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of the German American Bank. 1t Ii
said the bank will reopen for business
in about fifteen days. It's b lis rece1v
able exceed it's deposits more thar
. So 900, 900.
MILWAUKEE, Aug. 4-The Exchange
Bank of Colby, Wis, and the Barao2c
Savings of Baraboo have failed.
r B Gripp has been appointed as
signee of the Baraboo bank, but no
statement has been made. The Elk
change Bank of Colby has a capital OF
$50, 600. It I'VE depositors about
$50, 600.
MUNICE. Aug. 4-The Citizens Ma
tional Bank failed this morning. It's
capital is 5000, 900, but no statement of
the liabilities has been made.
There were runs on the Farmers
National. Merchants National Bank
and the Delaware National Bank, but
it is believed they will be able to con
tinue in business.
PROVIDENCE, Aug. 4. The State Bank
Of this city was unable to meet it's
balance at The Providence Clearing
House to day and closed it's doors. It
is not a national bank. 1t has a paid
up capital of $77, 000. The suspension
is due to the stringency of the money
market and the Withdrawal of deposits.
The bank was one of the Oldest of
the State banks, and was instituted in
1850. 1t has not been regarded as
sound. The report of the State Auditor
in November, 1892, shows its depos ts
to be $238, 900.
SAN ANTONIO, Aug. 1.-The Texas
National Bank failed to open its doors
this morning and is now in the hands
Of a United States bank examiner. It
is the smallest bank in the city, having
a capital stock Of 800, 900. The liabili
tiles are small.
The last statement shows only $780,
600 deposits. The closing caused no
excitement and no runs on other banks.
LEBANON, Pa. Aug 4-The Lebanon
Trust and Safe Deposit Bank failed to
open its doors this morning. The an
nouncement was, This bank closed by
order of the directors" The bank is a
State institution with a capital of $780,
900. Inability to collect outstanding
accounts, the general tightness of the
of the president, Robert H. Coleman,
from disposingO of them, have compelled
this step. Il is stated upon the author
ity of counsel that the result of this
litigation cannot but be favorable to
Mr.. Coleman in the end, when the
securities will be released, leaving
ample assets to pay all claims. 1t is
believed that the suspension is but
temporary and that all deposit0rs will
be paid in full. 1t will have but little
if any effect upon the other banks.
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CONTINUED P~RosPERITYO

DENVER, Col, Aug. 4-Charles B..
Mason has been appointed receiver Of
the Equitable Accident Insurance Com
pany. The outstanding risks amount
to Sc, 600, 900 and have been reinsured
with the Union Casualty Company,
which, it is claimed, will fully protect
them.
NEW YORK, Aug. IS. N. L. Carte
& Co., importers of tin, tin plates and
other metals, made an assignment to
day. The liabilities are about $3.50, 900;
the assets are large but the ac.ual
amount cannot be given. S. JacOby &
Co., cigar manufacturers, failed to
day. Their liabilities are $3.50, 900 with
large assets.
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 1.-The closing Of
the silver mines has not so far had the
stimulating influence on the lead mar
ket that was looked for. To-day lead
sold at the lowest figures touched in
forty five years. Buyers purchase as
little as possible, and, as large stocks
are on hand shippers anxious to obtain
money, a decline is resulting.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Aug. 4.-The Hamil-
ton Brown shoe factory, located at
Twentieth and Lock streets, suspended
operation this morning temporarily,
owing to depression of business, throw
ing 500 men and 400 women and girls
out of employment.
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Lumber Mill at Harvey's canal, oppo-
site this city, which has thrown four
hundred men out of employment.
Building trades have eve been
IN better condition, the amount of
building going on being 60 per cent.
greater than at this time last year.
There is equally as much activity in
FOUNDRY and machineshCps
ATLANTA, Ga , Aug Atlanta has
no reason to complain. There is prac
GlcaIly no unemployed element here.
me condition of the workingmen here,
despite the hard times. is really a sub
Ject OF cOngratulation, or is so regarded
by the average citizen.
RICHMOND, Va, Aug. 4-There are
not less than five hundred skilled
Workmen now unemployed in this city
q many more are working on short
time. The principal depression is in
the iron industry and the men laid off
are from the iron works and the raI
road shops.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Aug. 4-There
has been a wonderful change in trade
conditions IN this city during the last
month. Mills that were running full
handed have begun to cut down forces
half or more, and others have closed
up ~d4COS0Gu0E.
There has been a decrease of 70 per
cent: in the production of domestic
textiles. The depression is not alone
confined to textiles, but extends to all
branches of trade.
Henry Disson & Sons saw works at
Tacomy. the largest concern of it's kind
IN the world, has just dropped 200 men
IN the rolling and steel smelling de-
partments. The works will not start
with full force until September or
later. Other departments in the same
works have been running on short
time since July 1.
Shible & Clem's cork factory has
shut down for two weeks, and Foer
derer's vice kid plant has temporarily
discharged 800 men. Mr.. Foerderer
attributes the dulless in trade to want
of confidence among business men in
all lines Of trade.
Building operations are very dull for
this city. WOrkmen in these lines are
net suffering to such a great extent be-
cause there are a number of large
operations going on that were begun
before the dull times had settled down.
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rEE FRoeREssIvR FARARR AUaUsT Is l8aa

