11141. First National Bank (Pembina, ND)

Bank Information

Episode Type
Suspension โ†’ Closure
Bank Type
national
Bank ID
3438
Charter Number
3438
Start Date
December 23, 1897
Location
Pembina, North Dakota (48.966, -97.244)

Metadata

Model
gpt-5-mini
Short Digest
9ba91f0fae7ea682

Response Measures

None

Receivership Details

Depositor recovery rate
82.0%
Date receivership started
1898-01-19
Date receivership terminated
1907-09-18
OCC cause of failure
Losses
Share of assets assessed as good
54.7%
Share of assets assessed as doubtful
32.3%
Share of assets assessed as worthless
13.0%

Description

Contemporary newspaper items (Dec 1897) report the doors of the First National Bank of Pembina were closed with liabilities (~$95,000) and the bank was placed under a U.S. bank examiner; later (Jan 19โ€“20, 1898) the Comptroller appointed a receiver. No explicit run (mass withdrawals) is described; cause appears to be bank-specific adverse information (valueless securities, alleged fraud by the former president).

Events (5)

1. January 20, 1886 Chartered
Source
historical_nic
2. December 23, 1897 Other
Newspaper Excerpt
The First National Bank is in the hands of a United States bank examiner. The bank had accumulated $20,000 in valueless securities during the presidency of L. Booker, who is now a fugitive from justice, having defaulted his bond for other banking frauds. Stockholders hope to make up the deficiency and open the bank.
Source
newspapers
3. December 25, 1897 Suspension
Cause
Bank Specific Adverse Info
Cause Details
Bank had accumulated $20,000 in valueless securities during presidency of L. Booker, who allegedly defaulted his bond and fled; bank closed with liabilities ~$95,000.
Newspaper Excerpt
The doors of the First national bank of Pembina, N. D., were closed, with liabilities of $95,000.
Source
newspapers
4. January 19, 1898 Receivership
Source
historical_nic
5. January 20, 1898 Receivership
Newspaper Excerpt
The comptroller of the currency has appointed William J. Kennesaw (W. J. Kneeshaw / J. W. Keenosawa variants in OCR) receiver of the First National Bank of Pembina, N. D.
Source
newspapers

Newspaper Articles (21)

Article from Daily Kennebec Journal, December 23, 1897

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by a troney car at Newark. N. J., Wednesday. The police think it was a case of foul play. as loud voices and a scuffle were heard in the neighborhood. and from the appearance of the body. the county physician thought the man was dead before he was struck by the car. The steam saw mill and factory of the Townsend Furniture Co. at Townsend. Mass., was totally destroyed by fire, Wednesday morning. with a loss of $15.000. The property was not insured. The factory furnished employment for about 25 hands. who are not only thrown out of employment but who also lost all their tools in the fire. A special from Pembina, N. D., says: The First National Bank is in the hands of a United States bank examiner. The bany had accumulated $20,000 in valueless securities during the presidency of L. Booker. who is now a fugitive from justice. having defaulted his bond for other banking frauds. Stockholders hope to make up the deficiency and open the bank. Richard Arthur Price, who assassinated Wm. Terriss, the actor. outside of the Adelphia theatre at London, on Thursday, last, was brought up on remand at the Bow Street police court. Wednesday. charged with the crime, and was again remanded. The court was crowded with theatrical people. Emperor William, while visiting Grandenz, Tuesday, said to the burgomoister: "My solicitude for your town aims at seeing it more fully equipped as a fortress, in order it may be able to withstand any pressure in the future. I hope, however. that it may never happen, for our Eastern neighbor is a dear. loyal friend of mine, and has the same political views as myself." The steamer Kaiser Wilhem Der Grosse arrived at quarantine, New York, at 12.40 P. M., Wednesday. from Bremen, Southampton and Cherbourg after a very stormy passage. She left Cherbourg. last Wednesday. at 7.50 P. M., and reached Sandy Hook lightship at 11.20 this morning, her time being 164 hours and 20 minutes. She covered a total distance of 3050 knots at an average speed of 18.56 knots per hour. The day's runs were 338, 440, 342, 400, 401, 394 and 528 to Sandy Hook.


Article from The Diamond Drill, December 25, 1897

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35,565,000 bushels; corn, 38,539,000 bushels; oats, 14,282,000 bushels; rye, 3,645,000 bushels; barley, 4,605,000 bushels. The internal revenue receipts for November amounted to $13,959,296, an increase as compared with November last year of $1,257,927. The makers of book paper in Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana and Ohio have formed an association to stop the cutting of prices. No appointments will be made by the president during the holiday recess of congress except in case of emergency. The United States supreme court has djourned to the 3d of January. The consolidation of the three great cracker companies of the United States is now an assured fact, its capitalization being $55,000,000. John Osborne, 12 years ola, and Erwin Warren Oelm, 16 years of age, were drowned while skating on thin ice at Buffalo, N. Y. The Christmas money order business of the New York post office this year greatly exceeds that of any previous year. Leading cotton planters met in Memphis and formed an association to mainrain prices. J. A. Hanway, receiver for the defunct National bank of North Dakota. was arrested in Fargo on a charge of being short $10,000 in his accounts. The Golden Rule dry goods store was burned at Danville, III., the loss being $100,000, and Miss Mary Reed, a clerk, perished in the flames. Three schooners of the Gloucester (Mass.) fishing fleet with 49 men were given up as lost. Mrs. August Radke, of Oshkosh, Wis., gave birth to a 19 pound baby, breaking the record for weight in this country. The exportation of raw cotton from the southern states to Japan is practically double what it was last season. Freezing weather has greatly damaged the orange crop in California. The Southern Express company's office at Columbia, S. C., was robbed of $10,000. Fire destroyed the business portion of Doniphan, Mo. A report as to the penitentiary scandal in Nebraska discloses irregularities aggregating $537,871.87. The Auditorium theater and the Auditorium hotel in Kansas City, Mo., owned by Alexander Fraser, were burned, the loss being $300,000. The Hide and Leather bank in Chicago went into voluntary liquidation and the assets were transferred to the Union national bank. The doors of the First national bank of Pembina, N. D., were closed, with liabilities of $95,000. Leda Charland. 13 years old, George Morin. aged 15, and Frank Waterman, aged 18, were drowned at Gardner, Mars., while skating on thin ice. Three young persons were drowned while skating on a creek at Tonawanda, N.Y. Mrs. Ann Kelly. aged 65 years, and Miss Mary Baird, aged 80 years, died in Plainfield, N. J., from drinking wood alcohol. Engineers J. S. Hodson and L. B. Horton were killed in a railway wreck at Cayuga. Ind. Miss Leila Herbert, aged 30, daughter of ex-Secretary of the Navy Herbert, killed herself while despondent over ill health by jumping from a high window in Washington. Twenty-year-old Peter S. McMahon, crazed by cigarettes, shot and killed himself at Syracuse, N.Y.


