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A COMMERCIAL BANK FAILS. STEVENS POINT, Aug. 3.-The Commercial bank has failed. The assets are $200,000 and liabilities, $100,000. STOCK YARDS SUSPEND OPERATIONS. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 3. - The Union Stock Yards company at Rod 0 h 8 suspended operations on account I the depressed financ al condition. The plant is new and valuable. W. H. Silverborn, Chicago, is largely interested and also E. A. Hams of Omaha.
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CLOSED ITS DOORS. The National American Bank of St. Paul will not Open. Sr. PAUL. Aug. 8.-The National American bank of this city will not open its doors for business to-morrow morning. This step is rendered necessary by the steady drain upon itn resources for several months, depositors having withdrawn 81,562,000 since January. The Diesent financial stringency has made is impossible to realize ready money on assets in sufficient amount to meet all withdrawals, and the directors to-day decided to close temporarily, in order to get the affairs of the bank in better shape. The bank has a oncital of $2,000,000, with a aurplus of $200,000. Deposits amount to $2,400,000, and the bank holds bills receivable aggregating $4,000,000. The assets are more than simple so meet all liabilities. The officers aumounce that they will pay all depositors with interest so that BO loss will be sustained. MILWAUKEE. Aug. 3.-The grand jury has been called to investigate the South Side Savings bank failure. President T ampff and Cashier Koetting are missing. Affairs of the bank are in bad shape. Depositors will probably lose everything. CHICAGO, Aug. 8.-Lazarus Silverman, a well-known private banker. suspended. Liabilities $500,000. cash on hand $6,000. STEVENS POINT, Wis., Aug. 3.-The Commeroial bank failed. Assets $200,000, liabilities $100,000.
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Telegraphic Tieks. The Savings Bank of Anthony, Kan., failed Wednesday. The mills of the Bibb Manufacturing Company, Macon, Ga., closed down yesterday. The Commercial Bank of Stevens Point, Wis., failed to open yesterday. Assets, $200,000; liabilities. $100,000. A dispatch from Buenos Ayres says that the Vice-Governor of Santa Fe, Argentina, was killed by the rebels Wednesday. Milton Wall, a nogro, was arrested Wednesday night for robbing registered-letter pouches, at Livingston, Mont., of large sums of money. John 8. Payne, of Tennessee, a retired army officer has been appointed & member of the Board of Pension Appeals in the Interior Department, Washington. The noted Atlanta case of Porter Stocks. convicted of the murder of Alpheus Cassin, came to an end yesterday, when Stocks was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. A fire yesterday morning in Cart's warehouses, Brewton, Ala., destroyed six stores and nearly all their contents Total loss about $11.000; insurance about $4,000. During the past two weeks there has been 8 departure of Austrians and Italians from Pueblo, Col, for their native land which has almost reached the extent of a stampede. The Union Stock-Yards, at Yodo, Cal., suepended operations yesterday, the cause of the suspension being the inability of the packers to continue under existing financial conditions. The private bank owned by Lazarus Silverman, Chicago, suspended yesterday morning, a notice declaring that the difficulty is temporary being posted on the doors of the institution. The plan for the resumption of business by the First National Bank of Birmingbam, Ala., has been approved by the Binalngham clearing-house and cheerfully endorsed by the dopositors. The Georgia railroad has readered free passes to delegates to the Georgia State Agricultural Association, which meets at Stone Mountain Wednesday, August 9th, and all other Georgia roads have already done the same thing. William Coleman. a depositor in the sun pended People's savings Bauk, of Deaver, Col, has began sult against the bank. its officers, shareholders, and directors to recover 88,000 which be had un deposit in that institution. and be asks for an execution against the bodies of
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^ WISCONSIN BANK CLOSES ITS DOORS. Stevens Point, Wis., Aug. 3.-After standing an almost continuous run since June 25, during which time over $120,000 was paid out to depositors and certificate holders, the Commercial Bank of Stevens Point closed its doors this morning. The assets are over $200,000, while the liabilities are less than $100,000. No particular excitement results, and the other banks have sufficient funds to meet all demands. Depositors in the First National are guaranteed by the directors and stockholders. The Commercial expects to resume within thirty days. Anthony. Kan., Aug. 3.-The Savings Bank of Anthony failed yesterday. The County Treasurer had $14,875 on deposit.
