f80a6141Accommodated withdrawals, Borrowed from banks or large institutions, Capital injected, Full suspension, Books examined
Other: Receiver appointed on Sept. 18 after reopening; initial assignment language used.
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Another Kansas]BankiFailure. TOPEKA, Kas., March 18 - -The United States Savings Bank of this city closed its doors this morning and assigned. The failure was caused by the failure a few weeks ago of John D. Knox, president of the bank. Eastern creditors of the bank connected father and son with the savings bank and withdrew their support. The liabilities and assets cannot be learned. The capital stock of the bank is $261,000.
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Another Bank Fathure in Kausas. TOPEKA, Kan. March 18.The United States Savings Bank in this city closed its doors this morning and assigned. The failure was caused by the failure a few weeks ago of John D. Koox, president of the bank. Eastern creditors of the bank connected with the father and son with the savings bank withdrew their support. The liabilities and assete cannot be learned. Assets large, but will pay in full all liabilities. Capital stock of the bank, $261,000.
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LATE NEWS IN BRIEF. -The winter wheat outlook in Kansas is very bright. -The Joliet. III., Opera House burned yesterday. Loss, $60,000. -World's Fair subscribers must pay up. So say the Chicago courts. -A statue of General Grant will be unveiled at Lis former home, Galena, Ill., on Memorial Day. -The Mavor and garrison of Valparaiso, the chief seaport of Chile, have joined the insurgents. -Biedinger & Co.'s paper bag factory in Cincinnati, burned Tuesday night. Loss, $40,000; insured. -The Saginaw county (Mich.) poorhouse burned Tuesday. The 42 inmates had a narrow escape. -General Palmer's Democratic neighbors persist in booming him for the Presidental nomination. -The new subsidy law has spurred the PanAmerican Transportation Company into organizing at Mobile. -Parnell has dismissed the editor of the Belfast News for supporting him in only a halfhearted way. -Chicago lawyers say the proposed reorganization of the Gas Trust under the laws of New Jersey would be illegal. -Governor Mellette, of South Dakota, is alarmed over the reports that 20 per cent of the Ogallallas and Brules are ready for the warpath. -J. & A. Simpkinson, the Cincinnati boot and shoe firm, has failed. Liabilities. $400,000; assets. $300,000. Cause, a gradual reduction in the volume of business. -The firing of a blast on Lookout Mountain Tuesday dislodged 100,000 tons of rock, which crashed down the mountain side, destroying 200 yards of railroad track. -Fire at Highland, N. Y., destroyed property to the extent of $60,000, reducing the business center to ashes. An 8-year-old boy named Ellis was burned to death. -A band wagon containing a party of 16 young people fell down a mountain side near Georgetown. Col., yesterday morning. All but one of the occupants were hurt. -The bodv of an Irishman named Andrew Finnegan, who had perished from cold and starvation, was found in a deserted Kansas City stable, partly eaten by rats, Tuesday. -The report that John W. Young, son of the late Brigham Young, had contracted for building 1,500 miles of railroad in Mexico is confirmed. He will locate a Mormon colony. -The remains of General John C. Freemont were taken to Sparhill, Rockland county, N. Y., and buried in the Rockland Cemetery, four miles below Nyack. in the plot of the Order of Lafayette. -While a committee were crossing a foot bridge at Rome Tuesday, the structure gave way, carrying the whole party with it. Five of the committeemen were killed and several others were injured. -The United States Savings Bank of Topeka has assigned. Liabilities unknown. The failure was caused by the destruction of the bank's credit, owing to the recent failure of Banker Knox, father of its President.
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TELEGRAPHIC NOTES. -The two-cent passenger-rate bill in the Nebraska legislature is dead. -Uruguay has arranged for a loan of $5.000,000, with the Popular Banco de Brazil. -A large part of Jefferson parish, La., is being inundated by a crevasse, and the loss will be very great. -The English impressario, Col. Mapleson, was married to Miss Laura Schrimer, Tuesday, at the British embassy in Paris. -Jack Oarkeek, of Milwaukee, announces that he has given up wrestling forever and will engage in business. He says there is no money in wrestling. -A copy of the indictment against William B. Tascott has been sent to Aberdeen, S. D., where the latest Tascott capture is being held by the police. -The Merrimae mills at Lowell, Mass., have dismissed about 140hands, among them about twenty females, for remaining away on St. Patrick's day. -The betting clubs of Liverpool were raided by the police, yesterday, and scores of men of more or less prominence in sporting circles were run in. -Mr. Parnell has obtained control of the Morning News, of Belfast, which belonged to Mr. Gray, who is also proprietor of the Freeman's Journal of Dubtin. -D. C. O'Malley, of New Orleans. for whom a body of citizens were in search with a noosed rope for alleged complicity with the mafla, is said to be in Chicago. -The United States saving bank of Topeka, Kan., closed yesterday morning. The assets are large and will pay in full all liabilities. The capital stock of the bank was $261,000. -It is announced that the marriage of George Reuter, second son of Baron de Reuter, of London, to a daughter of the late John Potter, of Philadelphia, will occur in May. -The poor-house of Saginaw county, Mich., was burned Tuesday, and forty-two men and women, imbeciles, cripples and aged persons, narrowly escaped death in the flames. -The correspondent at St. Petersburg of the Berliner Tageblatt, the principal organ of the Jews in Germany, has been expeled from Russia under the operation of the antiJewish decrees. -The navy department has received a dispatch from Tampa, Fla., stating that the Dolphin sailed for Pensacola at daybreak with Secretary Proctor and Attorney-General Miller aboard. -Gossip among politicians at Columbus. O., is to the effect that H. B. Morehead, the Cincinnati broker, has sold a controlling interest in the Commercial Gazette of that city to John R. McLean, of the Enquirer. -The correspondent at Rome of the London Times states that investigation establishes the falsity of the recently circulated stories of massacres at Mass owah. Only a few spies have been put to de ath. -The statement of the Union Pacific Railroad Co. for January, 1891, shows gross earnings for the whole system at $3,115,376, an increase of $546,088 over January of last year, and net earnings $983,508, an increase of $607,496. -Assistant Secretary Spaulding has directed the collector of customs at New York to extend the usual courtesies to Dr. Don A. Del Solar, the new minister from Peru to the United States, whose arrival is daily expected. -Mr. Maurice Healy, McCarthyite M. P., will accept the chailenge of Mr. Parnell that both gentlemen resign their seats in parliament, in order that they may make a test case by contesting the constituency for reelection. -While the members of a committee for the purpose were crossing a foot bridge to examine a site for the annual cattle show, which is held at Cagliari, Italy, the structure gave way, and five of the committeemen were killed. -At nine o'clock yesterday morning a terrific explosion occurred in a puddling furnace in the Crescent steel works, at Pitts. burgh, Pa., by which three men were fatally injured and six others received serious burns and bruises. -Judge Benedict, in the United States circuit court,criminal branch, at New York, yes. terday, sentenced Gen. Peter A. Classen to six years' imprisonment in the Erie county penitentiary. Claasen was convicted of wreeking the Sixth national bank. -Mr. Davitt, speaking at Blackburn, said that he had no longer wished for separation from the empire as soon as he saw a chance for Ireland to gain her desire by constitutional means. He predicted the thorough defeat of Parnell in future elections. -The committ of the British parliament, appointed to consider the question of state aid to emigration, has na te its Enal report. The committee does not advise any general extension of the system except in the case of congested districts of Scotland and Ireland. -At a meeting of the ex: cutive board of mine workers at Scottdale, Pa., yesterday, it was unanimously decid d to continue the struggle until next August If necessary to win. The wants of hungry families are to be supplied out of the defense fund, which is increasing. -The bill recently introduced in the Min. nesota legislature to appropriate $20,000 for statues of the late Gen. Sibley and Secretary Windom to be placed in the national capi-
