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suspended. WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.-Comptroller Eckles was informed this morning of the suspension of the Waxahachie National bank of Waxabachie, Texas, capital $100,000.
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suspended. WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.-Comptroller Eckles was informed this morning of the suspension of the Waxahachie National bank of Waxabachie, Texas, capital $100,000.
A Texas Bank Suspends. WAXAHACH.E, Tex., Aug. 11.-The Waxahachie National bank has suapended. Assets, $206,000; liabilities, $86,000. Money stringency the cause.
Business Failures. NEW YORK, August 11.-The failure of Washington Barrows was announced at the Consolidated Exchange this morning. The failure is a small one. WASHINGTON, D. C., August 11.Comptroller Eckels was informed this morning of the suspension of the Waxahatchie National Bank, of Waxahatchie, Texas: capital, $100,000. NASHVILLE, TENN., August 11.-Matters are quiet in banking circles to-day. The run on the Fourth National Bank was resumed, but the line of depositors was small. The bank continued to pay all checks presented up to 11:30 o'clock, when it was decided to pay all checks up to $100 and give certified checks for the balances above this amount. NEW ORLEANS, August 11.-The Cotton Exchange, in consideration of the action of the banks here and elsewhere, have passed a resolution providing that all settlements under the rules of the exchange shall be made in certified checks. CHICAGO, August 11.-A special from Vernon, Tex., says: A district court has appointed a receiver for the Espula Land and Cattle Company. The company owns 60,000 acres of land and 35,000 head of cattle. The company is an English one, and the grounds of complaint were insolvency and mismanagement. The property involved amounts to over $1,000,000. MILWAUKEE, WIS., August 11.-The official statement of Receiver Geilfuss, of
spreading Russian towns in which it has appeared. Laredo has a case of attempted incest on the part of a Mexican widower. The Khedive wants to fire his cabinet because of its English proclivities. Gresham, Carlisle and Bissell have left Washington for a three days outing. New Orleans cotton exchange will make its settlement with certified checks. Rio Grande City is assured that the postmaster there will be at once removed. The average reserve "held in the National banks of Texas is over thirty per cent. World's fair lady managers tender a reception to the officers of the Spanish caravels. The Long Island railway failed to pay off yesterday as usual, due to lack of currency. Bloody battle booked over the removal of the county records from St. George to Parsons. Five caess of genuine Asiatic cholera are now being treated at New York quarantine. Denver bank outlook improves and six of the suspended institutions will soon resume. St. Louis and Southwestern shops at Pine Bluff, Ark., shut down; 300 men out of employment. Congress will celebrate the 100th anniveesary of the corner stone of the Washingten capitol. Yellow fever and two deaths aboard the bark Gelora, arrived at Fort Morgan quarantine. D. England kills his tenant, McKinney, near Luling, for removing his crop contrary to orders. No new cases of yellow fever at Pensacola. It is considered sporadic and will be investigated. Italy maintains a sanitary corps on all trains running from Naples to Rome, ts keep out cholera. Boll worms have appeared in cotton around Camden, Ark., but are doing no serious damage. Bland announces that no political party in America shall survive that demonetizes silver. Grover says that his health will not stand the strain of August at Washington, as he needs rest. Hindoo and Mohommedans at Bombay have a religions riot in the streets; military called in. Waxahatchie National bank suspends, and grocer Peters fails with $17,000 secured liabilities. Forest fires are doing great damage to timber and farm property in the vicinity of Spencer, Wis. Lawyer Short and capitalist Stearns fight in Bourke's court, Dallas, and are fined $100 each. The strike is still on in the Tennessee coal regions and the feeling against the soldiers is very strong. The Rock Island road, in order to cut down expenses, contemplates reduction on all salaries of 10 per cent. Report of the examiner of the Texas National of this city had not reached Washington last night. Eight of the heaviest Hartford manufacturers will pay all accounts through clearing house checks. The body of the missing San Angelo sheep man, Pride, has been found. He was murdered and robbed. London Times remarks that all parties in this country agree in maintaining the parity of silver and gold. Five separate cyclones swept the country near Larned. Several farm houses were demolished, but no lives lost. John B. Wright, manager of Ford's theatre when Lincoln was assassinated there, is dead in the 78th year of his age. The sheriff has charge of the Equitable Manufacturing and