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NEW BANK TROUBLES, Financial Institutions Unable to Bear the Pressure Longer. HELENA, Mont., Aug. 3.-H. A. Marlow has been named by the Comptroller as receiver for the Montana Ntaional Bank, which closed last week. It is believed the bank will pay all depositors in full. DENVER. Aug. 3.--F. W. Popple was yesterday appointed receiver for the Hamilton Loan and Trust Company of this city on the application of Samuel E. Belcher and others, the defendant consenting to the suit. The company was organized under the laws of Nebraska, and has done a large amount of business in that State. Colorado, and Kansas. MILWAUKE, Aug. 3.-Bank Examiner Lynch has finished his examination of the books of the Milwaukee National Bank of Wisconsin, and has forwarded his report to the Comptroller of the Currency. He says the bank is solvent. Mr. Lynch will remain in charge of the bank until it resumes or until it is put into the hands of a receiver for the winding up of its affairs. WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 3.-Comptroller Eckels to-day appointed Edward Hawkins of Indianapolis. ex-United States Marshal for Indiana. receiver of the Indianapolis National Bank. which closed its doors to business on July 25. Comptroller Eckels has directed Bank Examiner Carskadon to take charge of the failed First National Bank of Birmingham. Ala. Examiner Rushing. of the failed El Paso, Tex., National Bank. and Examiner Thom of the failed Wamaca. Wis., County National Bank. DENVER. Aug. 3.-William Coleman. a depositor in the suspended People's Savings Bank. has begun suit against the bank. its officers. shareholders. and directors to recover $2,000. which he had on deposit. He also asks for an execution against the bodies of the defendnnts. and that they be placed in jail until judgment shall be obtained and satisfied. Charges of fraud and conspiracy are made against the bank authorities. President Lawrence of the suspended bank is now in New York endeavoring to raise money with which to reopen the institution. STEVENS POINT. Wis., Aug. 3.-After standing an almost continuous run since June 25, during which more than $120.000 was paid out to depositors and certificate holders, the Commercial Bank of Stevens Point closed its doors this morning. The assets are more than $200,000 and the liabilities are less than $100,000. ANTHONY. Kan., Aug. 3.-The Savings Bank of Anthony failed vesterday. The County Treasurer had $14,875 on deposit. LINCOLN. Neb., Aug. 3.-Receiver Hayden of the Capital National Bank has given verbal notice to State Treasurer Bartley that the claims of the State for the amount of its de-
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Expects to Resume. STEVENS POINT, Wis., Aug. 4.-After standing an almost continuous run since June 25, during which time over $120,000 was paid to depositors and certificate holders, the Commercial bank of Stevens Point closed its doors. The assets are over $200,000, while the liabilities are less than $100,000. No particular excitement results and the other banks have sufficient funds to meet all demands. Depositors in the First National are guaranteed by the directors. and stockholders. The Commercial expects to resume within 30 days.
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WILL RESUME SEPT. 1. Setvens Point, Wis., Aug. 21.-The Commercial Bank of Stevens Point expocts to resume business Sept. 1, after a suspension of three weeks. The officials are securing the signatures of depositors for an extension. The First National was never in better condition, and Saturday loaned $2,500 to the city for completing the new high school.
