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Osceota Bank suspension. By telegraph to the Dispatch.) Dies MOINES, IA., November 24.-It seens that the immediate cause of the suspension of the Osceola Bank was the commencement of proceedings by the Attorney- General for failure to report its condition to the Auditor of the State as required by law. Judge Harvey appointed Captain Nix, of Afton, receiver, and the work of ascertaining the assets and habilities of the Institution is now under way.
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Bank Failure in Iowa. OSCEOLA, Ia., Nov. 23.-The Osceola Bank closed Wednesday afternoon, and is in the hands of a receiver. The capital was $25,000. There is said to be $90,000 on deposit with only $3,000 in the vault. It is rumored that the president has been speculating in wheat. The bank was supposed to be on an exceptionally strong footing.
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THE recent failure of the firm of Feador & Owsanikoff, in St. Petersbug, has caused the failure of two firms at Moscow and six at Odessa THE finest street pageant ever witnessed in Charleston, S. C., was the trades display, on the night of the 21st, given as a feature of the gala week. ON the 20th All-Saints Episcopal Cathedral, at Albany, N. Y., was dedicated, with imposing ceremonies. Bishop Potter of New York preached the sermon. SUBSCRIPTIONS to the inaugural guarantee fund reached $25,000 on the 20th. ON the 23d the Woman Suffrage Association convention at Cincinnati adjourned. IN order to meet experses proposed to fix the price of tickets to the inaugural ball at ten dollars-double the amount heretofore prevailing. ON the 21st the thermometer registered eight degrees below zero at Montreal, Can. A GERMAN gendarme, it is reported, arrested a French employe of the Avicourt railway station while working in his own garden on German territory, on the 19th. DESPITE the complaints of Switzerland the German Government has discontinued the customs office at Lucelle, between Alsace and Jura Bernoise, intending to establish forts there should France endeavor to penetrate Alsace from that direction. IT is reported that the whole plan of the blockade of Zanzibar has been changed so as to include the entire coast. is that be THE it will opinion necessary prevalent to hold in Germany another election for members of the Reichstag next autumn. GREAT excitement and much rioting, in people in particularly came collision Belgrade, with where elections the the soldiery several times, attended the for members of the Servian Skuptschine, on the 21st. Many persons were injured, some of them seriously. ABOUT half the land owned by the late Joshua Jones, west of Central Park, New York City, has been sold at auction by the executor of the estate, and realized about two million dollars. The property was bought by Mr. Jones' father, in 1808, for less than three thousand dollars. THE Osceola (Ia.) Bank closed on the 22d, and was placed in the hands of a receiver. The capital was $25,000. There is said to be $90,000 on deposit. with only $3,000 in the vault. THE last (twenty-second) volume of the Tenth census report has been issued. In addition there are two volumes of compendium of the census. ON the 22d the New York State Board of Arbitration met to investigate the recent street-railway strike in Brooklyn. TEN Brooklyn policemen who refused to remove obstructions from car tracks during the recent street-car riot were fined ten days' pay each and also cautioned that a repetition of such an offense would result in dismissal. ON the 23 Canadian Pacific shares were pressed for sale in London, on rumors that a branch is to be built to Detroit, Mich. THE Journal de St. Petersbourg denies that a secret treaty has been entered into with Corea, but admits that Corea has granted to Russia facilities for trade across the frontier. ON the 23d, by a cave-in near Wilkesbarre, Pa., the water supply of the city was suddenly cut off, and a large mine was submerged, from which the miners barely escaped with their lives. INDIAN AGENT JOHN BLAIR states that the Chippewas are slowly becoming extinct. THE Gate City Guards of Atlanta, Ga., bale new Foot have Governor's sent a of Guard cotton of Hartford, to the Conn., for the benefit of their armory fair. THE project for the consolidation of the Cuban it is prove a on account failure, debt, believed, of the different will opinions entertained on the subject by the ministers at Madrid. DURING the month of October 40,365 immigrants came to this country, against 44,166 in October, 1887. Germany furnished the greatest number, 10,166: Eugland and Wales, 7,477; Ireland, 5,530; Sweden and Norway, 4,250; Italy, 2,785, and Scotland, 2,094. IT is reported that the Woolen Goods Association of New York will petition Congress to class worsted importations with woolen cloth. IMPROVED machinery is being imported into Cuba, with the object of increasing the sugar-production of the next cane crop. DURING October exports of merchandise aggregated in value $74,714,495, against $76,033,439 in October, 1887. Imports for the month were valued at $66,234,653, against $60,963,257 in October, 1887.
