John D. Knox & Company (Topeka, KS)

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Another Kansas Failure

TOPEKA, Kan., Feb. 19.-[Special]John D. Knox & Co., investment bankers, assigned yesterday to Hon. J. H. McAfee. The liabilities will reach $300,000. Among the items of liabilities are time interest bearing certificates of deposit, principally held by Eastern par ties, $60,000; deposits for investments made by Eastern parties, $50,000.

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HEAVY FAILURE IN KANSAS

Prominent Investment Bankers Go to the Wall-Liabilities. $300,000. [By telegraph to the Dispatch.] TOPEKA, KAN., February 19.-John D. Knox & Co., investment bankers, assigned vesterday to Hon. J. H. McAfee. Their liabilities will reach $300,000. Among items of the liabilities are the following Savings department deposits, demand certificates of deposit. and open accounts, $8,000: time interest-bearing certificates of deposit, principally held by eastern parties, $60,000; deposits for investments made by eastern parties, $50,000. The remainder of the liabilities are discounts with other banks, all of which are secured with good collaterals, amounting to $20,000, unpaid interest, coupons. &c. The assets are principally lands, equities, unpaid coupons, bills discounted and tax-sale certificates. The total value of the assets cannot be definitely determined, but Mr. Knox claims that a valuation of the assets aggregate $450,000. That, however, depends solely upon the prices realized upon the real properties. The heaviest creditors are the trustees of the New York Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church for $20,000.

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INVESTMENT BANKERS FAIL Their Liabilities $800,000-The Assets Put at $450,000. TOPEKA, Kan., Feb. 19,-John D. Knox & Co., investment bankers, assigned yesterday to Hon. J. H. McAfee. Their liabilities will reach $300,000. Among the items of the liabilities are the following: Savings department, deposits, demand certificates of deposit and open accounts $8,000; time interest-bearing certificates of deposit, principally held by eastern parties, $60,000; deposits for investments made by eastern parties $50,000. The remainder of the liabilities are discounts with other banks (all of which are secured with good collaterals), $20,000 unpaid interest coupons, etc. The assets are principally lands, equities, unpaid coupons, bills discounted, tax sale certificates. The total value of the assets cannot be definitely determined, but Mr. Knox claims that the assets aggregate $450,000. That, however, depends solely upon the prices realized upon the real properties. The heaviest creditors are the trustees of the New York conference Methodist Episcopal church for $20,000.

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Knox & Co., bankers, Topeka, Kans., assigned Wednesday to J. H. McFee. The liabilities will reach $300,000. Mr. Knox claims that at a fair valuation the assets will aggregate $450,000. The heaviest creditor is the board of trustees of the New York conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church for $20,000.

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TOPEKA, Feb. 21.-John D. Knox & Co., bankers, assigned to-day to John D. McAffee; liabilites will reach $300000 the assets are $400,000 in lands, coupons, etc.

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WEST AND SOUTH

MRS. M. TROLLINGER, of Leesville, Mo., was watching her son cut down a tree when it fell on her, killing her instantly. IN Salt Lake City seven members of the Church of Jesus Christ of LatterDay Saints pleaded guilty to living in polygamy and were fined in sums ranging from $100 and upwards. FLAMES at Akron. O., destroyed the paper mill of the Thomas Phillips Company, causing a loss of $100,000, and the works of the Enterprise Manufacturing Company; loss, $40,000. Nettie Cruza was burned to death. AT Jasper, Tenn., the Atna Coal Company made an assignment, with liabilities of $100,000 and assets of $300,000. THE late flood at Pittsburgh and vicinity did damage estimated at $2,000,000. ON the 18th General H. H. Sibley, the first Governor of Minnesota, died in St. Paul, aged 80 years. A MOB took a white man and a negro from the county jail in Gainesville, Fla., and hanged them for complicity in numerous assaults. AT Kansas City the Union Investment Company assigned, with liabilities and assets each $1,000,000. TOM KENDALL, Billy Kohler and William Kerns were killed by a snowslide at the Old Lout mine in Colorado. FIRE destroyed the Missouri Pacific round-house at Kansas City, Kan., with eighteen engines, causing a loss of $175,000. THE firm of John D. Knox & Co., private bankereat Topeka, Kan., assigned, with liabilities of $340,000 and assets of about $430,000.

