13685. State Bank (Valparaiso, NE)

Bank Information

Episode Type
Suspension → Closure
Bank Type
state
Start Date
November 22, 1888
Location
Valparaiso, Nebraska (41.081, -96.832)

Metadata

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gpt-5-mini
Short Digest
2f253f50

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Description

Contemporary papers report the State Bank of Valparaiso closed its doors in late Nov. 1888; proprietors (Scoville/Cr aft/Crafts variants in OCR) fled and large defalcations/altered notes were discovered. No article describes a depositor run prior to closure; the bank failed and remained closed (receivership/permanent failure implied). OCR errors in proprietors' names (Scoville / Scoville vs. Scoville/Scovill; Craft/Crafts) noted.

Events (1)
1. November 22, 1888 Suspension
Cause
Bank Specific Adverse Info
Cause Details
Massive defalcation: proprietors altered note amounts, absconded after borrowing extensively; large unsecured liabilities ($100,000–$200,000) discovered; vaults reported empty or short of deposits in accounts of theft/embezzlement.
Newspaper Excerpt
The state bank of this place has closed its doors and the proprietors, F. Scoville and G. A. Craft[s], have fled the country, leaving many debts unsatisfied.
Source
newspapers

Newspaper Articles (12)
1. November 23, 1888 Wichita Eagle Wichita, KS
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The Wichita Daily Eagle: Friday Morning, November 23, 188 STABLE BURNED. The new silver vault in the treasury those towns the butchers who six years building, having a capacity of 100,000,000 ago were well to do, are now bankrupt. A stable in the rear of Judge Stevens' of the dollars, and said to be the largest The committee then adjourned to 8 p. m. DRESSED BEEF RULES. F Only one witness was examined at the treasury vault in the world, is being filled residence on North Emporia avenue, took at the rate of half a million a day. It will night session-A. C. Cassiday, an East St. fire at 30' clock this morning. The departhold the total coinage of three years, but Louis commission man. Mr. Cassiday exment answered immediately, but did not METHODS OF THE "BIG FOUR" TO at the end of that period still further storplained the difference between Chicago age room will probably have to be prosucceed in extinguishing the flames. and St. Louis on purely business principles CONTROL TRADE. vided unless the coinage is suspended. and claimed that if St. Louis did the right man Nothing of value was in the stable to be The decrease in amount of the deductions thing the cattle business would come out prot burned. on account of mutilations from the face all right. It was all nonsence to call the value of currency redeemed and in the "big four" of Chicago robbers. They number of counterfeit notes and coins reButchers and Retail Dealers Driven BANK'S DOORS CLOSED. were business men and their mission in jected, shows a gratifying improvement in life was to make their capital invested OMAHA, Nov. 23.-A Bee special from Out of Business by the Chicago the condition of circulation in this reearn from 6 to 7 per cent, and they were Valparaiso, Neb., says: The state bank at spect. succeeding in doing so. The talk of a BC Monopolists. this place closed its doors and the propriewas It was a A small number of unsigned notes have tors, C.S. Coville and G.A. Crane. fled the been stolen from a bank in Kansas and are Mr. country, leaving many debts unsatisfied. irredeemable, but none of them have been committee as the combine business proposition. ridiculous. some information Cassiday purely gave to The amount of liabilities is unknown. As how markets are made. For instance, a seen at the treasury. nearlr 32 can ha ascortained this oranine Several Witnesses Examined by the Senate stool BIAN milla with - full become

2. November 23, 1888 The Morning News Savannah, GA
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EMPTY BANI K VAULTS. Deposits to the Extent of $87,000 Turn Up Missing. OMAHA, NEB. Nov. 22.-A special to the Bee from Valparaiso, Neb., says: "The state bank of this place has closed its doors and the proprietors, F. Scoville and G. A. Craft, have fled from the country, leaving many debts unsatisfied. As nearly as can be ascertained this evening the liabilities will reach $200,000. It develops that Scoville has altered many of the notes payable to the bank by raising the figures on them. Both he and Craft borrowed extensively from their friends before leaving. AN IOWA BANK CLOSES. CHICAGO, Nov. 22.-A special from Des Moines, Ia., says: "The principal bank of Osceola closed yesterday afternoon and is in the hands of a receiver. Over $90,000 is said to have been deposited in the bank, and there is but $3,000 in the vaults. It is rumored that the president has been speculating in wheat. It was thought to be one of the firmest banks in Clark county."

3. November 24, 1888 Waterbury Evening Democrat Waterbury, CT
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Their Crime Greater than Supposed. LINCOLN, Neb., Nov. 24.-The - failure of the State Bank of Valparaiso, which occurred Tuesday, is even more serious than was at first anticipated. The unsecured liabilities run up to something like $100,000, and many eastern firms are sufferers. It is supposed that Scoville & Crafts, proprietors, have gone to Canada. Scoville's family is left penniless.

4. November 24, 1888 Evening Journal Wilmington, DE
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Their Crime Greater than Supposed. LINCOLN, Neb., Nov. 24.-The failure of the State Bank of Valparaiso, which occurred Tuesday, is even more serious than was at first anticipated. The unsecured liabilities run up to something like $100,000, and many eastern firms are sufferers. It is supposed that Scoville & Crafts, proprietors, have gone to Canada. Scoville's family is left penniless.

