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THE GERMAN BANK of St. Louis has suspended, which makes the second financial institution in that city that has closed its doors within thirty days.
German Bank (St Louis, MO)
Episode Information
- Episode UID
8973995190931- Episode Type
- Suspension → Closure
- Bank Type
- state
- Bank ID
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897399519hash - Start Date
- July 10, 1877
- Location
- St Louis, Missouri (38.627, -90.198)
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- gpt-5-mini (chosen from majority vote of a three-model LLM ensemble)
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Events (1)
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July 10, 1877
Suspension
- Cause
- Voluntary Liquidation
- Cause Details
- Board resolved business was insufficient to pay expenses and placed assets in hands of an assignee; assignee Charles G. Stifel named.
- Newspaper Excerpt
- The Board of Directors of the German Bank of this city adopted a resolution to-day ... the business should be discontinued and the assets of the bank be placed in the hands of an assignee, under the assignment laws of the State. Charles G. Stefel is named as assignee.
- Source
- newspapers
Newspaper Articles (14)
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ANOTHER BANK SUSPENDS. CLOSING OF THE ST. LOUIS GERMAN BANKCLOSED TO AVOID FURTHER LOSS-AN ASSIGNEE APPOINTED. ST. Louis, July 10, 1877. The Board of Directors of the German Bank of this city adopted a resolution to-day, that as the business of the bank for some time past has been insufficient to pay expenses, and as every day's continuance thereof diminished the assets, the safety of depositors and the interests of stockholders demand that the business should be diacontinued and the assets of the bank be placed in the hands of an assignee, under the assignment laws of the State. Charles G. Stefel is named as assignee.
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Hotel, assigned. with liabilities approximation $8.000. l'ATERION. N. J., July -The excitement over the failure of the Merchants' Loan and Trust Company in emboliding. Many persons have dield checks on the Company without presentation till too late. The depositors will secore a hearing Friday before the Chancellor on the application for a Receiver. ST. Loris, Mo., July 10.-The Board of Direc. tore of the German Bank of this city adopted $ resolution to -day that, an the business of the bank has for some time past been inenficient to pay expeners, and as every day's continnance of its basi. ness diminisher its assets. the safety of depositors and interests of stockholders demand that business be discontinued, and the accounts of the bank be placed in the hands of an Assignee. NEW YORK, July 10. Moses Minkerheimer, Mark Lindhelm, and Robert Lindheim have been discharged from bankraptcy. The firm are engaged in the wholesale liquor business. and failed for over $300,000. One of the partners lost $800, 000 in speculation on his own account on 'Black Friday." Special Dispatch to The Tridune. ANN ARROR, Mich., July 10.- c. Risdon. a prominent handware merchant of this city. tallics one more in the Net of recent failures here. He mode an assignment of property to-day to C. II. Richmond. A--eta are estimated at sdo. 000: liabilities at $30,000. Mr. Riedon line been in the hardward business here for the past thirty years.
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General News. The Louisiana Levee Company have brought suit against the State of Louisiana for $1,708.00 alleged to be due for work done on the levees. J. Clarke Wilson, hardware commission merchant, of New York, has suspended. His liabilities are $100,000. The failure of Buttle & Leeds, straw goods mannfacturers, of New York, IS also reported. Their liabilities are stated at upwards of $150,000. The suspended German Bank of St. Louis, is said to owe its depositors $210,000. It is thought the assets will meet all demands; if not, 36 per centum of the capital stock of $300,000, which has not been paid in, will be called for to cover the liabilities. The First National Bank of Delhi, Indiana, has been closed by the Examiner, on account of a run upon it. The cause of the run was the failure of Dugan, Case &Shears, of Chicago, Dugan being President of the bank. It is said the bank's assets are $50,009 in excess of its liabilities. Another Spanish cruiser is reported to have insulted the American flag by overhauling the American whaling schooner Rising Sun off the South Keys of Cuba on the 20th of May, and detaining the chief mate for five days. until a Spanish gunboat arrived and her commander examined the schooner's papers.
