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An Ohio Bank Fails. COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 17.- - The Farmers' National bank at Portsmouth, O., suspended payment today by order of the comptroller of the currency. No state. ment by the comptroller is yet permitted but claim is made that depositors will be paid in full.
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Ohio Bank Failure. Columbus, Ohio, Jan. 17.-The Farmers' National bank at Portsmouth, Ohio, suspended payments to-day by order of the comptroller of the currency. The claim is made that the depositors will be paid in full.
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Bank Suspends Action. COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 17.-The Farmers' National bank, Portsmouth, Ohio, suspended payment today by order of the comptroller of currency. The claim is made that the depositors will be paid in full.
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A BANK IN TROUBLE Portsmouth, Ohio, January 17.-The Farmers' National Bank, of this city, suspended: payment at noon to-day by order of the comptroller of currency. It has been impossible for the bank to realize on assets in time to meet current maturing obligations. Depositors will be paid in full as far as assets exceed liabilities. No statement is yet permitted by the comptroller.
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P COLUMBUS, a., Jan. 17.-The Farmers' National bank, at Portsmouth, O., suspended payment today, by order of the comptroller of the currency. Claims are made that deposa 1 will be paid in full.
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BANK SUSPENDS ACTION. COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 17.-The Farmers' National bank, Portsmouth, O., suspended payment today by order of the comptroller of currency. The claim is made that the depositors will be paid in full.
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Portsmonth B nk usends. Columbus, Ohio, Jan. -The Warners National bank of Portsmouth, Ohio, suspended payment today by order of the comptroller of currency. The claim is made that the depositors will be paid in full.
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Depositors Will Not Suffer. The Farmers' National Bank, of Portsmouth, Ohio, suspended payment by order of Comptroller of the Currency. Depositors will be paid in full, as the assets far exceed liabilities.
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Portsmonth B.nk -uspends. Columbus, Ohio, Jan. 17.-The Warners National bank of Portsmouth, Ohio, suspended payment today by order of the comptroller of currency. The claim is made that the depositors will be paid in full.
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Portsmonth Bank Suspends. Columbus, Ohio, Jan. 17.-The Warners National bank of Portsmouth, Ohio, suspended payment today by order of the comptroller of currency. The claim is made that the depositors will be paid in full.
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Receiver Appointed. PORTSMOUTH, O., Feb. 11.-David L. Armstrong has been appointed receiver of the Farmers' National bank. Liabilities are about $700,000.
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DIVIDENDS OF FAILED BANKS Together With Some Account of Fresh Commercial Smashes, Washington, Oct. 19.-The comptroller of the currency has declared dividends in favor of insolvent national banks as follows: Twenty per cent the First National bank of Bedford City, Va.; 20 per cent the Kearney National bank of Kearney, Nebraska; 20 per cent the First National bank of Port Angeles, Wash.; 15 per cent the Farmemrs' National bank of Portsmouth, Ohio; 10 per cent the First National bank of Corry, Pa.; 4½ per cent the City National bank of Hastings, Neb. Hartford, Conn., Oct. 19.-Judge Henry E. Taintor, receiver for the assigned banking firm of George P. Bissell & Co., today filed in the superior court a partial inventory which shows 800 depositors, with total deposits of $290,000. All assets that could be found Monday total $307,236.33, but the receiver is unable to give any approximate statement of the liabilities and aside from the fact that the failure is known to be a very heavy one, nothing has as yet been ascertained. Buffalo, N. Y., Oct. 19.-The Western New York Preserving and Manufacturing company, of Springville, the largest business concern of that village, has gone into the hands of a receiver. Statements made to the court show the assets to be $26,756; liabilities $167,373. Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 19.-Coon Bros., wholesale cheese dealers, doing business at 29 Water street, made an assignment today for the benefit of their creditors. Stringency in the money market caused the failure. No statement of assets or liabilities was given out. Topeka, Kan., Oct. 19.-The Golden Eagle Clothing company, managed by S. Ettlinger, failed today. Assets and liabilities about $30,000 each.