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# Rifts in the Clouds. The First National Bank of Lemars, Iowa, has resumed business. The Commercial Bank of Stevens Point, has resumed business. The Oregon National Bank, of Portland, resumed business last week. The Crompton Co., of Crompton, R. I., closed since Aug. 7th, has resumed work. The Illinois Glass Works, at Alton, Ill., are getting ready for a resumption of business. The Buck Stone and Range Co., of St. Louis, Mo., employing 300 men, has resumed business. The First National Bank, of Nashville, Tenn., has resumed business, after a months' suspension. The Cumberland Steel and Tin-plate Mill, which has been closed three months, has resumed with 150 hands. The Erie, N. Y., Forge Works has begun work, after a suspension of several weeks, with a full complement of men. The Watson Paper Co., of Erie, an immense plant employing 900 men, has resumed operations with a full force. The Western National of Pueblo, and Bank of Florence, Florence, both in Colorado, have re-opened their doors. The Collins mills, of Collinsville, Massachusetts have started up with all hands at work, after a suspension of four weeks. All the factories of Peck, Stowe & Wilcox, at Plainsville, East Berlin and Southington, Conn., have started up on full time. The Pittsburg and Lake Angeline Mine, in Michigan, which has been running on two-thirds time, has gone back to full time. Bay City Industrial Works, at Bay City, Mich., will start up next week, after six weeks suspension. The works employ 300 persons. It is reported by the officers of the suspended Tacoma Merchant's National Bank, that it will be enabled to pay dollar for dollar. The shoe-factory of J. F. Budd, at Burlington, N. J., resumed operations, a few days ago, with a payroll aggregating $3,000 per week. The East Chicago foundry, at Hammond, Ind., employing a large force of men, which had been closed for some time, resumed work last week. Brown & Co.'s Wagon iron works of Pittsburg resumed operations Monday, employing 600 men. The old employees reported for duty to a man, waving the firm's refusal to sign the amalgamated schedule. At Wheeling, Va., an effort was made by about 20 Hungarians to prevent the big Riverside mill, from employing Americans. A fight ensued and stones and clubs were freely used, but the effort was not successful. J. W. Case's bank, at Astoria, Oregon, will pay 100 cents on the dollar, on the same terms as the Commercial bank of Portland. Five per cent. interest is paid on all debts, and the plan is to make gradual payments to depositors. The New York banks and trust companies are looking for customers to take money on time at 6 per cent. on prime dividend-paying stocks. Thus the position of borrower and lender has been reversed completely in the past few days. The Sharon Estate Company is the name of an organization which will begin business this month with a capital of $8,000,000, $4,000,000 of which is paid up. The directors are: D. O. Mills, Henry B. Laidlaw, and other prominent New York capitalists. Its object is to foster all sorts of industrial enterprises, all over the Union. New York Sun of Wednesday said that the banks of that and other cities have practically resumed the payment of cash on demand. Up to that date, within the past five or six weeks, it is estimated that the available money in the country has been increased fully $70,000,000 by importatious of gold, and by the issue of national bank notes. An Elwood, Ind., dispatch of the 20th states that the business situation is growing brighter, and that among the works now running are McBert's mill, 750 hands; Radiator factory, full capacity; tin-plate mill, full force; behind in orders; bottle works of Nevison & Waiskopf, 200 hands; McCoy's chimney-glass factory, 500 hands. The plate-glass factory will start October 1 with 500 hands. The Akron steam forge works is nearing completion and the construction of the Raub locomotive works will begin in the next 80 days. CLOUDLETS. The Henry Snowden Lumber Co. of Philadelphia has assigned owing $30,000, with ample assets. The Port Townsend National bank, of Port Townsend, has suspended temporarily, with ten times the amount of assets as liabilities. The directors expect to resume within 30 days. Mast, Bufford & Burwell, one of the largest firms in wagons and carriages
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TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS. Camille Doucet, perpetual secretary of the French Academy, is dead. St. Louis ministers omulated Dr. Parkhurst and visited theatrical dives Sunday night to getevidence. The Commercial Bank at Stevens Point, Wis., has closed its doors. Liabilities. $60,000; assets, $100,000. Viscount Hill, of England, is dead. His son and heir, Charles Rowland Hill, is now in the United States. The trial of Anna Dickinson's suit for damages for alleged incarceration in an insano Rsylum, was auspended on account of the illness of the wife of a juror. The bill for the dis-establishment of the church in Wales passed its second reading in the British house of commons last ovening. The government had a majority of forty-four. At the battle in the mountains near de gents Santiago and Spanish Cuba troops. between the the latter insur- lost 279 in killed and wounded and the Cubans lost 18 killed and 50 wounded. At the Park Ilotel in Columbus, O., Mrs. W. Ii. B. Williams, wife of a real estate man of Grove City, cut the throats of two of her children, Maud, aged twelve, and Harry, aged seven. It is supposed that alio is ineane. The April crop report of the Orange Judd Farmer makes the condition of whoat 85.3, or two points lower than was reported last year, immediately after the severe March freezing. The plant is but little further advanced than it was in December.
