6737. Central Bank (Kansas City, KS)

Bank Information

Episode Type
Suspension → Closure
Bank Type
state
Start Date
July 20, 1891
Location
Kansas City, Kansas (39.114, -94.627)

Metadata

Model
gpt-5-mini
Short Digest
20620b56

Response Measures

None

Description

Multiple contemporaneous newspaper dispatches (Jul 20–23, 1891) report the Central Bank of Kansas City, Kansas, failed or closed this morning. The failure is repeatedly attributed to the failure/takeover of the First National (Wyandotte/First National) bank rather than depositor runs at Central Bank itself. No reopening is reported in these items.

Events (1)
1. July 20, 1891 Suspension
Cause
Correspondent
Cause Details
Failure was attributed to the prior failure/takeover of the First National (Wyandotte) bank, precipitating Central Bank's failure/closure; articles explicitly state failure was due to First National's failure or Wyandotte bank failure taken by examiner earlier in week.
Newspaper Excerpt
The Central Bank of Kansas City, Kan., failed this morning. The failure was due to the failure of the First National Bank last Thursday.
Source
newspapers

Newspaper Articles (10)
1. July 20, 1891 Evening Capital Journal Salem, OR
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Mrs. Maybrick Wanted Life Insurance. TO PROTECT OUR FISHERMEN. The Airship no Good, Complicated Case, Spurgeon May Recover, Several Bank Failures and Assignments, State and Foreign News, Etc. THE WORLD'S CROPS. LONDON, July 20-The Times summarizes the harvest prospects of the world as follows: In Russia there is a grave deficit. The peasantry are starving and there is small hope of relief. In India serious anxiety of famine prey over a considerable portion of the country. Madras, Rejputana and the Punjale are the worst sufferers. There is a drought in Rengal, and the need of more rain is urgent. Bombay alone promises a good harvest. The American Marvest will be good in quality and amount, but with the failure of the India and Russia sup plies it is of the utmost importance that the English crop be not short. The prospect on the whole is good In the chief wheat counties of Es sex, Norfolk and Suffolk the erop Is above the average, and in other counties up to average. Harvest will be late and prices high, conse quently there is a good outlook for English farmers to break the long series of disastrous years. MRS. MAYBRICK. LONDON, July 20.-Judgment was given today in the action brought by Mrs. Maybrick against the In surance association to recover $10,000 insurance on her husband's life The court decided that as she had murdered her husband she could not recover. Mrs. Maybrick is the American woman who was convicted a few years ago of poisoning her husband. a well-known Liverpool cotton merchant, and who is now serving a life sentence. THE AIRSHIP NO GOOD. BURLINGTON, Ia., July 20.-Burlington's airship company is no more. The capitalists who had gone into the $10,000,000 incorporation with Mr. Pennington became convinced there was nothing in the enterprise, and so dissolyed the company today. Pennington proposes to fly his new machine from Burlington to New York, carrying four people in six hours. Nearly two thirds of the required subscription had been secured. A COMPLICATED CASE. KANSAS CITY, July 20.-A special from Topekasays: G. W. Mackay, alliance judge of the Twenty-fourth district, has taken another turn at the surpreme court. Yesterday he placed a warrant in the handsof the coroner of Harper county for the arrest of the sheriff, who had obeyed the orders of the surpreme court in stead of his own. The bench and the bar are awaiting anxiously the next move of the jurist who rep resents the Twenty-fourth-district and laughs at the plutocrats in ΓopeKa, who thinks they can dictate to him because they are called surpreme judges. Saturday morning the attorney for Burr, the sheriff, re ceived from the supreme court the necessary papers for having Mackay arrested for contempt of court. Judge Valentine is the only judge in the city. The case will become historic. BANK CLOSES. FORT WORTH, Texas, July 20.Merchants First National bank was closed this morning by the bank examiner. Assets twelve hundred thousand, liabilities fiye hundred thousand. Trouble began six months ago when rumors caused a heavy withdrawal of deposits eighty five thousand being taken out by foreign loan companies on account of allen land laws. Bank is solvent, depositors and creditors are fully protected. ANOTHER BANK FAILURE. KANSAS CITY, July 20.-Central bank Kansas City, Kansas, failed this morning due failure of the First National bank Thursday. Liabilities $350,000, assets $65,000. ASSIGNED. NEWBURYPORT, Mass, July 20.The Bayley hat factory assigned today. Liabilities, $175,000; assets, less than $50,000; creditors mestly local. ANOTHER ASSIGNMENT. HIGGANUM, Conn., July 20.-The Higganum Manufacturing Co., manufacturers of farm implements made an assignment today to Ex-Gover nor Lounsbury. State Senator Clark is president and Clinton R. Davis, chairman Democratic state

