City National Bank (Lawrenceburg, IN)

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Episode Information

Episode UID
8201004
Episode Type
Run β†’ Suspension β†’ Closure
Bank Type
national
Bank ID
820 national
Charter Number
82
Start Date
August 11, 1883
Location
Lawrenceburg, Indiana (39.091, -84.850)

Metadata

Model
gpt-5-mini (chosen from majority vote of a three-model LLM ensemble)
Short Digest
84f14dbea84a20cb

Response Measures

Public signal of financial health, Capital injected, Full suspension, Books examined

Description

Suspension followed depositor withdrawals tied to the Fitch family's sawmill loans; bank later went into voluntary liquidation and receiver appointed.

Events (7)
1. September 12, 1863 Chartered
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historical_nic
2. February 24, 1883 Chartered
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historical_nic
3. August 11, 1883 Run
Cause
Bank Specific Adverse Info
Cause Details
Heavy withdrawals tied to Vice President Henry Fitch's saw-mill operations and use of bank funds; drop in lumber prices worsened liquidity.
Measures
Closed doors to stem withdrawals; State Examiner called to examine books; directors arranged pledges/asset transfers.
Newspaper Excerpt
The bank had a slight run yesterday by depositors, and feared a greater one today.
Source
newspapers
4. August 12, 1883 Suspension
Cause
Bank Specific Adverse Info
Cause Details
Suspension due to unexpected demands for money and entanglement of bank funds in the Fitch family's lumber business; examiners to inspect books.
Newspaper Excerpt
The City National Bank ... closed this morning and remained closed all day.
Source
newspapers
5. August 13, 1883 Other
Newspaper Excerpt
This bank went into voluntary liquidation Aug. 13, 1883, and on March 11, 1884, was declared insolvent and placed in the hands of a receiver. (comptroller/press notices).
Source
newspapers
6. March 11, 1884 Receivership
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historical_nic
7. March 11, 1884 Receivership
Newspaper Excerpt
On March 11, 1884, was declared insolvent and placed in the hands of a receiver.
Source
newspapers

Newspaper Articles (22)
1. August 13, 1883 Savannah Morning News Savannah, GA
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ANOTHER BANK SUSPENDS. The Institution a Wealthy Family Affair, and Resumption a Surety. CINCINNATI, August 12.-The City National Bank, of Lawrenceburg, Ind., closed yesterday, and State Commissioner Hay, of Indianapolis, is examining the books of the bank preparatory to making a statement. The bank was a family affair. DeWitt C. Fitch is President, and his two sons are the Vice President and Cashier. The trouble is due to the use of the bank's money by the Vice President in his lumber business. The Fitch family are very wealthy and the assets of the bank itself are double the amount of its liabilities. The suspension was caused by unexpected demands for money. The bank will probably resume Monday.

2. August 13, 1883 The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer Wheeling, WV
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BRIEF TELEGRAMS. The trouble from the cutting of telegraph wires continues. Marco A. Soto, President of Honduras, is in Washington. The Creek Indian troubles have been satisfactorily settled. Fire yesterday afternoon destroyed the People's Ice Worksat Tombstone, Arizona. Loss $32,000. Two ruffians who had beaten a poor cripple almost to death were saved from hanging by a mob at Ceylon, Ind., by the pleading of their victim's mother. Wm. Walker, clothing merchant and real estate dealer, in Dayton, O., has absconded, leaving behind him numerous debts. The banks are caught for $8,000. Dalton Bros, St. Louis druggists. have assigned, Assets, $20,000; liabilities not known. W. H. Miller & Co., Philadelphia stock brokers, have also suspended. Late Saturday night Cottage City, Martha's Vineyard, was burning, and it was feared the entire place would be destroved, but fortunately the fire was subdued. The National Educational Assembly closed at Asbury Park last night During the four days session over fifty addresses were delivered and papers read by prominent Christian educationalists. A circus train collided at Cunningham, Ky., with a freight train on Saturday, killing and maiming a car load of cattle, smashing up the engine and damaging the circus to the amount of $3,000. While a lineman of the Western Union Telegraph, was up a pole near Scranton, Pa., repairing the wire at 4. M. yesterday three rifle shots were fired at him, two of which whistled close by his head. A London dispatch says Mrs. Langtry has returned, but is not looking well. She has begun her provincial tour, but will shortly visit Paris to replenish her wardrobe. In the intervals of this fascinating exercise she will study under Regnier. Oscar Wilde made his appearance in New York again on Saturday. He comes to superintend the rehearsal of his new shorn play, away, Vera." and His his flowing front locks hair cut have square been across in the most approyed style of bang. The election of officers by the National Turn Teachers Convention at Milwaukee resulted in the choice of George Brosius, of Milwaukee, President; William Fleck, of Milwaukee, Secretary; Heinrich Snyder, of Chicago, and Peter Turner, of Milwaukee, Directors. Archbishop-elect William Elder, yesterday has issued an edict to the clergy of his diocese to meet at Gincinnati on the 21st day of August, to devise some means to pay to some extent the creditors of the late Arch: bishop Purcell as a m+tter of charity, but as a discharge of legal obligation. George Knox, a respectable negro of Hickman, Ky., shot and killed Tom Gill, another negro from Qbion county, Tenn. The evidence shows an unprovoked murder. Gill wisned to borrow Knox's horse and buggy at a negro barbecue, and on the refusal Knox drew a pistol and shot him. The formal opening of the Atlantic Pa. cific railroad occurred Friday. The general superintendent, accompanied by other officials, passed oyer the road and met with a warm reception from thp inhabitants along the line. This opens up another route to the Pacific coastvia Albuqurque, Wingate, New Mexico and Winslow, Arizona. e The Gity National Pank of Lawrenceburg, did not open its doors on Saturday. Its embarrassment is due to the failure of Henry Fitch 4 Co., lumber manufacturers, n whose capital was mostly borrowed from this bank. Bank Examiner Hey, fole dianapolis, has been asked to examine the once. say n books at probably The directora be paid in full. the The depositors eas r First-National Bank of Indianspolis has resumed business.

