5054. First National Bank (Monmouth, IL)

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Bank Information

Episode Type
Suspension → Closure
Bank Type
national
Bank ID
85
Charter Number
2751
Start Date
April 8, 1884
Location
Monmouth, Illinois (40.911, -90.647)

Metadata

Model
gpt-5-mini
Short Digest
fca0a581

Response Measures

None

Receivership Details

Depositor recovery rate
100.0%
Date receivership started
1884-04-22
Date receivership terminated
1894-01-04
OCC cause of failure
Fraud
Share of assets assessed as good
61.9%
Share of assets assessed as doubtful
34.6%
Share of assets assessed as worthless
3.5%

Description

The First National Bank of Monmouth, Ill. closed/suspended in early April 1884 due to a large deficit by Cashier B. T. (P.T.G./B.T.O. OCR variants) Hubbard from speculation/embezzlement. Although some dispatches said the bank might 'resume in a day or two,' the Comptroller directed receivership and assessments were levied; receivers were appointed in April–May, indicating permanent closure. OCR variants of the cashier's initials appear in different papers; I use 'B. T. Hubbard' as the common form. Dates are taken from contemporaneous newspaper reports.

Events (6)
1. September 17, 1863 Chartered
Source
historical_nic
2. July 7, 1882 Chartered
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3. April 8, 1884 Suspension
Cause
Bank Specific Adverse Info
Cause Details
Speculation/defalcation by the cashier (Hubbard) creating a large deficit (reported $45,000 to $100,000; later reports much larger).
Newspaper Excerpt
The First National Bank closed its doors this morning. The cause assigned is speculation by Cashier B. T. O. Hubbard, whose deficit is estimated at from $45,000 to $100,000.
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newspapers
4. April 22, 1884 Receivership
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historical_nic
5. April 23, 1884 Receivership
Newspaper Excerpt
R. M. Stevenson, Monmouth, Ill., is appointed receiver of the First National bank of that place.
Source
newspapers
6. May 1, 1884 Receivership
Newspaper Excerpt
Guy Stapp receiver of the First National Bank of Monmouth, Ill. (appointed by the Comptroller of the Currency).
Source
newspapers

Newspaper Articles (23)
1. April 9, 1884 Savannah Morning News Savannah, GA
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A FLOOD OF FAILURES. TWO NORTHERN BANKS DRAGGED DOWN IN THE VORTEX. One of Them at St. Albans, Vt., and the Other at Monmouth, Ill.-Both Disasters the Result of the Secret Speculation of Officers. ST. ALBANS, VT., April 8.-The First National Bank announced this morning that its doors would be closed to-day. Bank Examiner Hendee closed the institution because they did not have sufficient funds to pay drafts in Boston on Saturday. Public confidence in the bank has been declining since a run was made on it two months ago. The cause of the trouble is said to be stock speculation by President Sowles and his brother. It is believed that depositors will not lose anything. THE EFFECT ON OTHER BANKS. ST. ALBANS, VT., April 8, 11:30 P. M.The news of the suspension of the First National Bank of St. Albans to-day caused considerable excitement in Swanton, Vt., and a run is being made on the Union Bank in consequence. The officers say that the bank has enough funds on hand to pay all depositors, and also state that they are amply secured on all dealings with the suspended bank. Vila's National Bank of Plattsburg, N. Y., is also closely connected with the St. Albans bank. PROVISION DEALERS EMBARRASSED. BALTIMORE, April 8.-T. Robert Jenkins & Sons, provision dealers, went to protest last night, and their suspension was announced to-day. No assignment has been made, and there will be a meeting of creditors on Monday next. Speculation in pork is said to have caused their embarassment. A BANK ROBBED BY ITS CASHIER. CHICAGO, April 8.-A special from Monmouth, Ills., says: "The First National Bank closed its doors this morning. The cause assigned is speculation by Cashier B. T. O. Hubbard, whose deficit is estimated at from $45,000 to $100,000. The bank is expected to resume in a day or two, as the stockholders, who are all moneyed men, are liable." PREFERENCES OF $35,000. NEW YORK, April 8.-Julius H. Hogan, Otto Witte and Allen Letow, composing the firm of Hogan & Billing, bankers at No. 1 Wall street, made an assignment to-day for the benefit of their creditors, giving preferences to J. and W. Seligman of $15,000 and the Kansas City Smelting and Refining Company of $20,000. RICHMOND PORK PACKERS SUSPEND. RICHMOND, VA., April -The suspension of Lee, Potts & Co., pork packers in this city, was announced this afternoon. The liabilities are reported to be $200,000. The failure is due to speculation in pork. The bulk of the firm's indebtedness is in Chicago.

2. April 9, 1884 The Portland Daily Press Portland, ME
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Hendee will at once make a complete investigation and if it is not feasible to continue the business the bank will go into voluntary liquidation. The assets are not of the quick kind and to speedily realize on them will be difficult, LATER. The bank crisis here is not surprising to the publıc, who have been expecting it. The stockholders of the institution are E. A. Sowles $30,000, Albert Sowles $90,000, Mrs. E. A. Sowles $40,000, Merritt Sowles $4.000, O. A. Burton, G. W. Foster and B. C. Hall, $1,000 each; the balance is owned by two sisters of Sowles' some $4,000 or $5,000. There is no expectation that the bank will resume business again. The investigation will not be concluded before tomorrow or Thursday. A general impression prevails that depositors are more likely to come out whole than in the case of the previous crisis. Developments are awaited with interest. A Run on the Swanton Bank. SWANTON, April 8.-There has been a run on the National Union Bank today owing to its close business relations with the first National of St. Albans. Payment was kept up while the funds lasted. The officers ask for delay, pronouncing the bank perfectly solvent, with ability to pay every dollar. Sixty thousand dollars has been drawn out by depos itors in the past ten days. An Illinois Bank Crippled by a Defaulting Cashier. MONMOUTH, April 8.-The First National bank closed doors this morning. The caused assigned is speculation by Cashier Hubbard whose [deficit is estimated at from $45,000 to $100,000. The bank is expected to resume in a day or two.