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MISCELLANEOCS O.F. ADAMS, city treasurer of Macon. Ga., is reported as being about $20,000 short in his accounts He has been suspended from office. THE fourth annual convention of the National Editorial Association was held in San Antonio Tex, on the 21st. Delegates were precent from almost every State in the Union. President M. B. White, of West Virginia, delivered the address. EVICTIONS on the Des Moines river lands in Iowa commenced on the 20th. A farmer named Boyington resisted desperately, but was overpowered by the Federal officers. WHILE running thirty miles an hour the head car of a passenger train on the Bloomsberg & Sullivan railroad jumped the track recently near Wilkesbarre, Pa., rolled down the embankment and caught fire and the twenty-five passengers, many of whom were slightly hurt, were rescued by being taken out of the windows. Tax Kansas City & Southern has issued a notice that it will be opened for business on and after December 1. Ar a fire in a tenement on Eleventh street, New York, recently Mrs. Mary Lally was burned to death. She was found near a window out of which she had attempted to escape. PETROLEUM exploded en a schooner at Bristol, England, recently. Three men were killed. THERE were rumors recently that W. B. Strong. president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, would resign. THE Osceola (Iowa) Bank closed its doors on the 22d. THE German Reichstag reassembled on the 23d. Emperor William opened the session in person. ADVICES from Samoa say that Mataafa's followers attacked a stronghold held by the adherents of Tamasese at Nata, November 8, and succeeded in capturing the outposts after two days' fighting. Many of the combatants were killed. DETECTIVES think that General R H. Biggar, of Atlanta, Ga., was first murdered in the hotel at Chattanooga, Tenn., by a negro, who then set the building on fire. The negro has been arrested with Biggar's money and property in his possession. Ir is said that peace has been restored in Hayti, the so-called rebels having run out of cash.
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Bank Fa lure in Iowa. OSCEOLA, Ia., Nov. 23.-The Osceola Bank closed Wednesday afternoon, and is in the hands of a receiver. The capital was 25,000. There is said to be $90.000 on depos.t with only $3,000 in the vault. It is rumored that tue president has been speculat ng in wheat. The bank was supposed to be on an exceptionally strong footing.
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THE recent failure of the firm of Feador & Owsanikoff, in St. Petersbug, has caused the failure of two firms at Moscow and six at Odessa. THE finest street pageant ever witnessed in Charleston, S. C., was the trades display, on the night of the 21st, given as a feature of the gala week. ON the 20th All-Saints Episcopal Cathedral, at Albany, N. Y., was dedicated, with imposing ceremonies. Bishop Potter of New York preached the sermon. SUBSCRIPTIONS to the inaugural guarantee fund reached $25,000 on the 20th. ON the 23d the Woman Suffrage Association convention at Cincinnati adjourned. IN order to meet expensesitis proposed to fix the price of tickets to the inaugural ball at ten dollars-double the amount heretofore prevailing. ON the 21st the thermometer registered eight degrees below zero at Montreal, Can. A GERMAN gendarme, it is reported, arrested a French employee of the Avicourt railway station while working in his own garden on German territory, on the 19th. DESPITE the complaints of Switzerland the German Government has discontinued the customs office at Lucelle, between Alsace and Jura Bernoise, intending to establish forts there should France endeavor to penetrate Alsace from that direction. IT is reported that the whole plan of the blockade of Zanzibar has been changed so as to include the entire coast. THE opinion is prevalent in Germany that it will be necessary to hold another election for members of the Reichstag next autumn. GREAT excitement and much rioting, particularly in Belgrade, where the people came in collision with the soldiery several times, attended the elections for members of the Servian Skuptschine, on the 21st. Many persons were injured, some of them seriously. ABOUT half the land owned by the late Joshua Jones, west of Central Park, New York City, has been sold at auction by the executor of the estate, and realized about.tws million dollars. The property was bought by Mr. Jones' father, in 1808, for less than three thousand dollars. THE Osceola (Ia.) Bank closed on the 22d, and was placed in the hands of a receiver. The capital was $25,000. There is said to be $90,000 on deposit. with only $3,000 in the