2. July 21, 1891 San Antonio Daily Light San Antonio, TX
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LATE TELEGRAMS BCILED DOWN FROM PRIVATE, SPECIAL AND OTHER SOURCES. Railway strike at Paris collapses. Forty houses destroyed by fire in Guadalajara, Spain. Taylor will put up for railway connection with M. K. & T. at Trinity. President Finney, of Soo and South shore, at Minneapolis, resigns. The I. & G. N. receivership meets at Austin Monday the 27th. Governor of Minnesota and sheriff refuse to interfere in the prize fight A. Friedlander, Gainesville china merchant, fails. Two boys arrested at Tracy City, Tenn., for murdering a peadler. The state railway commission gives audience at Dallas to shippers. Jim Huntley wanted in Texas for forgery, extradited at Toronto. Mrs. Maybrick is denied the $10,000 insurance on her husband's lite. Another civil conflict is immenent in Samoa. Laredo is disconsolate over the Sunday law enforcement. San Angelo has shipped 3,000,000 pounds wool this season. Good rains at Belton give assurance of immense cotton crop. The Austin soldiers find running guard for beer rather risky business. The Austin riot is set for today, and the boys will have a circus. Major Ford is medical director of the Austin camp. Llewellen of Waco is charged with criminal assault on a young married woman. Uruguay is threatened with bankruptey. Clarkson says Quay wanted to resign immediately after Harrison's election. Patrick Kelly, Galveston jailer, from injuries received from an insane prisoner. J. S. Schweitzer's will probated at New Orleans; several public charities get from $5000 to $10,000 each. The Tennessee miners canture the militia and convicts and ship them to Knoxville. There will be bloodshed at Bruce. ville, Tenn., over the attempt to work convict miners. Gov. of Tennessee is urged to arrest and punish the miners, who took the camp. The miners threaten to destroy the bridges and burn the railroad if troops are sent Detail ha® been made for court martials at Austin, Major A. W. Houston judge advocate. San Antonio elect, ic ca's are doing temporary duty at Austin during encampment. There are about 2500 men In camp at Austin, one third regulars, the rest militia. Georgetown chautaqua closes, a nd gives a donation of $1,000 to the 80. ciety. Lawyerville, a Michigan lumber town of fifty buildings and mills, destroyed by fire Texas gets her world's fair building site set apart before the money is raised for it. Merchants national bank at Fort Worth is pronounced solvent, and will reopen in 30 days. R. Crain, San Jacinto veteran drowned in the Bosque, at Valley Mills. The Erie threatens to cat central traffic rates unless New England roads stop scalping. Reagan says rates cannot be established to give one place advantage over another. Railway committee is considering grain, cotton, lumber, and salt rates today. Silver is gradually nearing the $1 00 mark on the New York exchange. A revenue vessel will probably be sent to Eastport, Me., to protect American fishermen. Union Investment company of Kansas City, Winner's bursted concern, will be reorganized. Central bank, Kansas City, Kas., fails through failure of the Wyandotte bank. Petition for an Austrian society, to perpetuate national feeling, refused at St. Louis. An immense concourse of St. Paul people protest against the Hall-Fitzsimmons fight. Contract let for grading and ironing the road from Denison to Nebraska state line. Chairman of Chicago and Alton will pay no attention to Western Passenger association rates made without consulting them. Senator Quay has desired to resign as chairman of the republican com-