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A When Bank Fals STEVEN'S POINT, WIS., April 1.The Commercial Bank of this city, owing to an extended run, closed its doors this morning. Syron B. Parks was appointed receiver The bank closed its doors last summer during the pante, but opened up again. The assets are put at $100,000 and the liabilities at $60,000.
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CAN PAY DOLLAR FOR DOLLAR. Senseless Run Causes a Stevens Point Bank to Close. STEVENS POINT, Wis., April 1.The Commercial bank closed its doors today. The following unique statement from the president of the bank is posted on the door: "To Our Customers and Depositors: Owing to the fact that those who are unfriendly to me or to the bank have persisted for a month in frightening people who have being doing business with me, and have caused constant withdrawal of funds by our depositors, we find it necessary to suspend payment to all entitled thereto until we can realize upon our securities. We assure all that we are solvent and will pay every dollar we owe in due time. The property is in the hands of a receiver. "EMMONS BURR, President." Byron B. Park was appointed a receiver. The liabilities are about $60,000, the assets $100,000. This bank closed its doors during the panie of 1893, but opened again immediately. The president of the bank is one of the owners of "B B P." the famous trotting horse. The horse was named after Byron B. Park, the receiver of the bank.
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Wisconsin State Bank Closes. STEVENS POINT, WIS., April 1.--The Commercial Bank, of this city, owing to an extended run, closed its doors this morning. Byron B. Parks was appointed receiver. The bank closed its doors last summer during the panie, but opened UD again. The assets are put at $100,000, and the liabilities at $60,000.
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CAN PAY DOLLAR FOR DOLLAR. Senseless Run Causes a Stevens Point Bank to Close. STEVENS POINT, Wis., April 1.The Commercial bank closed its doors today. The following unique statement from the president of the bank is posted on the door: "To Our Customers and Depositors: Owing to the fact that those who are unfriendly to me or to the bank have persisted for a month in frightening people who have being doing business with me, and have caused constant withdrawal of funds by our depositors, we find it necessary to suspend payment to all entitled thereto until we can realize upon our securities. We assure all that we are solvent and will pay every dollar we owe in due time. The property is in the hands of a receiver. "EMMONS BURR, President." Byron B. Park was appointed a receiver. The liabilities are about $60,000, the assets $100,000. This bank closed its doors during the panie of 1893, but opened again immediately. The president of the bank is one of the owners of "B B P." the famous trotting horse. The horse was named after Byron B. Park, the receiver of the bank.
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WESTERN BANK CLOSES ITS DOORS. A Steven's Point, Wis., April 1.-The Commercial Bank of this city, owing to an extended run, closed Its doors this morning. Byron B. Parks was appointed receiver. The bank closed its doors in the panic, but opened up again. The assets are put at $100,000, and the liabilities at $60,000.
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CLOSED ITS DOORS. The Commercial Bank of Stevens Point, Wis., in the Receiver's Hands. STEVENS POINT, Wis., April 3.-The Commercial bank has closed its doors. The following unique statement from the president of the bank is posted on the door: "To our customers and depositors: Owing to the fact that those who are unfriendly to me or to the bank have persisted for a month in frightening people who have been doing business with me, and have caused constant withdrawal of funds by our depositors, we find it necessary to suspend payment to all entitled thereto until we can realize upon our securities. We assure all that we are solvent and will pay every dollar we owe in due time. The property is in the hands of a receiver. "EMMONS BURR, President." Byron B. Park was appointed receiver. The liabilities are about $60,000, the assets $100,000. This bank closed its doors during the panic of 1893, but opened again immediately. The president of the bank is one of the owners of "B B P," the famous trotting horse. The horse was named after Byron P. Park, the receiver of the bank.
