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Kansas City Bank Runs. KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 13.-As the result of the suspension yesterday of the People's Savings bank, a run was started on the Kansas City Safe Deposit and Savings bank this morning. The bank took advantage of the 30 day clause, and at noon the run was practically over. None of the other banks experienced a run.
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MORE WILDRUNS ON BANKS A Couple of Failures Start a Rush at Omaha. All the Institutions Except the Two Previously Closed Weather the Storm-Only One Even Takes Advantage of the Sixty Days' Clause. Kansas City the Scene of a Still More Absurd Run. Omaha, Neb., June 13.-There was a run on every savings bank in the city this morning, precipitated by the failure of the McCague Savings Bank yesterday, followed by the downfall this morning of the American National Bank, in which the McCagues are largely interested. It was unofficially stated yesterday that the clearing house association would stand by its members, of which the American National is one, but when the assets of the American National Bank came to be examined they were pronounced not good enough and the aid of the associated banks was withheld. The ominous sign appeared on the door this morning and the crowd which had collected becamegreatly excited. The McCagues tried to reassure the depositors, telling them that every account would be paid in full. At the Omaha Savings Bank, the German Savings Bank, the American Savings Bank, the Globe Loan and Trust Company, and other institutions, there was a steady drain of deposits all day Cash was paid out as long as called for, and there was no apparent limit to the supply. Senator Manderson and Vice President Kimball, of the Union Pacific, directors of the bank, made speeches to the excited depositors, guaranteeing them their money, but the run continued. The Dime Savings Bank compelled its depositors to give sixty days' notice of withdrawal. This action, together with the promptness with which other banks met all demands, is believed, to have stopped what almost promised to be a panic. A CRAZY RUN AT KANSAS CITY. Kansas City, June 13.-As a result of the suspension yesterday of the People's Savings Bank, an insignificant institution with deposits of only $25,000, a run was started this morning on the Kansas City Safe Deposit and Savings Bank. The bank took advantage of the clause of its by-laws requiring depositors to give thirty days' notice of the withdrawal of deposits. That checked the run and at it noon was practically over. None of the other banks experienced a run. Just why the Kansas City Safe Deposit and Savings Bank should have been selected for a run is a mystery. It is the largest and one of the soundest institutions of the kind in the state and has the confidence of the banks and merchants generally. A RUN CHECKED AT DETROIT. Detroit, Mich., June 3.-The State Bank of Crystal Falls, Mich. has suspended as a result of the failure of the Plankington Bank of Milwaukee. The bank is only a year old and its capital is $25,000. The deposits foot up $60,000. The officers of all the savings banks in this city agreed to enforce the time limit upon withdrawals of deposits. A run was started this morning upon the People's Savings Bank, one of the strongest in Detroit, but the sixty-day notice requirement checked it. The officers coneur in a statement that "it was not for want of money that we took this action, for we could have secured enough to have paid every depositor, but we did not think this the wisest plan.' A NASHVILLE BANK SHUT. Nashville, Tenn., June -The Nashville Savings Company, of which Thomas S. Marris is owner and president. filed an assignment to-night. The liabilities are $282,876, and the assets are valued at $ 125,000. The deposits amount to $109,010 22, and the certificates of deposits to $72,911 21. Among the assets are $60,000 on deposit with Arthur, Ketcher & Co., suspended bankers of New York. In an interview President Marr says the failure was due to the shrinkage in values and steady withdrawal of money by depositors since failures have become so frequent. The recent failures of local business houses and the suspension of the Commercial National Bank also caught him for large sums. ASSETS WIPED OUT. Mankoto, Kan. June 3.-The bank of Burr Oak, Jewell county, closed its doors yesterday morning. The bank was owned by Hulbert Bros., and the liabilities are placed at $35,000. The assets are practically nothing. C. D. Hulbert, one of the proprietors of the bank, has fled and his whereabouts are unknown The depositors are greatly excited, and if he should return either of his own accord or to answer a criminal charge, there being some inclination among the depositors to prefer such a charge, he would be roughly dealt with. A BANK FAILS IN UTAIF. Salt Lake, Utah, June 13.-The Park City Bank suspended yesterday. Its liabilities are $130,000, and its assets as much. The claim is made that the bank will shortly resume. The assignee says that depositors are to be paid 80 cents on the dollar.
