5489. Bank of Brookston (Brookston, IN)

Bank Information

Episode Type: Suspension → Closure
Bank Type: state
Start Date: May 12, 1893
Location: Brookston, Indiana (40.603, -86.867)

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Short Digest: 8e071dcb

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Multiple articles (May 1893) report that the collapse of the Columbia National Bank in Chicago caused the failure/closing of numerous country banks including Brookston. One dispatch (New-York Tribune, 1893-05-13) explicitly states the doors at Brookston were closed at noon. No reports of reopening appear in the articles. Cause is the collapse/distress of a correspondent/connected large city bank (Columbia National).

Events (1)

1. May 12, 1893 Suspension

Cause: Correspondent
Cause Details: Collapse of the Columbia National Bank in Chicago and its connections with country banks led to a drain and closure of the Bank of Brookston; articles list Brookston among banks forced to close after Columbia's suspension/failure.
Newspaper Excerpt: At Brookston noon the doors were closed ... depositors badly ...
Source: newspapers

Newspaper Articles (7)

1. May 13, 1893 New-York Tribune New York, NY

Article from New-York Tribune, May 13, 1893

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PRICE THREE CENTS. MANY MORE BANKS CLOSE. NATIONAL DRAGGED DOWN BY THE COLUMBIA REP HOW LITTLE PROSPECT OF THE CHICAGO DWIGGINS BANK BUSINESSSUMING AND STARBUCK OPERATED. fail. no more BY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.] bank In the clearer Chicago, May 12. There the were atmosphere ls bank little enough however, ures here to-day city and according to prominent failures of of the ers. There banks, were, all connections In cause some some way wonder country Columbia National of this in city its effects to that failure or more may as to According how far-reaching to the dispatches wall a dozen as the direct be. have been: forced to the banks the failure of the Columbia. be Bank able to ing com his rbination result The of prospect resume of the Is remote. Columbia The National financiering is so inex of that Zinirl Dwiggins mixed with and the affairs of disentanglement the bank tricably much worl. to effect branched out upon It Dwiggins will take and J. M. Starbuck scheme for the establish- of of they an extensive chain and of ambitious country banks. are A connected partial 11st shows ment the institutions with in which Illinois, two in Michigan. the course four six in Indiana, six three Wisconsin. In loaded with in Ohio and two or National became no time the Columbia stock for which It had as of mass of country bank which it was not earning states as money was special use, and It upon should. Then incorporated the United under much Loan and Trust Company with Zimri Dwiggins as the prest- basis bank the laws of Indiana. represented that upon 12 per cent dent. Its prospectus stocks yiel ing 8, debenture 10 and bonds of country dividends, 3 and security 6 per in every case being value at least worth would cent be issued, 33 the per cent more than the face guarof the United bond. States Loan principal and Trust and Company interest The the was vigorously Bank to-day anteed The the payment of exploited. and inquiry revealed at the and Illinois matter Trust $250,000 and Savings of the United States been registered Loan has Trust fact that Company's connection debentures it should had be understood nothing there. the In Illinois this Trust and company. Savings Bank except to security take that to do with the collaterals offered as for whatever in escrow the register such bonds. the form what and the hold debenture bonds arrangement and to took as between been not has company It secure is plain. possession Just the Columbia and the certain trust that the Columbia of the so company. into made ties found their way into and It the is to be presumed the Colum- that be called proceeds trust found their exact way. back method of procedure will to as one the bia's cash box. uncertained but the The trust of concern the largest of and the at rating in is yet all probability bank. turn The up United States the commercial Loan Other Trust debtors Company has facts no are also coming Bank was to light, interdirectly the largest agencies. going show that the or indirectly Columbia in many of outside these, the business ested either enterprises One of of a World's Fair first specula- and which was in famous the nature Mecca Hotel at three Thirty stories in tion, was This enormous solid structure. block. was Dwiggins, built on State sts. and occupying a great extent by defunct were height money furnished financial to directors of the both diwithdrew. Starbuck Columbia. & Co.. Dwiggins corporation and Starbuck until short Dwlg. time rectors when of the they Meeca allege this that and they other matters this ago, was asked about little. the gins but would say Studges very was asked If would Government he said: ait When rnoon, Bank Examiner Institute proceedings don't against know. the do. can't not you officers tell of what the bank. the discovered Government im gularities will Have answer that. "I Have won't you anything this much to say The affairs D. of A. the Cook, Cowill say shape that there, "I are in such bad who is in charge it for assistance. lumbia the State Bank Examiner. am going to get him must as have soon as can. rumors prevailed. and bankers' there but waning of During to-day scattered indications many all along exettement. the While the there depositors streets were was of nothing feeble at all like appeared run to on any be uneasy. and to-day banks, workingmen savings left off to employme draw out their there savMany were early at the bankers banks anticipated this. dimination and of ings. But the of uneasiness and great no body of depositors. was no show the part of the bank is said to be supplied smaller confidence Every on Clearing with House funds, and banks no are further not of by abundantly trouble is anticipated. the big The bankers that in their even outlook should taken note situation. and they more say failures among alter those the feeller institutions of there the be one or two it wouldn't materially of the branch situation. depositors in the Exposition Hive outside of Chicago, them The Pank, who amounts due Chemical National to-day that the the Exposition toreceived would be notice paid before the close of Morristown this night. Indianapolis. May 12 (Special). Bank closed At its to doors. meet its It morning the that Commerce the bank present will be flurry able is past bustis thought and when resumed. the were end obligations will probably be Fowler state that Oxford there Arcadia ness Dispatches from banks of Boswell. being that they were Later embarras hard runs today. en the the indication it was reported that the closed At Brookston noon and doors depositors badly Eoswell bank the was Commercial closed. made Bank application at to have its appointed. to day assignment for receiver Bank of Greenwood made A drain on the but bank one that The the benefit of the morning. creditors. and there being all depositors began early in the doors were closed result possible the same footing. CenThe says: A Lebanon might dispatch stand on from the Attlea to-day is running today, but on temporarily. the of account trat will probably Bank, of have West failure to of close. the at Columbia least National Bank x-Govto-day of Chicago. of the banks which of the falled Board of Directors private and ernor was large impaired If is not of banking concerns the In three Chase was a stockholder. member crash The Governor's entirely swallowed fortune the will failures. be The feeling of uneashness in created 1873. informed in up Indiana which has has not existed since was like State of Auditor that Henderson the not Commercial meet its demands State of Bank Bank this of morning Russiaville suspension could of the Columbia organized National January is Tindley were owing to Chicago. the The bank president was and R. W. Miles pante failure State 1. 1892. It J.T. is thought that of the the directors Columbia and Auditor that stricken cashier. by have the continued state Bank business. Examiner Teeter record to they Henderson a should has sent of the bank. capital The directors' of $30,000 and assume show that charge the the bank amount has of eretal a $35,000. Bank is Its one assets of to about are be deposit* about #70,000 The Indiana Comme that National. are thought The PortState twenty banks with in the Columbia vesterday. was bank the land connected Bank, that group. suspended This was the The first State banks largest close of in the Indiana examined in twenty and years. their reports indicated Bank, were to recently substantial condition. the Farmers' that they were from in Kokomo says management as bank's the A dispatch under the suspended same w-day. The Ru-slaville at Pank, placed also at $60,000. 1 this morno'clock are 2.-About an Ing courter liabilities Portland. Ind.. from May Dunkirk arrived here and