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Another Western Bank Goos Under. STEVENS POINT, Wis., April 2.-The Commercial Bank, of this city, owing to an extended run, closed its doors yesterday. Byron B. Marks, was appointed receiver. The bank closed its doors last summer during the panic but opened up again. The assets are put at $100,000 and the liabilities at $60,000.
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CLOSED ITS DOORS. The Commercial Bank at Stevens Point, Wis., Fails. Stevens Point, Wis., April 3.-The Commercial bank closed its doors today. The following unique statement from the president of the bank is posted on the door: "To our customers and depositors: Owing to the fact that those who are unfriendly to me or to the bank have persisted for months in frightening people who have been doing business with me, and have caused constant withdrawal of funds by our depositors, we find it necessary to suspend payment to all entitled thereto until we can realize on our securities. We assure all that we are solvent and will pay every dollar we owe in due time. The property is in the hands of a receiver. Emmons Burr, President." Byron Park was appointed receiver. The liabilities are about $60,000, the assets $100,000.
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one DGB EDGAR A. COHEN, commission merchant at San Francisco, failed for $331,000. FIRE destroyed a barn in Fowler, belonging to Mrs. Ruth Sigler and with it fifty-six sheep and four horses. PRAIRIE fires which had been raging in western Nebraska for three days had destroyed a large number of ranches. FIRE destroyed the better part of the business portion of Hays City, Kan., including seven stone and twenty frame buildings. Two CHIEDREN were murdered at Columbus, O., by their mother, Mrs. H. H. B. Williams, who confessed the crime. ST. LOUIS ministers visited many of the city's dives and then swore out warrants for their keepers. Six MEN were killed and several seriously hurt by the explosion of a boiler in the Cann tannery in Woburn, Mass. GEORGE N. SCOTT, cashier at Beef Slough, Minn., for the Mississippi Logging company, was reported to be $20,000 short. THE Colorado legislature adjourned sine die. FIVE persons lost their lives in forest fires in Kentucky. THE Commercial bank of Stevens Point, Wis., owing to an extended run, closed its doors. THE log cut on the St. Croix, in Wisconsin, for the season is estimated at 400,000,000 feet. THE twenty-first annual national soldiers' reunion will be held at Caldwell, O., June 14 and 15. OVER 2,500 miners in Appanoose county, Ia., quit work because of a reduction in wages. IOWA was visited by a snowstorm, while heavy rains in other states allayed all fears of drought. THE United States Rubber company at Springfield announced to the trade an advance in prices of 6 per cent., which is to prevail for the coming year. MISSES ANNA K. WELLS, Eugenie Armstrong and Maggie Farrelly, of E1lensburg, Wash., left Tacoma, Wash., to seek their fortunes in the gold fields of Alaska. POSTMASTER GENERAL BISSELL issued an order restricting second-class matter to actual subscribers for journals entitled to the pound rate. REPORTS to the director of the mint show coinage during the month of March as follows: Gold, $2,866,102; silver, $573,535; minor coin. $80,195; total coinage, $3,509,835. THE post office at South Omaha, Neb., was broken open and robbed of over $3,000. THE British ship Morseby, long overdue, reached San Francisco 241 days from Liverpool, having been delayed and disabled by South Atlantic storms. THE public debt statement issued on the 2d showed that the debt increased $18,317,105 during the month of March. The cash balance in the treasury was $187,917,261. The total debt, less the cash balance in the treasury, amounts to $908,730.046. THE Forty-ninth general assembly of Tennessee reconvened at Nashville. By the upsetting of a skiff John Brotia and Thomas Grogan. both residents of Pittsburgh, were drowned. THE visible supply of grain in the United States on the 2d was: Wheat, 74,307,000 bushels; corn, 13,407,000 bushels; oats, 6,184,000 bushels; rye, 267,000 bushels; barley, 787,000 bushels. GREEN BAY and Fort Howard, Wis., voted to consolidate, the name of the new town to be Green Bay. ELIAS J. HALE, judge of