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THE NEWS OF THE WORLD. ALL THE CONTINENTS REPRESENTED. Minor Occurrences of the Past Week Briefly Paragraphed for "The Weekly Sentinel"-Look Sharp or Miss a Newsy Item. All Chicago has the grip. Lawrence Barrett is dead. Nebraska Indians tomahawked an Iowa boy. Kansas winter wheat gives promise of a big crop. C. N. Felton was elected senator from California. Dun reports a confident feeling in business circles. The opera house at Joliet, Ill., burnd; loss, $50,000. Chicago has a five-cornered political fight on hand. Ex-Governor Lucius Robinson of New York is dying. Lord Salisbury threatens coercion in New oundland. United Ireland makes a bitter attack on the priesthood. The Aberdeen Tascott failed to pan out and was released. It is claimed gold has been discovered near Linneus, Mo. The steamer Hercules is ashore at Lackey's Bay, Mass. Freeman & Richardson, teas and coffees, New York, assigned. Government troops are said to be gaining ground in Chili. The whisky trust declared a monthly dividend of 1 per cent. The Keystone national bank of Philadelphia has suspended. Fire damaged the Detroit opera house to the extent of $35,000. Jim Daly stood up before McAuliffe for six rounds at Harrisburg. The Saginaw county (Mich.) poor house burned and forty inmates. John M. D. Faushaw of New York got life imprisonment for arson. Mining stocks took a hard tumble on the San Francisco exchange. Treasurer Huston says he expects soon to return to Indiana for good. The Decatur (III.) furniture company's factory burned. Loss $50,000. Mr. Jackson of London loses his wife's company by the order of court. Henry Aveling, a well known actor, killed himse f in a New York hotel. Argentine has defaulted the interest on the 1882 and 1886 providential sixes. It has been decided to let the Michigan salt association expire by limitation. John A. Frey, general merchant, Stephenville, Tex., failed for $24,000. Theodore Schwartz & Co., private bankers, Louisville, failed for half a million. Joseph Perrien,a wealthy Detroit miller. has been abducted and held for ransom. The Variety iron works, Cleveland, failed; liabilities, $250,000 assets, $150,000. The breaking of a cofferdam on the Sault Ste. Marie canal will delay work six weeks. James M. Nolan and wife of Pittsburg were poisoned by prepared meat. Nolan died. Frank Casey killed John Perry with a rock at St. Louis; both colored, aged fourteen. Capt. Charles Fowler, agent of the Morgan steamship line at Galveston, is dead. The United States savings bank of Topeka, Kas., closed its doors. No statement. Lahmair & Co., dry goods importers, New York, assigned with $21,000 preferences. George Sims, a desperado of Pine Bluff, Ark., was killed by officers while resisting arrest. During 1890 there were 40,105 deaths in New York City; births, 39,250; marriages; 14,992. Montana cattle are in fine condition and there is an abundance of grass on the ranges. Storms have destroyed three-fourths of the growing Italian crop of oranges and lemons. J. & A. Simpkinson, boot and shoe firm, Cincinnati, failed for $400,000; assets. $300,000. Andrew Finnigan starved to death in his shanty at Kansas City and the rats ate his body. Dr. Christopher Goodbrake, the last man to whom Gen. McPherson spoke, died at Clinton, III. Jerome Beecher, a well-known pioneer merchant and resident of Chicago since 1838, is dead. Seven tons of dynamite exploded at Patton's factory, Ottawa, Ont. Damages and loss, $8,000. Hundreds of judgments have been given against delinquent subscribers to the world's fair fund. Adam Schrieber perished in the fire at Elizabethport, N. J. The loss on the works is $700,000. Germany discredits the report that President Harrison has demanded recognition for our hog. Mrs. T. M. Hawk was killed and her husband fatally injured at arailroad crossing near Lanark, III. The colored editors' association demands one of the new U. S. circuit judges and a world's fair commissioner. Gen. Peter A. Classen got six years in the penitentiary for wrecking the Sixth national bank of New York. The Persian amba-sador at T ondon says ministers in his country who lose favor at court are often put to death. Many leading lawyers think the reorganization of the Chicago gas trust under the laws of Illinois is illegal. Senator Harris of Tennessee looks upon
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TOPEKA, KAN.-Tho United States Savings bank, of which W. C. Knox 18 president, is in the hands of an assignee; the following notice posted on the door told the story: "The bank is in the hands of an assignee. A list of creditors will be filed during the day. The assets largely exceed the liabilities, and depositors will undoubtedly be paid in full. Aside from deposits, the amount due creditors is not large, and is held almost entirely out of the state. The bank is not in debt to any bank or financial institution in SAMUEL T. HOWE, Topeka. Assignee. This failure is a direct result of the assignment of John D. Knox & Co. thirty days ago. Although the institutions have not been connected in any way, the public, and particularly the eastern creditors were unable to see it in that light, and almost immediately a quiet run was commenced upon the United States Savings bank. The eastern creditors holding time certificates, presented their accounts and they were paid as fast as presented, and some of the local depositors withdrew their funds. The officers of the bank had completed arrangements with an eastern banking house by which they were to get any amount of money they might need. The security was agreed upon and the bank did not look elsewhere for assistance. When the time came for the use of the cash, however, it was not forthcoming, and the officers of the bank were compelled to put the institution in the hands of an assignee. The depositors are largely composed of laboring people, and their accounts represent their hard earned savings laid by for a rainy day. W. C. Knox and wife made a deed transferring to the United States Savings bank, property of an aggregate value of $175,000. This included the Knox building and two lots, $120,000; the St. James hotel property, two lots, $28,000, some vacant city lots and several quarter sections of farming lands. This will all go into the assets. Everything was turned in except a house on Harrison street, owned by Mrs. Knox, on which there is some incumbrance, and a lot in Parkdale, owned by her before her marriage. All stock held by Mr. Knox in the William C. Knox Guarantee Eight Per Cent. Investment company has been turned into the general assets of the bank; also all of his stock in the Sunflower Windmill company, and in all the other local institutions in which he was interested.