3. April 9, 1884 New-York Tribune New York, NY
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BANKS CLOSING THEIR DOORS. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF ST. ALBANS, VT., AND MONMOUTH, ILL., IN TROUBLE. ST. ALBANS, Vt., April 8. - -The First National Bank announeed this morning that its doors would be closed to-day. Bank Examiner Hendee closed the institution because there were not sufficient funds to pay drafts in Boston on Saturday. President Sowles took the Saturday night train for Boston to arrange for the payment of these drafts and on account of disappointment in receiving expected funds the bank was unable to meet the demands made upon It on Monday. More than usual was drawn out by the depositors on that day and the bank was without funds this morning. Mr. Hendee thought best not to have the bank opened for business to-day and it may be that the institution will not be open again at all. The trouble with this bank began about two months ago when a run was made upon it, and public confidence in the institution has been declining ever since. Soon after that run ex-Governor Hendee prevailed upon E.A. and Albert Sowles to put into the bank for its first benefit collateral of the nominal value of about $110,000, worth in cash probably $80,000 to $100,000, The deposits in the meantime, it is said, decreased and the assets have been made better. The cause of the trouble is currently reported to be unfortunate speculation in stocks by the Sowles brothers, both of whom have lost heavily. The deposits amount to about $215,000. The last statement of the bank showed nominal assets of $578,856; liabilities $542,855, including capital stock $100,000. Examiner Hendee will at once make a complete examination, and, if it is not feasible to continue business, the bank will go into voluntary liquidation. The news of the suspension causes considerable excitement in Swanton, Vt., and a run is being made on the Union Bank in consequence. The officers say that the bank has enough funds to pay all depositors. The Vilas National Bank of Plattsburg, N. Y., is also closely connected with the St. Albans bank. CHICAGO, April 8.-A dispatch to The Daily News from Monmouth, Ill., says: The First National Bank closed its doors at 11 o'clock this morning. The cause assigned is speculation by the cashier, B. T. O. Hubbard, whose deficit is estimated at $100,000. The bank is expected to resume in a day or two, as the stockholders, who are all moneyed men, are liable.

4. April 9, 1884 Morning Appeal Carson City, NV
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The Cashier of the Period. CHICAGO, April 8.-The Daily News of Monmouth, Ills., says that the First National bank closed up at 11 o'clock this forenoon. The cause assigned is speculation by the cashier, P.T. G. Hubbard, whose deficit Is estimated at from $45,000 to $100,000. The bank is expected to be resumed in a day or two, as the stockholders are liable, and are all moneyed men.

5. April 9, 1884 The Democratic Leader Cheyenne, WY
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TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. General Stanley will be assigned to the department of Texas. Watertown, N. Y., republicans favor Blaine for president. Striking Wareham, Mass., nailmakers have returned to work at reduced wages. Six negroes were drowned by the upsetting of a boat at Vicksburg, Mass., last night. The principal damage done by the North Carolina forest fires has been to fences and timber. Two million dollars was subscribed in an hour in New York for capital stock in the new cable company. Typhus fever has broken out among Poles in East Side New York tenements. Imported by emigrants. The Arkansas Republican state convention in session- at Little Rock favors Mr. Arthur's nomination for the presidency. First National bank, Monmouth, Ill., suspended, Cashier B. F.O. Hubbard speculated in stocks. Lost $45,000 to $100,000, / The Democrats carried Cincinnati by 800 majority at the municipal elections yesterday. Cleveland was carried by the Republicans.

6. April 9, 1884 Alexandria Gazette Alexandria, VA
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NEWS OF THE DAY. Base ball yesterday, Richmond, Detroits 7; Virginias 1. Portsmouth, Nationals, of Washington, 21; Athletics 1. There was a heavy snow storm yesterday throughout Wisconsin, the ground being covered to the depth of six inches. The funeral of Minister Hunt took place yesterday in Washington. His remains were buried in Oak Hill Cemetery. Lee, Potts & Co., pork packers, of Richmond, Va., suspended yesterday. Their liabilities are reported to be $200,000. The First National Bank of St. Albans, Vt., and the First National Bank of Monmouth, Ill., closed their doors yesterday. The cause attributed in both cases is stock speculation by the officers. Reports from small towns throughout Ohio say the elections yesterday turned mostly on local issues. Thegains andrlosses in the smaller towns are about equal between the democrats and republicans. The congregation of the New York Madison Avenue Congregational Church, at a meeting last night, again refused to accept the resignation of Pastor Newman. His opponents claim the meeting had no legal standing, and will contest the matter in the courts. The committee of ex-Confederate soldiers and Grand Army of the Republic representa tives held a meeting in New York last night, at which final preparations were made for the mass meeting to be held in Cooper Union to-night to aid in collecting funds for the establishment of a soldiers' home in Richmond, Va. At a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce of Petersburg yesterday resolutions were adopted urging the City Council to induce the Virginia and North Carolina R. R. Co. to locate their road between Richmond and Ridgeway, N. C., so as to include Petersburg on the line. A joint stock company has purchased from Neafie & Levy, of Philadelphia, a freight and passenger steamer to ply between Petersburg and Smithfield. The vessel is licensed to carry 475 passengers. The Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs announces that no representations have been made to his government about the conversion of Propaganda property other than those from the American minister, and that they would obtain a scant hearing should they be made. He indicates no intention of reversing or modifying the Italian policy in reference to this matter, and it seems that the conversion of church property will not cease with the execution of the decree of the Court of Cassation. A decree promulgated by the Mexican government imposing an onerous stamp tax is likely to bring about dangerous riots in that republic. When the act was first passed the merchants and people generally protested against it almost to a man, but the opposition was met by a supplementary order from the government, declaring that the enforcement of the act was imperative. The business men then assembled in massmeeting and decided unanimously to close their stores and offices and keep them closed until the government receded from the stand it had talson. This drawn hattle is now going on, each side being equally determined not to grant any concessions to the other.

7. April 10, 1884 The Stark County Democrat Canton, OH
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WRECKED BANKS. The First National, of Monmouth, III. and Depositories to New York and Versailles, O,, Compelled to Close their Doors. MONMOUTH, III.. April 9.-The First Na. tional Bank here closed Its doors about eleven o'clock Tuesday morning, the cause being the speculations of Cashier B. T. O. Hubbard on the Board of Trade. The deficit is estimated all the way from $45,000 to $110,000. The depositors will loose nothing, as the stockholders are liable for double the amount of the capital, $75,000. a Much excitement prevails, but no run is expected when the bank opens in a day or two, as the stockholders are all moneyed men of the town. NEW YORK, April 9.-Messrs. Julius H. Hagen, Otto Witte and Allen Lexow, compriging the firm of Hagon & Billings, bankers and specio brokers, made an assignment Tuesday. Preferences were given to J. & W. Sellgman for $75,000, and to the Kansas City Smelting and Refining Company for $20,000. The firm had quite a reputation in the street. It was established in 1868, succeeding Cohn, Walter & Co. Messrs. Hagan & Billings were the company. VERSAILLES, O., April 9.-The Exchange Bank at this place closed Its doors Tuesday morning. The bank has been weak for some time. B. F. Coppess, of Greenville, O., has been appointed receiver. The loss will be about $60,000, which falls on the stockholders.