probate of Foxcroft, Me., who shot himself, was found to be a defaulter as treasurer of the town in the amount of $115,720. THE supreme court of Iowa rendered a decision sustaining the constitutionality of the "mulet" law. A CYCLONE in Boone county, Ky., did great damage to property and many horses and cattle were killed. The village of Lewisburg was nearly wiped out. THE steamboat City of Haverbill was said to have gone down with all hands in a fierce gale off Barnegat, on the New Jersey coast, and ten lives were reported lost. THE Florida legislature convened at Tallahassee for its biennial session of sixty days. FIRE at St. Charles, III., did damage to the extent of $100,000, burning a number of buildings. WHILE Mrs. Thomas Jones was preparing her ballot at the polls in Newcastle. Col., she fainted and fell. bursting a blood vessel, from the effects of which she died. THE Findlay Rolling Mill company of Findlay, O., made an assignment with assets of $250,000 and liabilities of $125,000. IN a runaway accident near South Bend, Ind., two children of James Hicks were trampled to death. MISS AMY WEST was awarded $30,000 damages at Pikeville, Ky., against Moses Deskins and wife in a suit for slander. IT was discovered that employes of the United States Express company had during the past vear defranded the
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NEWS OF THE WEEK. Condensed Items of Interest From all Parts of the World. DAYTON, Ohio-Gov. McKinley and ex-Gov. Foraker were given a cordial welcome here this afternoon. After a reception by the Garfield club, the distinguished visitors were driven to the fair grounds, where they addressed a large number of people from this and neighboring counties. Senator Sherman who was billed to speak, could not be present. CHICAGO-The general court martial convened to investigate the charges against Lieut. Samuel S. Pague, of the Fifteenth United States infantry, for shooting at Col. R. E. A. Crofton, of the same regiment, on Oct. 3, com. menoed its proceedings at Fort Sheridan this morning. PARIS, Tex.-The town of Bagwell, in Red River county, 22 miles east of here, was completely destroyed by fire only a few buildings in the outskirts of the place being left standing. The loss will reach $100,000. ST. PETERSBURG is officially announced that the Prussian Minister in Korea has taken no official action whatever in relation to the situation there, although he does not recognize or approve of the illegal state of affairs existing. HAVANA-Advices received here from the interior of this province report the prevailence of heavy floods. The villages of Nueva Paz, San Nicholas and La Catalina are submerged and a large amount of property has been destroyed, but no loss of life is reported. Sr. Louis-Alex Brown, son of a prominent farmer, met W. L. Garrett on a lonely road this morning. and in a quarrel which ensued both men drew revolvers. Brown's gun refused to fire, and Garrett put two bullets into Brown's body and one into his horse. The latter ran home with his dying master on his back. Brown died a few minutes later. ST. LOUIs-Disastrous prairie fires have been raging in various portions of western Missousi and western Kan, sas owing to the continued drouth. ST. Louis-Thebody of Jack Hender son, a farm laborer who yesterday attempted to outrage the wife of his employer, at Vinegar Bend, was found hanging to a tree riddled with bullets. MILWAUKEE-The Wisconsin stockholders of the Standard Telephone company, which was organized with a capital of $210,000,000, and which was to revlutionize the telephone business, have demanded au accounting of the moneys subscribed by them. MaDISON, Wis.-Miss Jean Miner's heroic statue, symbolizing Wisconsin's motto, "Forward," was unveiled in the capitol park. Mrs. John Winans, of Janesville, presented the statue on behalf of the women of Wisconsin, and Gov. Upham made the speech of acceptance. WEST SUPERIOR, Wis.-There will be important developments within the next few days in the matter of retaining the La Belle Wagon Works in this city, and if T. G. Fish, who purchased the machinery of the plant from the assignee, insists upon moving it to his new works at Clinton, Iowa, an injunction already prepared will be served. WEST SUPERIOR, Wis.