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BANKERS STILL IN TROUBLE The Germania Bank of St. Paul Went to the Wall This Morning. LOTS OF RESOURCES, BUT NO CASH Beauties of a Steadily Appreciating Dollar with All Other Forms of Property Declining in the Form of Object Lessons. I St. Paul, Jan. 4.-The Germania bank, b a state institution, to-day announced its assignment to Peter M. Kerst, cashier. r This bank stood a run of nearly two b days after the Bank of Minnesota closed 1 on December 22. The last official statement, on December 17, gave the loans t and discounts at $975,420,56; cash on r hand, $150,000; total resources, $1,626,788.01. Among the liabilities were: Capital stock, $400,000; surplus and undivided p:ofits, $58,797; deposits subject to check, d $355,191; demand certificates of deposits, o $7,899; time certificates of deposit, P $633,019. 1 The Germania bank has been organr ized for many years, ex-Gov. Alexander i Ramsay being for a long time president and William Bickel cashier. When Gov. o t Ramsay retired, Bickle became president, but last spring Bickle retired, becoming vice-president of the newly orgainzed Allemania bank. He was succeeded by Gustav Willius. President Willius told an Associated Press reporter that the closing was the result of an unreasonable panic, and that the bank would be opened for business as soon as the people regained their usnal cool sense. The bank paid depositors a $335,000 during the last nine days. Willa ine said that he fully expected to have n the bank re-opened by the last of March. C N THE ALLEMANIA BANK ALSO CLOSED TO-DAY. b n The Allemania bank had a capital of w $400,000, and a clientage similar to that in of the Germania. The Allemania was hi organized last year, it being the successW or of the Commercial bank, William Bickel, formerly president of the Germania, joining forces with Albert Scheefer, of the Commercial, to organize the new y bank. The last official statement, made b on December 17, shows: Loans and disp counts, $806,842; undivided profits, less is expenses, $58,746; individual deposits, b $329,789; interest certificates, $187,258. ag President Scheefer, of the Allemania, said that the failure was due to withdrawp als of deposits. A crowd of depositors gathered to-day demanding their money, and at 11 o'clock it was decided to close S at once. R J HAS JUST CLOSED. A m St. Paul.-The West Side Bank has W just closed. FAILURE IN IOWA. Mason City, Iowa.-The First National City bank, of Nora Springs, has failed. h It made an assignment to Byron GamI mings. h T SUICIDE OF ANOTHER BANKER. S Baltimore, Md.-Richard Cornelius, er cashier of the Farmers' and Merchants' S bank, committed suicide to-day by al drowning. W