13632. First National Bank (Superior, NE)

Bank Information

Episode Type
Suspension → Closure
Bank Type
national
Bank ID
3529
Charter Number
3529
Start Date
January 1, 1914*
Location
Superior, Nebraska (40.021, -98.070)

Metadata

Model
gpt-5-mini
Short Digest
b3385b2e

Response Measures

None

Receivership Details

Depositor recovery rate
33.5%
Date receivership started
1914-01-12
Date receivership terminated
1919-03-31
OCC cause of failure
Fraud
Share of assets assessed as good
20.6%
Share of assets assessed as doubtful
52.6%
Share of assets assessed as worthless
26.8%

Description

The bank was ordered to suspend by the Comptroller of the Currency in early January 1914 (did not open for business). It did not reopen; a receiver was appointed and the institution is treated as failed/closed. The Comptroller's report later attributes the failure to fraudulent management. Receiver actions (sale of property) are reported in 1915.

Events (6)

1. July 8, 1886 Chartered
Source
historical_nic
2. January 1, 1914* Other
Newspaper Excerpt
The First National Bank of Superior, Nebraska, failed last week.
Source
newspapers
3. January 1, 1914* Receivership
Newspaper Excerpt
First National Bank, Superior, Neb., January, fraudulent management. (Comptroller's report listing appointment of receiver and cause.)
Source
newspapers
4. January 9, 1914 Suspension
Cause
Government Action
Cause Details
Closed on orders of the Comptroller of the Currency; bank did not open for business.
Newspaper Excerpt
The First National Bank of Superior did not open for business Friday, the doors being closed at the orders of the Comptroller of the Currency, according to announcement of President C. E. Adams.
Source
newspapers
5. January 12, 1914 Receivership
Source
historical_nic
6. February 6, 1915 Other
Newspaper Excerpt
The First National bank receiver sold ... the Pierce clothing store building, being the first property sold by the receiver since the bank closed a year ago.
Source
newspapers

Newspaper Articles (15)

