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IILOXTON.
MISSOUEL
Os the 27th Vice-President Stevenson
left Tacoma, Wash., on the steamer
"City of Kingston for a visit to Victoria,
Dirkct commnnication over the Cen
tral and South American telegraph
wires was opened between. Guatemala
and the United States on the 26th.
Five hodred hands were thrown
out of employment in Cincinnati, on
the 27th, by the shutting down indefi
nitely of the Deer Creek cotton mills
and a belting factory.
The extensive woolen mills of
Scatchard Bros., of Philadelphia,
vrhich had been giving employment to
about 2.10 hands, shut down indefinite
ly, on the 26th, owing to the depression
in trade.
Notwithstanding the official denials
of the Italian government of the re
ports that cholera had appeared in
Italy, it is known that the disease is
prevailing in Alessandria and other
provinces of Piedmont.
Cholera has reappeared in Moscow,
Kief? and northeast Hungary. In Mos
cow the outbreak is most serious.
There were thirty-two cases and eleven
deaths in the convict forwarding prison
at that city between the 1st and 11th
The Indianapolis national bank of
Indianapolis, capital $800,000, closed its
doors on the 25th. The failure is for
1 1,200,000. The bank was a United
States depository and had federal
money in it amounting to exactly
1300,000.
On the 25th County Treasurer Reed,
of Council Bluffs, la., seized fifteen of
the best locomotive engines of the
Union Pacific Railroad Co. and chained
them in the roundhouse under care of
deputies to secure a claim of 510,000 for
1891 taxes.
In accordance with the decision of
the miners federation the great strike
f the English coal miners was inau
gurated on the 2Sth. No disorder was
reported from any quarter. Something
like 350,000 men are directly affected
by the strike.
Referring to the report that he was
dying from a cancerous affection in the
neck, Mr. Joseph Jefferson said to a
United Iress reporter on the 24th:
'You may deny the story. It is abso
lutely false. I never was in better
health and spirits than at the present
time."
The government has begun an in
vestigation into the immigration of
Chinese at the port of New York. Ex
tensive frauds are charged in the ad
ministration of the Chinese exclusion
act and hundreds of Chinese are alleged
to have been eisnggled in on fraudu
lent certification."
A SINGULAR feature of the World's
fair thus far has been the absence of
heat victims. Up to the 2'Jth there had
cot been a single fatal case of sun
stroke, nor even one of prostration
from the effects of the heat, although
the thermometer had soared up in the
nineties and above.
Cholera has broken out in St. Louis,
the capital of the French possessions in
Senegambia, West Africa. The deaths
reach an average of fifty daily, and a
genuine panic prevails among the in
habitants. The disease is spreading
among the European residents also,
some of whom have died.
Secretart Carlisle has received
from Collector Clark, at Chicago, a de
tailed report of the trouble growing
out of the examination of certain
poods on exhibition in the Russian sec
tion. He fully sustains Collector
Clark in the acts which gave such of
fense to the Russian exhibitors.
The board of foreign missions in
New York city has received news of
an unprovoked and brutal assault upon
Miss Anna Melton, an American mis
sionary, formerly of Randolph, 111.,
who was stationed at the time of the
outrage in a little village among the
Nestorians mountains, in Turkey.
The potato king of Kansas this sea
son is a colored man. His name is II.
P. Ewing, and he lives about a mile
south of Loring. on the Kaw river bot
tom, has 500 acres of the tubers in, and
while in Kansas City, Kas., the other
day, said they would run 150 bushels to
an acre, making his total crop 75,000
bushels.
The Pall Mall Gazette, of London,
of the 2Sth, says: We learn from au
thority' deserving of the highest re
spect that the Franco-Siamese diffi
culty has been settled. France has
agreed to accept Siams proposals, and
has abandoned her claims to the terri
tory lying between the eighteenth and
twenty-third parallels of latitude.
Jose Ascrape, the tyrant of the
riedroGorda district in Guanajuato,
Mexico, was arrested recently on a
charge of committing a number of
atrocious crimes in his official capacity.
It was alleged he had shot a number
of innocent persons without trial. He
was tried, found guilty and shot, the
execution being witnessed by hundreds
of people.
R. B. Nemitz and his two sons, aged,
respectively, 12 and 14. of Genoa,
Switzerland, who left Chicago some
lays ago under suspicion of embez
zling $80,000 from Swiss exhibitors at
the World's fair, were arrested in
Toronto, OnL, on the 26th. The po
lice found t24,000 in securities, 4,000
in cash and twenty-three watches in
their baggage.
M. Pa vie, the French minister resi-
lenr, prior to his departure from Bang
kok, had a final interview with Deva--wongz.
the Siamese foreign minister,
who said that his government was
astonished that France considered their
reply to the French ultimatum as a re
fusal to comply with its terms. It was
impossible, he said, to accept definitely
an indefinite proposal.
The bark E. O. Clark arrived at
Philadelphia, on the 24th, from Ivig
tut, Greenland. Capt. Chase says the
steamer Falcon, with Lieut. Peary and
.hi Greenland exploring party aboard,
will have no trouble from the ice in
reaching its destination at McCor
snick's bay. He says that Davis strait
i clear of ice on the west side, the
oes having drifted over towards the
northeast shore, and that the way is
jopen to McCormick's bar.
NEWS AO NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
August 20 is the date fixed for the
election of members of the French
chamber of deputies. Second ballots
will be taken September 2.