2. May 18, 1893 The Worthington Advance Worthington, MN

Article from The Worthington Advance, May 18, 1893

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JOHN MAHIN'S residence and two other houses at Muscatine, Ia., were destroyed by dynamite. Mr. Mahin is editor of the Muscatine Journal, postmaster and .an ardent prohibitionist, and the residences destroyed were those of prominent citizens who have been active in prosecuting saloon cases. NEAR Lakeport, Ark., the levee gave way, flooding thousands of acres of cotton land and causing heavy losses to planters. IN Chicago the Columbia national bank suspended with liabilities of over $1,000,000. The principal business of the bank was with country banks and they will be the chief sufferers. THE doors of the Capital national bank at Indianapolis were closed with liabilities of $1,000,000. THE Danube left Portland, Ore., for China with 406 Chinese on board who had been refused admission to the United States. ON the Ohio River railroad a freight train went off the tracks at Walkers, W. Va., falling 35 feet, and three men were killed. CHARLES LUTTRELL and John Z. Carlisle were hanged at Sherman, Tex., for the murder of W. T. Sherman at Denison on April 28, 1892. AT Grand Ridge, III., R. J. Horinck, conductor of a general store nd.private bank, failed for $300,000, and scores of farmers are ruined by the disaster. THE members of the local world's fair directory passed a resolution that the fair should be open Sundays on and after May 21, the admission to the grounds to be twenty-five cents, and the big exhibit buildings to be closed. This action may be annulled by the national commission. AT Charleston, S. c., Joe Brannon, aged 19. was hanged for the murder of Stephen Kearney on the 31st of August last. THE Columbia national bank collapse in Chicago caused the failure of banks at Russiaville, Greentown. Oxford, Morristown, Arcadia, Spiceland, Orleans, Hebron, Brookston, Dunkirk, Geneva, Boswell, Knox, West Lebanon and Gieenwood in Indiana, the Richland, Edwardsburg, Lawton, Rockford and Charlevoix banks in Michigan, the bank of Oregon in Wisconsin, the bank of Casey in Illinois and the bank at Clearmount in Ohio. TWENTY-FIVE ringleaders of the mob that took from jail at Chattanooga, Tenn., Alfred Blount, a negro assaulter, and hanged him. have been indicted for murder. EAST of Pinckney, Mich., several farms were swept by a cyclone and buildings were wrecked and several persons were hurt, but not seriously, though many horses and sheep were killed. OHIO prohibitionists will meet in state convention at Cleveland June 27 and 28. THE firm of Kendall & Smith, the largest millers in Nebraska, failed at Lincoln for $250,000. IN Milwaukee the big department store of Frank A. Lappen & Co. and the furniture store of the Lappen Furniture company failed for $500,000. W. H. THOMAS & SON, the largest dealers in old Kentucky whisky in the world. suspended at Louisville with liabilities of $600,000. IN session at Louisville, Ky., the National Republican College league elected L. E. Hawkins, of Syracuse university, as president.

3. May 18, 1893 The State Republican Jefferson City, MO

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WEST AND SOUTH. THE Republican League clubs met in national convention in Louisville, Ky., delegates from thirty-three states being present. A MOB lynched a young negro who tempted to assault a daughter of Capt. James Wham at Chestnut Ridge, & C. IN the nineteenth annual Kentucky derby at Louisville six horses participated, Lookout winning by four lengths in 2:39 14. JOHN MAHIN'S residence and two other houses at Muscatine, Ia., were destroyed by dynamite. Mr. Mahin is editor of the Muscatine Journal, postmaster and an ardent prohibitionist, and the residences destroyed were those of prominent citizens who have been active in prosecuting saloon cases. FLAMES swept away one-half of Spring Lake, Mich., and fifty families were homeless. Total loss, $175,000. W. W. TRACEY, of Springfield, III., was chosen president of the National League of Republican clubs at the session in Louisville. NEAR Lakeport, Ark., the levee gave way, flooding thousands of acres of cotton land and causing heavy losses to planters. IN Chicago the Columbia national bank suspended with liabilities of over $1,000,000. The principal business of the bank was with country banks and they will be the chief sufferers. THE doors of the Capital national bank at Indianapolis were closed with liabilities of $1,000,000. THE Danube left Portland. Ore., for China with 406 Chinese on board who had been refused admission to the United States. ON the Ohio River railroad a freight train went off the tracks at Walkers, W. Va., falling 35 feet, and three men were killed. CHARLES LUTTRELL and John Z. Carliste were hanged at Sherman, Tex, for the murder of W. T. Sherman at Denison on April 88, 1893. AT Grand Ridge, III., R. J. Horinck, conductor of a general store and private bank, failed for $800,000, and scores of farmers are ruined by the disaster. THE members of the local world's fair directory passed a resolution that the fair should be open Sundays on and after May 21, the admission to the grounds to be twenty-five cents, and the big exhibit buildings to be closed. This action may be annulled by the national commission. THE Columbia national bank collapse in Chicago caused the failure of banks at Russiaville, Greentown. Oxford, Morristown, Arcadia, Spiceland, Ordeans, Hebron, Brookston, Dunkirk, Geneva, Boswell, Knox, West Lebanon and Greenwood in Indiana, the Richland, Edwardsburg, Lawton, Rockford and Charlevoix banks in Michigan, the bank of Oregon in Wisconsin, the bank of Casey in Illinois and the bank at Clearmount in Ohio. TWENTY-FIVE ringleaders of the mob that. took from jail at Chattanooga Tenn., Alfred Blount, a negroassaulter. and hanged him. have been indicted for murder.