8. April 10, 1884 The Daily Enterprise Livingston, MT
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THE LATEST NEWS. oil) The jail at Cincinnati is still guarded by a detachment of militia. The president has recognized Thec. Hellman, consul for Turkey at New Orleans. The striking nail makers at Wareham, Mass., voted to return to work at reduced wages. Cincinnati elected a democratic civic ticket on Tuesday. Cleveland went republican. A letter from Havana says the filibusters in Cuba are securing recruits in many parts of the island. John Williams was hanged at Easton, Pa., at 11 o'clock Tuesday morning for the murder of his wife. Pettingill & Everett, importers and shipping merchants of Boston, have failed with liabilities of $102,000. The First National Bank of Monmouth, Ills., has failed. Cause, speculation on the part of the cashier, B. T. Hubbard, who is shortly $100,000 in his accounts. The London Standard's dispatch from Madrid asserts that much displeasure is felt by the Spaniards toward America for allowing General Aquera to leave Key West The Central Pacific will run a fast mail train from Ogden to San Francisco covering the distance in 39 hours, and completing the fast service from New York to San Francisco. The Irish bishops will convene in Rome in September. The purposes of the gathering are represented to be similar to those of the convention of the American bishops last year Deadwood dispatch, 9: Jack Morris shot and killed Louis Strahle last night in a bar-room at Spearfish, Dakota. Particulars have not been received, but Strahle seems to have been the aggressor.

9. April 11, 1884 The Rock Island Argus Rock Island, IL
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Let Him Get Away. MONMOUTH, Ills., April 11.-The - state's at torney, together with the officials, are busy examining the books of the suspended First National bank Hubbard, the defaulting cashier, has apparently rendered them every assistance to solve the mathematical problem as to the extent of the defalcation, and was to have shown up again to help untangle matters, but after a diligent search it was reported that he was nowhere to be found. A warrant has been issued for his arrest. Hubbard is supposed to have eluded the vigilance of a guard that was alleged to have been placed at his house, and decamped for parts unknown. Members of his family say that they cannot tell where he is. A director, in response to a question what hour he expected Hubbard back, replied, excitedly: "Don't know; don't think he will be down at all. Nobody knows where he is. The books are all mixed up. and we don't know a d-d thing about it."

10. April 12, 1884 The Caldwell Tribune Caldwell, ID
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THE NEWS. b J Incidents and Accidents. Alf. Burnett, the humorist, died at Cincinnati on the 4th. Nearly 300,000 pounds of opium were imported during 1883. Gen. Stanley will be assigned command of the department of Texas. Gov. Cleveland is being brought out as a presidential candidate to kill Tilden. Forty-sight dead and 135 wounded is the deplorable result of the Cincianati riot. Destructive cyclones have occurred D in parts of Ohio and Ind ana, with great loss of life. Barbed wire manufacturers met in Chicago on the Sd, and advanced the price 10 per cent. Seven Polanders, looking for work, were struck by a backing engine at Scranton, Pa., on the 3d, and five of them were killed. The Ohio legislature is askcd by the governor to make provision for the mother of Officer Desmond, killed in the Cincinnati liot. There was a general strike by all the mechanics working on buildings, in the factories and car snops in New Orleans, in accordance with the resolution adoptd Sunday. Several bosses have yielded, and the exposition management has agreed to pay the advance, and work thereis uninterrupted. A Monmouth (III.) dispatch cf the 8th says: The First National Bank closed its doors at 11 o'clock this morning. The cause assigned is speculation by the cashier, B. T. O. Habbaad, whose deficit is estimated at $45,000 to $100,000. The bank is expected to resume in a day or two, as the stock olders are reliable and all moneyed men. Sixteen Chinamen were brought into S the port of New York on Monday by 1 the steamship Saratoga. They were C taken aboard at Havana. Assistant t Collector Meredith boarded the steamI ship in the bay, and found the Chinaa men checked through to San Francisco, i and that they were on their way home 3 to China. They were allowed to leave t the stamship. t Considerable interest is manifested in j New York on the fate of the bill before W the legislature, regulating the height of t V dwelling houses. The Fire Department say they cannot cope fairly with a dry fire more than sixty-five feet high, SI 21 d if it is seventy-five feet, it is at the fr extreme point they can touch. What a can they do then with a dre in the upcl per part of a house 150 feet high? th They answer that the only thing is to W wait till it burns down to a point within sb their reach. Yet, within about two ha years more than one hundred dwellings have been erected in New York, of a which the lowest is five feet beyond ro his max mum, and sixty-sixty of which Ju re dwelling houses. w

11. April 14, 1884 Savannah Morning News Savannah, GA
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About 80 per cent. were those of small traders whose capital was less than $5,000. Among the suspensions reported were Hagen & Billing, bankers and specie brokers, New York city; the First National Bank of St. Albans, Vt.; the Exchange Bank of Versailles, Ohio; the First National Bank of Monmouth, III.; Farmers' Bank of Covington, Ind.; T. Robert Jenkins & Sons, wholesale provisions, Baltimore; Lee & Potts, pork packers, Richmond, Va.: Henry S. Rosenthal, cattle, Albany, N. Y.; Davis & Taylor, wholesale grain and flour, and Pettingill & Everett, merchants, Boston. In the principal trades they were as follows: General stores 33, grocers 24, hardware and agricultural implements 13, liquors 13, produce and provisions 12, jewelry 8, grain and flour 7, clothing and cloth 6, shoes 5, dry goods 5, hotels and restaurants 5, harness 5, manufacturers 5, banks 4, coal and wood 4, bakers and confectioners 3, commission 3, furniture 3, lumber 3, millinery 3, stationers, etc., 3. ALABAMA, Eufaula.-A. Giglio & Co., fruits, closed by Sheriff James A. Hay, saloon, closed by Sheriff. FLORIDA. Jacksonrille.-M. J. Christopher & Co., produce commission, failed. M. J. Christopher continues as agent for his wife. GEORGIA. Alapaha.-MeCr & Coarsey, general store. failed. Camilla.-W. - F. Hatsfield, general store, sold out to pay home creditors, to whom he was indebted about $2,000. Haralson.-W. L. Brakefield, general store, failed and called meeting of creditors. Saeannah.-Daffin & Dresser, cotton, failed. Warrenton.-C. A. Culpepper, general store, reported failed and out of business. SOUTH CAROLINA. Charleston.Julius H. Blake, coal, failed. Ninety-siz.-James Rogers, Jr., confectioner, assigned to J. P. Phillips.