vault. THE last (twenty-second) volume of the In Tenth census report has been issued. addition there are two volumes of compendium of the census. ON the 22d the New York State Board of Arbitration met to investigate the re t cent street-railway strike in Brooklyn. TEN Brooklyn policement who refused to remove obstructions from car tracks during the recent street-car riot were fined ten days' pay each and also cautioned that a repetition of such an offense would result in dismissal. ON the 23 Canadian Pacific shares were pressed for sale in London, on rumors that a branch is to be built to Detroit, Mich. THE Journal de St. Petersbourg denies that a secret treaty has been entered into with Corea, but admits that Corea has granted to Russia facilities for trade across the frontier. ON the 23d, by a cave-in near Wilkes= barre, Pa., the water supply of the city was suddenly cut off, and a large mine was submerged, from which the miners h barely escaped with their lives. INDIAN AGENT JOHN BLAIR states that t the Chippewas are slowly becoming ex tinct. THE Gate City Guards of Atlanta, Ga. have sent a bale of new cotton to the Governor's Foot Guard of Hartford, e Conn., for the benefit of their armory fair. S THE project for the consolidation of the Cuban debt, it is believed, will prove , failure, on account of the different opinS ions entertained on the subject by the ministers at Madrid. S DURING the month of October 40,365 immigrants came to this country, against $, 44,166 in October, 1887. Germany furc. nished the greatest number, 10,166: England and Wales, 7,477; Ireland, 5.530; Sweden and Norway, 4,250; Italy, 2,785, g and Scotland, 2,094. 5, n IT is reported that the Woolen Goods Association of New York will petition f Congress to class worsted importations with woolen cloth. c IMPROVED machinery is being imported ; into Cuba, with the object of increasing f the sugar-production of the next cane crop. DURING October exports of merchandise a aggregated in value $74,714,495, against ft $76,033,439 in October, 1887. Imports fo n the month were valued at $66,234,653 against $60,963,257 in October, 1887. g
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LATE NEWS ITEMS. SIMON DISKINGHAM, an inmate of the National Soldiers' Home, at Hampton, Va, committed suicide, on the 22d, by cutting an artery and bleeding to death. FIRE in the First ward school of Long Island City, N. Y.. on the 22d, caused a panic among the 12) children, out was extinguished with slight loss, and none of the children were injured. THE New York State Board of Arbitration met, on the 22d, to investigate the recent street-railway strike in Brooklyn. THE annual report of United States Treasurer Hyatt was made public on the 22d. THE last (twenty-secend) volume of the report of the Tenth census has been issued. In addition there are two volumes of compendium of the census. A BATTLE, lasting two hours and resuiting in one fatal casualty, occurred on the 22d, between the man-of-war Governor Thomas and fourteen oyster-dredgers near the mouth of Little Chesapeake river, Maryland The man-of-war was driven off. It was learned, on the 22d, that Charles Tinkler, the nineteen-year-old forger, who successfully fieeced the Citizens' Merchants' and First National Banks of Cincinnati out of $5,000 each a few weeks since, has been arrested in London. Eugland, in company with Matilda Meier, the young girl who left Cincinnati with him. FRED Dost and his wife, Amelia, of on down 21st, stove-pipe, Cleveland, turned O.. and, before gas the escaping retiring, damper into in the the the room, both were asphyxiated. The wo. man is dead. but the man may possibly recover. EMIL ISELDRIVER, of Buffalo, and Au. gustus Smith, of Binghamton. N. Y., were killed by a train on the Lackswanna road at Walkesbarre, Pa, on the 22d. THE South Carolina State Board of Canvassers, on the 22d. decided the Elliott-Miller contest in the Seventh Con. gressional district, in favor of Elliott, Democrat, making the delegation from South Carolina solidly Democratic. The vote of the district was: Elliott, 8,358; Miller, 7,003. Miller will carry his con. test to Congress. THE Osceola (la.) Bank closed, on the 22d. and is in the hands of n receiver. The capital was$25,000. There is said to be $00,000 on deposit, with only $8,000 in the vault. c MAJOR LYMAN BISSELL U. 8. A., died at New Haven, Coun., on the 22d, aged t seventy-five years. H. H. SCOTT, ex-village president and county surveyor of Hinckley, Minn., shot and killed Sidney K. Cruin, an engineer . at the Eastern Minuesota railway water tank during a violent quarrel on the 22d. THE Paris Intransigeant, of the 22d, states that Baron Selliere has been placed in Dr. Hauray's private asylum for the insane situated in Paris,
