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CLOSED ITS DOORS. Eau Claire Bank Forced to Suspend Payment. President Says That the Depositors Will Be Paid in Full. EAU CLAIRE, Wis., Jan. 7.-The Commercial Bank of Eau Claire,capital $30,000 closed today. The failure is due to the suspension of the Allemania Bank of St. Paul. President Allen states that the Eau Claire institution will wind upaffaire and that its depositors will be paid in full.
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Bank Failures, EAUCLAIRE, Wis., Jan. 7.-The Commercial Bank of EauClaire with a capital of $30,000 closed today. The failure is due to the suspension of the Allemania bank, St. Paul. President Allen states that the depositors will be paid in full. ST. PAUL, Jan. 7.-A Preston, Minn., special to the dispatch says the Bank of Canton, at Canton, and the Citiz n's Bank of Lanesboro, ooth owned and operated by Field, Kelsey & Co. suspended yesterday.
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CLOSED, ASSIGNED, REOPENED. A Day's Record of Basiness Downfalls and Renewals. Lexington, Va., Jan. 7.-H. L. Kennedy, general dealer in queensware, tinware, etc., has assigned for the benefit of his creditors; J. V. Grinstead trustee. The assets will probably pay preferred creditors in first-class; liabilities unknown. Preston, Minn., Jan. 7.-The Bank of Canton, at Canton, with a capital of $10,000. and the Citizens' Bank, of Landsboro, a small Institution, both owned and operated by Field, Kelsey & Co., suspended business yesterday. Eau Claire, WIs., Jan. .-The Commercial Bank. of Eau Claire, capital $30,000. closed 10-day. The failure is due to the suspension of the Allemania Bank, of St. Paul. President Allen states that the Eau Claire institute will wind up its affairs and that depositors will be paid in full. New York, Jan. 7.-J. H. Johnston & Co., dealers in Jewerly. assigned to-day. Liabilities, $219,600; assets, $201,700. Denver, Col., Jan. 7.-The American National Bank reopened this morning with Julius A. Myers president. It means nearly one million dollars tied-up money being put in immediate circulation here. Youngstown, Ohio, Jan. 7.-The Younstown Car Works. which has been idle for more than a year. will resume on Monday. The company. having secured a large order for coke cars. will have a run of at least two months with other orders in prospect.
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USE THE NINETY-DAY CLAUSE. Eau Claire Bank Will Wind Up Its Affairs. Special to the Globe. EAU CLAIRE, Wis., Jan. 7.-The Commercial Bank of Eau Claire, a savings institution, closed its doors today. President Frank C. Allen made the following statement to your correspondent: "Owing to the bank's St. Paul correspondent, the Allemannia Bank, having closed on Manday last, the Commercial Bank has decided that it cannot continue business and will make an effort to liquidate all outstanding obligations and wind up its affairs. We are not accepting any deposits and we are taking advantage of the ninety days' option which the laws allows us on all time deposits. While there has not been a run on the bank exactly the withdrawals during the past few days have been very heavy, taking this in connection with the failure of the St. Paul correspondent, is the cause of our suspension. When we wind up our affairs we wilt retire from the banking business altogether." The bank was established in 1883. During the panic of 1893 it was compelled to close its doors. The capital stock is placed at $30,000. F. C. Allen is the president and Thos. B. Culver, cashier.