Article from The Ely Miner, December 29, 1897

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THE WEEK'S NEWS Happenings of the Past Seven Days in Brief. ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD Casualties and Fires, Personal and Political Notes, Business Failures and Resumptions, Weather Record. INTELLIGENCE FROM ALL PARTS DOMESTIC. The consolidation of the three great cracker companies of the United States is now an assured fact, its capitalization being $55,000,000. John Osborne, 12 years old, and Erwin Warren Oelm, 16 years of age, were drowned while skating on thin ice at Buffalo, N. Y. The Christmas money order business of the New York post office this year greatly exceeds that of any previous year. J. A. Hanway, receiver for the defunct National bank of North Dakota, was arrested in Fargo on a charge of being short $10,000 in his accounts. The Golden Rule dry goods store was burned at Danville, III., the loss being $100,000, and Miss Mary Reed, a clerk, perished in the flames. Three schooners of the Gloucester (Mass.) fishing fleet with 49 men were given up as lost. Mrs. August Radke, of Oshkosh, Wis., gave birth to a 19 pound baby, breaking the record for weight in this country. The exportation of raw cotton from the southern states to Japan is practically double what it was last season. Freezing weather has greatly damaged the orange crop in California. The Southern Express company's office at Columbia, S. C., was robbed of $10,000. Fire destroyed the business portion of Doniphan, Mo. A report as to the penitentiary scandal in Nebraska discloses irregularities aggregating $537,871.87. The Auditorium theater and the Auditorium hotel in Kansas City, Mo., owned by Alexander Fraser, were burned, the loss being $300,000. The Hide and Leather bank in Chicago went into voluntary liquidation and the assets were transferred to the Union national bank. The doors of the First national bank of Pembina, N. D., were closed, with liabilities of $95,000. Leda Charland. 13 years old, George Morin, aged 15, and Frank Waterman, aged 18, were drowned at Gardner, Mars., while skating on thin ice. Three young persons were drowned while skating on a creek at Tonawanda, N.Y. Mrs. Ann Kelly, aged 65 years, and Miss Mary Baird, aged 80 years, died in Plainfield, N. J., from drinking wood alcohol. Engineers J. S. Hodson and L. B. Horton were killed in a railway wreck at Cayuga, Ind. Miss Leila Herbert, aged 30, daughter of ex-Secretary of the Navy Herbert, killed herself while despondent over ill health by jumping from a high window in Washington. Twenty-year-old Peter S. McMahon, crazed by cigarettes, shot and killed himself at Syracuse, N. Y. Burts Scrafford and Charlie Clifford were blow to pieces by an explosion of dynamite at Clearwater. N. Y. The United States training ship Alliance has arrived in New York after an extended cruise. Mrs. Barney Picker, aged widow, died in want at Lima, O., and the administrator found over $10,000 in cash and $6,000 in notes secreted in an old bonnet. In Milwaukee Walter C. Sanger broke his own world's indoor bicycle record for half a mile, unpaced, riding the distance in one minute flat. A loss of $150,000 was sustained by a fire which consumed the A. H. Andrews corapany's furniture factory in Chicago. Postmaster-General Gary has decided to order a special issue of stamps commemorative of the holding of the transMississippi exposition at Omaha the coming year. The school board of Iron Mountain, Mich., has forbidden its teachers to attend dances or parties on evenings preceding school days. The reciprocity negotiations between the United States and Germany are practically suspended. A train struck a stage coach at a crossing near Passaic, N. J., and 20 persons were injured. three fatally. Charles E. Stubbs has been sent to this to encour-


Article from Audubon Republican, December 30, 1897

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A WEEK'S RECORD All the News of the Past Seven Days Condensed. HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS News of the Industrial Field, Personal and Political Items, Happenings at Home and Abroad. THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD DOMESTIC. A wreck caused by a runaway freight train at Altoona, Pa., resulted in several men being badly injured and 50 cars demolished. Jack McCune, a gambler, who killed William A. Albin August 6, committed suicide in the jail at St. Joseph, Mo. The Travelers' Insurance company has withdrawn all its business from Kansas. The visible supply of grain in the United States on the 20th was: Wheat, 35,565,000 bushels; corn, 38,539,000 bushels; oats, 14,282,000 bushels; rye, 3,645,000 bushels; barley, 4,605,000 bushels. The internal revenue receipts for November amounted to $13,959,296, an increase as compared with November last year of $1,257,927. The makers of book paper in Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana and Ohio have formed an association to stop the cutting of prices. No appointments will be made by the president during the holiday recess of congress except in case of emergency. The United States supreme court has adjourned to the 3d of January. The consolidation of the three great cracker companies of the United States isnow an assured fact, its capitalization being $55,000,000. John Osborne, 12 years old, and Erwin Warren Oelm, 16 years of age, were drowned while skating on thin ice at Buffalo. N. Y. The Christmas money order business of the New York post office this year greatly exceeds that of any previous year. Leading cotton planters met in Memphis and formed an association to maintain prices. J. A. Hanway, receiver for the defunct National bank of North Dakota. wasarrested in Fargo on a charge of being short $10,000 in his accounts. The Golden Rule dry goods store was burned at Danville, III., the loss being $100,000, and Miss Mary Reed, a clerk, perished in the flames. Three schooners of the Gloucester (Mass.) fishing fleet with 49 men were given up as lost. Mrs. August Radke, of Oshkosh, Wis., gave birth to a 19 pound baby, breaking the record for weight in this country. The exportation of raw cotton from the southern states to Japan is practically double what it was last season. Freezing weather has greatly damaged the orange erop in California. The Southern Express company's office at Columbia, S. C., was robbed of $10,000. Fire destroyed the business portion of Doniphan, Mo. A report as to the penitentiary scandal in Nebraska discloses irregularities aggregating $537,871.87. The Auditorium theater and the Auditorium hotel in Kansas City, Mo., owned by Alexander Fraser, were burned, the loss being $300,000. The Hide and Leather bank in Chicago went into voluntary liquidation and the assets were transferred to the Union national bank. The doors of the First national bank of Pembina, N. D., were closed, with liabilities of $95,000. Leda Charland, 13 years old, George Morin, aged 15, and Frank Waterman, aged 18, were drowned at Gardner, Mars., while skating on thin ice. Three young persons were drowned while skating on a creek at Tonawanda, N. Y. Mrs. Ann Kelly, aged 65 years, and Miss Mary Baird, aged 80 years, died in Plainfield, N. J., from drinking wood alcohol. Engineers J. S. Hodson and L. B. Horton were killed in a railway wreck at Cayuga, Ind. Miss Leila Herbert, aged 30, daughter of ex-Secretary of the Navy Herbert, killed herself while despondent over ill health by jumping from a high window in Washington. Twenty-year-old Peter S. McMahon, crazed by cigarettes, shot and killed himself at Syracuse, N.Y. Burts Scrafford and Charlie Clifford were blow to pieces by an explosion of dynamite at Clearwater. N. Y. The United States training ship Alliance has arrived in New York after an extended cruise. Mrs. Barney Picker, aged widow, died in want at Lima, O., and the administrator found over $10,000 in cash and $6,000 in notes secreted in an old bonnet. In Milwaukee Walter C. Sanger broke his own world's indoor bicycle record for half a mile, unpaced, riding the dis-