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W. C. Knox's Bank Closes. TOPEKA, KAN.-The United States Savings bank, of which W. C. Knox IS president, is in the hands of an assignee; the following notice posted on the door told the story: "The bank is in the hands of an assignee. A list of creditors will be filed during the day. The assets largely exceed the liabilities, and depositors will undoubtedly be paid in full. Aside from deposits, the amount due creditors is not large, and is held almost entirely out of the state. The bank is not in debt to any bank or financial institution in SAMUEL T. Howe, Topeka. Assignee. This failure is a direct result of the assignment of John D. Knox & Co. thirty days ago. Although the institutions have not been connected in any way, the public, and particularly the eastern creditors were unable to see It in that light, and almost immediately a quiet run was commenced upon the United States Savings bank. The eastern creditors holding time certificates, presented their accounts and they were paid as fast as presented, and some of the local depositors withdrew their funds. The officers of the bank had completed arrangements with an eastern banking house by which they were to get any amount of money they might need. The security was agreed upon and the bank did not look elsewhere for assistance. When the time came for the use of the cash, however, it was not forthcoming, and the officers of the bank were compelled to put the institution in the hands of an assignee. The depositors are largely composed of laboring people, and their accounts represent their hard earned savings laid by for a rainy day. W. C. Knox and wife made a deed transferring to the United States Savings bank, property of an aggregate value of $175,000. This included the Knox building and two lots, $120,000; the St. James hotel property, two lota, $28,000, some vacant city lots and several quarter sections of farming lands.
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A BANK ON ITS FEET AGAIN. The Suspended Topeka Concern to Resume With a Fine Surplus. TOPEKA, KAN., June 21-The United States Savings Bank, one of the oldest institutions of the kind in the State, which failed during the stringency in the money markets, will re-open July 1. All depositors will be paid in full, and the bank will start over again with a handsome surplus.
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KANSAS STATE NEWS. Burglars have recently been troubling the people of Leavenworth. The post office at Edwardsville was recently robbed . of about $70 worth of stamps. William Bell, 67 years old, WSS drowned while fishing in Pottawotamie creek at Osawatomie the other day. The regents of the state university, at a recent meeting, elected Prof. F. W. Blackmar to fill the chair made vacant by the resignation of Prof. Canfield. A charter was recently filed with the secretary of state for the Broom Corn Association of Kansas. The purposes are to build warehouses for the storing of broom corn to be sold through their agents. Capital stock, $10,000. Mrs. D. M. Smith was found dead in her room at Topeka the other day. She had been dead two days when found. She was about 45 years of age and her only son is a brakeman on the Santa Fe. He was out on the road at the time of his mother's death and she was alone. The secretary of the state board of agriculture estimates the winter wheat crop of Kansas this year at 58,000,000 bushels. The area is placed at 2,900,000 acres. In addition to this there ar 170,000 acres of spring wheat which will bring the total crop of the state up to 60,000,000 bushels. In the United States court at Leavenworth on the 18th Judge Riner overruled the motion for a new trial in the case of C. A. Benson, found guilty of the murder of Mrs. Mettman, and sentenced Benson to be hanged November 5. It is now thought the case will go to the supreme court of the United States. The post office department has made the following re-adjustment of salaries of Kansas postmasters: Arkansas City, from $2,400 to $2,200; Junction City, $1,900 to $2,000; Kansas City, $2,600 to $2,700; Lawrence, $2, 700 to $2,600; Newton, $2,200 to $2,100; Parsons, 100 to $2,200; Pittsburgh, $1,900 to $2,100; Wellington, $2,100 to $2,000. In the United States circuit court at Leavenworth the other morning the decree of foreclosure and sale of the Kansas City, Wyandotte & Northwestern railroad was entered on the record. The sale will take place next December in Topeka, and is to satisfy a claim of $3,750,000, exclusive of interest on the unpaid coupons, by the Farmers' Loan & Trust Co., of New York. The State Millers' association, in session at Newton, elected officers as follows: Presideut, George H. Hunter, of Wellington: firstvice-president, William Kelley. of Great Bend; second vicepresident, W. F. Soden, of Emporia; treasurer, E. A. Colburn, of McPherson; secretary, C. V. Toppin, of Enterprise. It was decided that the next meeting of the association be held at Great Bend October 7. Resolutions were adopted favoring reciprocity with Mexico. The United States Savings bank at Topeka, which failed some time ago, has filed a motion in the district court for the discharge of the receiver in order that business might be resumed. The bank claims to have received enough subscriptions to its stock since the failure to pay all of its indebtedness. It is now asserted that it can reopen with from $125,000 to $140,000 in cash in its vaults, nearly all the stockholders having subscribed for 40 per cent. additional stock. Rev. A. H. Tevis, pastor of the Washington Avenue Methodist church, Kansas City, Kan., has brought suit against Rev. E. W. Gill, presiding elder of the Leavenworth conference, for slander, claiming damage in the sum of $20,000. Rev. Tevis alleges that Rev. Gill, at Washington (Kan.) conference, last spring, slanderously circulated among the bishops and elders present a malicious report that he (Tevis) was an habitual user of chloral and opium, and this for the purpose of inducing the conference to remove him from the pastorate of the church. Twenty years ago William B. Lingow, until lately one of the leading farmers of Sedgwick county, married Mary Henry in Kansas City, Mo. The couple took up a claim, where they have lived ever since, and have had eleven children. For three years the husband has made a practice of visiting Arkansas periodically, ostensibly for his health, and that is where he was recently when the sheriff of Sedgwick county received a letter from the sheriff of Crawford county, Ark., making inquiry about Lingow and stating that he wasliving in Van Buren with a wife he had deserted twenty-five years ago and whom he had visited periodically for three years. Lingow is now under arrest. Chancellor Snow, in a letter to the state board of agriculture regarding the new wheat pest, says it is what is known as the wheat straw worm, which has done much injury to wheat in Illinois, and did some damage to the crop in Kansas in 1885. It seems to flourish best in wet weather. It is a pest almost as injurious as the Hessian fly and nothing can be done to prevent its depredations upon the present crop.