Article from Norwich Bulletin, January 10, 1914

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of t Any Other Paper, and Its Total Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in Proportion to $ Condensed Telegrams NEW HAVE The English Court will begin on ment January 17. an investigation of the " It Pays To Advertise" thing British Army canteen scandal. end a the Mrs. Elizabeth Hannon. about 55 Massachusetts years old, died of gas poisoning Friday at her home at Naugatuck. Fra nce. ice Co paid The Heaviest Snow Storm in years next has marooned the mountaineers of the h inBlue Ridge section of North Carolina. o a nier's Elbertus Singing High Notes caused the disHAD NO AUT lodgement of a pin from the throat of Miss Mary Austin of Sturgis, Mich has William F. Perry, a former vice pres00,000 ident of the Boston & Maine railroad Says:The Convertiblethose died at Winchester, Mass., Thursday mong night. He who imagines that modern n reApproval M advertising is the exploitation of h anThe Will of the Late Dr. S. Weir the public is a bicuspidati dipptain Mitchell, leaves the estate, valued at lidocus and would do well to East -Elliott Sa more than $100,000, to the widow and come out of his comanose state niontwo sons. and currycomb his convolutions Adverse De Advertising is the education of the public as to who you are, "It is time to Jump right in and 00. where you are. and what you catch up with the European nations thoriin aeromautics, says Rear Admiral have to offer in way of skill, mpili Boston, Jan 9.-The talent or commodity Blue chief of the navigation bureau of esent commission's order gi Let the truth be known about the navy. n the the issue by the New your business. olla's ven and Hartford Ra The only man who should not venDeacon George McArthur, well of $67,000,000 of conve advertise is the one who has known in Congregational church circles ill be bonds was annulled nothing to offer in way of servin this state, died at his home in sertd preme court which ice, or one who cannot make Danbury, yesterday only proval of such a conv good. yond the authority of All such should seek the The proposed bonds c George F. Crandall, of Norwich, N.Y. friendly shelter of oblivion. of exchange for stock who is believed to be the oluest mail where dwell those who, shroudyears from date. carrier in the United States retired SES. ed in Stygian shades. foregather The opinion of the Thursday at the age of 74. gloom, and are out of the game. unanimous, was writte to y tice Rugg. It said Not to advertise 18 to be nomiThere Are More Poor Students, proIt is the purpose of epers nated for membership in the Text of De the Trade Extension portionally, at Harvard than at any Down-and-out club Committee of the P11other college in the country, according "The approval by The idea of the "ethical dento President A. Lawrence Lowell. grim Publicity Associaof an issue of stock New tist" who refrains from advertion to give sound, the present and not cense practical advice and tising was originally founded on ture. This is require The Thirteenth Victim of smallpox yable the proposition derived from the help if needed- every lative intent disclosed in Hartford was taken to the isolaIding New England manumedicos that advertising was of the statutes tion hospital yesterday The patient two facturer who makes fakery This view once had a "The amount of st is Catherine Moylan, 6 years old. fee. certain basis in fact, when the good goods, but is commission intelligent tting only people who advertised were neglecting the opporto be issued is insep The Annual State Hookworm report they tunity to increase sales transients. The merchant who price at which it is to shows that 46.3 percent. of about 11,fix lived in a town assumed that through legitimate adprice at which the pub 000 Texas children examined miscrowho vertising. every one knew where he was require that it may ooks scopically d5ring 1913 had hookworm. and what he had to offer. The a period of ten year iquor We have nothing to doctor the same. years hence is impossi Four Policemen and two ambulance missell We are merely ment now. But the This no longer applies. We drivers were needed to pull Dennis evangelists in the great vertible debentures are living so fast, and inventing *exfield of merchandising Kelleher, 32 years old, and who weighs take stock at par in so fast, and changing so fast, this 300 pounds, from the East river, New effort. If we can help that period involves and there are so many of us, that that York. you, say the word. A he who does not advertise is left the stock during the where copy of "Little Stories order entered now tha to the spiders, the cockreaches Mrs. William Settlemeir, 50 years le. of Great Advertising and the microbes, at par during that per New old who weighed 600 pounds, died at Successes" will be sent afford no security that The fact that you have all the to you free for the askthat her home near Huntington, Ind., of will get an adequate business you can well manage is the pneumonia. ing. It's interesting stock, or that rates no excuse now for not advertisdate upon such a capitalize Address ing. made Michael Rogick, 28 years old, died or that the rights of of yesterday in the City hospital from The reputation that endures, or Trade will be guarded proper scalds he suffered in the Worcester the institution that lasts, is the Approval Order Not V Extension Committee Rendering works, one that is properly advertised. "The mandatory red ITE. Advertising is fast becoming a of the statute that the comm A Slight Fire in Dickenson hall, the fine art. Its theme is Human its decision as to the oldest of Princeton's recitation audiPilgrim Publicity Ass'n, Wants, and where. when and to be issued upon the toriums. while 300 students were in it, how they may be gratified. Bromfield St., Boston it is to be put out is caused much excitement at noon yesIt interests, inspires, educates the underlying idea terday. -sometimeamus -informs and Afribond such as is propo thereby uplifts and benefits, lub. stonent proceeding. It The First National Bank of Suricating existence and helping since with earnestness tha perior, Neb. did not open for business the old world on its way to the Iway debenture has becom yesterday, the doors being closed at Celestial City of Fine Minds. trike able in view of pre the orders of the comptroller of the had This, however, is a m ELBERT HUBBARD. currency. burg legislative than judic fed"No request has be The Central Trust of New York filed In the past week the following matter appeared in The Bulletin: ch a approval of an issue at suit in the federal district court out the convertible-in imreSt. Louis yesterday against the Total General Local Bulletin Telegraph ituaApparently no vote ha ceivers of the Wabash railroad for the for $120,000. 