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WITHIN OUR BORDER. 1 WEEK'S RECORD OF OHIO HAPPENINGS. n Interesting Summary of the More Important Doings of Our Neighbors-Weddings and Deaths-Crimes. Casualties, and General State News Notes. Minor State Items. Thieves looted the post/ffice at Granille. They blew open the safe with power and got $350 in currency and $1,150 in *sdure Frank Barnes, a railroad man, while andling a revolver at Newark, shot his ttle daughter through the head. She III Andy Mulloch, aged 50, suicided at pencerville, shooting himself with a Flc. ert rifle. A protracted spree unbalneed his mind. Marietta city 5 per cent. street bonds to ie amount of $15,000 have been soid to tudolph Kleybolte & Co. of Cineinsati, 19$ jo unimed e 1 "D -y' 'V "0 off) uo durus u u[ welve miles north of Wooster, Mrs. Anna eters shot and probably fatally wounded Irs. Julia Hargrove. Both are laborers' ives. Patric Casick, one of the best-known irmers of near Marion, has filed a deed I assignment to Edmund Molloy and A . Edmunson. Assets, $40,000; liabilities, 12,000. Earl Wittaker, Arthur Calhoun and rthur Ferguson, boys whose ages range om 12 to 14 years, burglarized the saloor I Charles Laubley of Portsmouth. They ere arrested. Dr. F. W. Reinhart, a physician of onton, was arrested on the charge of ilure to report to the health authorities case of diphtheria under his care. This the first arrest here under this statute. Canal Commissioner Daniel Hartnett ied at Napoleon after a lingering illness om brain trouble, aged 50 years. Mr. artnett was a prominent citizen in that art of the State, and his death was a se ere shock to all. David Armstrong, receiver of the Farm's' National Bank at Portsmouth, anbunees a second dividend of 15 per cent., aking the total amount so far paid 40 r cent. Hestates that the bank will ay 75 per cent. and possibly more. Helen Hull, 10 months old, in Starke ounty, was fearfull eaten by rats. The ce of the infant was literally bathed in lood, the rodents having feated on baby sh, gouging out its eyes and tearing the sh into shreds. No hope of recovery. Dr. Abraham Eller of Hamilton, aged ) years, met with a serious accident at ighths and Heaton streets. Ilis horse ecame frightened at an electric car, upt the buggy and threw the doctor out, slocating his shoulder blade and badly ruising his head. A tramp entered the office of the Acme illing Company at Aliiance, and grabbed 0 from the open money drawer. H3 shed out before the clerk could raise an arm and started for the woods half a ile away. A large crowd started in purit soon after, but so far have failed 1: d trace of the bold robber after he en. "spoom on per A body found floating in the Ohio ter iles below Portsmouth was taken in
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NEW YORK MINING STOCKS. Ontario Bulwer $0.50 $9 00 80 85 Cholor Ophir 20 20 Crown Point ..... Plymouth 1 00 Quicksilver Con., Cal. & Va 1 90 1 00 10 00 Deadwood do pfd 40 30 Sierra Nevada ... Gould and Curry Hale and Norcross 1 10 Standard 1 50 29 00 Homestake Union Con 35 32 Iron Silver Yellow Jacket 25 Mexican 40 FOREIGN FINANCIAL. NEW YORK, Feb. 15.-Evening Post's London financial cablegram: Because of the political situation the stock markets were flat today, with wide fluctuations. Consols opened at 1121/4, fell to 111½, and closed at 112. Prices at the close were generally better on the less panicky condition of the continental bourses. The latest report in the stock exchange this evening is that Germany is to intervene, with the consent of the powers, between Greece and Turkey. This is only stock exchange information, but I give it, because it determined the tone at the close. There is good buying today at the reduced prices. Americans were flat in sympathy with the other markets. Silver was flat and much disturbed by cables reporting that Japan is about to adopt the gold standard. Berlin, Feb. 15.-Business on the bourse today here opened flat in all departments on the news from the East, aggravated by a panic at Vienna, but prices closed firmly, on the semi-official announcement of the German government on the Cretan question. Paris, Feb. 15.