-Judge Vinje, of the circuit court, appointed Robert Celly as receiver of the West Superior Iron and Steel company, on application of the Central Trust comany, of New York, which holds a mortgage on the works of $1,300,000. t ASHLAND, Wis.-The state administration is after $40,000 belonging to the state of Wisconsin, and what is t worse, it does not expect to get it. W Attorney General Myrea sse d t through the city on his way to Sud perior, where he will have an intert view with various bondsmen of some S of the Superior banks that went to a the wall, in which there was deposited c some $40,000 belonging to the state of o Wisconsin in these banks. BALTIMORE, Md. - H. Gilbert, of pirit Lake, Iowa, won the Dupont sand championship for trap shooters. M Alester ("Hayward",) of Philadelpla, won second money; Wagner, of V Wshington, took third, and Coe, of Basimore, fourth. P SEVENS POINT, Wis.-In strong contrasto Lis action last Tuesday, when W Emmans Burr, president of the Com mercia bank, placed all his private S properly eyond the reach of the creditor a stockholders by mortgagthe ing it, come the announcement that va he had iledvaims against the instituB tion to the amount of $42,651 as one D of its creditor Mr. Burr gives as his no excuse for nokeeping his promise in regard to turnig over his property to the creditors tat they wouldn't prom. to ise immunity Am criminal prosecutb tion if he did so at tu PLAINFIELD, - Fully 400,000 W bushels of potato have been frozen as in the ground in is section by the , sharp frosts of the ast few nights. at BUFFALO, N. Y. The Lake Shore pi fast train arrived the from Chicago CE at 11:30:34 a. m. Ela time 8:01:07. tr Average including Stps, 63.10 miles per hour; average cluding stops 64.98 miles per hour. This beats the G world's record. at STEVENS POINT VETA
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The News Condensed. In court at Stephens Point, George J. Leonard, a groceryman who failed recently, testified that he lost $1,350 in a green goods game at Oshkosh. Leonard's liabilities greatly exceed his assets. George Reed, yardmaster for the St. Paul road at Prairie du Chien, was killed by the cars. Hans England, aged 73, a prominent farmer of Primrose, was found dead in bed. Death resulted from old age. Dr. William A. Scott, assistant professor of political economy in the state university, has received a call to the chair of economies in the Minnesota university. In the county court at Stevens Point the receiver of the Commercial bank filed claims for $87,000 against the estate of the late Benjamin Burr, of whom Emmons Burr, ex-president of the bank, is the sole heir. John Livesy, of Augusta, arrived home, after several weeks' absence, and immediately took a large dose of carbolic acid, which resulted in death. The residence at Madison of H. A. Taylor, editor of the State Journal, was entered by burglars, who secured considerable booty. The sixth annual meeting of the Retail Lumber Dealers' Association of Wisconsin was held in Milwaukee. Timothy Follett Strong, Jr., a veteran Wisconsin editor, died at Fond du Lac, aged 56 years. Peter Swanson, an old settler, was accidentally killed by a freight train two miles below Spooner. Mrs. Ruth McDougal, of La Grange, was granted a divorce from Edward McDougal, $5,000 alimony and $200 a year for the support of the children. Winnebago county has paid out $8,500 for the entertainment of 4,300 tramps since November 1 last. The Elkhorn Implement company's building and contents and the adjoining laundry of F. D. Lore were burned. Mrs. Lore and child were rescued from the flames badly burned. The total loss was $5,000. D. B. Rudd, a millionaire banker and manufacturer at Reedsburg, died in Florida, where he, with his family, was spending the winter. He was a pioneer of Wisconsin. F.J. Short, of Chicago, has leased the Hotel Myers in Janesville for seven years. The Fond du Lac police arrested Joseph Koch, whom they suspect is the murderer of Fred Messner, the farmer who was so brutally killed at his home near that city a few weeks ago Busittess reverses led, Leonold Grom+ bach. Milno ankee cattle dealer to fire: a ihallet into his bra Das enimexe brue Gust Neethe, who 46₦ every was day age for selling bogus commura, tion tickets on the Chicago & Northwestern railroad. pleaded guilty and was fined $350.