Article from The Saint Paul Globe, December 30, 1897

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TINWARE. The Horne & Danz Co., Manufacturers of Tinware, Lard Pails, Cans, Etc. SAINT PAUL. J. A. Wheelock, Pres. Jacob Danz 2d, V. Pres. Wm. R. Dorr, sec. and Treas. STOMACH BITTERS. SIMON'S AROMATIC STOMACH BITTERS A family medicine for Dyspepsia and Indigestion. An excellent Blood Purifier. For sale by druggists and dealers. B. SIMON, Proprietor entered into a contract of sale with them to dispose of the tracts. It is said that investigations in the land office have shown that upon the whole tract claimed by Ireland there are not any bona fide settlers located. But there are several who are occupying the land, and the only title they have is the contract or agreement with the archbishop. This put a new light on the issues involved, and really proves that Ireland's interest and those of the settlers who are acting in good falth are in the same direction. This being the condition of affairs, and it being clearly proved at the hearings that Ireland's intentions in case his application to entry is sustained, are to fulfill every agreement with the settlers with whom he made contract some years ago, it is hinted pretty strongly today that Commissioner Hermann will so find in all instances where it is shown that the lands in question have been occupied in good faith, under the Ireland agreements. The real opposition to Ireland's claims, it has developed, comes from parties who hope to make a big thing by having the opinion of the Marshall land office sustained SO that thousands of acres of valuable land will be open to original entry, after many improvements have been made. Minnesota's two senators called together at the White house again today and although their audience with the president was brief, it was evidently very satisfactory, judging from the amicable expression of their faces when they came out. Neither would state the object of the visit. As the result of a conference between Comptroller Eckels and Receiver Anheira, in charge of the First National Bank of Pembipa. N. D., the comptroller will be notified within three days whether the stockholders decide to go into voluntary liquidation or resume. The president of the bank has gone to St. Paul to endeavor to raise funds to resume. Comptroller Eckels today gave out an abstract of the reports of the condition, Dec. 15. of the six national banks in Minneapolis, It shows total resources of $20,406,337. loans and discounts being $12,348,300, and reserve $4,262,976, of which $811.687 was gold. The deposits aggregated $8,381,133, and the average reserve held was 35.15 per cent.


Article from Perrysburg Journal, January 1, 1898

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A WEEK'S RECORD All the News of the Past Seven Days Condensed. HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS News of the Industrial Field, Personal and Political Items, Happenings at Home and Abroad. THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD DOMESTIC. Burts Scrafford and Charlie Clifford were blow to pieces by an explosion of dynamite at Clearwater. N. Y. The United States training ship Alliance has arrived in New York after an extended cruise. Mrs. Barney Picker, aged widow, died in want at Lima, O., and the administrator found over $10,000 in cash and $6,000 in notes secreted in an old bonnet. In Milwaukee Walter C. Sanger broke his own world's indoor bicycle record disfor half mile, unpaced, riding the tance in one minute flat. A loss of $150,000 was sustained by a fire which consumed the A. H. Andrews company's furniture factory in Chicago. Postmaster-General Gary has decided order a special issue of stamps commemorative to of the holding of the trans- the Mississippi exposition at Omaha coming year. The school board of Iron Mountain, Mich., has forbidden its teachers to attend dances or parties on evenings preceding school days. The reciprocity negotiations between the United States and Germany are practically suspended. A train struck a stage coach at a crossing near Passaic, N.J. and 20 persons were injured, three fatally. Charles E. Stubbs has been sent to Europe by this government to encour- in age the use of the American horse the cavalries of Europe. The constitutionality of the civil service law was upheld by the Illinois supreme court. In an open_letter to the Federation of Labor Secretary of the Treasury Gage defends the gold standard. It is announced that President McKinley will send a message to congress a recommending the, establishment of department of commerce and industry. Chadwick Marshall and John McDonald, the alleged murderers of Orville Hayden at Farmington. Wash., were taken from jail by a mob and hanged. W.H. Hughes, A. H. Dolphin, John Bright and Samuel Sevier, hunters from Chicago, were frozen to death near Dawes creek, in Newton county, Ky. In a riot during a trial in the courthouse at McArthur. O., Elijah Brown and Plyly Teeters were fatally injured. At the commencement of 1898 the United States will have 184,464 miles of completed railway. A buggy containing William Pearcy and Miss Brooks, of Farmington, Ind., was struck by a train and the latter was killed and the former fatally hurt. Freight traffic through the United States and Canadian Sault canals for the year 1897 exceeds all previous years by nearly 2,000,000 tons. The visible supply of grain in the United States on the 20th was: Wheat, 35,565,000 bushels; corn, 38,539,000 bushels; oats, 14,282,000 bushels; rye,3,645, 000 bushels; barley, 4,605,000 bushels. The consolidation of the three great cracker companies of the United States is now an assured fact, its capitalization being $55,000,000. Leading cotton planters met in Memphis and formed an association to maintain prices. A report as to the penitentiary scandal in Nebraska discloses irregularities aggregating $537,871.87. The doors of the First national bank of Pembina, N. D., were closed, with liabilities of $95,000. William Gordon Prince, who was the oldest living graduate of Harvard col- 94 lege, died in Dedham, Mass., aged years. Twenty-year-old Peter S. McMahon, killed crazed by cigarettes, shot and himself at Syracuse, N.Y. Three schooners of the Gloucester (Mass.) fishing fleet with 49 men were given up as lost. Mrs. August Radke, of Oshkosh, Wis., birth to a 19 pound baby, breaking gave the record for weight in country. The exportation of raw cotton from the southern states to Japan is practically double what it wnslast season. damFreezing weather has greatly aged the orange crop in California. The Southern Express company's of- of fice at Columbia, S. C., was robbed $10,000. Fire destroyed the business portion of Doniphan, Mo. The Auditorium theater and the Auditorium hotel in Kansas City, were Mo., owned by Alexander Fraser, i burned, the loss being $300,000. The Hide and Leather bank in Chiwent into voluntary liquidation the and cago the assets were transferred to Union national bank. y Leda Charland. 13 years old, George Morin, aged 15, and Frank Waterman, Gardner, aged 18, were drowned at Mars., while skating ou thin ice. Mrs. Ann Kelly. aged 65 years, died and Miss Mary Baird, aged 80 years. in Plainfield, N.J., from drinking wood t alcohol. Samuel Sloan, president of the Delaf Lackawanna & Western railroad, $16,t ware. was presented in New York with a is e 000 Engineers golden service. J. S. Hodson and L.B. Hor- at ton were killed in a railway wreck h Cayuga. Ind. 1, Miss Leila Herbert, aged 30, daughter is of ex-Secretary of the Navy Herbert, ill r killed herself while despondent over