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Getting on Its Legs Again. TOPEKA, Kan, June 19.-The United States savings bank, which failed some time ago and which is now in the hands of Byron Roberts as receiver. has filed a motion in the district court for the discharge of the receiver, in order that business might be resumed. The motion will be heard Saturday morning. The bank claims to have received enough subscriptions to its stock since the failure to pay all of its indebtedness. It is now asserted that it can reopen with from $125,000 to $140,000 in cash in its vaults, nearly all the stockholders having subscribed for 40 per cent additional stock.
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KANSAS STATE NEWS. Burglars have recently been troubling the people of Leavenworth. The post office at Edwardsville was recently robbed of about $70 worth of stamps. William Bell, 67 years old, was drowned while fishing in Pottawotamie creek at Osawatomie the other day. The regents of the state university, at a recent meeting, elected Prof. F. W. Blackmar to fill the chair made vacant by the resignation of Prof. Canfield. A charter was recently filed with the secretary of state for the Broom Corn Association of Kansas. The purposes are to build warehouses for the storing of broom corn to be sold through their agents. Capital stock, $10,000. Mrs. D. M. Smith was found dead in her room at Topeka the other day. She had been dead two days when found. She was about 45 years of age and her only son is a brakeman on the Santa Fe. He was out on the road at the time of his mother's death and she was alone. The secretary of the state board of agriculture estimates the winter wheat crop of Kansas this year at 58,000,000 bushels. The area is placed at 2,900,000 acres. In addition to this there are 170,000 acres of spring wheat which will bring the total crop of the state up to 60,000,000 bushels. In the United States court at Leavenworth on the 18th Judge Riner overruled the motion for a new trial in the case of C. A. Benson, found guilty of the murder of Mrs. Mettman, and sentenced Benson to be hanged November 5. It is now thought the case will go to the supreme court of the United States. The post office department has made the following re-adjustment of salaries of Kansas postmasters: Arkansas City, from $2,400 to $2,200; Junction City, $1,900 to $2,000; Kansas City, $2,600 to $2,700; Lawrence, $2, 700 to $2,600; New. ton, $2,200 to 100; Parsons, $2,100 to $2,200; Pittsburgh, $1,900 to $2,100; Wellington, $2,100 to $2,000. In the United States circuit court at Leavenworth the other morning the decree of foreclosure and sale of the Kansas City, Wyandotte & Northwestern railroad was entered on the record. The sale will take place next December in Topeka, and is to satisfy a claim of $8,750,000, exclusive of interest on the unpaid coupons, by the Farmers' Loan & Trust Co., of New York. The State Millers' association, in session at Newton, elected officers as follows: President, George H. Hunter, of Wellington; firstvice-president, William Kelley, of Great Bend; second vicepresident, W. F. Soden, of Emporia; treasurer, E. A. Colburn, of McPherson; secretary, C. V. Toppin, of Enterprise. It was decided that the next meeting of the association be held at Great Bend October 7. Resolutions were adopted favoring reciprocity with Mexico. The United States Savings bank at Topeka, which failed some time ago, has filed a motion in the district court for the discharge of the receiver in order that business might be resumed. The bank claims to have received enough subscriptions to its stock since the failure to pay all of its indebtedness. It is now asserted that it can reopen with from $125,000 to $140,000 in cash in its vaults, nearly all the stockholders having subscribed for 40 per cent. additional stock. Rev. A. H. Tevis, pastor of the Washington Avenue Methodist church, Kansas City, Kan., has brought suit against Rev. E. W. Gill, presiding elder of the Leavenworth conference, for slander, claiming damage in the sum of $20,000. Rev. Tevis alleges that Rev. Gill, at Washington (Kan.) conference, last spring, slanderously circulated among the bishops and elders present a malicious report that he (Tevis) was an habitual user of chloral and opium, and this for the purpose of inducing the conference to remove him from the pastorate of the church. Twenty years ago William B. Lingow, until lately one of the leading farmers of Sedgwick county, married Mary Henry in Kansas City, Mo. The couple took up a claim, where they have lived ever since, and have had eleven children. For three years the husband has made a practice of visiting Arkansas periodically, ostensibly for his health, and that is where he was recently when the sheriff of Sedgwick county received a letter from the sheriff of Crawford county, Ark., making inquiry about Lingow and stating that he wasliving in Van Buren with a wife he had deserted twenty-five years ago and whom he had visited periodically for three years. Lingow is now under arrest. Chancellor Snow, in a letter to the state board of agriculture regarding the new wheat pest, says it is what is known as the wheat straw worm, which has done much injury to wheet
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KANSAS STATE NEWS. Fred Stewart was recently drowned while bathing in the lake near Manhattan. Peavey & Co., of Chicago, have leased the Santa Fe elevator in Atchison. The elevator has a capacity of 175,000 bushels. The United States savings bank at Topeka, which suspended some time ago, has resumed business with ample eash to pay all depositors. Ira Jones, the fourteen-year-old son of J. D. Jones, a prominent cattleman of Kiowa, was struck and instantly killed by lightning the other morning. Gus Grassage, a man in charge of a load of Mexican cattle, was knocked from an early morning train by a low bridge at Emporia the other day and fatally injured. Mrs. Rautzahn is having hard work securing bonds at Leavenworth. The feeling is said to be strongly against her, as she is believed to be guilty with Benson in the killing of her mother, Mrs. Mettman. The close of the fiscal year shows in Kansas 1,811 post offices. During the year forty were established and sixtyseven discontinued. This year Kansas loses twenty-seven offices, while last year the state gained twenty-three. The sheriff at Dodge City has informed shippers of cattle from New Mexico and Arizona that he has established a quarantine against their cattle and will not permit them to be fed or unloaded at Dodge City. The cattlemen, it is said, will appeal to the governor. A destructive storm burst upon Arkansas City and vicinity at an early hour on the morning of the 29th. Hail broke hundreds of windows, knocked fruit from trees and riddled garđen truck and melons. The wind leveled thousands of acres of grain and corn to the ground. John Spence, 15 years old, prematurely attempted to celebrate the Fourth on the first of July at Kansas City (Kan.) by firing a toy cannon. A package of powder exploded badly burning his hands and eyes and rendering him unconscious. He will probably lose both eyes. Charles Lease, the sixteen-year-old son of Mrs. M. E. Lease, the alliance lecturer, was lately arrested at Wichita on the charge of stealing a check and