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night, decided to give it no help. and the decision of the Comptroller to close it followed. The statement May 4 showed: Capital stock, $200,000; loans and discounts, $531,699; surplus, $16,000; undivided profits, $3161; due depositors, $577,530. The American Savings Bank and the Dime Savings Bank took advantage of the clause allowing sixty days' grace on deposits. President McCague of the American National said this afternoon that his bank had closed with almost $100,000 in cash and exchange in the bank and that the mail brought a remittance of $20,000 from New York. He said that while adverse circumstances had overtaken the bank he was positive that depositors would be paid in full. KANSAS CITY, June 13.-As a result of the suspension yesterday of the People's Savings Bank a run was started on the Kansas City Safe Deposit and Savings Bank this morning. The bank took advantage of the thirty-day clause and at ncon the run was practically over. None of the other banks experienced a run. LANSING, Mich, Jnne 3.-The Commissioner of Banking has received notice that the State Bank at Crystal Falls has made an assignment. The capital stock is $25,000 and deposits $60,000. The bank is involved in the failure of the Plankington Bank at Milwaukee. SPRINGFIELD, III., June 13.-This evening the Atlantic Trust Company of New York filed a bill in the Circuit Court to foreclose a mortgage of $1,250,000 on the St. Louis, Chicago and St. Paul road. The mortgage was given by the new organization which is the successors to the St. Louis, Alton and Springfield road. Judge Creighten appointed Charles E. Kimball of New York as coreceiver with Joseph Diekson, and ordered the property restored to their hands. NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 13.-The Nashville Savings Company, Thomas S. Marr. president, the oldest financial institution in Nashville, filed articles of assignment to-night. Liabilities are placed at $220,000 and its assets, according to the president's estimate, will pay not more than 25 or 30 per cent. SNOHOMISH, Wash., June 13. - The bank of Everett posted a notice on its doors this morning announcing that it had made an assignment for the benefit of creditors. The institution was doing busil ness under the State law, with a nominacapital of $50,000, of which $30,000 was paid up. The liabilities are said to be $65,000 and the assets $87,000. A committee of the Clearing-House has authorized the statement that in their judgment, if the securities are handled properly, every depositor will be paid in full. CLEVELAND, June 13.-A receiver has been appointed for the Williams Publishing Company. The firm does a large business, which will be continued. The assets and liabilities are noknown.
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AT KANSAS CITY. Run on the Largest Savings Bank in Missouri. KANSAS CITY, June 14.-A run was started on the Kansas City Safe Deposit and Savings bank, the largest savings bank in Missouri. Before the doors of the bank were opened people were on hand awaiting to get in, and as soon as the doors opened a rush was made for the paying teller's window. The bank promptly met all claims, but as the crowd grew large and it seemed evident a run was on, the bank issued a notice to depositors that it would enforce the rule requiring 30 days notice of the withdrawal of deposits. The crowd continued to grow large and police were finally called to keep the crowd in check. The action of the board of directors in requiring 30 days notice checked the run, but the crowd continued to grow until 1 p. m., when all evidence of a run had disappeared. The bank is considered perfectly safe, and has already stood two runs in the past two years, one of which lasted three davs.
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Run on Kansas City Banks. KANSAS CITY, June 13.-As a result of the suspension yesterday of the People's Savings bank, a run was started on the Kansas City Safe Deposit and Savings bank this morning. The bank took advantage of the thirty-day clause and at noon the run was practically over. None of the other banks experienced a run.
