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Bank Fails at Kearney, Neb. OMAHA, Oct. 11. -A special to the Bee from Kearney, Neb., says: At a little afternoon, the directors of the First National bank closed their doors and ordered the following notice posted: "This bank has suspended payment owing to impossibility to make colleclections, or realize on their assets."
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Bank Fails at Kearney, Neb. OMAHA, Oct. 11.-A special to the Bee from Kearney, Neb., says: At a little afternoon, the directors of the First National bank closed their doors and ordered the following notice posted: "This bank has suspended payment owing to impossibility to make colleclections, or realize on their assets."
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A Bank Fails. Kearney, Neb., Oct. 11.-The directors of the First National bank closed its doors to-day and ordered the following notice posted: "This bank has suspended payment owing to the impossibility of making collections or of realizing on assets." There is no special excitement, the other banks not being effected.
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Nebrrska Bank Closed. KEARNEY, Neb., Oct. 11.-The directors of the First National bank closed its doors today and ordered the following notice posted: "This bank has suspended payment owing to the impossibility to make collections or realize on assets. There is no special excitement. Other banks are not affected.
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In Milwaukee twenty-five railroad mer. including E. V. Debs, were indieted by the grand jury EXCITEMENT prevailed at San Pedro, Col., over the loss by drowning of a party of four citizens, including the postmaster JACKSON HICKS, for the murder of James Preel, and Ames Myson, for the murder of Dudley Carrey, were hanged at Union Springs, Ala. IN Michigan Perry Mayo, of Calhoun county, has been placed on the democratic ticket for lieutenant governor to succeed J. Milton Jordan, declined. Mayo is the populist candidate for the same office. ARTICLES were signed by Corbett and Fitzsimmons to fightafter July i, 1895, at Jacksonville, Fla., for a purse of 84 ,000 and $10,000 a side. J. J. SHORTALL, of Chicago, was reelected president at he annual session in Evansville, Ind., of the American Humane society. GALES swept Lake Erie and lower Lake Huron, disabling several large boats and injuring a number of sailors. IN session at Baltimore J. J. P. Odell, of Chicago, was elected president of the American Bankers' association. THE attorney general of Illinois rules that women must furnish their own ballotsand not vote with the men. ELSWORTH MCAFEE, Natha Green and William Green perished in a burning hay mow in Mercer county, O. THE official estimates of the wheat crop in Ohio place it at 50,852,433 bushels, the largest in the state's history. BECAUSE unable to make collections the First national bank of Kearney, Neb., suspended. ALL the hogs in Nebraska were being shipped into states where feed could be secured on account of the failure of the corn en op. IN national convention at Baltimore negro Catholies petitioned the president to protect colored men. AT Sioux City, Ia., Online paced an exhibition mile in 2:04, lowering his own world's record of 2:07 14. THE governor of Florida says he will convene the legislature if necessary to prevent the Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight in that state. NEAR Quantico, Va., seven masked robbers held up a fast mail train and rifled the express car and mail pouches, securing probably $50,000. LATER advices state that the two bandits who robbed the Overland express near Sacramento, Cal., secured between $50,000 and $75,000. THE death of Prof. David Swing ends the organization in Chicago of the Central church. No successor will be named. A PARLIAMENT will be held in Chicago on November 13, at which the relations of labor and capital will be discussed by leading thinkers from all standpoints with a view to bettering present conditions. AT the age of 95 years Oran Follett, a prominent official and newspaper writer of Ohio, died at Sandusky. THE death of Henry H. Green, a classmate of Gen. Grant at West Point and a Mexican war veteran, occurred at Mora, N. M., aged 71 years. FLAMES nearly wiped out Chester Hill, an Ohio village. BY a train collision at New Orleans twenty-one persons were seriously injured and property worth $40,000 destroyed. ADA WEINER, who shot and killed her husband at San Francisco while he slept, was sentenced to life imprisonment. DE CAMP, McConnell and King were found guilty at Ogden, U. T., of attempted train wrecking during the A. R. U. strike and King was sentenced to four years and De Campand McConnell to twelve years each in the penitentiary. AT an Omaha distillery experiments of making spirits from beet sugar molasses proved very successful. AN investigation showed that the soldiers' home at Dayton, O., was haunted by thieves who rob the inmates on pension days. THE congregation of Mount Horeb (Ky.) Presbyterian church suspended Col. Breckinridge from communion until February. AN affidavit was made by T. 1. Dixon, an ex-state official of Kansas, that Mrs. Mary E. Lease urged him to steal $20,000 from the state. DIRECTORS of the Washington Park club in Chicago decided to abandon racing, but will maintain the clubbouse. AT Beattyville, Ky., Oscar Morton. a wealthy resident of Stanton, shot and killed Sheriff William Simms as the result of an old feud. A mob took Morton from jail and hanged him. IN San Francisco John Joy, who robbed a man of five dollars, was sentenced to prison for life by a judge
