Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-08-21
From Washington.

Correspondence of the Alexandra Gazette.J
The Western National Bank, of Louis
vile, KY, was closed today by direction
of the acting Comptroller of the Curren-
CIV. An official statement issued by the
latter SAYS: can examination of the
bank by Bank Examiner R. ID. Garrett
showed that its capital was badly i'm
parted by losses. Steady Withdrawals
have been made for several days and as
there were not sufficient funds on hand or
Immediately available to meet further
demands likely to be made by depositors
and other creditors, the acting comp
troller directed the bank to be closed in
order to protect the interest of all credi-
tors alike and prevent those having
knowledge of conditions securing prefer
ence over those without knowledge.
Thomas NJ. Thornton has been appointed
receiver. Mr.. Thornton is an expe-
rienced man in this line of work and has
been connected with the Comptroller
Office for several years in The capacity OF
receiver. The Western National Bank
is comparatively new association, hav-
ing been chartered October %, 1904, to
succeed the Western Bank of Louisville,
w. r. Smith was president and L. l..
Jefferson cashier of the bank. The re-
sources and liabilities of the bank as
shown by the last report Of condition
May 80, 1905. were 81, 724, SS9.3 81
each; capital stock, $500, 600; loans and
discounts 81 800, 294 20; deposits, ST.,
O7O, $1,000; circulation, $50, OOO."
With typhoid fever epidemic in sever
al cities, the Department Of Agriculture
has received a number of requests from
health authorities and citizens to purify
water supplies in their cities by the use
of copper sulphate. While the expert
ments carried on during the last two OF
three years demonstrate to the experts
in the department that copper sulphate
will destroy the typhoid fever bacilll
without harmful results, the department
is not in a position to respond to the
calls for assistance. THESE requests are
answered by referring the writers to IN
dividuaIs outside the government who
have made a study of the work and
who undertake the work under contract.
1t is stated at the department that ex-
periments show that The copper sulphate
treatment of water has no effect on the
spread of yellow fever. A number Of
investigations into the use of copper
sulphate in reservoirs and rivers are now
being made.
A supplementary report on the guam
tity Of cotton ginned from the crop OF
1904 was made to the acting director Of
the census by w. NJ. Stewart, the chic
statistician for manufactures, today. Ac-
cording to the report 80, 497 bales were
pinned in excess of the estimates pub
lished in April, so that the growth Of
1904 is therefore fixed by the ginners al
10. 693. 279 bales, counting round as hall
bales, instead of lS, 597, 1872.
Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte today
received the report of the Board Of In
ouiry. which Investigated the causes Of
the disaster which resulted in the blow
ing up of the gunboat Bennington and
the killing of many of its crew. He i'm,
mediately began its perusal, bu; declined
to make any parts Of its public, or to
discuss it at this time. 1t will be made
public later.
Surgeon GenerallWymaD, of the hos
pital service, received today "a report
from Past Assistant Surgeon Goldberger
on the yellow fever conditions at Alex
andria, La. No new cases have devel-
owed there, so the report say, and funi-
CATION is being carried on by house 20
house canvas. Surgeon Goldberger is in
advisory control of the city.