gold watch, the property of an insurance man named M. E. Corn. The youth was a student in the county attorney's office. A colored man named Wilson, whose home is in Topeka, met with a bad accident at the Santa Fe depot in Leavenworth the other day. He attempted to jump off a car while a flying switch was being made and got one foot on the track, which was crushed from the knee down in a frightful manner. The leg had to be amputated. A fearful accident occurred in Armour's flouring mill at Emporia the other day. S. M. Summers, the miller, undertook to crawl over a huge wheel while it was in motion, when his clothing caught and he was spun rapidly round a few times and finally dashed with great force against an upright shaft. Both legs were broken and his body made a mass of bruises. Strange to say hopes were entertained of his recovery. Senator Plumb, while lately in Topeka, was asked in regard to the prospect of the passage of a free silver coinage act by the next congress, and replied that the matter was problematical. It was hard to foretell what could be done by the champions of the white metal. He said that the hard money advocates were so very hard that they appeared unwilling to listen to a compromise, and the free silver men were not as yet strong enough to "knock down and drag out." The executive committee of the Farmers' Alliance, with the state officers and the congressional lecturers, met recently at Topeka to perfect an organization. The state will be divided into congressional, county and township legislative councils, of which the lecturer in charge of the district will be chairman. The township chairman will report to the county chairman, the latter to the congressional chairman and the congressional chairman to the state lecturer, Van B. Prather, who will be subject to the national council. Two Shawnee county farmers lately had a lawsuit over the ownership of a dog. One finally proposed to the other that they fight it out in Sullivan-Kilrain style, which was agreed to. At the appointed hour and place friends of the two were gathered to see the fight. The battle was for blood, and at the end of thirty minutes it was declared a draw. One man lost a finger and two
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KANSAS STATE NEWS. Fred Stewart was recently drowned while bathing in the lake near Manhattan. Peavey & Co., of Chicago, have leased the Santa Fe elevator in Atchison. The elevator has a capacity of 175,000 bushels. The United States savings bank at Topeka, which suspended some time ago, has resumed business with ample cash to pay all depositors. Ira Jones, the fourteen-year-old son of J. D. Jones, a prominent cattleman of Kiowa, was struck and instantly killed by lightning the other morning. Gus Grassage, a man in charge of a load of Mexican cattle, was knocked from an early morning train by a low bridge at Emporia the other day and fatally injured. Mrs. Rautzahn is having hard work securing bonds at Leavenworth. The feeling is said to be strongly against her, as she is believed to be guilty with Benson in the killing of her mother, Mrs. Mettman. The close of the fiscal year shows in Kansas 1,811 post offices. During the year forty were established and sixtyseven discontinued. This year Kansas loses twenty-seven offices, while last year the state gained twenty-three. The sheriff at Dodge City has informed shippers of cattle from New Mexico and Arizona that he has established a quarantine against their cattle and will not permit them to be fed or unloaded at Dodge City. The cattlemen, it is said, will appeal to the governor. A destructive storm burst upon Arkansas City and vicinity at an early hour on the morning of the 29th. Hail broke hundreds of windows, knocked fruit from trees and riddled garden truck and melons. The wind leveled thousands of acres of grain and corn to the ground. John Spence, 15 years old, prematurely attempted to celebrate the Fourth on the first of July at Kansas City (Kan.) by firing a toy cannon. A package of powder exploded badly burning his hands and eyes and rendering him unconscious. He will probably lose both eyes. Charles Lease, the sixteen-year-old son of Mrs. M. E. Lease, the alliance lecturer, was lately arrested at Wichita on the charge of stealing a check and gold watch, the property of an insurance man named M. E. Corn. The youth was a student in the county attorney's office. A colored man named Wilson, whose home is in Topeka, met with a bad accident at the Santa Fe depot in Leavenworth the other day. He attempted to jump off a car while a flying switch was being made and got one foot on the track, which was crushed from the knee down in a frightful manner. The leg had to be amputated. A fearful accident occurred in Armour's flouring mill at Emporia the other day. S. M. Summers, the miller, undertook to crawl over a huge wheel while it was in motion, when his clothing caught and he was spun rapidly round a few times and finally dashed with great force against an upright shaft. Both legs were broken and his body made a mass of bruises. Strange to say hopes were entertained of his recovery. Senator Plumb, while lately in Topeka, was asked in regard to the prospect of the passage of a free silver coinage act by the next congress, and replied that the matter was problematical. It was hard to foretell what could be done by the champions of the white metal. He said that the hard money advocates were so very hard that they appeared unwilling to listen to a compromise, and the free silver men were not as yet strong enough to "knock down and drag out. The executive committee of the Farmers' Alliance, with the state officers and the congressional lecturers, met recently at Topeka to perfect an organization. The state will be divided into congressional, county and township legislative councils, of which the lecturer in charge of the district will be chairman. The township chairman will report to the county chairman, the latter to the congressional chairman and the congressional chairman to the state lecturer, Van B. Prather who will be subject to the national council. Two Shawnee county farmers lately had a lawsuit over the ownership of a dog. One finally proposed to the other that they fight it out in Sullivan-Kilrain style, which was agreed to. At the appointed hour and place friends of the two were gathered to see the fight. The battle was for blood, and at the end of thirty minutes it was declared a draw. One man lost a finger and two teeth, the other lost part of an ear and received a black eye. The principals then took the train for Topeka to be patched up. Prof. Snow says of the weather for June: "The month was one of extremes. June 1876 seemed to have been a similar one, and both lead the other years in the amount of rainfall. This was the cooler. While the humidity of the other June has approached that of this, the wind was considerably below the average. The mean temperature for the month was 70.74 degrees, which is 2.65 below the average. The highest was 90.5 degrees, on the 28th, the least was 53 degrees, on the 7th. The total rainfall was 10.1 inches, which is 5. 38