4. May 18, 1893 River Falls Journal River Falls, WI

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CHARLES LUTTRELL and John Z. Carlisle were hanged at Sherman, Tex., for the murder of W. T. Sherman at Denison on April 28. 1892. AT Grand Ridge, III., R. J. Horinck, conductor of a general store andiprivate bank, failed for $300,000. and scores of farmers are ruined by the disaster. THE members of the local world's fair directory passed a resolution that the fair should be open Sundays on and after May 21. the admission to the grounds to be twenty-five cents, and the big exhibit buildings to be closed. This action may be annulled by the national commission. AT Charleston, S. C., Joe Brannon, aged 19. was changed for the murder of Stephen Kearney on the 31st of August last. THE Columbia national bank collapse in Chicago caused the failure of banks at Russiaville, Greentown. Oxford, Morristown, Arcadia, Spiceland, Orleans, Hebron, Brookston. Dunkirk, Geneva, Boswell, Knox. West Lebanon and Greenwood in Indiana, the Riehland, Edwardsburg, Lawton. Rockford and Charlevoix banks in Michigan, the bank of Oregon in Wisconsin, the bank of Casey in Illinois and the bank at Clearmount in Ohio. TWENTY-FIVE ringleaders of the mob that took from jail at Chattanooga, Tenn., Alfred Blount, a negroassaulter, and hanged him, have been indicted for murder. EAST of Pinekney, Mich., several farms were swept by a cyclone and buildings were wreeked and several persons were hurt. but not seriously, though many horses and sheep were killed. OHIO prohibitionists will meet in state convention at Cleveland June 27 and 28. THE firm of Kendall & Smith, the largest millers in Nebraska, failed at Lincoln for $250,000. IN Milwaukee the big department store of Frank A. Lappen & Co. and the furniture store of the Lappen Furniture company failed for $500,000. W. II. THOMAS & SON, the largest dealers in old Kentucky whisky in the world. suspended at Louisville with liabilities of $600,000. IN session at Louisville, Ky., the National Republican College league elected L. E. Hawkins, of Syracuse university, as president. THE Illinois and Sangamon rivers in Cass county, III., overflowed and several thousand aeres of rich farming lands were flooded, entirely destroying the wheat sown last fall. THE doors of the Kissamee (Fla.) City bank were closed with liabilities of $100,000. L. F. PRICE, a conductor on a train at Seymour, Ind., was shot and killed by John Turley and a mob took the murderer from jail at Bedford and lynched him. THE founder and principal of the Hampton institute for negroes and Indians near Fort Monroe, Va., Gen. Samuel C. Armstrong, died at Hampton, aged 54 years. IN the case of W C. Rippey, accused of assaulting John W. Mackay in San Francisco with intent to kill, the jury was dismissed, having failed to reach an agreement. AT Brook's mill in Arkansas a crevasse gave way causing the destruction of crops in eight or nine parishes. NEAR Kenova. W. Va., an extensive was analysis tin-ore mine per found, tin. the showing 70 cent. pure A PICKPOCKET robbed N. B. Martans, 70 years of age, of Woodland, Cal., of $4,100 on the world's fair grounds in Chicago. FIRE destroyed the Standard Oil company's-works at Whiting, Ind., the loss being $100,000. AT Calamet, Mich., ten men fell 3,000 feet to their death down the Red Jacket shaft of the Calumet and Hecla mine.

