6173. Bank of Osage Mission (St Paul, KS)

Bank Information

Episode Type
Suspension → Closure
Bank Type
state
Start Date
July 1, 1897
Location
St Paul, Kansas (37.519, -95.174)

Metadata

Model
gpt-5-mini
Short Digest
5f371d36087602d5

Response Measures

None

Description

Multiple Kansas newspapers in early July 1897 report the Bank of Osage Mission (St. Paul, KS) will go into voluntary liquidation or has gone into voluntary liquidation. This indicates a voluntary suspension leading to permanent closure rather than a depositor run. Earliest mention in these clippings is July 1–2, 1897. I correct no significant OCR errors to the bank name or location.

Events (1)
1. July 1, 1897 Suspension
Cause
Voluntary Liquidation
Cause Details
Reported decision to go into voluntary liquidation (capital $5,000); bank placed into liquidation rather than suspended due to run or government action.
Newspaper Excerpt
The Bank of Osage Mission, or St. Pauls, has gone into voluntary liquidation.
Source
newspapers

Newspaper Articles (8)
1. July 1, 1897 The Topeka State Journal Topeka, KS
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SNAP SHOTS AT HOMENEWS The City library will be closed all day Saturday. Tomorrow will be ladies' free day at Athletic park. Jack Newman will spend the Fourth of July in Horton. A portion of the base ball fence blew down yesterday. Fifty men are now employed on the Kansas avenue bridge. It is said that Harry Stoops' attorneys will at once apply for a pardon. Frank Keith left today for Port Arthur where he will start a drug store. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Cowan at 1318 Polk, are the parents of a son, Clarence Jethro Cowan. Judge Foster has appointed George W. Clark United States court commissioner in place of John Mileham. Judge Hazen is devoting his time to disposing of the motions and small matters on the district court docket. The supreme court will convene next Tuesday. There will be no session of the court during August and September. The Bank of Osage Mission, or St. Pauls, has gone into voluntary liquidation. William May was president and the bank had a capital stock of $5,000. Samuel Barnum has been appointed receiver of the Topeka Belt line by Judge Foster. This is the abandoned railroad built to Martin's hill. Someone left a box containing 75 baby caps on Police Matron Thorpe's doorstep yesterday for distribution among the poor. Who left the box is not known. During the hall storm the telephone cable on Kansas avenue was damaged. Yes. terday the repair was made, and last night more wires were struck by lightning. William Gunther, late of the Swift & Holliday Drug company, will open a drug store in the new building at the corner of Sixth and Jackson within the next week. The large plate glass cracked during the recent hail storm in the office of Quinton & Quinton in the Columbian building blew in during the storm last evening. Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Culley have taken the Swedenborgian church parsonage at the corner of Sixth and Harrison streets, and will start housekeeping the first of next week. H. M. Spradley, a colored man, was arrested yesterday by the police charged with stealing a set of harness from the shoe merchant, Joe Watts, at his barn, 1020 Quincy street. Mr. A. Bird, proprietor of the St. Joseph Canning company is in the city today establishing the plant of the Topeka Canning company. The factory will be in operation July 15. The wind which accompanied the rain storm yesterday afternoon broke down the iron awning frame in front of W. S. Kale's grocery, 612 Kansas avenue. The plate glass window was blown in. Michael Shase, a North Topeka character, was arrested yesterday at the Union Pacific depot as he was about to fall under the wheels of a moving train. The charge of drunkenness was placed against him. Private Secretary Little is the only man in the state house who wears duck trousers. He is carrying on a campaign of education among the Populists. Some of them still wear suspenders with their belts. Mrs. J. G. Wood will read a paper on "Memory and Emotion as Subjects of Hypnotism" at the Nickel Plate school house, corner of Third and Buchanan streets, tonight. There will be no admission charged. Indications are that the Holiness campmeeting to be held at the fair grounds beginning July 6 will be largely attended. Rev. Isaiah Reid of Chicago, who will have charge of it, is said to be a pulpit orator of note. Mr. P. I. Bonebrake wishes it understood that he alone, and not ex-Governor Thomas A. Osborn, (whom he says he ignominiously defeated) was the victor in the "Aunt Sally" contest at Garfield park last Saturday afternoon. Chief Steele yesterday received a letter from a woman in St. Joseph who claims to be W. R. Wright's wife. Wright is in the county jail charged with stealing a team from Farmer Peter Snyder. He also ran away with Peter Snyder's daughter. A. P. Benson will furnish ice to the state house offices at 25 cents per 100 according to a contract made with the executive council yesterday. G. G. Boardman will haul the coal used at the building from the cars at the rate of 18 cents per ton. Owing to an unreliable report printed in a Kansas City paper the state auditor is flooded with letters demanding payment on Price raid claims. There were no appropriations for that purpose by the last legislature and there is no money to pay the claims and probably never will be. The first of the Rock Island excursion trains to the Holton races was run yesterday, and about 40 Topeka people attended the opening