at the advanced age of 70 years. He
was a member of the PRESBYTERIAN
church for about 40 years, and a Dea.
! con about 25 years. The funeral ser
| vices were conducted on the 18th. by
Rev. K. M Mcintyre, and there was q
large concourse of people present to
pay the last tribute of respect to his
remains, says the Carthage Blade.
Every 10y and then the unexpected
turns up In Durham. A new specie of
thlevlng was perpetrated last night In
the drug store of R. BlRcknall & Son.
Some thief or thieves broke out a pane
or glass IN a window of this drug store
on Corcoran street, and effected an
entrance. They stoles Mr.. Blacknalls
cash reglster-took the whole thing
away. 1t contained some Sc or So in
small coin, says the Durham Sun.
Monroe Enquirer: The building
owned and used by Messrs. Marsh,
Lee e Bailey, at Beaver Dam, as a cot
ton glnnery and press room, was set on
ire by lightning Sunday afternoon
about 5 o'clock and entirely destroyed,
together with all its contents, consist
ing OF three 60 saw gins, cotton press, a
lot OF seed cotton and cotton seed, and
about thirty bushels of wheat The
loss, which is between 81, 500 and
50, 900, is total, as there was no in
surance on the property.
During the severe thunder storm of
last Monday afternoon, a COW belong
ing to Mr.. w. A. Curlee, whose family
is employ ed at the cotton mill, was
staked near Mr.. Curlee,s home. The
COW was fastened to the stake by a
chain twenty four feet long. The chain
was struck by lightning at a point
about a foot from the cows head and
from there every link, except two, in
the direction of the stake was unlinked,
but the COW was not hurt at all, strange
to say.-Wadesboro Messenger.
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THOUSANDS OF MEN ARE OUT
OF WORK.
Industrial Depression all Over the Coun-
try--The Results of Financial
Striupencv,