5. May 18, 1893 Warren Sheaf Warren, MN

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JOHN MAHIN'S residence and two other houses at Muscatine, Ia., were destroyed by dynamite. Mr. Mahin is editor of the Muscatine Journal, postmaster and an ardent prohibitionist, and the residences destroyed were those of prominent citizens who have been active in prosecuting saloon cases. NEAR Lakeport, Ark., the levee gave way, flooding thousands of acres of cotton land and causing heavy losses to planters. IN Chicago the Columbia national bank suspended with liabilities of over $1,000,000. The principal business of the bank was with country banks and they will be the chief sufferers. THE doors of the Capital national bank at Indianapolis were closed with liabilities of $1,000,000. THE Danube left Portland, Ore., for China with 406 Chinese on board who had been refused admission to the United States. ON the Ohio River railroad a freight train went off the tracks at Walkers, W. Va., falling 35 feet, and three men were killed. CHARLES LUTTRELL and John z. Carlisle were hanged at Sherman, Tex., for the murder of W. T. Sherman at Denison on April 28. 1892. AT Grand Ridge, Ill., R. J. Horinck, conductor of a general store and.private bank, failed for $300,000, and scores of farmers are ruined by the disaster. THE members of the local world's fair directory passed a resolution that the fair should be open Sundays on and after May 21; the admission to the grounds to be twenty-five cents, and the big exhibit buildings to be closed. This action may be annulled by the national commission. AT Charleston, S. c., Joe Brannon, aged 19, was hanged for the murder of Stephen Kearney on the 31st of August last. THE Columbia national bank collapse in Chicago caused the failure of banks at Russiaville, Greentown. Oxford, Morristown, Arcadia, Spiceland, Orleans, Hebron, Brookston, Dunkirk, Geneva, Boswell, Knox, West Lebanon and Gieenwood in Indiana, the Richland, Edwardsburg, Lawton, Rockford and Charlevoix banks in Michigan, the bank of Oregon in Wisconsin, the bank of Casey in Illinois and the bank at Clearmount in Ohio. TWENTY-FIVE ringleaders of the mob that took from jail at Chattanooga, Tenn., Alfred Blount, a negro assaulter, and hanged him, have been indicted for murder. EAST of Pinckney, Mich., several farms were swept by a cyclone and buildings were wrecked and several persons were hurt, but not seriously, though many horses and sheep were killed. OHIO prohibitionists will meet in state convention at Cleveland June 27 and 28. THE firm of Kendall & Smith, the largest millers in Nebraska, failed at Lincoln for $250,000. IN Milwaukee the big department store of Frank A. Lappen & Co. and the furniture store of the Lappen Furniture company failed for $500,000. W. H. THOMAS & SON, the largest dealers in old Kentucky whisky in the world, suspended at Louisville with liabilities of $600,000. IN session at Louisville, Ky., the National Republican College league elected L. E. Hawkins, of Syracuse university, as president.

6. May 19, 1893 The Times Owosso, MI

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States reported exchanges United amounting to $1,370,664,109 against As $1,373,638,156 the previous week. week compared with the corresponding of 8192 the increase was 11.0. JOHN Z. Carlisle and Charles Luttrell the hanged at Sherman, Tex., Denison for were murder of W. T. Sherman at on April 28, 1892. THERE were 257 business failures the rein the United States during the ported seven days ended on the 12th. In week preceding there were 216, 1892 and during the corresponding time in the number was 209. R. J. HORINCK, conductor of a general store and private bank at Grand Ridge, of Ill., failed for $300,000, and scores farmers are ruined by the disaster. FOREST fires burned hundreds of of oak, pine and cedar timber, acres valuable cranberry bogs N.J. and three many houses in Berkeley township, the THE twenty-five