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AT KANSAS CITY. Run on the Largest Savings Bank in Missouri. KANSAS CITY, June 14-A run was started on the Kansas City Safe Deposit and Savings bank, the largest savings bank in Missouri. Before the doors of the bank were opened people were on hand awaiting to get in, and as soon as the doors opened a rush was made for the paying teller's window. The bank promptly met all claims, but as the crowd grew large and it seemed evident a run was on, the bank issued a notice to depositors that it would enforce the rule requiring 30 days notice of the withdrawal of deposits; The crowd continued to grow large and police were finally called to keep the crowd in check. The action of the board of directors in requiring 80 days notice checked the run; but the crowd continued to grow until 1 p. m., when all evidence of a run had disappeared. The bank is considered perfectly safe, and has already stood two runs in the past two years, one of which lasted three days.
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KANSAS CITY BANK FAILS. KANSAS CITY, July 11, 1893 -The : Kansas City Safe Deposit and Savings Bank, capitalized at at $300,000, and supposed; to be one of the strongest institutions of its kind in the State, failed to opeu its doors this morning. A notice posted ou the door stated that the bank had assigned last night to Walter J. Bales and W. B. McLeod, and that the latter had taken passessiou. No statement is obtainable as yet. No excitement was caused by by the failure and it is not thought it will exleud to other banks.
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WEST AND SOUTH. AN assignment was made by the Kansas City Safe Deposit and Savings bank, one of the largest institutions of its kind in Missouri, with liabilities of $1,700,000 and assets of $2,000,000. THE wife of Charles Gollmer, of Alton, Ill., gave birth to her twentysecond child. FLAMES destroyed the factory of the Lake Superior Mineral Paint company and adjacent buildings at West Superior, Wis., the loss being $100,000. EIGHTY-THREE persons were poisoned by eating bad cheese at Mansfield, O., and twelve of the sufferers may die. IN Chicago the Hercules Iron Works company failed for $200,000. A RECEIVER was named for the North Galveston (Tex.) Land & Improvement association, the liabilities being $500, 000. PETER JACKSON and James Corbett have signed articles to fight next June for a purse of $20,000. BY a gasoline explosion Mrs. C. H. Vanarsdale, aged 28, wife of the leading dry goods merchant at Beatrice, Neb., and Mary Hogenfeldt, her servant, were burned to death. CARRIE and Pearl Plant (sisters) started to walk from Muskegon, Mich., to the world's fair. IN the cold-storage warehouse fire ruins on the world's fair grounds ten more bodies were discovered, making twenty-three in all. JOHN L. DAVIS' private bank at Auburn, Ind., and the Holt county bank at O'Neill, Neb., closed their doors. A FIRE destroyed the main building of the packing house of John Morrell & Co. at Ottumwa, Ia., with its contents, causing a loss of $500,000. IN Chicago Charles M. Barnes, wholesale bookseller and stationer, failed for $113 000. THE state league of republican clubs will meet in Des Moines, Ia., on August 15. AT Ocala, Fla., Robert Larkin (colored) was lynched for criminally assaulting Fannie Alexander, a white girl. FLAMES at Princeton, Ind., destroyed two churches, a hotel, bank and many business houses, the total loss being $300,000. SHOCKS of earthquake were felt at Albuquerque, N. M., being severe enough to stop clocks in different parts of the city and to rattle dishes and crockery on the shelves. THE Springfield (Mo.) Bank of Com. merce closed its doors with deposits of $176,000, and the Bankof Garnett, Kan., stopped business with heavy liabilities. IN Chicago Oscar Neebe, the anarchist recently released from the Joliet (III.) penitentiary by Gov. Altgeld, was married to Mrs. Eliza Hepp. Neebe's first wife died while he was in prison. THE indicted officials of the Plankin ton bank in Milwaukee, that failed recently, include Judge Jenkins, of the United States circuit court. THE Viking ship from Norway, a fac simile of the one in which Leif Ericson is claimed to have touched upon American shores 400 years before Columbus sailed from the harbor of Palos, arrived in Chicago. FLAMES destroyed twelve business buildings at Mexwell, Col., the loss being $100,000. WILLIAN Cook, of Pemberville, a while drunk made a murderous assault with a club upon his four children, injuring three of them fatally
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SANE AGAIN. Depositors Returning Their Cash to the Banks. A Mass Meeting of Depositors Only Ask Resumption and Will Take Twelve Months Time Certificates-Many New Accounts Opened. The panic at Kansas City has ceased, and ceased as suddenly as it came, and many people are now lamenting their causeless fright. Many new accounts were opened by the depositors of the suspended banks, and the regular depositors put in more money than they have deposited since the local bank disturbances began. Add to these encouraging facts, the very significant one that nearly $1,000,000 has been received from the eastern correspondents of the local banks, representing a part of eastern balances, and the situation is seen to be very encouraging indeed. One particular assurance of returning confidence is that among the depositors were seen some who had been alarmed on Saturday and withdrawn their money. As an instance of the restored confidence in this city, the depositors of the Kansas City Safe deposit and Savings bank held a meeting at Turner hall and voted confidence in the officers of the bank. The hall was packed with men and women, many of whom were forced to stand up in the aisles. None but depositors were admitted to the meeting. and each was required to show his bank book or certificate of deposit at the doors. It was claimed that there was nearly a full representation of the entire deposits of the bank, representing $1,700,000. The depositors almost unanimously tendered their help to the officers of the bank, asking them to reopen. The chairman appointed a committee of five as representatives of the depositors to confer with the officers and assignees of the Kansas City Safe Deposit and Savings bank and ascertain the practicability of issuing to the depositors time certificates of deposits for a term not exceeding twelve months and to revive the bank. The action of the meeting wrought a marked change in the feelings of the depositors present, and they all felt confident afterward that they would get their money in time. The general impression was that the people had been too hasty in forcing the bank to suspend, and that by using a little judgment and supporting the bank officers in an effort to resume, there would be a better chance of realizing fully upon the bank's assets.
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AN INVENTORY FILED. The Showing of a Kansas City Safe Deposit and Savings Bank. KANSAS CITY, August 3.-The assignees of the Kansas City safe deposit and savings bank, which suspended payment three weeks ago, filed an inventory of assets this afternoon. Total assets $2,044,217. Many of them, however, are real estate paper of little value. The bank holds as collateral notes of Cashier Satoley aggregating $13,400 and notes endorsed by Sattley to an amount of $19,200. The indebtedness of H. P. Churchill. ex-president of the bank, amounts to $125,000. W.E. Winner, the promoter, who failed disastrously some three years ago, is indebted $33,250. There is an overdraft standing against the Equitable Mortgage company of New York for $22,000. The Husted Investment company of Kansas City, Kan., and its officers owe the bank $65,000.