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GROVER DINES THE CABINET Hoke and Bissell Are Among the Distin. guished Guests Present. Washington, Jan. 7.-The series of state dinners given annually by the president at the White House began tonight with that given to members of the cabinet. Ex-Secretaries Smith and Bissell, both of whom resigned as members of the cabinet of this administration, were among the guests. The dinner was served in the state dining room, which was fragrant with the wealth of floral decorations. The Marine band furnished the music. Those present included the following: The president and Mrs. Cleveland, the vice president and Mrs. Stevenson: the secretary of state and Mrs. Olney; the secretary of the treasury and Mrs. Carlisle: the secretary of war and Mrs. Lamont; the attorney general and Mrs. Harmon; the postmaster general and Mrs. Wilson; the secretary of the navy and Miss Herbert; the secretary of the interior and Mrs. Francis: the secretary of agriculture and Miss Morton: the speaker of the house and Mrs. Reed: Senator and Mrs. Vilas; Senator Hale; Representative George H. Harrison and Mrs. Harrison: Hon. Charles S. Fairchild and Mrs. Fairchild: Hon. Wilson S. Bissell and Mrs. Bissell: Hon. Hoke Smith; Mrs. Don M. Dickinson: President Patton of Princeton University; Miss Alice Lee and Mrs. Perrine. Eau Claire, Wis., Jan. 7.-The Commercial bank of Eau Claire, capital $30,000, closed today. The failure is due to the suspension of the Allemania bank of St. Paul. President Allen states that Eau Claire institution will wind up affairs and that depositors will be paid in full. AFTER THE "RAZZLE."-"Brace up, old man. I'll have to be off, or my wife won't speak to me when I get home." "Lucky dog. Mine-hic!-'ll talk to me all night. -Sydney Bulletin.
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BUSINESS EMBARRASSMENTS. Preston, Minn, Jan. 7.-The Bank of Canton, at Canton, with a capital of $10,000, and the Citizens' Bank, of Lanesboro, a small institution, both owned and operated by Field, Kelsey & Co., suspended business yesterday. Eau Claire, Wis., Jan. 7.-The Commercial Bank of Eau Claire, capital, $30,000, closed to-day. The failure is due to the suspension of the Allemania Bank, of St. Paul. President Allen says that the Eau Claire institution will wind up its affairs, and that depositors will be paid in full. Cincinnati, Jan. 7.-The Decamp-Levy Company, wholesale saddlery manufacturers, assigned last night. The liabilities are placed at $80,000. Dull business is the reason assigned. W. P. Callahan & Co., manufacturers of ice-making machinery. filed a petition in the Common Pleas Court last night for the appointment of a receiver for the Consumers' Ice Company, of this city, The petitioners are creditors of the company, and they aver that the company is unable to pay interest or principal of their claim of $26,000, balance due for machinery. Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 7.-Owing to the delay in the appointment of a receiver, Jacobs & Co., of NewYork, have attached the collateral of the defunct Columbia National Bank, of this city, on a claim of $10,000. Galveston, Tex., Jan. 7.-Trustee Kempner to-day made the following statement of the affairs of Fellman & Grumbach, the drygoods merchants.who made an assignment a few days ago for the benefit of their creditors: "Total value of stock of drygoods as per the inventories completed, based on New-York cost, with no expenses for delivery or other charges added. is $97,656.08; total amount due the firm in the way of accounts and notes has not been absolutely determined, but can safely be estimated at $30,000. thus making the total assets of the firm $127,656 08.' C. H. Fancher, president of the Irving National Bank, of New-York City, arrived here to-day. At the time of the failure the firm owed Mr. Fancher's bank $25,000. It is reported that an effort is being made to re-establish the firm.
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ARMENIANS RELEASED. All the Prisoners Turned Loose at Constantinople Except Condemned Ones. NEW YORK, Jan. 7.-A dispatch to The Herald from Constantinople says that the last 20 of 388 Armenian prisoners at Constantinople have been liberated. There are still in prison 29 persons condemned to death. One of them is Bishop Arabgir. As to the number of Armenian priests in the province condemned to death, only two have up to the present time been mentioned to the patriarchate as worthy of pardon. Sixty-five Armenians who had sought refuge at Varna have been delivered without difficulty to the Armenian patriarchate. EAU CLAIRE, Wis., Jan. T.-The Commercial bank of Eau Claire, with a capital of $30,000, has closed. The failure was due to the suspension of the Allemania bank at St. Paul. President Allen states the Eau Claire institution will wind up its affairs, and that the depositors will be paid in full.