VARIOUS BANKING TROUBLES. A Texas National Bank Suspends-The Situation In Other States. MILWAUKEE. Aug. 11.-The official statement of Receiver Geilfuss of the Commercial Bank was yesterday filed in court. The total assets on July 21. the date the bank suspended. were $1,480,220. against total liabilities of $1,183,999, an excess of assets of $296,221. John B. Koetting. the missing cashier of the South Side Bank. is in Mexico. according to Receiver Barth of the defunct bank. Mr. Barth does not believe Mr. Trumpff. the missing President of the bank. has left the country. WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.-Comptroller Eckels was informed this morning of the suspension of the Waxahachie National Bank of Waxahachie. Tex. Capital. $100.000. NASHVILLE. Aug. 11.-The run on the Fourth National Bank was resumed to-day. but the line of depositors was small. The bank continued to pay all checks presented up to 11:30 o'elock, when it was decided to pay all checks up to $100 and give certified checks for bal. ances above that amount. WACO. Tex., Aug. 11.-Charles L. McCay. who was President of the defunct Bell county National Bank of Temple. Tex.. was indicted on a charge of forgery by a Bell county Grand Jury. and simultaneously he was indicted by a United States Grand Jury sitting at Waco on a charge of violating the laws governing national banking. On Aug. 8 the Bell county case was dismissed. and he was surrendered to Deputy United States Marshal A. McCampbell on the Federal indictment. Yesterday he was brought here and placed in jail in default of $10,000 bail.
DALLAS, Aug. 12.-The Waxahachie National bank suspended.
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. 0. Harcher has been appointed postmaster at Carbon, Wy., vice Evans, re* moved. The steamship Normania, from Liverpool, which arrived at New York yesterday, brought Β£906,967 gold. The business portion of Milford Center, 0., burned yesterday morning, and four dwellings. Total loss, $75,000. Henry Hall was hanged at Pikeville, Ky., yesterday for fratricide. On the scaffold Hall asked pardon for his crime. The Waxahachie, Texas, National bank has suspended, assets $206,000, liabilities $86,000. The money stringency was the the cause. A posse of United States marshals last night had a fight with robbers at Lehigh, I. T., in which two robbers, one named W. T. Pearce, were killed and two others wounded. Senator Vest has written a personal letter to a gentleman in New York saying that the majority against the unconditional repeal of the Sherman law will. be at least eight. E. J. Fuller, a member of one of the leading families of Fayetteville, N. C., shot and killed B. C. Porter a clothing merchant this afternoon. Fuller claims that he shot in self-defense.
JACK CHAMBERS, Dan Lewis and Jim Taylor, all colored, charged with an assault on Mrs. George Warren at Hoboken, Ga., last spring, were caught and lynched within 3 miles of Way Cross, Ga. A SOLDIER named William Laugherty was murdered by miners at Coal Creek, Tenn., and his death was avenged by lynehing Dick Drummond. IN convention at Cincinnati the Ohio democrats nominated Lawrence T. Neal, of Chillicothe, for governor; W. A. Taylor for lieutenant governor; B. C. Blackburn for treasurer, and J. W. Sater for supreme judge. The platform approves the Chicago platform, especially its reference to tariff and currency legislation; indorses the president's message to congress; protests against abuse of the pension Jaws, and calls upon the democrats in congress to extricate the great commercial interests of this country from their present distressed condition. THE flight was reported of Lee Butler, cashier of C. M. Wright & Co.'s bank at Altamont, III., with $41,000, the entire assets of the bank. IN Milwaukee fire among warehouses and factories caused a loss of $150,000. FREE silver men hanged President Cleveland in effigy at Ogden, Col. THE loss of the sealing schooner Helen Blum, of San Francisco, was reported, with her crew of twenty-five men. HENRY BROWN (colored), who was hanged for the murder of a peddler in East St. Louis, III., in December, 1880, while an accessory has been discovered not to have been the principal, the murderer being J. C. Jackson, another negro, who was acquitted of the charge. IN a battle with citizens of Clark county, Ala., thirteen of the Meachim gang were killed. The affair is the outgrowth of a feud of some years' standing. BEATTY'S bank at Mansfield, III, and the National bank at