2. July 2, 1897 Kansas City Journal Kansas City, MO
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BRIEF BITS OF NEWS. W. J. Calhoun has declined the position of comptroller of the treasury. Oil has been struck at a depth of 1,400 feet in a well at, Tishomingo, I. T. The Bank of Osage Mission. Kas., will go into voluntary liquidation. It has a capital of $5,000. The Western Door Company. a door. sash and blind trust organized last week, has collapsed. The cash in the treasury is classified as follows: Gold $178,076,656 silver, $520,793,922; paper. $153,349,826. The remains of William F. Hoey, Old Hoss, were placed in Woodlawn cemetery, New York, yesterday. Many prostrations from heat and considerable damage from as storm which followed the hot wave are reported in the Ohio river valley. The International gold mining convention will open in Denver next Wednesday, There will be displays from every gold produéing state in the Union. A drop in Kaffiir stocks was caused in London yesterday by a rumor that President Kruger, of the Boer republic, had threatened to resign. Millionaire Tramp Berry occupied a scell in the St. Louis police station Wednesday night. on a charge of drunkenness. He was released yesterday morning. The Curry gang. robbers of the Belle Fouche, Wyo., bank, are closely pursued by the sheriff's posse. They are headed for the Powder river country. Alvin Dillway, son of the president of the Mechanics' National bank. of Boston, Mass. killed himself with poison in that city yesterday because he had been expelled from West Point. Ex-Governor George W. Glick. of Kansas, will celebrate the 70th anniversary of his birth July 4. All the members of his family and many friends will gather at his home in Atchison. The papers in the appeal of W. H. T. Durrant to the United States supreme court were filed yesterday. As the court does not sit until October 12, the appeal cannot be argued until that time. Mrs. John McClelland was struck and instantly killed by lightning near Starfield. Mo., yesterday during a heavy rain and thunder storm. All streams in that vicinityp are rising and trains are delayed. Samuel Barnum was yesterday appointed receiver of the Topeka Belt Railway Company. There is a mortgage of $500,000 on the road. and several weeks ago a force of men tore up the tracks in the night. James Wilder. wife and two children. emigrants, supposed to be from Benton county, Mo., were burned to death in a cabin near Rochester, Ky. Tuesday morning. They had stopped in. the cabin for a few days rest from traveling Riggs Vaughan. a prominent farmer living five miles north of Larned. Kas was kicked into insensibility by a vicious horse Wednesday afternoon. The bones of his chest and arms were fractured and he suffered other severe injuries. Clarence C. King, of St. Joseph. and Mrs. Florence E. King. his divorced wife. were remarried yesterday, Mrs. King is a daughter of A. N. Schuster, formerly a wealthy wholesale grocer of St. Joseph. King was her second husband. As a result of the fight between the Havemeyers and Arbuckle Bros, the price of the brand of coffee controlled by the Woolson Spice Company was yesterday reduced from 10 1/2 to 10 cents, the lowest price for roasted coffee of this quality on record in New York. This brand is controlled by the Havemeyer interests. The president is reported to have decided to make a complete change in the personnel of the civil service commission owing to complaint against the commission for acquiescence in the extension of the rules so as to include a large number of Democrats who took the places of removed Republicans during the Cleveland administration.