12. April 18, 1884 The Times Owosso, MI
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are pass In the federal court at Indianapolis, Matilda C. Wingate was awarded $5,000 damages against the Ohio and Mississippi road for the killing of her husband on a train by a drunken passenger. Victor W. Clough, of Geneseo, Illinois, made hundred miles on rollerskates in five minutes less than ten hours. When he left the track the muscles of his legs were swollen and numb. Henry's bank, at Mineral Point, Wis., which held deposits of $75.000, closed its doors Saturday. Mr. Henry died last year, and his widow became embarrassed by the locking up of assets in the probate court. The nineteenth anniversary of the death of Abraham Lincoln was commemorated at the tomb in Springfield by about one thousand citizens, who were addressed by General Palmer and Colonel J. H. Matheny. The steamship Reliance, plying between New York and Rio de Janeiro, was lost off Bahia, with a cargo of coffee. Her passengers and mails were saved. Among the shipwrecked are Minister Osborne, of Brazil. Nearly all the stockholders of the First National bank of Monmouth, Illinois, voted to levy any assessment required to resume business, but Comptroller Knox subsequently telegraphed that a receiver is necessary. A delegation of congressmen from the Pacific coast has started for New York, having arranged for an interview with Mr. Tilden to obtain a positive declaration whether he will accept a nomination for the presidency. The recent arrest of Lorenzo Dimick at Buffalo for defrauding marine insurance companies. was followed by the apprehension of his former partner, Captain Thomas J. Crosby, of Chicago, on charges of complicity. An ignorant fellow named Guymann indorsed a stolen draft at Appleton, Wisconsin, and was jailed. He then confessed that himself and a companion stole a mail-bag at Menasha, Saturday evening, and rifled the letters. J. R. B. Danforth, an entry clerk at Macon, Georgia, having had a dispute with William Lansburg. his employer, as to salary, went to the store in the evening and fired five barrels of a revolver at him, killing him instantly. The governor general of Cuba telegraphed to the Spanish consul at Key West that Aurelio Mayoll had sailed with the avowed purpose of killing him. When the would-be assassin reached American soil, he was arrested. John A .Logan secured the delegates in the Fourth, Ninth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth Illinois congressional districts Friday. The Missouri delegation is said to stand 11 for Blaine, 9 for Arthur, 7 for Logan and 5 for Edmunds. William H. Vanderbilt, in a card to the stockholders of the Rock Island road, declares H. H. Porter unworthy of a directorship, and asks for proxies to be used in the election of John Newell as his successor on the board. The train-load of corn donated by the Butler county (Kansas) farmers for the relief of the Ohio flood-sufferers reached Cincinnati Friday. The corn will be sold and the pricedistributed in accordance with the wishes of the donors. Seven hundred and ninety-five reports from 609 townships in Michigan indicate that the winter wheat crop and the clover crop will be about 95 per cent., apples about 90 per cent. and peaches but 50 per cent. of an average crop. John T. Cramer, a clerk in the treasury department. was called into the corridor by a Washington grocer and badly pummeled, for writing insulting letters to a lady. Soon afterward Secretary Folger ordered Cramer's dis missal. The relief committee appointed last February by the Cincinnati chamber of commerce reports the receipt of $184,600. Much of this amount was distributed outside the city, and $6,000 on hand will be used in aiding the poor to restore their dwellings. H. C. Atkinson, assistant superintendent of the St. Paul road, who was recently paralyzed at LaCrosse, has since burst a blood-vessel in his brain. He is said to have lately lost all his property in wheatspeculations, and has transferred his $40,000residence in Milwaukee. The special grand jury at Cincinnati was charged by Judge Avery to inquire into the riots, the burning of the court-house, and the rumors that the Berner jury was tampered with. Cor oner Muscroft has begun an inquest on the bodies of thirteen victims of the outbreak. A coal operator well known throughout the United States, when interviewed in Chicago, stated his belief that anthracite will sell at from 25 to 50 cents a ton less this summer than last, as the pool has but little strength. Soft coal is lower, and the production is increasing. A floating paragraph about the sale of relics from the scaffold on which Osawatomie Brown was hanged calls out a statement that the original structure was demolished and carried off piece-meal by General Patterson's command in the latter part of July, 1861. The youngest daughter of ex-Governor Foster. of Ohio, was last June married to his private secretary, Fred D. Mussey. He was sixteen years older than his bride, and their unhappy relations have led to a final separation, the ladv returning to her parents at

13. April 23, 1884 St. Paul Daily Globe Saint Paul, MN
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GEN. MACKENZIE'S SUCCESSOR. An order was issued by the war department to-day, assigning Brigadier General David S. Stanley to the command of the department of Texas, in the place of Brigadier General McKenzie, retired. R. M. Stevenson, Monmouth, Ill., is appointed receiver of the First National bank of that place.