3. August 13, 1883 Daily Kennebec Journal Augusta, ME
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ANOTHER BANK SUSPENSION. TheJFirst National Bank of Lawrence. burg, Ind.. Closes Its Doors. LAWRENCEEURG, Ind., Aug. 12. The old First National Bank. now the City National Bank, at this place, closed this morning and remained closed all day. The bank has a capital of $100,000. It had a slight run yesterday by depositors, and feared a greater one today. DeWitt Fitch is its president and Walter Fitch is the cashier, The Fitch family are the chief stockholders. and almost entire owners of the bank. They operate a large saw mill and have drawn on the bank themselves for their milling purposes. The run which commenced yesterday caused them to close today. State Inspector Hay arrived from Indianapolis tonight, and an examination of the books is in progress. The Fitches say the bank has $2 assets for every $1 of its liabilitis, and they will be able to resume on Monday, People here are not at all alarmed at the situation. Further particulars regarding the suspension cannot be learned tonight, owing to a failure of the telegraph wires to work.

4. August 13, 1883 Evening Star Washington, DC
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A BALTIMORE SENSATION. Ex-Fire Commissioners Presented for Malleasance in Office. BALTIMORE, August 13.-The grand jury to-day presented all the members of the late commission of the fire department of this city for maliessance in office. The board consisted of Mayor Pinkney Whyte, ex-officio president, and S.W. Register Thos. W. Campbell, J. Frank Morrison, Samuel Hanna, Bartholomew E. Smith and Charles B. Slingluff. Bail was fixed at 000 in each case. The presentment caused great excitement and astonishment about the city hall and court house. The late board was suspended recently by the appointment of a fire marshal, and the presentments grew out of charges made by the present fire marshal. The Laurenceburg, Ind., Bank Failure LAURENCEBURG, IND., August 13.-Bank Ex. aminer Hayes and the committee of bank depositors are still at work investigating the affairs of the City National bank. The books have been found to be correct, and enough Is known to justify the statement that the depositors will be fully paid. It is thought it may be a month before payment will begin. The rumors of trouble at the People's National bank are declared to be wholly unfounded, and the excitement has died out. Strikes and Labor Movements, INVESTIGATION BY THE SENATE SUB-COMMITTEE. NEW YORK, August 13.-The sub-committee of the U.S. Senate committee on labor and education began its sessions to-day in the Post Office building. The members present were, Senators Blair, of New Hampshire, chairman: George, of Mississipp1: Pugh, of Alabama: Call, of Florida, and Aldrich, or Rhode Island. The special subject of the sub-committee investigation is strikes and labor movements in general, the object being to obtain information which may be used in securing future legislation to prevent them. The committee held several sessions last winter, when a number of witnesses were examined. MASTER WORKMAN CAMPBELL A WITNESS. The first witness to-day was Master Workman John Campbell, of Pittsburg. He testified that he had been a telegraph operator over twenty years, and had been connected with the Knights of Labor and the Brotherhood of Telegraphers for two years. There were between eighteen thousand and nineteen thousand telegraphers in the United States and Canada who are members of the brotherhood, and the whole membership is about 22,000. The cause of the strike was a refusal to grant a demand on the part of the operators for increased compensation, decrease In the hours, and extra compensation for Sunday work. Since 1870 the salaries of telegraph operators had been systematically cut down, and the OBJECT OF THE TELEGRAPHERS' STRIKE was to bring the rate of compensation back to its former standard. Operators were now paid a fixed salary per month, the average rate throughout the country being about $54 for commercial operators, and $39 a month for railroad operators. The average rate for rail road operators in Pennsylvania by an actual census is $38.85 per month. The rate of wages for first class commercial operators now ranged from $80 to $85 per month. The salaries in New York city were higher than those in smaller cities, with exception of New Orleans, Memphis, and Nashville where the scale of wages was about equal to that in this city. The lowest rates for commercial operators were from $35 to $40 a month for operators at small way stations. Before the reduction in wages the rates were from 35 to 40 per cent higher than at present. In 1870 a first-class operator could make from $90 to $120 a month. These rates extended back to the time of the beginning of the war, when the scale of wages was about the same as it is at present for railroad operators, and that for commercial men a little higher. The Western Union company employs a quarter of all the operators in the country, and about two-thirds are railroad operators. The American Rapid company employs only about one-fifth as many operators as the Western Union. THE PROTEST OF THE BROTHERHOOD was against all companies and all employers of telegraph operators. The rate of wages was not considered sufficient to live upon, and was much below that of common day laborers in many instances. The companies were able to pay higher wages to their men without increasing Sheir rates for service to the public. This was evident from the large dividends paid by the Western Union. Besides this the facilities for transmitting messages has been increased by the invention of the duplex and quadruplex instruments. There had been no reduction in the tariff in consequence of these improvements, but, on the other hand, the wages of the operators were cut down. The number of operators had doubled since 1870, while the facilities of the companies had more than doubled. The Western Union in that year handled 7,000,000 messages, and last year the number was 35,000,000. HISTORY OR THE STRIKE. Mr. Campbell related the history of the strike since its beginning. There was a convention of the brotherhood, he said, held in Chicago last March, at which a bill of grievances was drawn up. This was presented to the different local as. semblies of the brotherhood throughout the Uni. ted States and Canada who unanimously ratified the action of the convention. The returns to the executive board were made about two months ago, and the committee was instructed to present the demands of the operators to the different companies, and they were also empowered to arbitrate upon any proposition that might be made by the companies Saratoga Races To-day. SARATOGA, N. Y., August 1&-First race, one mile and seventy yards. Violator first, Brocade second, Referee third. Time, 1:49. race, three quarters of a mile heats: the first heat won by Jim Nelson: Carson second, third. Time, 1:16).