Waxahachie, Tex., closed their doors. HERNSHEIM'S cigar factory, Maginnis' cotton mills and Fisher's sawmills in New Orleans, employing in the aggregate over 2,000 hands, were closed. Henry HALL was hanged at Pikeville, Ky., for the murder of his brother. AN explosion at the Girard furnace in Youngtown, o., injured SIX employes, five fatally. FLAMES wiped out the business portion of Milford Center, O. AT Pensacola, Fla., A. W. Dunham killed his wife because she refused to live with him and then took his own life. AT the bicycle tournament in Chicago L. S. Meintjes, of South Africa, won the 62-mile international championship, the time being 2 hours and 46 minutes. THE republican state committee of Virginia decided not to nominate a state ticket this year. INCENDIARY fires in Minneapolis destroyed three planing mills, a sash and door storehouse, bottling and malt house, boiler works, box and ladder factory icehouse, carriage factory, 113 dwellings and in addition about 40,000,000 feet of cut lumber, the total loss being $1,500,000. FIRE destroyed the fertilizing works of Nelson Morris & Co. at the stock yards in Chicago, causing a loss of $271,000. THE doors of the Prairie City bank at Terre Haute, Ind., were clossd and Josiah Morris & Co., the leading private banking house in Alabama, made an assignment in Montgomery with liabilities of $1,1000,000 and assets of $2,000,000. Other bank suspensions were: The People's at Lewisburg, Tenn., the Bank of Plaquemine, La., and the First national at Gadsden, Ala. FRED ROOME and brother, and Grace McDonald, of Chicago, and Carrie Hammond, of Wauconda, were drowned by the capsizing of a yacht on Bang's lake at McHenry, III. IT was said that Barrett Scott, treasurer of Holt county, Neb., was $60,000 short in his accounts. He had disappeared. MRS. GEORGE RIEF. Mrs. Charles Rief, Miss Wagner and a child named Weber were drowned by the capsizing of a boat at Chattanooga, Tenn. THE expenditures at the world's fair thus far have been $23,101,821 and the receipts $23,680,417.
THE WORLD AT LARGE. Summary of the Daily News. WASHINGTON NOTES. THERE is talk at Washington of providing a suitable memorial of President Lincoln. CoL. S. H. BOYD is reported to have resigned as minister to Siam. His letter to ex-Minister Halderman on the Siamese question was reported to have given offense at Washington. THE gold in the treasury is $3,157,854 above the $100,000,000 gold reserve. THE silver men in the house fired the opening gun of the battle at the caucus by adopting resolutions outlining their policy. PREPARATIONS are being hastened for the opening of the strip, and it is believed that the president's proclamation will be issued soon after the 1st of September. RICHARDEON (dem.), of Michigan, was seated is the house over Belknap (rep.), who also had a certificate of election. REAR ADM. THORNTON A. JENKINS died at his residence in Washington of heart failure, at the age of S1. He was a naval officer of high standing. IN arranging his new rules committee Speaker Crisp dropped McMillin and appointed Outhwaite in his place. THE report of the department of agriculture for August makes the condition of cotton 80.4, a decline of a little over two points since last month. This Is the lowest average for August ever given out by the department. THE August government crop report makes the condition of spring wheat 67 per cent., a reduction of 7 per cent. since July 1. The condition of corn is 87. a reduction of 6. OF the 357,000 ounces of silver offered on the 10th the treasury bought 322,000 ounces at 0.7515. THE president has pardoned Peter J. Claasen, wrecker of the Sixth national bank of New York, of which he was president. To A delegation of distillers who declared that they could not get currency to pay internal revenue taxes, Secretary Carlisle said he knew of no way to afford them relief. COMPTROLLER ECKELS has decided that it is legal to use certified checks in small amounts as a circulating medium, and this plan is expected to afford great relief. THE treasury department shows that the receipts from customs at the port of New York for the first ten days of August aggregato $3,024,929,as against $4 831,130 for the corresponding period last year. THE president has pardoned William J. Meadows, who in 1878 was sentenced to be hanged for murder committed in the Indian territory and the penalty subsequently reduced to imprisonment for life in the Detroit house of correction. SENATOR VEST has written a personal letter to a gentleman in New York, saying that the majority in the senate against the unconditional repeal of the Sherman law will be at least 8. COMPTROLLER ECKELS has been informed of the suspension of the Waxahachie national bank, of Waxahachie, Tex.; capital, $100,000.
