5451. First National Bank (Auburn, IN)

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Bank Information

Episode Type
Suspension ā†’ Closure
Bank Type
national
Bank ID
2238
Charter Number
2238
Start Date
October 22, 1878
Location
Auburn, Indiana (41.367, -85.059)

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gpt-5-mini
Short Digest
f3e6c976

Response Measures

None

Description

Multiple dispatches (Oct 22ā€“31, 1878) report the First National Bank of Auburn, Ind. closed/suspended and will go into liquidation after heavy losses caused by the defalcation/absconding treasurer Hazard/Hazzard. No contemporaneous article describes a depositor run; the cause is a bank-specific defalcation. Date uses the Oct 22, 1878 telegraphic reports as the event date.

Events (4)
1. March 25, 1875 Chartered
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historical_nic
2. October 22, 1878 Suspension
Cause
Bank Specific Adverse Info
Cause Details
Heavy losses caused by the defalcation/absconding treasurer Hazzard (George Hazard), prompting closure and liquidation.
Newspaper Excerpt
The First National bank, which lost so heavily by its absconding treasurer Hazzard, has closed and will go into liquidation.
Source
newspapers
3. October 23, 1899 Voluntary Liquidation
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historical_nic
4. * Other
Newspaper Excerpt
has closed and will go into liquidation; compelled to close its doors and go into liquidation by absconding Treasurer Hazzard/Hazard (defalcation).
Source
newspapers

Newspaper Articles (7)
1. October 22, 1878 Daily Press and Dakotaian Yankton, SD
Article from Daily Press and Dakotaian, October 22, 1878

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TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. ANOTHER VICTIM. Boston, Mass., Oct. 22.-Cornelius Sullivan died la.t night from injuries received in the Wallaston disaster, making twenty deaths in all. IN LIQUIDATION. Chicago, Oct. 22.-An Auburn, Indians, special says the 1st national bank which lost no heavily by its absconding treasurer, Haz zard, has closed, and will go into liquidation. DODD, BROWM A CO. St. Lonis. Oct. 22.-It is reported that Dodd, Brown & Co, one of the largest wholesale dry goods house in the city, has suspended. Particulars not obtained al present. DAP TAL REDUCED. Cleveland, Oct. 23.-In view of the heavy tax imposed on the bank capital of this city, the Merchants National bank, at a meeting

2. October 23, 1878 Daily Globe Saint Paul, MN
Article from Daily Globe, October 23, 1878

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BURSTING BUSINESS. The Leading Dry Goods House of St. Louis Goes Under-Large Numbers of Mourners in New York City-Other Failures and Contractions. ST. LOUIS, Oct. 22.-It is reported that Dodd, Brown & Co., one of the largest wholesale dry goods houses in the city, has suspended. Particulars not obtainable at present. ST. LOUIS, Oct. 22.