1108 865 165 78 Jan. 3 trik that kind, Hence, the Saturday, hanbe considered upon th The Free Listing of beef and other 626 395 146 85 Jan. 5 case is whether appre Monday y to food products under the new tariff law of convertible debent ween is causing enormous increases in the 397 205 92 100 Jan. 6 set out in the order Tuesday, y on importation of food stuffs into the the United States. 386 190 100 96 Jan. 7 Wednesday, HONOR PAID TO damBecause Captain Glover of the 10th 270 530 140 120 Jan. 8 Thursday, d on regiment, White Plains, N. Y. banned HEROES inesthe tango and other new dances it is 438 238 100 100 Jan. Friday, Gift of $2,000 to Crev expected the annual military ball will up a be abandoned. Owners of o Wit2163 3485 751 571 ticks Totals In the Two Years since the workNew York, Jan. 9. ched men's compensation law went into of the Booth liner man fect employers of Wisconsin have paid Hamburg-American fi of a as indemnity to injured workmen and who rescued respective rust, their dependents $396,354.73. members of the crew steamer Oklahoma, rec Randall McCoy, who was a leader in night for the heroic ED. the McCoy-Hatfiel feud, at Pikeville, them. The men of Kv. thirty years ago, fell into an open entertained at dinne Moyer Back in Ban On Tango d in honor by the New fireplace yesterday and before he could while the seven office be removed he was fatally burned. of the Bavaria were Mrs. Clara Hess, Indiana's only wo$2,000 by the Gulf R zing Copper District by Archbishop owners of the Oklahor man justice of the peace, was married notor The men honored at Wheaton, Ill., yesterday to William ning. were Captain Willian E Ansteiss, who two days ago was ulted DECLARES HIS INTENTION TO PROHIBITION CAUSES DISMAY of the Gregory, Chie appointed chief of police of Laporte, amen Buck Second Officer Ind. dent AMONG PARISIANS REMAIN THERE and Third Officer F unch medals with suitable William King, 19. of South Brewster, went given them. Those Me., was fatally burned by falling into st of pate in the division the boiling water of the wood pit ning TO REGARD IT AS A SIN ADDRESS TO STRIKERS given by the owners at the South Brewster plant of the are Captain Graalfs Eastern Manufacturing company yesThird Officer Richard terday. nder five seamen, the Perrance to be Required of All Vio. Says Shot That Lodged in His Back The Kellogg-McKay Company, Chiment cago, manufacturers of boilers and raomlators of Prohibition-To Issue AdWas a Shot Into the Back of the ONE GIRL BOUND diators. was placed in the hands of a th receiver yesterday Liabilities were ANOTHE monition Against Immodest Dress. Working Class-Socialist Speakers. given as $1,500,000 and assets "somewain what less. Three Philadelphia M reet, or Their Father's "We Assume We Eat Dogs in Paris. Jan. -Cardinal Leon Adolphe NewHoughton. Mich. Jan. 9 -Deciarabiological branch department of agriAmette. archibishop of Paris. in an man, tion of Charles H. Moyer that he inBaltimore, Jan. know" declares Dr. A.H. Fisher of the admonition which will be published in ash.: tends to remain in the copper strike bound to a bed post the churches here tomorrow. forbids biological of the department of agriEast Baltimore, twelve man, district as long as he pleases intithe dancing of the tango as a sin culture in statement submitted to klyn, mations from union sources that the Ranko says she saw the house committee on agriculture. which must be confessed and require grand jury proceedings are to be at and kidnap her 17 penance. tacked on legal grounds and the deTinka Ranko, and About 35 Guests were forced to leave The archbishop says parture of Governor Ferris without father's savings of a "We condemn the dance imported their rooms in the Benedict house at With the girl and his making a direct effort to settle RS. from abroad known under the name Pawtucket, R. I.. hurriedly early yesthe trouble marked the progress of the their possession the of the tango, which by its nature. is terday when a fire broke out in the local industrial war today the father says. were indecent and offensive to morals and by restaurant of Carayanis Brothers on Spiro de Mtero. of P Mass Meeting of Strikers. Christians may not in conscience the first floor and spread upstairs indecamped, leaving th Mr. Moyer appeared before a mass take part therein. to the hotel. helpless to give an meeting of strikers and sympathizers "It will. therefore, be the duty of chehours later she was which crowded the largest hall in Han. confessors to take notice of this in the Merchants in Milwaukee who make ause father in an exhauste cock beyond its capacity Except for administration of the sacrament of a business of furnishing homes for wohis five minute address the gathering penance. newly married couples vesterday esti en's had a decidedly socialistic tinge. the Fifteen Months Fo mated that the dearth of marriages in Admonition Against Immodest Dress. other speakers including Seymour resulting from the new Wisconsin proLos Angeles Calif. Abbe Gouget, of the archibishop's Stedman of the investigation commiteugenies law is costing them nearly olyn Grant Lyman, promote household said today that his emitee of the socialist party, J W Lord $10,000 a day. Panama Development Ga., ence had for some time been distresof Peoria, Ills., and several local men victed of having Consed by the persistence of the vogue of that political faith, A Strike Which Started in the Tau defraud, was sentence of the tango and had hoped that it Mr. Moyen explained that under the bel Hosiery mill at Philadelphia year and three month bewould be transitory, but he felt it his advice of physicians he could not eral days ago when a reduction of at Florence, Ariz. ithduty now to intervene formally make an extended address and then wages was announced spread today to of the United States she said: Cardinal Amette also will publish several other concerns with the result overruled a motion of tomorrow an official admonition ort the Shot in Back of Every Miner.