THE WORLD AT LARGE. Summary of the Daily News. WASHINGTON NOTES. COMPTROLLER ECKELS has decided that it is legal to use certified checks in small amounts as a circulating medium, and this plan is expected to afford great relief. THE treasury department shows that the receipts from customs at the port of New York for the first ten days of August aggregated $3,024,929, as against $4,831,180 for the corresponding period last year. THE president has pardoned William J. Meadows, who in 1878 was sentenced to be hanged for murder committed in the Indian territory and the penalty subsequently reduced to imprisonment for life in the Detroit house of correction. SENATOR VEST has written a personal letter to a gentleman in New York, saying that the majority in the senate against the unconditional repeal of the Sherman law will be at least S. COMPTROLLER ECKELS has been informed of the suspension of the Waxahachie national bank, of Waxahachie, Tex.: capital, $100,000. HOKE SMITH has decided that he will do nothing toward opening the Kickapoo lands until after the strip has been settled. AT a meeting of the finance committee of the senate Senator Vest said that no bill for the unconditional repeal of the Sherman act could pass the senate. THE anti-silver men claim they have made a poll of the house which shows a majority in favor of repeal of from 22 to 40. DEVELOPMENTS in the senate serve to increase the impression that no unconditional repeal bill can ever pass that body. THE president on the 14th sent a number of nominations to the senate, among them those of T. J. Lowe for secretary of Oklahoma and W. C. Perry for United States attorney for Kansas. SECRETARIES GRESHAM and Carlisle and Postmaster-General Bissell have returned to Washington from Deer Park and Oakland. COMPTROLLER ECKELS has permitted the Greely national bank, of Greely, Col., to resume business. MINISTER BLOUNT has returned from Honolulu, and while he declines to talk it is believed that he favors sustaining the present provisional government. THE president has sent to the senate the nominations of Charles H. Page as collector of customs for Oregon and Jefferson A. Huff as judge of probate in the county of Grand, Utah. THOMAS F. OAKES, of New York; H. W. Paine, of Milwaukee, and Henry Crouse, president of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railway, have been appointed receivers of the Northern Pacific railway. THE situation in congress is so mixed that there is great doubt as to what legislation can be enacted. No unconditional repeal bill can be passed. and if a free coinage bill is passed it is believed that the president will veto it.
WILL RESUME. PUEBLO, Col., Aug. 19.-The Central National bank, which suspended on July 15, will resume business on Monday morning. The American and the Western National banks will probably resume at an early date. WASHINGTON, Aug. 19-The Waxahachie National bank of Waxahachie, Tex., which suspended payment on Aug. 11, was today permitted to resume business.
Banks Resuming Business. WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.-The Waxahachie National Bank of Waxahachie, Tex., which suspended payment on Aug. 11, having complied with all the conditions imposed by the Comptroller of the Currency. and its capital stock being unimpaired. was to-day permitted to resume business. SPRINGFIELD. Mo., Aug. 19.-The Bank of Marionville, which is connected with the Bank of Springfield. both of which failed during the last two weeks. resumed business yesterday. and it is believed the Bank of Springfield will resume soon.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 19.-The government receipts for the month to date were $175,640,000. Receipts for fiscal year to date, $46,545,776. Expenditures for month to date, $22,207,000. Expenditures for fiscal year to date. $61,882,888. Nine clerks in the general land office have been detailed to survey and plat town sites in the Cherokee outlet and will leave Washington within the next day or two for that purpose. The WaxahΓ‘tchie National bank of Waxahatchie, Tex., which suspended payment August 11, was today permitted to resume business.