3. July 8, 1897 Hutchinson Gazette Hutchinson, KS
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NEWS IN BRIEF. Colorado brokers are greatly alarmed over the proposed tax on stock sales, because it would bear heavily on cheap mining stock transactions. John W. Thompson. United States marshal of West Virginia, was compelled by injunction under civil service law to reappoint the old Democratic force of deputies. President Gates of Amherst college is to resign. Twelve thousand Belgium coal miners are on a strike. Union Trust and Savings bank, Tacoma, Wash., suspended. The New York jury that tried the tobacco trust couldn't agree. The Hawaiian reciprocity provision has been restored to the tariff bill. Helen Keller, deaf. dumb and blind, passed in advanced German for Radcliffe college. National Republican headquarters have been moved from Washington to Cleveland. James Arnold, a Butte, Mont., mining man, was done up for $6,900 in a faro game in Chicago. W. M. McFarland, ex-secretary of state of Iowa, is accused of making employes divide their salaries with him. George Copeland's wife and his sister and her child were killed by lightning at Cadillac, and S. Bandine's 10-yearold daugnter was killed at Howard City, Mich. Mail Clerk R. T. Sherman and Baggagemaster W. P. Coon, both of Indianapolis, were killed in a Christian Endeavor train wreck on the Vandalia, and Mail Clerk Samuel Parkinson and Fireman Frank Owens fatally injured. W. J. Calboun has declined the position of comptroller of the treasury. Oil has been struck at a depth of 1,400 feet in a well at Tishomingo, I. T. The Bank of Osage Mission. Kan., will go into voluntary liquidation. It has a capital of $5,000. The Western Door company. a door, sash and blind trust organized last week, has collapsed. The cash in the treasury is classified as follows: Gold, $178,076,656: silver, $520,793,922; paper, $153,349,826. Alvin Dillway, son of the president of the Mechanic's National bank, of Boston, Mass., killed himself with poison in that city yesterday because he had been expelled from West Point. Mrs. John McClelland was struck and instantly killed by lightning near Starfield, Mo., during a heavy rain and thunder storm. All streams in that vicinity are rising and trains are delayed. Samuel Barnum was appointed receiver of the Topeka Belt Railway company. There is a mortgage of $500,000 on the road, and several weeks ago a force of men tore up the tracks in the night. James Wilder, wife and two children, emigrants, supposed to be from Benton county, Mo., were burned to death in a cabin near Rochester, Ky. They had stopped in the cabin for a few day's rest from traveling. Four masked bandits entered a bank at Belle Fourche, S. D., shot off the cashier's right ear, took all the cash in sight and escaped. A posse gave chase and captured them. Chinese allowed to enter to take part in the Nashville exposition are said to be distributing themselves in other cities. Republican members of the Senate judiciary committee have agreed upon a compromise anti-trust amendment to the tariff bill. The invalidating of $500,000 of Tacoma, Wash., bonds, which were fraudulently issued, caused the failure of the Union Trust and Savings bank of that city. Enemies of Leon Olehafski of Seranton, Pa., blew up his home with dynamite. He is severely injured. Mrs. Julia Maffitt, the wealthiest woman in St. Louis, is dying at the age of 81. White parasites are destroying the grasshoppers which threatened destruction to crops in South Dakota. Judge Charles Ford of Nevada is charged with bigamy. He is 75 years old. "Messiah" Schweinfrrth bobs up'in Arkansas, where he is going to establish a "Heaven."