3. July 21, 1891 The Morning Call San Francisco, CA
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BUSINESS FAILURES. A Farm Implement Firm and Two Banks Suspend Business. HIGGANUM (Conn.), July 0.-The Higganumi Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of farm implements, made an assignment to-day to ex-Governor Lounsberry. State Senator Clark is President, and Clinton R. Davis, Chairman of the Democratic State Committee, Secretary and Treasurer. ST. LOUIS, July 20.-A private dispatch from Fort Worth, Tex., says the Merchants' National Bank of that place has closed, and is in the hands of the Bank Examiner. The assets are $1,200,000, liabilities $500,000. The trouble began six months ago, when rumors caused a withdrawal of deposits, $85,000 being taken out by foreign loan companies on account of the alien land law. The bank is solvent. The depositors and creditors are fully protected. KANSAS CITY, July 20.-The Central Bank of Kansas City, Kans., failed this morning, due to the failure of the First National Bank last Thursday. The liabilities are $350,000, assets $65,000. The bank was organized in 1884, and was then known as the Savings Bank of Kansas. In 1889 it was reorganized under the name of the Central Bank of Kansas, with a capital of $75,000. The money on deposit belonging to the city is covered by a bond. The police force will probably not be paid for months, as the Police Fund was deposited in the bank. It is stated that depositors will probably be paid in full. NEWBURYPORT (Mass.), July 20.-The Bayley hat factory has assigned. The liabilities are $175,000, and assets less than $50,000. The creditors are mostly local.

4. July 21, 1891 The Indianapolis Journal Indianapolis, IN
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TEXAS BANK COLLAPSES. Examiner Spalding in Charge of the Assets -Liabilities, $500,000. FORT WORTH, Tex., July 20.-The Merchants' National Bank, by a vote of the directors, closed its doors this morning, and was placed in the hands of Bank Examiner H. M. Spalding. Assets, $1,200,000; liabilities, $500,000. Trouble began six months ago when rumors caused a heavy withdrawal of deposits. Within fifteen days $200,000 in deposits was withdrawn, of which $85,000 was taken out by foreign loan companies on account of the alien land law. Spalding says the bank is solvent, and that there is no occasion for a receiver. He would not have taken charge, except at the unanimous request of the directors. The depositors and creditors will be fully protected. A movement is on foot to reorganize the bank under the new law. Other banks tender aid, but the directors concluded the best way was to take the course they did. No other banks are affected, and little excitement is exhibited over the suspension. A dispatch from Madison, Ind., says: Capt. James G. Wright and Messrs. Edward, William, Frank and Nathan Powell, of this city, are stockholders, the first two directors, in the Merchants' National Bank of Fort Worth, Tex. Mrs. Dr. William Davidson, also of this city, had been a stockholder until quite recently, when she sold out, after realizing double her investments. A shrewd business man, in a position to know, informs your correspondent that the bank had been paying from 24 to as high as 37 per cent. interest for money. Hence he is not surprised at the announcement of its suspension to-day. Indeed, he anticipated it. Other Business Troubles. NEWBURYPORT, Mass., July 20.-The Baylay hat factory in this city made an assignment to-day for the benefit of creditors to Hon. E. P. Dodge and Hon. C. C. Dame. The cause is said to be the manufacturing of a class of goods which had to be sold at less than the cost of the production. The company was established in 1863 and employed about 250 hands. It is expected that the liabilities will reach $175,000 and the assets are placed at less than $50,000. The local creditors are national banks that hold from $10,000 to $25,000 each of the company's paper. KANSAS CITY, July 20.-The Central Bank, of Kansas City, Kan., failed this morning. The failure was due to the failure of the First National Bank, which was taken charge of by the bank examiner last Thursday. The liabilities are $35,000; assets $65,000. R. W. Hilliker is the president and cashier of the bank. The bank was organized under the State law. CINCINNATI, July 20.-Late this afternoon the firm of Thompson, Stewart & Co., dealers in millinery goods, 187 and 189 West Fourth street, made an assignment to Thomas McIntyre. The assets are $50,000; liabilities, $70,000. Preferred creditors are E. F. Knowlton, of New York, $2,500: C. H. Wood, of New York, $2,500: William Knowlton & Co., of New York, $6,940.