Article from The Republican, January 15, 1914

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BANK'S DOORS CLOSED. First National Of Superior, Neb., Ordered To Suspend. Superior, Neb.-The First National Bank of Superior did not open for business Friday, the doors being closed at the orders of the Comptroller of the Currency, according to announcement of President C. E. Adams. The cause of the closing of the institution is not definitely known. The bank, according to the last statement, had a capital stock of $60,000 with surplus and profits bringing this up to $72,000.


Article from Bonners Ferry Herald, January 16, 1914

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NEWS OF THE WORLD TEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST FRESH FROM OUR DAILY NEWSPAPER SERVICE. GATHERED FROM BOTH CONTINENTS dappenings National, Historical and Political and Personal Events Herewith Selected for Our Many Readers. The First National Bank of Superior, Nebraska, failed last week. The New England Watch company. a widely known concern has failed in business. Mme. Lilian Nordica is in a critical condition with pneumonia on Thursday island, Queensland. Henry Bischof & Co., one of the oldest banking houses in New York are in the hands of a receiver. The Kellogg-Mackay company, Chicago, manufacturers of boilers and radiators, have failed in business. Vigorous opposition to conferring military ranks on chaptains in the navy is expressed by Rear Admiral Victor Blue. Suet, the experts contend, contains the same food value as lard, and is a satisfactory substitute for frying purposes and shortening. The will of the late Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, Philadelphia, leaves the estate, valued at more than $100,000 to the widow and two sons. Russia is the home of nearly onehalf of the world's Jews, and is the only country with a larger Jewish population than the United States. Courtmartial acquitted all the German officers with breaches of the law in connection with the recent violent incidents between the military and civilians at Zabern, Germany. Mayor Mitchel of New York has declared war on the organized gangs of the city and caused emphatic orders to be given the police that these bands of drug fiends, murderers and thieves must be broken up. The constitutionality of the state law in Massachusetts which compels employers advertising for help during labor troubles to state in the advertisement that a strike exists was upheld by the full bench of the state supreme court recently.


Article from Clearwater Republican, January 16, 1914

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NEWS OF THE WORLD TEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST FRESH FROM OUR DAILY NEWSPAPER SERVICE. GATHERED FROM BOTH CONTINENTS +appenings National, Historical and Political and Personal Events Herewith Selected for Our Many Readers. The First National Bank of Superior, Nebraska, failed last week. The New England Watch company. a widely known concern has failed in business. Mme. Lilian Nordica is in a critical e condition with pneumonia on Thurst day island, Queensland. r Henry Bischof & Co., one of the oldest banking houses in New York are in the hands of a receiver. S e The Kellogg-Mackay company, Chicago, manufacturers of boilers and radiators, have failed in business. Vigorous opposition to conferring f military ranks on chaptains in the e navy is expressed by Rear Admiral Victor Blue. Suet, the experts contend, contains e the same food value as lard, and is 1 a satisfactory substitute for frying purposes and shortening. t The will of the late Dr. S. Weir fMitchell, Philadelphia, leaves the eso tate, valued at more than $100,000 to the widow and two sons. 1Russia is the home of nearly one" half of the world's Jews, and is the r only country with a larger Jewish population than the United States. rCourtmartial acquitted all the Gere man officers with breaches of the law 1in connection with the recent violent K. incidents between the military and et civilians at Zabern, Germany. el Mayor Mitchel of New York has den clared war on the organized gangs of n the city and caused emphatic orders to be given the police that these bands Ó of drug fiends, murderers and thieves e must be broken up. SThe constitutionality of the state IIlaw in Massachusetts which compels employers advertising for help during labor troubles to state in the adverÓ r, tisement that a strike exists was upd held by the full bench of the state 6 supreme court recently.


Article from Middletown Transcript, January 17, 1914

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BANK'S DOORS CLOSED, First National Of Superior, Neb., Ordered To Suspend. Superior, Neb.-The First National Bank of Superior did not open for business Friday, the doors being closed at the orders of the Comptroller of the Currency, according to announcement of President C. E. Adams. The cause of the closing of the institution is not definitely known. The bank, according to the last statement, had a capital stock of $60,000 with surplus and profits bringing this up to $72,000.