-No particulars can be obtained here of the failure of Dodd, Brown & Co. Mr. Dodd declines to make any statement of liabilities or assets until his partner, Mr. Brown, who is en route from New York, arrives here. It may be stated, however, that the cause of suspension is inability to make collections of country customers. NEW YORK, Oct. 22.-The suspension of Dodd, Brown & Co., St. Louis, caused much excitement in the dry goods trade of this city as the greater portion of liabilities are in New York. The following is a partial list of creditors in this city and the amount due them by the suspended firm: H. B. Claffin & Co., $100,000; Whitney & Collins, $75,000; Strong & Co., $25,000; Jay Langdon & Co., $18,000; George C. Richardson, $10,800; Denny, Paar & Co., $12,000; Coffin, Attimus & Co., $12,000; Lewis Bros. & Co., $30,000; Hunt, Cat in & Co., $4,000; Lawrence & Co., $10,000; Duning, Milliken & Co., $16,000; Woodward & Co., $17,000; C. Barthalow & Co., $25,000; John Slade & Co., $2,000; Bacon, Baldwin & Co., $20.000; Berry, Wendell & Co., $10,000; Pomroy & Plummer, $10,000; Richard Izelin & Co., $15,000; F. Butterfield & Co., $8,000; Keyser, Townsend & Co., $4,000; E. R. Madge & Co., $17,000; Faulkner, Page & Co., $i0,000; E. N. & W. H. Sailor, $3,500; Aufmondt & Co., $5,000; Nower, Haines & Thomas, $32,000; Law, Harriman & Co., $5,000; Brooks. Miller & Co., $5,000; Kibbee, Chaffee & Shreve, $2,000; Wright, Bliss & Tobian, $7,000; Van Valkinburgh, Hewitt & Co., $30,000; Parker, Wilder & Co., $22,000; H. J. Libby & Co., $9,000; Whitman & Phelps, $6,500; Whitemore, Peet & Post, $15,500; Brown, Jones & Co., $10,000; W. Changley & Co., $2,500; Woodward & Baldwin, $15,000. Many of the above figures are said to be below the actual amounts. The Bulletin says the liabilities it is thonght will reach $1,500,000, but no exact information on the point can yet be obtained. The greater part of the indebtedness is due to New York and mills represented here. At the office of the firm, No. 71 Thomas street, a reporter was informed that Mr. Brown had left the city for St. Louis in order to make up the books and prepare a complete statement of the condition of affairs. Until that is finished no definite information could be had regarding the liabilities or assets. At a rough estimate, however, the representative thought the liabilities would amount to from $1,250,000 to $1,500,000, probably not exceeding the latter, and the great bulk of indebtedness was due in New York. When a full statement was completed he said Mr. Brown would again return to this city and place their affairs before a full meeting of creditors for their action. CLOSED ITS DOORS. CHICAGO, Oct. 22.-An Auburn, Indiana, special says: The First National bank, which lost so heavily by its absconding treasurer Hazzard, has closed and will go into liquidation. CAPITAL REDUCED. CLEVELAND, Oct. 22.-In view of the very heavy tax imposed on the bank capital of this city, the Merchants National bank at a meeting of stockholders this morning reduced the capital from $1,200,000 to $800,000.