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MINOR TELEGRAMS. -The New York Open Board of Brokers dissolved yesterday afternoon. -Henry Merritt, the Engish Art : Critic died on Tuesday last in London. -Cincinnati is entertaining a large delegation of merchants from Southern Illinois and Missouri. I ) -The Louisiana Levee Company have : sued that State for $708,000, alleged to be due for work on levees. ) -Frank Wilson (colored) was execu3 ted at Harrisburg, Pa. yesterday, for the murder of John B. Rudy in Jan. 1876. I He confessed his crime. 7 -Advices from Camp Supply, Indian ) Territory, say the Officers quarters at e that Post were burned a few days ago and scarcely anything was saved. -The liabilities of the German Bank of St. Louis which has suspended business, are said to be $210,000, but it is believed that the assetts will be ample to meet all demands. -Bowdoin College, Me., yesterday conferred the degree of L.L.D. on Hon. Alpheus Felch, of the class of 1827, exGovernor, ex-United States Senator, and ex-Judge of Michigan. 1 -It is reported that a band of Sioux Indians forcibly took a large quantity of powder and ball from tradere, near the : Morzourkes river. They left immediately for the Black Hills. : -Henry Langfelder, a Saloon keeper i in Cleveland, riter saturating all the inflamable matter in his room and setting fire to it, shot himself in the mouth with a Navy revolver about seven o'clock yesterday morning, and died instantly. 1 -The Georgia Constitutional Conven1 tion met yesterday and organized, Chas. J 3 Jenkins was chosen President. . The President in his address said: "It 1 is nnnecessary to caution you against 1 doing anything that would infringe on e the rights of the negro race." This was 3 received with applause. t . -
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WESTERN BANK TROUBLES. CINCINNATI, July 11.-The National Bank Examiner of Indiana has closed the National Bank of Delphi, Indiana, on account of the run upon the bank owing to the failure of Dugan. Case & Spear, of Chicago, Dugan being President of the bank The assets are said to be $50,000 in excess of the liabilities. ST. LOUIS, Mo., July 11.-The liabilities of the German Bank to its depositors are said to be $210,000. It is be lieved that the assets will be ample to meet the demand, but if it should prove to 00 otherwise, 36 per cent of the capital stock of $300,000, which has not been paid 111, will be called for, and this, it is thought, will cover all liabilities.
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GENERAL NEWS. Ex-Gov.Chamberlain expects to spend the remainder of the summer at West Brookfield, Mass. Last month was the coldest June that Minnesota has experienced in a dozen years, and one of the rainiest. A young man who "went West" from Salem, N. J., has just walked back from Indianapolis, Ind., being two weeks on the journey. The Boston Globe says that at the trial of a case in the Superior Court at Plymouth, Mass., last week, a deed executed in 1651 was produced which had never been recorded. The German Bank of St. Louis has suspended, which makes the second financial institution in that city that has closed its doors within thirty days. The Grass crop in the vicinity of Boston this year, has been greater than for many years previous. Owing to the early spring rains, and the warm weather in May and the first part of June, the crop grew and matured very early. The New England Spiritualists are to have a camp-meeting at Lake Pleasant, Mass., next month. It is announced that among those who are to speak or sing on the occasion is Mrs. Thayer, the "Flower Medium." She seems to be of a new sect. William Lloyd Garrison's vigorous old age excites the envy of the Britishers. A writer in a Liverpool paper says: "No one would take him o be in his seventy-third year. He is one of the youngest septuagenarians I ever saw." The best scholar in the class which was recently graduated at the University of Vermont was a colored student, who was a slave twelve years ago, and the place of honor on the Commencement programme was given to a young lady. This is the third New England College where the girls and the colored lads have triumphed over the white youth this season. The one hundredth anniversary of the capture of Prescott, one of the most memorable and interesting events of the Revolutionary war, was celebrated at Newport Tuesday in a very appropriate and pleasant way. Professor Dinan, of Brown University, made an address. Speeches by several other gentlemen followed and there was an old fashioned Rhode Island clambake, which was not the least agreeable part of the programme. A peculiar industry of California is threatened with great loss, namely: the wholesale honey manufacturing business. In Southern California the fields are covered with a wild flowering plant upon which bees greedily feed, and fill their pouches to empty into the hive hoard. The residents of the region all have a large number of hives upon their farms, and many persons obtain their livelihood by taking care of the bees. The profits of the business were increased by the use of an instrument by which all the honey was removed from the comb and the wax cells were restored to the despoiled bees. Owing to a severe drouth this flowering plant has died in the fields.