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WEST AND SOUTH

MRS. M. TROLLINGER, of Leesville, Mo., was watching her son cut down a tree when it fell on her, killing her instantly. IN Salt Lake City seven members of the Church of Jesus Christ of LatterDay Saints pleaded guilty to living in polygamy and were fined in sums ranging from $100 and upwards. FLAMES at Akron, O., destroyed the paper mill of the Thomas Phillips Company, causing a loss of $100,000, and the works of the Enterprise Manufacturing Company; loss, $40,000. Nettie Cruza was burned to death. AT Jasper, Tenn., the Atna Coal Company made an assignment, with liabilities of $100,000 and assets of $300,000. THE late flood at Pittsburgh and vicinity did damage estimated at $2,000,000. ON the 18th General H. H. Sibley, the first Governor of Minnesota, died in St. Paul, aged 80 years. A MOB took a white man and a negro from the county jail in Gainesville, Fla., and hanged them for complicity in numerous assaults. AT Kansas City the Union Investment Company assigned, with liabilities and assets each $1,000,000. TOM KENDALL, Billy Kohler and William Kerns were killed by a snowslide at the Old Lout mine in Colorado. FIRE destroyed the Missouri Pacific round-house at Kansas City, Kan., with eighteen engines, causing a loss of $175,000. THE firm of John D. Knox & Co., private bankersat Topeka, Kan., assigned, with liabilities of $340,000 and assets of about $450,000.

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AT Kansas City the Union Investment Company assigned, with liabilities and assets each $1,000,000. ToM KENDALL, Billy Kohler and William Kerns were killed by a snowslide at the Old Lout mine in Colorado. FIRE destroyed the Missouri Pacific round-house at Kansas City, Kan., with eighteen engines, causing a loss of $175,000. THE firm of John D. Knox & Co., private bankers at Topeka, Kan., assigned, with liabilities of $340,000 and assets of about $450,000. A FIRE at Hoosierville, a mining village in Clay County, Ind., almost entirely destroyed the town. EX-TREASURER WOODBUFF paid into the State Treasury of Arkansas $63,740.50, the full amount of his shortage. A FLOOD swept away Riverside, a suburb of Parkersburg, W. Va. No lives were lost. MARTHA MOORE and Sarah Mules (colored) were killed at Lake Station, Md., by a train. AN explosion of natural gas in the house of William Kuntz at Martin's Ferry, O., burned nine persons, two of them, Mrs. Kuntz and Miss Graves, fatally. THE Industrial party of Michigan in State convention at Lansing nominated O'Brien Jameson, of Port Huron, for Supreme Court Justice. THE population of Tennessee by races is announced by the Census Bureau as follows: White, 1,332,971; colored, 434,300; Indians, 173; Chinese, 64; Japanese, 10; total, 1,767,518. The population of West Virginia was given as follows: White, 729,262; colored, 33,508; Indians, 8; Chinese, 16; total 762,794. A MOB hanged John Bull, an Indian, at Battlefield, Miss., for the murder of Ben Pierce, a farmer. IN the Northwest a storm of sleet and snow did great damage to the telegraph service. THE world's fair directory has abandoned the Lake Front. There will not be a building placed upon it and the World's Columbian Exposition will be held at Jackson Park. It was said the expenses of the fair would be $17,625,453 and the receipts were estimated at $21,000,000. WILLIAM McCUBBIN, a wealthy citizen of Leigh, Neb., shot and killed his wife and his hired man and then cut his own throat. Jealousy prompted the crime. IN the Northwest the total production of white pine lumber during the past season was 4,068,285,584 feet, an increase over the previous season of 596,700,146 feet. THE death was announced of Mrs. Elizabeth Winchester, of Floyd County, Ind., aged 91 years, who was thought to be the only person in Indiana drawing a pension on account of the revolutionary war. MICHAEL ZELLERS found alive in the bottom of a forty-foot dry well at Crawfordsville, Ind., a hog which had been there for forty-one days without food or water. IN an interview in New York exPresident Cleveland emphatically denied a statement by a Washington paper to the effect that he had decided not to be a Presidential candidate in 1892.