-On the bourse here today business opened panicky, but after fluctuations, there was a recovery. Frankfort, Feb. 15.-Business was unsettled on the bourse here today. Americans were ½ point lower. INSOLVENT BANK DIVIDENDS. WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.-The comptroller of the currency has declared dividends in favor of creditors of insolvent national banks as follows: 20 per cent Bennett National Bank, of New Whatcom, Wash.; 20 per cent Citizens' National bank, of San Antonio, Texas; 20 per cent First National bank, of Ithaca, Mich.; 10 per cent Black Hills National bank, of Rapid City, S. D.; 10 per cent Farmers' National bank, of Portsmouth, O.; 20 per cent National Bank of Pendleton, Or. NEW YORK MONEY. NEW YORK, Feb. 15.-Money on call easy at 1½2 per cent; last loan, 1½; closed offered at 11/2@13/4 per cent. Prime mercantile paper, 3@4 per cent. Sterling exchange strong, with actual business in bankers' bills at $4.87@4.87 for demand and $4.85@4.851/4 for sixty days. Posted rates, $4.851/2 and $4.871/2@4.88. Silver certificates, 645/@65c. Bar silver, 645/3c. TREASURY STATEMENT. WASHINGTON. Feb. 15.-Today's statement of the condition of the treasury shows: Available cash balance, $216,874,912; gold reserve, $146,178,274. CHICAGO MONEY. CHICAGO, Feb. 15.-New York exchange unchanged. Foreign exchange firm; demand, $4.871/2; sixty days, $4.851/gc. BANK CLEARINGS. St. Paul-$622,263.06. Minneapolis-$1,148,175.23.
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LATER. By direction of the president a congressional medal of honor has been presented to Michael Sowers, of Imperial, Pa., late private Co. L, Fourth Pennsylvania cavalry, for most distinguished gallantry in action at Stony Creek station, Va., December 1, 1864. THE issue of $10,000,000 in paper money by the Spanish in Cuba is considered as the first signal of bankruptcy in Spain, to be followed by a general suspension of specie payments. CONSIDERABLE excitement has been created by the discovery in Randsburg, Cal., of ore capable of producing $8,000 in gold to the ton. JACOB F. SHEAFFER, a distiller and liquor dealer of Lancaster. Pa., has confessed judgment to relatives for $13,846, and Internal Revenue Collector Shearer has seized all of Sheaffer's property, including distillery, bonded warehouse and retail liquor store, on a claim by the government for $45,467 THE comptroller of the currency has declared a first dividend of 20 per cent. to the creditors of the First National Bank of Ithaca, Mich., and a third dividend of 10 per cent., making in all 50 per cent., on the Farmers' National Bank of Portsmouth, O. THE exports of grain from Philadelphia since January 1 are the largest in years. Up to the present time nearly 2,50 bushels of corn and 300,000 busi of wheat have been shipped to Europe. THE treasury deficiency for the first half of February is $3,858,500 and for the seven and a half months of the current fiscal year to date $47,713,300. THOMAS D. WILLIAMS, for the past 18 years chief operator of the Western Union Telegraph Co. in Pittsburg. and well-known to the fraternity throughout the country, died ou the 15th. Mr. Williams had been connected with the Western Union for more than 30 years. A LARGE portion of the session of the senate on the 15th was occupied in a discussion behind closed doors of a joint resolution introduced by Mr. Morgan providing for the abrogation of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty with England. When the secret sussion er del the conference report on the leg.slative. executive and judicial appropriation bill was agreed to and 2. private pension bills and a number of miscellaneous bills were passed The house disposed of a large amount of business The most important measure passed was the sundry civil appropriation bill, carrying a. total of about $50,000.00 Among the other bills passed were the following: To supply the national guards of the various states with modern Springfield rifles; lending tents to the city of 1 Buífalo, N. Y., for use of Grand Army encampment next summer; furnishing a vessel to carry supplies to the famine-stricken people of India.