A powder-house located on the river
bank at the western limits of Hunting
ton, Ind., and containing twenty-five
pounds of dynamite and 600 pounds of
powder was blown to atoms on the
24th. Two bodies were discovered in
the vicinity horribly mangled, one be
ing identified as Hugh Harvey, about
20 years of age. The other was Homer
Householder. They had been seen in
the neighborhood with a rifle.
Some fifteen years ago a painting of
the duchess of Devonshire by Gains
borough and valued at a high price
was stolen, the canvass having been
cut from the frame. The Pall Mall Ga
zette professes to have discovered the
purloiner of the painting in the person
of Adam Wirth, "Brigand Interna
tional," who is well known to the po
lice officials in the United States.
Terence V. Powderlt has finally de
cided to give up the office of general
master workman of the Knights of La
bor. He will not be a candidate again
at the next election of the order, which
is to be held soon, nor will he accept if
re-elected.
A Munich dispatch of the 24th said
the condition of the king of Bavaria
was daily becoming worse. His mal
adies have become so serious that it is
the general belief that his end is near.
M. Pa vie, French minister resident
at Bangkok, Siam, lowered the flag
over his office on the 24th, and notified
the Siamese government that he would
leave the city to go aboard the French
warship Inconstante on the 26th.
Speaking of the report of Assistant
Surgeon G. B. Young, of the Marine
Hospital service, stationed at Naples,
that cholera prevails and is increasing
in that city, Surgeon-General Wyman
says: "The facilities for carrying out
the treasury regulations do not exist at
Naples, and the bills of health there
fore cannot be granted, and ships can
not bring immigrants."
Nine men are known to have been
killed, twenty more or less severely
wounded, and others seriously hurt,
by the destruction of the Ablon dyna
mite factory in Bon Fleur, near Havre,
France, on the 25th. There were four
separate explosions while all hands
were at work.
Despite the excessively warm weath
er the parade of the commercial trav
elers in Chicago, on the 25th, was a
magnificent success. Over 12.000 men
were in line, and no less than forty
four states and territories were repre
sented. The Greek consul at Smyrna, Asia
Minor, reported, on the 25th, that five
cases of cholera and two deaths from
the disease had occurred there.
Marshal Alexander IIamill, of
Ashtabula, O., was fatally shot, on the
20th, by two burglars whom he was
pursuing.
Dr. John Rae, an English Arctic ex
plorer, died in London, on the 24th, af
ter a prolonged illness.
In the court-martial sitting at Va
letta, Malta, investigating the loss of
the battle ship Victoria, Capt. Alfrei
Leigh Winsloe, the prosecutor, on the
26th, announced that the case for the
prosecution was closed, and an adjourn
ment for the day was tatcen.
The steamer Fearl was run into by
an unknown steamer off North Rock,
County Down, Ireland, on the 26th,
and sank a short time after, carrying
down with her seven persons. The
other five on board were saved.
John Edmunds, employed at the Car
bondale Traction Co. plant, at May
field, Pa., in attempting to jump upon
a moving electric car at Jermyn, on
the 26th, was thrown under the wheels
and cut to pieces.
The electrocution of William G. Tay
lor, the colored murderer, at Auburn,
N. Y., on the 27th. was not a success.
The foot-rest of the chair broke, and
th dj-namo gave out, so that a second
current could not be applied until con
nection was made with the city dyn
amo, when he was promptly dispatched.
The czar has ordered Vice-Admira
Tirtoff, commander of the Russian
Pacific squadron, to proceed to Siam
with all available speed.
One hundred thousand dollars in
gold bars were purchased in London,
on the 2t'th, for shipment to America.
The statement of the Imperial bank
of Germany, issued on the 26th, shows
an increase in specie of 8,220,000 marks.
A train load of unemployed miners
were given free transportation east
ward from Denver., Col., on the 26th.
A dispatch from Rio Grande do Sul
says the revolutionists were beaten
nAr Livramento. Two hundred Cas-
tilhistas raided a ranch near the Uru
guayan frontier, stole many horses and
impressed peons into the Castilhistan
army. They also committed 'similar
acts on Uruguayan soil. (
Lord Dunraven, owner of the cut
ter yalkyrie, which is to make an at
tempt to win the America's cup, ex
pects to sail for New York on August
12.
On the 27th Cashier Edward S. Fran
cis, late of the Pittsfield (Mass.) na
tional bank, who had been the subject
of much unpleasant newspaper talk re
cently, committed suicide by shooting.
Mr. Powderly will not resign his
position as General master workman of
the Knights of Labor.
Several persons :rt Pindo, in the
province fof Cor una, Spain, have been
attacked by a disease that is strongly
suspected of being cholera. The offi
cials of the town and province are tak
ing every precaution to prevent the
spread of the disease.
Vert Rev. Alexander Granger,
first vice-president of Notre Dame uni
versity at South Bend, Ind., died, on
the night of the 26th. aged 76. He had
been connected with Notre Dame uni
versity fifty years, and for many years
he was the provincial general of the
order of The Holy Gross in America.
The court-martial at Valetta, Malta,
has rendered a verdict that the loss of
the battle ship Victoria and the many
human lives by collision with the
Camperdown was due to the order is
sued by Vice-Admiral Tryon. All the
officers were acquitted of blame.
The famous Davis will case was up
for trial in the district court at Butte,
Mont, on the 27th. The contest of the
wUl by the children of Asadnas A.
