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The Traveler's bank of Atlanta, Ga., has closed its doors for business. The bank was organized about two years ago with a capital stock of $200,000. Its deposits are said to be less than that amount. Arrangements for the caring indefinitely of Gen. Salvador Mercado and his 4,300 federal soldiers who ran into the United States after being defeated by the rebels at Ojinaga, Mexico, have been completed at Fort Bliss. Martin Korff of Rolla, Mo., former cashier of the defunct bank of Everton, at Everton, Ark., pleaded guilty at Fort Smith to embezzlement of the bank's funds, and was sentenced to twelvo years in the penitentiary. Ten Kansas City Greeks were ordered deported following a government investigation of a syndicate of Greek white slavers alleged to have operated extensively in the middle west. Most of the men are keepers of coffee houses or saloons. An organization of farm mortgage dealers, national in scope, has been formed at Chicago, and W. D. Hord of New York, cliairman of the I organization committee, sent out a call for a general convention, to beiheld at New York, February 26 and 27. Mediation of the differences between the New York, Chicago & St. Louis railroad and its telegraphers, station agents, tower men and signal men, who have voted to strike, will be undertaken at Cleveland, 0., by Judge William L. Chambers, United States commissioner of mediation and conciliation. Federal officers at Los Angeles will institute proceedings to revoke the naturalization papers of U. S. Kaneko, one of the wealthiest Japanese in California. He is the only Japanese citizen of the United States. He was granted naturalization papers eigh. teen ears ago, despite the law denying citizenship rights to orientals. Railroad owned beef cars are given a preference over private refrigerator cars, according to the testimony of William L. Barnes. superintendent of transportation of the Chicago, Bur lington & Quincy railroad, the chief witness at Chicago, in the government inquiry into the relations of the railroads and owners of private cars. Vigorous criticism of the department of justice in relation to the New Haven & Hartford and the American Telephone and Telegraph cases was made in the house by Representative Morgan of Oklahoma. He said that while the results of the settlements reached might be beneficial, Attorney General McReynolds had exceeded his authority in settling out ok courts cases which could have been prosecuted. under the law. FOREIGN. 1" The Japan Trust company of Vancouveh, which carried on a real estate and loan business of some dimensions among the orientals of Vancouver, has gone into liquidation. Hrancis de Pressense a tical writer, who for a.tew months in 1880 secretary or the French bassy at Washington, died at Paris, aged sixty years. Another difference between Buckingham/palace, over which Queen Mary presides, and Marlborough house, of which Queen Mother Alexandra is mistress, has risen, this time over the title by which the deposed King Manuel of Portugal and his bride are to be known officially. The decree Imposing a 5 per cent tax on merchandise has not yet been issued in Mexico, although it is expected that similar loans will enable President Huerta to keep up a dogged resistance SO long as money from any source can be obtained. The recent decree suspending interest payments on the national debt should net the government about $15,000,000. Russia's "black cabinet" has brought on a minor international crisis. The "black cabinet" is a va