Article from The Red Cloud Chief, February 12, 1914

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HOME NEWS Bulletin of The Week's Deings Saturday will be Saint Valentine's Fred Wittwer is building a new barn week. See the Chief office for job printing, you like it." Frank Starr was in Franklin Saturon business. Will Mountford was in Franklin Vednesday on business. Everton Foe of Sheridan, Wyoming, visiting his parents here this week. Mrs. W E. Round of Grand Island rrived here Sunday to visit relatives. Harry Roats left Sunday morning Detroit, Michigan, to visit relaWill West and family arrived here week from Iowa and will make city their home. Brakeman Roy Robinson was down McCook Monday visiting his parMr. and Mrs. Chas. Robinson. Mrs. J. C. Lemmer of Huntley, No. raska, who has been visiting with I. Holmes and wife has returned Zeke Johnston and son, Loyd, left Vednesday for their home in Minne. Mr. Johnston bought two car bads of horses while here, (and taken back with him. Every one is interested in an item of news. If you know of any local appening that is not generally known ommunicate the fact to this office. Ve have both the phones. A blizzard struck this part of the ountry last Thursday evening and asted until noon Friday, which caused he temperature to drop belów zero, made the ice and coal men smile. The Franklin County News which is bly edited by Karl Spence is now five ears old. Karl is a live wire in the ewpaper business at Franklin and we vish him many more years of prosperWe wish to thank the many friends nd neighbors for the beautiful floral fferings and kind assistance extended luring the sickness and death of our eloved mother.-E. Boyd Smith and Sisters. Chas. Gust and family of Pittsburg, Kansas, arrived here Wednesday. Mr. Gust will farm the Sherwood farm outhwest of this city this year which vas formerly occupied by his brother, Amos, who died a few weeks ago. Wm. A. Cole of Bloomington has appointed receiver of the defunct First National Bank of Superior. R. Sutherland has been appointed atorney. No better selections could have been made.-Frauklin County Progress. Alf. Saladen, Geo. Hutchison, Geo. Hollister, Wilbur Hamilton, Frank Abel, T. J. Diamond, A. W. Kaley and Flavius Grice, were in Guide Rock Tuesday evening attending the Maonic lodge. They went down by the and.car route and all report as hav


Article from El Paso Herald, March 25, 1914

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11 by county authorities here Tuesday against the Santa Fe Railway com pany. Operation of an engine not equipped with brake appliances as prescribed by Texas laws is alleged. Wright cleans clothes cleanest in E1 Paso. Phone 343 for wagon. Wife of Dr. Roller Visits Here. Mrs. B. F. Roller. wife of Dr. Roller, the famous wrestler and athlete, was here Tuesday for the day, en route to California. Mrs. Roller visited Juarez and other places of interest. Her home is in Chicago. Dr. A. T. Still Osteopathic Infirmary Dr. Ira W. Collins, physician in chief: Dr. M, Alkire, lady specialist; Dr. Carl Gibson, 201 W Missouri street. They cured others. They can cure you. Sacramento Sheriff Drops Dead. Sacramento, Calif., March 25. David Ahern, sheriff of Sacramento county, who suffered a nervous collapse recently while supervising the "army of unemployed' here last week, dropped dead in his home here Tuesday night. Physicians said death was dupe to heart failure superinduced by nervous strain and overwork. High grade optical work at 108 Tex as St. El Paso Optical Co. Phone 627. Wilson-Millican, the best cleaners. White work a specialty. Bids For Siegel Properties Opened. New York, March 25.-Bids for the various Siegel properties in this city were opened Tuesday by the federal receivers, who expressed disappointment that they totaled only $876,000 for assets valued at more than $1,730,000, wholesale. United States judge Chas. M. Hough will decide today whether the bids shall be accepted. "Proposals for furnishing the Pueblo Indian Agency with twenty (20) pure bred, or approximately pure bred, yearling Hereford bulls, will be received at the office of Supt. P. T. Lonergan, 508 West Silver Avenue, Albuquerque, N. Mex., up to and including March 31. 1914. State price at shipping point and also f. O. b. Albuquerque. Dr. L. M. Breck, dentist, moved to 427 new First National bank building. Makes Noonday Talk. Rev. C. L. Ocerstreet made the noonday talk at the Wigwam theater at noon in the series of noon meetings which are being held there. Parvin Witte sang preceding the service. Dr. Black, dentist, 415-16 Mills Bldg. Masked Man Shoots Banker. Superior, Neb., March 25.-Captain C E. Adams. president of the First National bank of this place, which recently closed its doors. was shot and dangerously wounded Tuesday night by a masked man who attacked him at the mouth of an alley as Capt. Adams was returning to his home from the business part of the town. He was twice wounded in the head. All Garments cleaned, dyed, pressed Wright. Phone 343. Taxicabs and rent cars. Phone 1. Business Uncertain, Says Gleed. St. Louis. Mo., March 25 -"When a business man goes to his office in the morning, he doesn't know whether he will wind up the day's business by going home, or going to jail," Charles S. Gleed of Kansas City, chairman of the board of directors of the Southwestern Telephone and Telegraph company, said in an address here Tuesday. Mr. Gleed said legislators persist in passing laws on subjects of which they know little or nothing and the result is disastrous to business. El Paso Distilled Water Co. Ph. 489. E1 Page Distilled Water Co., Ph. 489 Asks $500,000 For Ministers. Willimantic, Conn., March 25.-A plea for $500,000 dollars more to provide for retired Methodist ministers and their families was made Tuesday by Rev. C. C. Clemens, of Des Moines, Ia., at the formal opening of the 74th annual session of the New England southern conference of the Methodist Episcopal church. We are headquarters for Peerless Mazda lamps. Texas Electrical Supply Co., 119 N. Stanton. Phone 1120. Dr. Anna Reum, Buckler Bldg. Tel. 577. Farmer Must Serve 14 Years. Charleston, W Va., March 25.-That E. Graham Wilson, a wealthy farmer of Charlestown, must serve 14 years in the West Virginia penitentiary. was decided by the supreme court of appeals here Tuesday Wilson was convicted of a crime against Miss Kate Turner, who was a guest at his country home. Longwell's auto baggage wagons call for and deliver baggage anywhere in El Paso. Phone 1. Hill, Optician of Precision, 421 Mesa. Held on Attempted Theft Charge. Miguel Martinez was arrested by the police Tuesday afternoon, after it is claimed he attempted to take Mrs. S. C. Awbrey's purse in a store on Mesa avenue. A complaint charging Martinez with theft from the person was filed in judge E. B. McClintock' court. Dr. Nettle Satterle osteopath, 410 Mills Bldg., phone 141. Res. phone 3483. Dr. Ebert, Dentist, 216-218 Mills Bldg. Takes Auto, Rides, Returns It. A joy rider took a spin in judge Adrian Pool's two passengeR automog bile Tuesday afternoon. Poo! left his machine standing on one of the treets in the residence section of the ity. When he returned to the spot he car was missing. It was later recovered. Baggage Transfer, Livery and Storage. fi Call Pomeroy's, phones 651-2444, or rompt baggare transfer and livery. S John T. Hill, lawyer, 311-12 Caples bld. Boy on Wheel Arrested. Alberto Montequier, mounted. ac" ording to the police, on a bicycle beonging to Ignacio Lujan, a delivery oy of the Ryan drug store on San ntonio street, was overtaken by A. Ryan Monday night as he was rid-