14. April 24, 1884 Evening Star Washington, DC
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Washington News and Gossip. GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY.-Internal revenue, $448,426.49; customs, $574,335.37. THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN.-THE WEEKLY STAR will be sent postpaid to any address in the United States or Canada until after the presidential election for fifty cents. It is a large eight-page paper of fifty-six columns of interesting reading matter-political, miscellaneous, personal, news and gossip, etc. Send for a sample copy. MOSAIC PORTRAIT OF GARFIELD.-Secretary of State Frelinghuysen has just received from a prominent European house manufacturers of mosalcs, in Venice and London, a very handsome mosaic portrait of the late President Garfield, which is intended as a present to the United States. LIEUT. FREDERICK PAINE, United States navy, now on leave of absence in Washington, has been ordered to Callao, to report for duty on the Pacific station. BANK RECEIVERS APPOINTED.-The controller of the currency has appointed Hon. Daniel Roberts, of Burlington, Vt., as receiver of the First National bank of St. Albans, Vt., and R. M. Stevenson, of Monmouth, Ill., to be receiver of the First National bank of the last named place. NEW MEMBER OF THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION.-The President has appointed Robert D. Graham, of North Carolina, secretary of the civil service commission, vice Wm. S. Roulhac, who resigned on account of ill-health. JUDGE ADVOCATE GENERAL SWAIM declines to say anything in reference to the subject of the court of inquiry which has been ordered in his case. THE WORK of laying stone on the Washington monument will be resumed next Monday if the weather is favorable. FRACTIONAL SILVER. - Representations having been made that there is a scarcity of fractional silver coin in some business quarters, it has been ascertained that the Treasury has on hand of this coin over $29,000,000, which can be had on application and payment therefor made with other funds. The express charges must be paid by the applicant, as no funds are now available for that purpose. THE President has approved the act amending the Revised Statutes of the United States relating to the District of Columbia. NAVAL ORDERS.-Capt. R. F. Bradford, detached from the Pensacola, Fla., navy yard, 30th instant, and placed on waiting orders; Lieut. R. M. G. Brown, from command of the Alarm and ordered to duty on the Pacific station; Passed Assistant Surgeon J. H. Hall, ordered before the retiring board. GOING TO FORTRESS MONROE.-The Secretaries of War and Navy intend going to Fortress Monroe this evening on the Tallapoosa to attend the examination of the graduates of the artillery school. THE NEW ARCTIC EXPEDITION.-Chief Engineer Loring, Naval Constructor Wilson, Gen. Hazen and Chief Clerk Hogg have gone to New York to be present at the sailing of the arctic steamer Bear this afternoon. Chief Engineer Loring and Chief Constructor Wilson will inspect the Alert. WM. G. WEBSTER, of Illinois, a clerk in the fourth auditor's office, has been promoted from $1,000 to $1,200, and permanently appointed. PERSONAL.-Senator Vest has returned from Missouri.-General Hazen, Chief of the Signal Service, was registered in New York last night.Health Officer Townshend, who had his arm broken last Sunday, is not resting so easily to-day, and is suffering from some fever. Chas. P. Huntington, of Mississippi, is at Wormley's -Mrs. Nellie G. Scott, and her daughter, Miss Kate Scott, the vocalist, who have been absent for some time, returned last evening. Mrs. Scott, who was injured in the late railroad accident near Xenia, Ohio, has almost entirely recovered.-The wife of Senator Voorhees salls from New York for Havre to-day to join her daughter, who is pursuing musical studies in Parts.-Mrs. Bleine and daughter are in New York for a short stay. Clerk Tweedale, of the War Department, has returned from his trip to Savannah, Ga., on official business, but is detained at his house by a slight illness, -Governor Sheldon. of New Mexico, isat Willard's Ex-Secretary of War Ramsey, of Minnesota, was on the floor of the Senate to-day.-Major Chas. R. Suter and D. F. Corbin, of South Carolina, are at the Ebbitt.Senator Jonas leaves for New Orleans to-night. The Rev. J. Everist Cathell, of Oneida, N. Y., is visiting his father, Captain J. D. Cathell, No. 3254 o street, West Washington, and will remain in town several days.

15. May 1, 1884 The Indianapolis Journal Indianapolis, IN
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Brief Mention. Jacksonville is now illuminated by the electric light. The foundrymen at Quincy seem as firm as ever, and the strikers are correspondingly discouraged. Three houses at Shelbyville were entered by burglars on Monday night, and considerable booty carried off. Reed. the would-be murderer of George Boyd, of Rock Island, has been captured at Geneseo. He has been lodged in jail. Silas Olmsted, for fifty years a resident of Galesburg and vicinity, died at his home on Tuesday morning, aged 70 years. The body of Nancy Nutt, who was drowned while boat-riding with a colored man three weeks ago, near Peoria, was found on Monday afternoon. The officers of the Casey Mining Company, at Casey, have filed a certificate of an increase of the capital stock of the company from $100,000 to $400,000. Miss Clarinda Peoples. living with her grandmother, Mrs. Handley, southwest of Paris, has committed suicide by hanging herself from a rafter of the barn. Dr. A. P. Morton. an old and well-known educator and minister of the Presbyterian Church in Illinois, died at his home at Alton, in the seventy-sixth year of his age, on Tuesday. Charles Stoltzenberg, & miner, was recently killed, at Kewanee, by a fall of rocks in the Lathrop Company's mines. Wm. Grotha was badly injurod. The dead man leaves a wife and several children. Wm. Fiscus, a well-known citizen of Freeport, was instantly killed at Rockton on Tuesday. He was a fireman of a Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul locomotive, and was walking on a car when a bridge struck him in the back of the head. William, Nathan and John Kilgore, Henry Lewis and Henry Jennings, whose depredations as burglars and larcenists have extended over western Indiana and eastern Illinois, have been committed to jail at Danville in default of bail. The officers of the National Guard of Illinois will meet at Springfield May 8 and 9 for the purpose of organizing a State association of officers. It is expected that there will be a large attendance of officers interested in perfecting the State service. The coal miners who went out on a strike from the Wenona Company's works have come back and resumed work on the company's terms, which were the same as those offered when the strike began. The men have lost a month's wages by the strike. A citizen of Litchfield has discovered a process of distillation whereby the natural lubricating oil which abounds in that vicinity can be converted into a high grade of illuminating fluid, equal to the best headlight oil. The discovery reveals new possibilities of value for this product. The Supreme Court of the State has granted the injunction asked by the Ohio & Mississippi railway against Pana township, denying its right to levy taxes on the property of the company. The amount involved is about $10,000. The company has been paying its taxes at Pana for several years until now, without complaint. Guy Stapp is announced, from Washington, as the receiver of the First National Bank, at Monmouth, vice R. M. Stevenson, resigned. Mr. Stapp has filled the position of auditor of the Illinois division of the Central Iowa railway for the past three years, and his appointment gives universal satisfaction. It is expected that depositors will be paid in full. Rev. W. B. Gilmore, of Havana, suffered for several years with some affection of the stomach. He died April 24, but of what no one could tell. A post-mortem examination was held on Monday last, showing the stomach contracted and hardened, with the whole inner surface covered with a cancerous formation and the duct to the bowels closed. The case is a rare one and given in the interest of science. M. H. Presley, real estate and insurance agent at Flora, was stabbed, on Tuesday, while sitting at his desk in his office. His injuries may prove fatal. His would-be murderer is John Hungate, sixty. seven years of age, and at one time one of the wealthiest farmers in the county. Some years ago he became involved, and mortgaged his land to an insurance company for which Presley was agent. He has brooded over his losses until his mind has become impaired, and led him to believe Presley was responsible for his misfortunes. Hungate has a son, a prosperous farmer, near Flora, and another a banker in Missouri.