Article from The L'anse Sentinel, January 1, 1898

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A WEEK'S RECORD All the News of the Past Seven Days Condensed. HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS News of the Industrial Field, Personal and Political Items, Happening's at Home and Abroad. THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD DOMESTIC Burts Serafford and Charlie Clifford of were blow to pieces by an explosion dynamite at Clearwater. N. Y. The United States training ship Alliance has arrived in New York after an extended cruise. Mrs. Barney Picker, aged widow, died in want at Lima, O., and the administrator found over $10,000 in cash and $6,000 in notes secreted in an old bonnet. In Milwaukee Walter C. Sanger broke his own world's indoor bicycle record for half a mile, unpaced, riding the distance in one minute flat. A loss of $150,000 was sustained by a fire which consumed the A. H. Andrews company's furniture factory in Chicago. Postmaster-General Gary has decided to order a special issue of stamps.com memorative of the holding of thetransMississippi exposition at Omaha the coming year. The school board of Iron Mountain. Mich., has forbidden its teachers to at tend dances or parties on evenings preceding school days. The reciprocity negotiations between the United States and Germany are practically suspended. A train struck a stage coach at a crossing near Passaic, N.J., and 20 persons were injured, three fatally Charles E. Stubbs has been sent to Europe by this government to encourage the use of heAmerican horse in the cavalries of Europe. The constitutionality of the civil service law was upheld by the Illinois supreme court. In an open letter to the Federation of Labor Secretary of the Treasury Gage defends the gold standard. It is announced that President MeKinley will send a message to congress a recommending the establishment of department of commerce and industry. Chadwick Marshall and John McDonndd, the alleged murderers of Orville Hayden at Farmington. Wash.. were taken from jail a mob and hanged. W.II. Hughes. A.II. Dolphin, John W. Bright and Samuel Sevier, hunters from Chicago, were frozen to death near Dawes creek, in Newton county, Ky. In riot during a trial in the courthouse at McArthur. O., Elijah Brown and Plyly Teeters were fatally injured. At the commencement of 1898 the United States will have 184,461 miles of completed railway. A buggy containing William Pearey and Miss Brooks, of Farmington, Ind., was struck by a train and the latter was killed and the former fatally hurt. Freight traffic through the United States and Canadian Sault canals for the year 1897 exceeds all previous years by nearly 2,000,000 tons. The visible supply of grain in the United States on the 20th was: Wheat, 35,565,000 bushels: corn, 38,539,000 bushels: oats, 14,282,000 bushels: rye,3,645, 000 bushels; barley, 4,605,000 bushels. The consolidation of the three great cracker companies of the United States is now an assured fact. its capitalization being $55,000,000. Leading cotton planters met in Memphis and formed an association to maintain prices. A report as to the penitentiary seandal in Nebraska disclose irregularities aggregating $537,871.87. The doors of the First national bank of Pembina, N. D., were closed, with liabilities of $95,000. William Gordon Prince, who was the oldest living graduate of Harvard college, died in Dedham, Mass., aged 94 years. Twenty-year-old Peter S. McMahon. crazed by cigarettes, shot and killed himself at Syracuse, N.Y. Three schooners of the Gloucester (Mass.) fishing fleet with 49 men were given up as lost. Mrs. August Radke, of Oshkosh, Wis.. gave birth to a 19 pound baby, breaking the record for weight in this country. The exportation of raw cotton from the southern states to Japan is practically double what it was last season. Freezing weather has greatly damaged the orange crop in California. The Southern Express company's office at Columbia, S. C., was robbed of $10,000. Fire destroyed the business portion of Doniphan, Mo. The Auditorium theater and the Auditorium hotel ,in Kansas City, Mo., c owned by Alexander Fraser, were burned, the loss being $300,000. r The Hide and Leather bank in Chicago went into voluntary liquidation and the assets were transferred to the e Union national bank. P Leda Charland, 13 years old, George Morin, aged 15, and Frank Waterman, I aged 18, were drowned at Gardner, a Mags., while skating on thin ice. Mrs. Ann Kelly, aged 65 years, and t Miss Mary Baird, aged 80 years, died I in Plainfield, N.J., from drinking wood alcohol. b Samuel Sloan, president of the Delat ware. Lackawanna & Western railroad, f was presented in New York with a $16,n 000 golden service.


Article from The Indianapolis Journal, January 20, 1898

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General Notes. WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.-The controller of the currency has appointed Wm. J. Keneesaw receiver of the First National Bank of Pembina, N. D. To-day's statement of the condition of the treasury shows: Available cash balance, $249,151,695; gold reserve, $162,909,102.


Article from The Sauk Centre Herald, January 20, 1898

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Receiver For a Pembina Bank. WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.-The comptroller of the currency has appointed Mr. William J. Kennesaw receiver for the First National bank of Pembina, N. D.


Article from The Madison Daily Leader, January 20, 1898

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Receiver For a l'embina Bank, WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.-The comptroller of the currency has appointed Mr. William J. Kennesaw receiver for the First National bank of Pembina, N. D.


Article from The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, January 20, 1898

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CONDENSED DISPATCHES. Gov. Bushnell. of Ohio. is sick and has gone to Old Point Comfort to recuperate. The new Autonomist mayor of Havana, the Marquis de Estaban, took office Wednesday. The Federation of Master Engineers in London has resolved to go to work next Monday. Michaelles, counsellor of the foreign of fice at Berlin has been appointed German minister at Port an Prince, Hayti The comptroller of the currency has appointed J. W. Keenosawa receiver of the First National Bank of Pembina, N. D. George J. Gould was a grand juror in the United States court at Trenton N. J. for which he received $10 as fees and mileage. The budget committee of the French chamber of deputies has approved of Havre as the terminus of the mail steamers from New York. Louis Nack. of Clarenceville, Mich. together with his wife and seven children, were poisoned with trichinae from diseased pork, and are expected to die. Reginald De Koven, composer of "Robin Hood." is III at Alken, S. C., with an attack of gastric fever. a disease which also attacked his wife and her maid. The British steamer Herbert halling from Leith has foundered off Gunn Island, Ireland The captain was saved but the crew of seven is believed to be lost A decision of the appellate court of New York state affirms the right of the Salvation Army to hold open air meetings with instrumental music at Greenpoint, L. I. Marcus Daly fears that Hamburg, his recent purchase is unsound in the fore legs and cannot stand training If this proves true he will be retired to the stud. A strike of 10,000 hands has occurred in the province of Vladimir Russia, in consequence of the dissatisfaction growing out of the new government regulations for factories, The steamship Mogul which salled from Yokohama for Portland January 16, will call at Honolulu. and should the trade warrant. all steamers of the line will hereafter touch at Honolulu At the Catholic church at Corfu Monday evening during vespers, 16 young man atcked the priests One Father Ernest Laitoux was killed another was mortally wounded. and two others injured Edward A. Knight confidential clerk to J. y. Canning, a Boston broker is missInc also diamonds other jewelry and money to the value of between $25,000 and $40.000 the property of his employer United States Minister Powell reports from Port all Prince Haytl. that American fire residents there suffered many of severely the largest in the American recent commercial houses being burned out. Dr Chas A. Lamson a Congregational minister, to an address before the Congregational Club of Chicago, advocated the church. as 3 body taking an active part in politics and his remarks were cheered by his auditors The United States court 3: St. Louis in & suit by Mrs. Jennie C McClother for $ 000 on an accident insurance policy against the Providence Mutual Accident Company has decided that potsoning is not an accident within the meaning of the polIcv. President Gerazuriz, of Chile has called out all the national cuard over 20 years old, in consequence of the dispute with Argentina. The fact that Senor Martinez Chilean minister to Buenos Arres who has returned home left his family behind, is a sign of peace. The timbers in the Fairview tunnel. near Williams Aris. caught fire. The section erea was righting the fire wh 3. portion of the roof fell, and Roadmaster Lyons and Format Matthews were caught under the mass. Lvens was taken out dead and Matthews will probably die. A fight over the attempt of the sophomore class of Franklin college (Ind.) to fly their class flag over the college building resulted in a right in the courthouse park, in which over 100 students participated. Heads were broken faces cut and blood flowed freely. A $5 000 telescope was damaged during the fraces


