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New York Union Bank Depositors to Receive Another Dividend.-State Superintendent of Banks Eugene Lamb Richards made application yesterday to Supreme Court Justice Aspinall, of Brooklyn, for authorization to pay another 5 per cent dividend to the depositors of the defunct Union Bank, of Brooklyn. This will be the second 5 per cent dividend payment made within the last seven months, and will mean the disbursement of over $185,000. The application was supported in court by the depositors' committee of the Union Bank. The payment of the dividend was made possible through the sales of various parcels of real estate and the insistence by the Superintendent of Banks on the payment in full of $100,000 of Ohio Copper bonds, which was up as collateral with the so-called Heinze loan. The 5 per cent payment to stockholders will leave a balance of about $6,000 for liquidation purposes. The immediate payment of the dividend was authorized by Justice Aspinall. Long Island Suit Dismissed.-Justice Lehman yesterday decided against Evans R. Dick, a banker, and other minority stockholders of the Long Island Railroad in their action for a receivership for the company and the restitution by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and its directors of $28,000,000 for moneys which the plaintiffs alleged were wasted and diverted. It was alleged by Mr. Dick that the Pennsylvania Railroad. controlling the Long Island Railroad, had spent money injudiciously and in other manner had