5. August 13, 1883 Daily Globe Saint Paul, MN
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TOPPLING OVER. A NATIONAL BANK AT LAWRENCEBURG, IND., CLOSES ITS DOORS. The Indianapolis Troubles Bridged Over for the Present-A Number of Commercit Failures Reported-Liabilities Reported to be Very Large. [Special Telegram to the Globe.] INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Aug. 11. - The Depauw-English syndicate is still figuring on the First national, whose doors are open to-day, and the business thereof going along as usual. Only the small depositors have checked out, and large ones have increased their deposits in some cases. Mr. Depauw says there seems to be little use of a syndicate. It has taken the $104,000 of the stock held by the Indiana Banking company and put it into the First national at double, paying in the difference. What they paid for it is, of course, not known. But besides this Mr. Depauw says so far about 80 per cent. of the stockholders have reported, holding on to their stock, and paying in a like amount of cash. The future of the First national seems settled. Mr. English is likely to be president. The future of the Indiana Banking company is yet unrevealed. It has not opened its doors yet and has no definite statement to make. INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 11.-The First National bank opened this morning at the usual hour, and has paid out money on small checks, but has not cashed any large drafts. It is stated they will be able to honor all demands by Monday. The Indiana Banking company are still closed, and the following notice was posted on the door this morning: "This bank will not open to-day." A full examination into the situation will be made to day, and the determination arrived at will be announced on Monday. It is generally conceded, that with the assets of the bank, and, the personal responsibility of the individual members of the firm, that there will be sufficient to cover all liabilities and prevent a loss to depositors. CINCINNATI, Aug. 11.-The City National bank of Lawrenceburg, Ind., closed today, and State Commissioner Hey, of Indianapolis, is examining the books of the bank to-night preparatory to making a statement. The Commercial Gazette special says Dewitt C, Fitch is president of the bank; his son Henry is vice president and his son Walter cashier. It says the capital stock is $100,000 and that Cashier Walter Fitch states to-day that the Fitches would sacrifice all their private property, if necessary, to pay all depositors. Deeds of transfer of $70,000 worth of real estate were made to-day to the City National bank of the property of DeWitt C. and Henry Fitch. It also states the embarrassment of the bank grew out of the embarrassment of the saw milling operations in Lawrenceburg of Henry Fitch, the vice president, who was using the bank's money in his saw mill business. The mill was one of the largest and most complete and best equipped on the Ohio river, and the recent drop in the price of lumber affected it seriously. The News Journal special says nothing about the financial embarrassment of Henry Fitch, but says milling operators drew on the bank for money and with other causes brought about the embarrassment. It also says the assets will be double the liabilities, and that it will probably resume on Monday. Little was known of the affair in Cincinnati to-day during business hours. ST. ALBANS, Vt., Aug. 11.-So far as can be learned irregularities in the National bank are reported by Hender, but have not been followed up by the comptroller. A director said this morning that he considered the outlook quite favorable as far as the Trust company is concerned. PHILADELHHIA, Aug. 11.-The suspension of W. H. Miller & Co., stock brokers, is announced. The firm was long of several stocks, among them New Jersey Central and Buffalo, New York & Philadelphia. Several hundred shares for their account were sold to-day under rule at the stock exchange. PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 1.-Later in the day the suspension of E. P. Wetzer, stockbroker, was announced. He failed six weeks ago, but settled his liabilities and was reinstated in board. ST. LOUIS, Aug. 11.-The dry goods firm of Dalton Bros. made an assignment to-day to the amount of $20,000. Liabilities not known.

6. August 13, 1883 The Indianapolis Journal Indianapolis, IN
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BANKS. THE EMBARRASSED Na Now tional The Reorganization Almost of Accomplished. the First wn Its Kno The Banking Company To-Day The to Make City National Condition Bank, of Lawenceburg. of proposed plan for met the with such that it carried The National has almost certain and to much it where support the First that into execution, now and reassure that specify the busi was be fact has done restore confidence the First National this and On Saturday transact as business in community considerably was shaken. open all day usual, and full many and deposits the ed its drawing their was noticeabie those that who their depositors partially It among Banking others only were not Indiana The doors heavy depositors money. The closed all day. was Saturday complete Company were after kept development its whatever OD relations Na two banks. most important dissolution of The First was purexisted the between the by the other company being which $75, stock held consideration icate. all tional chased outright. the DePauw making in 000, by the double English its face value, with the have new will at once in accordance stockholders stock. about Nearly $225,000. all willingness the other to double their the by plan. signified their OFFICIAL indicated following English: raken vesterday The status official AN of affairs statement, is best furnished by Mr. in of Nathe First of all Indiana "Two matter o of the The first was bank and and the tional the bank etween and that The Banking held by render Banking difference Company of the two urrender stitutions. all stock and did balance sur the company separation reed First to National vesterday bank certain and the held stock other them in one-bair the of it as soon which 18 now step in of at are made besu to for relieve certain debts. zation was The an of imp the ution First adopted to in the pledge line of the reorgania board which of direct the he formal capital which, resol stock of National meeting bank, increa reasing $800,00 the stronges 18 to be was from 00,000 will make it The one newskholders, stock and ru carried out, the country amo ong the the lie to the freezing banks allotted problem rata gives to be any angaction. this effec actually there was holders in the equal and ification they within take mor that old stand exact from In out of the the holders three day their share the are All to decide they wish With to say $150,000. elected whether new or not. Company seen stock thus showing far have their entire all diana the Bankinfolders their stock thus rholders with have confidence double the of it the ca con- will Over seen. three ainty, of course that the atrong management managinary definitely steps been solute place under the the necessary the result will be were over re tike tem being lated, taken but soon. and Many eading banks that all the are KNOWD very westerday from the hope as DePau celved express take place Mr. but will the country would limited afternoon, left for return on and organizering home Monday H. En one glish of probably RUMORS AND known THEIR that buy William the controlthe First No sooner of the it National to were ugly stories of the that had was that ling number stock of xccedingly these, and the that one Mr. English caused nad its for used The first circulation, the bank of profiting by and the there greates caused the run the upon purpose John J. Cooper to effect suspension disaster; that had be large had deposits withdrawal by and Mr. of over the with there, others and that the special money deposit that he bad 000 together of and $37, depositer, this Cooper of the more $500.00 of State 400 of by $40, still an the the that bank wedge split Mr. go was that story English he ing said and could why about, a into put should circul An by other, another bad formed was told of not unde erstand falsehood of the First officer it, said rioned about there in it. an and of the attache In the any of that one character. truth quest whatezed it stockhold "ridicus bank Bank," was no bank characwith tion a the Mr. that had Mr with election the bank bank, lous. er of was told thing the rescue in of Indiana who did inter diana done porter generating rous the only men and that they of Na First fined from DePauw These were the of he doors business of would the have it at This who has could was apolis, for had closed the which this city it wontleman take was nu with tional blow to Mr. English, cot nected if Mr celved years that had if not matte been that is, would Mr the of the in the alone further such said more that The out Mr DePauw had been He had made no worth. the and was Delbeen Pauw started Mr. De Pauw than was been impaired English not officer giving of status were credit of the of stock as these leman, a with the and presen Mr the it. much Anoth Snother and one said conversance that untitled Mr. them He diabe- that the connection for the bank, of fairs, doing hatemunity. fact In that condean State times! half million DePande Cooper the story he more at was which loans, one Heved the nowe funds dollars mercentage entactice, and He likely vilations the London the thougake Thanks such funds better illegal for in caring one. for when bank, conspiracy, it an ex had and ubout The the in this city had saved stockholders the bank were all said no banker Mr. English the fact, the istence. and of that part of depositore, aware that the hankering un. to its of their knew had been Bank was all thankful Mr. He English First National too timid business for story that English, of the he different said, line some of ne only years ago, get true Mr. and prefers First a National and by the preswas on riting Since banker he left free the from incited there duty goes, window he has been the he fre bank Hord kouth the Tenness the upon Bankr "Attorney his office he assing heard wonder by heard offer bet Mr. p! Hord ricked near written the in con of them First National table to-day but all He twelkelk two men One with the dinner doori hear more put the Rebat would up his on his bar, and the close ears 10 drew a check the to