4. July 8, 1897 Hutchinson Gazette Hutchinson, KS
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NEWS BOILED DOWN. Turkey still demands Thessaly. General Rivera is critically sick. Russia's population is 129,211,113. Amount of public debt $946,656,036. Montana now has an anti-gambling law. There is much disease among the Spanish troops. Miss Mary Straub, hymn composer, is dead in Chicago. Galatz, Roumania, reports many lives lost by high water. The government took in $13,500,000 more than it paid out in June. Standard '98 wheels will be $75, as all '96 $100 wheels are now. Louis Gillot, a New Orleane bank wrecker, was given eight years in the penitentiary. Five Minnesota Indians were loilled by imbibing pain killer and hair oil. Sullivan and Fitzsimmons will L.St be allowed to spar at Ambrose Park, N. Y. Bryan in an interview at Laramie, Wyo,, praised the course of Chio Democrats. The president is said to have decided to entirely reform the civil service commission. James Burgen and wife were beaten to death in bed by burglars near Bentonville, Ark. Internal Revenue Collector Welborn of the San Francisco district has been removed'for crooked work. Japan hrs decided to withdraw her minister to America, as she feels insulted over the Hawaii business. Captain General Weyler refuses to set any time for the trials of the Com. petitor prisoners for various reasons. H. Russell Ward, an Englishman. has eloped from Los Angeles with Missionaire John Bradbury's young wife. A locomotive engine blew up at Mor gan Park, Chicago, fatally injuring Fireman John Latshaw and Engineer John Fogg. John Stephens family were poisoned at Belmont, Brown county, III. Only two tittle girls out of six people are left and they are very sick. John W. Thompson, United States marshal of West Virginia, was compelled by injunction under civil service law to reappoint the old Democratic force of deputies. President Gates of Amherst college is to resign. Twelve thousand Belgium coal miners are on a strike. Union Trust and Savings bank, Tacoma, Wash.. suspended. The New York jury that tried the tobacco trust couldn't agree. The Hawaiian reciprocity provision has been restored to the tariff bill. Helen Keller, deaf. dumb and blind, passed in advanced German for Radcliffe college. National Republican headquarters have been moved from Washington to Cleveland. James Arnold, a Butte, Mont., mining man, was done up for $6,900 in a faro game in Chicago. W. M. McFarland, ex-secretary of state of Iowa, is accused of making employes divide their salaries with him. George Copeland's wife and his sister and her child were killed by lightning at Cadillac, and S. Bandine's 10-yearold daughter was killed at Howard City, Mich. Mail Clerk R. T. Sherman and Baggagemaster W. P. Coon, both of Indianapolis, were killed in a Christian Endeavor train wreck on the Vandalia, and Mail Clerk Samuel Parkin. son and Fireman Frank Owens fatally injured. W. J. Calhoun has declined the position of comptroller of the treasury. Oil has been struck at a depth of 1,400 feet in a well at Tishomingo, I.T. The Bank of Osage Mission. Kan., will go into voluntary liquidation. It has a capital of $5,000. The Western Door company, a door, sash and blind trust organized last week, has collapsed. The cash in the treasury is classified as follows: Gold, $178,076,836; silver, $520,793,922; paper, $153,349,826. Alvin Dillway, son of the president of the Mechanic's National bank, of Boston, Mass., killed himself with poison in that city yesterday because he had been expelled from West Point. Mrs. John McClelland was struck and instantly killed by lightning near Starfield, Mo., during a heavy rain and thunder storm. All streams in that vicinity are rising and trains are delayed. Samuel Barnum was appointed receiver of the Topeka Belt Railway company. There is a mortgage of $500,000 on the read, and several weeks ago a force of men tore up the tracks in the night. James Wilder, wife and two dren, emigrants, supposed to be from Benton county, Mo., were burned to death in a cabin near Rochester, Ky. They had stopped in the cabin for a few day's rest from travelino. The governor of Idaho has asked the war department for tro 8 to protect settlers from the Bannock Indians. Chinese allowed to enter to take part in the Nashville exposition are said to be distributing themselves in other cities. Republican members of the Senate judiciary committee have agreed upon a compromise anti-trust amendment to the tariff bill. The invalidating of $500,000 of Tacoma. Wash., bonds, which were fraudulently issued, caused the failure of the Union Trust and Savings bank of that city.