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KANSAS STATE NEWS. Fred Stewart was recently drowned while bathing in the lake near Manbattan. Peavey & Co., of Chicago, have leased the Santa Fe elevator in Atchison. The elevator has a capacity of 175,000 bushels. The United States savings bank at Topeka, which suspended some time ago, has resumed business with ample cash to pay all depositors. Ira Jones, the fourteen-year-old son of J. D. Jones, a prominent cattleman of Kiowa, was struck and instantly killed by lightning the other morning. Gus Grassage, a man in charge of a load of Mexican cattle, was knocked from an early morning train by & low bridge at Emporia the other day and fatally injured. Mrs. Rautzahn is having hard work securing bonds at Leavenworth. The feeling is said to be strongly against her, as she is believed to be guilty with Benson in the killing of her mother, Mrs. Mettman. The close of the fiscal year shows in Kansas 1,811 post offices. During the year forty were established and sixtyseven discontinued. This year Kansas loses twenty-seven offices, while last year the state gained twenty-three. The sheriff at Dodge City has informed shippers of cattle from New Mexico and Arizona that he has established a quarantine against their cattle and will not permit them to be fed or unloaded at Dodge City. The cattlemen, it is said, will appeal to the governor. A destructive storm burst upon Arkansas City and vicinity at an early hour on the morning of the 29th. Hail broke hundreds of windows, knocked fruit from trees and riddled garden truck and melons. The wind leveled thousands of acres of grain and corn to the ground. John Spence, 15 years old, prematurely attempted to celebrate the Fourth on the first of July at Kansas City (Kan.) by firing a toy cannon. A package of powder exploded badly burning his hands and eyes and rendering him unconscious. He will probably lose both eyes. Charles Lease, the sixteen-year-old son of Mrs. M. E. Lease, the alliance lecturer, was lately arrested at Wichita on the charge of stealing a check and gold watch, the property of an insurance man named M. E. Corn. The youth was a student in the county attorney's office. A colored man named Wilson, whose home is in Topeka, met with a bad accident at the Santa Fe depot in Leavenworth the other day. He attempted to jump off a car while a flying switch was being made and got one foot on the track, which was crushed from the knee down in a frightful manner. The leg had to be amputated. A fearful accident occurred in Armour's flouring mill at Emporia the other day. S. M. Summers, the miller, undertook to crawl over a huge wheel while it was in motion, when his clothing caught and he was spun rapidly round a few times and finally dashed with great force against an upright shaft. Both legs were broken and his body made a mass of bruises. Strange to say hopes were entertained of his recovery. Senator Plumb, while lately in Topeka, was asked in regard to the prospect of the passage of a free silver coinage act by the next congress, and replied that the matter was problematical. It was hard to foretell what could be done by the champions of the white metal. He said that the hard money advocates were so very hard that they appeared unwilling to listen to a compromise, and the free silver men were not as yet strong enough to "knock down and drag out. The executive committee of the Farmers' Alliance, with the state officers and the congressional lecturers, met recently at Topeka to perfect an organization. The state will be divided into congressional, county and township legislative councils, of which the lecturer in charge of the district will be chairman. The township chairman will report to the county chairman, the latter to the congressional chairman and the congressional chairman to the state lecturer, Van B. Prather, who will be subject to the national council. Two Shawnee county farmers lately had a lawsuit over the ownership of a dog. One finally proposed to the other that they fight it out in Sullivan-Kilrain style, which was agreed to. At the appointed hour and place friends of the two were gathered to see the fight. The battle was for blood, and at the end of thirty minutes it was declared a draw. One man lost a finger and two teeth, the other lost part of an ear and received a black eye. The principals then took the train for Topeka to be patched up. Prof. Snow says of the weather for
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A Bank Again Embarrassed. TOPEKA, Kan., Sept. 18.-The United States Savings bank, which failed last March, was again placed in the hands of a receiver this morning. William Sims, ex-state treasurer, was appointed receiver. Nothing definite concerning the liabilities and assets can be learned.
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A Bank Fails Twice In Six Months. TOPEKA. Kan.. Sept. 18.-The United States Savings Bank of this city, which failed last March. and was reopened on July 2. was again placed in the hands of a receiver this morning. William Sims. ex-State Treasurer. was appointed receiver. The petition for the appointment of a receiver states that the bank was in no condition to stand the rigid examination under the new banking law of the State. and that certain failure would follow should the bank continue to do business. Nothing definite concerning the liabilities and assets can be learned.
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In No Condition to Do Business. TOPEKA, Kan., Sept. 19.-The United States savings bank of this city, which failed March 18th last ad suspended July 2d, was again placed in the hands of a receiver this morning. William Sims, ex-state treasurer, was appointed receiver by Judge Guthrie, upon the complaint of H. C. Safford, one of the stockholders. The petition simply sets forth that the bank is in no condition to stand the rigid examinations of the new banking law and that certain failure would follow if the bank should try to continue to do business,
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kansas STATE NEWS. their Burglars have recently been families vocation in Topeka. Several plying lost by their depredations. Robert Ferguson, an eleven-year-old boy, while was recently overcome by heat sas City, going home from school at bunch Kan. He was found Kandition. of weeds in an unconscious in CO- a J. A. Rains, one of the oldest ty, most died respected citizens of Brown and day at his home in Hamlin the countaken from an overdose of other disorder. to alleviate some trifling morphine, physical Mayor Gluck, of Dodge City, cently and fined $100 in the district was reguilty ousted from office, being court a saloon of having personal knowledge found action against it. any official in his building and not taking of John China, a laundryman, skull cently found dead at Peabody was renegro badly crushed. Some boys with his morning leave the laundry early saw a thought in a great hurry, and in the was to be the murderer. The he was As clearly W. for the purpose of robbery. deed farmer, L. Boswell, a Shawnee his was sitting on his porch county smoke family the other night he with barn. apparently issuing from saw the The family rushed out to the to be stock, when the fire was discovered save returning on the roof of a hog pen. ered to the house it was Upon trunk that a thief had broken discovand stolen over $40. The open a evidently family started the fire to get thief the away from the house. The