13336. North Platte National Bank (North Platte, NE)

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Bank Information

Episode Type
Suspension → Closure
Bank Type
national
Bank ID
4024
Charter Number
4024
Start Date
December 3, 1894
Location
North Platte, Nebraska (41.124, -100.765)

Metadata

Model
gpt-5-mini
Short Digest
69e1287c

Response Measures

None

Receivership Details

Depositor recovery rate
81.9%
Date receivership started
1895-01-14
Date receivership terminated
1900-05-01
OCC cause of failure
Losses
Share of assets assessed as good
29.7%
Share of assets assessed as doubtful
62.2%
Share of assets assessed as worthless
8.1%

Description

Newspapers report the bank 'failed to open' / 'suspended' in early December 1894 (Dec 3 cited). Comptroller appointed a receiver in mid-Jan 1895 and the receiver later announced reorganization was impossible and would close the affairs (Mar 12, 1895). No contemporaneous article describes a depositor run; the sequence is suspension followed by receivership and closure/liquidation.

Events (5)
1. May 4, 1889 Chartered
Source
historical_nic
2. December 3, 1894 Suspension
Cause
Bank Specific Adverse Info
Cause Details
Bank failed to open and suspended operations; assets and liabilities unknown, indicating insolvency leading to suspension.
Newspaper Excerpt
The North Platte (Neb.) National bank failed to open its doors, and it is now in charge of the national bank examiner.
Source
newspapers
3. January 14, 1895 Receivership
Source
historical_nic
4. January 14, 1895 Receivership
Newspaper Excerpt
The Comptroller of the Currency has appointed Milton Doolittle of Atkinson, Nebr., receiver of the North Platte National Bank of North Platte, Nebr.
Source
newspapers
5. March 12, 1895 Other
Newspaper Excerpt
Receiver Doolittle will commence tomorrow and proceed to close up the affairs of the bank as soon as possible. It is thought that depositors will be paid in full.
Source
newspapers