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WEST AND SOUTH

THE late flood at Pittsburgh and vicinity did damage estimated at $2,000,000. ON the 18th General H. H. Sibley, the first Governor of Minnesota, died in St. Paul, aged 80 years. A MOB took a white man and a negro from the county jail in Gainesville, Fla., and hanged them for complicity in numerous assaults. AT Kansas City the Union Investment Company assigned, with liabilities and assets each $1,000,000. TOM KENDALL, Billy Kohler and William Kerns were killed by a snowslide at the Old Lout mine in Colorado. FIRE destroyed the Missouri Pacific round-house at Kansas City, Kan., with eighteen engines, causing a loss of $175,000. THE firm of John D. Knox & Co., private bankers at Topeka, Kan., assigned, with liabilities of $340,000 and assets of about $450,000. A FIRE at Hoosierville, a mining village in Clay County, Ind., almost entirely destroyed the town. Ex-Treasurer WOODRUFF paid into the State Treasury of Arkansas $63,740.50, the full amount of his shortage. A FLOOD swept away Riverside, a suburb of Parkersburg, W. Va. No lives were lost. MARTHA MOORE and Sarah Mules (colored) were killed at Lake Station, Md., by a train. AN explosion of natural gas in the house of William Kuntz at Martin's Ferry, O₂ burned nine persons, two of

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THE LATEST TELEGRAMS

NEWS IN BRIEF WORK on the world's fair site in Jack son Park was resumed Thursday. GENERAL HENRY H SIBLEY, Minnesota's first governor, is dying at St. Paul. ADOLPH HOFFMAN and Alfred E. Frommett, silk manufacturers, of Paterson, N.. J. have assigned. THE finest alabaster quarry in the world has been discovered near Canyon City, Col. THE only child of Rider Haggard is reported to have died at the city of Mexico. THE Ohio river is still rising at Cincinnati, and a disastrous flood at that point is feared. "DIAMOND Joe Reynolds, the wellknown capitalist and steamboat-owner of Iowa, died Saturday at Prescott. Iowa. THIRTY inches of snow has fallen in Bozeman, Mont. within the last two days, and it is still snowing. THE crippled American loan and trust company of New York will be reorganized and financially strengthened. THE John D. Knox & Co., banking house at Topeka. Kas., has failed. Estimated liabilities, $250,000. THE bill conferring the elective franchise on women passed Thursday by the Kensas house of representatives. THE body of Professor Bancroft, of Brown's University, Providence, R. I., was found in Dyer's Pond Monday. He disappeared on December 8. PROFESSOR ALEXANDER WINCHELL of the Michigan University, a geologist of world-wide reputation, died at Ann Arbor Thursday morning. A PECULIAR feature of a recent storm at Salt Lake was a large quantity of salt which fell with the snow, all mixed ready to place in the freezer. MASTER WORKMAN T. V. POWDERLY of the Knights of Labor was stricken with heart disease at Toveka, Kan., but his condition is not dangerous. GIBSON, ot the whisky trust, gave bail in the sum of $25,000 Wednesday for his appearance when the indictment found against him by the state grand jury shall come to trial. OVER $2,000,000 was divided among the four children of Chauncy B. Blair, by the will of the late banker which was filed for probate Tuesday. THE will of the late J. N. McCullough, Vice President of the Pennsylvania Company, has been filed for probrate. His estate is valued at from $7,000,000 to $10,000.

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Knox & Co. TOPEKA, KAN., February 20.-The John D. Knox & Co. Investment Banking house has assigned, Hon J. B. McAfee being named as assignee. The liabilities are roughly estimated at $250,000. The schedule of liabilities has not yet been made up, but will be complèted and filed in the district clerk's office. Among the items of liabilities are the following: Savings department deposits, demand certificates of deposit and open accounts, $8,000. Time interest bearing certificates of deposit, principally held by eastern parties, $60,000. Deposits for investment made by eastern parties, $50,000. The remainder of the liabilities are discounts with other banks (all of which are secured wtih good collaterals) $30,000 unpaid interest coupons, etc. The total amount due Topeka creditors is comparatively small, it is stated, not reaching $20,000. The assets are principally lands, equities. unpaid coupons, bills discounted, tax sale certificates, etc. The total value of the assets cannot definitely be determined, but Mr. Knox claims that at a fair estimation the assets aggregate $450,000. Mr. and Mrs. Knox have turned over to the assignee all property of every description except their homestead in the western part of the city, which is by law exempt. He states that for the present be will not turn that in, believing that the other assets will pay the habilities, but savs that it will be turned over in the end if necessary. Mr. Knox's failure is the result of overreaching himself in acquiring land that there is no demand or sale for. Much of the land has depreciated in value.