Article from Bismarck Weekly Tribune, January 21, 1898

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STATE NEWS. The trial of the Villers case has been postponed till tomorrow because of the illness of Mrs. Tromer, one of the main witnesses. The western part of the state is still furnishing many pilgrims to Klondike. The Dickinson Press chronicles the departure of another batch. Conductor Frank James of the Northern at the Brainerd an Pacific hospital Fargo from has the effects died at of operation for appendicitis. Reports from St. Paul state that the condition of Chief Best of Fargo is better than was expected, and he is probably on the high road to recovery. The death is reported of Joe Hubert, a well known traveling man who married the lady commercial traveler known among the boys as the "Vinegar Girl." The comptroller of the currency has dispatched an agent to North Dakota to investigate the condition of the First National bank of Pembina. The bank wants to resume and the comptroller wants reliable information before deciding the matter. It is interesting and gratifying to note that the prices of county warrants are are they through quoted the state in all counties picking at up, higher and and firmer prices. The payment of back taxes and prompt payment of current ones is responsible. The Williams County Press is authority for the statement that P. E. Sandli in that a bills vicinity of Lakota, recently, while lost hunting roll deer of containing $280 from his pocket. He thinks that in taking his handkerchief from his pocket the money was also pulled out. Charley Mortrude, a Barnes county farmer day afternoon. had a bad While accident windlass engaged last in Thurs- digging a well the broke away from him and the handle struck him in the face, badly lacerating his nose. The blow was so strong that he was unconfor five hours afterwards. Articles of incorporation of the State bank of Leeds, capital $5,000, have been forwarded to the secretary of state. The incorporators are N. Jacobson and Ole Jacobson of Rugby Junction; John A. Percival and E. A. Webster of Devils Lake. N. Jacobson will be president and manager of the bank. Swife retribution is meted out in some cases. The other day Merchant de Lendrecie was held up at Fargo and a a a was cars robbed gold killed watch. of by valuable the A few diamond days at Mallory, later ring tramp Minn. and and the articles have been found on his person and restored to deLendrecie. Pembina county editors are getting the migratory fever, Frawley has sold the Chronicle and goes to Minneapolis, while J. K. Fairchild has bought the Chronicle and would like to sell his Echo. Editor Wilson would like to take the gold cure at Klondike, and it it is stated that Gilpin has already sold the X-Rays to some parties from the southern part of the state. Congressman Johnson is in no happy frame of mind over the way he is being treated with reference to federal appointments in the state, according to Wash nomination the con ington of advices. postmaster Aside at Bismarck, from the gressman is opposed to that of D.C Tufts as receiver of the Fargo land office, Harry Oliver as postmaster at Lisbon, and there are others. Iu the trial of the Villers case at that sensational Jamestown, testimony, Mrs. Tromer admitting gave some she had not told the truth on former examinations, because she had been sworn to secrecy by her husband. She says that when her husband left home he had'arranged to go to California in company with Villers. It is presumed the man was murdered before he started on the trip. Judge Amidon has extended the time for J. A. Hanway filing his 85,000 bonds for alleged shortage of $10,000 in bis report as stockholder's agent o the was se Hanway North Dakota given National twenty days bank. to Mr cure on of the Trust made bondemen, the request and the extension Security was company, which will, it is said, go on his bonds on January 22. Mr. Han way is still in New York. A. A. Trovaten, formerly editor of the 'Dakota" at Fargo, and now a merchant at Kent, Minn., has been held to


Article from Courier Democrat, January 27, 1898

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e e an e - new Tuesday. Rev. M. Iverson, pastor of the Milton Lutheran church, was a visitor Tuesday. His church work extends HB far north as Vang settlement. Attorney W. J. Kneeshaw has been appointed receiver of the Pembina First National Bank. In this county the appointment will generally r ceive approval. Register Rylancec got back Saturday from a month's visit to his old Ontario home. He had a pleasaut visit bu returns better than ever satisfied with North Dakota. W. H Row, bonanza farmer and merchant from Elkwood was in Tuesday paying his respects to the memory of Burns, but had to return home before the fun began. Jas Dunigan spent a part of the week at his Beanlieu home attending the wedding of his sister Miss Bridget H. Dunigan who wed Mr. David Cleary of McLean last Monday. Miss Stella Monnet returned last week from an extended visit to her home in the east and agan presides over the typewriter in the office of her brother Attorney J. C. Monnet. H.J. Goff, the commissioner from the Olga and Fremont district gathered with the eastern clans of the Caledonian society Tuesday that helped to make Langdon look quite metropolitan. Archie Sillers, Sr., the good-natured and jovial Scot from Daniels was among the first to arrive from the west to take in the doings on Barn's day Archie is chaplain of the Caledonian society. Peter Wild's two young sons, Frank and John, are down at the Grand Forks school of commerce, which affords excellent opportunities for a business education. The boys come home in the spring to help their father to put in his 1800 acres of crop near Osnabrock. The sacred concert to be given at the Methodist church Saturday evening, promises to be a rich musical treat to the lovers of good music. The program will be rendered by the Ferguson Sister both of whom have voices of great range and their solos are always greatly enjoyed. The price of admission has : been placed at 25 cent. The evening 3 program is given below: Contralto Solo-Cast Thy Bread on the Waters. Miss Elizabeth Ferguson. ) Come Ye Disconsolate. Duet Misses Ferguson. o Happy Day. Soprano Solo t Miss Fanny Ferguson. Thy King of Love. Quartet , Mr. Dorval, Misses Ferguson and Mr. Salter. e Contralto Solo-The Better Land. (By request.) Miss Elizabeth Ferguson. Duet Nearer My God to Thee. (By request.) Misses Ferguson. S The Resurrection. Soprano Sole ] Miss Fanny Ferguson. Raise Me Jesus. Quartet e Mr. Dorval, Misses Ferguson, Mr. Stevenson. The Plains of Peace. Contralto Solo , Miss Elizabeth Ferguson. Mr. Robertson. , Address Monday a K. of P. lodge was started 1 at Walhalla with a membership of nearly thirty. Messrs Flumerfelt, Winter, Bary h celo and Truax were among others going a over from Langdon to take in the exerp cises. The officers of the lodge installed that evening are: e Chancellor-John F. Mager. V. C.-Jas A. Foley. Prelate-W. J. Gordon it M of W-TD Stack M of A-RHHuffman K of R & S - W J Camden M of F-J Briden M of Ex-W McQuarrie Inside G-J. M. Morin Outside G-L. Walker The lodge named J.T. Duffy and W. J. Camden as their'grand lodge representatives this year.