Newspaper Articles (12)
1. December 6, 1894 Connecticut Western News North Canaan, Salisbury, Canaan, CT
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NEWS OF THE WEEK. Thursday. Nov. 29. in northern Excessive cold is reported Manituba Minnesota and can was The marriage of the enthusias Finland with great Florence Wilkos ad in At Perry. O.T., society Mrs. lady Wilkes of New York, a was prominent divorced from George accused of arson at Joseph Daignault the iron bars was of Blaize Que., sawed panknife and to ready climb the St. cell through out with of the window when caught fishing schooner Gracle down Benson. and in runk of Six her crew Reading Captain The Boston Harvender. harbor was by run the of steamship 18 were drowned office of E A. Danielson street, Boston, a our The builder of Charles were stolen. to with gether was riage entered. and number papers of loases and bills, to the A boiler value bolt of $10,000 which track had been on the placed Hyde in slot of the car by some mall the Francisco, 20 pas street line, San wrecked oar, and sengers cious person. were injured, some seriously. Friday, Nov. 30. the reover ceremonies malbs The of funeral Princess Bismarck were held at Varzin. Chicago police have discovered and arrest an organized The thieving association ed ten of its members property Eight lives have been JOO bas lost been and destroy ed the by amounting forest fires in the bottoms of Tennessee Alabama legislature in to joint as The John T. Morgan the himself sion elected United States senator for six term years British ship Somell has cleared with The San Francisco for Liverpool taken from from wheat cargo ever grain. the biggost it being 6,124 tons of The body to any port of J. T. Stewart, a farmer of claimant a Dumfriesshire millions. England. was found in Quarry ashort T Stewart's distano from his residence Madden Coal Run. Pa. Stephen kill At was shot and instantly aged years. discharge of shotgun which ed was by the accidentally knocked down by younger It is reported brother. that the Bluefields Incl. bean settled. Great Britain Unit dent has representations of the ing, States. upon the admitted that Mr. Gosling. the ed British minister. exceeded his authority Saturday. Dec. 1. persons on Bud Turner's plan from tation Thirteen near Calhoun. Ga. are III poison The Little Rock cotton mille have in opened after an idleness of two years that city There is no truth in the report that died the Grand Duke George, the ozarowitz, on Sunday last In a football game- Millville, of N. the J., Charles Jones suffered concussion brain and is in critical condition John Maronsek aged 15, living at Bal timore. shot bimelf dead beause be was reprimanded by his parents for keeping late hours. A dispatch from Chefu says that of peace between China and Japan have terms almost been arranged through the intervention of the United States. As a result of the threat made by the shut down its refineries Sugar trust to Indemitely there was big flurry in sug ar stocks on the New York Stock Ex change. Monday, Dec. 3. The Yale football team defeated the Princetons at New York by a score of 24 to o. Charles J. Pike Rochester's best known amateur athlete, died of typhold fever. A treaty of commerce and navigation has been signed by the represent tatives of Italy and Japan The Union Savings and Loan Associa sion bank of Portland, Or. was entered by burglars and robbed of $2,500. The report that Minister Denby has ap. pealed for help in a cable message to the department of state was confirmed Returns from London on the sale of sealskins show that the owners operated this year in nearly every instance at a dead loss. Commander Balfington Booth of the Salvation Army is critically in at Chicago with complication of typhold fever and nervous prostration The 24 hour International bicycle race at the Madison Square garden, New York. was won by Waller, who covered 431 miles and-9 laps. Tuesday, Dec. 4. Mrs. William Bliss of Mamaroneck. N. Y was robbed of dismonds worth $2,500 while at a New York hotel The North Platto (Neb. National bank failed to open its doors, and it is now in charge'of the national bank examiner. Hon. R. Johnson Barbour. one of the most eminent Virginians of his time died at CharlottesvHie at an advanced age. King Humbert opened the Italia par liament with touching referunce to the suffering and ruin caused by the recent earthquakes A petroleum train which was derailed near Mershansk. Russia, caught fire and three of the railroad officials were burned to death. The cup challenger built for the syn dicate represented by Lord Dunraven will be launched in April next from Hender son's yard at Meadowside, Scotland The society women of San Francisco in order to ralse money for the support of a ward for Incurables at the Children's hospital. are golug to edit the Christmas edition of The Examiner. Wednesday, Dec. 5. Tramps are terrorizing Wayne county, N. Y. Ex-Congressman Connelly died at Scranon, Pa., after brief illness At Huntington, Ind. quantity of dy. lamite expleded resulting in the instant leath of two men and serious injury to everal others. James Ganham Read who was convict ad of the murder of Florence Dennis at Southend on June 2 last, was hanged at Chelmsford, England Robert V. B West, A wholesale produce dealer of Brooklyn, was killed on the Long Island railroad at Penny bridge, New York, by train Fire broke out in the exposition hall at Omaha, quarters of block and totally destroyed it, together with the First Baptist church Field Marshal Yamagata commander of the Japanese army, is so seriously indisposed that it has been decided necessa ry for him to be invalided. In an attempt to escape from the convict camp at Wells, Tex., Convicts Brandon and Freese shot Guard Foster, who killed Brandon and fatally shot Fronta.

2. December 6, 1894 Mineral Point Tribune Mineral Point, WI
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NEWS NUGGETS. The Tacoma National bank has gone into liquidation. The North Platte National bank, of Nebraska, has suspended. Richard Quinn was killed in a railroad accident near Port Henry. New York. It is feared that the steamer Kenmore foundered in the fog off the coast of England. The house of Joe Mitchell at Manistique, Mich., burned and his two sons perished in the flames. It is said that republicans are determined upon no tariff legislation until the country has recovered from the last.