3. October 23, 1878 The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer Wheeling, WV
Article from The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer, October 23, 1878

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BUSINESS EMBARRASSMENTS. WILL GO INTO LIQUIDATION. CHICAGO, October 22.-An Auburn,Ind., special says: The First National Bank, which lost so heavily by its absconding Treasurer, Hazzard, has closed and will go liquidation, REDUCED ITS CAPITAL CLEVELAND, October In view of the heavy tax imposed upon bank capital in this city the Merchants' National Bank, at a meeting of the stockholders this morning, reduced their capital from $1,200,000 to $800,000. SUSPENSION OF A PROMINENT ST. LOUIS HOUSE. Sr. Louis, October 22.-It is reported that Dodd, Brown & Co., one of the largest wholesale dry goods houses in the city, has suspended. No particulars can be obtained here of the failure of Dodd, Brown & Co., Mr. Dodd declining to make any statement of the liabilities or assets until his partner, Mr. Brown, who is en route from New York, arrives here. It may be stated, however, that the cause of the suspension is the inability to make collections of their country customers. New YORK, October 22 The suspension of Dodge, Brown & Co. caused much excitement in the dry goods trade in this city. The greater portion of their liabilities are in New York. The following is a partial list of the creditors in this city and the amounts due them by the suspended firm: H. B. Chaflin & Co., $100,000; Whitney & Collins, $7,500; W. L. Strong & Co., $25,000; J. Langdan & Co., $18,000; G.C. Richardson, $8,800; Denny, Poarr & Co., $12,000; Coffin, Altenus & Co., $25,000: Lewis Bros. & Co., $30,000; Hunt, Catlin & Co., $4,000; Lawrence & Co., $10,000; Deering & Mulliken, $16,000; Woodward & Co., $12,000; C. Bartholow & Co., $25,000; John Slade & Co., $20,000; Bacon, Baldwin & Co., $2,000; Pern, Wendell & Co., $1,000; Pomeroy & Plummer, $1,000; Richard Iselin & Co., $15,000; F. Butterfield & Co., $8,000; Keyser, Townsend & Co., $4,000; E. R. Madge & Co., $17,000; Faulkner, Page & Co., $10,0000; E.M. & W. H. Sayler, $35,000; Aufmordt & Co., $5,000; Krower, Haines & Thomas, $32,000; Low, Harriman & Co., $35,000; Brooks, Frilla & Co., $5,000; Wright, Bliss & Fabian, $1,000; Van Valkenburg, Leavitt& Co., $30,000; Parker, Wilder & Co., $22,000; H. . J. Libby & Co.,$9,000; Whitman & Phelps, $8,500; Whitmore, Peet Post, $15,000; Brown, Jones & Co., $10,000; W. C. Langley & Co., $2,500; Woodward & Baldwin, $15,000. Many of the above amounts are said to be below the actual figures. The Bulletin says: The liabilities, it is thought, will reach nearly $1,500,000, but no exact information caniyet be obtained. A greater part of the indebtedness is due to New York.At the office of the firm, No. Thomas street, a reporter was informed that Mr. Brown left the city the night before forSt. Louis. In order to make up the books and papers a full statement of the condition of affairs must be had. Until that is furnished no definite information could be had regarding the liabilities or assets. At a rough estimate, however, the representative thought the liabilities would amount to from $1,250,000 to $1,500,000, probably not exceeding the latter, and the great bulk of the indebtedness was due in New York. When a full statement was completed he said Mr. Brown would again return to this city and place their affairs before a full meeting of the creditors for their action.