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BOSTON, July 6.-The loss in the valuation of real estate and personal property in this city, compared with last year, will reach $60,000,000. NEW YORK, July -The Clinton Savings Bank has closed, owing to the stagnation in business and the shrinkage in values. There will be a probable loss of ten cents on the dollar. PATERSON, N. J., July 9.- The Merchauts' Loan and trust Co. suspended to-day. Depositors probably safe. The stockholders will lose heavily. Capital of the company, $200,000. Cause of suspension, business depression, injudicious purchases of paper and investments. Sr. LOUIS, 10.-The Board of Directors of the German Bank, of this city, adopted a resolution to-day that as the business of the bank has for some time past been insufficient to pay expenses, and as every days continuance of its business diminishes its assets, the safety of depositors and interests of stockholders demand that the business be discontinued and the assets of the bank be placed in the hands of an assignee, under the assignment laws of the State. Charles G. Stifel is named as assignee.
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n An original poem read by a school girl in Adrain, Miss., had 300 twelve-line verses. - Homoepaths and allopaths are struggling for supremacy in the medical department of the Iowa University. or The black ants in New Haven are killing the canker worms, and now all that is wanted is some kind of a bug to kill the black ants, and New Haven will be happy. 19 The German bank of St. Louis has suspended, which makes the second financial institution in that city that has closed its doors within thirty days. w It is not loud praying which counts with the Lord so much as giving four full quarts to the gallon." -{Rev. John Wise of Little Rock. We decline, with many thanks, the "nocturne" entitled "Mother's hand is on my forehead." We think it would be more lifelike and taking If the author would change the title to Mother touched me with a slipper."-[Burlington Hawkeye. w Louise Charles Moulton says that to be properly dressed in the streets of London a woman must wear a tiny bonnet, hanging upon a knot of hair, an immense crinoline, beelless boots, a black lace shawl, and her front hair pasted down over her cheeks like a horse's blinders. 17 Torpedo balloons are proposed by a correspondent of the Scientific American. The idea is to float the balloons over the enemy, and drop the torpedo by means of electricity sent over a wire. It is calculated that a city cou'd be totally destroyed in this way by dropping a sufficient quantity of nitro-glycerine. or Mr. Smalley tells of an Englishman who remarked of the Grant-Pierrepont reception that nearly all the ladies be had seen there were Americans. "How do you know?" "By their dress." "You mean be cause they are 80 well dressed?" "Because they are so much un-dressed," was his grim retort. But that was only an outbreak of national jealousy.
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FINANCIAL.-The First National Bank of Delhi, Indiana, has been closed by the Examiner, on account of a run upon it. The cause of the run was the failure of Dugah, Case & Shears, of Chicago, Dugan being President of the bank. It is said the bank's assets are $50,000 in excess of its liabilities. The Pike County Bank at Louisiana, Mo., is reported to have suspended Wed. nesday. It is said the depositors will be paid, but little will be left for the stockholders. J. Clarke Wilson, hardware commission merchant, of New York, has suspended. His liabilities ase $10,000. The failure of Buttle & Leeds, straw goods manufacturers, of New York, is also reported. Their liabilities are stated at upwards of $150,000. The Directors of the German Bank of St. Louis resolved on Tuesday to discontinue its business, and place its assets in the hands of an assignee. The business of the bank has been insufficient to pay expenses for some time past.