3. December 7, 1894 Alma Record Alma, MI
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k, hardware store, and Review office burned. rnest Denmire, a farmer near Hamd, Ind., thought he was buying a tning rod for 827, but swindlers deed him into signing a contract and es for 8875 worth. here will be no parade of military panies at Madison when Gov. Upham augurated next January. He says es are too hard to warrant the state aying for any parades. he Paris Figaro urges France to temR SR China up polit owos Adnoso sure y to the English demonetration at san, which it interprets as an intento occupy the island. he Anderson. Ind., paper mills were by Receiver Durbin to Crawford rbanks, president of the American wboard Company of the United tes. The price was $83,000. W. Dennett. a hotel and restaurant per of New York city, has bought farm in Larue county, Kentucky, on ch Abraham Lincoln was born, and put it in complete repair. distinct earthquake shock. accomied by a rumbling sound like distant nder, was felt at 10:50 o'elock Sunday ming at Pittsfield, III. The vibraseemed to be from north to south. he big natural gas main which the roit Gas Company has been pulling oss to Canada beneath the Detroit er successfully brought the product he Canadian gas fields into that city. he city council of Abingdon, III., has sed an ordinance prohibiting the pracof hypnotism upon anyone under 21 rs of age. The council has decided t it is injurious to practice the science. ristien Kortgaard.convicted of wreckthe state bank of which he was pres-u] up given SEM 18 ''' erminate reformatory sentence in the -jeadde been seq 0880 SIH prison 0 he North Platte National bank failed pen its doors Monday morning and it bw in charge of the national bank minor. The assets and liabilities are Vet known. It had a capital stock of *000 rus Newkirk. President of the det Sedalia, Mo., National Bank, has 1 indicted by the grand jury on nine nts for forgery and grand larceny, same as J. C. Thomson, the fugitive ier. bung Bob Isom. the lightweight coljockey, furnished the sensation of day at the San Francisco races by bing Robert Combs, another jockey, you II serious B Indicting pur back at "рипом I he Twenty-fifth anniversary of the nation to the priesthood of Right John J. Hennessey, bishop of Wichwas celebrated with great pomp. A -quesead SBM 00018 JOAO es 'AossouweH Bishop o en. Juan Mendez, formerly governor he state of Puebla, died in the City of ico. At the time of his demise he the high position of president of the reme Court of Military Justice. Gen. 1880. up uroa SEM zapi New York syndicate has purchased tly all the fine timber land in Jackand Swain counties in western North blina One transaction alone amounto $140,000. A part of the land was zht from the Cherokee Indians. erwood Dixon, United States district rney for the northern district of Illideath $1H *Ampung Chicago 18 perp : caused by a complication of throat bronchial troubles, with which he been afflicted for several years. well-known capitalist, withlarge insts in Texas and Kansas just return'om Texas. says the wheat crop of state has already virtually been fed nd milled,and wheat is being shipped ore in the shape of flour than as TB Boise City, Idaho, in a hole being di to explore for placer gold below false bed-rock the drill has struck a ledge. The rock assays three ounces old and twenty-eight ounces of silver ton. The discovery was made at a [100] 470 JO 4

4. January 15, 1895 The Morning Call San Francisco, CA
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Appointed by Eckels. WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.-The Comptroller of the Currency has appointed Milton Doolittle of Atkinson, Nebr., receiver of the North Platte National Bank of North Platte, Nebr.

5. January 17, 1895 Hutchinson Gazette Hutchinson, KS