Article from The Day Book, March 25, 1914

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Ishpeming, Mich.-Miners National Bank Building destroyed by fire. Loss estimated at $40,000. New York.-Miss Eleanor Wilson, daughter of the president, who is to marry Sec'y of Treasury McAdoo, in New York to buy trousseau. Savannah, Ga.-Fire on Atlantic Coast Line docks for time threatened entire water front. Cotton worth over $100,000 burned. Philadelphia.-Body of 8-year-old Warren McCarrick not recovered in drag of river and sewers. Police now believe he was kidnaped by gypsies. Washington.-Los Angeles county, California, with $14,720,000 of crops, was banner county of U. S. in 1910, according to reports of census of agriculture for that year. Superior, Neb.-Captain C. E. Adams, pres. First National Bank, which failed Jan. 9, shot twice and seriously wounded in struggle with 2 masked men. Kokomo, Ind.-High school building burned with total loss estimated at $80,000. Sharon, Pa.-Searchers found bodies of Walter Hanrahan and Homer Shelar, youth missing since Sunday. Drowned while trying to cross ice. Indianapolis.-Man believed to be Henry Thayer killed by outgoing interurban train. Duluth, Minn.-No motive found for suicide of John S. Gustafson, novelty salesman. Found dead with bullet wound in chest near car tracks. Eau Claire, Wis.-Unknown man run down by North Coast Limited. Dead. Ironton, Mo.-Posse searching for negro who shot and fatally wounded George Marshall, town marshal, when he tried to arrest him for robbing postoffice and terrorizing town.


Article from The Ely Miner, April 3, 1914

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Domestic A movement to get a Carnegie hero medal for Mrs. Bertha Magill, who saved more than thirty lives in the recent Missouri Athletic club fire at St. Louis, was launched. She refused to let her husband, manager of the club, carry her out of the building until she had awakened many guests. Seven armed men entered the Elma National bank at Elma, in southwest Washington, made a prisoner of the cashier and escaped with about three thousand seven hundred dollars. Spring floods have set in through the valleys of the state of New York and already much property damage is reported. Two persons have lost their lives. The Burley Tobacco society, whose membership list held the names of more than forty thousand farmers in Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio, and which was organized five years ago, has practically ended its existence when checks for $316,000 were distributed among the members. By the breaking of a suspension bridge across the San Joaquin river, near Fresno, Cal., four men and one woman, crossing in an automobile, were plunged 50 feet into the swift flowing mountain stream and drowned. Several stars of the Boston Opera company were hurt slightly and some of the women fainted in a crush of 5,000 persons on a dock just before the sailing of the steamer Lapland at Boston. ... Opposition to the passage of administration anti-trust bills, and particularly the federal trade commission bill, is voiced in the report of a special committee of the chamber of commerce of New York. The report recommends that no legislation likely to disturb business conditions be enacted at the present session of congress. Notice was served on Solicitor General Dorsey of Georgia, who conducted the prosecution, that an extraordinary motion for a new trial for Leo M. Frank would be filed April 16, the day before the date set for his execution for the murder of Mary Phagan. Manuel Joseph, a former customs guard, testified in the United States district court at San Francisco that he had planned to purchase a ranch for $11,000, which he had accumulated by smuggling opium. Capt. C. E. Adams, president of the First National bank of Superior, Neb., which recently closed its doors, was shot and dangerously wounded by a masked man, who attacked him at the mouth of an alley. Heavy rains amounting to cloudbursts at some points have demoralized railroad traffic in eastern Texas. The International & Great Northern; Texas, New Orleans, Cotton Belt and Southern Pacific railroads have reported the greatest damage. ... Silk workers at Paterson, N. J. adopted a resolution agreeing to strike for a nine-hour day whenever the central committee of the Industrial Workers of the World issued the order. The meeting was attended by about seven hundred of the 20,000 workers.