4. October 30, 1878 The Lamoille News Hyde Park, VT
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# Western and Southern States. Five illicit distilleries were recently destroyed in one day in Putnam Co., Tenn., by United States revenue officers. Official returns from Ohio give Barnes, Republican candidate for secretary of State, a plurality of 3 154. The California constitutional convention adopted a resolution to memoralize the President and the United States Senate to so modify the Burlingame treaty as to prohibit Chinese immigration. Five people were drowned near Sandford, in Orange county, Fla., a few days ago. Two were ladies named Hughey, and two were children of Calvin Martin. The fifth was a man named Melves. They were in a wagon en route for home from camp-meeting, and drove into a deep hole at the lake side. A sixth person was rescued after standing up in the wagon for several hours with the water up to his chin. George T. Nelson, while climbing a fence near Kennedyville, Md., was accidentally killed by the discharge of his gun. When the news of the accident reached his mother, six hours after, she was so overcome that she died of grief. By the bursting of a boiler belonging to a sawmill near McLeansboro, Ill., the proprietor and another man were killed and three other men were fatally injured. Ten persons were poisoned at a wedding feast at Azalia, Ind. They partook of food in which some person supposed to be a disappointed lover of the bride-had placed strych nine. Three of the persons affected were made dangerously ill. A Memphis (Tenn) dispatch says a party of white men killed a colored man near Glencoe, Tenn., shooting him while in bed, in his own house. In retaliation a party of colored men captured and killed a white man supposed to have been the murderer, while asleep on the porch of a grocery at Cuba, on the next night. It turned out they killed the wrong man. The failure of Stagle Brothers, of Greenfield, Ohio, is the heaviest that has occurred in that section for years. They owned the largest farm in Fayette county. It comprised 2,200 acres. The liabilities exceed $120,000; the assets will probably reach ten per cent. The appearance of frosts in the districts of the South given up to yellow fever was the cause of great rejoicing among the long-suffering people. The epidemic immediately decreased in the number of deaths and of new cases to such an extent that the medical and charitable associations of the large cities, called into existence by the plague, began to end their labors, while many persons, who had fled from the fever, returned to their homes. The First national bank, of Auburn, Ind., which suffered so heavily from the defalcation of George Hazard, its late cashier, has suspended. The failure of Dodd, Brown & Co., the largest dry goods house in St. Louis, is announced. The depression in trade caused by the yellow fever in the South, was one of the principal causes of the failure. The firm's liabilities are estimated to be between $1,500,000 and $2,000,000, with assets of about $1,000,000. "Big Mike" Roark, leader of a gang of Western highwaymen, for whose capture a reward of $3,000 had been out, was taken prisoner near Kansas City, Mo., and a companion named Dement was shot dead. This breaks up one of the most desperate gangs of train robbers in the country. Telegrams received in Omaha, Neb., show that prairie fires in Butler, Seward and Saunders counties, are far more destructive and sweeping than was at first supposed. The fire originated in the Platte river bottom, northwest of David City, and extended over territory eight by twenty-five miles in extent, sweeping away every growing thing, stacks of hay and grain, barns, farm houses, etc. Leaping the Republican valley railroad track, burning telegraph poles and even ties off the railroad, in many places making a solid wall of flame, it swept down on David City with fearful rapidity. The town was barely saved by promptly setting a back fire, not two minutes too soon. Bone Creek valley, a splendid farming region and thickly settled, is a scene of black desolation, having been swept perfectly clean. The same is the case to the south and east. Fine groves, with which most of the farmers have protected their houses and farm buildings-for which Butler county is noted-are completely swept away, and years will be necessary to restore them. The very door yards of Brainard village were burned. In the overwhelming wind the flames leaped all ordinary fire guards with ease. Had the railroad proved a barrier the villages of Oak creek and of the head waters of Blue river, now burned over, would have escaped. Seven persons were burned to death, many more were severely injured, and the destruction of farming property is immense. # From Washington. The recent decision in the internal revenue bureau that persons who sell certain patent medicines known as "bitters," either by the drink or in unbroken packages, are liquor dealers, and are liable to special taxes as such, will take effect from and after January 1, 1878 instead of November 1, as heretofore ordered. During a recent session of the cabinet the heads, of the various departments presented their estimates for the next fiscal year. The curious device of a postmaster to add to his salary is made public by the following Washington dispatch: The president has pardoned Jacob Carver, late postmaster at Warsaw, Ky. convicted of opening letters and sentenced to a year's imprisonment. The compensation of Carver was very small, and he attempted to add to his emoluments by selling postage stamps, upon which he received a commission. In order to increase the number of stamps disposed of, he opened registered letters passing through his office, extracted the money and substituted the value thereof in postage stamps. The persons to whom the letters were directed received the value of the money sent them in stamps, but the government was defrauded out of a commission for the sale thereof. He has already served six months of his term and having lost a leg in the Union.