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ST. LOUIS BANKING DIFFICULTIES. CAUSE OF UNEASY FEELING IN MERCANTILE CIRCLES. A prominent citizen of St. Louis said to a TRIBUNE reporter yesterday. that the recent bank fallures in that city had caused a very uneasy feeling in mercantile circles, and there were fears that several firms, heretofore regarded as sound, would be forced into bankruptey. "The prime cause of the failures," said the informant, "Is the fear of the law enacted by the last Legislature, which not only makes Directors financially responsible in double the amount of the stock owned by them, but also makes it a felony for officers to receive deposits or premiamas when the banking institution or insurance company is in a failing condition. This act was passed to secure depositors from frauds, as well as to strengthen sound banks by uprooting wild-eats." "The failure of the Butchers' and Drovers' Bank," this gentleman said, "is attributable to unfortunate loans and wild speculations. When it was started, the members of the Whisky Ring, then in the height of power, were leading officers and directors, and they deposited large sums of money daily. Being opposite the Union Market, it was liberally patronized by heavy butchers and drovers, whose current deposits aggregated hundreds of thousands of dollars. The President, B. M. Chambers, is entirely too generous in his disposition to manage & bank, and made loans out of sympathy frequently, which a man of sound financial judgment would have refused. He advanced liberally to The St. Louis Times Company, taking lis bonds as collateral, and was recently compelled to buy in the conoern. in order to save the bank. The total liabilities amount to over a million dollars. and It is believed that the property owned by Mr. Chambers and by his mother and sisters. will be surreudered and prove simple to pay the depositora in full. if they will allow a reasonable time to make payments. If, however, they precipitate matters by resorting to the Courts, it is doubtful if they will realize thirty cents on the dollar. The stockholders will loose all they have invested among them are William H. Renton, William McKee of The Globe Democrat, Constantine Maguire, of winsky-ring notoriety, and others." This informant expresses the belief that several other smaller banks will be forced to yield before the week is over, as they cannot bear up under a heavy run. The Bank of Commerce, Third National, First National, Boat. mens' Savings, Tenth Ward Savings', Lacas and German Savings Banks he thinks can readily respond, and perhaps others, but some of the newer and smaller institutions in the north part of the city, he thinks, must fall. "The German Bank," he added," "did not fall, but merely withdrow from business. The stockholders and officers are all men of large means, who thought it imprudent to keep their money idle when they could make it more serviceable in their business. This has been one of the most prosperous banks in the city, and withdrew oniv because investments could not be made with profit." According to the theory advanced by this gentleman St. Louis has more banks than are necessary. and can spare many more without detriment to the business interests of the community.
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St. Louis is now engaged in running on her own account a first-class, lifesize financial panic, The failure of the National Bank of Missouri started a run upon all the banking institutions in the city, and no less than six have suspended within the past fortnight. These are the, German Bank, Butchers' and Drovers' Bank, Lucas Market Savings Bank, North St. Louis Savings Association, Bank of St. Louis and Bremen Bank. The excitement is subsiding and it is believed the actual losses will not be excessive, but no reliable estimate of the damage can be made until the smoke of the smash-up clears away.