5. July 8, 1897 Phillipsburg Herald Phillipsburg, KS
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NEWS IN BRIEF. Colorado brokers are greatly alarmed over the proposed tax on stock sales, because it would bear heavily on cheap mining stock transactions. John W. Thompson, United States marshal of West Virginia, was compelled by injunction under civil service law to reappoint the old Democratic force of deputies. President Gates of Amherst college is to resign. Twelve thousand Belgium coal miners are on a strike. Union Trust and Savings bank, Tacoma, Wash,, suspended. The New York jury that tried the tobacco trust couldn't agree. The Hawaiian reciprocity provision has been restored to the tariff bill. Helen Keller, deaf, dumb and blind, passed in advanced German for Radcliffe college. National Republican headquarters have been moved from Washington to Cleveland. James Arnold, a Butte, Mont., mining man, was done up for $6,900 in a faro game in Chicago. W. M. McFarland, ex-secretary of state of Iowa, is accused of making employes divide their salaries with him. George Copeland's wife and his sister and her child were killed by lightning at Cadillac, and S. Bandine's 10-yearold daughter was killed at Howard City, Mich. Mail Clerk R. T. Sherman and Baggagemaster W. P. Coon, both of Indianapolis, were killed in a Christian Endeavor train wreck on the Vandalia, and Mail Clerk Samuel Parkinson and Fireman Frank Owens fatally injured. W. J. Calhoun has declined the position of comptroller of the treasury. Oil has been struck at a depth of 1,400 feet in a well at Tishomingo, I. T. The Bank of Osage Mission, Kan., will go into voluntary liquidation. It has a capital of $5,000. The Western Door company, a door, sash and blind trust organized last week, has collapsed. The cash in the treasury is classified as follows: Gold, $178,076,656; silver, $520,793,922; paper, $153,349,826. Alvin Dillway,' son of the president of the Mechanic's National bank, of Boston, Mass., killed himself with poison in that city yesterday because he had been expelled from West Point. Mrs. John McClelland was struck and instantly killed by lightning near Starfield, Mo., during a heavy rain and thunder storm. All streams in that vicinity are rising and trains are delayed. Samuel Barnum was appointed receiver of the Topeka Belt Railway company. There is a mortgage of 500,000 on the road, and several weeks ago a force of men tore up the tracks in the night. James Wilder, wife and two children, emigrants, supposed to be from Benton county, Mo., were burned to death in a cabin near Rochester, Ky. They had stopped in the cabin for a few day's rest from traveling. Four masked bandits entered a bank at Belle Fourche, S. D., shot off the cashier's right ear, took all the cash in sight and escaped. A posse gave chase and captured them. Chinese allowed to enter to take part in the Nashville exposition are said to be distributing themselves in other cities. Republican members of the Senate judiciary committee have agreed upon a compromise anti-trust amendment to the tariff bill. The invalidating of $500,000 of Tacoma, Wash., bonds, which were fraudulently issued, caused the failure of the Union Trust and Savings bank of that city. Enemies of Leon Olchafski of Scranton, Pa., blew up his home with dynamite. He is severely injured. Mrs. Julia Maffitt, the wealthiest woman in St. Louis, is dying at the age of 81. White parasites are destroying the grasshoppers which threatened destruction to crops in South Dakota. Judge Charles Ford of Nevada is charged with bigamy. lie is 75 years old. "Messiah" Schweinfurth bobs up in Arkansas, where he is going to establish a "Heaven." Georgia

6. July 8, 1897 The Globe-Republican Dodge City, KS
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NEWS IN BRIEF. Colorado brokers are greatly alarmed over the proposed tax on stock sales. because it would bear heavily on cheap mining stock transactions. John W. Thompson. United States marshal of West Virginia, was compelled by injunction under civil service law to reappoint the old Democratic force of deputies. President Gates of Amherst college is to resign. Twelve thousand Belgium coal miners are on a strike. Union Trust and Savings bank, Tacoma, Wash.. suspended. The New York jury that tried the tobacco trust couldn't agree. The Hawaiian reciprocity provision has been restored to the tariff bill. Helen Keller, deaf. dumb and blind, passed in advanced German for Radcliffe college. National Republican headquarters have been moved from Washington to Cleveland. James Arnold, a Butte, Mont.. mining man, was done up for $6,900 in a faro game in Chicago. W. M. McFarland. ex-secretary of state of Iowa, is accused of making employes divide their salaries with him. George Copeland's wife and his sister and her child were killed by lightning at Cadillac, and S. Bandine's 10-yearold daugater was killed at Howard City, Mich. Mail Clerk R. T. Sherman and Baggagemaster W. P. Coon, both of Indianapolis, were killed in a Christian Endeavor train wreck on the Vandalia, and Mail Clerk Samuel Parkinson and Fireman Frank Owens fatally injured. W. J. Calboun has declined the position of comptroller of the treasury. Oil has been struck at a depth of 1,400 feet in a well at Tishomingo, I. T. The Bank of Osage Mission, Kan., will go into voluntary liquidation. It has a capital of $5,000. The Western Door company. a door, sash and blind trust organized last week. has collapsed. The cash in the treasury is classified as follows: Gold, $178,076,656: silver, $520,793,932; paper, $153,349,826. Alvin Dillway, son of the president of the Mechanic's National bank. of Boston. Mass.. killed himself with poison in that city yesterday because he had been expelled from West Point. Mrs. John McClelland was struck and instantly killed by lightning near Starfield, Mo., during a heavy rain and thunder storm. All streams in that vicinity are rising and trains are delayed. Samuel Barnum was appointed receiver of the Topeka Belt Railway company. There is a mortgage of $500,000 on the road, and several weeks ago a force of men tore up the tracks in the night. James Wilder, wife and two children. emigrants, supposed to be from Benton county. Mo., were burned to death in a cabin near Rochester, Ky. They had stopped in the cabin for a few day's rest from traveling. Four masked bandits entered a bank at Belle Fourche, S. D., shot off the cashier's right ear, took all the cash in sight and escaped. A posse gave chase and captured them. Chinese allowed to enter to take part in the Nashville exposition are said to be distributing themselves in other cities. Republican members of the Senate judiciary committee have agreed upon a compromise anti-trust amendment to the tariff bill. The invalidating of $500,000 of Tacoma, Wash., bonds, which were frauduiently issued, caused the failure of the Union Trust and Savings bank of that city. Enemies of Leon Olchafski of Seranton. Pa., blew up his home with dynamite. He is severely injured. Mrs. Julia Maffitt, the wealthiest woman in St. Louis, is dying at the age of 81. White parasites are destroying the grasshoppers which threatened destruction to crops in South Dakota. Judge Charles Ford of Nevada is charged with bigamy. He is 75 years old. "Messiah" Schweinfr bobs up in Arkansas. where he is going to establish a "Heaven."