Davis, of Massachusetts, represented
by Martin J. Keeger, of New York,
was dismissed by the court. This ac
tion, it is believed, results in depriving
Erwin Davis and all parties represented
by him of any interest in the Davis estate.
Miss Helen Austin, of Denver, CoL,
was saved from drowning at Asbury
Park, N. J., on the 27th. by William
Youngling, of Jersey City, who car
ried her ashore in an insensible condi
tion. Several thousand old soldiers wit
nessed the unveiling of the monument
erected by the Carroll County Veterans'
association at Delphi, Ind., on the 27th.
A parade and speeches by Gov. Mat
thews of Indiana and Gen. W. H. Gib
son, the Ohio orator, and Gen. Manson
were features of the occasion. The un
veiling exercises were conducted by
State Commander Johnson of the
Grand Army of the Republic.
The secretary of the interior, on the
27th, made a requisition upon the sec
retary of the treasury for $lo,500,000
on account of pensions. Of this sum,
the following amounts will be sent to
western agencies for the quarterly pa3'
ments which begin August 4: Topeka,
Kas., $3,000,000: Knoxville, Tenn., $1,
900.000: Louisville, Ky., $1,200,000; In
dianapolis. $2,700,000.
The trial of the Cherokee county
(Ala.) white caps, which occupied the
federal court at Birmingham, Ala., for
twenty-one days, ended, on the 27th.
in the jury finding thirteen of the de
fendants guilty. The men convicted
are J. W. Todd, Will Hooper, John
Sims, Jack Beck, Marion Ray. Allen
Light, Sam Sims, Henry Simpson,
George Sims, Will Sims, Henrv Roberts,
Will Mitchell and Henry Todd.
On the 27th the preliminary trial at
Chattanooga, Tenn., of Dr. Johnson for
voluntary manslaughter in killing Chief
of Police Mitchell by administering an
overdose of morphine while the doctor
was drunk, was concluded, after along
and exhaustive examination and argu
ment by several lawyers. At the end
of the last plea Recorder Hope an
nounced that the prosecution had failed
to make out its case and discharged the
doctor.
Rev. O. G. Taylor, manager of the
Interstate Investment Co. at The Dal
les, Ore., lias leen arrested on a charge
of emlezzlement. It is said he is short
$35,000 in his accounts.
An unknown negro entered the store
of Samuel Copeland at Camden, N. J.,
on the 27th, and, without known mo
tive, shot the proprietor's wife in the
right breast. He then coolly walked
out and made his escape. Mrs. Cope
land died soon afterwaid. The police
theory is that the negro was surprised
by Mrs. Copeland while he was in the
act of stealing. The murderer, Char
les Jordan, was subsequently captured.
Louis Ium died, on the 2th, near
Whitney, Neb., after sleeping three
months. Irig was exposed in a snow
storm in April, and after retiring never
awoke from his slumbers but twice,
once about an hour and the last time
for only ten minutes. The case at
tracted considerable attention.
Vice-President Stevenson arrived
at Vancouver, B. C, by the steamer
Kingston on the 28th. He was met by
the mayor and the United States con
sul and a number of citizens and given
a warm welcome. The party, accom
panied by numerous carriages, then
drove to Esquimault.
The large orders given by New York
financial houses for gold abroad to be
imported into this country are regard
ed at the treasury department as a fa
vorable symptom of returning confi
dence. Prominent local business nen of San
Francisco are alleged to have been ship
ping arms and ammunition to Hawaii
to place the natives in a position to
make a successful fight against the pro
visional government. Mc
The Bessemer steel department of
Jones fe Laughlin's brownstone mill at
Pittsburgh, Pa., was closed on the 2Sth,
and 500 men were thrown out of em
ployment in consequence.
The announcement was made on the
2Sth that the date of the international
yacht races for the America's cup had
been officially fixed for October 5.
A council of war to try the Brazil
ian rebel Rear-Admiral Wandenkolk
has been convened in Rio Janeiro with
Baron Frinheina presiding.
Victor Manteco, special envoy from
Brazil, arrived at Montevideo, on the
28th, with power to settle all pending
questions between Uruguay and Bra
zil.
LATE NEWS ITEMS.
Mayor Des Jardines of Montreal,
Can., has created something of a sensa
tion by declaring that personally he
can take no part in the reception of
the officers and men of the Italian war
ship Etna, which arrived there on the
31st. He says that being a good Ro
man Catholic, he can take r.o part
whatever m the reception of a war
ship of a country whose government
was under the ban of the Vatican. The
mayor is a Knight cf the Holy Roman
Empire.
The imports of specie at the port of
New York for the week ended on the
29th were $1,752,885, all of which were
gold. The exports of specie from the
port of New York for the same time
were $.K1,S4(, all of which was silver.
Of this amount $80S,S40 went to Europe
and $3,800 to South America.
Runs viR started, on the 29th, on
the First national bank, the Bank of
Eau Claire and the Chippewa Valley
bank of Eau Claire, Wis., but were
counteracted by heavy deposits by
many leading business men. The
banks named remained open after
hours.
The Riverside steel and iron works,
at Wheeling, W. Va.. the largest plant
in that part of the Ohio valley, closed
on the 29th. indefinitely. The plant
employed over 4,000 men. The state of
trade was the reason given for the
shut-down.
A seven-story brick and iron build
ing in Pittsburgh, Pa,, owned by the
Second national bank, collapsed and
crumbled to the ground on the 29th.
Of the forty workmen employed in the
building all save two, who are missing,
escaped.