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SUMMARY OF NEWS. Interesting Items from Home and Abroad. In India over .250 .000 persons are receiving from Troops famine Gen. Ord crossed th Rio Grande into Mexico in pursuit of band of horse thieves, with whom they had severe fight and defeated recovering the stolen horses. The event caused considerable excitement throughout the countrv. as the occupation of Mexican territory by American troops is supposed to be the result of the policy determined upon by the towards Mexican on the border The plague is raging in portion of Persia, and many persons There daily are will dying will be State election in Alabama and Kentucky, August California and Vermont Septe Maine. September 10 Colorado Iowa and Ohio, October 25 Louisiana, Massa chusetts, Minnesota Mississippi, Nevada New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin November Dr. W Gadding of Taunton Mass., has been appointed of Dr Nicholls intendent of the government hospital for the insane at Washington A tornado in Wisconsin destroyed the lumbering village of Pensaukee, killing eight persons and severely injuring about twelve others, All the buildings in the village -including hotel, schoolhouse and lumber mills swept away. The neighboring town of Coullardville was also severely damaged. The one hundredth anniversary of the capture of the British General Prescott at Ports mouth, R. was celebrated monument to P Bliss, the evangelist and writer of popular religious songs, who was killed at the Ashtabula railroad accident was dedicated at Rome. Pa Capt in brackett, the revenue officer who recently unearthed huge and systematic silk smuggling scheme in New been has York removed The German car Bank of St. Lonis has suspended A riage containing two ladies and two gentlemen was upset in the canal about six miles from Trenton, N and Dr. E. H Reed and one of the ladies were drowned The steamer Granger was destroyed by fire on the Mississippi, near Little Rock. Ark During desperate fight between about dozen men at Chester, Pa., two of them were badly, if not fatally stabbed The international cotton convention opened its in session Liverpool About forty men were overcome by coal gas from furnace used in coal mine near Wheatland, Pa., and seven were taken out dead The Iowa Greenback convention met at Des Moines, adopted a platform and nominated a State ticket The bank superintendent of the State of New York closed the Yorkville Savings bank, an examination having shown that there was deficiency of about $700 Mrs John Green, living near Roanoke, Mo. was shot by her husband and mortally wounded A few days after a party of fifty men took Green from the custody An of the sheriff and hung him to tree engine and caboose near Greenfield, Mass. ran into team contaning party returning from berrying and the whole party of five personsone man and four wome killed A gang of about twenty young men con gregated in front of the military barracks in Montreal and attem pted to force an entrance by wresting the rifle from the hands of the sentry and stoning him. The sentry fixed his bavonet and one of his assailants through the body. kill ing him, while the rest of the rioters were dispersed by the police Frank Wilson was hung Harrisburg, Pa. for the murder of John B. Rudy. one-armed man, last summer the ob John Mcject of the crime being robber Nulta, of Illinois, has been appointed minister Brazil Secretary Evarts and General Devens. among others of the cabinet wil soon visit the coal mines of Pennsylvania. General Grant arrived at Frankfort-on-the Maine, Germany where a banquet was given in his honor young man named Hackett belonging to the order of Orangemen, was sur rounded by crowd of men and boys in Montreal, and after desperate struggle was shot dead. This occurred on the twelfth of July the day which is observed by Orangement in commemoration of the battle of the Boyne This year great deal of troubl on that day was antici pated in Montreal and the police force and military made extent ations to quell any disturbance that might occur but as the Orange lodges resolved to have no parade at the last moment the day passed without the occurrence of the sanguinary riot which was expected, although the streets were filled with armed and excited crowds, and the shooting affair above noted took place The Indian war in the West has become so serious that the President may call out the Pacific coast militia The superintendent of insurance of New York reports deficiency in the Universal life insurance company of over 1,000,000, and the attorney -general has for the appointment of receiver Capt James Werner died in Warwick, R aged He Free ninety years. made -eight Mason in Providence in 1803. and is believed to have been the oldest Mason in the United States The subscription to the new four per cent loan amounts to over $25,000,000 and the bonds are at par in London The President has offered the mission to Bismarch Prince Russia to Bavard Taylor declares the mediation between Turkey and Indemnity Russia impossible at present for outrages upon American vessels is to be demanded from Spain by the President Several dealers in New York who used false weights and measures have been exposed, and charges have been made against an inspector. Poindexter Edmonson who was convicted of murder months ago and once respited at the last moment was hung at Bloomfield. Missourl for the murder of man named Shaw. Edmonson protested his to near the last train passenger Missour track the Murphysboro jumped and the whole train was thrown into creek. Every passenger was in jured more less severely Six striking sill weavers in Paterson, N J. were sent to jail to answer a suit for damages not finishing their warps David and Pierce according to contract George Stevens were hung in Charleston C. for the murder of young man named Edings last May, the purpose of their crime being robbery. A party of thirty-one Chinamen were sur prised by the Indians who revolted in Idaho and Oregon recently and all but one of the An Celestials were killed official spatch from General Howard by way of Portland Oregon, states that the Indians were routed after severe engagement near the mouth the Cottonwood. The savages were about 300 strong and they lost about thirteen killed and large number of wounded. while the loss of the ound troops was eleven killed and twenty-six two The ed. Butchers includ ng and Drovers' bank of Sf. Louis has A boiler exploded in mine nine from Macungie and three men were stantly killed and five fatally and three seri broker revolution has A onsly wounded Moore Beatty out in San Domingo wealthy builder of Philadelph went to the rescue of Mrs. Matilda Phillips of New York who was drowning in the surf at Atlantic City of N. taken water out were Both the conscious, and it was found impossible vive them A result of the bitter feeling engendered by the trouble of the twelfth July another desperate fight broke out days after between the Orangemen and Catho lies of Montreal, One man was fatally wound ed. and the city was for time under control of mob Daniel Mur phv and Michael Cahil quarreled after night of dissipation togethe in New York and Murphy hurled brick at Cahill knocking him down His head struck stone as he fell and he died of a fractured be will There skull genera an hour in election in France on the eleventh of Septem ber.