Article from Courier Democrat, January 27, 1898

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treasury of $90,000 and expects to of gain month. the other $10,000 before the end the LaMoure has recommended W. Jud Kneeshaw as receiver of the defunct Moure J. bank at Pembina, of which LA is president. The Minot Coal Co. is in trouble and sheriff has seized eighty-nine equip- acres of the coal land, together with nine ments, wagons, teams etc. Contracts, have been let for survey- in the sixteen townships of land the northern ing part of Stark county and spring work will begin as soon as opens. The state board of university and lands have accepted approved perfor loans mortagge school fund on farm school applications manent of from $24,000 the security to the amount Jan. 28, the Churchs Ferry school to dis- iswill vote on the proposition for the trict bonds in the sum of $5,500 school sue purpose of erecting a four room house. at the Valley City Normal the Students are playing base ball-and exschool boys are reported. by an in the change small as running barefooted streets. Ferguson, cashier of the resigned CitiD. E. Bank at Walhalla, has J. H. zens position, and is succeeded Farmers by that Anderson connected with Bank of St. Thomas. J. A ..Johnson of Williamsport in the met exwith a painful accident the accident filling his eyesight. plosion his face of with a gun, powder and damaging Minot man pulled up a couple quarter of A of sidewalk, to recover between rods supposed he had dropped discover he he in the walk, to the in his pocket all had cracks it the Mores time. wife of Marquis de will of The reward for the apprehension the offer a murderers of her husband, failed to French the government matter. having take any steps in the Ellendale John Newberry of is $500 held At district court in the sum Carr, to the a blind pig. John of $500 for running like offense, in default for bail, a languishes in jail. V. Brown, formerly agent at Hills- of John Machine company shortage the Singer who disappeared with to a Walhalla, boro $550 has been traced went over the whence of he doubtless line. Wallace of Hamilton fact publicly that David that owing to the thieves, county announces officials refuse reward to arrest he offered for he withdraws arrest of parties $100 guilty of stealing wheat. Johnson postoffice has recom- apCongressman th efollowing Fred mended in North Dakota: Geil; pointments Richardson A. Lincoln. John H. Krosel, Alfred S. eVnby, Hastings; Movins, Lidgerwood. George H. May, wanted committed for bigamy there at Rolla, which was arrested at Malta, last fall. has week been and Deputy Sheriff after him. Mont.. Schindler this of Rolette County has gone a held state The bankers Fargo of and the elected officers meeting at P. Wells, Jamestown, Forks, as follows: E. A. Day. Grand secvice president; president; Geo. S. H. Lyon, Fargo, retary and treasurer. coal in heating is The use of lignite at Jamestown hospital buildings by W. A. Gates, highly commended the Minnesota board special agent of and charities, who recomcently of corrections visited the institution. central The democratic the state constitutionality the the for mittee will anti-fusion test law passed that at purpose and of last session are being and solicited funds from democrats Controller populists. of the dividend Currency of powes 10 the per favor of declared a second of the creditors of Grand cent Second in National all Bank 30 per cent in making in $119,738. claims, Forks, amounting to the Bismarck H. T. Detcher, clerk that in in the senatorial fight postoffice, in which states it not is said delivered telegraphic until dispatches were took place eighteen months two days before old, he came to Bismarck. on the Thomas Tobin, a killed near MiHe was brakeman caboose, Great Northern, was sitting in into the the car, when not. an engine him. crashed Two other men caboose fatally injuring escaped without injury. has currency in The the controller of the to North Dakota the investigate of dispatched an agent the condition of The Pembina. First to National Bank resume. and the con- bebank wants to reliable information troller wants matter. deciding the to fore interesting and gratifying county warIt is that the prices of are picking up, rants note through quoted the state in all counties pay- at and they are firmer prices. They payment higher of of and current back taxes ones and is responsible. prompt (in the ment Articles of incorporation $5.000 save state been bank of Leeds, capital secretary O. state. and forwarded incorporator to the are N. Junction; Jacooson John of The Olc Jacobson of and Rugby E. A. will Webster be presiA. Percival Lake. N Jacobson the bank. Devil manager of dent and County had on hand Jan. school 1, Rolette county. township and of funds, in state, $17,727.S7. The expenditures were $10,52+ the county for the on year a cash basis. not 85. The county is remaining unpaid. of its frairs a and single speaks warrant well for those in charge


Article from Courier Democrat, January 27, 1898

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NORTH DAKOTA Bottineau county is on a cash basis. Grafton schools have an enrollment of 637. JudgeWinchester is holding court in Kidder county. Benson county o. clals are to have more clerical force. The western part of the state is still furnishing many pilgrims to Klondike Milton merchants will close business at 8 p. m. until Aug. 1. Eugene Savory of Cavalier has been taken to the insano asylum. Gov. and Mrs. Briggs are wintering at San Gabriel, Cal. Joel T. Means, of Bismarck has been granted an original pension. Alonzo Dietz of Northwood has been granted a pension of $6 per month. Cando's new electric light plant will be in operation this week. Young men of Wahpeton are organizing a reading room club. The Soo road is making a half rate on shipments of seed grain of all kinds, Valley City schools enroll 650 pupils, in a school population of 715. Cass county has a school population f 7.379-an increase f 268 over last year. W. J. Kneeshaw will be appointed receiver of the Pembina National bank. Dickinson has a school population of 580, a gain of 17 per cent over the last year. Indian Agent Getchell held a public reception at Fort Totten a few evenings since. The scarlet fever scare reported from Oriska is said to have been without foundation. The German Lutheran Synod of North and South Dakota will hold it meeting this year at Casselton. Wood and timber thieves are reported operating on school lands in Cavalier county. Funds have been secured for bridging the Red River at Halstad and work is to commence at once. The state will pay wolf bounty certificates in the order in which they are registered. The Grand Forks degree team of the Rebekahs instituted a court of that order in Emerado. Lidgerwood will vote on the question of bonding for a new school house on the 29th inst. The reported crevasse in the earth down in Sargent county proves to have been a fake. A movement is on foot to erect a farmer's flouring mill at Mandan by a joint stock company. Final proofs last year added nearly $50,000 to the taxable real estate of Stutsman county. Hon. D. C. Tufts will enter upon his duties as receiver of the Fargo land oflice within thirty days. Fire destroyed a large barn on one of the Kingman farms near Hillsboro. Loss estimated at about $3,000. The state university at Grand Forks will have a military instructor detailed by the general government. There is an epidemic of scarlet fever at Kulm, and seven deaths are reported in one week from the disease. Surveyors are locating a proposed drainage ditch to enter Sand Hill river one mile east of Climax, Minn. A Jamestown blind pigger who broke jail at Jamestown has been rearrested at Valley City and returned for trial. Anton Klemskey is under $200 bonds at Jamestown for disturbing a salvation Army meeting. Consignment of forty-seven dogs passed through Fargo recently en route to the Klondike. Anton Arneson, Peter Swanson and Gust Mauthely of Richland county will answer at the next term of court the charge of wheat-stealing. Churches and societies at Kulm are closed at the request of the board of health during the prevalence of scarlet fever. Traill county has a balance in its treasury of $90,000 and expects to gain teh other $10,000 before the end of the month. Jeanne Bennefoy Lozano was granted a divorce from Carlos A. Lozana at Wahpeton Seward French represented the plaintiff. Capt Ingram of Jamestown is entertaining the idea of erecting a modern fifty-room hotel at Grafton to cost $20,000. Surveyor General Blewett is likely to locate in Dickinson, where he has business interests, at the expiration of his term of office. In the trial of the case against Dr. Cuffe at Pembina where he was aceused of making away with a new born infant, the jury disagreed. Salaries of all officials in the Citizens' National Bank of Wahpeton have been raised by the board of directors. Langdon schools are crowded. The same conditions are reported everywhere, necessitating much larger school buildings. John Percival and E. A. Maglone of Devil's Lake and N. Jacobson, have organized a state bank at Leeds, with $5,000 capital. Parties at Steele who sustained losses by prairie fire started by a hunting party from Chicago, have recovered damages in the sum of 900. Proprietors of the McBride drug store at Rugby have waived examintion and given bonds for trial on the charge of illegal sale of liquor. J. A. Johnson of Williamsport. met with a painful accident in the explosion of a gun. tilling his face with powder and injuring his eyesight. in A newly-elected commissioner