The financial stringency has had a
depressing effect on industries all over
the United States. Owing to the scarcity
of money, thousands of workingmen
have been laid off and there is appre-
hension that great suffering will result
unless some remedy is soon applied.
In the West the situation is especially
alarming. In Chiago alone more than
fifty thousand men r out of work,
and thousands T being added to the
army of the unemployed daily. Pitts
burg and neighboring towns have fifty
thousand men idle, and other Western
industrial centres report similar dis
couraging effects.
The most cheering reports come from
the Southern States. In New Orleans
and Atlanta less men are out of work
at this season than usual, while in
Richmond the depression seems to have
affected only the iron working industry.
CHICAGO, Ill, Aug. 4.-There are at
least fifty thousand unemployed men
in the city of Chicago now, and the
number is being added to every day.
Of this number twenty five thousand
are skilled mechanics and the others
are laborers, clerks and employees in
various capacities who cannot be put
under the head of the professions or
skilled labor. Men are being laid off
by the hundred every day, and by No
vember 1, unless there is an improve
meat, the number of idle men will reach
seventy five thousand. Of the thou
sands of unemployed coming in from
the West but few stay here.
A. P. Russell, head of the Building
Trades Council, thinks so, 900 is not too
high an estimate to put on the unem-
plOyed men here at the present time.
lone cause" said he, ''Of this condition
of things is that work at the fair is vir-
tually over, as well as work in connec-
ton with the fair. You may be sur
prised to know that thousands of work
men have just finished up fair jobs.
Then again thousands of men are here
| out of work because they thought it
would be easy to get something to do
in Chicago in fair year, and having
| found out their mistake are too poor to
get away. The financial situation,
| which has caused building to prac-
| tically cease, is another reason for men
being out of work. In short, the fair
and the financial stringency are the
causes that have brought the present
condition of things"
What is the remedyT'
Congress must do something to
make times easier, but that may not
help matters much this fall and win
ter, unless some very radical action Is
taken. When confidence is restored
new jobs will be begun and old ones
finished and discharged men in all lines
of business given their old places"
J. B. Cogswell, who is at the head OF
the carpenters organization, said Con.
gress must be looked to for relief. II
no relief came from that quarter times
would be harder than ever until things
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NO MONEY TO PAY HANDS.
Miners in Pottsvil1e Suffer on Account of
the Currency Famine.

PoTrsvILLE, Pa, August 5, 1898 =
The refusal of the New York banks,
followed by similar action from the
Philadelphia institutions, to pay out
large amounts Of currency. has pre-
cipitated crisis which is felt now for
the first time in any special degree in
the coal region.
The Philadelphia and Reading Coal
and Iron Company failed today to
make it's announced and customary
payment to more than six hundred
shop hands and other employees here
in Pottsville for work in July. The
company still owes $50, 600 to coliery
and other employees of the mining de-
partment for the first half Of July.
Payment should have been completed
a week or more ago. j..
The pay checks for the last half or
the month of July have already been
placed in the hands of the paymasters
department of the Coal and Iron Con
panv and the pay cars should oe now
ready to start out with the cash 1of Tor
this 1avment, which amounts to $780,
oGnnnS The Company, is short $50. 600 for
~ first half and $3.50, 600 for the last
half of July payments, without any
available funds in sight to pay them.
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N. L. CoRT & co. FAIL.
One of the Best Known Tin Houses in
the Land Pushed to the Wall.

the Land FuShed TO the wall.
N. L. Cort & Co., importers of tin,
tinplate and other metals at No. 245
Water street, one of the Oldest and best
known houses in the metal trade, failed
yesterday.
The partners, Nicholas L Cort and
his son, Mortimer H, made an assign
ment to Frederic G.. Dow, lawyer, of
No. 1872 Broadway, giving preferences
for money lent aggregating $34, 425, as
follows: Blanche B. Cort, $14, 1874; Leon
Berman, SIC, 900; Peter Drummond,
So, 600; John S. Norton, Brooklyn,
50, 600; Eliza A. Cort, 81 957; Mary l..
Hall, Amherst, Mass, 81, 634; Abby O..
Peckham, 81, 500.
The senior partner is about seventy
years old. He started as tinsmith in
the Bowery forty years ago and later
engaged in the metal trade as Goodwin
6 Cort. Mr.. Goodwin Aretired in 1870
and in 1872 MI. Cort admitted into the
firm his oldest son, Clark P. Cort, who
died last year. M. Fl. Cort, the present
partner, was admitted to the firm in
1882. The senior partner was said to
own the store property No. 245 Water
street and other real estate in this city
and Brooklyn and was heretofore re
puted to be worth $3.50, 600.
The assignee said yesterday the liza
bilities are about $3.50, 600. He could
not tell what the assets would amount
to. They are large. The firm is promi-
nent in the metal trade and has a
world wide reputation. The failure is
due to depreciation in the price Of
metals. failure of customers to carry
out their contracts, general financial
stringency and depression.
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HITCHCOCK HAS TO ASSIGN.
Prevailing Financial stringency Nips a
Well Known Music Dealer Whose
Assets Equal Liabilities.

