Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-12-29
NIGHT
THE LATEST FROM
jim KEENE'S RUN ON NET
TER & COMPANY.
The. Nevada Bank to Establish
Agencies in Europe.
Coal for she S%hiverins Millions.
Coal for the Shivering Millions.
NEW YORK, Dec. 2S

NEW YORK, Dec. 2S.
It is understood here that U. s.
Grant, Jr.. has been appointed Special
Assistant United States District Attor-
ney, for the prosecution of the old and
delayed customs cases
A Receiver has been appointed for
the Jersey City Savings Bank.
The body of a man vas found to-
day in the ruins of Barclay street fire.
1t may be identified by a piece OF a
watch chain.
Wall street resounds with commend
alton of the shrewdness and prompt
tude whereby James X. Keene res
cued over 5000, 600 of securities from
Meter Il Co. before their failure. he
had deposited the securities as coilat
eral, with a large margin for a call
loan. Getting advice on Friday morn
ing of some doubtful or unbusiness
like proceedings elsewhere of the Net
ters, he instantly took up his loan, de-
manding and obtaining his collaterals,
1t was this that precipitated their
failure, which, however, was inevita-
BILE at an early day.
1t is rumored here that the Bank
of Nevada contemplates establishing
its " agencies in New York, London
and Paris, and that Louis McLane
comes East next month on that bust
ness.
Se~venty-five thousand tons of Scran.
ton coal was sold at auction to-day, by
order of the Lackawanna Company.
There vas a large attendance and
prices were from ten to forty-five cents
per ton more than last month.
Arrest Of a Supposed Train Robber
Life Insurance vilIainy.
ST.. LOUIS, Dec. %.
Thomas Nixon, supposed to be one
of the Union Pacific Railroad express
robbers. was arrested about rs miles
west OF Sherman, Texas, on Wednes-
day morning, aud Is now on his way
north, in charge Of officers.
A fire at Carrolton, Missouri, or
Christmas night, destroyed nearly a
block of business houses, involving Q
10 IS of about $4,000.
l.. +. Alexander, Receiver of the
Columbia Life Insurance Company,
has filed a petition, alleging COLLISION
between the officers of that company
aud the Life Association of America, to
defraud the former company out Of
1915 900, by means Of the transfer OF
stocks and assets, just previous to his
appointment as Receiver. He peti-
tions for a cancellation of the transfer,
what Albert Meter Says.
CINCINNATI, o., Dec. %.
Albert Meter, of the recent banking
firm of Meter & Co., New York, who
is at the Grand Hotel in this city
stated to an interviewer as to the re.
hyporaecating feature of their bust
ness that it was simply a question OF
interest; that the firm in New York
has to-day S12, ZOO, 900 borrowed on
such securities. 1t got the securities
for money loaned on them, and in
turn reborrowed money On them from
insurance and trust companies. Mr..
Meter stated that the money they
owed was not to widows and orphans,
but 10 Wall-street sharks, who have
gotten every dollar that we had. There
is no truth in the report that / bad alb.
seconded with a hundred thousand dol
lars. Gabriel Meter is with our law
yer in New York.
Arrest Of . Mail Robber-PsrdOn. oi
- fOrger.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2S.
James ID. Burke. messenger in the
office of the Comptroller OF Currency