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General Notes. WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.-The controller of the currency has appointed Mr. Noah J. Dever receiver of the Farmers' National Bank at Portsmouth, O., in place of Mr. David Armstrong, resigned. American lumbermen assembled here today to confer with Canadians on lumber duties. The Americans will oppose strenuously the reductions the Canadians want put in a reciprocity treaty. It is stated at the War Department that no railroad company has been given permission to run through Chickamauga National Park. To-day's statement of the condition of the treasury shows: Available cash balance, $289,969,632; gold reserve, $238,288,093. A. B. Anderson and wife, of Crawfordsville, are in Washington, the guests of Representative and Mrs. Landis. The House committee on Territories reached a final agreement late yesterday afternoon to make a favorable report on the Hawaiian bill. The bill is in all essential features the bill submitted by the Hawaiian commission. The remains of the late Ambassador Romero, of Mexico, who died here recently, left to-night for the City of Mexico in a special car over the Southern Railway.
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Judge Dever Appointed Receiver. Washington, D. C., Jan. 11.-The comptroller of the currency appointed 1voah J. Dever receiver of the Farmers' National bank at Portsmouth, O., in place of David Armstrong, resigned.
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ON THE DEATH ROLL. Mrs. Maria Foster, aged 109 years, has died in the county hospital at 8alinas. Cal. She was born in Scotland on November 29, 1789. and came to California with her husband in 1846. Dr. T. S. Hoyne, one of Chicago's Veteran homeopathists and a grandson of Dr. John T. Temple. the first homeopathic physician in Chicago.died today. Dr. Hoyne is the author of several well known medical works. Edmund Burton Willis, a well known landscape painter. is dead at his home in Brooklyn. His best known picture is probably "The Prairie Fire." It represents people fleeing before a fire on an American prairie. Mr. Willis painted many pictures of landscape scenes in the Western states for private gallerIen. Hugh L. Childress, superintendent of the southern division of the Postal Telegraph Co., with headquarters at Birmingham, Ala., died at Chattanooga today, after a long illness of meningitis. Mr. Childrens was formerly it manager for the Postal Co. at Cleveland, Ohio. Hon. David Meimstrong died at his home at Jackson. O., today. He was formerly president of the First Nation. al bank of Jackson and later receiver of the Fidelity Bank of Cineinnati, and afterwards receiver of the Farmers' National bank of Portsmouth. His remains will be buried at his old home near Waverly, Ohio.
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obituary NOTES. Rapid City, S. D., Feb. 4.-Porter Warner, peceiver of the United States Land Office, is dead from heart disease. Mr. Warner was one of the oldest pioneers of the Black Hills. He established "The Daily Times," at Deadwood in 1877. Chattanooga, Tenn., Feb. 4-Hugh L. Childress, superintendent of the Southern Division of the Postal Telegraph Company, with headquarters at Birmingham, Ala., died here this morning after a long illness, of meningitis. Mr. Childress was formerly manager for the Postal Telegraph Company, at Cleveland, Ohio. Chicago, Feb. 4.-Dr. T. S. Hoyne, one of Chicago's veteran homœopathic physicians, and a grandson of Dr. John T. Temple, the first homœopathic physician in Chicago, died to-day. Dr. Hoyne was the author of several well-known medical works, among them being "Hoyne's Materia Medica," "Clinical Therapeutics" and "Encyclopædia of Homeopathic Biography." Jackson, Ohio, Feb. 4.-David Armstrong died at his home here to-day. He was formerly president of the First National Bank of Jackson, later receiver of the Fidelity Bank in Cincinnati, and afterward receiver of the Farmers' National Bank of Portsmouth. He will be burled at his old home near Waverly, Ohio. Berlin, Feb. 4.-Amalie Joachim, the singer, is dead.
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Hon. David Armstrong Dead. JACKSON, O., Feb. 6.-Hon. David Armstrong, died at his home here Saturday. He was formerly president of the First national bank of Jackson, later receiver of the Fidelity bank in Cincinnati and afterward receiver of the Farmers national bank of Portsmouth. His remains will be buried at his old home near Waverly, O.