7. August 14, 1883 Daily Republican Wilmington, DE
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Business and Labor Notes. The sub-committee of the U.S.Senate Committee on Labor and Education yesterday began its examination of the strikes and labor movements in genera. The cutting of the wires of the Western Union Telegraph Company continnes. Press Agent Somerville, of that Company, 1' ported: yesterday morning that 150 wires had been cut since Sunday night. The strikers still deny that they cut any of the wires. Two hundred and fit y of the striking cigar-makers in Montreal have left for the United States, and only 80 cigarmakers remain in that city. Three hundred 'longsboremen, employed at Woodruft & McLean's stores in Brooklyn, struck yesterday against a reduction in their wages of 5 cents an hour The firm say they will employ Italians The Lancaster Watch Company, of Lancaster, Penna., which suspended several weeks ago, will resume to-morrow. sufficient capital having been pledged to insure the operation of the works in future. An investigation of the affairs of the City National Bank, of Lawr nceburg, Indiana has been begun, and it is said enough is already known to justify the statement that the depositors will be paid i fill, though it may be a month before the payment will commoney On application of Mrs. Mary Morrison and Mrs. Jane Kitchen, two of the largest stockholders in the Indiana Banking Company of Indianapolis, a receiver was yesterday appointed for that concern.

8. August 16, 1883 Millheim Journal Millheim, PA
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LATEST NEWS. LONDON, August 12.-The Spanish minister of war has informed the cabinet that four rebel sergeants had been shot at Santo Domingo. Telegrams from the Spanish provinces tend to show that the insurrection is almost ended. One hundred warehouses have been de. stroyed by fire in Roumelia. The riotous demonstrations against the Jews in Hungary continue. The Star Music Hall, in Sunderland, England, has been burned. The persons in the building all escaped safely. English doctors in Egypt say that the present epidemic is distinct from the Asiatic cholera. There were 789 deaths in Egypt on Saturday. People are fleeing from Alexandria to Cairo. A despatch from Laredo to the News says "A report comes direct from Queretaro, Mexico. which is about 100 miles below Laredo, that Cortina was in that place last Tuesday with 300 revolutionists. From reliable reports it isprobable that the northern states of Mexico will be in a state of revolution before the year is out. The complaint seems to be against the manifest usurpation of power by the general government at the city of Mexico. Only a few days ago the Mayor and City Council of New Laredo were fined in a large sum because of their removal of city offices against the wishes of the government. The large tannery of P. &P. Costello, at Camden, New York, has been destroyed by fire. Together with a large amount of stock. Loss estimated at $100,000. A dispatch received at Tombstone, Arizona, says that Wells, Fargo & Co's express has been robbed between Riverside and Pioneer of $3,200. Express Agent John Collins was killed and one passenger wounded. A Williamsport (Pa.) dispatch reports the defalcation and flight of James O. Parker, a prominent lawyer of that city. It is thought his embezzlements will reach $30,000. Mr. Jacob Tome, of Port Deposit, Md., is a creditor to the amount of $3,000. The City National Bank, of Laurenceburg. Ind., has suspended. Dewitt C. Fitch is president of the bank, his son Henry is vicepresident and his son Walter cashier. Henry Fitch is largely engaged in saw-mill operations, and has been borrowing the bank's money. The assets are reported to be ample to meet all liabilities. It is given out that the best grade of petroleum is found in Missouri in abundance. Old Pennsylvania oil men are taking to he country, and lands are being bought at fabulous prices. Thousands of acres are being leased and options taken for thousands of acres more, and many large and small tracts have been purchased at from $50 to $100, that a month ago could have been bought for $20 to $40. Several gas wells have been found. The town of Vineyard Haven, Martha's Vineyard, was nearly destroyed by fire on Saturday night. A lare number of cottages, mostly belonging to summer residents, have been burned. The fire broke out at 9 o'clock. It originated in the harness manufactory of R. W. Crocker. and quickly swept through the village to the westward. There being no fire apparatus in the town, assistance was summoned from Cottage City by telephone. Nearly the entire population of that place hastened to the scene. The burned section begins at Jenkins's paint shop, on the east side of Main street, and extends southward to and including the Mansion House. The loss is estimated at $200,000. No lives were lost. The town was full of summer boarders, and 200 will be thrown out of accommodations. The Kimball House, at Atlanta, Ga., the largest hotel in the South, was discovered on fire on Sunday morning, and soon the flames getting beyond control, Mr. Scoville, the proprietor, ordered the guests to be awakened. Guards went through the hallways breaking open doors where necessary to insure the safety of the guests. The fire having originated in the rear of the building was favorable to the escape of all. Within twenty minutes the hotel was emptied of Its guests, and within one hour the structure was razed to the ground. The hotel was built by H. J. Kimball and owned by Robert Toombs, John Rice, Joseph B. Thompson and others. It cost $600,000, and the furniture was valued at $125,000, insurance only $80,000, scattered. In the hotel were the Gate City National Bank, Harrison & Bro., tobacconists; John B. Daniel, drugs; and others are among the losers. The total loss is a million dollars, and the insurance is not over $200,000. The fire is claimed by Mr Culberson, agent of the company, to be of incendiary origin. In the vaults of the Gate City Bank were half a million dollars, and its safety is yet a matter of doubt. It is feared that some lives have been lost.

