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MANY BANKS FAIL. Four in the City of Denver Forced to Close Their Doors. Anxious Depositors Crowd the Streets-Mercantile Houses Pulled Down-Seve al Kansas Banks in Trouble-Failures at Other Places. BAD DAY FOR BANKS. DENVER, Col., July 19.-No such scene was ever witnessed in all the west as could be seen here Tuesday morning shortly after 10 o'clock, when the banks were supposed to open their doors for business The failure of three savings banks Tuesday had excited the masses and the streets were crowded with anxious depositors. The eleven clearing-house banks, located within four blocks of each other, were surrounded, and far into the streets the crowd gathered until officers and special police were called out to clear the way for traffic. STARTED THE RUN. The Union national, with a capital of $1,000,000, posted a notice that they would not open their doors. This started the panic, and, following quickly, the Commercial national posted a similar notice and then the National bank of commerce. The Commercial national bank closed its doors within a few minutes after opening, for it became apparent from the size of the crowd in front of the bank that a run was to be inaugurated. The bank was in bad shape. It has a capital stock of $250,000 and only had $2,000 in cash in the bank. The Mercantile bank, a private institution, with a capital stock of $100,000, closed its doors at noon. The failure was caused by the failure of the Union national bank, through which it cleared. BUSINESS HOUSES CLOSED. The McNamara Dry Goods company, one of the largest institutions of the kind, failed Tuesday morning. The liabilities are placed at $260,000. The failure was brought on by an attach ment served at 1 o'clock Tuesday morning by the Union national bank, which failed to open its doors, for $71,780, and the Colorado national for $20,847. Following the failure of the big McNamara dry goods house several other mercantile failures were quickly announced. One was the John Mouat Lumber company on an attachment from the German national bank for $155,200. Albert Nelson's restaurant and saloon went down with the National bank of commerce. His assets are placed at $111,510. with liabilities of $96,725. M. S. Noah. installment furniture house. Assets, $40,000: liabilities, $16,000. Three other firms with liabilities of $20,000 each were announced as having failed Tuesday afternoon. They were all caused by the bank panic. TROUBLE IN KANSAS. TOPEKA, Kan., July 19.-State Bank Commissioner Breidenthal was notified Tuesday afternoon of the failure of the Citizens' bank of Kansas City, Kan.; the Citizens' bank of Armourdale, the Bank of Richmond, Franklin county, and the Farmers' and Merchants' bank of Osawatomie. All of the banks were doing a small business. FORT SCOTT, Kan., July 19.-The First national bank of this city failed to open for business Tuesday morning, owing to steady withdrawal of deposits and inability to collect assets. The officers claim that the bank's assets are more than three times its liabilities and depositors will lose nothing. QUIET AT KANSAS CITY. KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 19.-The impression prevails that the recent financial flurry is at an end. All was quiet on Tuesday. The banks in Kansas City which have failed are: The National bank of Kansas City, the Missouri national bank, the Kansas City Safe deposit and savings bank and the Bank of Grand Avenue, the latter being a state bank. COUNTRY BANKS SUSPEND. TOPEKA, Kan., July 18.-State Bank Commissioner Breiden thal was on Monday notified of the suspension of six state and private banks in Kansas, all due to the suspension of Kansas City banks in which they had deposits. The banks reported are the Bank of Johnson City the Bank of Weir City, Hood & Kincaid's private bank of Pleasonton, Caney valley bank of Caney, Ritter & Doubleday's private bank of Columbus and the Bank of Meade of Meade Center. Robbed of a Big Sum. NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 18.-W. H. Wallace, a prominent citizen of Lebanon, Tenn., who had been to St. Louis, the
