The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-03-31
REVIVED PROSPERITY
A Few Sample Gems Showing How
1t Affects the People.
Bank Failures, Business Failures and Suicides
Of Discouraged People the Principal
Active Industries:

A subscriber writes from South Da-
kota:
We are getting cents bushel for
oats and / to II cents for barley. 1t
is pretty hard to raise money for sub
scription for papers.
Mr.. E. D. Cox, who is conceded to be
the leading farmer in Marquette coun-
ty, Mich, writes us as follows:
My farm will remain idle the COM
ing summer. 1t will not pay expenses
to work it.-Schilling's Advance.
A correspondent of the Iowa Farm
erS' Tribune, writing from Danbury,
Iowa, says: II am mad, yes fighting
mad; corn is selling on our market at
from to cents bushel and oats
about the same. People in this coun-
try are burning corn. rot only the
farmers, but great many town peo-
pie. I never was hard-hearted enough
to burn corn until this winter, but
now | can chuck load Of corn into
the stove with as much grace as
banker can write note without inter-
est and add in II to 15 per cent in
principal. However, burning corn has
a principle about which l had not
thought. 1t saves hauling to and from
and miners from SO much hard work
and you know they worked so hard, es-
pecially to elect Mckinley, that it is
said the former voted at each end Of
their divisions. Probably the work
for the next for years will not be so
hard for the poor fellows"
Robert A. Smith has made volun.
cirn nj n
Mrs. Catherine Stewart had COM
menced legal proceedings against Mr..
Smith as an ind dorSer on two promisory
notes, one for 81 800, given by William
Dawson, Sr., to Mrs. Stewart, with Mr..
Smith and William Dawson, Jr., as in
dorsers, and the other for s., 500. given
by VIM. Dawson, Jr., to Robert Stew
art, with Mr.. Smith and VIM. Dawson.
Sr., as indorsers.-St Paul Globe (gOld
bug).
Ferdinand Just, in age three score
years. and pitiable victim of desti.
tuition, was removed to the city hos
pital last evening by the police, suf-
fering from frozen feet. For some
time past he has been living in his
bachelor apartments at 2812 Sheridan
avenue north. Minneapolis, but not
having been seen about by the neigh
bors for several days the attention Of
Patroiman Monitor, who resides near,
was directed to the case. Upon inYes-
tigation Just was found lying near the
stove in his house, emaciated and
the ankles. The frost bites had
been sustained five days ago, and the
mem bers were shockingly decomposed.
The physicians at the hospital decid-
ed that it would be necessary to am
putate some Of the toes Of each foot
St. Paul Globe, (gold-bug).
Yes; the wave is here-and comm
you can hear the wheels a-hummin'--
in the graveyards-in the mills that
amt been built; you can see the work.
ers workin'-and the tOilers all a-toil-
in'-in the papers-tlfat have given
truth the jilt. And the confidence is
pourin'; and a-blowin' and roarin'-
and the banks with JOY are fallin' off
their feet: and everythin' is hustlin'
and a rushin' and bustlin'-in the
jails and at the morgues on every
street.-k. Of L. Journal.
Paris, Texas, March 25-Martin,
Wise & Fitzhugh. cotton buyers, with
offices at New Orleans. Galveston,
Houston, Dallas, New York and L:v-
erpool, made individual deeds OF trust
here yesterday. this being the firms
Headquarters. Preferred creditors,
$4,000. Liabilities, $1,OO0,0O0.
The Farmers and Merchants Bank
closed its doors this morning. It was
one OF the Oldest financial Institutions
in the state and had paid up capital
OF 5000, The failure of Martin, Wise
& Fitzhugh caused run on the bank,
which forced it to the wall.
Lansing, Mich. March 25.-The de
positors Of the State Savings Bank at
Whitehall. which recently failed, have
petitioned Banking Com ommissionerAin-
ger. to prosecute the bank officials,
who. they assert, looted the institu
tion, lending its funds to themselves
and defrauding the public by making
false reports to the banking depart.
ment. 1t is high time, the commits.
sioner says. that an example was made
Of bank officials who violate the laws
and rob the people.