Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-05-27
EASTERN NEWS.
Second Collapse Of the
Pennsylvania Bank.
ARREST OF FISH, Ex-PRESIDENT OF
THE MARINE BANK.
Fish Nisappropriated Funds Of the Bank
Amounting to $l4l,ooo.
THE FIRE AT THE ATLANTIC OIL
WORKS STILL BURNING.
A Courageous Woman Protects Her
Daughter from Outrage.
WIN. FOSTER, A LOCAL POLL
TlcIAN, FATALLY SHOT.
THE FIRE AT THE ATLANTIC OIL
WORKS STILL BURNING.
A Courageous Woman Protects Her
Daughter from Outrage.
WIN. FOSTER, A LOCAL POLL
TlCIAN, FATALLY SHOT.
ESPECIAL TO THE sESrrSEL.l
Closed It's Doors Again.

ESPECIAL TO THE sENrTSEL.l
Closed Its Doors Again.
PrTrsBURa, May 26.-The Pennsylvania
| Bank closed its doors again at IL o'clock
to-day, and posted the following notice on
| the door:
"Mr. Riddle, the President and chief
| executive officer of the bank, having be-
come suddenly and seriously i'll, and una
BILE to communicate with he Board OF
Directors. it is deemed proper to close the
bank under the existing circumstances
until be sufficiently RECEIVERS to be present
at the adjustment of its affairs. By order
of the Board"
The officers placed in charge refuse to
| permit an audience with any of the Board.
There is great excitement.
The news of the second suspension
spread rapidly. 1t created intense ex-
| element, and was 8 surprise. owing
to the fact that everybody had
faith in the banks ability to pay all claims.
| The immediate cause is at present I'M
known. Nothing definite can be learned,
as the Directors persistently refused to be
| interviewed. Large crowds have heen
| iocking to the bank, and the pavement in
| front is filled with anxious depositors and
| persons attracted through curiosity.
President Riddle appeared in his usual
| health at 10 o'clock this morning, but half
an hour later he was Frustrated with hem
orrhage of the lungs, and since then has
had three repetitions thereof. He Is lying
at the Duquesne club rooms, unconscious,
with only slight hopes of his recovery.
Close friends say that Mr.. Riddle Is unable
to give an explanation OF the sudden turn
of affairs. Il is said, however. that there
had been q heavy run on the bank
this morning, principally by checks, snd
$3.50, 600 had been drawn in this way
through the Clearinghouse. The crash
was brought about by the Clearinghouse
throwing ont checks amounting to $685.
600. According to the statement OF the
directors the bank had raised 1881 900 to
pay on liabilities of S918, 900. 1t is said
there were $500, 900 in certified checks out
which were not included in this, and
which had to be paid. The banks which
loaned the suspended institution funds to
tide them over are amply secured.
The cause of Riddles illness is an over
dose of morphia or chloroform, taken this
morning. The physicians are endeavor-
ing to relieve him Of the medicine.
An Ex-Bank President Arrested.
NEW YORK. May 26.-James D. Fish,
ex-President of the Marine Bank, was ar
rested upon 9 warrant issued by United
States Commissioner Shields. Fish was
arrested at Mystic Flats, Broadway and
T~hirty-ninth street. where it is said he has
| been hiding. He was not taken before a
magistrate, and is still in the custody Of 9
Deputy Marshal. A warrant was issued
| upon an affidavit made before Commits
sioner Shields by Augustus Serbia, the Ma
tional Bank Examiner. He deposed that
| after q careful examination he found that
President Fish had misappfopristed funds
belonging to the bank amounting to $l41,-
900. This was between March and May
6, 1884. A series Of credits to the firm of
Grant d Ward Of moneys in sums from
| S25. 900 to $l60, 900 at various dates, and
they were entered in the books of the
bank. These were loans to imaginary per-
sons and secured by imaginary collaterals
in stocks and bonds, mi of which loans
had ever been made, and the transactions
were stated to be entirely fictitious. The
affidavit asserts that James D. Fish, as
| President, caused 10 be paid out money
belonging to the National Banking Associ-
alton to or upon written orders of Grant
| & Ward, and for the benefit OF himself and
the said Ferdinand Ward further sums, in
excess Of sll credits to said firm. amount
ing to $766, 402. At the time of the said
| over drafts he, James D. Fish, we'll know
ing that the firm Of Grant d Ward was
then unable to repay the sums so over
| drawn, and the firm being then indebted
to said bank to an amount exceeding
81, 634, 900, their total indebtedness, this
amount being six times the capital of said
Banking Association.
Washington Intelligence.
WASHINGTON, May 26.-The Department
Of State having been informed that the Chi
nese Government proposed to enter q silk
loom in operation, as exhibited at the New
Orleans Exposition. The question arose
whether the Chinese Restriction Act did
not prohibit the landing Of operatives, on
the ground that they were laborers. The
question was referred to the Treasury De-
partment, and Secretary Folger to-day in
formed the Secretary OF State that Chinese
operatives would be admitted without
m~olestation, with the understanding that
they will not remain in the country longer
than is necessary to display the exhibits.
A distinguished party left Washington
at noon for Annapolis. ]. included the
President Of the Senate and Speaker Of
the House, members Of the Senate and the
House Committee on Naval Affairs and
Appropriations, Admiral Porter, Lieut..
Gen. Sheridan, the Ministers of England,
Russia, Germany and France. and the
Maryland members Of Congress.
Attempt TO Outrage a 5-Year-OId
Girl.
CINCINNATI, May 26.-This afternoon in
Sedamsville, Lower River Ward. Cincin-
natl, the wife of George Keeser discovered
Harry Hicks attempting to outrage her
5-year-old daughter. She knocked Hicks
down with her fist. Hicks got up and ran
away. George Keeser. the father, with
Charles Semberger and his two dogs, pur-
| sued Hicks. They caught him q mile