The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-07-20
ONE DAYS RECORD.
Our Gold Standard Prosperity.

Our Gold Standard Prosperity.
We clip the following from the Chi
cago Times-Herald of July II, to show
the degree of prosperity which is af-
fiicting one city of the United States,
and that the most progressive city of all:
Dallas, Tex, July 1.-THE Citizens bank
of Lufkin, Angelina county, Texas. did not
open for business today. Dallas banks
were notified that because of financial en-
barrassments the institution had been
forced to make an assignment
The bank was started five months ago by
Joel w. Cravens, formerly railroad co.'s
ductor on the HOunston, East and West
Texas road, who induced railroad men of
means to back him. One or two business
men Of Lufkn went in with him. Cravens
disappeared several days ago, and it is
charged that he wrecked the bank by eX-
travagant living, speculation and dabbling
in politics. kilograms to Dallas bankers
tonight announce thar Cravens Was cap
tured today in st. Louis.
On Serious Charges-Justice Martin yes
terday held N. ]. Hunt and w. II. Eritsche.
proprietors of the National Reporting
Agency, 81 Dearborn street, to the criminal
court charges of swinding. There are
now about twenty complaints against them.
The cases on which the defendants We're
held were preferred by John jerks. 81 In
gram street; H. N Fowells, % Wabash ave
nue.; G. F. Hawley. 361 North Clark street
Albert Kennel, $50 LaSalle avenue, and
Guy Rucker 146 North Curtis street.
Want 1t GeneraI-In the county court
yesterday Burr & Hartwick, of New York,
manufacturers of millinery, filed a petition
to declare the assignment of the Chicago
Millinery Supply Company made in May a
general one. The defendant concern had a
place of business at ia and u6 Wabash
avenue, which was destroyed by fire May
20. The stock was valued at $2S,500, and
was covered by insurance policies aggre-
eating $33, 600. An assignment of the Eoii-
cies was made in the Garden City Banking
and Trust Company. In their petition Burr
& Hartwick assert that their claim against
the company, which amounts to s941, has
received no attention, and ask that the
Garden City Banking and Trust Company
qualify assignee, and also make state
ment of the affairs of the Chicago Millinery
Supply Company, so that the creditors may
recover the amount due them.
Bank President Arrested-Another Of the
Dime Savings bank officials has been
served with a warrant charging larceny by
embezzlement. The third of the five form
er officials of the defunct institution to be
taken is Samuel G. Bailey, who held the
office of president when the bank went
into insolvency. Two warrants remain to
be served before the case goes to trial.
They call for the arrest of w. &. D. Gran
mis- the former vice president OF the con-
Germ, who is now said to be in Boston, and
former Secretary James G.. Converse.
Bailey gave bonds before Justice Everett
yesterday for his appearance July 15 the
amount of bail being fixed at $500.
Judgment by Default-Judge Gibbons yes
terday entered judgment by default FOR
$13,317 against the Fowler Cycle Manufac-
turing Company. Frank NJ. Sproehne.
president and John D. Warfield, vice rresi-
of n
Herman Baker Company, of New York.
The debt on which the judgment was given
was for a consignment of bicycle tubing
bought from the Baker company last year.
Body Is Found-The body of a well
dressed man of middle age found by
some track laborers at Roby Ind. about s
o'clock yesterday morning. 1t appeared to
be a case of suicide, as an empty vial of
carbolc acid was found in one of the peck
cts. The man was seen on the streets Of
South Chicago Sunday night, but his APP
pearance was in no sense peculiar
Names a Receiver-Judge Dunno yester-
day appointed a receiver for the National
Commercial Company, 206 Bowen avenue,
on the application of James E. Dunno, who
secured a judgment against the concern
a month ago for $4,000 The complaint
charged Harry Elyton, c. Fl. Randle and
c. H. Evans. the officers of the company
with questionable methods of business in
the matter Of disposng Of certain proper ty
and in the election of directors.-Chicago
Times Herald.
In Minneapolis and st. Paul the times
are horribly bad and growing worse
every day. It is almost impossible to
collect outstanding claims.
And all this with the general govern
ment disbursing one and a half million
dollars day.
What will it be when the war is over
and it may be any day-and these dis
bursements cease?
The daily press is keeping up the gi-
gantic sham Of prosperity and the
Republican state platform asserts that
it is already here. But even the papers
cannot prevent people from thinking.
The farmer who is out of debt, and
who raises nearly all of what he con-
sumes, is the happy man a-days
1t looks as If there would be a general
getting back to the breast Of old mother
nature, as the only thing reliable In
these dismal times. l. u.