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and Trust company of Sioux City, Ia., admits his company insolvent; liabilities $4,000,000, Archie Gordon, a newspaper writer and author of a number of plays, died this week at his home at Richmond, Staten Island. The Wyeth hardware and manufacturing company's factory, St. Joe, Mo., was destroyed by tire Thursday. Loss, $110,000. Dr. Joseph Field. cashier of the defunct Citizens bank at Slater, Mo., committed suicide at El Paso, Texas, on Thursday. A caucus participated in by 19 of 37 Republicans has nominated Congressman William Sweet for United States Senator for Idaho. Railroad traffic has been suspended in Scotland on account of the heavy snow blockade. Drifts are said to be twenty feet in places. The fourth session of the Washington legisture convened Monday. New members were sworn in and both houses were organized. Louis Galloway, colored, and his wife were beaten to death with clubs by robbers in their home on a plantation near Edwards, Miss. The eighteenth session of the Oregon legislature convened Monday. New state offi ers, with the exception of Goyernor were inaugurated. The United States grand jury of Arizona has ignored the charge against Governor Hughes, of having appropriated $500 interpreter's fees. Two of the Livingston, Ala., train robbers escaped from officers at Kosciusko, Miss., by making a bold dash through the lines surrounding them. The comptroller of the currency has appointed Milton Doolittle of Atkinson, Neb., receiver of the North Platte National Bank of North Platte, Neb. Herbert Gladstone, in a speech at Edinborough Saturday night, announced that his father had resumed the cutting of trees on his Hawarden estate. The small child of Manuel Walker, colored, of Ottawa, Kansas, was fatally burned while tied in a chair in its home Saturday. Its father was away at work. The consideration of the charges against Judge Ricks, of Cleveland, was again postponed Wednesday by the judiciary committee of the house until Jan 14. Thomas Walch, a trusted collector of the Pacific Express company at Salt Lake City, has confessed that he stole nearly $2,000 from the company in August last. August Ellsner, a foreign anarchist, broke three large plate glass windows in one of the leading banks of Kansas City, Mo., Friday, and was sent to jail. His motive is unknown. The schooner which was wrecked in Deception Pass, Washington, was not the Justine, as was supposed by Captain O'Brien, of the steamer Utopia, who sighted it, but was the fishing schooner Maud and Alice, of Ballard. Senator Sherman Monday introduced a bill for carrying into effect the resolution adopted by congressin 1890. for the creation of a tribunal of inter national arbitration and other means of settling difficulties and disputes betweens nations peaceably. The British gunboat Kaurakat and survey boat Dart which arrived at Sydney from the New Hebrides islands, brings the report that eruptions at Amoryn island continue intermitting and that the island is virtually deserted by all the inhabitants. Late Monday afternoon, Louis Klippen, a carpenter at Duluth, rushed into the police station with two packages of dynamite which he had picked up on the street only a few feet from the city hall. There is plenty of excitement over the matter and although it is likely that it was an accident, many think that it was an attempt to blow up the city hall. The steam dredge Mount Waldo, which left Tampico, Mex., Monday for Velasco, Texas, went down 100 miles north of Tampico Tuesday night during & gale. All on board took to the boats and those who survived were blown to Hobo island, 150 miles south. The bodies of Engineer McGee and Cook Childress were found on the beach. Captain Brock, his wife and two children and three of the crew are missing. They undoubtedly perished. Judge John M. Elliott, in charging the grand jury at Arkansas City, Ark., Monday, spoke of the recent triple lynching of Luke and Richard Washington and Henry Clay Robinson, all C.