Article from Bismarck Weekly Tribune, January 28, 1898

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his wife had secured his incarceration in an insane asylum to secure his property. Dr. Sorg of Ellendale has been arrested for practicing medicine without a license. Fully six hundred new members were intitiated by lodges of Workmen through the state last Tuesday. Daniel Miller, a prominent citizen of Steele, died suddenly while visiting relatives in Pennsylvania. Judge Winchester suspended sentence in the case of Robert Taylor, charged with bootlegging at Steele. Stutsman county commissioners will deduct tax judgments from all claims allowed against the county. An electric light plant is being put in at Devils Lake and pipes being laid for water mains-all in January. The epidemic of scarlet fever in several town in Pembina has abated, and closed schools are opening up. Plans are said to have been completed for the building of a new hotel on the site of the Dacotah at Grand Forks. The Case county drainage commission will resume work, now that the drainage law has been held constitutional. An addition to the Fargo Argus office is to be built at Fargo. Does this mean that Colonel Lounsberry is going back. The Minneapolis Journal has a long special article from Mandan denying the reports of a divorce bureau there that have been circulated. A Towner county farmer named Jorgelson was discovered in criminal in. timacy with his 13-year-old daughter and has skipped the place. The senate has confirmed the nominations of Harry Oliver as postmaster at Lisbon and of George H. Bingenheimer as agent at Standing Rock. Court in session in Wells county tried a number of cases. The jury in the CASO against Frank Aikmen disagreed. Aikmen was on trial for selling liquor. Congressman Johnson had his innings before the postoffice committee in the case of the Bismarck postoffice and the matter will be reported to the full committee at the next meeting. Senator Haggart and Jud LaMoure are coming home, the former with his commission as United States marshal and the latter having secured his man for receiver of the Pembina bank-both I happy. Joseph Neuber of Sargent county got on a spree at Rutland, and in returning home, ran into a wire fence, was thrown 9) from his horse, and lay out all night, both legs being frozen to the knees. He cannot recover. / 3 Jamestown will be represented in the t Klondike with a party of ten or more gold seekers. The plan is a popular 7 subscription, to raise about $10,000 to , pay expenses. Then a party of ten will be selected, and they will make the trip and look after everything in sight. W. C. Tubbs and M. L. Parker, the clothier, are interested, and the business there may be closed out to enable the latter to make the trip with the party. e A delegation of prominent democrats of the state met in Fargo Saturday the a object of which meeting is understood 1 to be to formulate plans for the coming ] campaign. While no definite action was taken it is understood that the seny timent of those present was strongly in favor of such action as would bring Hon. D. W. McCanna of the nineteenth district to the front as a candidate for governor, and Hon. James B. Eaton of


Article from Crawford Avalanche, February 3, 1898

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News of Minor Note. Prof. Taschenberg, the entomologist, is dead at Halle. Secret societies at Denver are waging war on department stores. M. B. Goodman, clothing merchant of Texarkana, Ark., was attached by home creditors. Liabilities and assets not stated. The Comptroller of the Currency has appointed William J. Kennesaw receiver of the First National Bank of Pembina, N. D. D. M. Hough & Co., shoe manufacturers at Rochester, N. Y., have made an assignment to Granger A. Hollister. Liabilities, $38,000; assets, $48,000. Paul Felix Tallaide, the well-known and veteran French actor, is dead. He was born in Paris, Jan. 15, 1827, and was admitted to the Conservatoire in 1845. Mrs. Mary Shillito, widow of the late John Shillito, founder of the great mercantile house in Cincinnati that bears his name, died after a long illness from infirmities of old age. The United States ambassador to Great Britain, Col. John Hay, and family, will sail from Genoa on the North German Lloyd steamship Prinz Regent Luitpold for Egypt for a tour up the Nile. The condition of the health of Empresa Augusta Victoria of Germany excites comment. She will go in the spring to some Southern air cure. Her physicians still forbid her leaving her rooms. The Dominion cabinet which has had under consideration the case of Mrs. Olive Sternaman, under sentence to be hanged at Cayuga, Ont., for the murder of her husband, decided to grant her a new trial. At Holbrook, Ariz., wild dogs are causing great loss to the ranch owners by killing stock. At Ravenna. O., while walking with his sweetheart, Cornelins O. Eatinger quarreled with the young woman. Suddenly he pulled a revolver and without a word of warning sent a bullet through his brain, falling dead at his sweetheart's feet. A chattel deed of trust has been filed by M. W. Alexander, proprietor of one of the oldest retail drug houses in St. Louis, to Charles W. Wall, treasurer of Meyer Brothers' Drug Company. Liabilities amount to $17,200. The cause of the fallure is not given.


Article from The Washburn Leader, February 12, 1898

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of MeNider Robert per month pension- receives $50. its in Bismarck, who a balance to gain county has expects the treasury Traill other of $10,000 $90,000 before and the end of the W. at J. month. Jud Kneeshaw LaMoure Pembina, as receiver has of recommended nat which of the La Moure and is bank president. Minot Coal Co. eight. ie in trouble nine equip- acres The sheriff has seized with nine of the coal land, together teams etc. wagons, let for survey ments, Contracts, townships have been of land and in the the will northern ing sixteen part begin of Stark as soon county as spring and opens. work The state board accepted of university approved the perschool lands for have loans farm from mortagge applications school fund amount on of $24,000 dismanent the school security to Churchs proposition Ferry to isJan. 28, the vote on the of $5,500 for school the of purpose sue trict bonds will in crecting the sum a four room Normal City house. Students at playing the Valley base ball by and an the exas change school small boys are running are reported, barefooted in the Citistreets. D. E. cashier has of the resigned by J. H. zens that position Bank at and is succeeded with Farmers met Bank Anderson of St. Thomas. Williamsport exJohnson of in the filling face with plosion J. A a of painful with a gun, powder accident the accident and damaging in his his A eyesight. Minot of sidewalk, man pulled to dropped recover up a couple between quarter he of the rods he supposed he the had walk, to discover time. had the cracks it in his pocket Marquis all de Mores will of The wife of for the apprehension husband, the offer a murderers reward of her having failed to steps in the French take the any government Newberry matter. is held At Ellendale court John in the sum John of Carr, $500 to the running district a blind in pig. default of $500 for a like offense, in jail. Hillsbail, for John languishes V. Machine Brown, formerly company agent at shortage of the Singer disappeared with to a Walhalla, boro who has been traced went over the of whence $550 he doubtless publicly line. David Wallace owing of Hamilton to the fact thieves, that for announces officials that refuse reward to arrest he stealing offered arrest he county withdraw of parties $100 guilty of has recomwheat. Congressmentollowing th Johnson Dakota: postoffice Geil; Fred apmended in North A. Lincoln, John H. Krosel, pointments S. eVnby, Hastings: Alfred Lidgerwood. for bigamy Movins, George H. which May, was wanted arrested committed at Malta, there Rolla, been Sheriff after him. state at Schindler last Mont. fall, this has of week Rolette and County Deputy has held gone a at Fargo Wells, The bankers of and the elected Jamestown, officers meeting follows: E. P. A. Day, Grand Fargo, Forks, secvice treasurer. as president; president; Geo. S. H. Lyon, heating retary and lignite coal Jamestown in is hospital The use commended buildings of at by Minnesota W. A. Gates, board highly agent of the charities, who recomof special corrections visited the and institution. central will law cently The democratic test the state stitutionality passed at the purare being of last mittee the session anti-fusion and solicited funds from for democrats that powes and pose populists. of the dividend Currency of 10 per the declared Controller a second of the creditors of Grand cent in favor National Bank 30 per of cent in making to T. Forks, Second amounting in all $119,738. the Bismarck in that claims, Detcher, clerk in the senatorial postoffice H. in which states it not is said delivered telegraphic until fight were took place Bismarck. eighteen dispatches two months days before old, he came brakeman to on Mi- the Tobin, was a killed near caboose, Great was sitting into the car, not. Two Thomas He Northern engine crashed in the other men when an injuring him. without injury fatally the caboose escaped the currency has an in The controller agent of to North Dakota of the condition dispatched : investigate Bank the of Pembina. the con- The bank to First National wants to reliable resume, information and beto troller deciding wants the matter. gratifying fore is interesting and of county war- up, note It that the the prices state are all picking counties at rants through quoted in They payhigher and taxes and and ment they of back are firmer ones prices. is responsible. prompt state payment of current a the of $5,000 ave bank Articles of Leeds, incorporation capital the secretary On state. been and tors Junction; forwarded to are N. Jacooson John The Jacobson incorpora of Rugby E. A. Webster of A. N bank. Ole Percival and Jacobson will be presiDevil Lake of the and manager on hand Jan. 1, dent County had and school state, The in Rolette $17,727.87. county, township expenditures were $10,524 of funds, county for the is on year a cash basis, unpaid. not 85. the The county remaining of a single speaks warrant well for those in charge and and its affairs. board of university school The state lands recently had under con-