ringleaders of mob that took from jail at Chattanooga, Tenn., Alfred Blount, a negroassaulter, for and hanged him, have been indicted murder. THE Hygeian Ice company at Trenton, N. J., failed for $150,000. SEVERAL farms east of Pinckney, Mich., were swept by a cyclone and buildings were wrecked and several persons were hurt, but not seriously, though many horses and sheep were killed. THE collapse of the Columbia national of bank in Chicago caused the failure banks at Rusiaville, Greentown, Oxford. Morristewn, Arcadia, Spiceland, Orleans, Hebron, Brookston, Dunkirk, Geneva, Boswell, Knox, West Labanon and Greenwood in Indiana, the Richland, Edwardsburg, Lawton, Rockford and Charlevoix banks in Michigan, the bank of Oregon in Wisconsin, the bank at of Casey in Illinois and the bank Clearmount in Ohio. MEMBERS of the local world's fair dipassed a resolution that the fair should rectory be open Sundays on and after May 21, the admission to the grounds to be twenty-five cents, and the big exhibit buildings to be closed. This action may be annulled by the national commission. JOE BRANNON, aged 19, was hanged at Charleston, S. C., for the murder of Stephen Kearney on the 31st of August last. THE police at Buffalo, N. Y., claimed to have discovered evidence of a plot by anarchists to blow up the water works and fire the world's fair buildings to avenge upon Chicago the execution of the anarchists condemned for the Haymarket murders. THE new Cunard line steamship Campania made the trip from New York to Queenstown in 5 days 17 hours and 42 minutes. the quickest passage eastward yet made by any steamer. THE total value of the exports of breadstuffs from this country during the ten months ended April 30 last was $157,653,913, a decrease of $93,000,000 from the corresponding period of 1892. JOHN WEISS, grand treasurer of the Order Germania, a relief fund, sick and benefit association, departed from his home in New York with $100,000 belonging to the order. KENDALL & SMITH, the largest milling firm in Nebraska, failed at Lincoln for $250,000. THE big department store of Frank A. Lappen & Co. and the furniture store of the Lappen Furniture company in Milwaukee failed for $500,000. AT Louisville, Ky., the firm of W. H. Thomas & Son, the largest dealers in old Kentucky whisky in the world, suspended with liabilities of $600,000. A SEVERE windstorm at Astoria, Ore., overturned a number of fishing boats and four men were drowned. THE percentages of the baseball clubs in the National league for the week ended on the 15th were as follows: Cleveland. .667; St. Louis, .667; Washington, .643; Pittsburgh, .636; Brooklyn, .588; Cincinnati, .572; Philadelphia, .500; Baltimore, .429; Boston, .462; New York, .885; Chicago, .286; Louisville. .200. Two PERSONS were killed and several a seriously injured by the explosion of railway locomotive at Lebanon, Pa. THE jury in the case of W. C. Rippey, accused of assaulting John W. Mackay in San Francisco with intent to kill, was dismissed, having failed to reach en agreement. JOHN TURLEY, who shot and killed L. F. Price, a conductor, on a train at Seymour, Ind., was taken from jail at Bedford by masked men and lynched. THE Standard Oil company's works at Whiting, Ind., were burned, the loss being $100,000. TEN men fell 3,000 feet to their death down the Red Jacket shaft of the Calumet and Hecla mine at Calumet, Mich. KENDALL & SMITH, grain dealers at Lincoln, Neb., failed for $300,000. THE Kissamee (Fla.) City bank closed its doors with liabilities of $100,000. Tightness of money and slow collections caused the failure. A FIRE caused by a defective flue in the bakehouse of the Aldine hotel in Philadelphia resulted in a loss of 140,000. A CREVASSE gave way at Brook's mill in Arkansas, causing the destruction of crops in eight or nine parishes. BY request of Secretary Gresham the of as resignation of William E. American Curtis chief the bureau of the republics was sent to the president.