6. January 19, 1895 The Washburn Leader Washburn, ND
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Receiver Appointed. Washington, Jan. 16.-The controller of the currency has appointed Milton Doolittle of Atkinson. Neb., receiver for the North Platte National Bank of North Platte, Neb.

7. January 23, 1895 Barbour County Index Medicine Lodge, KS
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New Orleans is to have an anti-ton ine plant. Chinese prisoners report that 400 mines have been laid at Yingkow. The Nebraska State Fair will be held at Omaha for the next five years. One man was killed and three others injured, two fatally, in a saloon row at Mitchell, Ill. All through the east the weather has been arctic to the tune of 16 degrees below zero. The senate naval committee has decided to report favorably the personnel of the navy bill. The Western Retail Implement and Vehicle association met in Kansas City, Mo., on Tuesday. St. Teresa's Academy, at Kansas City, has been closed on account of malignant diphtheria. A flouring mill worth $20,000 with 85,000 insurance burned to the ground news Knobnoster, Mo., Tuesday. The Nebraska legislature ratified the Republican caucus agreement by electing John M. Thurston senator. Miss Olga Kuechler, of Brunswick, Mo., rescued four young men from drowning while skating on Wednesday. A train of fifteen cars loaded with provisions and clothing for Nebraska sufferers left Atlanta, Georgia, Tuesday. Congressman Bryan, of Nebraska, has introduced bill in the house providing for coinage of the silver seignorage. It is practically understood that the Debs case will be argued before the supreme court on the last Monday in March. 4 The Stadt Theater at Milwaukee, while being decorated for a charity ball, caught fire and was soon destroyed. Twenty persons lost their lives first of the week in a North Staffordshire, of England, colliery by the flooding the mine. Minnie Smith got 18 years in the penitentiary for the murder of Western B. Thomas at Indianapolis, Ind., last week. Tle G. H. Dulle Milling company's mill at Jefferson City, Mo., burned on Wednesday. Loss, $100,000; insurance, $56,500. Henry Wulff took charge of the treasury department of Illinois. About $14,000,000 was turned over by Mr. Ramsey. By vote of 7 to 6 the house judiciary committee decided to report a resolution for the impeachment of Judge Bicks. Wearying of the abuse of enemies and the lukewarmness of friends, Casimer-Perier has resigned the presidency of France. Prince Hohenlohe said that he accepted the presidency of the Prussian ministry because the king commanded him to do so, Mrs. Mabel Ellers, of Mount Pulaski, Ill., has sued her husband's parents for $20,000 for the alienation of his affections. The Democrats in the Tennessee legislature are still undecided about the mode of procedure in contesting the office of governor. , Ex-Congressman George E. Dorsey and R. C. Outcalt were indicted by the federal grand jury at Omaha, charged with aiding in the wrecking of banks The failure of Congress to provide for the United States' share of supporting the Samoan government is argued as indicative that the administration proposes to withdraw from the triparite agreement A large corporation will be formed ed in Kansas City, Mo., for the purpose of manufacturing refrigerator cars. The capital will be $3,000,000 and the work will be backed by the Adamses of Boston and other eastern capitalists. The Duke of Argyle, who fainted while addressing a meeting at Glasgow, is reported to be out of danger. The British gunboat Kaurakat and survey boat Dart which arrived at Sydney from the New Hebrides islands, brings the report that eruptions at Amoryn island continue intermitting and that the island is virtually deserted by all the inhabitants. The W. C. T. U's. of Denver,presented petition to the police board to have the living pictures" now exhibition in that city suppressed. The board in session winked a willingness to first visit the place and make thorough examination before acting upon the request, Judge John M. Elliott, in charging the grand jury at Arkansas City, Ark., Monday, spoke of the recent triple lynching of Luke and Richard Washington and Henry Clay Robinson, all colored, for the brutal murder of R. C. Patton a prominent white merchant. He emphasized the fact that justice would have been meted out by the court had the law been permitted to take its course, and denounced the action of the mob in defeating the ends of justice. The comptroller of the currency has appointed Milton Doolittle of Atkinson, Neb., receiver of the North Platte National Bank of North Platte, Neb. The Missouri railroad commissioners have ordered a three-cent per mile rate on the several short lines of road in that state heretofore charging four centsper mile. terrible explosion of giant powder occurred in the yards of the Montana Central depotat Butte City, Mont. on Monday night. Seventy-five people lost their lives and much property was damaged. The Forty-first annual meeting of the Illinois State Teachers' Associa-