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RECEIVERS NAMED. Pending the Resumption of Suspended National Banks. WASHINGTON Jan. 7.-The comptroller of the currency has appointed Bank Examiner Blading temporary receiver of the First National Bank, of Sioux City, and Examiner Anheirr receiver of the Citizens National of Fargo, N. D. Both of these appointments are temporary, pending resumption. Bank Examiner Turtilot has been appointed receiver of the Second National Bank, of Grand Forks, N. D. The comptroller has re eived information that the Commercial National Bank, of Roanoke, Va., which suspended some time ago, has raised sufficient funds with which to go into liquidation without the intervention of a receiver. Denver, Col., Jan. 7.-The American National Bank reopened today under new management, with $600,000 cash on hand to meet the liabilities and conduct business. There remains but $200,000 of liabilities to be provided for out of all the other assets of the bank. Eau Claire, Wis., Jan. 7.-The Commercial Bank of Eau Claire, capital $30,000, closed today. The failure is due to the suspension of the Allemannia bank, of St. Paul. President Allen states that the Eau Claire institution will wind up affairs, and that depositors will be paid in full.
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Closed Its Doors. EAU CLAIRE, Wis., Jan. 7.-The - Commercial bank of Eau Claire, capital $30,000, has closed. The failure is due to the suspension of the Allemannia bank of St. Paul, President Allen states that the depositors will be paid in full.
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Buffington for Receiver. EAU CLAIRE, Wis., Jan. 8.-On application of the depositors, the Commercial bank, which suspended yesterday, was today placed in the hands of C. M. Buffington as receiver.
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NEWS IN BRIEF. About 1,800 miners in the Massilon district have decided to strike. In spite of all the protests, Boston's colored councilman gets his seat. William M. Farrington was Thursday nominated by the president to be postmaster at Memphis. Emma May Bradish, of Scranton, Pa., hassued Sanford Grant, son of a banker. for $10,000 damages for having kissed her. All the trusts operating in Georgia have cancelled existing contracts with merchants and jobbers on account of the anti-trust law. National democrats of Anderson county, Ky., have decided to keep up their organization and to take no part in the primaries of other parties. The steam boat mates at Pittsburgh are organizing, and will ask the government to return all the money they have expended for licenses. e The nomination of Internal Revenue Commissioner Forman and Secretary n of Interior Francis will probably be . confirmed by the senate this week. d t Chairman Parker has set April 7 as S the date for the populist state convend tion at Louisville, to nominate a candih date for clerk of the court of appeals. 'e The Caldwell county, Ky., republig can committee has forwarded a petition 0to Gov. Bradley, asking him to call an n extra legislative session as soon as as practicable. se e It has developed that several banks n which had deposits with the National Bank of Illinois were warned in time ed to withdraw their deposits before the as bank closed its doora. to Natural gas has been declared a min ed eral by Judges Lacombe and Wallace. eof the United States circuit court of appeals, thereby exempting it from duty when piped into this country. A negro in South Carolina, wanted for murder, when denied the use of buggy in which to escape, killed three white persons and a negro with an ax He is now being hunted by a larg posse. The Commercial Bank of Eau Claire Wis., has closed its doors as a result the failure of the Allemania Bank, d St. Paul. The bank of Carton, Minn and the bank of Lanesboro, Minn both small private institutions, als suspended. The United States court of appeals Chicago decided that leases made b the old whisky trust can not be er forced and are void. This rids th American Spirits Manufacturing Con pany of about fifty leases running f twenty years and involving somethin like $1,500,000. Ten of the leading members of t Watterson club, including both go and silver men, have signed a call for meeting in the club rooms for the pu pose of seeking some common grour on which the party at Louisville a state can unite. There will be "a and free discussion, in a spirit of conciliation, of the political situation At the Chinese legation at Washin ton it is stated that Wu Ting Fan who succeeds Yang You as Chine minister to this country, has spent siderable time in England, where studied law and was admitted as west barrister. He has been in the serv will of the Chinese government for the p Co. ten years,