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Praise Is Good For any medicine you hear about. hut to be made well by its use is still better. I have for many years suffered with an irritable itching all over my body. and my left leg swelled and became so sore I had to give up work. Physicians prescribed for me for scrofula. but did not cure me. Hood's Sarsaparilla gave me immeAND diate relief. drove all disease out of my blood and gave me perfect Hood's Cures cure. O. DUNN. 21 Lampson Court. Kansas City, Mo. Hood's Pills cure constipation. Try a box. SEIZURES BY THE SHERIFF. Attachment Against the Equitable Manufacturing and Electric Company. The Sheriff has taken charge of the office of the Equitable Manufacturing and Electric Company at 44 Broadway and the factory at 611 West Thirty-sixth street on an attachment obtained by Cravath & Houston for $29,540 in favor of Wendell Goodwin for money loaned. Cravath & Houston say that the loan was long past due, and the company would not pay it. Cornelius Fellowes, banker and broker. is the President. The company was incorporated several years ago, and had. it is said, a capital stock of $1,000,000. The Sheriff has received an attachment for $8,000 against the Kansas City Safe Deposit and Savings Bank in favor of George K. Gilluly on an assigned claim of the First National Bank of Garden City. Kan.. for money deposited by the latter. The Sheriff's officers succeeded in flnding securities of the par value of $63,000 on deposit with the Equitable Mortgage Company at 40 Wall street. The Sheriff took possession of the securities. which include bank shares. electric light company shares, street railway bonds. and real estate notes. Later in the day the Sheriff received another attachment against the bank for $21,536 in favor of Gilluly on an assigned claim of the Equitable Mortgage Company for balance of deposits. The Sheriff has taken charge of the place of business of Louis H. Malkin. wholesale dealer in boys' clothing at 204 and 206 Greene street, on a confessed judgment for $365 in favor of Louis's brother. Alexander Malkin. for money loaned. Charles F. Kelley has been appointed receiver for the Pasadena Hotel and Cottage Building Company of 239 Broadway in the suit of John S. Forgotston. a judgment creditor. E. v. Machette was President of the company. which is a New Jersey corporation with a capital stock of $200,000. Elbert S. Carman has been appointed receiver of the Rural Publishing Company. Rose and Pearl streets. which publishes the Kural New Yorker and the American Garden. The company has been hard pressed for ready cash for some time past. and some of the creditors took legal action to collect their claims. It is proposed now to dissolve the company. The liabilities. it is said. amount to nearly $60,000. Mr. Carman was formerly secretary of the company. The present company has A capital stock of $140.000. and is a reorganization of a corporation formed in 1873. Deputy Sheriff Young has received an attachment for $2,000 against the United States Tobacco Company. Fulton and Front streets. which was carried on. it is said, by Charles S. Phillips. The attachment is in favor of Esther Buslin for money loaned which she alleges was obtained under misrepresentations.
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They're After Them. KANSAS CITY. Aug. 19.-Warrants for the arrest of J. C. Darragh, president of the suspended Kansas City Safe Deposit and Savings bank. and Eimer C. Sattley, its cashier, was issued to-day. They are each charged with grand larceny and the specific accusation is receiving a deposit four days before the bank failure, wellknowing then that the bank was in a failing condition. Both men are out of town. Darragh will arrive in the city to-morrow from Washington and will then be arrested. A despatch from Sedalia states that Cashier Sattley was arrested there this afternoon and started for Kansas City on the evening train in charge of officers.
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Bank Officers Arrested. KANSAS CITY, Mo., August 19.-Warrants for the arrest of J. C. Darragh, president of the suspended Kansas City Bafe Deposit and Savings bank, and Elmer C. Sattley, Its cashier, were Issued today. The specific accosation is receiving a depoidt of $1.030 from Benjamin M. Nopher July 7. four days before the bank's failure. well knowing the bank was in a failing condition.
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Receiving a Deposit After Knowledge. Kansas City, Aug. 20.-E. C. Satterlee, cashier, and President J. A. Darrah, of the suspended Kansas City Safe Deposit and Savings Bank, were arrested to-day on warrants charging them with receiving a deposit knowing the bank to be insolvent. Both men gave $5,000 bond for their appearance.
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GRAND LARCENY. Kansas City, Aug. 22.-Warrants for the arrest of J. C. Darragh, president of the suspended Kansas City Safe Deposit and Savings bank, and Elmer C. Sattley, its cashier, were issued to-day. They are each charged with the crime of grand larceny, which is a felony, and the specific accusation is the receiving of a deposit of $1,030 from Benjamin M. Sopher on July 7, last, four days before the bank's failure, "well knowing the bank was then in a failing condition."