Article from The Pioneer Express, June 3, 1898

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Benedikt Benjaminson vs C Keeley.--M Brynjolfson; W J Kneeshaw. Christian Mager vs First National Bank of Pembina and W J Kneeshaw, receiver. -W R Garrett; W J Kneeshaw. Christian Mager vs Bank of Cavalier and J K Musselman, cashier.-W R Gar-ret; W J Kneeshaw. C N Murphy vs Joseph Maranda and Engenia Maranda.-E W Conmy J D Stack. Lester F Thurber vs Michael VanCamp et al.-Templeton & Rex; Wm Mc-Murchie. Oscar E Nash vs Frank A Willson.-Gray and McMurchie; J D Stack. Pioria Packing Co vs John Conmee.-W J Burke; D J Laxdal. Bank of Hamilton vs J M Chisholm and Wm Beaton.-Young and Burke; W J Kneeshaw.


Article from Bismarck Weekly Tribune, September 22, 1899

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having large white and yellowish blossoms, making a pretty sight. A threshing engine overturned near Edinburg, Walsh county, and Martin Tressing was thrown under it and instantly killed, his head being crushed. A call for $40 per share has been made on the stockholders of the First National Bank of Pembina to make up shortages to depositors, by the comptroller of the currency. Carrington Independent: Miss Luella Crawford of Dazey sold $11 worth of badges, and some thief stole the money. A person who would do such an act should be taken out in front of the firing squad and get about twenty balls in their carcass. Saturday afternoon a sad accident befell Anton Schumacher, a threshing hand, who lives some fourteen miles west of Ashley. It seems that the thresher in some way was set on fire, and Mr. Schumacher in endeavoring to help extinguish the same, sprang on the feeding table, and slipping his left foot was caught in the cylinder and horribly mutilated, making the amputation of the same necessary. The Great Northern has made a new ruling with regard to its conductors. Hereafter each one will be required to give bonds in $1,000 to insure the company in the matter of competent service and against loss from misappropriating money handled by the conductors. A bonding company has been arranged with, which takes the risks at $10 per year for passenger conductors and $5 for those running freight trains. The North Dakota school for the deaf, located at Devils Lake, will open the school term on Wednesday, Sept. 20. During the vacation many new and substantial improvements have been made on the state property at the lake. According to the Free Press about $20,000 of the $47,000 appropriated by the last legislature for additional room and general improvement has been well spent, and places the institution in excellent shape for the work it has before it. Two years ago Game Warden Bowers of Carrington ran across Horace Lowry and a party of friends from Minneapolis hunting without the necessary $25 non-resident's permit. The other day he and State Warden Bowers were out hunting for such game and ran on to the same Lowry party as of old. "Here he comes again" said Lowry as he recognized the game warden and began to dig down for the fee. The money was on hand this time and it was not necessary to wire as before. Horace is a son of Thomas Lowry. No schedule of losses and insurance of the destructive fire which visited Northwood can as yet be obtained. In addition to the fifty or more business places destroyed, three residences were damaged by the flames. However, a large number of the residents were burned out of house and home for many of them were living over their places of burlness. Inasmuch as the flames destroyed practically all of the food supply, the residents will be in bad circumstances within a few days unless some aid is extended to them by the outlying towns. They have food and shelter for the present. those who lost their homes having been taken in by those who were not SO unfortunate. but this condition of things cannot last many days. They will need food, and probably clothing. It is simply miraculous that no Lives were lost, or that no one was seriously hurt. Postmaster Ellingson, while attempting to save a portion of the mails, was cut about


Article from Courier Democrat, October 2, 1902

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or sale The this county is listed and advertised in the Republican this week the date of the sale is set for Tuesday December 2nd. According to the Jewish calenader today is New Year's day 5663, and its observance commenced with the hour of the setting of the sun yesterday evening. The county commissioners will meet next week and among other things consider applications for the position of janitor of the court house for the ensuing year. Osnabrock's co-operative blacksmith shop was the cause of a scare and fire alarm last week. The 'Brock lacks adequate fire protection but the bucket brigade saved the building with only a small loss. Walhalla sports are so elated over having closed the baseball season by winning the pennant' of the Pembina county league that it is likely they will put in most of the approaching winter planning more victories for 1903. The board of commissioners of Pembina county decided at their last meeting to bring action against the bondsmen of the defunct First National Bank of Pembina for about $6,000 of county funds held by the bank at the time it went bump. two years ago. There is evident need of a reconstruction of the time schedule for stage mails leaying Langdon, either that or the mails should run on time. There's something wrong any how. Readers of the DEMOCRAT on the Trier and Mt. Carmel routes have complained repeatedly of late that the paper fails to reach them until the following week when it should arrive Saturday night. These and other outside towns, used to have a prompt and regular service and it is equally as possible to maintain it at this time as it was then. The leading place of business at SnowBake, Man., known as Shilson's store, was entered by burglars Wednesday night last week and the safe robbed of $8,000 in cash. Dynamite was used in opening the safe and the way they went about it indicated the thieves were well up in their business. Sacks of flour and feed had been piled around the safe in order to deaden the noiseand concussion. The currency was in Canadian bills of $4 and $10 each. The authorities are without a clue to identify the robbers but are making a careful search ON both sides of the line. As Snowflake is just across the line and only a few miles from Hannah the affair has created quite a sensation at the end town. A crew of drunken harvest hands invaded the camp of a party of Indian horse traders on the outskirts of Park River last Saturday afternoon. They took liquor along with them resulting in the Indians getting in an intoxicated condition and ugly. Quarrels followed both the harvest hunds and the Indian being armed a desperate and dangerous fight started and one the harvest hands Mels Johnson, was killed. Seeing the turn the affair had taken Johnson'i companions retreated, going to town The hostile redskins were finally round ed up by 11 party of armed citizens and landed in jail. His companions stat that Johns ..., the dead man, came from Wilmar, Mian. The Indians who at accompaned by their squaws and pu pooses have been trading horses an doing harvest work in the Valley O this side and in Minnesota and th blame of the fatal encounter is charge largely to the harvest hands, thoug some threats of lynching have bee made.