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MISCELLANEOUS. GREAT excitement and much rioting, particularly in Belgrade, where the people came in collision with the soldiery several times, attended the elections for members of the Servian Skuptschine, on the 21st. Many persons were injured, some of them seriously. ABOUT half the land owned by the late Joshua Jones, west of Central Park, New York City, has been sold at auction by the executor of the estate, and realized about two million dollars. The property was bought by Mr. Jones' father, in 1808, for less than three thousand dollars. THE Osceola (Ia.) Bank closed on the 22d, and was placed in the hands of a receiver. The capital was $23,000. There is said to be $90,000 on deposit, with only $3,000 in the vault. THE last (twenty-second) volume of the Tenth census report has been issued. In addition there are two volumes of compendium of the census. ON the 22d the New York State Board of Arbitration met to investigate the recent street-railway strike in Brooklyn. TEN Brooklyn policemen who refused to remove obstructions from car tracks during the recent street-car riot were fined ten days' pay each and also cautioned that a repetition of such an offense would result in dismissal. ON the 23 Canadian Pacific shares were pressed for sale in London, on rumors that a branch is to be built to Detroit, Mich. THE Journal de St. Petersbourg denies that a secret treaty has been entered into with Corea, but admits that Corea has granted to Russia facilities for trade across the frontier. ON the 23d, by a cave-in near Wilkesbarre, Pa., the water supply of the city was suddenly cut off, and a large mine was submerged. from which the miners barely escaped with their lives.
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NEWS OF THE WEEK. d Gleaned by Telegraph and Mail PERSONAL AND POLITICAL is EFFORTS to unite the federal and progressive Republicans of Spain have failed. THERE was a report in Washington on the 20th that Colonel Lamont would e pointed Judge Advocate-General to succeed Swaim. Lamont denied the rumor. 0 IT is said a successor to Lord Sackville will be appointed by the British Government before the President goes out of office. a OFFICIAL returns from the late elections o in Ohio show a total vote of 841,941. it Ryan's plurality for Secretary of State was 21,988. The total Labor vote was 3,452 and the Prohibition vote 19,420. THE duel between M. Andrieux and M. Guyot, resulting from the charge made by the latter in La Lanterne, of Paris, was fought on the 20th. Swords were used and M Andrieux received a slight wound in the chest SENATOR VEST'S committee investigating the beef business opened proceedings at St. Louis on the 20th THE elections at Belgrade, Servia, resulted in serious riot. The troops were called out to restore order, and collision occurred between the soldiers and the people. Many persons were injured. THE National Executive Committee of the Anti-Saloon Republicans has appointed a sub-committee. among whom is Albert Griffin, of Kansas. THE President-elect has tendered E W. Halford, managing editor of the Indianapolis Journal, the position of private secretary. Mr. Halford is forty-five years of age and came from England when child with his parents, who settled in Cincinnati. EDWA HARRINGTON who abused the Parnell Commission in his paper, the Kerry Sentinel, was fined £500 for contempt of court. He refused to apologize. DION BOUCICAULT. the veteran actor, was reported dangerously sick at New York on the 21st. JUDGE RUCKER on the 21st sent a letter to Senator Blackburn, of Kentucky, to fight a duel. The quarrel grew out of some statements made by Rucker with w reference to the late election. for which Blackburn said he would like to kick him. D GEORGE S. KNIGHT, the actor, was reA ported suffering from brain trouble at fa New York $0 VERY REV. MAURICE A. WALSH. LL. D., pastor of St. Paul Roman Catholic Church In and Vicar-General of the Archdiocese of B Philadelphia, died on the 22d. cc CONGRESSMAN WOODBURN. of Nevade. was robbed while asleep in his hotel at Washington recently. A colored boy was ou arrested and $140 of the money recovered. tw A CALL has been issued for a Constitutional convention to be held at Jamesha town, December 5, to further the early ad mission of the Dakotas into the Union. C REV. ARTHUR BROOKS. Episcopal cler ta yman of New York, created somewhat of co a sensation in the Church Congress reth cently by vigorously denouncing the sec. tarian idea advanced in the government (In of colleges He thought the broader they pla were and the more daring men they In turned out the better. He believed in Episcopacy, but