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WEST AND SOUTH. An explosion of giant powder at Twin Lakes, Col., killed Peter Fagin and Michael Sebia and Joseph Larkin was fatally injured. Near Pickens, S. C., the residence of Rev. M. L. Jones was destroyed by fire, and his son Elbert and daughter Mary perished in the tlames. 1. N. Van Hossen, ex-mayor, was found dead in his home at Lawrence, Kan., having been sulfocated by coal gas from a store. At Eau Claire, Wis., the Commercial bank.capital $30,000, announced voluntary liquidation. The deposits amount to about $53,000. In Chicago five young men who comprise a gang of the most daring bank swindlers and forgers that has operated in this country in 20 years were captured. The Bank of Canton at Canton, Minn., and the Citizens' bank of Lanesboro, both owned and operated by Field, Kelsey & Co., suspended business. At Magnolia, C., Simon Cooper, a negro outlaw, murdered Ben Wilson, aged 80 years, his son Wesley, aged 40, and Mrs. Wesley Wilson, aged 35, and a colored man. The refusal of Wilson to loan Cooper a buggy was the cause. The entire business portion of Royalton, Wis., was destroyed by fire. Business has been resumed by the Bankers' exchange bank in Minneapolis, Minn., which suspended some days ago. In Chicago William J. Bryan was the guest of the Bryan league at a banquet given at the Tremont house in celehra. tion of the anniversary of Andrew Jackson's birth and made the principal speech,
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Minor State Matters. The Oshkosh County Board has appointed a committee to compromise with ex-Sheriff Horn on his suit for $1,500 feus disallowed at a previous session. Appleton friends have received the annocncement of the marriage, in St. Paul's Church, Kenwood, Chicago, of Jessie Alameda, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Melville E. Dayton, to Charles Lyman Brown. Frederick Weyerhauser has begun work on a large tract of pine on the Ammicon. The timber was recently discovered to be badly damaged by fire. There is about 5,000,000 feet on the tract. August Radloff, a Sheboygan laborer, had just returned from a drug store with some powders prescribed by his physician and a few minutes after taking one of the powders he fell dead. He was GO years old and married. The Sheboygan curfew ordinance has died in committee and will probably never be vesurrected. There is a decided change in sentiment and the ordinance is favored by but a small proportion of those who were early in its advocacy. Reports from R. Shipman, of Appleton, who was recently badly wounded by the accidental discharge of his gun while hunting in the woods near Oconto Falls, are not hopeful, his condition being still regarded as very critical. Owen Ferguson, for six years clerk of Fond du Lac County, shot. himself twice, each time a little too high to reach the heart. About a year ago his wife died. At the last election he was defeated for re election to the position of County Clerk, and a few months ago he broke his leg. It is also reported that he is short several hundred dollars in his accounts. It is not expected he will live. He has one child, and is a member of the Royal Arcanum, with $3,000 life insurance. His parents live in Byron. Alfred Hammett, an old resident of Joliet, III., was found dead in bed at the Hotel Wellington, Milwaukee. He died of heart disease. It is now practically certain that it will be impossible for the committees of the semi-rentennial to raise the sum of $400,000 hefore Jan. 16, but $200,000 will be pledged. The Commercial Bank of Eau Claire, capital $30,000, is closed. The failure is due to the suspension of the Allemania Bank of St. Paul. President Allen says the institution will wind up its affairs and that depositors will be paid in full.
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ar her house she slipped, brea in her thigh. chleiter, a young man 16 himself in the woodshed at "emporary derangement is ave been the cause. S of the Milwaukee and St. rd week of March aggrega is against $625,811 for the : period of 1896, a decrease ank was taken to the city arinette in a very weak cians say he will die. at Ellis Junction under a ever since his altercation in at that place. Plank alle; nan kicked him three times . Stewart of Greenwood, ined at Fort Snelling Marcl tship at West Point, receive rom Alexander Stewart, M. it he had received the appoi Ie will enter upon his mittee on "legislation" of Council of West Superior to the Legislature prote e passage of the bill provid xation of water companies upon their gross earnings pon their property valuation ent.method. k Eissenger, secretary of the wholesale liquor the J. P. Eissenger Compa oldest wholesale houses in 11 down a flight of stairs at is father and was fatally skull being fractured. ie was stricken with apople novel wager has been made between two well-known r is one of $1,000 and by man is to walk to New York ninety days; must do no d, but must have $500 his return. The progress reported from fifty-four tow route, on uo 1 - Buflington filed his report ercial Bank of Ean Claire. otal liabilities at $64,906.64, I nominal value thereof he receiver. however, specif
