlemen at Ashland. Kan.; $542,000. Aug. 13-Henry J. Neill. the "barley king," files petition in bankruptcy; $500,000.... Kingfisher (Col.) bank: $61,000. 17-Somerset (Ky.) Nat. bank. Sep. 6-Lamont (III.) state bank; $12,000. 7-Fifth Avenue Savings & Loan Ass'n., of McKeesport, Pa.; $500,000. 18-Hatch & Foote, New York brokers: $2,000,000. 19-South Danvers Nat. bank, at Peabody, Mass. Nov. 17-German Nat. bank. at Newport, Ky. Dec. 12-Bank at Brillion, Wis. 13-Order of Chosen Friends, large fraternal insurance association.

18. January 8, 1901 The Bourbon News Paris, KY
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BUSINESS FAILURES. Jan. 3--Wabasha, Minn., People's bank. 6-Rahway, N. J., Union county bank.... New York. Hulbert H. Warner, patent medicine manf.: $2,319,027. 9-Plankinton, S. D., State bank. 17-Chicago, Francis P. Owings, real estate; $5,364,977. Feb. 7-New Bedford, Mass., Henry E. Holcomb, manf.; $1,351,438 Boston, Miner, Beal & Co., clothing firm, $450,000. 26-United States milling combine (flour trust); $15,000,000. Mar. 3-Port Jervis (N. Y.) Nat. bank resumes: had suspended payment in December. 5-J. F. Seiberling, formerly manufacturer at Akron, O., files bankruptcy petition; $800,000, assets, $30. 19-John Kehoe, builder of New York, files bankruptcy petition; $1,520,085; no assets. 22-D. Appleton & Co., New York, publishers; $3,000,000. 26-Rutland, Vt., Merchants' Nat. bank.... Keene, N. H., Five Cent savings bank for $1,449,058; $718,873. and Guarantee savings bank for Apr. 000. 3-Cambridge (Neb.) State bank; $40,10-Columbus, $140,000. O., Reinhard & Co.'s bank; 12-Vates Center, Kan., Citizens' state bank. 27-Anolph® Landauer, dry goods dealer of Milwaukee; $391,945.31. May 11-Frank L. Fuller's private banks at Rockford and Cedar Springs, Mich. 21-Pentwater, Mich., Neilson & Co.'s bank. 26-Price, McCormick & Co., of New York, cotton brokers and shippers; $13,000,000. 28-Seymour, Johnson & Co., stock and cotton brokers of New York; $500,000. Jun. 5-W. C. Shields' bank at Mulberry Grove, Ill. 15-McNair & Alexander, cattlemen at Ashland, Kan.; $542,000. Aug. 13-Henry J. 0 Neill, the "barley king." files petition in bankruptcy; $500,000.... Kingfisher (Col.) bank: $61,000. 17-Somerset (Ky.) Nat. bank. Sep. 6-Lamont (Ill.) state bank: $12,000. 7-Fifth Avenue Savings & Loan Ass'n., of McKeesport, Pa.; $500,000. 18-Hatch 000,000. & Foote, New York brokers; $2,19-South Mass. Danvers Nat. bank. at Peabody, Nov. 17-German Nat. bank, at Newport, Ky. Dec. 12-Bank at Brillion, Wis. 13-Order of Chosen Friends, large fraternal insurance association. 21-American nat. bank of Balvimore, Md. 25-Isaac Robinson, at Balkimore, Md., manufacturer: $800,000.