Notes From the Capitol, Secretary Gresham has instructed United States consular officers that certificates of depreciation of currency will be required in all cases of importation from countries where the currency is depreciated and the consular fee of $5 heretofore imposed for such certificates is abolished. Surgeon-General Wyman of the Marine hospital service has received a cablegram from Consul-General Edwards at Berlin, stating that there are no further cases of cholera there. Secretary Carlisle has accepted the resignation of Robert H. Wynne. Mr. Wynne was formerly private secretary to Secretary Carlisle as a special employe. The Waxahachie National Bank of Waxahachie, Texas, which suspended payment August 11, has been permitted to resume business. Nine clerks in the general land office have been detailed to survey and plat town sites in the Cherokee outlet. Owners of silver refused to sell bullion to the government Saturday at $0.7325 per ounce.
MORE SOLID THAN EVER. I WANAHACHIE. Tex., Aug. 21.(Special).-The Waxahachle National bank, lately suspended, has resumed payment. One of the directors stated to your reporter that it is on a more solid basis than ever.
LATER NEWS WAIFS. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL The Teople's National Bank, of Winston, N. C., capital $100,000, has suspended. Lerzars, La., was surprised by the suspension of all the banks in the city. They were the First National and Lemars National, with a capital of $100,000 each, and and the Lemars State and German Savings Banks. Notices were posted on the doors that the suspensions are due to inability to realize on assets, but that all depositors will be paid. The First National Bank of Anthony, Kan., which suspended payment in July was permitted to reopen its doors to business. The Waxahachie National bank of Waxahachie, Tex., which suspended payment August 11, was permitted to resume business. PUEBLO, Con-Bank Examiner J. Sam Bro wn has given permission to the Central National Bank, which suspended July 15. to resume business. The American and Western national banks, which suspended the same day, have received permission from Comptroller Eckels to resume and are rapidly complying with the conditions required.
LATER NEWS WAIFS. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. The People's National Bank, of Winston, N. C., capital $100,000, has suspended. Lerears, La, was surprised by the suspension of all the banks in the city. They were the First National and Lemars National, with a capital of $100,000 each, and and the Lemars State and German Savings Banks. Notices were posted on the doors that the suspensions are due to inability to realize OR assets, but that all depositors will be paid. The First National Bank of Anthony, Kan., which suspended payment in July was permitted to reopen its doors to business. The Waxahachie National bank of Waxahachie, Tex., which suspended payment August 11, was permitted to resume business. PUEBLO, CoL-Bank Examiner J. Sam Bro wn has given permission to the Central National Bank, which suspended July 15. to resume business. The American and Western national banks, which suspended the same day, have received permission from Comptroller Eckels to resume and are rapidly complying with the conditions required.
SILVER PURCHASES. The treasury department purchased only 40,000 ounces of silver, though 147,000 ounces were offered. The price paid for the silver was $0.7325 per ounce and that figure was offered for the remaining 107,000 ounces. The treasuly today announced that the owners declined to sell at that figure. ROYAL VISITORS. Among the visitors of the house of representatives today were a party accompanying his highness, the rajah of Kaputhala, India. They were in charge of Colonel Massey of the English army. BANK CIRCULATION. National bank circulation outstanding today is $191,996,368, an increase during the week of $3,350,000. INDIGNANT PENS!ONERS. Col. Charles L. Lincoln, late deputy commissioner of pensions, is authority for the statement that an effort will soon be made to prove through the courts that suspensions of pensions granted under the act of June 27, 1890, were illegal. NO CHOLERA AT BERLIN. Surgeon General Wyman of the Marine hospital service has received a cablegram from Consul General Edwards at Berlin stating that there are no further cases of cholera there. The disease, the dispatch says, was introduced through cucumbers procured from infected districts in Russian Poland. TEXAS BANK RESUMES. Waxahachie National bank, Waxa. hachie, Tex., which suspended payment August 11 was today permitted to resume business.