not in running colleges. ca: His remarks were received with considercer able applause. an IT was rumored in Boulangist circles on ser the 22d that the French Government inB tended to expel General Boulanger on sev charge of conspiring to overthrow the ex296 isting Government. we Ex PRESIDENT HAYES addressed an imlas mense audience at Farwell Hall, Chicago, T on the night of the 22d on "Prison Rethe form." of GENERAL JOHN M. PALMER, late Demoche cratic candidate for Governor of Illinois, has withdrawn from membership in the rec G. A.R. He was actuated by a belief con that the organization had been used poT litically to defeat him. ma AN official canvass of the vote of Michiby gan gives Harrison a plurality of 22.966, mo The total number of votes cast, 475,260, an increase of 72,086 over four years ago, dirided as follows: Harrison, 236,370; B Cleveland, 213,404; Fisk, 20,942; Streeter, Cht 542. in BRIGADIER-GENERAL NELSON A MILES T assumed command of the division of the acific on the 23d, vice General O. o. Ioward. from THE Electoral vote in New York State Eas as as follows, the highest and lowest T umber of votes received by any elector than eing given: Electoral -Republican, 650, is 11 37; Democratic, 635,965: Prohibition 30, T 31; Socialist, 2,068; Union Labor, 625; mill nited Labor (Electors at Large), 2,666. W. MISCELLANEOUS. in o O. F. ADAMS, city treasurer of Macon. Gr a., is reported as being about $20,000 who ort in his accounts. He has been susended from office. arres doin THE fourth annual convention of the ational Editorial Association was held ing in Antonio Tex., on the 21st. Delegates Du ere preeent from almost every State in man e Union. President M. B. White, of bace est Virginia, delivered the address. of to EVICTIONS on the Dos Moines river lands and Iowa commenced on the 20th. A farmer were med Boyington resisted desperately. A t was overpowered by the Federal offirs. Iowa WHILE running thirty miles an hour the on th ad car of a passenger train on the Go bomsberg & Sullivan railroad jumped rying track recently near Wilkesbarre, Pa., Plum led down the embankment and caught sta and the twenty-five passengers, many five whom were slightly hurt, were rescued secur being taken out of the windows. $500. THE Kansas City & Southern has issued notice that it will be opened for business TH and after December 1. fever AT a fire in a tenement on Eleventh 24th. set, New York, recently Mrs. Mary THE ly was burned to death. She was whipp nd near window out of which she for attempted to escape. from ETROLEUM exploded on a schooner at 250 sp stol, England, recently. Three men e killed. FIR HERE were rumors recently that W. B. inary ong, president of the Atchison, Topeka one Santa Fe, would resign. tions HE Osceola (Iowa) Bank closed its insura rs on the 22d THE HE German Reichstag reassembled on South 22d. Emperor William opened the Harri ion in person. 52,085. DVICES from Samoa say that Mataafa's four owers attacked a stronghold held by is 4500 adherents of Tamasese at Nata. ember 8, and succeeded in capturing WA outposts after two days' fighting factor y of the combatants were killed. 23d. ETECTIVES think that General R H The to ar. of Atlanta, Ga., was first murfully d in the hotel at Chattanooga, Tenn. FAR negro, who then set the building on cent The negro has been arrested with rel, pic ar's money and property in his posses-
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finest street pageant ever wit- the THE in Charleston, 8. C., was the 21st, nessed trades display, on the night of week. given as a feature of the gala the 21st the thermometer registered eight ON degrees below zero at Montreal, Can. THE Osceola (Ia) Bank closed on are- the and was placed in the hands of There 22d. ceiver. The capital was $25,000. with only is said to be $90,000 on deposit. $3,000 in last the (twenty-second) vault. volume of the In THE census report has been issued. Tenth addition there are two volumes of compendium the of 22d the the census. New York State Board reON Arbitration met to investigate the of cent street-railway strike in Brooklyn. TEN Brooklyn policemen who refused tracks remove obstructions from car were to during the recent street-car riot also ten days' pay each and such an fined cautioned that a repetition of offense would result in dismissal. the 23 Canadian Pacific shares rumors were ON for sale in London, on pressed that a branch is to be built to Detroit, Mich. Journal de St. Petersbourg denies into THE secret treaty has been entered has that a Corea, but admits that Corea trade granted with to Russia facilities for across the frontier. the 23d, by a cave-in near Wilkes. city ON Pa. the water supply of the mine barre, suddenly cut off, and a large miners was was submerged. from which the barely escaped with their lives. INDIAN AGENT JOHN BLAIR states that exthe Chippewas are slowly becoming tinct. Gate City Guards of Atlanta, Ga., the THE sent a bale of new cotton to Governor's have Foot Guard of Hartford, Conn., for the benefit of their armory fair. project for the consolidation of the a THE debt, it is believed, will prove Cuban on account of the different opin- the ions failure, entertained on the subject by ministers the at Madrid. month of October 40,365 imDURING came to this country, against furmigrants in October. 