Article from Omaha Daily Bee, February 7, 1915

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Receiver Sells Building. SUPERIOR, Neb., Feb. 6.-(Special Telegram.)-The First National bank receiver sold to Hugh Hunter of Guide Rock the Pierce clothing store building, being the first property sold by the receiver since the bank closed a year ago.


Article from The Pensacola Journal, April 4, 1915

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NATIONAL BANKS AND CAUSES OF THEIR FAILURE DOCUMENT ISSUED BY COMP. TROLLER OF CURRENCY SHOWS THIRTEEN INSTITUTIONS, BESIDES FIRST NATIONAL OF PENSACOLA, WENT TO WALL. The annual report of the comptroller of the currency to the third session of the sixty-third congress of the United States, issued December 7th. 1914, as document No. 1467, volume two, contains some interesting information concerning the failure of the First National and other banks banks during 1914. This report gives the name of the bank failing, the date of the appointment of receiver, which is the first act by the government after the failure of a bank, and also gives the causes for the failure as found by the government investigation. Below is given a list of the national banks that have failed during 1914, the date of appointment of receiver. and the cause assigned by the comptroller of the currency for the failure. Marion National Bank, Marion, Kansas, January, closed by run. First National Bank, Superior, Neb., January, fraudulent management. Barnesville National Bank, Barnesville, Minn., January, fraudulent management. First National Bank, Pensacola, Fla, January, injudicious banking. Americus National Bank, Americus, Ga., February, fraudulent management. First National Bank, Gallatin, Tenn., March, wrecked by assistant cashier. First National Bank, Wyatusing, Pa., March, depreciation of securities. First National Bank, London, Ky., April, wrecked by assistant cashier. First National Bank, Corning, Iowa, June, excessive loans to officers and directors. First National Bank, Johnson City, IIL, August, injudicious banking. First National Bank, Sutton, W. Va., August, defalcation of officers. American National Bank, Pensacola, Fla., September, closed by a run. United States National Bank, Centralia, Washington, September, defalcation of officers. First National Bank, West Elizabeth, Pa., October, injudicious banking. According to this report, the government recognizes thirty-two different causes for failures, some relating to defalcation, some for excessive loans to officers, some to fraudulent management. Others are listed as wrecked by the president, cashier, or some other officer, and some for other causes. It will be noted that in this report they do not charge fraud against either of the banks which failed in Pensacola, the comptroller's report accounting for the failure of the American National Bank, which re-opened shortly after it closed its doors, gives as the cause, "closed by a run," meaning a run of the depositors. In accounting for the failure of the First National Bank, the report attributes as the cause, "Injudiclous Banking," which is a criticism of judgment against the officers of the bank, rather than a suggestion of fraud or intentional wrong doing on their part.


Article from Omaha Daily Bee, October 19, 1915

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Born in Iowa. Rhoderic Dhu Sutherland was born in Jones county, Iowa. in 1862. While a lad his parents moved to northern Missouri, where they lived for seven years. It was here that he secured his earlier education. The family moved to eastern Nebraska, living there two years, after which they moved to Nuckolis county, where Mr. Sutherland has made his home for over thirty years. As a young man Mr. Sutherland taught school and studied law during his spare moments. He was admitted to the bar in Nuckolls county twenty years ago. He has always been identified with the politics of his county and state and has been twice elected prosecuting attorney of Nuckolls county. He was elected to congress from the Fifth district, being elected on the populist ticket. He was a candidate for the presidential nomination of the people's independent party in 1900. Nominee in 1912. He was also the democratic nominee in 1912, being defeated by Silas R. Barton. Mr. Sutherland was appointed attorney for the receiver of the defunct First National bank of Superior and was acting in that capacity when he was taken ill. He has made his home in Nelson since he was admitted to the bar and has always enjoyed a lucrative law practice there. A wife and two daughters survive him. Mrs. Dexter Barrett of Lincoln and Mrs. Friend of Kansas City, Kan. Mr. Sutherland bore a striking resemblance to William J. Bryan and was often taken for Mr. Bryan by those. who were not personally acquainted with either one.