7. May 20, 1893 The Cape Girardeau Democrat Cape Girardeau, MO

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THE doors of the Capital national bank at Indianapolis were closed with liabilities of $1,000,000. THE Danube left Portland, Ore., for China with 406 Chinese on board who had been refused admission to the United States. Ox the Ohio River railroad a freight train went off the tracks at Walkers, W. Va., falling 35 feet. and three men were killed. CHARLES LUTTRELL and John Z. Carlisle were changed at Sherman, Tex., for the murder of W. T. Sherman at Denison on April 28. 1892. AT Grand Ridge, Ill., R. J. Horinek, conductor of a general store andiprivate bank. failed for $300,000, and scores of farmers are ruined by the disaster. THE members of the local world's fair directory passed a resolution that should be Sundays on and 21, the to be grounds the after fair May twenty-five open admission cents, to and the the big exhibit buildings to be closed. This action may be annulled by the national commission. AT Charleston, S. C., Joe Brannon, aged 19. was changed for the murder of Stephen Kearney on the 31st of August last. THE Columbia national bank collapse in Chicago caused the failure of banks at Russiaville, Greentown. Oxford, Morristown. Arcadia, Spiceland, Orleans, Hebron. Brookston, Dunkirk, Geneva, Boswell, Knox, West Lebanon and Greenwood in Indiana, the Richland, Edwardsburg. Lawton. Rockford and Charlevoix banks in Michigan, the bank of Oregon in Wisconsin, the bank of Casey in Illinois and the bank at Clearmount in Ohio. TWENTY-FIVE ringleaders of the mob that took from jail at Chattanooga, Tenn. Alfred Blount, a negroassaulter. and changed him. have been indicted for murder. EAST of Pinckney. Mich., several farms were swept by a cyclone and buildings were wrecked and several persons were hurt. but not seriously. though many horses and sheep were killed. OHIO prohibitionists will meet in state convention at Cleveland June 27 and 28. THE firm of Kendall & Smith. the largest millers in Nebraska. failed at Lincoln for $250,000. IN Milwaukee the big department store of Frank A. Lappen & Co. and the furniture store of the Lappen Furniture company failed for $500,000. W. II. THOMAS & Sox. the largest dealers in old Kentucky whisky in the world. suspended at Louisville with liabilities of $600,000. IN session at Louisville, Ky., the National Republican College league elected L. E. Hawkins, of Syracuse university, as president.