1887. Germany En44,166 the greatest number, 10,166: 5,530; nished and Wales. 7,477: Ireland, 2,785, gland Sweden and Norway, 1,250; Italy, and Scotland, 2.094 reported that the Woolen Goods IT is of New York will petition Congress Association to class worsted importations with woolen cloth. IMPROVED machinery is being imported Cuba, with the object of increasing cane into the sugar-production of the next crop. DURING October exports of merchandise in value $74,714,495, against $76,033,439 aggregated in October, 1887. Imports for the month were valued at $63,231,653, against $60,963,257 in October, 1987. LARZELERE & SONS, wholesale WM. in foreign fruits and fancy grodealers at Philadelphia. have made an asceries The liabilities are between besignment. and $60,000, the nominal assets of $50,000 from $75,000 to $80,000, consisting of outstanding ing book accounts and stock goods on ship hand. Emily F. Whitney, at Boston, THE the 24th. from Manilla, had two China- at on in her crew, who were shipped as men The collector will inquire Exclusion to Manilla. their rights under the Chinese act. THERE was report, on the 21th, that Pa., Pennock's rolling mill at Coatsville, would had been idle the entire year com. which operations with a full soon resume of hands, and the Viaduct roll- on plement mill at the same place, rnnning full time. ing half time, would soon commence running SINK-HOLES have been discovered Daluth untracks of the St. Paul & The der the near Hinckley. Minn. tracks railroad, have sunk, and traffic is seriously interfered with. NEW YORK CITY experienced its first of the season on the 24th. snow REPORTS from Samoa represents the as of affairs on that Island Gercondition worse day by day. With forgrowing arrogance and native outrages, time of eigners man of other nations have a hard it. to the failure of their fishing, InOWING by hard storms, the La Pointe in caused on the Grand Portage condition. Reserve, dians, Minnesota, are in a starving the A FIVE-INCH fall of snow, Connecticut on 25th, impeded railway traffic States. in and other down- of Eastern a serious revolution in INTELLIGENCE has been received. Venezuela Republic of Colombia has deter. mined THE to extend its telegraph lines very widely. revolutionists at Potosi, Bolivia, forces THE the approach of the government evacuated on and retreated. £20,000. THE sale of the Great Eastern yielded I
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IOWA CONDENSED ITEMS. Burglars secured $200 worth of jewelry at Blairstown. Station Agent Morse, at Conroy, had his arm crushed while coupling cars. The now and handsome American Reformed church of Orange City has been dedicated. The Illinois Central will break the ground for a new office building in Dubuque in the spring. Loonard Orth, of Corydon was thrown from a sleigh by a bad bridge, and his shoulder dislocated. Fourteen head of cattle were stolen from a stock fleld near Carson and no trace of them can be found. The Commercial club of Fort Madison has appointed a committee to look after the matters of a free river bridge. Joe Long, formerly a "Q" brakeman, with his home at Creston, was killed in a Kansas City saloon a few nights ago. Burlington capitalists have incorported a company and are arranging for a site upon which to build a large stove works. Two girls broke through the ice at Iowa City, while skating, and were with difficulty rescued from drowning. J. R. Houck, an Anita blacksmith, has invented a very useful and yet simple machine for holding horse shoes while the corks are being sharpened. The open season for chicken and quail has closed and it will be unlawful to kill or trap chickens before the 15th day of September, and quails before the 1st of October, 1889. Mr. G. C. Wright, formerly a lawyer in Waverly, and founder of the Democrat, has recently been appointed postmaster of the town of Scotia. the county seat of Greeley county, Nebraska. -An epidemic of church debt paying has struck Shenandoah. The Baptists recently dedicated their church and raised $1,000. The Presbyterians paid off a debt of between $500 and $1,000. The