The wife of Canon George Prothero,
a chaplain to Queen Victoria, who had
been ill for some time, committed sui
cide while temporarily insane at Whip
pingham rectory, near Osborne house,
the queen's residence on the Isle of
Wight.
The imports, exclusive of specie,
into the pirt of New York for the
week ended on the 29th were $9,549.
731. of which $2,6S9.54 were dry goods
and $6,660,137 general merchandise.
The steamer Cienfuegcs, which ar
rived at New York, on the 29th, from
Nassau, brought eighteen passengers
of the Santiago, which was ashore on
the Eleuthra banks.
EurERra William, on board the im
perial yafit Hohenzollern arrived at
Cowes, Isle of Wight, on the 29th.
Consul William E. Emmett, at
Smyrna, cables the state department
that cholera exists in that port.
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.
Mew Poitmutera.
The following new postmasters of
the fourth class have been appointed
for Missouri:
Bird's Point JUississipnl county, J. D.Byrnes,
vice G. S. Vickey. removed.
Little Osage. Vernon county, A. F. Condra,
vice G. M. Jones, resigned.
Mount view. Benton county, W. H. Gist, vice
G. B. Kirby. dead.
Oakland. Laclede county. Russell Mumford,
vice Chas. Grossarth. resigned.
Rinehart. Vernon county. J. J. Williams, vice
P. L. Swearinper, resigned.
Rose. Bollinger county, B. F. Stinkard, vice
J. H. Hawn. resigned.
Kidder, Caldwell county. J. W. Valanding
ham, vice Frank Shaw, removed.
St. Clair, Franklin county. Mary L. Ellett,
vice Frank Angerer. resigned.
Varvel. Texas county, W. W. Walling, vice
G. R. Wright, resiirned.
Weatherby. DeKalb county, W. J. Dehart,
vice John McClure. removed.
Ava. Douglass county, James Haiiy, vice J.
T. Hailey. removed. .
Berryman. Crawford county, W. J. Parker,
vice James Wright, removed.
Bismarck. St. Francois county, F. F. Beard,
vice W. M. Murphy, removed.
Lockwood. Parte county, J. L. Alverson, vice
W. J. Hill, removed.
Millersburgb. Callaway county, W. E. Weir,
vice J. ;. Sexton, resigned.
West Line. Cass county, B. O. Giveas, vice
E. L. Korr, removed.
NEW POST OFFICES.
Snuder. Chariton county. Benj. F. Helms,
postmaster.
Topaz, Douglas county, Richard H. Hutch
eson. postmaster.
Globe. Lawrence county, Andrew Schelin,
postmaster.
Leading Railroad Valuations.
Jefferson City. July 27. State Auditor Sei
bert has completed the tabulation and appor
tionment of the valuation of railroad, bridge
and telegraph property for the taxes of 1K3, as
fixed by the state board of equalization. On
June 1, 16C2, on the basis of the assessment just
made, there were .167.341 miles of railroad in
operation and subject to taxation in the state.
The value of each ciass of property is as follows:
Railroad property..
f62.C23.417 IS
Bridges
2.4f0.iKK .
Telegraphs 923.510 SC
Total sa3ite,P2g oe
This is an increaee of f l,511,tS70.11 over the
assessed value in 1892.
Following shows the value per mile of each
leading road in the state subject to taxation
June 1. 12. for the taxes of 1893. as fixed by the
state board, and the total value of such road in
this state:
Corporations.
For
mile.
Total
in State.
Chi. K. Island & Pac
Chi. Milwaukee & St. P
Hannira! & St. Joseph
Missouri Pacific
Mo. Kas. & Tex
Mo. Kas. & Eastern
K. Citv, St. Jo. & C. Bluffs...
K- Citv. St. L. & Chi
K. C. F. Scott & Memphis. ..
St. L.. Keokuk & N. Western
St. L.. I. Mount. & Southern..
St. L. & S. F.. east Peirce C .
St. L. & S. F.. west Pierce C.
St. Louis Southwestern
St. Louis &; Suburban
St. Louis Transfer Railway..
St. L. Merchants Bridge Ter
$113,S1(i
?1, 146,491
l,3f,tt75
3,326,583
5,422.371
2,937, 184
ft 1,700
1,593,430
15.SW
18,671
11,763
10,786
17.16S
2,808,242
1.423,109
1.161 ,684
2,797,696
3j3V,370
481,165
151,340
12960
205,950
79S,54
45,200
1,000,000
250,000
4,548,688
851 ,904
15,495!
8,31fi
15,040j
10,5&-!
6,928',
6,939
8.487
18.46N
'38,940;
354 ,570;
10,000:
Terminal Ry. Assn. of St. L..
Wigjrins Ferry Co.'s tracks. .
St. Louis Bridge i
St.. L. Merchants" Bridge !
Walmsh Western line
Western Union telegraph
lo.GMi
Congressman Hatch's Stand.
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat a few
days ago contained the following dis
patch from Hannibal:
Coucressiaan Hatch thinks the extra session
will run into the regular session, and that but
little business will be done except organizing.
He says it rrvircs abort a month's time to
get tLe house thoroughlyritaalzed. Re thinks,
however, that speeches will be made on the
"silver Question"' immediately on the opening,
"but." said he. "I am not prepared to say what
will be done. If both houses should agree up
on an unlimited coinage of silver, it would be
necessary for a committee to agree upon a
Ti
atio, and consequently ""r need not expect
tnucl
nuch to le doi? Tor sjversfrnoaths yet.