9. August 21, 1883 Savannah Morning News Savannah, GA
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BRADSTREET'S BUDGET. Trade Embarassments During the Past Week-Decrease in the Southern States, There were 174 failures in the United States reported to BradstreeΕ₯s during the past week, eight more than the preceding week, twenty-six more than the corresponding week of 1882, and one hundred more than the same week of 1881. Compared with the previous week, the Middle States had 42, an increase of 4; New England States 29, a decrease of 5; Southern States 19, a decrease of 2; Western States 50, an increase of 5; Pacific States and Territories 34, an increase of 8; Canada and the Provinces 20, a decrease of 16, The principal failures in New York city were George William Ballou & Co., E. C. Stedman & Co., and Cecil, Ward & Co., bankers and brokers, Taussig & Hammerschlag, wholesale syrups. Elsewhere they were: The City National Bank of Lawrenceburg, Ind.; the FarmΓ©rs' Bank of Richmond, Ind.; Richard B. Hoag, maltster, etc., Lockbort, N. Y.; L. Meyer & Co., general store, Tucson, Arizona, and El Paso, Texas; Alexander de Taussig, wholesale syrups and rock candy, Chicago. In the principal trades they were as follows: Gracers 33; general stores 19; manufacturers 14; liquors 13; shoes 11 hardware 10; bankers and stockholders 6; hotels and restaurants 6; clothing 5; dry goods 5; tobacco and cigars 4; harness 3; bakers and confectioners 3; drugs 3; jewelry 3; fancy goods 31 milinery 2; produce and provisions 2; lumber 2; furniture 2; butchers 2; leather 2; banks 9. ALABAMA. Troy-J. S. Branscomb & Co., shoes, hats, etc., offer to compromise at 50 cents. FLORIDA. Jacksonville-Dowling & Coxe, general store, have failed; Charles F. Powers, general store, has assigned. Liabilities $16,000; assets $15,000. Lake City-Dowling & Wolfe, general store, have failed. GEORGIA. Fort Gaines-J. W. Bass, grocer, offers 50 cents, Locust Grove-J. S. Dickson, general store, has failed. Savannah-H. J. Fear, hay, grain and produce, has assigned. Liabilities, $11,800; assets $2,200. SOUTH CAROLINA. Anderson-Carlisle & Peoples, millinery, have assigned. Florence-M. Manheim, general store, has been sold out by the Sheriff on a confessed judgment of $2,700 to his wife. Liabilities, $3,600; assets, $1,500. Outside creditors, it is said, will realize nothing.

10. August 22, 1883 Daily Republican Wilmington, DE
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Broken Banks and Merchants. A private meeting of the creditors of Wright, Worcester & Co., was held yesterday at Boston. It is said the firm reported their liabilities at $462,000 and contingent liabilities at about$100, 000 more. The assets available for the payment of the$462,000 aggregate $108,000. They are exclusive of $58,000 invested in mining stock and $78,000 invested in a cattle ranche in the West,on account of the latter of which notes for about the amount have been issued. The $78,000 in notes are included in the liabilities. The Directors of the City National Bank, of Lawrenceburg, Indiana, have been notified from Washington that they may settle up its affairs in any way they choose." Cashier Fitch thinks the bank can pay 50 per cent. of its indebtedness in thirty days and the remainder in ninety days. The liabilities of Joseph F. Paul, the suspended lumber dealer of Boston, are estimated at $70,000

11. August 25, 1883 The Superior Times Superior, WI
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CAPT. VINCENT SHINKLE, of Covington, Ky., assigned on the 15th. Liabilities $80,000. PROF. PETERS, 'of Utics, N. Y., announced on the 14th, the discovery at Litchfield Observatory of a bright planetoid, which he says is as bright as a star of the ninth magnitude. HON. GEO. MARSTON, an ex-attorney general of Massachusetts, died at New Bedford, Mass., on the 14th, aged 61 years. MAYOR RICHARD B. HOAG, one of the leading business men of Lockport, N. Y., made an assignment on the 14th. A small firm in which Hoag was interested has also gone down. Hoag's liabilities are placed at $70,000 and assets $75,000. GEO. W. PALLOU & Co., stock brokers, New York City, succumbed to the depression in stocks on the 14th. Liabilities about $1,000,000. DEPOSITORS of the defunct City National Bank of Lawrenceburg, Ind., will be paid in full. THE Illinois entomologist has found dormant Hessian flies and joint worms in the fields in the southern part of his state. He recommends the burning of the stubble fields.

12. November 17, 1883 The Daily Cairo Bulletin Cairo, IL
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Another Lumber Fire. LAWRENCEBURG, Ind., Nov. 16.Twelve thousand dollars' worth of lumber, owned by the suspended City National Bank, burned yesterday. It is supposed to have been fired by an incendiary. Fully insured.

13. November 17, 1883 Daily Globe Saint Paul, MN
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DIRE HAPPENINGS. INCIDENTS OF THE GALES STILL ARRIVING SHOWING GREAT LOSSES. Many Large Blazes Yesterday-Trains Wrecked-Fatal Fire and Explosion-A Boiler Explosion Accident-Vessel Lost With all Hands-A Lost Train. BAD RAILWAY ACCIDENT. OTTAWA, III., Nov. 16.-A passenger train on the Fox River branch of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad which leaves Chicago at 8:45 a. m. is due in Streator at 12:30. When two miles from the latter place to-day it was stopped by a car of coal standing on the main track being unloaded. The freight following the passenger was not flagged and it came down a grade, around a curve, at full speed. The locomotive crashed completely through the rear coach and partly through the second, killing L. S. Peare, attorney, of Dwight, Mrs. Alexander Henderson and daughter, of Wedron, and a man named Habberton, of Streator, and badly injuring Dr. J. M. Finley, Streator, who is scalded and otherwise injured, and will probably die; J. T. Murdock, Streator, lawyer, scalded; Levi Young, engineer of the freight, and fireman Smith, of Aurora, both injured about the lower limbs; Lewis Greene, Streator, farmer, scalded; W. H. Doyle, conductor of freight, and James Sullivan, of Garfield, wounded. They were taken to the hotel at Streator and are being cared for. Louis Greener and Rev. Samuel Crootover have since died. FATAL COLLISION. OTTAWA, III., Nov. 16.-The south bound passenger train and freight, on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, collided this afternoon, near Streator. Four persons were killed. Mrs. Henderson and daughter, of Dayton, Ill., being of the number. Several others were wounded. ACQUITTED. Sr. LOUIS, Mo., Nov. 16.-The jury, in the case of Edward Rickard, charged with the murder of Salina Wilson, returned a verdict of not guilty. This is the third trial of Rickard, who was a newspaper reporter. On the first trial he was convicted and sentenced to hang, second trial hung the jury. Rickard shot Mrs. Wilson, his boarding house misiress, on Thanksgiving eve, 1880. The defense was accidental discharge of pistol. BOILEE EXPLOSION. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Nov. 16.-A special from Fontinet, a mining town twelve miles from here, reports the explosion of the boiler of the Coal Bluff Mining com pany this forenoon, killing James Hurst, scalding Jno. and Wm. Kyle fatally, and ten others seriously. FIRE AND EXPLOSION. BOSTON, Nov. 16.-Fire this morning destroyed the stock of Geo. H. Heath, cabinet maker, and injured the stock of R. W. Pratt, machinery. Insured. An explosion of alcoholine severely burned Fireman Early and slightly injured several others. A BROKEN RAIL. CHATTANOOGA, Nov. 16.-Last night the south bound accommodation on the Ala bama Great Southern railroad struck a broken rail near Parkersville, Alabama, and three cars were thrown down the embankment and several persons were seriously injured. FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION. WILLIAMSPORT, PA.. Nov. 16.-The saw mill of M. Maxwell, Jackson township, was destroyed by an explosion of & boiler this morning. James Huff, Chas. Riggs and Nathan Redevat, employes, was killed, and James Campbell, Grant Hunt and L. Mayer were wounded. SHIP ON FIRE. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 16.---The merchants exchange reports a four masted ship on fire near Farellones, supposed to be the Dundee or Falls of Afton. FIRES. LAWRENCEBURG, IND., Nov. 16.-Twelve thousand dollars worth of lumber owned by the suspended City National bank, burned yesterday. Supposed incendiary, fully insured. JACKSON. Miss., Nov. 16.---The stores of Williams & Williams and Black, Todd & Co., at Belton, are burned. Loss $45,000; insurance $30,000, mostly in home companies. Cause of the fire unknown. MT. VERNON, III., Nov. 16.-The Phoenix block was burned last night. Loss, $5,000; insurance unknown. BRATTLERORO, Vt., Nov. 16.-Firk's frame block, Main street, occupied by soveral firms, was burned; insured. NEWCASTLE, Pa., Nov. 16.---The Newcastle mill was burned to the ground early this morning. Loss, $50,000; insurance, $35,000. COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 16.-Anderson's carriage works together with Valratt's egg establishment, Powell's planing mills, Farmers' spice mill and Osgood's saw factory were partly burned this morning. Loss about $20,000. No insurance on the buildings which belong to Anderson Bros. YOUNGSTOWN, O., Nov. 14.---The M E. church and two residences were burned at Niles, Ohio, this morning, Loss. $15,000; insurance, $4,000. CHAELESTON, S. C., Nov. 16.-A special to the News and Courier reports: A fire broke out in the town of Sumter last night and spread rapidly, soon involving in ruin the stores of Morris, Hewson, Pete, Hoyt, Delorme, Snares, Boginpheeny, O'Connor and Maxwell. At last accounts the fire is still raging. Loss SO far $40,000. ORLEANS, IND., Nov. 16.-The flour and saw mill of Newton & Turney and three or four dwellings burned yesterday. Loss, $17,000; no insurance.