16. May 3, 1884 The Douglas Independent Roseburg, OR
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DOMESTIC TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. The Chinese bill will be considered b Congress in the course of seven or eigh days. City Treasurer Francis Smith of B yonne, N. J., is short in the sum of $41,00 in his accounts. The treasury of the United States ha purchased 324,000 ounces of silver for th different mints. It is now thought that John A. Walsh testimony in the star-route cases wi create quite a stir. The cotton mills owned by a Providen company at Conn., were burne Loss, over $100,000. John H. Deane of New York filed a assignment recently, giving preference amounting to about $500,000. Among the novelties in the Philadelph silk exhibition is a North Carolina inc bator for forcing the eggs of silk worm A leper named Charles Wilson ha escaped from the Tewksbury almshou and the state is being overhauled by tl authorities. Senator Miller of California recently I ported to the senate a bill to punish 1 tine or imprisonment the illegal issuan of passports. Senator Pendleton, says the New Yo Times, made a very earnest speech at tl Iroquois club banquet in support of civ service reform. J. C. Burrows of Michigan, recent nominated and confirmed solicitor of tl treasury, has written the president, for ally declining the office. The total receipts of Irving's six month American tour are about $500,000. H impression of America will be publish simultaneously here and in London abo June. H. M. True, a witness in the Share trial, died at Santa Cruz, of pneumoni produced by a cold. True exposed Wel conspiracy and was quite an importa witness in the case. A fair was held in the guild room of tl St. Ignatius church, New York city, f reducing the debt of the church and ultimately make the edifice a memorial the late rector, Dr. Ewer. Ocean freights are in a most unsati factory condition so far as stockholders the great steamship companies are co cerned. The dividends are microscop and rivalry is at a white heat. Philadelphia has 562 establishments d voted to the making of men's and boy clothing, in which are employed 9192 me 10,209 women and 934 children, turni out goods valued at $31,220,968. Frank Dewalt, defaulting president the Leadville bank, was arraigned befo the United States commissioners al waived examination. In default of $20,0 bail he was placed in jail at Denver. The widow of William Morton. t Aretic explorer, who died in Alaska la year and was buried in San Francisco, making strenuous efforts to remove t body to the family tomb in Greenwood. Heavy winds unroofed and damag buildings at Vicksburg recently. Shreveport a terrific rainfall was follow by brilliant sunshine, succeeded in t evening by an unprecedented downpou The New York board of health's analys of thirteen samples of yellow musta showed that each was adulterated, thr examples containing napthal yellow, dangerous explosive and violent irrita poison. Residents of Quebec province contin to flock to the United States, but prin pally to the New England mining center A number of French Canadians are al emigrating to theTurtleMountain distric in Dakota. Recent forest fires did $20,000 damage Dooley, Taylor, Webster. Sumter, Jeff son and Glasscock counties, Georgia. T winds have drifted huge sand piles ov the tilled lands, making new preparatio for planting necessary. Five thousand laborers have died three months on the Panama canal. Th is the report of Captain Wilbank, who turned recently to Philadelphia from t canal where he had been supervising t work of a dredge for a year past. Col. J. H. Haverly will sail for Engla May 18. The Mastodon Minstrels, sixt five in number, will sail on the same ve sel. The company will open at the Dru Lane theater May 31, and travel through England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales a France. At the regular meeting of the executi committee of the board of trade held Philadelphia. John Welsh in the cha Senor Raffel Varces, Mexican consul, re a brief and forcible address, urging encouragement of a direct trade betwe that city and his own country. Captain Eads, who has just return from England, says his visit was to int rest English capitalists in the Tehuanten railway and was entirely successful. T enterprise is in the hands of a wealt syndicate, which is furnishing funds f the preliminary work in Mexico. Among the things to be exhibited at t meeting of the inventors in Cincinnati the first patent ever issued in the Unit States. It is dated New York, July 1790, and is signed by George Washingto president; Edmund Randolph, attorn general, and Thomas Jefferson, secretar Fortress Monroe, Virginia, is the large fort in the world, covering an area twenty acres. It was built in 1817 and the uninitiated looks almost impregnab In shape the fort is an irregular hexago two sides fronting the water, while other four command the land approache The stockholders of the First Nation bank at Monmouth, Ill.. voted to pay t assessment to meet Cashier Hubbard's ficiency and resume at once, but t comptroller at Washington telegraph that the appointment of a receiver will necessary. This last move the bank w try to avoid. A number of persons just returned fro Panama describe the condition of affai on the isthmus quite serious as relates o public health. As the result of their servations they have addressed letters the order of the Red Cross, calling atte tion particularly to Colon as a field f special work. Bills have been introduced in bo houses of congress authorizing the go ernment to loan the managers of the Ne t Orleans exhibition $1,000,000 upon same terms as were made when it w given to the centennial exposition, t money to be paid before any other clair before the managers.

17. May 8, 1884 The Abilene Reflector Abilene, KS
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WASHINGTON NOTES. HENRY W. CANNON, of Minnesota, has been selected as successor to Comptroller Knox, and James Connolly, of Illinois, to be Solicitor of the Treasury. Connolly is at present United States District Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois. SECRETARY CHANDLER received a telegram from Commodore S. B. Luce stating that the Portsmouth had arrived at Newport with yellow fever on board. The disease was not serious, however, and all the patients were convalescing. THE Comptrollo r of the Currency has ap pointed Guy Stapp receiver of the First National Bank of Monmouth, Ill. GENERAL HENRY S. SANFORD, formerly minister to Belgium, is now in Washington as the representative of the Congo Association. SENATOR WILLIAM P. KELLOGG was acquitted by the jury at Washington of the charges of bribery made against him in connection with the Star Route frauds. HON. JOHN JAY KNOX has assumed his duties as President of the National Bank of the Republic of New York. THE Interior Department reports exten sive frauds in the methods of aequiring title to public lands by certain foreign corporations.