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NEWS IN BRIEF. OverNow From the Wires in a Condensed Form. Dan Stuart is preparing for another fistic carnival in September. Another filibustering expedition got away from Punta Gorda, Fla. The Greater New York charter bill has passed the New York assembly by a vote of 117 to 28. The princess of Wales and her daughter, Princess Victoria. have started for Copenhagen. D. J. Sachsel, treasurer of the Christopher Columbus Building and Loan association, has left Chicago with $35.000. In anticipation of an increase in the American tariff Canadian distillers are shipping large quantities of whisky to the United States. Francisco J. Casanas, a naturalized American citizen who has been confined in the prison at Sagna, Cuba. for thirty-nine days, has been released from custody. Upon the recommendation of the archbishop of Canterbury the original log of the Mayflower, now in the IIbrary of Lambeth palace. will be presented to the State of Massachusetts. Receiver Buffington has filed his report on the Commercial bank at Eau Claire, Wis. It gives the total liabilities at $64.906 and the assets at actual value, $35,191, a shrinkage of about 60 per cent. Articles of incorporation have been granted at Trenton, N. J.. to the Composite Type Bar company, with an authorized capital of $10,000,000. The company is to manufacture machinery and objects used in the art of printing. An ordinance was Introduced at Eau Claire, Wis., granting a franchise to the Chippewa Valley Electric Railway company, which will entirely rebuild the old line in this city and add a long extension. A line between Eau Claire and Chippewa Falls will also he completed. J. H. Brigham of Delta, Ohio, took the oath of office as assistant secretary of agriculture and immediately assumed his duties. Dr. Dabney, the retiring assistant secretary, will remain in Washington for some time, and will not resume the presidency of the University of Tennessee until next autumn. C. B. Oldfield, formerly of Sioux City. has been indicted, charged with having accepted deposits while president of the Commercial Savings Bank of Leeds after he knew the bank was incolvent. He was in Sioux City when the indictment was returned and was released on his own recognizance. Though president he was not actually coreerned in the bank's management.
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The trustees of Beloit college say it will be necessary to raise $12,000 a year to add to the resources of the institution or else all but the main building will have to be closed. The Masonic women are about to purchase a site for a building in La Crosse. It will be entirely devoted to masonic occupancy. William Ritzlaff delivered what he announced beforehand to be a "Fitzsimmons hook." The blow broke Mrs. Ritzlaff's collar-bone and stretched her senseless on the floor. Ritzlaff is in jail in Milwaukee. John Fest, a lumberman, was lost in a heavy snowstorm near Hayward and perished within 40 rods of a farmhouse. Frederick Kissinger, aged 36, secretary and treasurer of the J. P. Kissinger company, died as the result of a fall down the stairs in his home in Milwaukee. C. D. Nash, a retired capitalist and banker, died in Milwaukee as the result of a surgical operation. Katie Duprey, the second victim of Porter Ross, died of her wounds at the Beaulieu place in Kaukana, where she was shot. Arthur and Albert Rounce lost their way in the snow near Shell Lake and were frozen so that the former will lose both feet and the latterone. John Lane, of Necedah, while attemptto jumpa moving freight train on the Milwaukee road had both of his legs cut off and died soon after. Gov. Scofield has issued a proclamation setting apart Friday, April 30, as Arbor and Bird day. Rev. James Gauche, oldest Catholic priest in the Green Bay diocese, died at De Pere, aged 73 years. The two mills of the Kreuger & Lachman Milling company were burned at Neenah, the loss being $20,000. In trying to save furniture from a burning house Mr. Boland, an aged resident of McMillan, was burned to death and his wife was frightfully burned. The first beet sugar refinery in the state has begun operations at Menominee Falls. The new plan represents an outlay of $250,000. Leo Zabel, a Milwaukee insurance agent, committed suicide by swallowing carbolic acid. He- was one of the heirs to an estate valued at $4,000,000 belonging to an uncle who recently died in Russia. Receiver Buffington filed his report on the Commercial bank in Eau Claire. It gives the total liabilities at $64,906 and the assets at actual value, $35,191, a shrinkage of about 60 per cent. William Schuster, aged 76 years, who had been missing from his home in Sheboygan for three days, was found dead in Delting park. He had committed suicide. Two daughters of