Benjamin~W. Hitchcock, a widely
known musical publisher and real estate
dealer, has assigned.
The assignee is A. Frederick Silver
ton, partner of John Gleason, lawyer
at No. 14O Nassau street. The assign
ment papers were filed Thursday in the
county clerks Office and provide first
for the payment of wages due en-
ployees and then give preferences to
Anthony Miller, a hotel keeper of Long
Island City, for advances amounting to
$50. 600 made in cash at different times.
music business for about tWentV.6Ve
years, has stores at No. IL Park Row,
No. 249 Grand street, No. II Ann street
and No 1856 Sixth avenue, near Twenty
fourth street. His real estate Office
was at No. IA Chambers street.-NeaU
York Herald AMg. 9Th.
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LEON, Iowa, August s, 1893 The
Decatur County Banking Association,
the Oldest concern in Southern Iowa,
including branch banks in Davis City
and Garden Grove, suspended this
morning. The assets are $471, 900;
liabilities $315, 900, T. S. Arnold has
been named as assignee. 1t is believed
that the embarrassment is only tempo
rary and that the depositors will be
paid in full.
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MILLS CLOSED AND MEN IDLE.
New England Manufacturers Shut Down
Their Works for Indefinite Periods.

BOSTON, Mass, Aug. 5.-Mills in all
parts of New England were closed to-
night for an indefinite period. In Fall
River alone about seven hundred thou
sand spindles have stopped turning.
Brokers announced the closing of the
mills in their weekly statements of the
condition of the cloth market: The
Male Spinners' Association, In It's
monthly statement, called upon It's
members to husband their
Following are the mills which caoS9 ta
in Fall River tonight for an ind d l;n
period: America Linen, 87,OOO sEP
dies; Anowan, 10, 900; Fall RrV gerron;to
ufactory, %, 900; Flint, 48, 600; GranIe0'
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RICHMOND, Va Aug. 8.-The Big
Stone Gap Bank, capital $44 GOO taiie0'
SOUTH BENZ, Ind o. t Aes South Sih4 Bend
assigned. Liabilities $12O, 600; assets
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We have stored in the Federal
Treasury 362 100000 silver dollars,
We have 5s,O00,00O silver dollars III
circulation, and about $4,000 900 in
smaller silver coin Here il a bulk Of
silver currency amounting toS500 900,
900, which the Government Il bound
TO keep at par with gold We cannot
possibly keep this bulk Of silver III cir
culation Why should VIZ COIN more
Of It'll We cannot use it ourselves,
and we cannot pay it to other NATIONS.
Besides this coined silver, we have
nearly 100000, 600 ounces Of silyet bull
lion, paid for in gold, and corded up
unstable in government warehouses.
4 We should want more short weight
dollars we. have the raw material on
handto keep the units working fol
years to come. "
The fact is the United States Gov
ernmcnt has gone far past the limit d
safety in furnishing the people viii
\ silver money. The cry for more is til,
most unabashed and ungrateful dc
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Someof the trade reviews have mi :
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A TOWN CLOCK WANTED.
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EVERY ONE URGED TO SIGN,


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To tie Honorable Mayor and Members Of
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Gentlemen ~.
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The march Of improvement is de-
manding another victim. The Old
Drury Lane Theatre has been doomed
The Duke of Bedford has positively
refused to renew the lease Of the
ground upon which the historic old
playhouse stands, and, although this
action has been foreshadowed for
sometime, its announcement has caus
ed a shock throughout the theatrical
world. The tooth Of Time may be re-
lied upon ultimately to destroy every
construction.of the hand Of man; vel
it seems a pity that the fall Of the old
bomeof the drama, the scene Of tile
tfiumphs Of Nell Gwynne and Of Dav-
id Garrick, could not be left to Times
slow and tender process Of 'obliter-
alton.