5. July 21, 1891 The Seattle Post-Intelligencer Seattle, WA
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TWOMOREBANKSFAIL One at Kansas City, Kan., the Other at Fort Worth, Tex. WANAMAKER'S STOCK STRAIGHT. Ex-State Treasurer Livsey, of Pennsylvania, Disagrees With Bardsley's Stub-Book. KANSAS CITY, July 20.-Eastern stock and bondholders today perfected a reorganization of the plan for the different companies brought into existence by the Winner Investment Company, and have arranged for an issue of new first mortgage bonds to complete the railroad and other work and pay off prior liens. Second mortgage bonds will then be issued. The Central bank of Kansas City, Kan., failed this morning. The failure was due to the failure of the First National bank on Thursday. The liabilities are $310,000; assets, $65,000. The Central bank of Kansas City, Kan., was organized in 1884, and was then known as the Savings bank of Kansas. In 1889 it was reorganized under the name of the Central bank of Kansas, with a capital of $75,000. The money on deposit belonging to the city is covered by bond. The police force will probably not be paid for & month, as the police fund was deposited in the bank. It is stated this evening that depositors will probably be paid in full. FORT WORTH, Tex., July 20.-The Merchants' National bank, of this city, has closed and is id the hands of the bank examiner. Its estimated assets are $1,200,000; liabilities, $500,000. Bank Examiner Spaulding says the bank is solvent, and that the depositors and creditors will be fully protected. The cause of the closing was the prevalence of rumors as to the bank's standing, which resulted in heavy withdrawals of funds. NEWBURYPORT, Mass., July 20.-The Bayley hat factory assigned today, with liabilities of $175,000 and assets less than $50,000. The creditors are mostly local. HIGGANUM, Conn., July 20.-The Higganum Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of farm implements, made an assignment today to ex-Governor Lounsbury. State Senator Clark is president and Clinton R. Davis, chairman of the Democratic state committee, is secretary and treasurer. The assets and liabilities have not yet been learned.

6. July 21, 1891 New-York Tribune New York, NY
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by foreign loan companies on account of the Alien Land law. Mr. Spaulding says the bank is solvent; that there is no occasion for a receiver, and he would not have taken such a step except at the unanimous request of the directors. Depositors and creditors will be fully protected. A movement is on foot to re-organize the bank under the new law. Other banks tendered aid, but the directors decided to take the course they did. No other banks are affected, and little excitement is exhibited over the suspension. Kansas City, Mo., July 20. -The Central Bank of Kansas City, Kan., failed this morning. The failure was due to the failure of the First National Bank, which was taken charge of by the Bank Examiner last Thursday. The liabilities are $35,000, assets $65,000. R. W. Hilliker is the president and cashier of the bank. The bank was organized under the State law.

7. July 21, 1891 Evening Star Washington, DC
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Failure of Western Banks. The Merchants' National Bank of Fort Worth, Tex., by a vote of the directors, closed its doors yesterday and the bank was placed in the hands of Bank Examiner Spaulding. The assets are $1,200,000 and the liabilities $500,000. The trouble began six months ago, when rumors caused a heavy withdrawal of $200,000, within fifteen days of which $85,000 was taken out by foreign loan companies on account of the alien land law. Mr. Spaulding says the bank is solvent, with no occasion for a receiver, and he would not have taken such a step except at the unanimous request of the directors. The depositors and creditors will be fully protected. No other banks are affected and little excitement is exhibited over the suspension. The Central Bank of Kansas City, Kan., failed yesterday. The failure was due to the failure of the First National Bank, which was taken charge of by the bank examiner last Thursday. The liabilities are $35,000; assets, $65,000. R. W. Hilliker is the president and cashier of the bank. The bank was organized under the state law.

8. July 23, 1891 Delaware Gazette and State Journal Wilmington, DE
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BUSINESS TROUBLES. One Day's Disasters in a Financial Way. The Merchants' National Bank of Fort Worth, Texas, suspended Monday morning. Its assets are reported at $1,200,000 and liabilities at $500,000. Bank Examiner Spaulding says the concern is really solvent and that the depositors and creditors will be fully protected. A movement is on foot to reorganize the bank under the new law. The Central Bank of Kansas, at Kansas City, closed its doors Monday morning, making the second bank failure on the Kansas side of Kansas City within a week. The liabilities are stated at $35,000; the assets at $65,000. The bank is a state concern. The Bayley hat factory in Newburyport, Mass., made an assignment Monday. The cause is said to have been the manufacture of a class of goods which had to be sold at less than cost of production. It is thought the liabilities will reach $175,000. The assets are placed at less than $50,000. The Higganum Manufacturing Company of Higganum, Conn., announced Monday that, owing to the failure of Joseph Davis, of Lynn, and by the advice of the large creditors, it had made an assignment. The company manufactured farming implements. Carroll L. Riker, a publisher in New York, made an assignment Monday.