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NEWS BOILED DOWN. Items of General Interest Placed in a Few Lines. Representative John T. Dunn was renominated to-day for congress by the Eighth (Mass) district Democrats. The Democrats of the Sixth (N. J.) district to-day renominated Representative T. B. English for congress. Auguste Jean, a coulissur or outside stock broker of Paris, has absconded, leaving liabilities amounting to a million francs. The elections in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, have passed without any disturbance. The government candidates were victorious. In addition to the sudden indisposition of Prince Bismarck, which called Dr. Schweninger to Varzin, the condition of Princess Bismarck has become such as to cause uneasiness. The most prominent politicians and military leaders of Nicaragua have conferred with President Zelaya and Minister Baker. As a result energetic measures will be taken against any attempt at revolution. Admiral Avelan, with a squadron of four Russian warships and several Greek ironclads. cruisers and torpedo boats are proceeding to Corfu, where they will remain during the stay of the czar upon that island. At Kearney. Neb., the directors of the First National bank closed the doors and posted the following notice: "This bank has suspended payment owing to impossibility to make collections or realize on the assets." At the New York striking cloakmakers' mass meeting last night nearly 2,000 people assembled about the square. Several violent speeches were made and the speakers became riotous. The police dispersed the crowd after a lively tussle in which clubs were freely used. The Eastern Pennsylvania conference of the United Evangelical church, composed of the adherents of Bishop Dubs, adjourned at Reading last evening. It is expected that 100 congregations will ally themselves with the new denomination. It is reported that W. A. Chong, a Chinese merchant of Seattle, is trying to purchase the steamer City of Seattle, of the Puget Sound and Alaska Steamship company, with the intention of sending her to China to carry troops to Corea. Her register tonnage is 830 tona.
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The News Condenseu. Important Intelligence From All Parts DOMESTIC. GOVERNMENT returns for October show a slight gain in the percentages of crops excepting cotton. all destroyed the establishments of and FIRE Cleveland Foundry company the Enterprise Desk and Stamping being company the in Cleveland, the loss $125,000. LEVI P. MORTON has written republican a letter formally accepting the New York. nomination for governor of American annual meeting of the commenced THE of foreign missions Madiboard in the Congregational church at son. Wis. L, the last of the Indian comTROOP has been disbanded, the gov- solpanies, ernment considering them poor diers. twentieth annual convention was of THE American Banker's association members opened the in Baltimore with 300 present. excitement prevailed at San MUCH Col., over the loss by drowning including Pedro, of a party of four citizens, the postmaster. explosion in a mill at Dexter, AN killed three men and seriously were wounded Mo., another. The killed brothers named Johnson. THE twenty-fifth annual Beekeepers' convention the North American Mo. of association met at St. Joseph, TWENTY-FIVE railroad men, includ- the E. V. Debs, were indicted by ing federal grand jury in Milwaukee. THE American Debenture company concerns Chicago. one of the largest into of kind in the country, went liabilities the of its hands of a receiver with of $1,500,000. VAN TAYLOR, of Detroit, leavGEORGE committed suicide in jail, to Mich., letter in which he confessed having ing a committed twelve murders. the annual convention of held repub- in AT league clubs of Illinois, of Irolican Springfield. C. W. Raymond, quois county, was elected president. THE eighteenth annual meeting con- of the American Humane association vened at Evansville, Ind. unfinished building in New York AN blown down by the wind, thirteen killing was six persons and injuring others. MRS. MILLER, wife of Lon Miller, and a farmer near Liberty, Ill., killed wealthy her 10-year-old daughter were robbers. by AMES MYSON for the murder of Dud- the Carrey and Jackson Hicks for ley murder of James Preel were hanged at Union Springs, Ala. incendiary tenement house to AT an Boston two men leaped death fire in and two others were fatally hurt. Lakeport stage was held up Cal., by lone THE bandit near Pieta Station, a the Wells-Fargoexpress box stolen. and men were killed, two fatally FIVE and several more seriously burned Pa. hurt by boiler explosion