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Assets 9 Cents 7 Mills on the Dollar. The North Liberty Bank, of which the fugitive J. W. Brooke, of St. Louis, was the president and chief wrecker, will cease to exist in a legal sense this week, when the receiver will make a final report. Depositors will receive 9 cents and 7 mills on each dollar of deposit. Brooke's liability to the bank is $20,000.
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LOCAL NEWS Mrs. John Grimm, of South Bend, is visiting in this city. Mrs. M. J. Richardson, of Rochester, is visiting the family of Ed. Hunter. The Plymouth high school team went to Laporte, where they played this afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. William Sult, who had been visiting here for some time, returned to South Bend Saturday. Mrs. Samuel Haines and daughter, Miss Tressie, from Lima, Ohio, are guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Haines. Mrs. Julia Work and Miss Amelia Barr left Saturday for Minneapolis to attend the national conference of charities. Miss Cora Miller, of Chicago, has been visiting her parents for a week who live on the Hamlet farm, north of town. Mrs. Isaac Morris and daughter and Mrs. Rhinehart, of Twin lakes, went to Argos, Saturday to visit Mr. and Mrs. James Huffman. Christian Leonhard, of Portland, Ind., returned home Saturday, having been here to visit his brother, John Leonhard, and the Jacoby's. Mr. and Mrs. William Strunk and Gladys Hoover returned Friday evening from the Reformed convention at Bluffton. They report a profitable meeting. The St. Joseph county commissioners, who are Republicans elected Louis Pfeiffer. a Democrat, to the position of superintendent of the new county infirmary. Prof. T. A. Hite and wife, of South Bend, came Friday to spend a week at the homestead, six miles south of the city. Prof. Hite is principal of the Coquillard school. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Railsback, Mrs. Harsh and daughter, Evelyn, and Miss Lizzie Dickson, came from South Bend Saturday, enroute to the Antioch conference meeting. Mrs. Sadie Collins, from Acme, Wash., and Mrs. Melvin Osborne, of Culver, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Webster. Mrs. Collins has been the guest of Mrs. Osborn at Culver. A marriage license was issued today to Liberty O. Cross and Ada Bellman. Owing to Liberty's engagement at the Hotel de Vore's there will probably be a hitch in the marriage proceedings.< Capt. Leonard, of the United States army, was in the city Saturday. Capt. Leonard is detailed by the war department, by application of Concordia college, Fort Wayne, to train in military tactics the students of that institution. He accompanied the Concordia team to Culver. The baseball team of Concordia college, Fort Wayne, were in town Sat urday morning and left for Culver, where they played the academy team in the afternoon. They were a good. looking lot of young men and went down to win the game. They authorized us to say that the score would be 8 to 2 for Concordia. The preliminary hearing of the case of Liberty Cross, charged with an assault upon Lula Leiter, a ten-year old girl, living south of the viaduct. by the planing mill, was had Saturday morning in Justice Unger's office and resulted in Cross being bound over to court in the sum of $500. He has been unable so far to furnish bail. The North Liberty bank, of which the fugitive J. W. Brooke, of St. Louis, was the president and chief wrecker, will cease to exist in a legal sense this week when the reciver will make a final report. Depositors will receive 9 cents and 7 mills on each dollar of deposit. Brooke's liability to the bank is $20,000. Col. Steere and wife were in town Saturday, but unless the rest of this item is told the mere announcement will be worthless. Col. Steer is 68 years old and tips the beam at 49 pounds. He is 47 inches high wears glasses and has a full beard. His wife is a chipper little woman of 54 years. They had been at Culver to visit friends and were enroute to Minne apolis to fill an engagement in a midget museum. When they were married he said, he could put his wife over his shoulders, but she had grown stout and could now shoulder him The Colonel had ready views on many subjects which he was willing to air. He was drafted from Vermont into civil war, and complained that he had got no pension yet. He would "never go into the service to free the nigger again. If they want to be free, let them free themselves. My life is worth too much to go down and free niggers." The burdens and complexities of life seemed to weigh heavily upon the colonel's shoulders, but upon his wife they rested as lightly as a butterfly's wing. They have no children, as yet.