5. October 31, 1878 The Somerset Press Somerset, OH
Article from The Somerset Press, October 31, 1878

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REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NEWS SECRETARY resume on government of January. SHERMAN be fully is able confident to that NEW Russian ship-yard "America," a few launched days cruiser, at a Philadelphia named the THE First National falcation has suspended because Bank of Auburn, Ind., & Co., Baltiniore of chashier which $50,000 Liabilities THE banking of George suspended Hazzard Claubaugh of the late alleged Nelson deabout $100,000. of on the 23d. secured. P. was ISAACS RICHARD executed on Mo. Harrison. He died the killing penitent of Henderson the 25th R. of Clarke. October, for at the PIERRE PROVOST, Vacelet Vincennes, mitted suicide family, in near the murderer Ind., of com. the Saturday THE night, jail Railroad National Guage in opened Convention, 23d instant representing with about attendance of Cincinnar delegates on the DESTRUCTIVE railroads, raging along the prairie line fires have been The publican Valley of the Omahs for THE Secretary losses official to property returns Railroad of have been in very Nebraska great. polled of State Indiana show 179,049, and James, Moore, ocratic cratic majority 13,140. 194,990 votes, Shanklin, 39,885. Republican Democrat. Dem. that INFORMATION shal, and Early, Nat Deputy is received United to the effect that it is not and were riddled They known which with balls, but into day shooting. in a melee Franklin Williams County, were Va. killed States Satur Mar got reported. St. from Louis TELEG As yet party did the announce of Dodd, failure liabilities goods merchants of reason Their wholesale at million yet dry and assigned are half Brown estimated for of dollars. & in Co., New that The only leading York city. the due the bills tardiness OUR government of country firm merchant the failure in meeting the move. the interest. may apprehensive the ments They Mexican Rio are of Grande the border Mexican are and considerable regular watching officers forces the on toward among uprising our tointerfere. forces grand disorder the which lawless. may and compel cause state of THE petrified found ville, Friday, seven remains of a mastadon Ind by J. K. miles west of were inches flat, covered one is the ridges, prong entire, twelve with ing on small in the pounds, diameter. gravel fifteen road, The Meacham, inches One face long tooth is while weighed work. Rock. off. are others broken at received Blooming. INTELLIGENCE New from ton, Illinois, Adolph at the Hotel of fever yellow Dieu, urer of Bloomington, Bennecke, had died Orleans, that City Treasview Bennecke of went to New It is thought that ily are contracting in the disease. Orleans with the stances. this city, in destitute His circum- famrison THE Mob' forty. was of Club Sewell, 21st, Room, Wendell by Col. Besides Phillips, reception F. W. A. Bronson, in Woman's Boston Alcott present "Gar on the Wildes, Judge and Mayor Garrison, Speeches Alcott Judge were made Thomas Higginson, by Russell and Marshal Phillips, others. P. night of of o. died Bishop just lungs, to about Columbus BISHOP he 21st was ROSECRANS, of hemorrhage Buffum, suddenly Catholic of of the on Lynn. the usual the morning health er services. up to the He enter had been the Cathedral in his for carried a series of him hemorrhages off commenced of the 21st, W.S. General stationed Francisco. Rosecrans, Deceased was before the close of the which day. A D of John WHOLE family, consisting his and two was sons, brutally Vacelet, an with near their farm butchered on the of 23, night October Vincennes, in the Their hired room hand, slept of was the with sons, committing the and The was object murder to two the have theft been only appears or the three which hundred dollars, family had accumulated and church. BETWEEN Sunday daylight time the vaults going ings masked with away nearly the burglars, Bank who were made gutted by the Manhattan band of Savof booty, millions proportion of The negotiable. which,fortunately. to as compelled temporarily and They gagged suspend payments. the and bound him janitor, compelled of the the safe. disclose the combination of the W.O Clerk Chief formerly AVERY, has suit entered Treasury Department, the of of Co. the Court District Supreme to B.F. against recover Butler, lumbia,a five dein his dollars. hundred Avery, of the sets the that time forth claration. in fraud trials Louis, 1875, whisky he five Butler gave hundred dollars to defend him, retainer, throughout trial he was failed and Butler appear, to obliged counsel. procure A took place domestic TERRIBLE tragedy the of on the near Ohio, night Marietta, to of the 25th went October Tyler Henry of his wife's father residence was wife bed board. staying, absenting herself where his he volver arrest left, him, at and her. shot when Supposing and fired the three had shots killed from of his few hours after. himself. It and attempted lived accounts. ON the wife would thought, at latest Wailes. Brucle difficulty house, Friday Parish occurred night, of Iberville between at Plaquemine recover. La., serious Court e receipt of arose over and the State Senator B. Charles F. of from the of se J.H. and cation State Central C. Zacharie, Committee, who, a in communication behalf Domination, le men were both opponent nĀ° mortally. of He any indorsement the bitter gn no to dictate right torney the of Acklen contended had that the hired Acklen PRAIRIE people of Iberville siderable portion fires, extending ris ak ho southeast Kansas, North were of Sioux most of destructive City, Iowa, through e twenty miles Nebraska, is he Ness, Ellis, Nebraska of Rush, Decatur, Platte Rivers, Platte, in the Western Nebraska, Trego, in Iowa, and along South the en Kansas. Graham, and Rooks Gove, Wallace tha vailed the flames, in Lincoln. Many and persons unconfirmed have yesterday Counties, in report perished

