The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-05-24
DOMESTIC TELEGRApHIc NEWS.

Bank Examiner Serbia believes the crisis
5 past.
Kansas was somewhat interested in |
)onnell, Lawson & Simpsons failure.
The Supreme Court of Philadelphia has |
Ii ischarged the receiver of the Reading
0. M. Bogart & Co., New York bankers,
lave assigned to John Wheeler; prefer.
.nces, $66, 900.
George H. Burritt, treasurer of the
China and Japan Trading Company, died
n New York last week.
The Metropolitan Bank of New York
1as suspended and its doors are closed.
George |. Seney is president.
The remains of Charles OConor arrived
in New York, and were taken to the ca
thedral and placed in vault.
Specials from the northwestern portion
of Texas say that heavy and continued
rains have damaged the crops.
Hardy Grady (colored) was lynched in
county, Georgia, recently. He
to outrage white lady.
General Swain, as a witness, testifies
that he never understood his accounts
and shirks off the blame on Batemen &
Co.
The Newark, n. j.. savings institution
closed its doors last week. Bank officers
say Fisk & Hatch owe the institution ST.
O00,000.
The failure of Fiske & Hatch, bankers
of New York, was precipitated by the
Phoenix Bank refusing TO certify their
checks.
The bill to aid the Worlds Industrial
Orleans has passed. The loan is placed
at 81 100000.
The failures for the past week, as re-
ported by r. G. Dun & Co., were as fol-
lows: United States, 1872; Canada. 27; an
increase. of Is.
The following postmasters were commits
stoned recently: NJ. Howe, at Caleb, Ore
gon; o. Warren, at Hillhurst, Washing
ton Territory.
All traces of last weeks furry in Kan
sas City banking circles has disappeared.
The banks are paying in full and business
is moving as usual.
A Conshatta, Louisiana, dispatch says
The river is even with the March flood
All the low lands subjected to overflow
are now under water.
Colonel George NJ. Totten, formerly
chief engineer of the Panama Pathway
well 4nown to early Californians, is seri
ously i'll in New York.
Protection levee on Sinclair place oi
Harry Laws, of Cincinnati, five miles be-
low Baton Rouge, Louisiana. gave way re
Gently. The loss will be great.
tits stated that Senator Anthony, who
has been i'll and absent from the Senate
month. He has been in the Senate thirty
years.
Secretary of the Treasury Folger was il
New York last week, and telegraphed t(
Washington ordering the payment of th'
one hundred and twenty-seventh call fol-
bonds.
1t is stated that Jay Gould, president
and Sidney Dillon, of the executive com
mittee, deny any movement to put thu
Wabash temporarily into the hands OF {
receiver.
Two men, Trendell and Kirby, quarrelet
over trivial matter in Glenn Mary, Ten
nessee, recently. Trendell cut Kirby
throat, and Kirby shot Trendell. Boil
died in half an hour.
Receiver Davis, of New York, report
the liabilities of Grant & Ward, as far a.
he is able to ascertain, at ST. ,457, ,53l; col
laterals held by creditors, between $40,
O00,O0 and $12, 100000.
| A special to the Boston Herald from
Mexico says The difficulty between tn
government and the banks has been set
tied by loan of E1 100000, probably sc
cnred through foreign syndicate.
The pension appropriation bill, as re
| ported to the Senate, reduces the amoun
of uneXpended balance of the approprls
ton for the current fiscal year to
changed from $S4, 900, 900 to $66, 100000.
A ST. Paul dispatch says; Armstron
Taylor has been appointed receiver OF tn
St. Croix Land and Lumber Company. {
which E. S. Austin is president. The a,
sets are placed at $500,000; liabilitie
about $400, 600.
The President has issued a proclamatio
restoring to the public domain lands st
apart by executive order as reservatlo
for the Jicarilla Apache Indians, in th
northwestern part of New Mexico, en-
bracing BOT 900 acres.
Alfred and James Mccullough, fathe
and son, for the murder of Ephrail
Saxon, and Riley Anderson, for the mu
der of Louise Griffith and her paby, WEI
all three hanged on the same gallows {
Greenville, S. c., last week.
The officers of the New England Tobacco
Growers Association inaugurated NOV
ment to secure the repeal of all intern;
revenue taxes on tobacco. Growers an
packers and the trade throughout tt
country are urged to unite in its favor.
1t IS stated in Washington on goo
authority that Mclean, proprietor of tt
Cincinnati Enquirer, sent General Graz
a check for $4,000 when Grant & War
failed last week. At McLean's reque.
the matter was kept profoundssecret.
Romero, Mexican Minister, informe
the Department of State recently, that /
had received official notification from b
; government of the ratification by tt
Mexican Senate of the reciprocity treat
between the United States and Mexico.
The Union Pacific Railroad Compar
has disposed of the Credit Mobilier litig
ton by agreeing to purchase all outstan
J ing Credit Mobilier stock at $50 per shar
involving the payment of only $3.50, 600,
favorable settlement for the Union Paciti
The New York flour trade resolved th
all flour inspected shall have the name
the New York Produce Exchange
i | SDeCUOT LIIO ~ 4OPiOoCACo3 Z
gether with the month and year brandt
upon each check upon the side of the ba
rel.
The remainder of the assets of the Js
Cook & Co. estate was disposed of at au
ton in Philadelphia recently. The sa
was held for the redemption of asset div
dend script of the first and second issue
comprising many tracts of lands in Mi
nesota and other sections.
John H. James, banker of Atlant
Georgia, has suspended. He has centr
, real estate to the amount of $500, 90
which he will offer for sale at once an
which will more than meet mis- iabilitie
The associated banks and bankers of A
lanta rendered him assistance, which
declined.