United States savings Topeka, reopened which failed March 18 bank last of the hands July 2, was again placed and ing. of a receiver the other in was William Sims, ex-state mornrie, appointed receiver by Judge treasurer, The upon complaint of a stockholder. Guthin complaint was that the bank inations no condition to stand the rigid was that of the new banking law examthe certain failure would and business. bank should try to continue follow to do if Fisher, About fifteen months ago suddenly a merchant of Oswego, Samuel his wife. while no one was died his widow Less than two months present but t man married J. M. Hart, ago the residing near the town. a stocklying other in morning Hart was Early of a bullet bed with his brains found S was hole in his forehead. oozing out e hour. unconscious and lived about He e awakened Mrs. Hart stated that she an r his by her husband was d him arm on her, that she then throwing e condition groaning and she found him heard it se one chamber stated. His revolver, in the him. empty, was lying beside with y At the late meeting of the r is temperance lowing union at Topeka state coming officers were chosen the fol. r Troutman, year: for the D. C. of at F. O. Milner, of THE Samuel Popenoe, : d tee, Samuel T. Howe. Executive Kelly T. Howe, A. H. commitpeka; and Mrs. D. A. Thurston, Vance, of B. to Samuel W. H. Tonff Embree, Scott; ed Charles and Flem ne ing Detwiler, THE A. S. th Davis, W. Dewolf, of Garnett; at Pleasanton. of Newton, and Miss Aruada, L. A. of on 000 J. M. Knight has brought suit for or peka damages in the circuit $100, le trust, against the Kansas court at To which has, through its undertakers gs pp ness. boycotting, kept him from doing system oi : but has Knight opened business in busi been unable to buy a Topeka 11. en undertakers' supplies because hearse or he they tablishments notified dealers other es ness sold in to him they would do that st the Kansas. The constitution no busi number undertakers' association limits o re one to of undertakers in the the he more each 10,000 inhabitants, state to is business. are permitted to engage and in the n he à had The world's fair stockholders board a meeting at Topeka and recentl take of managers of nine elected charge of the world's fair members t re Iis range $50,000 for the Kansas display. and an 8 an is in sight, making the Abou et. are assured as fact. The managers displa life of follows: At large, A. W. elected the McPherson, and Fred Willhouse, Smith nd Harris, Fairmount. First district, Col. 10. Capt. R. of Linwood. Second W. A district, W. Sparr. of Lawrence. district ay Fourth Col. E. H. Brown, of Thire ce Topeka. district, Col. A. S. Girard Ille of Fifth district, W. Johnson, H. o W. our Simpson, Marysville. Sixth district, Smith at O. E. of Norton. Seventh Willian district Hildreth, of Newton. At the recent convention of ip. m. held ing at Kansas City, Kan. The bankers a. Calvin officers were elected: follow hs. A. Hood, Emporia; secretary, President at Lanyon, Swenson, Linsborg: treasurer. Joh H. F. Pittsburg: assistant S. H ery Ne. H. Ball, Topeka; vice-presidents, secretary no Ottawa; Crosby, Valley Falls; H. J. P he Alexander Warner, Smith Springs; Fulton J. A. Lamar, Mankato: Baxte S eld
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in at at been reMrs. Harlan, of Nortonville, while lately in Atchison stepped on a banana peeling and fell upon the stone sidewalk. Her injuries were not believed to be serious at first, but she grew worse after being taken home, and died. The Kansas Woman's Press association will meet in the hall of the house of representatives at Topeka October 9 at three p. m. In the evening the meeting will be open to the public and the music will be under the auspices of the Topeka Press club. About twelve o'clock the other night Miss Helen Tiefenbrun, a popular pianist of Atchison, shot and wounded a burglar who was trying to enter her room. The man escaped, however, with the assistance of friends. He was tracked several blocks by the blood on the sidewalk. Miss Mattie Freeling, of Leavenworth, recently committed suicide at Kansas City, Mo., by taking morphine. She had gone to Kansas "City to take a position as clerk in a store, and the morning after arriving was found dead in bed. Mental derangement is supposed to have been the cause. Because she would not marry him, Elijah Watts, a drunken printer, shot and mortally wounded Miss Kate Halloran at Topeka the other morning, and then blew out his own brains. Miss Halloran was a printer engaged on the Capital and at three o'clock in the morning started home, accompanied by another compositor in the office. when she was waylaid by Watts and shot. The assassin then ran about a block when he shot and killed himself. The United States savings bank of Topeka, which failed March 18 last and reopened July 2, was again placed in the hands of a receiver the other morning. William Sims, ex-state treasurer, was appointed receiver by Judge Guthrie, upon complaint of a stockholder. The complaint was that the bank was in no condition to stand therigid examinations of the new banking law and that certain failure would follow if the bank should try to continue to do business. The other evening eight showmen traveling with Wallace's circus stopped a Southern Kansas train at Dayton, and covering the engineer and fireman with revolvers entered a coach, beat an officer so severely that be has since died, and rescued a comrade who was under arrest. They then escaped to the strip. The sheriff of Cowley county summoned a posse of fifty men, intercepted the circus train at Arkansas City and captured the manager of the show and the whole outfit. The guilty parties were picked out and marched off to jail. A charter for the National Woman's Alliance was filed with the secretary of state recently. The incorporators are the wife of Senator Peffer, the wife of Congressman Otis, the wife of Secretary J. B. French, of the State Farmers' Alliance, Mrs. Emma D. Pack, editor of the Topeka Farmer's Wife, and Mrs. Fannie McCormick, worthy foreman of the Knights of Labor. The officers of the association are: Mrs. Fannie McCormick, president; Mrs. Emma D. Pack, secretary, and Mrs. Birras A. Otis, treasurer, with a vicepresident from nearly every state. About fifteen months ago Samuel Fisher, a merchant of Oswego, died suddenly while no one was present but his wife. Less than two months ago his widow married J. M. Hart, a stockman residing near the town. Early the other morning Hart was found lying in bed with his brains oozing out of a bullet hole in his forehead. He was unconscious and lived about an hour. Mrs. Hart stated that she was awakened by her husband throwing his arm on her, that she then heard him groaning and she found him in the condition stated. His revolver, with one chamber empty, was lying beside him. It is said that there will soon be some interesting developments under the new banking law for some of the concerns which the superintendent of insurance got after some time ago, and which were thought to be deposit inin stitutions and so amenable to banking laws, and are now filing statements with the bank commissioner and ask1 ing to have their bond-selling schemes :6 by law banking business