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BAD FOR THE DEPOSITORS. Assets of the Suspended Kansas City Savings Bank Only $885,000. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 25.-The long looked for appraisement of the assets of the suspended Kansas C.ty Safe Deposit and Savings bank, on which the court's appointees, Mark Copringer, John A. Moore and Samuel Ridenour have been at work for thirty days, was filed to-day. The face value of the bank's assets was $2,044,000 and upon them the appraisers place a value of $385,000. In round figures the deposits aggregate $1,750,000 and to meet this the bank has assets valued at $85,000, fifty per cent. If the value fixed by the appraisers is realized on and deducting fees of the assignee, financiers say, the depo itors should get at least between forty-five and forty-eight per cent on the dollar.
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Bank-Wreckers in Court. KANSAS CITY, Oct. 16.--James C. Darragh, president of the suspended Kansas City Safe Deposit and Savings bank, and Elmer C. Sattley, cashier, appeared in the criminal court this morning and pleaded not guilty to 22 indictments against them.
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Bank Officers on Trial. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Nov. 20.- James C. Darragh, president of the suspended Kansas City Safe Deposit and Savings bank, and Elmer C. Satlee, its cashier, appeared in the Criminal court a month ago and pleaded not guilty to the 32 indictments for grand larceny by receiving deposits in an insolvent institution, which were returned against them by a special grand jury. Each gave bail, with sureties in the sum of $6,000, and their personal recognizances were taken in the sum of $10,500 for reappearance for trial today.
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# The Darragh-Sattley Indictments. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 26.—The grand jury recently found twenty-two indictments against ex-President Darragh and ex-Cashier Sattley, of the Kansas City Safe Deposit and Savings bank, which suspended several months ago. This makes forty-nine indictments against each officer to date. The cases are set for trial today.
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Granted a Change of Venue. KANSAS CITY, Dec. 30.-The application of J. C. Darragh and F. C. Sattley, president and cashier of the suspended Kansas City Safe Deposit and Savings bank, indicted for grand larceny, for a change of venue was heard before Judge Wofford of the criminal court at Independence. The defendants in the application for a change of venue had barred 13 counties, declaring that they could not get justice in them. The judge sent all the cases to Livingstone county. They will be tried at Chillicothe some time next spring.
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Peculiar Banking Methods. KANSAS CITY, June 27.-The jury that is to try Elmer C. Sattley, the cashier of the wrecked Kansas City Safe Deposit and Savings bank, has been secured. Prosecutor Brown, in his opening address, maintained that when the bank assigned it had but $11,000 in the vault. when there should have been $1,500,000. He said the officers simply helped themselves to the money of depositors and gave in return their own worthless personal notes or still more worthless securities.
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ASSIGNEE HOLDEN'S REPORT He Expects to Be Able to Pay a Dividend Soon. Assignee H. M. Holden, of the Kansas City Safe Deposit and Savings bank. yesterday filed his fifth term report before Judge Slover in the circuit court. The report shrows that the assignee has since his last report made considerable headway toward getting the great mass of scattered assets into shape to be controlled in a business like manner, and that besides getting taxes paid up to date and many titles cleared of adverse claims he has made an additional gain in the item of cash on hand and now has $64,125.41. against a balance of $55,797.17 as shown by the last report. The report was a long and comprehensive mass of figures as those rendered heretofore have been, covering every transaction had since the last report. Among other things Assignee Holden attached a supplemental inventory of assets unearthed since the last report, amounting to several hundred dollars. Following are some of the sources enumerated in the report from which cash has been realized: From collateral loans, $4.863.40: from real estate loans, $11,755.00; from interest, $826.09; from rents. $736.98; from rents of boxes in vault department, $859.50: from special tax bills, $27.50: from stocks and bonds sold. $1,050.00 from miscellaneous sources. $1,037.39; from sales of real estate, $11,675.00. Appended to the report was the usual recapitulation of the figures given shortly after the bank suspended on July 10, 1893. The total outstanding claims are given at $1,693,565.88. Assignee Holden stated yesterday afternoon that matters were in such shape that he hoped to be able to pay a dividend within a short time. He said a transaction was now about to be consummated which, if nothing occurred to interfere with its suc. cessful termination, would make a dividend possible, but that he did not know when it would be, as he could not tell when the deal referred to would be closed.