6. October 31, 1878 Little Falls Transcript Little Falls, MN
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MISCELLANEOUS. J. G. Joseph & Co., wholesale jewellers at Toronto have failed. Liabilities $260,000. The Ocean Mills at Newburgport, Mass., have been sold at auction for $105,000 to E. R. Mudge, of Boston. Twenty thousand ople were present at the opening of the Fair in the new Cathoic Cathederal in New York city. The banking house of Clabough, Nel son & Co., Boltimore Md, has suspended and made an assignment. Liabilities $1,000,000. The dry goods house of Ray & Bro., of Montreal has failed. Liabilities $300,000. Outside speculation in real estate was the cause. Snow to the depth of nine inches fell in the northwestern part of Ontario, on Sunday night. Oct., 27th, doing great damage to fruit and other trees. A dispatch from Vienna says the Porte has addressed a circular to the powers declareing the insurrection of the Bulgarians is fostered by slave agitators. An Auburn, Ind., special says, the First National bank which lost so heavily by its absconding treasurer, Hazzard, has closed and will go into liquidation. The steam ship Canada reached New York Oct. 24th, from Harve bringing $450,000 in gold coin. The steamship Lessing from Hamburg brings $350,000 in gold coin. A dispatch from Pera says the Briish vice-consul at Bourgas has been seriously assaulted by Russian officers, and the Russians refuse to allow the Biitish man-of-war Condon to go to Bourgas. Information has been received to the effect that General Trevino, commanding the Mexican forces on the Rio Grande, has already dispersed several bands of marauding Indians found on the Mexican side. The damage done in Philadelphia alone by the late wind storm is estimated at two millions of dollars. The damage in the sweeps of the storm throughout the region visited is beyond computation. In accordance with orders of the Governor, the arms of the first and second infantry, Crescent City Batallion and Orleans artillery, were removed to Mechanics' Institution, where they wi'l be guard.d by at least fo.ty men until after the election. The United States war department has received information which makes it now appear probabl. that the Diaz gvernment has sent a large body of Mexican soldiers to the Rio Grande border to co-operate with the United States to prevent depredations along the border. A Glasgow, Scotland, telegram says: The liabilities of John Innes, Wright & Co. are over $500,000,00.0. The assets are comparatively meager. It is the Glasgow house only that fails, both Wright and Scott have retired from the London and Rangson concerns after the failure of the City of Glasgow bank. The slaughter house and pork packing establishment, of Christian Klin.p of East Buffalo, N. Y., has been destroyed by fire. Only about forty out of some 400 live hogs were saved. An immense quantity of pork, lard and dressed ho_s were destroyea. Estimatede loss. $160,000; insurance, $86,000. The frosts in the fever ravaged portion of the South, continues with increased vigor. Physicians anticipate a speedy and entire termination of the fever. Business is reviving. refugees are returning, and many of them find that their houses have been plundered during their absence. In the matter of an application for an injunction against the issue of the $2,000,000 loan for completing the Cincinnati Southern railway. the superior court has decided the loan constitutional and the bonds legal, and refused to grant the injunction, hence the city of Cincinnati must foot the till. J. H. Burke, a stockholders of the Consolidated Virginia Mining company, has brought suit in the Twenty-third district courtof California, to recover from J. Good J. W. McKey, J. G. Fair and the Pacific Mill & Mining company $26,000,000, alleged to have been wrongfully taken from the stockholders of the Consolidated Virginia by defendants in the manipulation of ore and retention of tolling of the company. The firm of Dodd, Brown & Co., one of the largest wholesale dry goods houses in St. Louis, has failed. Liabilities supposed to be one and a half million dollars. The cause of the failure is too extensive credit to country dealers, and the impossitility of collecting their dues. The indebtedness is mostly in New York city. They owe H. B. Claflin & Co., $100,000. They owe more than a score of other New York firms, ranging amounts from $2,000 to $75,000. A Vienna correspondent says, if the latcst news be true, affairs near Constantinople are more and more assuming the same semi hostile phase as before the meeting of the Berlin congress. Turkish troops have been moved into position vacated by the Russians, and earthworks are being repaired and armed before Constantinople and Gallipoli. The Turks are arranging to increase their forces, and are summoning half-pay officers to activeduty. A special committee for the defense of the capital has been formed at the Seraskierate.