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SUMMARY OF NEWS. Interesting Items from Home and Abroad. William Legg, a prisoner in the jail at Kingston, N. Y., was fatally shot by the jailer, upon whom he had made an attack .... Gen. Grant left England for Belgium...... President Hayes and Secretary Evarts assert that there is no scheme on foot for the annexation of Mexico, as has been rumored...... Col. Wilkins was suspended from the collectorship of Baltimore and Mr. Thomas has been put in possession of the office...... The business portion of the village of Chester, N. Y., was almost totally destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of over $67,000. ...... The ocean steamships Elphinstone and Redewater collided in the St. Lawrence river and both were sunk; total losses, $175,000.... Daniel McQuay, of Williamsport, Ohio, got into a dispute with one of his harvest hands named Redcliffe, and knocked him down. Redcliffe drew a pocket knife and stabbed McQuay ten times, instantly killing him...... The four members of the Louisiana returning board—Wells, Anderson, Kenner and Casanave—were indicted in New Orleans, charged "with having on the fourth of December, 1876, falsely and feloniously uttered and published as true the altered, forged and counterfeited election returns for Presidential electors from the parish of Vernon at the election of November last by adding 158 votes to each of the Hayes electors and deducting 395 votes from each of the Tilden electors." Henry Blair, of Sullivan street, New York, fatally stabbed his wife during a dispute. Religious differences led to the act...... France has announced that her Exhibition will positively be opened next year, but this government will not appoint a commissioner until Congress meets...... John Gerhan, a night watchman in Hoboken, N. J., and his son of twelve were drowned while fishing in the Hackensack river. ...... Great swarms of red-legged locusts have made their appearance in Michigan and are devastating the growing grain...... A recent hailstorm in and about Watertown did damage in the town alone to the amount of $20,000.... William M. Tweed has written a letter in answer to the charge of the attorney-general of New York that he (Tweed) was acting in bad faith. Tweed offers to refer the question whether or not he intends to keep faith to Charles O'Conor. ...... The two-year-old daughter of Henry Bruns, of New York, died four weeks after having been bitten by a dog.... At La Grange, Ga., Jack Thomassen, a colored boy of fifteen, was hung for the murder of the two children of Charles Miller, also colored. The murdered children were aged eight and two years, and the crime was one of unparalleled atrocity, young Thomassen being instigated to it out of motives of revenge against Miller and his wife, who had forbidden him to come to their house O'Leary, the pedestrian, who undertook to walk 520 miles in six days, failed in his attempt, having accomplished 471 miles at the end of the sixth day..... The Keeseville (N. Y.) National bank was robbed of about $75,000 by seven or eight masked burglars, who bound and gagged the watchman, blew open the safe and abstracted the contents...... John Oldroyd, an English carpet manufacturer, has failed with liabilities reported at $1,350,000.... Three boys, all under twelve years, were drowned while bathing in Niagara river...... Recent dispatches from Cuba report that over 180 insurgent prisoners, who were captured in various actions of late, have been shot...... The steamship Wisconsin, from Liverpool, arrived in New York, having on board 750 converts to Mormonism on their way to Utah..... A lieutenant, ten soldiers and two citizens were killed by the Indians who revolted recently in Idaho and Oregon..... The boiler of a steam thrasher near Nashville, Illinois, exploded, killing N. W. Moore and Harvey Lee, and injuring three others...... W. H. H. McAllister, deputy collector of the St. Albans (Vt.) custom house, has become a defaulter to