14. January 3, 1884 The Indianapolis Journal Indianapolis, IN
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Notes and Personalities. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.-The President has appointed Clem. Studebaker and W. F. Nisbet, of Indiana, commissioners to represent the State at the World's Industrial Exposition in 1884. The Comptroller of the Currency is examining the affairs of the City National Bank, of Lawrenceburg, Ind., in order to determine whether a receiver should be appointed for that bank. The House committee on appropriations is working on some of the smaller appropriation bills, and expects to have the military academy and fortification bills ready to report shortly after Congress reassembles.

15. March 29, 1884 The Indianapolis Journal Indianapolis, IN
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Minor Notes. A. D. Lynch has assumed the duties of receiver of the City National Bank of Lawrenceburg. Jacob Deutsch, clothier, Lafayette, has made an assignment. Liabilities between $6,000 and $7,000; assets, unknown. Charles Buller, the murderer of his wife, has been removed from Whitly county to the jail at Fort Wayne for safe keeping. Frank Merriweather, of Fort Wayne, was run over at the depot there yesterday. His shoulder was crushed, and he will die. Thomas J. Gilligan, the well-known attorney, of Jeffersonville, who cut his throat with a pen-knife on Tuesday week, died on Thursday. A post of the Sons of Veterans has been organized at Huntington, with about twenty members. The organization is known as 0. P. Morton Camp, No. 8. Last night the board of trustees of the Fort Wayne Masonic Temple Association awarded to Christian Boseker a contract to finish the half-completed building for $26,000. Wm. Dudley Foulke, of Richmond, has filed a petition in the Circuit Court for a dissolution of the partnership between himself and Isaac Jenkinson, owners of the Palladium, and for the appointment of a receiver of the partnership stock and business. F. B. Thomas and Jacob Deihl, of Bedford, agreed to play a joke on Samuel Jacobs, a peddler, who was boarding at the Deihl House, by giving him croton oil on eggs. Jacobs was taken ill, and for several days lingered between life and death. He has commenced suit against F. E. Thomas and Jacob Deihl for $5,000. A soldier, in the Evansvllle Journal, suggests the nomination of General James C. Veach, of Spencer county, for Governor. He says: "In intellect, culture, force of character, and, best of all, good, sound judgment, General Veach is the peer of any man in the State, and his friends can point with pride to his gallant services as a soldier and unsullied record both in public and private life." Three prisoners escaped from the Decatur jall on Thursday night. They cut through the inner door until they came to the bars on the outer door. They then took the wrench of a coal stove and turned the bars and forced the stapleout. Their names, as they are known here, are Dave Morran, Billy Adams and Jack Welsh. Two prisoners who were confined with them, but whose sentence had nearly expired, refused to leave.

16. July 16, 1885 The Indianapolis Journal Indianapolis, IN
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For the Creditors' Benefit. A. D. Lynch, receiver of the City National Bank, of Lawrenceburg, filed suit in the United States Court yesterday, against the First National Bank, of Rising Sun, the Citizens' National Bank, of Greensburg, the First National Bank, of Greensburg, the Third and Fourth National Banks, of Cincinnati, the National Branch Bank, of Madison, and others. The suit is to recover for the defunct Lawrenceburg bank certain real estate on which the defendants foreclosed, claim being made that before judgment was entered the City National Bank had failed, and that the defendants must share with the other creditors the proceeds of a sale of the property.

17. August 7, 1886 The Indianapolis Journal Indianapolis, IN
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Ruling in a Bank Case. In the case of J. C. Small, receiver of Fitch & Fitch, of Ripley county, against A. D. Lynch, receiver of the City National Bank of Lawrenceburg, the court finds that the Lawrenceburg National Bank, by voluntary liquidation, authorized by the Comp. troller in 1884, paid 50 per cent. of its indebtedness to the three national banks of Cincinnati, which was, Judge Woods holds, in the nature of a dividend. The court or ders that the receiver shall make a report of all creditors who received such payments, and that further payments shall be stopped until all of the creditors have received & like sum. The Third National Bank has asked an appeal, which was taken under advisement.