7. November 1, 1878 Perrysburg Journal Perrysburg, OH
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WEST AND SOUTH. At Cincinnati on the morning of the 22d, the dwelling of Michael Reuter was burned. Reuter upon awakening ran up stairs to rescue his little daughter: in doing 80 he was obliged to pass directly through the flames. He found the child with her night clothes burning and seizing her rushed back through the flames, reaching the ground in safety, but he was so badly burned that it is doubtful whether he will recover His arms were burned almost to the bone, and the flesh was scorched off his back. The child was severely burned about the face and arms. In consequence of heavy losses through an absconding Treasurer, the First National Bank of Auburn, Ind., has been compelled to close its doors and go into liquidation. Destructive prairie fires were raging in Polk County and other portions of Nebraska on the 22d. Several persons were burned to death and a number of others severely burned. The loss to property is very great. The failure of Dodd, Brown & Co., of St. Louis, one of the largest wholesale dry goods firms in the West, was announced on the 22d Cause of suspension, inability to make collections from country customers. Liabilities estimated at $1,500,000, principally due in New York. A Narrow Guage Railway Convention assembled at Cincinnati on the 23d. In an address delivered by the President of the Convention that gentlemen stated that there were nearly 3,100 miles of narrow guage railways in the United States, the greater portion of which had been built in the last five years, and as many more are now projected. The committee's report claimed that a narrow guage engine of the same capacity as the standard engine can take up the same grade more tons of paying freight because it has less dead weight of cars, and that in the transportation of passengers the same rule would prevail. Clabaugh, Nelson & Co., bankers of Baltimore. Md. suspended on the 23d. Liabilities about $100,000; assets mostly real estate and book accounts. The Socialists of St. Louis have a full ticket in the field, made up of candidates on other tickets and endorsed by them Decatur and Edwards Counties in Sappa Valley, Kan., recently raided by the Chey ennes, have been devastated by prairie fires, and nearly everything not destroyed by the Indians consumed. Several persons, it is reported, perished in the flames. Dan Dement, the wounded train robber who escaped when the leader of the gang was captured a few days ago, was overtaken on the night of the 22d by Detective Light, fifteen miles from Ellsworth, Kan., and in the struggle which ensued, was shot and killed by Light. Hon. John S. Carlisle, formerly United States Senator from West Virginia, and who took an active part in the formation of that State, died at his residence in Clarksburg on the 24th. A Commercial Congress will be held at Chicago on the 12th of November. The object of the convention is to devise means for the extension of our trade and commerce across the continent and with foreign countries. The President, Governors of States, members of Congress and Ministers from South Ainer can States, Mexico, China and Japan have been invited A special dispatch from Vincennes, Ind., to the Indianapolis Journal, on the 24th, gives an account of the murder of John D. Vacelet, wife and two sons, who resided about two miles south of that city. Pierre Provost. farm hand who lived with them, gave the alarm On going to the house the neighbors found the two sons, aged fourteen and six teen, in bed, the father lying in the doorway to adjoining room, and in the next room the mother in bed, all dead and cold. The deed had evidently been done with an axe. the heads and throats of the victims being gashed and cut by such weapon. Two or three bloody axes were found Provost could give no satisfactory account of the affair and he was placed under arrest. The circumstances entirely against him. At Harrisonville, Mo., on the 25th, Richard T. Isaac was hanged for the murder of Henderson B. Clark. Over 5,000 people witnessed the execution. An Associated Press dispatch says James E Anderson, who was in Indianapolis the 25th, was interviewed by a reporter the Herald, and made confession which, true, clears up the mystery surrounding the Sherman letter, and exonerates Secretary Sherman from all complicity in the matter. He says the authorship of the letter lies between Senator Kellogg and Conquest Clark, who was his private secretary at the time d that Mrs. Jenks never saw it, and that the original letter is now in the possession of gentleman of Philadelphia and can be produced at any time. Anderson says he was made the dupe of Sypher, his cousin, and of compelled to go before the Potter Committee. Official returns from all but four counties in Iowa on the vote for Secretary of State the recent election, give Hull, Republican. 6,989 majority. Unofficial returns from the four counties increase the majority to 8,862. The funeral of Bishop Rosecrans was held at St. Joseph Cathedral in Columbus on the 24th in the presence of an immense crowd. The last sad rites of the church were celebrated by Archbishop Purcell, assisted by Bishops Foley, Burgiss, Gilmore, Chetard, Kaine and Toebbe, Chief Dull Knife and his band, who captured in the South Hills on the 22d b were detachment of the Third Cavalry, and after n ward escaped and fortified themselve under ed the bank of Chardon Creek, came out of their works at noon on the 27th, Carlton, manding the troops, having received artillery com and sent them word previously by his er that if they did not come out and surrende guide he would blow them from the face of of earth. After being disarmed they wer th ad marched to Camp Robinson. Neb. where the arrived about midnight of the 27th. ed The official vote Indiana at the late elec tion gives John H. Shanklin, Democratic rn18e didate for Secretary of State, 13,736 plurality lan As compared with the vote of 1876 the Demo crats the lost 18,673, the Republicans 27,325 age Nationals gained 26,235. rk, Senator Kellogg, -on the 26th, denied stistatement of Anderson so far it relates Th the him and the so-called Sherman letter. Senator stated that there is no such ent tic his knowledge, and that the whole statement letter is the task of a man in his cups. on, een Provost, the suspected murderer of t) rs. Vacelet family, hung himself on the 28th his cell in the jail at Vincennes, Ind. ing Ka our The State Normal School building of T sas, at Emporia, burned on the 26th. on building cost $85,000 and was not insured and Charles Etheridge, St. Paul, Minn. set $35,000 surance agent, absconded on the 26th, of funds belonging to other ork The Cincinnati Enquirer, on the 28th, parties. lished the statistics and approximate estimates the crop for 1878 in three States The an increase over lows: bushels, Fifty-one counties in Ohio, last being me 1,500,000 bushels. Forty-eight The