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MISSOURI STATE NEWS. Awarded Damages. In the circuit court at Mexico Mrs. Mary F. Eagleton, of St. Louis, was awarded damages in the sum of $1,450 against George Kabrich, of Mexico, and C. C. Longley, of St. Louis. Mrs. Eagleton brought suit for $5,000 for alleged false imprisonment and malicious prosecution. In January. 1894. she lived in Audrain county and ran a dry goods bill with Kabrich & Longley of $35, and later attempted to leave without settling the account. Mrs. Eagleton was pursued and arrested by an officer, returned to Mexico, and confined in jail on the charge of obtaining goods under false pretenses. Being in & delicate condition she was afterward. under guard, moved to a hotel, where she became a mother. and the charge was withdrawn. The trial lasted two days. The verdict. jury was four hours deliberating upon the How Farmer Barnard was Robbed. David A. Barnard, who lives near Macon, was robbed of $85 and a certified check for $500 the other day. Barnard was on a train, and was approaching Kearney. He had been talking to Pearl Rodgers, aged 19, of Kansas City. As Rodgers got up to leave the train. he put his arm around the old farmer's neck and told him to try and get him a job, as he was an orphan. The pecketbook was slipped from Barnard's inside vest pocket. Rodgers was seen to run rapidly away. and. being suspected by officers of doing something wrong, was pursued and captured after a long chase. The check and money were recovered. Too Bad. Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Horn, of Steelville, went outing a few days ago, and it proved a very sad affair. Mr. Horn placed a loaded-shotgun against a ledge, and Mrs. Horn knocked it down. the charge entering her side. Mr. Horn ran for assistance. and on his return found his wife stil alive. In the presence of those who returned with him she kissed him good-by, sent messages to friends, narrated how the accident occurred and said her husband was not to blame. She died in two hours. In a few weeks she would have become a mother. Mrs. Horn was Miss Minnie Davis. a teacher in the public schools. and she and her husband, both young, were popular. Bank Directors Exempt. Judge Broaddus, in the circuit court at Liberty, decided in the case of C. A. Stevenau against the directors of the Kansas City Safe Deposit and Savings bank, which failed in 1893, that the attachments run by depositors on the property of the bank directors are invalid. Eight thousand depositors, holding claims against the bank, are thus without recourse at law. Killed His Son-in-Law. An old feud which had been kept alive several years between Joe Peters and his son-in-law, John Dudley, two farmers near Seymour, terminated the other day in a row over a load of hay. Peters drew his knife and stabbed Dudley four times. Dudley died the next morning. Peters is under arrest. Gov. Stone's Appointments. Gov. Stone has appointed R. C. Culver to be judge of the criminal court of St. Joseph; Thomas H. Ryan. police commissioner of the city of St. Joseph, to succeed himself, and Dr. E. A. Donelan, a member of the Missouri fish commission, in place of H. M. Garlichs, removed. A Human Torch. Henry Schwartz was fatally burned in Kansas City by gasoline exploding. He ran several squares with his clothes aflame, jumping from a second-story window. Only three weeks before Schwartz married his sweetheart, who came from the old country. His Identity Revealed. Ben Myers, arrested for participation in Chicago & Alton hold-up in which Engineer Frank Holmes was killed, near Carlinville, Ill., proves, it is said, to be Bernard Reinagel, of Manchester, St. Louis county, and well connected. Elocutionary Contest. The Epworth league of Centenary Methodist church, south, of Nevada, will give an elocutionary contest August 28, for a $125 gold and diamondset medal. The contest is open to all