BANKS HAVE RESUMED. Those That Were Temporarily Embarrassed Now All Right. Controller Eckels has prepared the following statement of banks which temporarily suspended during the late stringency and have since resumed business: Black Hills National Bank, Rapid City, S. D., capital stock, $125,000; Gate City National Bank, Atlanta, Ga., $250,000; Capital National Bank, Indianapolis, Ind., $300,000; Washington National Bank, Spokane Falls, Wash., $250,000: First National Bank, Palouse city, Wash., $75,000; Southern California National Bank, Los Angeles, Cal., $200,000; First National Bank, Los Angeles, Cal., $200,000; First National Bank, San Diego, Cal., $300,000; First National Bank, Santa Ana, Cal. $150,000; First National Bank, Kendallville, Ind., $50,000; First National Bank, San Bernardino, Cal., $100,000; Second National Bank, Ashland, Ky., $50,000; First National Bank, Rico, Col., $50,000; National Bank of Commerce, Provo City, Utah, $50,000; First National Bank, Cisco, Texas, $50,000; American National Bank, Leadville, Col., $100,000; Central National Bank, Pueblo. Col., $50,000; Missouri National Bank, Kansas City, Mo., $250,000; First National Bank, Fort Scott, Kan., $300,000; Union National Bank, Denver, Col., $1,000,000; National Bank of Commerce, Denver, $500.000: Hutchinson National Bank, Hutchinson, Kan.. $100,000; People's National Bank, Denver, Col., $600,000; First National Bank, Anthony, Kan., $50,000; Greeley National Bank. Greeley, Col., $50,000; Farmers' National Bank, Henrietta, Tex., $50,000; State National Bank, Vernon, Tex., $100,000; Fourth National Bank, Louisville, Ky. $300.000; First National Bank, The Dalles, Ore., $50,000; Waupaca County National Bank, Waupaca, Wis., $50,000; Waxahachee National Bank, Waxahachee. Tex., $100,000; CitIzens' National Bank, Attica, Ind., $50,000; First National Bank. San Marcos, Tex., $80,000; First National Bank, Lockhart, Tex., $50,000. Total capital stock of $6,030,000. Since January 1 last 154 national banks have suspended. Of this number one has gone into voluntary liquidation, 57 have been placed in the hands of receivers, 62 are in the hands of national bank examiners with excellent prospects of early resumption, in addition to the 34 above named which have already resumed business.
BANKS HAVE RESUMED. Those That Were Temporarily Embarrassed Now All Right. WASHINGTON, D. C. Sept. 1.Controller Eckels has prepared the following statement of banks which temporarily suspended during the late stringency and have since resumed business: Black Hills National Bank, Rapid City, S. D., capital stock, $125,000; Gate City National Bank, Atlanta, Ga., $250,000; Capital National Bank, Indianapolis, Ind., $300,000; Washington National Bank, Spokane Falls, Wash., $250,000; First National Bank, Palouse city, Wash., $75,000: Southern California National Bank, Los Angeles, Cal: $200,000; First National Bank, Los Angeles, Cal., $200,000; First National Bank, San Diego, Cal., $300,000; First National Bank, Santa Ana, Cal., $150,000; First National Bank, Kendallville, Ind., $50,000; First National Bank, San Bernardino, Cal., $100,000; Second National Bank, Ashland, Ky., $50,000; First National Bank, Rico, Col., $50,000; National Bank of Commerce, Provo City, Utah, $50,000; First National Bank, Cisco, Texas, $50,000; American National Bank, Leadville, Col., $100,000; Central National Bank, Pueblo, Col., $50,000; Missouri National Bank, Kansas City, Mo., $250,000; First National Bank, Fort Scott, Kan., $300,000; Union National Bank, Denver, Col., $1,000,000; National Bank of Commerce, Den ver $500,000; Hutchinson National Bank, Hutchinson, Kan., $100,000; People's National Bank, Denver, Col.,$600,000; First National Bank, Anthony, Kan., $50,000; Greeley National Bank, Greeley, Col., $50,000; Farmer's National Bank, Henrietta, Tex., $50,000; State National Bank, Vernon, Tex., $100,000; Fourth National Bank, Louisville, Ky., $200,000; First National Bank, The Dalles, Ore., $50,000; Waupaca County National Bank, Waupaca, Wis., $50,000: Waxabachee National Bank, Waxabachee, Tex., $100,000; Citizen's National Bank, Attica, Ind., $50,000; First National Bank, San Marcos, Tex., $80,000; First National Bank, Lockhart, Tex., $50,000. Total capital stock of $6,030,000. Since January 1 last 154 national banks have suspended. Of this number one has gone into voluntary liquidation, 57 have been placed in the hands of receivers, 62 are in the hands of national bank examiners with excellent prospects of early resumption, in addition to the 34 above named which have already resumed business.