19. January 9, 1901 Willmar Tribune Willmar, MN
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BUSINESS FAILURES. Jan. 3-Wabasha, Minn., People's bank. 6-Rahway, N. J., Union county bank New York, Hulbert H. Warner, patent medicine manf.; $2,319,027. 9-Plankinton, S. D., State bank. 17-Chicago, Francis P. Owings, real estate; $5,364,977. Feb. 7-New Bedford, Mass., Henry E. Ho!comb, manf.; $1,351,438 Boston, Miner, Beal & Co., clothing firm, $450,000. 26-United States milling combine (flour trust); $15,000,000. Mar. 3-Port Jervis (N. Y.) Nat. bank resumes; had suspended payment in December. 5-J. F. Seiberling, formerly manufacturer at Akron, O., files bankruptcy petition; $800,000, assets, $30. 19-John Kehoe, builder of New York, files bankruptcy petition; $1,520,085; no assets. 22-D. Appleton & Co., New York, publishers; $3,000,000. 26-Rutland, Vt., Merchants' Nat. bank. Keene, N. H., Five Cent savings bank for $718,873. $1,449,058; and Guarantee savings bank for Apr. 000. 3-Cambridge (Neb.) State bank; $40,12-Yates Center, Kan., Citizens' state bank. 27-Adolph Landauer, dry goods dealer of Milwaukee; $391,945.31. May 11-Frank L. Fuller's private banks at Rockford and Cedar Springs, Mich. 21-Pentwater, Mich., Neilson & Co.'s bank. 26-Price, McCormick & Co., of New York, cotton brokers and shippers; $13,000,000. 28-Seymour, Johnson & Co., stock and cotton brokers of New York; $500,000. Jun. 5-W. C. Shields' bank at Mulberry Grove, III. 15-McNair & Alexander, cattlemen at Ashland, Kan.; $542,000. Aug. 13-Henry J. Neill, the "barley king," files petition in bankruptcy; $500,000.... Kingfisher (Col.) bank; $61,000. 17-Somerset (Ky.) Nat. bank. Sep. 6-Lamont (Ill.) state bank; $12,000. 7-Fifth Avenue Savings & Loan Ass'n., of McKeesport, Pa.; $500,000. 18-Hatch & Foote, New York brokers; $2,000,000. 19-South Danvers Nat. bank, at Peabody, Mass. Nov. 17-German Nat. bank, at Newport, Ky. Dec. 12-Bank at Brillion, W.is. 13-Order of Chosen Friends, large fraternal insurance association. 21-American nat. bank of Baltimore, Md. 25-Isaac Robinson, at Baltimore, Md., manufacturer; $800,000.

20. February 14, 1901 Herald and News Randolph, VT
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Darwin L. Fuller of Denver, Col., by the Springfield National bank of this state to recover $5,000. The funds held by a trustee in Burlington were attached and the suit filed in Chittenden county court. Frank, the two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John Parker of Barre, was seriously burned about the face, chest and right hand last week. His mother was carrying a dipper of scalding water and the child ran against her, upsetting the water. Elihu B. Taft of Burlington has lately come into possession of a document signed by Gov. Thomas Chittenden in 1786. It is the commission of the assistant judges of Addison county court for that year. Mr. Taft bought the paper in Boston. The census of the Bennington graded school district shows that it contains 1,330 school children between the ages of 5 and 18 inclusive, a loss of 243 during the year. This is principally on account of the reducing of the age limit from 21 to 18 years. Dr. Henry C. Hill, assistant surgeon of the 128th New York volunteers, died at Lockport, N. Y., last week of Bright's disease, aged 69 years. Dr. Hill went to Lockport in 1877 and was prominent in Republican politics. He was born in Vermont. Nathaniel Hersey of Worcester, an old and respected resident, committed suicide by hanging Wednesday of last week. He had suffered greatly from a cancer in his face and it is thought that his mind became unbalanced in consequence. He was 75 years old. E. J. Bullock of Readsboro has made a general assignment for the benefit of creditors. The liabilities secured by mortgage aggregate $8870; unsecured, $3619.99; making total $12,489. The assets, which include the large Bullock block, are estimated at $18,803. Over 25,000 brook trout fry, 20,000 brook trout yearlings, 10,000 brown trout fry and 5,000 brown trout yearlings are to be planted in the Walloomsac river and White Creek streams near Bennington. The fish have been ordered from the Pleasant Valley hatchery. Suit has been instituted by D. D. Muir, receiver for the Merchants' National bank of Rutland, against Elizabeth M. Spellman and the Hon.John D. Spellman of Rutland to recover the value of a note for $2,500 given to the bank. The suit is in the United States