Article from Omaha Daily Bee, June 8, 1916

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News Notes of Superior. Superior, Neb., June 7.-(Special Telegram.)-The Superior Commercial club went on a booster trip today through fifteen Kansas towns advertising the chautauqua and trade day. A twenty-five piece band was taken along, also a quartet and several speakers. Thirty autos carried the club on the trip. Fifteen Nebraska towns will be visited by the same crowd next Thursday. The second dividend to the depositors of the failed First National bank has just been announced by Receiver Cole.


Article from Omaha Daily Bee, March 12, 1917

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Legislature Would Know of Superior Bank Receivership (From a Staff Correspondent.) Lincoln, March 11.-(Special.)Representative Swanson introduced the following resolution this afternoon in the house and the same was adopted: Whereas, The First National bank of Superior failed March the 6th, 1914. Whereas, The reserve funds of the First State Savings bank of Superior were deposited in the defunct National bank, foreing the said Savings bank to suspend business, and Whereas, The state banking department drew out of the guarantee fund $54,526.17 with which to reimburse the depositors, not a cent of which has been returned to said fund, therefore be it Resolved, That the state banking department be and is hereby requested to submit to this house information concerning the present status of the affairs of the aforesaid defunct Savings bank, the amount recovered from the securities held by said bank, the total cost of receivership including attorneys fees and all other expenses to date, the time when the money collected may be expected to be returned into the guarantee fund and the probable amount which will thus be returned, Be it further Resolved, That the clerk be instructed to transcribe and deliver a copy of these resolutions to said state banking department.


Article from Omaha Daily Bee, March 17, 1917

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Nebraska DECISION FAVORS MRS. MANCHESTER High Court Holds Woodmen Circle Members Who Asked Injunction in Contempt. OTHER CASES REVERSED (From a Staff Correspondent.) Lincoln, March 16.-(Special.)-Supreme court opinions this morning contain the following: An injunction is denied in the case brought by opponents of Emma B. Manchester, who have been trying to interfere with her work as supreme guardian of the Woodmen Circle, the court holding that as it had already ruled that no interference could be made until the regular session of the supreme lodge, that the objectors were in contempt for attempting interference until that time. Superior Bank Case Reversed. The value of property owned by a stockholder of an insolvent national bank and delivered by him to the receiver under an agreement that it should be credited on an assessment subsequently levied upon his stock may be pleaded as a setoff in an action to collect a stock assessment, where the receiver refused to return the property and used the proceeds to increase the assets for the benefit of creditors. This is the opinion of the state supreme court in the case of the failure of the First National bank of Superior, where the receiver, W. A. Cole, brought action against C. E. Adams, a stockholder, and president of the bank, to recover a stock assessment of $16,862.50, Adams having owned 168.625 shares and the comptroller of the currency having ordered an assessment of $1.00 a share. The defendant set out that he owned promissory notes of the value of $8,799 and had turned them over to the temporary receiver under an agreement that they should be used if necessary in liquidating the bank's indebtedness, in such event their value to be credited to any stock assessment subsequently levied upon defendant's stock, but the receiver had failed to do so. The court holds that the district court erred in sustaining the demurrer to the plea of setoff and reverses the lower court and remands the eause for further proceedings. Enyart Will Case Reversed. The judgment of the district court of Otoe county is reversed in the matter of the settlement of the estate of Logan Enyart and the ease remanded with instructions to enter an order reversing the order of the county court. The case is one which has created much attention and especially so since recently, when J. H. Black, a son-inlaw of the deceased, was shot and killed in Colorado by one of the Enyarts, a banker, after the two had quarreled over the settlement of the estate. Logan Enyart left considerable property, which was disposed of in two wills. He and his brother, A. F. Enyart, were partners. In one of the wills the brother was given the interest of the deceased in the business, with the proviso that the brother should pay to Katheryn Enyart, the widow, $5,000. After the death of Logan Enyart it was contended that there was an ante-nuptial contract between Logan and his wife which barred her from any interest in the estate. It was later determined that this contract was invalid and that the wife was entitled to participate in the estate. She renounced all right under the wills and elected to take as the widow of her deceased husband. The brother, A. F. Enyart, was nominated as executor and H. D. Wilson as general administrator of the estate not disposed of by the two wills. The controversy arose over the two appointments, one made under the provisions of two different statutes, section 1341 providing for a special administrator and the other, section 1381, for the regular administrator. In reversing the lower court the supreme court holds that "If the surviving partner is executor of a will