John Ellenbeck, of Holstein, were fatally burned while playing in the garret. Francis Campbell, a prominent resident of Lafayette county, died at his home in Gratiot, aged 68 years. A piece of beefsteak lodged in John Kelly's windpipe and he expired in a few minutes at Marinette. The 100-shot rifle contest in Winona, Minn., between A. J. Vandeusen, of Winona, and E. F. Richter, of Milwaukee, for $200 a side, resulted in favor of Richter. A farmer named Beals residing near Hillsboro was killed in a runaway accident. He was under the influence of liquor and attempted to race horses. Warner Hathaway, who had been a resident of Beaver Dam for 42 years, died in his sixty-sixth-year He had been an alderman for 25 years. A freight elevator at Hayes foundry in West Superior fell 30 feet, resulting in injuries to Charles Turnquist and James Anderson. The ankles of both men were fractured. The proposed constitutional amendment to allow the election of extra circuit judges in districts will be submitted to the people at the spring election. William Schultz, aged 63, a well-to-do farmer of the town of Theresa, committed suicide at his home. John Wallich, aged 20. a confirmed cigarette smoker, shot himself at his home in Milwaukee. John Dahl, residing at Burnham valley, was killed by the accidental explosion of a gun he was placing on a shelf. By a fire which started in Bizeskis' dry goods store in Berlin the First national bank building was burned and also Charles Davlin's restaurant and saloon. While hunting on the Steinhouff farm near Palmyra George Reuthel caught a fox asleep that he shot at short range. The North Wisconsin Library association at Ashland has just received a donation of 300 new books from Chicago.
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# Miscellaneous. Dan Stuart is preparing for another fistic carnival in September. Another filibustering expedition got away from Punta Gorda, Fla. The Greater New York charter bill has passed the New York assembly by a vote of 117 to 28. D. J. Sachsel, treasurer of the Christopher Columbus Building and Loan association, has left Chicago with $35,000. Marie Ricks, the notorious window smasher and woman of the street, has turned up at Marinette, Wis., coming from Michigan. Mr. John Nordhouse of Illinois, formerly private secretary to Mr. Morton, has been appointed by Secretary Wilson to serve in the same capacity. In the Maine senate the bill to prevent the reproduction of prize fights by photograph, kinetoscope, etc., was passed to be engrossed. In anticipation of an increase in the American tariff, Canadian distillers are shipping large quantities of whisky to the United States. Secretary Bliss has approved for patent to the State of Minnesota school indemnity list No. 3, embracing 2,721 acres in the Crookston district. The effort to secure the mulct saloon by petition in Dubuque, Iowa, has failed by fifty-six signatures. It has been a bitter fight. The lumbermen of San Francisco are again trying to organize a trust with the hope of raising the price of lumber from $4 to $6 a thousand. Ex-Mayor Stewart of Dubuque, Iowa, has been granted a franchise for a telephone line. Rates are to be $24 and $18. The present rates are $42 and $30 a year. Application has been made for the appointment of a receiver for the Pittsburg (Pa.) Provision company. The concern has a capital of $250,000, and it is alleged that its affairs have been mismanaged. Judge W. W. Wood, of the Johnson (Kan.) county circut court, has decided that the Sedalia school district must pay $23,000 to the holders of school bonds, issued in 1883 and fraudulently sold to Eastern people. The ninth biennial meeting of the Iowa Legion of Honor convened at Fort Dodge, Iowa, with every county in the state represented, making an attendance of about 300. The steamer Ohio, which left New York Feb. 6 for an excursion to the West Indeas, has arrived at New York, having covered a total distance of 7,323 miles. An arrangement has been effected by Ambassador Bayard with the archbishops of London and Canterbury whereby the original log of the Mayflower will be returned to the United States. Receiver Buffington has filed his report on the Commercial bank at Eau Claire, Wis. It gives the total liabilities at $64,906 and the assets at actual value, $35,191, a shrinkage of about 60 per cent. The parents of Elva Ham, aged twelve years, placed her on the cars at Vandalia, Ark., for Linton, a mining town south of Terre Haute, Ind She was tagged, and a note was pinned on her coat to her grandfather, Washington Morris. Since her departure from Arkansas the child has not been heard from.
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Sold the Bank's Assets. Special to the Globe. EAU CLAIRE, Wis., Sept. 4.-Receiver C. M. Buffington today sold to T. B. Keith the remaining assets of the defunct Commercial bank for $8,900. The face value of the assets amounts to over $50,000.