9. July 24, 1891 Middlebury Register Middlebury, VT
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General News. The crop prospects in Russia and India are alarming. Gold at Buenos Ayres is quoted at 287 per cent premium. Cholera is increasing at Mecca, chiefly among the Turkish pilgrims. Senator Morgan of Alabama says he thinks Cleveland cannot secure a renomination. The number of paupers in the United States in 1890 was 73,045, an increase of 1842 in ten years. Nine laborers were killed Friday night by a wreck on the Chicago and Erie railway near Kenton, Ohio. Senator Gorman of Maryland is talked of as a likely candidate for the Democratnomination for the presidency. It is reported that an effort is being made to organize a revolutionary movement in Hayti to depose Hippolyte. The Merchants' national bank of Fort Worth, Tex., has closed its doors, and so has the Central bank of Kansas in Kansas City, Kan. Thirty thousand Confederates participated in the dedication of a monument to Stonewall Jackson at Lexington, Va., Tuesday. Englishmen maintain that the moral and physical condition of Ireland has improved since the funds from America diminished. The startling discovery that several Chinese lepers are running laundries in New York has stirred up the patrons of those institutions. The secretary of the treasury has issued a call on the national banks for nearly four millions of government funds in their possession. The policy holders of the New York Life Insurance company have appointed committee to investigate the charges recently made against President Beers. Dom Pedro, ex-emperor of Brazil, is very ill at Vichy. He recently met with accident, sustaining an injury of one of his feet, which was followed by gangrene. Gen. Benjamin F. Kelley, who raised the first regiment of loyal troops south of Mason and Dixon's line during the war, died at Oakland, Md., Thursday evening. Gen. Clarkson says that Senator Quay has long desired to resign the chairmanship of the Republican national committee, but has been persuaded to retain his position. Orders have been issued from Washingto reduce expenses in the New York custom house to the amount of $86,450 by the dismissal of 75 clerks and laborers and a reduction of salaries. A tornado and hail storm struck some portions of Wisconsin on Thursday afternoon. The hail storm beat down and destroyed quantities of wheat and the wind much damage to buildings. Ex-Queen Natalle of Seryia has brought a suit against ex-King Milan, in the Paris courts, to recover the sum of 3,000,000 francs, being a portion of her personal fortune which her dissolute husband squandered. Assistant Secretary Spaulding of the treasury department has directed that the Chinamen arrested in El Paso, Tex. for unlawfully entering this country by way of Mexico be sent to San Francisco for deportation to China. During a cyclone at West Superior. Wis., Thursday afternoon a number of buildings were blown down, including a hotel in course of construction. Of 40 workmen in the building at least five were killed and others were badly hurt. The city treasurer of Kansas City, Mo., threatens to criminally prosecute the of ficers of the first national bank of Kansas City, Kansas, unless they return to him $30,000 which they accepted on deposit the afternoon before the failure was announced. Fire broke out in the business centre of Lynn, Mass., a little before 10 o'clock Friday night, and for a time the entire business portion of the city seemed in danger of destruction. The flames were. however. confined to narrow limits, and the loss is estimated at about $200,000. The city of Santiago, Chili, has just been visited with the severest fire ever known in South America. the loss being estimated at more than $2,000,000. The British legation was consumed, with all of the archives and personal property of the minister. The fire started in a restaurant. The judicial authorities of the German government have investigated as far as possible the system of putting murderers to death by electricity in vogue in New