Or. being tsked how hs stool on the free
coinage of silver he said he nsver yet voted
against the free coinage of silver.
The State Refuses to ray.
The state has refused to pay its pau
per debt to St. Louis, and the courts
will be appealed to.
City Treasurer Chas. Scudder received a let
ter from State Auditor J. M. Seihert. in which
that officiul says he can not audit the 13.500
Etate insane account due the city cf St. Louis
for the care and board of patients kept at the
asylum for the state from January 1 to June 30.
13. Mr. Seibert says that in the opinion of
Attorney-General AValker the law authorizing
the payment is unconstitutional. This U:w.
which was passed by the last legislature, ap
propriated 50.000 for the purpose and
ws passed after a bitter fight by the state offi
cials. The ground the attorney-general takes
is that as '"nothing in this act shall be con
strued to pledge the state" to the payment, the
state, therefore, is not obliged to settle.
The State University Building.
Jefferson Citt, July 25. Gov. Stone. Sec
retary of State Lesueur and Auditor Seibert.
composing the commission having charge of
the fund appropriated by the last general as
sembly for the building of the state university
at Columbia, met and approved the contract
awarded some days since by the board of
curators to F. H. Binder, of this city, for the
construction of the edifice. Architect Fred
Bell, of Fulton, who drew the plans, and who
will supervise the construction, was in consul
tation with the commission. Mr. Binder's bid
was 241.5dO. The amount of bond required and
furnished by Mr. Binder in f."00.000. Work un
3er the terms of the contract must commence
'iiamediatly.
The Hicglnsville Court Act.
Judge Uroaddus granted an injunc
tion restraining the holding of a term
of the circuit court at Higginsville in
September.
The last legislature passed an act for the
holding of two terms of the circuit court in
Higginsville each year, thus taking two terms
away from Lexington. This is in La Fayette
county. The suit was brought to test the con
stitutionality of the act. Judge Uroaddus" de
cision says the act was constitutional. An ap
peal hus t een taken to the supreme court.
Will Pay the Bonds.
The county court of Jackson county
has ordered the payment of $100,000
worth of bonds, issued in 1873 by Kaw
township to aid in the building of the
Kansas City, Topeka & Lawrence rail
road. This road was never built, but
the county has paid interest for twen
ty years, and will pay the bonds at
their maturity, August 1.
School Children in Pettis Connty.
The school enumeration of Pettis
county shows a total number of school
children of 9,536, of which 8,t87 are
white and 849 colored, male and female
being about equally divided.
Bank Cleartnfrs at St Louis.
During the week ended on the 28th
the bank clearings of St. Louis were
tlO.S58..!r.3, a decrease of 20.0 per cent
compared with same week last year.
Maud McKihben Indicted.
Maud McKibben has been indicted
by the St. Louis grand jury for murder
in the first degree, having, it is charged,
poisoned her father and sister.
Miouri State Fair Ansoclatlon.
W. J. Millby has been appointed, by
the Pettis county circuit court, receivei
for the Missouri State Fair association,
lie gave bond for $30,000.
The Osceola Itenk Amnion.
The bank of Osceola made an assign
ment the other day. Assets, about
20.000: liabilities, same. Stringency
in the inoiiev market.
Canard by Snnstroke.
Thomas B. Haw, aged 76, who had
resided in Macon county for forty-five
years, died the other day from the ef
fects of sunstroke.
Will Make a Teat Case.
At St. Louis the excise commissions
and Retail Liquor Dealers' association
will-test the legality of fees charged by
the commissioner.
FLUTTERING FINANCES.
The Wave of Distrust Beaches Helena,
Mont., Resulting in the Closing of Two
of the BIggeet Banks, the First Natona
and the Montana National The Drain
ofReady Cash was Too Great Other
Banks Feeling the Pressure.
KeleJta, Mont., July 28. Financial
troubles reached Helena yesterday and
resulted in closing two of the biggest
banks in the state. They were the
First and Montana national. The First
is the pioneer bank, of which S. T.
Hauser is president. Its directory in
cludes some of the wealthiest men in
Montana. For three weeks there has
been a steady drain on the bank, and
Wednesday, after the day's business
was over, there was very little cash on
hand. Wednesday night the directors
met and unanimously decided that it
was the business of the stockholders
to support immediate liquidation, and
the bank temporarily suspended. The
bank did not open yesterday morning.
A statement made shows assets,
$377,300; liabilities, $205,560. The
bank had a capital of half a million
and its business extended all over the
northwest.
John T. Murphy was president of
the Montana. It was regarded as
strong, but was not so old. It had a
capital of half a million and a state
ment shows assets, $1,170,000; liabili
ties, $900,000. The directors desire vol
untary liquidation and its close was
due to the same causes as forced the
suspension of the First national.
When the banks opened the main
streets were crowded with people, the
largest number being about the Mer
chants' national. There was a steady
run on this bank for three hours, but
it came out all right, the officers say
ing they gained more cash than they
lost during the day. There was no
rush on other banks.
A Dangerous Rumor Emphatically De
nied. New York, July 28. The clearing
house committee were in session yes
terday afternoon. The long conference
gave the rumor bureau an opportunity
to start the report that a large bank
was in trouble, and the announcement
of an issue of $1,350,000 of clearing
house certificates lent some strength to
this report. Later the amount of cer
tificates was said to be only $350,000,
but iat the end of the meeting the
clearing house officials stated that the
original amount of 81,350,000 was right.