the amount of nearly $1,700...... The Planter's House of Carbondale, Ill., was destroyed by fire. Loss, $9,500. ...... Elijah Killam, a farmer of Wayne county, Pa., was struck by lightning and killed. Troops under command of Gen. Ord crossed the Rio Grande into Mexico in pursuit of a band of horse thieves, with whom they had a severe fight and defeated, recovering the stolen horses. The event caused considerable excitement throughout the country, as the occupation of Mexican territory by American troops is supposed to be the result of the policy determined upon by the government towards Mexican marauders on the border...... In India over 1,250,000 persons are receiving relief from famine ...... The plague is raging in a portion of Persia, and many persons are dying daily. ...... There will be a State election in Alabama and Kentucky, August 6; California and Vermont, September 5; Maine, September 10; Colorado, Iowa and Ohio, October 2; Louisiana Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin November 6...... Dr. W. Gadding, of Taunton, Mass., has been appointed successor of Dr. Nicholls as superintendent of the government hospital for the insane at Washington. ...... A tornado in Wisconsin destroyed the lumbering village of Pensaukee, killing eight persons and severely injuring about twelve others. All the buildings in the village—including a hotel, schoolhouse and lumber mills—were swept away. The neighboring town of Coullardville was also severely damaged. A fight took place at Chester, Pa., between about a dozen men, and two of them were badly cut, probably fatally...... The German Bank, of St. Louis, has suspended on account of an insufficiency of business...... Messrs. Moody and Sankey were present at Rome, Pa., at the dedication of the monument to the church-song writer, P. P. Bliss—one of the victims of the Ashtabula railroad disaster. The monument is partially the result of contributions of three thousand Sunday schools, representing over 500,000 scholars in this country, Canada and Great Britain...... At Portsmouth, R. I., the centennial of the capture of the British General Prescott was celebrated...... The removal is announced of Captain Brackett, the revenue officer who recently brought to light the heavy operations of a gang of silk smugglers in New York ...... Dr. E. H. Reed and a lady were drowned by the upsetting of a carriage in the canal near Trenton, N. J. A number of men at work in a coal mine near Wheatland, Pa., succumbed to the deadly fumes of gas generated by a furnace, and of the thirty odd miners who were taken out unconscious seven died, while several were seriously injured ..... As a team containing Ira Davis. Mrs. Jonah Davis, Mrs. Ira Wakefield, Mrs. Eugene Brown and Miss Lacey was crossing the railroad track near Greenfield, Mass., a locomotive ran into it, killing the whole party. They were returning from a berrying expedition...... The sentry on guard at the military barracks in Montreal bayoneted a young man named McKeown, who was one of the party of young men that had attacked the sentry in an endeavor to force an entrance into the barracks. A large crowd gathered and attacked the guard with stones, but was dispersed by a few shots from the soldiers...... A man named Green fatally shot his wife at Roanoke, Mo., and a few days after his arrest he was forcibly taken from the sheriff's hands and hung to a tree by a party of fifty men...... The Yorkville Savings bank of New York was closed by the State bank superintendent, investigation having disclosed a deficit of about $700...... The session of the international cotton convention opened in Liverpool..... Several members of the cabinet—among them Secretary Evarts and Attorney-General Devens—will visit the coal mines of Pennsylvania soon .... The Greenback party of Iowa met in convention at Des Moines, adopted a platform, and nominated a State ticket headed by Daniel H. Stubbs for governor. ...... The Brazilian mission has been given to John McNulta, of Illinois.