18. August 13, 1886 The Indianapolis Journal Indianapolis, IN
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Minor Notes. Grandmother Bethiah Hancock, of Richmond, will be 100 years old if she lives until Sep. 9. The reunion basket meeting of the Christian churches of Montgomery county was held at New Market yesterday. A young lady, aged' twenty-one, named Sarah Lake, committed suicide at Spearsville, Brown county, by hanging. No cause is known. The quarterly convention of the Montgomery County Sunday-school Union will be held in the Methodist Church at New Ross, on Tuesday, Aug. 31. Mrs. Rose Salinger, of Lafayette, is dead, aged ninety-two She was the mother of Adolph Salinger, the leading Hebrew merchant of that place, and was born in Prussia in 1794. The colored camp-meeting at Brazil will close on Sunday, on which occasion Rev. J. M. Townssend, D. D., of Richmond, and Rev. Dr. G. W. Turner, of Indianapolis, will address the meeting. Brazilla H. Reynolds, a Wayne countr nioneer, died on Wednesday, at his home in Wiiliamsburg, from the effects of a sunstroke. He was eighty years old, and had resided in the county for fifty years. The large barn of Westley Miller, near Goshen, together with the entire crop of wheat, farming implements, etc., was destroyed by fire, on Wednesday, making a heavy loss. No insurance. Incendiary. A. D. Lynch, receiver of the City National Bank of Lawrenceburg, will soon make a distribution of 25 per cent. to the depositors. He has sold the bank property and will close the affairs of the bank at an early day. The Hendricks County Teachers' Institute will convene on Aug. 16, at Danville. The principal instructors are Professors Coffin and Sanders. Professors Ridpath and Atwater will lecture. A. E. Rogers is the superintendent. An E. & I. railroad freight train, while rounding a curve at Thomas's station, near Washington, a few days ago. left the track and was completely wrecked. The cars were piled up in a promiscuous heap, but no one was injured. The twenty-ninth annual meeting of the old settlers of Montgomery. Tippecanoe and Fountain counties will be held at Meharry's grove, on Thursday, Aug. 29th. Governor Gray and Governor Foraker, of Ohio, are expected to be present. Burglars entered the post-office at New Paris. Elkhart county, and made off with about $65 worth of goods, cash and stamps. Dr. Matthews's drugstore and Dr. D. Isenbice's hardware store suffered losses of about $100 each in showcase goods, On last Tuesday Sheriff Harper, of Montgomery county, took to the Insane Asylum David Lewis, who had made an escape about a week previous, and was found wandering about in Coal Creek township, said county. Lewis is from Oxford, Benton county. Mrs. Ricka Huckert, wife of a German huckster, living at Michigan City, committed suicide on Wednesday, in the presence of her three-yearold child, by tying a long veil around her neck, attaching an end to the bed-post, and then rolling off the bed to the floor. A ten-day camp-meeting commenced at Willow Branch yesterday. Rev. C. Harvey, of Fountain City, delivered the opening sermon, and Sister Reed, of Charlottsville, spoke at night on the subject "Where Art Thou?" Rev. John F. Hatfield is conducting the altar services. The Michigan City Knights of Labor have completed arrangements for starting a co-operative chair factory at that place. The company is capitalizedat $50,000. with shares of $5each, and over half of the stock has already been subscribed. The officers are L. E. Peno, president; Henry Bird, secretary; H. Sallwasser, treasurer. The one-hundredth birthday anniversary of Henry Stillwell was celebrated yesterday at the residence of his son, in Stendal, Pike county. Mr. Stillwell has resided in Indiana ninety six years, and is the father of nineteen children, six of whom are yet living. He has twenty-eight grandchildren and fifty-one great grandchildren. Dr. C. E. Julian, of Hopewell, Ripley county, had completed arrangements to remove to New Jersey, when his creditors, learning his plans, attached everything possible for store-bills, notes, etc., to the amount of $200 or $300. Itis said that he sold his farm for $900 without explaining to the buyer that it was covered by a $500 mortgage. The New Ross fair is in progress this week, and the attendance is large. All the departments are full. The managers of this fair association have always paid every premium in full, even if they had to take money from their private means. Last year the receipts were $500 short of the premiums, and the sum was immediately forthcoming. A reunion of old soldiers and sailors will be held at Castleton on Aug. 18 and 19. Addresses will be delivered by Gen. John Coburn, Maj. W. H. Calkins and James B. Black, of Indianapolis. There will be a sham battle on the 19th and a campfire at night. Gen. James R. Carnahan will be commander-in-chief; Maj. James R. Ross

19. September 11, 1886 The Memphis Appeal Memphis, TN
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creditors of the City National Bank of Lawrenceburg, Ind. This bank went into voluntary liquidation August 13, 1883, and on March 11, 1884, was declared insolvent and place in the hands of a receiver. By decree of the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Indians the date of insolvercy was fixed at August 10, 1883. The bank while in process of liquidation by its officers, paid a number of its creditors from 25 to 100 per cent. on their claims. The present dividend, amounting to $21,000, is to equalize and level up the payments to 75 per cen'. of be claims as hey exis ed at the time of insolvency fixed by the court.

20. September 11, 1886 The Argus Rock Island, IL
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Declared a Dividend. W ASHINGTON CITY, Sept 11.-The comptroller of the currency has declared a dividend in favor of the creditors of the City National bank, of Lawrenceburg, Ind. This bank went into voluntarily liquidation Aug. 13, 1883, and on March 11, IS84, was declared insolvent and placed in the hands of a receiver. By a decree of the circuit court of the United States for the district of Indiana the date of the insolvency was fixed at Aug. 10, 1883. The bank while in process of liquidation by its officers paid a number of its creditors from 25 to 100 per cont. on their claims. The present dividend amounting to upwards of $21,000, is to equalize and level up the payments to 75 per cent. of the claims as they existed at the date of insolvency fixed by the court.