8. January 25, 1895 Hot Springs Weekly Star Hot Springs, SD
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Miscellaneous Washington News. Senator-elect Gear is reported to be much better. He is still unable to receive visitors, however. A postoffice hss been established at Rain, Hayes County, Neb., and Charlie B. French commissioned postmaster. The Comptroller of the Currency has appointed Milton Doolittle of Atkins, Neb., receiver of the North Platte National Bank of North Platte, Neb. The Comptroller of the Currenoy has approved the selection of the Union Nationai Bank of Omaha as a reserve agent for Neb. the First National Bank of Neligh,

9. March 13, 1895 Omaha Daily Bee Omaha, NE
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Reorganization Was Imposs bie. NORTH PLATTE, Neb., March 12.-(Special Telegram.)-The efforts of the directors and stockholders of the North Platte National bank, which has been in the hands of a receiver for several months, have proven unsuccessful, so far as concerns reorganizing and reopening the bank. Receiver Doolittle will commence tomorrow and proceed to close up the affairs of the bank as soon as possible. It is thought that depositors will be paid in full.

10. May 28, 1896 Mineral Point Tribune Mineral Point, WI
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found in a brook near Mosholu, Parkway, was honorably discharged. Receivers Cowan and Murray of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad company will soon make application for permission to issue $5,000,000 in certificates to be used in wiping out urgent indebtedness and for necessary improvements. Govenor Rich and the full board of control attended the monthly meeting of the board of correction at Ionia. Mich. John Q. Cressy, of Grand Rapids, was appointed a deputy warden to succeed W. E. Johnson, resigned. The supreme court of Iowa has decided that a farmer is liable for the loss sustained by his neighbors when his hired man sets out a prairie fire. A Pottawatamie county farmer has recovered $625 on the strength of the declstone Charles Houchins, who escaped from the Chester asylum last July, was captured at Peoria, III. Houchins robbed a woman on the street, and when taken before the court was recognized as the man the authorities had been looking for. A St. Louis lady has brought suit against the owners of a Hot Springs bath house. She wants $25,000. She was exposed to such a high degree of temperature that he sustained injuries from which she never been able to recover. Judge Jacob A. Kohler, of the court of common pleas at Akron, Ohio, has put the trial of Romulus Cotell, the 18year-old boy who confessed to the murder of the Stone family at Tallmadge two weeks ago, for Monday, June 22. Iowa democrats took strong ground for Boies as president and free silver. The unit rule was adopted, 26 votes at Chicago, though four are gold men. The temporary chairman stood by his colors and made a ringing declaration for punos One thousand men who have been idle for the past 10 days in Cleveland as a result of the strike at the shipyards of the Globe Iron company, returned to work. The company submitted a proposition offering a substantial advance in wages. Rev. Dr. Charles C. McCabe, of New York, and Rev. Dr. Earl Cranston, of Cincinnati, Ohio, were elected bishops of the Methodist Episcopal church by the general conference at Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Homer Eaton was re-elected book agent at New York. Seventy-five Detroit pigeons were liberated at Sidney, Ill., at 6:50 Monday, and one bird entered the loft at 11:44, making the 300 miles in four hours and fifty-four minutes. The average rate of speed of this pigeon was over a mile per minute. Terra Haute by ordinance limits bicycle speed to six miles per hour on business streets and eight miles elsewhere. Children under 12 years are not allowed to ride on Main street. Lights are to be carried and warning bells sounded at crossings. A powerful combination to wage war on the ice trust which was formed in Chicago this spring was perfected last night at a meeting of the grocers and butchers' association. Nearly 400 business men, customers of the different ice companies, attended. The comptroller of the currency has declared dividends in favor of the creditors of insolvent national banks as follows: The Chattahoochee National bank of Columbus, Ga., and the Nop h Platte National bank of North Platte, Neb., 20 per cent. each. Governor Richards of Montana has offered a reward of $500 for the arrest of Phinp Allen, who eight years ago murdered a neighbor, and Saturday returned from his hiding place long enough to kill his former wife, who had remarried. thinking him dead. The body of the mysterious "Mrs. Everett, of Boston." who commited suicide at the Hotel Colonnade, New York, was identified as that of Miss Louise

11. November 30, 1898 Omaha Daily Bee Omaha, NE
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# North Platte After Its Money. The case of the City of North Platte against Milton Doolittle, receiver of the North Platte National bank, has been transferred from the state to the United States court. The plaintiff sues to recover on a deposit of $331 made by the city treasurer of North Platte in the bank before the institution closed and became insolvent.

12. October 9, 1899 Omaha Daily Bee Omaha, NE
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Nebraska News Notes. Stuart has organized a creamer Pender is preparing to build a t ddition to its public school buildin Webster county had an exhibit products at the Galesburg (III.) str ] Potatoes are so plentiful in county that they are a drug on t) The St. Paul & Omaha road has work for the season at the gravel ľekamah. A woman's suffrage convention i to meet at Papillion October 16 and session two days. The Hebron school board has ser on parents that the compulso law will be strictly enforce Madison can hoast of a whole m one block. There are Coons, Volves, Lyons, Swallows and Hav Saline county has money in its 1 and pays its bills with checks of warrants, as has been the eus years. Arapahoe will dedicate its new house on the 23d. The Woodwar has been engaged for the performance. A boy named Muhlenburg, wh Winside, fell from a wagon stick through his cheek, severel both the cheek and his ton The Beatrice canning factory ha on corn and tomatoes this and now plans to buy up a lot o and pumpkins. By so doing the pl in operation nearly all the y The trustees of the Methodist F hurch at Bartley had a meeting anged for the purchase of two lots to Rev. Grissell, on which to e church. The Nebraska Chicory comp Schuyler has commenced getting chicory crop. It looks well and I good yield, but it is not known will turn out in weight. C. E. Niccolls, who lives two mil of Leigh, has about fifteen acres that are yielding about 300 acre. He will hold them unti unless the price advances conside The new Odd Fellows' lodge at W was instituted Friday evening with members, twenty-five by initiation by card. Officers of the grai were present and a royal good tii The icehouse of the South Platte at Seward burned. The build far out for the firemen to and nothing could be done but t burn to the ground. There was in the building. Word has been received in Sarpy of the suicide of a daughter of Rickett, who resided near Papillio five years ago. The self-murder in Houson, Tex., and it is said was by a disappointment in love a Monday evening between 7 and $ fire consumed several thousand bu corn and several tons of hay, with all the buildings except the the old Bellows farm, three a half miles west of Weeping Wat Upon the recommendation of Doolittle. Comptroller Dawes has 1, 1900, as the date for the 1 up of the North Platte Natio trust. The assets of the bank wh not been realized upon will be ol public sale on Saturday, December An attempt was made to rob t office at Merna Thursday night. T police, however, appeared upon the time to arrest the burglar. The re tempted to make his escape by run was brought to a sudden halt by th taking a shot at him, hittin the leg.