18. May 9, 1884 The Iola Register Iola, KS
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WASHINGTON NOTES. HENRY W. CANNON, of Minnesota, has neen selected as successor to Comptroller Knox, and James Connolly, of Illinois, to be Solicitor of the Treasury. Connolly is at present United States District Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois. SECRETARY CHANDLER received a telegram from Commodore S. B. Luce stating that the Portsmouth had arrived at Newport with yellow fever on board. The disease was not serious, however, and all the patients were convalescing. THE Comptroller of the Currency has appointed Guy Stapp receiver of the First National Bank of Monmouth, III. GENERAL HENRY S. SANFORD, formerly minister to Belgium, is now in Washington as the representative of the Congo Association. SENATOR WILLIAM P. KELLOGG was acquitted by the jury at Washington of the charges of bribery made against him in connection with the Star Route frauds. Hon. JOHN JAY KNOX has assumed his duties as President of the National Bank of the Republic of New York. THE Interior Department reports exten sive frauds in the methods of acquiring title to public lands by certain foreign corporations.

19. July 12, 1884 New-York Tribune New York, NY
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WASHINGTON NOTES. WASHINGTON, Friday, July 11, 1884. THE SALARIES OF GOVERNMENT OFFICIALA.-Judge Lawrence, First Controller, has decided that the appropriation acts recently passed by Congress provide for the payment of the full annual salaries of all officers who are continued in office. In some cases salaries have been increased and under his decision officers who were in office on July 1, and whose salaries have been increased, get the benefit of the increase dating back to July 1. In a few cases salaries have been reduced, and officers in office on July 1 are subject to the reduction from that date. A PREMIUM FOR CHINESE LABORERS.-The Collector of Customs for the District of Arizona has informed the Treasury Department that the Mexican Government has entered into an agreement with a steamship company to give a bonus of $60 a head for Chinese laborers, to be landed at Guaymas, Mexico, under a labor contract. JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS.-James E. Boyd was to-day appointed by Chief Justice Waite to be United States Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina, and Thomas B. Keogh to be United States Marshal for the same district, to fill vacaucies caused by the expiration of their terms, no nominations having been made to provide for these vacancies during the late session of Congress. ANOTHER HEAVY ASSESSMENT.- - The Controller of the Currency has directed that an assessment of 100 per cent be levied on the stockholders of the First National Bank ef Monthouth, III. THE MIDDLETON & Co. FAILURE. In the Equity Court to-day Frank Morey was appointed receiver of the banking firm of Middleton & Co., in place of Mr. G. F. Green, and was required to give a bond 111 the sum of $75,000. FRAUDULENT VOUCHERS.-Three more indictments were found by the Grand Jury today against Burgdorf, a merchant of this city, for the presentation of false accounts and vouchers to the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery of the Navy Department.

20. July 17, 1884 The Bolivar Bulletin Bolivar, TN
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LATE NEWS ITEMS. THE National Democratic Convention at Chicago completed its labors on the 11th by nominating, on the second ballot, Hon. G over Cleveland, the present Governor of New York, as their candidate; and Hon. Thos. A. Hendricks, of Indiana, for VicePresident, by a unanimous vote of the Convention. There was the wildest enthusiasm over the nominations. THE condition of Minister Lowell is much improved. SHURMER & TEAGLE'S oil works at Cleveland, O., burned on the 11th. Loss, $20,000. A CASE of Asiatic cholera was discovered in a suburban town of Paris on the 11th. EVERETT & WEDDELL, private bankers, Cleveand, O., assigned. Liabilities $1,000,000. THE German Government is taking every precaution against cholera. WM. HART, charged with setting fire to the Cincinnati Court-house during the riot of last spring, was acquitted on the 11th. THE Republique Francaise denies that Admiral Courbet has occupied a town on the coast of China. SECRETARY FRELINGHUYSEN says no reciprocity treaty has recently been concluded between Canada and the United States. ITALIAN troops are blockading the roads leading into Italy to prevent the introduction of cholera. THE Comptroller of the Currency on the 11th directed an assessment of 100 per cent. on the share-holders of the First National Bank of Monmouth, III. MANAGER Gye denies that he has engaged Nilsson, Albani and Sembrich for the coming season in New York. GENERAL BUTLER refuses to say what he is going to do in the campaign. BRADFORD, Pa., was visited by the most disastrous fire in the history of the city on the 11th. Four persons were burned to death and four others were badly injured. THE County Democracy of New York celebrated Cleveland's nomination by firing 100 guns in the City-hall Park. By the arrest of a Dallas man it is believed that the seal of secrecy is removed so that extensive frauds in connection with the sale of Texas school lands will come to light. SUNSET Cox pronounces the Democratic platform the finest ever promulgated, and regards the nomination of Cleveland a very strong one. THE new National Democratic Committee will meet at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, July 24, when a permanent organization will be perfected. Rev. HENRY WARD BEECHER says that he will vote for Cleveland for President, and claims that as an Independent Repub lican he has that right,