Their long session, they said, was due
to the larp-e amount of work before
them in the way of shifting loans,
caused largely by the great deprecia
tion in prices Wednesday. They em
phatically denied the story of a bank
being in trouble, and said that every
bank in the clearing house, and, so
far as they knew, every outside bank
in this citj', was in good shape. Those
who met at the clearing house were all
of the opinion that the situation was
scmewhat better, but still serious.
A Good Times to Import Gold.
New York, July 28. Several of the
banks here decided yesterday to ex
tend to the large clearing house any
aid that may be necessary to facilitate
the importation of gold. Owing to the
low rates of exchange several large
houses considered it a favorable time
to purchase gold, and to this end they
approached the banks to ascertain if
the necessary accomodation would be
extended. The banks replied that every
facility would be afforded them, and on
the strength of this nearly $3,000,000 of
gold was ordered for Saturday's ship
ment from the other side. Of this,
Lazard-Freres imports $1,000,000; J. W.
Seligman, $1,000,000, Van Hoffman &
Co., $200,000. The members of the
clearing house committee wish it stated
that the clearing house has nothing
whatever to do with this arrangement
f importing.
A Summary of Bank Failures.
Baltimore, Md., July 27. A sum
mary of bank failures in the United
States from May 1 to July 22, inclusive,
shows that 301 banking institutions,
with a capital of $38,951,033, suspended.
The Manufacturers' Record publishes
a complete list of the closed banks by
states; also a table which shows that
five-sixths of these failures and four
fifths of the capital involved were in
the western and Pacific states, while
only 10 per cent, of the failures and
11 per cent, of the capital involved
were in the south. In Colorado alone
the capital involved was nearly $2,C00,
000 greater than the aggregate capital
of all the banks that failed in the
south. The number of failures in the
southern states was thirty-seven, in
volving $4,392,100; in the western and
Pacific states the number was 251, in
volving $31,258,933; and in the eastern
and northern states thirteen, with $2,
600,000 capital.
Gone Into the Hands of a Receiver.
Harrisbukg, Pa., July 28. The
American Tube Iron Co., located at
Middletown, has gone into the hands
of a receiver. The company has no
judgment or bonded indebtedness
against it, but could not raise funds
owing the stringency of the money
market. It is one of the largest con
cerns of the kind in the country.
The concern has plants at Middle
town, Pa., and Youngstown, O., 1,500
men and boys being employed at the
former place and 500 at the latter.
Temporarily Suspended.
Exeter, N. II., July 28. The Na
tional Granite State bank temporarily
suspended payment yesterday morning.
The institution is declared by officials
to be perfectly solvent. An immediate
resumption of business is expected.
Peace Reigns.
Kansas City. Kas., July 28. Quiet
ness reigns at Weir City, Pittsburgh,
and. other mining towns- The militia
is being disbanded and many of the
deputy sheriffs have been discharged.
Stories which have been sent from
Pittsburgh and Weir City of dynamite
bomb explosions and firing on guards
are being vigorously denounced on all
sides. The guards themselves do not
credit the stories of midnight lawless
ness. The miners are talking of mak
ing an effort to arrange with the
twenty-seven small operators to begin
work.
Trouble Threatened at Rich Hill. Mo.
K ass as Citv, Mo., July 28. A tele
gram from Rich Hill, Mo., says that
nearly all the miners employed there
struck yesterday morning. It is
claimed that mines 9 and 15 will not
be worked to-day nor until the Kansas
strike is settled.
As the non-union miners went to
their work yesterday morning they
were met by union committees and
asked not to enter the mines. Nearly
all of them consented. The latest
mine to strike is that of the Wise Coal
company. Trouble may be looked for
almost any minute.
ENGLAND'S DEMAND.
A Sharp Note to France Asking an Ex
planation of Her Stories About the
Blockade-of Siamese Ports The French
Ministers AU at Loggerheads Respecting
the Policy to be Pursued Foreigners la
Bangkok Seeking Protection.
London, July 28. England threw off
to-day the - mask of apathy behind
which she has been concealing her real
feelings about the Franco-Siamese com
plications. She is rapidly making
ready to put herself across the path
way of triumphant France. She has
found a pretext for interfering, and
she is making all preparations to balk
her neighbor across . the channel with
something far more serious than vague
protests and threats.
The foreign office has appreciated
from the first that the situation in Siam
might become aggravated at any mo
ment, and notwithstanding her pre
tense of indifference, England has not
been idle. To-day matters came to
such a point that concealment was no
longer possible. A blockade of Siam's
coast means nothing to Siam, but
it means ruin to the large and
growing commerce of England
with Siam. By the blockade England is
attacked, not Siam. Germany also is
attacked, because her commerce with
Siam is second only to Britain's. But
England is the chief sufferer. The re
ply of Sir Edward Grey to a query
about the blockale in the house of
commons this evening was only an of
ficial indication of the approaching
crisis.
What Will the Next Hove Be.
London, July 29. It would require
second sight to forecast twenty-four
hours in advance what the next move
will be in the exceedingly complicated
game of war France is playing in Siam.
All this week she had been announc
ing that the blockade of Siam's coast
would be effective next Saturday or
Sunday. This morning's Paris papers,
with a show of official authority, posi
tively stated that the blockade would
begin yesterday (Friday), and coupled
with that assertion was the equally
startling one that 1,500 of the , troops
forming the foreign legion have been
ordered to hold themselves in readiness
to depart for Siam.