at Shamokin, CORBETT a and Fitzsimmons signed ar- at to fight after July 1, of 1895, $41, Jacksonville, ticlee Fla., for a purse 000 and $10,000 a side. THE steamer Hartford went upon and rocks near Woodville. N. Y., were lost. Capt. the O'Toole and his crew of six men MAJ. GEN. SCHOFIELD, in his annual asks to the secretary of war, forces. increase in the and an troops are not allreport for says state national should enough be that the government powerful against uprisings. IN a pacing race between Robert Ia., J. Joe Patchen at Sioux City, heats, and the former won three straight making the last one in 2:03 1/4. AT the annual session in Evansville, so of the American Humane ciety Ind., J. J. Shortall, of Chicago, was reelected president. JULIUS LICHTENBERG a Detroit school receiving a inspector indicted for bribe, shot himself fatally. J. J. P. ODELL, of Chicago, waselect- Bankers' ed president of the American association in session at Baltimore. NATHAN GREEN, Elsworth McAfee burnand William Green perished in a ing hay mow in Mercer county. FURIOUS gales swept Lake Erie and lower Lake Huron. disabling several of large boats and injuring a number sailors. CHARLES B. ALLEN, alias Harry swind Conleader of a gang of bank conlers, way, was arrested in Chicago and fessed his crimes. OFFICIAL estimates of the wheat bushin Ohio place it at 50,852,483 crop els, the largest in the state's history. THE First national bank of Kearney, to Neb., suspended because unable make collections. account of the failure of the corn ON all the hogs in Nebraska were feed crop being shipped into states where can be secured. THE exchanges at the leading clearhouses in the United States during ing the week ended on the 12th aggregated 927,428,877 against $999,555,127 the previous week. The increase, com in pared with the corresponding week 1893. was 8.0. NEGRO Catholics, in national conven tion at Baltimore, petitioned the president to protect colored men. THE report of Commissioner of ended Pen sions Lochren for the fiscal year number of pensioners on the rolls at that June 30. 1894, shows that the time
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Mrs. Jetta Swarts died in Chicago at the age of 105 years. Snow fell in many counties in Pennsylvania to the depth of 8 inches. The Merced bank at Merced, Cal., closed its doors with heavy liabilities. The Tabor Amusement company at Denver assigned with liabilities of $275,000. The First national bank of Kearney, Neb., suspended because unable make collections. In the Belgian election* the liberals met with defeat. surprising gains were made by the socialists. Black dipntheria was raging in the India gas belt, especially in AnderSed, Elwood and Middletown. The new issue of postage stamps was rapidly being disposed of, the government sending out 20,000,000 a day. Experiments at an Omaha distillery of making spirits from beet sugar molasses have proved very successful. Louis Gimm, of Cleveland, rode 383 miles 1,490 yards in a day on his bi, cycle. surpassing Spooner's record. Edward Crate, one of the pioneers of the far northwest, and the original settler at The Dalles, Ore., is dead. In the recent storm on the gulf coast fifteen fishermen lost their lives on Sand island, near Apalachicola, Fla. Chester Hill, an Ohio village, was almost wiped out by fire. The loss will reach $75,000, with no insurar. is Frank McIntyre, James word and Frank Britton, of New Brighton. N Y., were drowned by the capsizing of a boat. The French press is urging the gov ernr ent to declare war on Madagas car and immediately blockade its prts. Thomas B. Reed, of Maine, opened the republican campaign in New York with a protection address at Cooper union. The directors of the Washington Park club in Chicago decided to aban don racing, but will maintain the club house. Henry H. Green, a classmate of Gen. Grant at West Point and a Mexi can war veteran, died at Mora, N. M. aged 71. Otto Zeigler rode a mile in 1:50 at Sacramento. Cal., reducing Johnson's world's bicycle record three-fifths of a second. A stranger distributed about $400 in worthless old Indiana state bank notes at Anderson, Ind., and disap peared. Twenty-one persons were seriously injured and property worth $40,000 de stroyed by a train collision at New Orleans. William Pattison, an escaped madman, entered a church at York, Pa. and stampeded the congregation by firing right and left. T. L. Dixon, an ex-state official of Kansas, makes affidavit that Mrs. Mary E. Lease urged him to steal $20,000 from the state. Letter Carrier Smith rode from Chi cago to New York on his bicycle in ? days 14 hours and 5 minutes, lowering his own record. The post office at New Albany, Ind. was robbed during the noon hour of $4,000 in stamps and several hundred dollars in cash. Charles B. Allen, alias Harry Con way, leader of a gang of bank swind lers, was arrested in Chicago and con fessed his crimes. During a riot among drunken Slavs at Maltby, Pa., a boy was shot dead. two girls fatally wounded and two persons badly hurt. Willis Griffey (colored). charged with assault on Miss Leha Berry (white). was taken from jail at Princeton, Ky by a mob and hanged. Col. Breckinridge was suspended from communion by the congregation of Mount Horeb (Ky.) Presbyterian church until February. John Joy, who robbed a man of five dollars, was sentenced to prison for life by a San Francisco judge under the habitual criminal act. Through a sign announcing world's fair goods for sale the Chicago police captured Miss C. H. Siske, who had stolen vast quantities of goods from hotels. Mrs. Elizabeth Zang. who. after