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KANSAS STATE NEWS. Robert Ferguson, an eleven-year-old boy, was recently overcome by heat while going home from school at Kansas City, Kan. He was found in a bunch dition. of weeds in an unconscious coA general strike among the coal miners at Leavenworth was inaugurated on the 18th. The strike was for an advance of half a cent per bushel for mining coal. Several hundred men were out Mayor Gluck, of Dodge City, was recently fined $100 in the district court and ousted from office, being found guilty of having personal knowledge of a saloon in his building and not taking any official action against it. There will be three sugar mills in operation in Kansas this fall, one at Topeka, one at Fort Scott and one at Medicine Lodge. The mill at Topeka was burned last year and has been rebuilt with improved machinery. Mrs. Harlan, of Nortonville, while lately in Atchison stepped on a banana peeling and fell upon the stone sidewalk. Her injuries were not believed to be serious at first, but she grew worse after being taken home and died. The Kansas Woman's Press association will meet in the hall of the house of representatives at Topeka October at three p. m. In the evening the meeting will be open to the public and the music will be under the auspices of the Topeka Press club. About twelve o'clock the other night Miss Helen Tiefenbrun, a popular pianist of Atchison, shot and wounded burglar who was trying to enter her room. The man escaped, however, with the assistance of friends. He was tracked several blocks by the blood on the sidewalk. Miss Mattie Freeling, of Leavenworth, recently committed suicide at Kansas City, Mo., by taking morphine. She had gone to Kansas City to take position as clerk in a store, and the morning after arriving was found dead in bed. Mental derangement is supposed to have been the cause. Because she would not marry him, Elijah Watts, a drunken printer, shot and mortally wounded Miss Kate Halloran at Topeka the other morning, and then blew out his own brains. Miss Halloran was a printer engaged on the Capital and at three o'clock in the morning started home, accompanied by another compositor in the office. when she was waylaid by Watts and shot. The assassin then ran about a block when he shot and killed himself. The United States savings bank of Topeka, which failed March 18 last and reopened July 2, was again placed in the hands of a receiver the other morning. William Sims, ex-state treasurer, was appointed receiver by Judge Guthrie, upon complaint of a stockholder. The complaint was that the bank was in no condition to stand the rigid examinations of the new banking law and that certain failure would follow the bank should try to continue to do business. The other evening eight showmen traveling with Wallace's circus stopped a Southern Kansas train at Dayton, and covering the engineer and fireman with revolvers entered a coach, beat an officer SO severely that he has since died, and rescued a comrade who was under arrest. They then escaped to the strip. The sheriff of Cowley county summoned a posse of fiftv men, intercepted the circus train at Arkansas City and captured the manager of the show and the whole outfit. The guilty par ties were picked out and marched off to jail. A charter for the National Woman's Alliance was filed with the secretary
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BUSINESS FAILURES. Jan. 13-E. H. Amidon, dry goods dealer, New York: $697,766. Jan. 16-Stoneboro savings bank and Sandy Lake savings bank, both of Pennsylvania. Jan. 19-American national bank, Kansas City. Mo.: $2,000,000. Jan. 20- State bank of Cawker City, Bank of Downs and Glen Elder bank of Glen Eider, all of Kansas, suspended. Jan. 21-Kawaka City (Kan.) state bank. Jan. 26-Savings bank of Wichita, Kan.; $81,000. Feb. 5-First Arkansas Valley bank, Wichits, Kan.; $120,000. Feb. 12-First national and North Middlesex savings bank, Ayer, Mass. Feb. 19-John D. Knox & Co., private bankers, Topeka, Kan.: $340,000 Union Investment Company, Kansas City; $1,000,000. Feb. 25-Windsor national bank, Windsor, Vt. Mar. 19-J. & A. Simpkinson, boot and shoe manufacturers, Cincinnati; $400.000. United States savings bank, Topeka, Kan., $330,000. Mar. 20-Theodore Schwartz & Co., private bankers, Louisville, Ky.; $500,000. Mar. 24-Washingt n national bank, New York Schall & Downer, bankers. York, Pa. Apr. 2-The John McNabb bank, Eufaula, Ala. Apr. 4-Columbia Iron & Steel Company and Pennsylvania Construction Company, Uniontown, Pa; $1,000,000. May 7-Bank of Allen county at Scottsville, Ky. May 9-Spring Garden national bank. Philadelphia. May 15-People's bank at Knoxville, Tenn. May 22-Hills Shot Company at Memphis, Tenn., $600,000. May 26-Potter, White & Bailey, shoe manufacturers at Boston: $1,000,000. May 27-John Ryan's Sons, wholesale dry g oods, Atlanta, Ga.: $1,000,000. June 4-The City national bank at Marshall, Mich. June 5 - Connell, Hall, McLaster & Co., wholesale dry goods, Nashville, Tenn.; $500,000 The Huntington (Ind.) bank. June 13-Central national bank, Broken Bow, Neb. June 10-Sevill Scofield, woolen manufacturer at Manayunk, Pa.: $800,000. June23-The Florence national bank, Florence, Ala., and Sax Brothers' savings bank, Nashville, Tenn. July 7-Moses Bros., bankers, Montgomery, Ala; $500,000. July 8-Bank of Commerce, Sheffield, Ala. July 14-E. C. Stark, banker at Oneida, N. Y.; $220,000. July 16-Spooner R. Howell & Co., lumber dealers, Chicago, and other cities; $2,000,000. July 17-First national bank, Wyandotte, Kan. $1,000,000. July 18-First national bank, Palatka, Fla.; $200,000 Bonneil & Co., printer's ink manufacturers, New York, $100,000. July 21-Central bank of Kansas at Kansas City, Kan.: $100,000 Merchants' national bank, Fort Worth, Tex.: $500,000. July 23-Citizens' bank of Jefferson, Tex.; $100,000. Aug. 4-Abraham Backer, dry goods commission, New York; $4,000,000 Samuel Hano, real estate dealer, Allston, Mass.; $500,000. Aug. 8-Masonic savings bank, Louisville, Ky.; $1,000,000. Aug. 19-Johnston, Tallman & Co., flreworks importers, New York city: $600,000. Sep. 23-S. V. White & Co., New York, commission merchants. $2,000,000. Sep. 30-F. B. Wallace & Co., New York, brokers; $390.000. Oct. 1-First national bank at Clearfield Pa... Chrisman (111.) bank: $100,000. Oct. 3-Turner & Bro., Boston bankers; $300,000. Oct. 5-Ulster county savings' institution, Kingston, N. Y., robbed by officials of $463,000. Oct. 16-State bank at Gritna, Neb. Oct. 17-The Columbia bank and the Bank of Columbia, at Nashville, Tenn. Oct. 23-Bank of Lewisburg, Tenn. $80,000. Nov. 2-Maverick national bank of Boston, suspended; liabilities, $10,000,000. Nov. 7-The Cochrane-Fulton Company, distillers, at Louisvil.e, Ky.; liabilities, $500,000 Bank of Fiorence, Aia.; $100,000. Nov. 7-The Corry (Pa.) national bank closed its doors: $700,000. Nov. 13-California national bank at Santiago, Cal. Nov. 14-Bonner & Bonner, bankers at Tyler, Tex.; $500,000. Nov. 25-Farmers' and Miners' Deposit bank, Irwin, Pa First national bank, Wilmington, N. C. Nov. 28-Field, Lindley, Wicchers & Co., bankers and brokers of New York, $1,000,000. Dec. 22-Private banks at Waynesboro, Warrentown and New Market, Va., closed their doors Thomas H. Allen & Co., cotton dealera, Memphis, Tenn.; $544,932. Dec. 23-Bank of Greenville, Greenville, Miss : $1,000,000.