Show TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES Matilda Thiliadean has been appointed postmaster at Clarks Ford Idaho vice Venton resigned The Barber Asphalt company at Buffalo Buffa-lo N Y have discharged 1000 men because be-cause of dull times At Kankakee ills the First National bank failed yesterday morning The assets as-sets are sufficient to pay the depositors in full 1 Comptroller Eckles has appointed Louis G Philips receiver of the Merchants Mer-chants National bank of Great Falls Mont At Norfolk Va yesterday Rear Admiral Ad-miral George Brown took command of the Norfolk Potter navy yard relieving Captain I Army officers are abcnfc to test at the i Frankfort arsenal samples of smokeless powder made by a California powder company The Citizens and Loan association of Akron 0 has failed It will pay in full The capital is flOOCOO and the surplus sur-plus 580COO The private bank of C M and Thomas Kees at Forest Grove Or closed its doors this morning The institution is believed to be solvent The First National bank of Kankakee Ill have closed owing to financial stringency strin-gency Liabilities 147000 assets 221000 It is thought depositors wi lose nothing President Enoch Bryant of Vincennes Indiana university has been elected president of the state agricultural college col-lege and school of science at Pullman Washington Robert H Barclay chief clerk of the railway mail service at Helena Montana has been promoted to be Superintendent of the tenth division R M S with headquarters at St Paul The McNeal Urban Safe and Lock company of Hamilton Ohio one of the oldest safe firms in the country has assigned as-signed The assets are 150000 liabilities liabili-ties are unknown The firm claims to be solvent Commercial bank of Ean Claire Wisconsin I Wis-consin capital 500000 was placed in the hands of a receiver today President Allen said we calculate depositors will I not lose a dollor There were light I runs on other banks |