7. July 8, 1897 The Globe-Republican Dodge City, KS
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NEWS BOILED DOWN. Turkey still demands Thessaly. General Rivera is critically sick. Russia's population is 139,211,113. Amount of public debt $946,656,036. Montana now has an anti-gambling law. There is much disease among the Spanish troops. Miss Mary Straub, hymn composer, is dead in Chicago. Galatz, Roumania, reports many lives lost by high water. The government took in $13,500,000 more than it paid out in June. Standard '98 wheels will be $75, as all '96 $100 wheels are now. Louis Gillot, a New Orleans bank wrecker, was given eight years in the penitentiary. Five Minnesota Indians were killed by imbibing pain killer and hair oil. Sullivan and Fitzsimmons will Lot be allowed to spar at Ambrose Park, N.Y. Bryan in an interview at Laramie, Wyo,, praised the course of Ohio Democrats. The president is said to have decided to entirely reform the civil service commission. James Burgen and wife were beaten to death in bed by burglars near Bentonville, Ark. Internal Revenue Collector Welborn of the San Francisco district has been removed for crooked work. Japan hrs decided to withdraw her minister to America, as she feels insulted over the Hawaii business. Captain General Weyler refuses to set any time for the trials of the Competitor prisoners for various reasons. H. Russell Ward. an Englishman. has eloped from Los Angeles with Missionaire John Bradbury's young wife. A locomotive engine blew up at Morgan Park. Chicago, fatally injuring Fireman John Latshaw and Engineer John Fogg. John Stephens family were poisoned at Belmont, Brown county, III. Only two tittle girls out of six people are left and they are very sick. John W. Thompson, United States marshal of West Virginia, was compelled by injunction under civil service law to reappoint the old Democratic force of deputies. President Gates of Amherst college is to resign. Twelve thousand Belgium eoal miners are on a strike. Union Trust and Savings bank, Tacoma, Wash.. suspended. The New York jury that tried the tobacco trust couldn't agree. The Hawaiian reciprocity provision has been restored to the tariff bill. Helen Keller, deaf. dumb and blind, passed in advanced German for Radcliffe college. National Republican headquarters have been moved from Washington to Cleveland. James Arnold, a Butte. Mont., minIng man, was done up for $6,900 in a faro game in Chicago. W. M. McFarland, ex-secretary of state of Iowa. is accused of making employes divide their salaries with him. George Copeland's wife and his sister and her child were killed by lightning at Cadillac, and S. Bandine's 10-yearold daughter was killed at Howard City, Mich. Mail Clerk R. T. Sherman and Baggagemaster W. P. Coon, both of Indianapolis, were killed in a Christian Endeavor train wreck on the Vandalia, and Mail Clerk Samuel Parkinson and Fireman Frank Owens fatally injured. W. J. Calhoun has declined the position of comptroller of the treasury. Oil has been struck at a depth of 1,400 feet in a well at Tishomingo, I. T. The Bank of Osage Mission. Kan., will go into voluntary liquidation. It has a capital of $5,000. The Western Door company, a door, sash and blind trust organized last week, has collapsed. The cash in the treasury is classified as follows: Gold, $178,076,656: silver, $520,793,922; paper, $153,349,526. Alvin Dillway, son of the president of the Mechanic's National bank. of Boston, Mass., killed himself with poison in that city yesterday because he had been expelled from West Point. Mrs. John McClelland was struck and instantly killed by lightning near Starfield, Mo., during a heavy rain and thunder storm. All streams in that vicinity are rising and trains are delayed. Samuel Barnum was appointed receiver of the Topeka Belt Railway company. There is a mortgage of $500,000 on the read, and several weeks ago a force of men tore up the tracks in the night. James Wilder. wife and two children. emigrants, supposed to be from Benton county, Mo., were burned te, death in a cabin near Rochester, Ky. They had stopped in the cabin for a few day's rest from traveling. The governor of Idaho has asked the war department for tro N to protect settlers from the Bannock In-

