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Show J FAILED AND THEM SUICIDED. The Crash Was Directly Dm loth Fallars ol Hi Deris ahoi I uiupeey, Memphis. Tenn., May 22. The Hill shoe company failed yesterday and William Vilas Hill, president of the company, immediately committed en eide. lie was IIJ years of age and a nepnew of ex Postmaster-General Vilas. Vi-las. The failure of the lirm is directly i due to the failure at Lynn of the Davis ! slioo company, which owed the Hill shoe company between three and four hundred thousand dollars. The liabilities liabil-ities of the company are about $100,000 and vitts $2i)ii,00o. Tho creditors are principally eastern parties. fii rr i knts ox the dollar. Boston', May 22. A News bureau says: From good sources it is heard thut the liabilities involved in the assignment as-signment of Joseph Davis will amount to liil.OOO.OUO auil that .V) cents on tho dollar may be realized bv the creditors. Boston. May 22. 'J lie announce, ment of the assignment of the Hill Shoe company of .Memphis and the suicide sui-cide of its president consequent upon the suspension of the Davis Shoe company com-pany created quite a stir in this city, it is stated several shoe and leather concerns con-cerns of Boston held the Hill Shoe company's com-pany's paper indorsed by Mr. Davis. A FINANCIAL SENSATION. Itcilgaatioti of a Citr Treasurer eael tha Flight i( a llaak Officer. Piiii.adii.i'iiia, May 23. The public interest in the c cnsational developments develop-ments in the affairs of the Spring Garden Gar-den bank and the Keystone bank, and the night of the indicted president of the latter institution, and the resignation resigna-tion from office of City Taeasurer Bardsley, continues unabated today. Wm. H. Vtuiamaker, one of Marsh's bondsmen, today ottered a reward of tiiWU for the arrest of the fugitive, and has employed detectives to run hiiu down. Attachments were taken out this morning against the Bradford mills, of which ( ity Treasurer llarda-ley llarda-ley was owner, by two of his sureties bond. This morning llardsley made au assignment of all his property for the heuelil of tho city. |