circuit court. Herbert B. Ward, the new attorney general of Delaware, is a Caledonia county boy. He was born in Sheffield in 1857 and has practiced law in Delaware the past 18 years. He was formerly a law partner of ex-United States Senator George Gray, now United States circuit judge. Will Drown of Evansville was instantly killed recently while at work in the woods lumbering. He was standing near a tree which had just been chopped preparatory to felling, when it fell in such a manner as to strike him on the chin, the force of the blow breaking his neck. News was received last week of the death in San Francisco of Luther C. Dodge, a former resident of Burlington, and three times mayor of the city. Mr. Dodge was 79 years of age and his death was undoubtedly hastened by an accident which happened to him several months ago. Plans are being made for the expenditure of something like $200,000 in buildings at Shelburne Farms during the coming season. Some of the money will be expended in repairs and changes in the buildings now built, but a new stable will be constructed, costing between $50,000 and $75,000. The records of the Barre city court from Jan. 1, 1898, to Feb. 1, 1901, show that the number of cases tried other than civil cases has been 603. Of the respondents 302 were American born and 301 foreign born. The adult population of the city is believed to be at least three foreign to two American born. E. H. Thorp, formerly postmaster at Middlebury and at one time editor of the Middlebury Record and at a still earlier date a member of the Rutland Herald staff, who was recently appointed postoffice inspector, will be attached to the office at Cincinnati, Ohio, which includes the states of Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky. The first meeting of the incorporators of the Montpelier and Newport electric railroad, granted a charter at the last session of the legislature, was held in Hardwick last week. The outlook for the speedy building of the road is most favorable as the

21. February 27, 1901 St. Johnsbury Caledonian Saint Johnsbury, VT
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Tor Dillingham will probably be in Washington at the time to preside. Mattie Fish and Flora Parcher, of Waterbury, two blind girls, have been designated by Gov. Stickney as beneficiaries to be educated at the expense of the state at the Perkins Institution and Massachuset's School for the Blind, located at Boston. A $5 counterfeit is in circulation and may cause considerable trouble as it is hard to detect. The coloring is very good and the imitation of silk fibre quite skilful. The principal distinguishing mark is the poor quality of the paper. This is what led to its detection by J. M. Hayes, paying teller of the Federal Trust Co., of Boston, recently. An eagle surmounting a globe is one of the engravings on the counterfeit. The case of D. D. Muir, receiver of the Merchants' National bank of Rutland, against the United States Fidelity and Guaranty company of Baltimore, in which the receiver seeks to recover $20,000, the amount of Charles W. Mussey's bond, will probably not come up for trial at the February term of the United States Circuit court. The case may be tried at this term by the consent of both parties, but either side may continue it one term. The court sits next at Windsor in May. John W. Tower, of Bennington, formerly a well known dwarf, who traveled with many of the largest shows in this country and Europe, is dead of pneumonia. He was 62 years of age. His height was 46 inches, and he weighed 65 pounds. Mr. Tower's first wife was Libbie Dillingham, also well known as a dwarf, who was 41 inches tall. His second wife, who survives, is 40 inches in height. The granite shaft for ex-Governor Fuller's monument in Morningside cemetery, Brattleboro, was hoisted to its place last week. The shaft is 33 feet, nine inches high, and weighs 22 tons. It was quarried at Barre. The bottom stone weighs 12 tons, and the total height of the shaft when completed will be 45 feet. The matter of incorporating the village of Island Pond is being discussed. The net amount of the debt of the town of Cambridge is $4,075, although a school house costing over $5,000 to replace the one burned has been built at Cambridge village during the year. The auditors recommend a tax of 143 cents. Word was received Thursday by the Vermont Farm Machine Company of Bellows Falls that butter made from