8. July 9, 1897 The Chanute Times Chanute, KS
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NEWS BOILED DOWN. Turkey still demands Thessaly. General Rivera is critically sick. Russia's population is 129,211,113. Amount of public debt $956,656,036. Montana now has an anti-gambling law. There is much .disease among the Spanish troops. Miss Mary Straub, hymn composer, is dead in Chicago. Galatz, Roumania, reports many lives lost by high water. The government took in $13,500,000 more than it paid out in June. Standard '98 wheels will be $75, as all '96 $100 wheels are now. Louis Gillot, a New Orleans bank wrecker, was given eight years in the penitentiary. Five Minnesota Indians were killed by imbibing pain killer and hair oil. Sullivan and, Fitzsimmons will not be allowed to spar at Ambrose Park, N.Y. Bryan in an interview at Laramie, Wyo,, praised the course of Ohio Democrats. The president is said to have decided to entirely reform the civil service commission. James Burgen and wife were beaten to death in bed by burglars near Bentonville, Ark. Internal Revenue Collector Welborn of the San Francisco district has been removed for crooked work. Japan hrs decided to withdraw her minister to America, as she feels insulted over the Hawaii business. Captain General Weyler refuses to set any time for the trials of the Competitor prisoners for various reasons. H. Russell Ward, an Englishman. has eloped from Los Angeles with Missionaire John Bradbury's young wife. A locomotive engine blew up at Morgan Park. Chicago, fatally injuring Fireman John Latshaw and Engineer John Fogg. John Stephens family were poisoned at Belmont, Brown county, III. Only two tittle girls out of six people are left and they are very sick. John W. Thompson. United States marshal of West Virginia, was compelled by injunction under civil service law to reappoint the old Democratic force of deputies. President Gates of Amherst college is to resign. Twelve thousand Belgium coal miners are on a strike. Union Trust and Savings bank, Tacoma, Wash,, suspended. The New York jury that tried the tobacco trust couldn't agree. The Hawaiian reciprocity provision has been restored to the tariff bill. Helen Keller, deaf. dumb and blind, passed in advanced German for Radcliffe college. National Republican headquarters have been moved from Washington to Cleveland. James Arnold, a Butte, Mont., mining man, was done up for $6,900 in a faro game in Chicago. W. M. McFarland, ex-secretary of state of Iowa, is accused of making employes divide their salaries with him. George Copeland's wife and his sister and her child were killed by lightning at Cadillac, and S. Bandine's 10-yearold daughter was !-illed at Howard City, Mich. Mail Clerk R. T. Sherman and Baggagemaster W. P. Coon, both of Indianapolis, were killed in a Christian Endeavor train wreck on the Vandalia, and Mail Clerk Samuel Parkin. son and Fireman Frank Owens fatally injured. W. J. Calhoun has declined the position of comptroller of the treasury. Oil has been struck at a depth of 1,400 feet in a well at Tishomingo, I. T. The Bank of Osage Mission, Kan., will go into voluntary liquidation. It has a capital of $5,000. The Western Door company, a door, sash and blind trust organized last