On top of this came the news from
Bangkok yesterday in the shape of a
cablegram 'from" Capt. Jones, of the
British navy, that the blockade was in
effect as long ago as last Wednesday,
July 20. This official investigation
proved to be a fact.
On the face of these conflicting re
ports.it is hard to' determine just what
France will do, if anything.
The British admiralty office is highly
indignant over the matter, and it sent
yesterday a very sharp interrogatory
to the French government demanding
an explanation of these discrepancies.
Very cheerful news to the friends of
Siam is that which emanated from
Paris last night, namely: That the
French ministers, President Carnot
among them, are at loggerheads re
specting the policy to be pursued by
France in the Siamese affair.
Will Strike at France in Newfoundland io
Case of War.
St. Johns, N. F., July 29. Rumors
here are to the effect that the British
war ships in this port are instructed to
be prepared in. case of a possible out
break of hostilities between England
and France owing to the Siamese trou
bles. The French-shore Question is
the cause of continual irritation. At
the present moment two French and
two English cruisers are on the French
shore. A third English ship is guard
ing the port. Numerous cipher tele
grams are passing between the Britisl
vessels. ' The officers are non-commu
nicative, but admit they are deeply in
terested in the course of events.
Foreigners In Itangkok Want Protection
Against the Chinese.
Bangkok. July 29. The representa
tives here of several governments and
the leading merchants met yesterday
at the British legation to discuss what
action should be taken in the event of
rioting on the part of the Chinese, who
form a large portion of the population.
The question was left open, but it was
decided to ask the Siamese government
to station military guards in the busi
ness centers of the city as a measure of
precaution against an outbreak by th
Chinese. There are no merchant ves
sels in the river.
A DESPERATE CONVICT
Makes an Attempt to Murder Two Over
seers in the Western Pennsylvania Pen
itentiaryHe Cut the Throat of One ol
Them.
Pittsburgh, Pa., July 27. Wm. Lan
caster, a negro convict in the Western
penitentiary, made a desperate attempt
to murder John McVeigh and Albert
Reese, overseers in the mat depart
ment, Thursday afternoon. He cut
McVeigh's throat, but the wound is
not deep enough to be fatal.
The two overseers were talking neat
a stone where the prisoners employed in
the meat shop sharpen their knives.
Lancaster came to sharpen his, and
when McVeigh's back was turned he
made the assault. McVeigh shook him
off and retreated. Lancaster turned
on Reese, but missed him. Reese drew
a revolver. Lancaster threw a brick
at Reese, whereupon Reese fired but
missed the negro. Hearing the shot.
Warden Wright came to the overseers'
assistance, and Lancaster was put in a
dungeon. The negro would have been
liberated yesterday had he not made
an attempt to break jail at Washing
ton, for which six months was added
to his first sentence.
Beasemer Steel Mills Closed Down.
Pittsburgh, Pa., July 29. The Bes
semer steel department of Jones &
Laughlin's brownstone mill closed
yesterday, and 500 men are idle in con
sequence. Mr. Jones refuses to answer
any question on the subject. The men
fear a long suspension. It is reported
the department closed on account of
the lack of funds. Another report is
the firm has been refusing orders on
aceount of the financial stringency.
Rumors are afloat that Oliver & Co. are
preparing their machinery in the South
Fifteenth-street mills for a long shut
down.
A Serious Collision.
Indianapolis, Ind., July 29. At 1:S5
yesterday afternoon the Pittsburgh,
Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis pas
senger train from Chicago collided
with a freight train just north of this
city on the Lake Erie & Western
tracks, which are used between here
and Kokomo by the Pennsylvania
company. The passenger train was
forty minutes late, but had tha right
of way, and George House, conductor
of the freight, thought it had passed.
The collision wan head-on, wrecking'
both engines and the baggage and az
praas car of the passenger.
WEEKLY TRADE REVIEW.
R. G. Dun A Co. Report that a HariA
Week Still leaves ; the Business World
Able to Rejoice In Its Soundness and 4
Strength Money Generally Gight, Bat:
' the Disturbance tess than Had Been x
Feared Failures for the Week, Etc
New York, July 29. R. G. Dun A
Co.'s weekly review of trade, published
this morning, says:
The hardest week has ' left the buslnesf -world
still able to rejoice in the soundness ana"
strength disclosed. Prices of stocks wcr..
greatly depressed Tuesday and Wednesdayc
closing lower than any other day since Janu
ary, 1879, and the fall oa Wednesday averaged
ever $2 per share, and yet only two failures re
sulted, and those of brokers not especially Im
portant. A sharp rally followed on Thursday...
with buying from London by shorts and espe
cially significant buying by small investors. Nr
hanks here or at other eastern cities and no.
eastern firms of large importance have goner
down, but numerous bunkstf ailed at the west,
including soma of repute and large business. .
The Erie was again placed in the hands of a .
receiver, though for eight month", of the fiscal,
year the net earnings of the c ompany have
been larger than last year's. And other roads
reporting are generally equal to last year's.
Money became stringent again with the de- -pression
in stocks, ..and the drain to assist .
other cities has been heavy, but through all
the strain the banks of New York have pa&se'd.
without trouble, and Imports of gold have com
menced. From tl .001.000 to (S.0U0.UO!) in money
has been sent west every day, and a large de
crease in bank reserves Is expected, as the.
treasury has not been disbursing heavily. Few
commercial loans have been negotiated and at ..
high rates.
At other cities the money markets have been .
quite close, but bank failures at Milwaukee, In- -dianapolis
and Louisville have caused less dis- -turbance
than might have been feared.