21. July 17, 1884 The Magnolia Gazette Magnolia, MS
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LATE NEWS ITEMS. THE National Democratic Convention at Chicago completed its labors on the 11th by nominating, on the second ballot, Hon. Grover Cleveland, the present Governor of New York, as their candidate; and Hon. Thos. A. Hendricks, of Indiana, for VicePresident, by a unanimous vote of the Convention. There was the wildest enthusiasm over the nominations. THE condition of Minister Lowell is much improved. SHURMER & TEAGLE'S oil works at Cleveland, O., burned on the 11th. Loss, $20,000. A CASE of Asiatic cholera was discovered in a suburban town of Paris on the 11th. EVERETT & WEDDELL, private bankers, Cleveand, O., assigned. Liabilities $1,000,000. THE German Government is taking every precaution against cholera. WM. HART, charged with setting tire to the Cincinnati Court-house during the riot of last spring, was acquitted on the 11th. THE Republique Francaise denies that Admiral Courbet has occupied a town on the coast of China. S SECRETARY FRELINGHUYSEN says no reciprocity treaty has recently been concluded between Canada and the United States. ITALIAN troops are blockading the roads leading into Italy to prevent the introduction of cholera. THE Comptroller of the Currency on the 11th directed an assessment of 100 per a cent. on the share-holders of the First Nae tional Bank of Monmouth, III. MANAGER GYE denies that he has enf gaged Nilsson, Albani and Sembrich for the coming season in New York. t GENERAL BUTLER refuses to say what e he is going to do in the campaign. e BRADFORD, Pa., was visited by the most d disastrous fire in the history of the city on the 11th. Four persons were burned to n death and four others were badly injured. THE County Democracy of New York S celebrated Cleveland's nomination by firV ing 100 guns in the City-hall Park. By the arrest of a Dallas man it is believed that the seal of secrecy is removed so that extensive frauds in connection with the sale of Texas school lands will d come to light. o SUNSET Cox pronounces the Democratic g. s platform the finest ever promulgated, and t regards the nomination of Cleveland a very strong one. THE new National Democratic Committ tee will meet at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, e New York, July 24, when a permanent oreganization will be perfected. Rev. HENRY WARD BEECHER says that s he will vote for Cleveland for President, Sand claims that as an Independent RepubDlican he has that right.

22. November 5, 1884 Mower County Transcript Austin, Lansing, MN
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GENERAL. DR. PARET, of New York, was elected bishop by the Protestant Episcopal Conference at Baltimore. S. SELIG, wholesale milliner, San Francisco, made an assignment on the 29th. Liabilities $25,000; assets $20,000. THE People's Bank, at Canton, Ill., suspended on the 29th. Liabilities $100,000. A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 29th states that yellow fever has broken out on the west coast of Mexico. THE Armstrong well in the Thorn Creek, Pa., oil district, was torpedoed on the 27th with fifty quarts of nitroglycerine and immediately commenced to flow at a phenonenal rate. The yield per day is estimated at 9,000 barrels. Before the torpedo exploded the well was considered worthless. ON the 28th Walter Q. Gresham, secretary of the treasury, was appointed judge of the Seventh Circuit, in place of Justice Drummond, resigned. ExSecretary Hugh McCulloch takes the treasury portfolio. THE Scott liquor law was on the 28th declared unconstitutional by the supreme court of Ohio. THE U. S. steamer Tallapoosa, which was -sent to the bottom of Vineyard Sound by a collision in August last, has been raised and is now at New York navy yard for repairs. WILBUR F. STOREY, proprietor of the Chicago Times, died at his home in that city on the 27th, after a protracted illness. THE comptroller of the currency has eclared dividends of 30 per cent. in favor of the creditors of the Hot Springs Ark., National Bank and the First National Bank of Monmouth, Ill. With this dividend the creditors of the latter bank will have received 70 per cent. of their claims.

23. December 13, 1884 The Livingston Enterprise Livingston, MT
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with a shotgun, shot three men, one of a and was wrist and captured. The them, the policeman, then police fatal. shot offi- in cer's wound will probably prove A delegation of the woman's suffrage party called upon Sir John A. Macdonald, prime minister of Canada, in New York, and thanked him for incorporating women suffrage in the pending Canadian franchise bill, and tendered him a public reception. Verien's bank in Bremen has suspendded. The former manager committed sui- is cide in prison. The present manager under arrest. The suspenion of the bank ot caused the suspension of the firm Bruning of Bremen, who were large shareholders in the bank. Miss Eva Mackey, daughter of the Nevada millionaire now in Paris, who has so frequently been declared to have been engaged to different princes and noblemen, is now authoritatively announced as en- of gaged to Fernando de Colonnia, Prince Gallatro. A pearl weighing ninety-three carats and valued at $17,000, has been shipped is to London from Guaymas, Mexico. It believed to be the largest in existence. It was purchased from an Indian for $90. who recently found it at Mullejo, Lower California. The London Telegraph has purchased large tract of land in the Mojave Desert, for the purpose of using the yucca plant of which grows on it for the manufacture into paper. The plant will be ground pulp at a point on the Colorado river, and shipped by rail to New Orleans. Failures throughout the country, as reported to R. G. Dun & Co.'s mercantile in agency, number for the last seven days the United States, 294; Canada, 26; total. 320. This is an increase of seventy-one over last week. The increase is general in all sections of the country, but particularly noticeble in the southern and western states. Fielding C. Brown, generally known about Wall street as "Colonel" Brown, was killed by throwing himself from a second story window of his apartments. He No. 201 East 99th street. New York. insane from suffering, produced by was congestion of the brain. He was a "forty niner," and had lived in California thirty years. A mob of twenty men took Wm. Pitts, charged with having clubbed J. o. Harris the to death with a wagon spoke, from him officers at Doggett, Cal., and hanged to a telegraph pole. Pitts was a deserter from the United States army, having enlisted under the name of Wm. H. White in the 2d cavalry, company F, stationed at Fort Ellis, Montana. The Federal grand jury at Chicago has O. returned an indictment against B. T Hubbard, and in default of bail he was committed to jail. Hubbard was cashier of the First National bank of Monmouth, Ill., which failed last spring for about $400,000. The charge is that he embezzled or lost in speculation about $379,000. arrested de disappeared for a time,but was at Waukegan, Ills., in September. Ammen M. Tenny. P. J. Christofferson C. I. Kemp, were tried and convicted and and of polygamy, at Prescott, Arizona. sentenced to three years and six months and imprisonment at Detroit, Michigan, W. J. hundred dollars fine each; and five Fade and J. N. Skonsen, who pleaded guilty, were sentenced to six months' imprisonment at Yuma, and five hundred dollars fine each. San Francisco experienced a terrific on Monday. Ferry boats were blown run gale with great difficulty, street signs vessels down, windows blown in, several washed broke their moorings and were ashore, and many others were seriously damaged. Two sections of the sea-wall the smashed in and the breakwater at was foot of Greene street was completely estiwashed away. It is impossible to mate the damage Oscar Kauffet Harris, for twenty-two a prominent Washington journalist Mr. years of consumption. edited the National died Harris yesterday Evening Republican, Critic National Intelligencer and reat different times, and for fifteen years He ported the proceedings of congress. reported the Surratt trial and the execution, the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, and other important events, and continued the his active journalistic career up to time of his death. More Chinamen Drowned. Some days since it was reported that B. the three ton sloop which left Victoria, C., with nineteen Chinamen, who were to