Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1887 — WEEKLY BUDGET. [ARTICLE]

WEEKLY BUDGET.

TEE EASTERN STATES. Attorney General Garland submitted to the Supreme Court on Monday a motion to have adrauced for early hearing the case of the receiver of the First National Bank of Buffalo, N. Y., against Elbridge Spaulding and others, which involves the question of the responsibility of the directors of the national banks for negligence in the performance of their duties. The motion to advance is made at the request of the Comptroller of the Currency. Henby Mabtin Jackson, cashier of the Sub-Treasurer at New York, is a defaulter and has fled to Canada. The discrepancy in his accounts, says a New York telegram, was first discovered on Saturday last, when he failed to appear at his desk. A hasty examination by Treasurer Canda showed a defalcation of at least SIO,OOO. Jackson is the son of the aged Secretary of the New York Tract Society, and is 36 years old. He has been married twice, but has had some trouble with his wife. He has been employed in the SubTreasury for years. A new pulp and paper mill at Corinth, New York, belonging to Senator Miller, was blown down. One man was instantly killed and three others were buried in the ruins. Perkins, Dupee <fc Co., Boston bankers, failed; liabilities. $40,000, assets; $20,000. W. J. &J. W. Frye, wholesale grocers, of Cincinnati, have made an assignment Their liabilities are reported at $21,000; assets, $25,000. O. B. Allen & Co., crockery-dealers, have assigned to Samuel B. Chasa Forty-nine head of catt’.e afflicted with pleuro-pneumonia were killed on a farm near New Brunswick, N. J. Charles G. Feancklyn, who was arrested in New York upon the institution of a suit against him for $3,000,000 by Sir Bacho Cunard, has been released on bail, the bond amounting to $250,000 A New York paper prints a sensational story to the effect that Jay Gould was solicited to use his influence in behalf of the Chicago anarchists, and that, in consequence of his refusal so to do, he has received threatening letters for some time past that so terrified him that he determined upon his European trip in order to be out of this country upon the day set for the execution of the condemned men.