10. July 31, 1891 The Iola Register Iola, KS
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GENERAL NEWS. CONDENSED ARRANGEMENT OF THE OCCURANCES OF THE PAST WEEK AT HOME AND ABROAD-THE PITH OF THE DISPATCHES. Domestic. Goethe's grandson has offered to sell the manuscript letters of Fran von Stein for $37,000. Prof. M. Love, an aeronaunt, fell 250 feet at Indianapolis owing to the disarrangement of his parachnte. By a marvel he was not killed, although badly hurt. In a speech at Birmingham, John Ala., Jerry Simpson of Kansas said that the Sherman was the arch enemy of human race and that the alliance had determined to defeat him in Ohio. Howard R. Bivins of Punta Gorda, Fla., wasshot and fatally wounded by Miss Lee Ritchie. Miss Ritchie attempted suicide after. She was in love with Bivins, but he was engaged to another young woman. Commissioner Carter of the general land office has directed the register and receiver at Lewistown, Mont., to receive mineral applications and allow mineral entries in the abandoned Fort Maginnis military reservation in Montana, under the same conditions as when they are made for other public the lands. The same rule will apply to abandoned Fort McDermott military reservation in Nevada. At the request of the senate, Carrol of D. Wright, chief of the department labor, has sent a special agent to Chicago to make an investigetion into the effect of the McKinley tariff law on wages and the price of products. Similar work will be carried on in all the other large manufacturing centers. William Luthstrom, mauager of the Cary-Lombard lumber company of Chicago, started for the bank July 11, with $2,000, but disappeared. An examination of the company's books disclosed is a shortage of $10,000. Luthstrom thought to have gone to Australia accompanied by his typewriter. He leaves a wife and five children destitute. Canadian collectors of customs have been notified that they may except duty on guns, fishing and other equip- for ments of parties visiting Canada sporting purposes, with the condition that the duty so paid will be refunded on proof of the exportation of the same within a period of two months from the date of entry. Robert Howe of New York has been arrested on the charge of stealing $10,000 case of diamonds from the jewelry establishment of Carl Warnicke last February. Howe and a handsomely dressed woman called to examine some jewels. While the woman was looking at the jewels Howe went out for a cigar and soon returned, but the couple decided to make no purchase. The tray of diamonds was immediately missed. Chattanooga labor unions denounced convict labor, and petitioned Governor Buchanan to summon the Legislature in extra session to consider the subject. When Louis Centreaux and mistress landed from a French steamer in New York they wereseparated by Centreaux in wife. who bore her husband away triumph. She bad followed him from France on the same steamer, but could not find him till he landed. At Hine Bluff. Ark., Gabe Isam shot and killed Silas O'Brien in a gurrael arising from Mrs. O'Brien making fun of Mrs. Isam while at prayer. The campaign against the "intruders" in the Chickasaw Nation has been abandoned. The Kings of Tennessee, are about to sue for the $100,000,000 Edwards estate in New York. Mendel Rogalski, a Russian Jew detained at the Barge Office. New York, fears that he will be put to death if he is sent back to Russia. Jesse Streait, the sleeping wonder of Seymour, Ind:, awoke Sunday morning from a"nap" lasting 1141 hours. The butcher for the Soldiers' Home and Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan., has been found to be selling "big jaw beef. The home of Henry P. James, two miles from Flora, III., was burned. In it were found the remains of the father, mother, son, married daughter and her baby, bearing marks of violence. They had been murdered and the building fired. It is suspected that the father did the deed. Frank Sherman, of American birth. who came to New York as a stowaway, has been refused permission to land, and will be sent back to England. For the first time since 1854 the New Orleans Mint is at work upon ten-cent pieces. James W. Spain and wife of Evansville, Ind., have been arrested for embezzlement from the lodge of Knights and Ladies of Honor of which he was dictator and the treasurer. The Central Bank of Kansas in Kausas City, Kas., failed for $30,000. Peter Dean, who has been arrested in New York, is not wanted by the Cnicago police for connection with the murder of Dr. Cronin. It was thonght at one time that he did have something to do with case, but the police satisfied themselves that he had nothing to do with the case and he was never held. The record of the court martial in the case of Lieutenant George A. Evans, company G, Tenth cavalry, stationed at Fort Grant, Ariz., has reached the war department. The court found the accused guilty of drunkenness on duty and sentenced him to dismissal from the service. The proceedings of the court have not yet been acted on by the President. The jury in the case of Samual W. Lewis, the Wall street broker charged with stealing $58.000 from his wife, Mrs. Alice Bostwick Lewis, brought in a verdict of guilty. A Washington citizens' committee has prepared an address extending to the G. R., a hearty invitation to hold its national encampment in 1892 in that city. Judge David Pugh, before whom the Columbus, O., W. J. Eliott, accused of it murder, is being tried, and prosecuting attorney Huling have received anonymous messages, warning them that if they did not desist in their efforts to convict Elliott, murder would probably m result. J. A. Vail, book-keeper at the West Park window glass works, Findley, St Ohio, disappeared with $21,000 of the