Methodists have enough raised to pay off the debt on their church. The Marshalltown high school ranks third in the State, both as to the number of pupils and number of teachers employed. The entire school system of Marshalltown takes a high rank but the Times-Republican urges the necessity for more room in all the departments. The building and improvements in Des Moines for the year 1888 amounted to $2,411,310, of which $1,775,010 was for private enterprises. The wholesale trade of the city for the year amounted to$20,348,650. being $2,158.500 more than the wholesale business of 1887. The manufactured products of the city for 1888 foot up $9,485,450 an increase of $1,002,650 over 1887. The total transfers of real estate for the year as placed on record foot up $12,849,073.73. The coal output represents$1,000,300. an increase of $250,300 over 1887. The gas and electric light business amounted to $179,000. Arthur Bossen, at Denison, aged fifteen years, was shot and instantly killed. He and Harry. Stoecks, a boy of similar age, were skating, and sat down on the ice to rest. Several shots were fired from a revolver in their possession. when Arthur asked Harry if he thought that would kill anyone, remarking that he was not afraid of it. In some way. not satisfactorily or clearly explained by Harry Stoecks, the weapon was again discharged, with fatal results, a bullet entering Arthur's forehead. Harry declares he did not pull the trigger. Mrs. G. Hilderbrand, of Andrew, Ia., dropped dead in the street, while on her way to visit a neighbor. She was a large. fleshy woman and aged about 45. Apoplexy is supposed to be the cause. Considerable excitement prevails among the farmers in the western part of Pocahontas county over a series of outrages being perpetrated there. Barns and stock yards are nightly visited by some unknown miscreants who maltreat the animals in a horrible manner. The farm of Lawrence Carey was visited the other night and pitchforks and clubs used on a number of young colts in such a brutal manner that some of the animals died from their injuries, while others are shockingly maimed. The stock yards of Albert Thompson, a neighbor of Carey, was also visited with similar results. The farmers are organizing for mutual protection from the miscreants, and active measures are being taken to discover them. Mrs. James Purvis. living within two miles of Anita, made a long premeditated attempt at suicide with "rough on rate." Medical aid has thus far thwarted the expressed wishes of this aged and universally respected lady, the mother of a worthy family. A very interesting preliminary trial has been in progress in Osceola. Geo. H. Cowles, ex-Vice President and Manager of the Osceola Bank of that city, now in the hands of a receiver, was arrested. charged with crookedness in the affairs of said bank. At
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As will be seen elsewhere, Mr. R. S. Findlay is advertising the closing act of his receivership of the Osceola Bankgiving a two per cent dividend. The Osceola Bank failure has thus required a period of over eleven years to get its affairs straightened out. It failed November 21, 1888. About $80,000 deposits were on hand. In the time since, Receiver Findlay has paid three dividends -one 10 per cent., another 12½ and the third one of 6; this last will make a total of 301 per cent. repaid of deposits on hand. This amount would not pay interest on the sum lost for time to date, SQ the principal is practically all lost. The settlement involved many court cases, which were stubbornly fought by Mr. Findlay. In the first place, C. W. Cowles, father of George H. Cowles, chief manager of the bank, was sued for two $5,000 notes and the suit gained. His property in Clarke county was sold to pay the judgment. The late Seth Richards then sued Receiver Findlay for the money with which Cowles had paid the county deposit claim in full and compelled repayment of a large part of it. Other cases of a complicated nature came up, and nearly all were taken to the supreme court, the last one being decided last year. In the bank's assets were found two $5,000 notes against Ed Mason, clerk of federal court, and brother, of Des Moines. A suit proved it was merely accommodation paper, and was valueless. The Des Moines cotton mill had notes in bank of $10,000, which proved worthless. The Lucas Land and Live Stock Co's. lands and stock were capitalized at $29,000 and carried as assets, but Mr. Findlay could only get $5,000 in cash out of it. These and other like accounts reduced the available assets. Mr. Findlay has stand by his task nobly, and done all that was possible for the creditors.-Osceola Sentinel. Kohler the jeweler.