21. September 16, 1886 Iron County Register Ironton, MO
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FROM THE CAPITAL. The Austrian Mission-A Dissatisfied ExPostmaster Harmony's Sinecure - An Equalizing Dividend One for SparksBayard and the Greasers - National Banks Fined. WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.-It seems to be an accepted fact that the President has about made up his mind to appoint some person to the Austrian mission. Colonel A. H. Belo, editor of the Galveston News, is being strongly urged, and it is said by his friends that Mr. Clevelandis kindly disposed towards him. Colonel Belo is now in the Adirondacks, and has spent two or three days with the President. It is not believed by those best informed that Secretary Bayard will consent to send any one to Austria, but others are confident that the President is about to take the matter in his own hands and appoint some one who will be unobjectionable. Itis urged that the President has lost confidence in Secretary Bayard's judgment since the Austrian Government refused to accept Mr. Keily as Minister, which as well has resulted in the recalling of Baron Shaffer, then the Austrian Minister to this country. Friendly diplomatic relations have not prevailed, and Baron Shaffer has not been succeeded by any representative of that government. Secretary Bayard will oppose appointing any one, upon the grounds that it will be construed into a concession upon the part of this Government to send a minister after Mr. Keily's rejection. The Austrian Government, it is understood, has no objection to receiving any one the President may name. WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.-The army of claimants who annually march into Washington while Congress is in session will have at least one new recruit next winter. A. N. Wilson, who was recently removed from the postmastership of Savannah. Ga., because he was an offensive partisan, denies the authority of the President to remove him, and announces his intention to take his case into the Court of Claims. He bases his claim on the Constituion of the United States, and intends to sue the government for salary which will not be due until the latter part of January, 1889, the date of the expiration of his commission had he been permitted to remain undisturbed in office. He states that he is now making arrangements to contest the question in the Court of Claims, but fears that the judges may decide against him because it has been the custom so long to remove officials at the discretion of the President. WASHINGTON, ago Secretary Whitney issued an order abolishing the Bureau of Construction and Repair, and the Department of Yards and docks. The construction bureau have already made preparations to comply with this order, but the acting SecreHare si AABN the JO Arm JO Bureen the 10 Chief st H Anom Yards and Docks. Taking advantage of his present authority and to prevent the possibility of being removed from this "sinecure," he issued yesterday an order to prevent any movements respecting the removal of his bureau. He forwarded a letter to Secretary Whitney, stating that the bureau was absolutely necessarv for the sole purpose of keeping himself in office. It is expected that Secretary Whitney will require a strict compliance with his order. WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.-Comptroller of the Currency Trenholm has declared a dividend in favor of the creditors of the City National Bank of Lawrenceburg, Ind. This bank went into voluntary uo puu 1888' '81 liquidation March 11, 1884, declared insolventand placed in the hands of a receiver. By decree of the Circuit Court of the United States for the district of Indiana the 18nBuy 18 pexy SUM JO date 10, 1883. The bank, while in process of liquidation by its officers. paid a number of its creditors from twenty-five to one hundred per cent on their claims. The present dividend, amounting to $21,-And the dn 19401 Ρ€ΠΈΠ² equalize 01 si '000 ments to seventv-five per cent of the claims as they existed at the date of in. solvency fixed by the court. W ASHINGTON, Sept. 11.-A pretty little row was disposed of yesterday morning by Acting Attorney-General Jenks. Comptroller Durham several days ago ordered Land Commissioner Sparks to audit certain accounts. Sparks replied in effect that he would do it when he got ready. Durham then intimated that he would make him do it. Both Sparks and Durham are stubborn and pugnacious, and it looked for a time as though the record of the Kilkennv cats would be wiped from the pages of history. Judge Jenks, however, was called upon to settle the difficulty, and he decides that the Secretary of the Interior alone can compel the Land Commissioner to audit his accounts. WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.-The Secretary of State, notwithstanding the release of Cutting, will, it is said, insist upon the abrogation of article 186 of the Mexican penal code, which confers upon Mexican courts jurisdiction under certain circumstances over foreigners for offenses committed outside of Mexican territory; or at least Mr. Bayard will insist upon the renunciation by Mexico of the right to subject American citizens to that code on the ground that American courts have exclusive criminal jurisdiction over offenses committed within the territory of the United States by American citizens. VASHINGTON, Sept. 11.-The Comptroller of the Currency vesterday fined five National banks $500 for delinquency in responding to his calls for monthly reports. These banks, the Comptroller Π±Π»Π΅Π³Ρƒ JOJ eash 0018 peug eq 111M 'SAUS day that they are delinquent in respondSHIPP 144 calls. Inture pur sign 01 But fined have been in default on three different calls, and the Comptroller has determined to make an example of them by enforcing the law. He made the order im-

22. October 30, 1886 Huntsville Gazette Huntsville, AL
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QUEEN VICTORIA has in contemplation a visit to Ireland in 1887. THE Secretary of War has directed that Chief Mangus and the two Apache bucks captured with him be sent to Fort Pickens, Fla., and the squaws and children to Fort Marion. ABOUT sixty companies have thus far signified their intention of participating in the National competitive drill to be held in Washington next year. FRANCIS MCCABE, one of the New York boodle aldermen in jail, is believed to be insane. A TELEGRAM received at Vienna from Sofia says Russian frigates have arrived at Varna. THE ship Owen of the Hudson Bay Company is reported to have been wrecked in a hurricane while doubling Cape Churchill. The passengers and crew 68. caped. CROFTERS who resisted e viction on the isle of Skye were charged with bayonets and a number were wounded. JAMES G. BLAINE visited Washington and Jefferson college at Washington, Pa., on the 25th, and made a speech to the students. THE Russian consul at Varna has asked for a war ship to protect the consulate and Russian residents of that place from the violence of the populace. GEORGE T. SEITER, ex-clerk of the Cincinnati Board of Public Works, was bound over to the grand jury in the sum of $15,000. THE Comptroller of the Currency has declared a final dividend of 6 1-10 per cent. in favor of the creditors of the City National Bank of Lawrenceburg, Ind. This makes in all 81 1-10 per cent. on claims amounting to $100,884. A MOVE is being made to pool the entire soft coal production of Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia. THE first volume of a new translation of the Bible into French has been published at Paris by M. Ledrain, a Hebrew scholar. JUSTICE O'BRIEN has formally declared Justin McCarthy entitled to the seat in the House of Commons which was held by Mr. Lewis, and ordered the latter to pay McCarthy's costs. "IT's all a fabrication and a lie," was the emphatic statement of Baron Rosen, the Russian minister at Washington when asked by a reporter whether the Czar of Russia, while suffering from temporary aberration of mind, had shot one of his deputies. THE Commissioner of Internal Revenue has modified the regulations in regard to the oleomargarine law so as to make them conform to the opinion of the AttorneyGeneral that the components of oleomargarine are subject to tax only when made in imitation or semblance of butter. THE Treasury Department has sustained the action of the collector of customs at New York in assessing duty on tomatoes as "vegetables." The importer claimed them to be exempt from duty as "fruit." LIEUTENANT D. L. BRAINARD, better known as Sergeant Brainard, has been assigned to Co. G, Second cavalry, and will be stationed at Walla Walla. This is his old regiment but a different company from the one he formerly belonged to.