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EXAMINATION OF F.. C. ALLEN. President of Commerciali Bank of Ean Claire Questioned by Receiver. Eau Claire, Wis., Nov. 29.-[Special] -The examination of F.. C. Allen, who was president of the defument Commercial bank, by T. F. Frawley, representing the receiver, commenced this morning in the circuit court. The receiver'Seattorney tried to ascertain what consideration was actually represented by assets; im which there was heavy shrinkage and asked a line of questions to show that several large concerns, including the Union Log and Trust company of Sioux City and the Sioux City Stove works, whose paper was being carried as assets, were at such time in the hands of receivers.
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# ABBREVIATED TELEGRAMS. Fitzsimmons' second installment of profits from the veriscope pictures was $10,000. Twelve thousand of Chicago's poor were fed Christmas by the Volunteers of America. At Mount Morris, Mich., a son of Daniel Callahan was choked to death by a peanut. The average condition of wheat in Michigan Dec. 1 was 88 per cent. of condition in average years. More than 150,000 Christmas trees were shipped from the northern Wisconsin pine woods this year. There is talk of extending the scope of the new steel wire trust so as to include the steel billet mills of the country. It is claimed that between $75,000 and $100,000 worth of buildings are under course of construction in Petoskey, Mich., at the present time. Six thousand families in the Nineteenth ward, Chicago, feasted on turkey or chicken Christmas Day at the expense of Alderman John Powers. Warden Fuller, of the Michigan house of correction at Ionia, has procured a couple of man-hunting hounds to use in trailing escaped convicts. J. Roy Hammett, a student at Northwestern university, Evanston, Ills., introduced his wife to his parents at Tuscola, Ills., as a Christmas dinner surprise. "Auntie" Julie Moore, for thirty years the only colored member of the Plymouth church, and a friend and beneficiary of Henry Ward Beecher, died Christmas Day in Brooklyn. A young man named Bennett, living near Williams' Bay, Wis., has confessed to placing a steel rail on the railway track near Braidwood, Ills., which came near wrecking a passenger train. N. W. Phillips, of Saginaw, Mich., a fruit tree agent, writes to Governor Pingree that the black gnat pest among plum and cherry trees is spreading rapidly throughout the state. Herman Rudolph, a former resident of Janesville, Wis., who has just returned after eight years' residence in the Klondike region, brought back over $50,000-made in the sawmill business. C. M. Buffington has asked to be released from the receivership of the Commercial bank at Eau Claire, Wis., as its affairs are about straightened out. A final dividend will soon be declared. Captain William C. Oldreive has planned to walk across the Atlantic ocean with his sea-going shoes, starting from Boston July 4. Captain William A. Andrews will accompany him in a new fourteen-foot sailboat.
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Shaw's tannery at Rib Lake was burned, entailing a loss of $1,500, with full insurance. The Bertillon system of identifying crimmals will be adopted by the Racine police department. John S. Sweet, formerly clerk at the Grand Hotel at Janesville, died at Biloxi, Miss., of yellow fever. Mrs. Frank Gray, one of the pioneer residents of Janesville, died suddenly. she fell recently and broke her hip. The Wisconsin Malt and Grain Company at Appleton has decided to double the capacity of its plant at once. Joseph Unger, a Milwaukee brewer, will spend the next six months in the house of correction for abusing a baby. At Appleton, the family of Albert Bentz had a narrow escape from death by the escape of gas from a coal stove. Miss Almena De Puy, a library expert of Jackson, Mich., has been engaged to classify and organize the public library at Appleton. W. R. Durfee has in prospect for 1898 another good season's run for his sawmill. He has closed contracts for sawing 30,000,000 feet. Mrs. Hannah A. Woods, wife of Alanson Wood, landlord of the Hotel Marinette, died suddenly at Marinette of heart failure. She was 52 years old. Dan Shea of Appleton was murdered at Watersmeet, Mich., but by whom or under what circumstances is not known. He was a man of about 26 years. