The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-07-15
MISCELLANEOUS 0LEANINos

The Mercantile Agency Of Dun, Wy
| man X Co. announce the extent VI business
failures for the first Az months in 1881. In
number they amount to 2.S6l, compared
with 2,i97 In the first half of 1881. and i,0ls
in 1879 The liabilities for the first half are
stated to DO $40. 200, Co., compared with
$50, Geo, coo the first six mouths OF 1850. and
s65, 0OO, 900 in 1879. The semi-annual circular
| issued by Dun Wymsn Il Co. contains reports
from forty-four trade centcrs, nearly all OF
which indicate highly-prosperous condition
Of business, with reports almost uniformly
favorable a. to the condition OF the crops not
only Of grain, but also OF cotton rice, sugar,
tobacco, etc. The entire business outlook, rs
indicated by this authentic return seems ex-
tremely favorable. The necessity Of some eau
ton is at the same time indicated.
The Chicago Times has obtained the
views Of the Western State Boards OF Agri-
culture as to the growing crops. In Ohio the
yield is expected TO be about ~ Ter cent. Of
that Of last year, the early sown being
the best. Tho acreage in Michig IN is about
the same - IN 1850, and only ten or twelve
bushels per acre are looked for. Indiana
expects 9 crop Of only 50, 900 900 bushels, as
against Il, 0O0, 900 last year. the quality being
excellent Wisconsin has q large acreage in
spring. but a half breadth Of winter wheat,
and the crop is in tine condition. The Iowa
board estimates the spring wheat crop at half
that Of last year. and the winter sown At A
per cent.
Fifty-four national banks organized
during the last fiscal year. with an aggregate
capital Of &c, 400, 100. Nineteen banks, with an
aggregate capital Of $l,62O. 900. went into vol
nntary liquidation, and there has been no fail
ure Of national bank during the year. Tho
number Of such banks now in existence is 2, l22
The coinage of the United States mints
for the year ending juno 80, 1881, was rs fol-
lows; Gold, SIS, 1873, 1854; silver. s27,649,-
Os6. rs; other metal, s4O5. 1898 making a to-
tai Of slOG. $50, 966.7O.
Mexican official reports state that the
results Of tho Morelos railroad accident were
l4O persons killed and H. persons wounded;
forty-nins persons escaped and abont forty are
missing Seven engineer. have been commits
stoned to examine the bridge.
Two adventurous men, named Traynor
aud Olson, sailed from Bath, Me-. in dory
fourteen feet long and five wide, to cross tho
Atlantic. They are provisioned for sixty days,
and are skillful seamen
Capt. Thornsby, of the schooner Eus-
tsoe, from San Francisco, was killed by his
the latter fred the ship, and only four sailors
escaped.
Reports are received Of massacres by
hostile Apache Indians in New Mexico and
Northern Mexico. A stage coach was attacked
south Of Ell Paso and its four passengers and
two drivers killed, and there IL q report Of the
killing OF q surveying party Of thirty persons on
tho Mexican Central railroad.
The steamer Protsus has Just left st.
Johns for the Arctic regions.
Giuseppe Esposito, . remarkably
handsome Italian, the sole survivor Of IA
nous band Of brigands, for whose arrest
reward Of $4,000 lire was offered, was caught
in New Orleans. where he had been quietly
running . fruit schooner. He ia in irons
ON board . steamer bound for New York,
where an Italian war-vessol u waiting to take
him homo.
King Kalakaua has reached London
ON his tour westward round the world.
Gould and Sage have captured the
Metropolitan elevated railroad III New York,
and will probably put an end to tho arrange
ment by which the Manhattan company is com
PEELED TO pay 10 per cent. to the other roada
Cyrus W. Field manages tho New York elevated
road, and a lively struggle impeuds.