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The News Condensed. Important Intelligence From All Parts. DOMESTIC. AT an incendiary tenement house fire in Boston two men leaped to death and two others were fatally hurt. FIVE men were killed, two fatally hurt and several more seriously burned by a boiler explosion at Shamokin, Pa. CORBETT and Fitzsimmons signed articles to fight after July 1, 1895, at Jacksonville, Fla., for a purse of $41,000 and $10,000 a side. THE steamer Hartford went upon the rocks near Woodville. N. Y., and Capt. O'Toole and his crew of six men were lost. MAJ. GEN. SCHOFIELD, in his annual report to the secretary of war, asks for an increase in the national forces, says state troops are not enough and that the government should be allpowerful against uprisings. IN a pacing race between Robert J. and Joe Patchen at Sioux City, Ia., the former won three straight heats, making the last one in 2:03 1/4. AT the annual session in Evansville, Ind., of the American Humane SO ciety J. J. Shortall, of Chicago, was reelected president. JULIUS LICHTENBERG, a Detroit school inspector indicted for receiving a bribe, shot himself fatally. J. J. P. ODELL, of Chicago, waselected president of the American Bankers' association in session at Baltimore. NATHAN GREEN, Elsworth McAfee and William Green perished in a burning hay mow in Mercer county. FURIOUS gales swept Lake Erie and lower Lake Huron, disabling several large boats and injuring a number of sailors. CHARLES B. ALLEN, alias Harry Conrueq JO Sues B 10 Inader 'ABM' lers, arrested in Chicago and confessed his crimes. OFFICIAL estimates of the wheat -usnq 18 1! place only u! do.re els, the largest in the state's history. THE First national bank of Kearney, Neb., suspended because unable to make collections. ON account of the failure of the corn erop all the hogs in Nebraska were being shipped into states where feed can be secured. THE exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 12th aggregated $927,428,877, against $999,555,197 the previous week. The increase, compared with the corresponding week in 08 SEAL '8681 NEGRO Catholies, in national convention at Baltimore, petitioned the president to protect colored men. THE report of Commissioner of Pensions Lochren for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1894, shows that the number of pensioners on the rolls at that time was 959,544 The amount paid for pensions during the year was $139,804,461, leaving a balance in the treasury of $25,305,713 of the appropriation. THERE were 231 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 12th, against 219 the week previous and 393 in the correspondS681 up thin Suz ONLINE paced an exhibition mile at Sioux City, Ia., in 2:04, lowering his own world's record of 2:07 1/4. THE striking spinners at Fall River, Mass., voted to accept a reduction of 10 per cent. and return to work. PROF. DAVID SWING'S death ends the organization in Chicago of the Central church. No successor will be named. Gov. MITCHELL says he will convene the Florida legislature if necessary to prevent the Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight in that state. A LABOR parliament will be held in Chicago on November 13, at which the relations of labor and capital will be discussed by leading thinkers from all standpoints with a view to bettering present conditions. THE schooner Sea Foam capsized at Shears, in the Delaware bay, and the captain and crew of five men perished. DECEMBER wheat sold down to 56% cents in New York, the lowest price in the history of the market there. THE Buffalo county national bank at Kearney, Neb., closed its doors. SEVEN masked robbers held up a fast mail train near Quantico. Va., and rifled the express car and mail pouches, securing probably $50,000. FURTHER advices state that the two bandits who robbed the Overland express near Sacramento, Cal., secured between $50,000 and $75,000. WHOLESALE grocers of Chicago are leaders in a revolt against the sugar trust which is spreading over the entire country. THE will of Richard Smith, the wealthy typefounder, leaves more than $1,000,000 to the city of Philadelphia. G. W. HOWARD. vice president of the American Railway union, had his pocket picked in Chicago of a book containing forty railroad passes. THE federal grand jury at Madison, Wis., found indictments against fiftyeight persons charged with stealing land. ARMED tramps took possession of