cream separated by its improved United States separator was awarded the highest score at the National Butter Makers' Association in session in St. Paul last week. The score was 98, one point higher than any other in about 800 entries. The oldest living member of the Lamoille county bar is the Hon. George Wilkins, of Stowe, who was admitted at the December term in 1841, 60 years ago; the next is Col. E. B. Sawyer, of Hyde Park, who became a member in 1849. William Pickering Hill, formerly well known in Montpelier as "Squibs," died Sunday, Feb. 17, at Denver, Col., aged 72 years. For ten years Mr. Hill was on the staff of the weekly Argus, during the editorship of Hiram Atkins, where under the sobriquet of "Squibs," he wrote much that was widely read. He was a graduate of Dartmouth college in 1839. The second battalion of the Vermont National Guard will not attend the inauguration of President McKinley. As Governor Stickney and staff will probably not be represented at Washington at the time. Vermont troops, if there, would have no one to escort. A conference has already been held between some of the officers in regard to a trip to the Pan-American exposition, but no definite decision has yet been reached. If the battalion goes it will probably leave directly after muster in August. Mrs. Berenis Thompson of Brooklyn, N. Y., who has set to music some of the love poems of Miss Helen Hay, daughter of Secretary of State John Hay, was born in Wallingford and lived in Rutland for several years during her childhood. Howard H. Shields of Troy, N. Y., has accepted plans drawn by Architect William C. Bull for a $10 000 house that is to be built this season at Bennington Center. This structure, which is to be in colonial style, will be quite unlike any other house in the town.

22. February 27, 1901 News and Citizen Morrisville, Hyde Park, VT
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STATE NEWS. Hon. H. C. Bates has severed isconnection with the well known firm of Bates, May & Simonds. of St. Johnsbury, and the business herealter will be conducted by theotherpart ners, under the name of May & Simonds. The report of thetown of Rockingham shows that the Bellows Falls liq or agency was run at a loss of 23 cents last year. The receipts from sales amounted to $7.842 74. The agency paid a profit of $288 43 last year. John W. Tower, formerly a* well known dwarf, who traveled with many of the Aargest shows in this country and Europe. is head of pneumonia. He was 62 years of ase. His height was 46 inches, and he weig ed 65 pounds. Mr Tower's first wife was Libbie Dillingham. also well known as a dwa who was 41 inches tall. His sec nd wife, to survives, is 49 inches in height. The case of D. D. Muir, receiver of Merchants National bank, of Rutland, gainst the United States Fidelity and ranty Company of Baltimore. in which the eceiver seeks to recover $ :0,000, theamount fChas. W. Mussey's bond, will probably not come up for trial at the February termsof the United States circuit court, which opens at Burlington next Tuesday. The case may be tried at this term by the consent f both parties. but either side may continue it one term. The court sits next at Windsor in May. North Mrs. Charles Percy, residing ne Bennington was so badl, burned Thursday morning that she died in the afternoon after terrible suffering. She was getting breaktast by a kerosene lamp and lifting it up it exploded. The oil set fire to herclothes and she started to secure a quilt to quench the flames. Instead, she went into an outside shed, her screams attracting the attention of her husband who was in the barn. When he reached her she was all on fire and 80 badly burned as to be almost unrecognizable. Her clothes were burning in the yard when the doctor reached her. She was conscious for a few minutes after hearrived. Athirteen-yearold son was badly burned while trying to pull the clothes from his mother. Charles Doherty, sentenced to be hanged at Windsor, Friday, March 8, for, the shooting of Fred Murphy, has a new lease of life. Through his counsel, Hon. Frank Plumley and E. H. Deavitt, he has brought petition for a new trial on the ground of new evidence of insanity found since the recent trial in Washington county court, and since the dismissal of petition for new trial at May term of Supreme Court, 1900. Judge Watson and Rowell were in consultation over the matter at Randolph Wednesday, and granted the petition.