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Yahr of Washington County celebrated the golden anniversary of their wedding. The couple came to Wisconsin from Germany in 1847. The machinery for the new knitting plant-fifty-two knitting machines and thirteen loopers-at Stevens Point, has arrived and is placed in the building. The plant will start. Eau Claire people have not yet given up hopes of getting the normal school located in their town. They will try to get the matter of relocating the school before the Legislature. Arthur Keller of Brookfield confessed to the theft of $215 from William Keller of Tomah and has produced the money. The case against him was continued to the next term of court. Fritz Gerber, a cheese maker, living near Afolkey, Ill., sixteen miles from Monroe, was struck and killed by a St. Paul passenger train on a crossing three miles east of that city. C. M. Buffington has asked to be released from the receivership of the Commercial Bank at Eau Claire, as its affairs are about straightened out. A final dividend will soon be declared. A young man named Bennett, living near Williams' Bey, has confessed to placing a steel rail on the railway track near Ringwood, Ill., which came near wrecking a passenger train. Father Joseph Tiepel, late missionary ogiest in the diocese of Tennessee, has leeed in charge of the Sacred Heart Catholic Cash at Manawa. The church has been without a priest mince October. More than 150,000 Christmas trees were shipped from the northern Wisconsin pine woods this year. One dealer in Marinette County shipped eleven carloads. The total value of the cut is about $30,000. The Chicago and Northwestern passenger train from Chicago, via Janesville, dashed into a loaded coal train in the Fond du Lac yards the other evening, injuring five persons. An open switch on a sharp curve was the cause of the accident. The postoffice at Iron River, Bayfield County, over which there has been such a bitter fight as to who should be the incumbent, lacked only $1 of coming in the class appointed by the President. C. D. Gorman has been recommended for the -position. Winnebago County might have had a new court house and jail if water and willing hands hadn't been so plentiful. Fire did several thousand dollars' damage to the ramshackle structure, and as the loss is covered by insurance it will probably be repaired. State Deputy Game Wardens Stone and Johnston arrested two persons named Beauregard and Butler of Spooner, near Shell Lake, charged with violating the game laws. About 300 pounds of fish were found in their huts, which was confiscated and sold. A small dog belonging to a Marinette family recently became angered at the mistress of the house, Mrs. Ryan, and chased her and the hired girl into a pantry and kept them there for several hours. The dog was finally killed by a man who discovered their predicament. Mrs. A. Moses, a wealthy woman of Chippewa Falls, was badly burned by a fire which caught in the feathers of her hat from a gas jet which she was lighting. The drapery in the room also ignited and in an effort to extinguish the blaze Mrs. Moses received serious injuries. O. Delisle, an elevator boy of Marinette, was unleading goods from an elevator in the basement of a three-story block in that city when the GOO-pound weight became loose and dropped, and the elevator shot skyward at a terrific rate. It struck the top of the shaft, and by an almost miraculous chance Delisle was hurled out of the opening on the third floor by the shock. He was uninjured,
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Receiver Discharged. C. M. Buffington, receiver of the Commercial bank, in Eau Claire, was granted his discharge on application to Judge Bailey. His report shows $27,723 in cash realized out of theassets, and $24,377 disbursed. The face value of the assets turned over when the receiver was appointed was about $90,000, and the liabilities about $65,000. The depositors will get nothing unless the stockholders are held liable.
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Two Eau Clair Cases Consolidated. In the matter of the receivership of the National Electric Manufacturing Company, Judge O'Neill filed an order at Eau Claire consolidating the two actions, adding largely to the number of defendants, and vacating Judge Bailey's three orders of Dec. 30 closing the receivership. Judge O'Neill also removed Receiver R. E. Rue, but said his removal was due only to the fact of his having been made a defendant. The receivership of the Commercial Bank, also closed by Judge Bailey, is being reopened.
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Two Eau Clair Cases Consolidated. In the matter of the receivership of the National Electric Manufacturing Company, Judge O'Neill filed an order at Eau Claire consolidating the two actions, adding largely to the number of defendants, and vacating Judge Bailey's three orders of Dec. 30 closing the receivership. Judge O'Neill also removed Receiver R. E. Rue, but said his removal was due only to the fact of his having been made a defendant. The receivership of the Commercial Bank, also closed by Judge Bailey, is being reopened.