The treasury purchases silver sparingly, end '
the exports of that metal have been large. Ex- -changes
between this city and Philadelphia-,
have been especially disturbed, but banks of .
the latter city continue to supply customers as
well as they can. Chicago has drawn heavily
on New York, but in that and other cities the-
bank statements indicate a creditable sound- -ness.
Grain rose briskly on Monday, but all specu
lative markets yielded a little when tight .
money came and the slaughter ol stocks.
Wheat closed about 1 cent lower, though west- -ern
receipts were moderate. Corn is a frac-
tion lower, and also some hog products. Cot-
ton has declined an eighth, though receipts are -
a little larger and exports smaller than last .
year, but holders show great stubbornness in ,
view of the large stocks in sight and the clos- -ing
of many mills.
In other products no special change is re
ported, though prices tend lower. Many woolen: .
factories are closing for a month or more or in
definitely, because orders are slack, for while
jobbers' orders are about as usual, clotniers: .
still hold off. Fall trade is said to be not more
than a third of the usual size, and many deal- -
ers expect to do no more than half the usual,
business.
Dry goods are easy in tone. Fall cottons-M
though half a cent lower than last year in
price and exceedingly attractive, meet b-it .
moderate demand and print cloths are weaker
at S.9 cents. The knit goods business is some
what better. Sales of wool at the chief
markets last week were 2,214.000 pounds against..
8.140,000 last year, and for three months and a
half 47.546,767, against 86,930,130 last year.
Orders for boots and shoes are restricted
mnny shops running short time, while others
have closed, and shipments from the east are -
13 per cent, less than for the same week last -
year.
The iron business prows less active, and in
spite of past decrease in output the demand
does not equal the supply, so that four larre-furnac-es
at Pittsburgh are expected to close.
Bur is weak, and has been sold at (1.55. Plates-v
are in narrow demand, and structural iron H .
irregular, with beams down to $1.80. Of steel .
bars 2S.OU0 tons were sold to agrlcutural imple- -ment
makers at Chicago.
The business failures for the last seven daysn
number 378 in the United States and 28 m,
Canada. It is noteworthy 'that only three fail
ure were of capital above $200,000 each and'.
only ninety-nine of capital over S5.G09. Over
tifvy banks stopped during the week, but nearly-
all were at the west. Last week the failures;
in the United States numbered 457 and the pre
vious week 354.
THE WORLD'S FAIR.
Remarkable Exemption from Fatal Cases
or Overheating in the White City. Over"
which the Officials Congratulate Them- -selver
Shirt Sleeves Don't Go In the
WellinKton Cafe.
World's Fair Grockds, Chicago,.
July 29. A singular feature of the?
World's fair thus far has been, the ab
sence of heat victims. There- has not
been a single fatal case of sunstroke,,
nor even one of prostration from the
effects of the heat, although the ther- -
mometer has been soaring up in the ?
. , i m a.i . m ,i -rr?. .
nineties a-nu over luriae paavicw uu) rw.
This peculiar but happy coincidence -can
only be accounted for by of--cers
of the exposition medical bu--reau
by the faet that the proxim
ity of Jackson park to the lake af--fords
a cooling breeze to the tired and",
exhausted visitors, saving them from.
sunstroke and prostration from heat. .
Another source of safety for visitors
comes from the ample shade afforded,
by the big buildings of the exposition. .
Many have discretion when they feeU.
the effects of the exposure to run to
the shade of the buildings either out-
side or inside, and thus escape a period .
of prosrtation and ride to the Emer
gency hospital.
The average number of ordinary
cases received at the hospital each day
is thirty, but not one is of sustroke or
hetit prostration. All are of exhaus
tion or a giving out of physical energy.
The doctors report that in the most -heated
part of the day the women pre- -dominate,
and all recover quickly, but
in the ease of men it Is hardtobring
them around. The thermometer wa
at 90 deg. and over all day, but the .
average number of heat cases remained.,
the same.
There was much complaining on tha
part of patrons of the Wellington
Catering Co. because they were com
peled to put on their coats or leave the
lunch rooms or restaurants of the con
cern at department buildings. Many
men came in with their coats on their
arms because of the heat, but they
were met at the doors with a firm re
quest to cover their shirt sleeves or
leave the place. They usually did the
former and the dignity of the catering
company and the sensitiveness of the
women patrons of the concerned were-,
conserved.
Portland, Ore.. Has Little Wrestle wlthu,
the Financial Hug-bear.
Portland, Ore., July 28. The fail- -ures
of the Oregon national and the
Northeast Loan and Trust Co. Thurs-
day were followed yesterday by a run .
on the Merchants' national and the;
suspension of the Union lianking Co.
The former met every demand, paying- -dollar
for dollar. This seemed to have- -a
most quieting effect, and none of the -other
banks suffered any trouble at all.
The Union is a small concern, and is- .
thought to have been anxious for an. -opportunity
to close for a long time
because of its small business.
The International Tarlit Rare.
New York. July 29. The announce-
ment was made yesterday that thedaW
of the International yacht races for
the America's cup has been officially
fixed for October 5. "This is
very important action of the commit
tee," said ex-Commodore Smith "as it
places beyond dispute the date of the .
international races. The papers have
had cablegrams saying Dunraven would t
leave England for this country August
12, in time to tee the trial races ox 1
our cap defenders. lie will do nothing
of the kind, and will reach here only a
few days prior to the real races.