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THIS WEEK'S NEW& A Summary of Current Events-The World's Doings for the Past Six Davs Gathered and Condensed for Our Readers. General. Frank Craig, the New York prize isfighter, has accepted the challenge sued by Ted Pritchard, of London. Gen. J. Warren Keifer, ex-Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives, for announces that he is a candidate It is Governor. reported that 4,500 of the Scotch miners who were among the strikers have resumed work, and that the strike is dying out. The report of the Yale Financial Union for the season of 1893-4, as made public, shows total receipts for the year of $61,480.71. A private letter received at Silma from Cabul, the capital of Afghanistan, says that the Amir, Abdur Rahman Khan, is seriously ill. Henry H. Pierce, a well-known rest dent of South Norwalk, Conn., took a in !arge dose of paris green. He died the Norwalk Hospital. Lord Rosebery has returned to Lon- His don from Dalmeny Park, Scotland. of Lordship's stay in Scotland was short duration, he having arrived there uo Aluo The new mills at the American TinPlate Factory at Elwood, Ind., have been started up, and President Leeds has informed the men that there will be no reduction in wages. A dispatch from Paris to the London Times says that Auguste Jean, a ab- coulissier or outside stock broker, has sconded. leaving behind him liabilities amounting to over 1,000,000 francs. The President has accepted the resignation of Second Lieut. Butler Ames, -Xo Jo uos B Internity Eleventh eqf JO Gov. Ames, of Massachusetts, and a Butgrandson of the late Benjamin F. ler Brig.-Gen. Otis has rebuked the officers of a court-martial at Vancouver Barracks, Washington, who tried Capt. InWilliam P. Goodwin, Fourteenth on duty. fantry. on the charge of drunkenness Louis Kessler, of Holland, N. Y., shot and killed his wife Annie while Mrs. she was at lunch with her mother, Frederick Schleifer, and then killed himself. Family troubles led to the Nine shooting. prisoners have escaped from the Madison County jail at Asheville, N. C., among them George and William Cody, sentenced to hang, and George Roberts and George Hensley, indicted for murder. The First National Bank "of Kearney, Neb., has closed its doors and posted this notice: "This bank has suspended payment owing to on impossibility to make collections or realize its assets." Henry Dykes's corn crib at Clarksville, Tex., was fired, and as he rushed out of the house to save his agricultural implements his face and him breast were filled with buckshot, killing The instantly. cholera reports for July and and August show that 3,713 cases Pe2,043 deaths were reported in St. tersburg and its suburbs in those two months. The disease occurs now only sporadically. President of the
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Receiver Appointed. The controller of the currency today appointed Mr. Henry E. Lewis receiver or the Buffalo County National Bank of Kearney, Neb., which suspended payment October 11, 1894. Mr. Lewis is also receiver of the First National Bank of Kearney, which failed October 10, 1894.
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Receiver for Two Broken Banks. Washington, Nov. 12.-The ecraptroller of the currency has appointed Henry E. Lewis receiver of the Buffalo County National bank of Kearney, Neb., which suspended October 11. He is also receiver of the First National bank of Kearney, which failed October 10.
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Changes in the Platte Institute. KEARNEY, Neb., April 18.-(Special.)Prof. C. A. Murch, who has had charge of the Platte institute since its opening, has resigned his position and will sever his connection with the institution at the close of this present term. Prof. Harry Russell of Chadron has been engaged to fill the position vacated by Prof. Murch. Messrs. H. H. Stoddard and H. D. Watson have made arrangements for handling and raising chickens and poultry of all kinds on an extensive scale. The business will be conducted under the name of the Watson & Stoddard Poultry company and the principal place of business will be on the Watson ranch three miles west of town. The building formerly occupied as a plow factory will be transferred into a vast hatching house and chicks will be hatched by the thousands by the incubator process. Stoddard is one of the poultry men of the United States, having had the experience of a lifetime. and is the publisher of the Poultry World and the Poultry Yard, besides being the author of a book on poultry breeding. It is expected that this will develop into one of the leading industries of the county. The receiver of the First National bank and the Buffalo County National bank has just sent out notices of assessment on the shares of stock in these banks. The assessment on the First National calls for 96 per cent and the one on the Buffalo County National 82 per cent. The indications for a large crop in Buffalo county were never better than they are now. The land is in splendid condition and everything is favorable. There is a large acreage of small grain being put in and farmers are feeling quite hopeful and happy. Yesterday was the fiftieth birthday anniversary of Rev. John Powers, pastor of the Congregational church, and his friends celebrated the event by calling on him and presenting him a handsome rocking chair. The presentation was made by C. B. Finch.