5. November 26, 1888 Clarksville Evening Chronicle Clarksville, TN
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The Defalcation Growing. LINCOLN, Neb., Nov. 26.-The failure of the state bank of Valparaiso, which OCcurred Tuesday, is even more serious than was at first anticipated. The unsecured liabilities run up to something like $100,000, and many eastern firms are sufferers. It is supposed that Scoville & Crafts, proprietors, have gone to Canada. Scoville's family is left penniless.

6. November 29, 1888 The Iowa Plain Dealer Cresco, New Oregon, IA
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went crazy on the 220 and was a raving maniac. JERRY TAYLOR (colored) was lynched in St. Heiena Parisb, La., on the 22d for criminal assault on a young girl. AN Oregon farmer, with his wife and three children arrived at Denver, Col., on the 22d, and claimed to have been buncoed out of $10,000 in New York. ON the 22d James Philbeck, a farmer of Cleveland County, N. C., was called to the door of his house and shot dead by an unknown man, who entered the house, shot Philbeck's wife and robbed the house. A CRY of fire was raised by pickpockets in a crowded store in Chicago on the 22d, and in the panic which ensued many women were badly injured and also suffered the loss of their purses. Ox the 22d the State Bank at Valparaiso, Neb., failed for $200,000, and it was reported that the proprietors, F. Scoville and G. A Crafts, had fled. ON the night of the 22d Frederick Dost and his wife were suffocated by coal gas from a stove at their home in Cleve land, O. FIRE swept away the business portion of Pokomoke City, Md., on the 22.1, causing a loss of $500,000. Four newspaper offices were among the buildings burned. ON the 22d three-fourths of the switchmen at Indianapolis, Ind., struck because the superintendents refused to concede to their demands for higher wages. A CONSTITUTIONAL convention will be held at Jamestown, D. T., December 5, to further the early admission of the Dakotas into the Union. A FIRE on the 22.1 in Marlin, Tex., destroyed $100.000 worth of property. ON the 22d Levi Meeker, his wife and their eight-year-old daughter were killed near Wellington, Kan., while attempting to cross the tracks of the Southern Kansas railway. THE official canvass on the 22d of the electoral vote in North Carolina showed 148,336 votes for the Democratic candidates and 134,709 for the Republican candilates. AT Livingstone, Ala., on the 221 the house of Henry Jones (colored) was burned to the ground, and three children who were in the house were burned to death. A FIRE swept away the greater part of the business district of Eureka Springs, Ark. on the 23d. Loss (200,000. MOSES SMITH, a Brazil (Ind.) miner aged sixty years, and without family, was on the 23d informed that he had fallen heir to a fortune of $100,000 by the death of a relative in Wales. FIRE destroyed the Jenney Electric Light Company's plant at Fort Wayne, Ind., on the 23d. Loss, $250,000. THE General Assembly of the Knights of Labor on the 23d at Indianapolis reelected T. V. Powderly general master workman. CARL WOEBBEKING'S house near Waterloo, Ia., was burned on the 231, and two of his little children were suffocated by smoke. OFFICIAL returns on the 23d from New Mexico show the election of Joseph (Dem.) to Congress over Otero (Rep) by 1,730 majority. The Legislature stands: Repub licans, 22; Democrats, 13. JOHN HOLINESS (colored) was executed on the 23d at Marion, Ala., for the murder of his paramour, Celia Johnston, and George W. Milliken was hanged at Shawneetown, III., for wife murder. ON the 231 Cashier Barker, of the Argentine (Kan.) Bank, was robbed of $1,000 on a street-car in Kansas City. He had just drawn the money from a bank. ON a wager John Conger, of Woo Isfield, O., drank three pints of whisky on the 23d and died a few minutes later. THE tobacco factory of Wackerbarth & Joseph at New Orleans was burned on the 23d at a loss of $100,000.

7. November 29, 1888 The Worthington Advance Worthington, MN
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MINOR NEWS ITEMS. For Week Ended November 24 A good flow of natural gas has been struck at Tonawanda, N Y The Georgia Legislature on Tuesday re elected Alfred H. Colquitt United States Senator. John E Dubois' barn at Dubois, Pa. was burned Friday night at a loss of $40,000; uninsured George W. Leeser, of Pottsville, Pa., was sanabagged and robbed of 12,500 on Tuesday at Cincinnati, O. The first white woman settler of Kansas City, Mo., Mrs. Berenice Chouteau, died on Tuesday, aged 87 years. John Holiness (colored) was executed on Friday at Marion, Ala., for the murder of his paramour, Celia Johnston. Jerry Tavlor (colored) was lynched on Thursday in St. Helena Parish, La., for criminal assault on a young girl. John Conger, of Woodsfield, O., drank three pints of whisky on a wager on Friday and died a few minutes later. Seven counterfeiters who were operat ing in the vicinity of Erie, Pa., have been arrested by secret-service officers. T. H. Thomas was killed and Edward J. Cohen fatally wounded in a quarrel over poker game at Covington, Ga., on Thurs. day. Henry Brotzman and family, in charge of the Bee-Line station at Hartwell O., were chloroformed on Tuesday and robbed of $500. The house of Carl Woebbeking, near Waterloo, Ia., was burned on Friday, and two of his little children were suffocated by smoke. A heavy fall of snow, the first of the season, was reported on Monday from points in Northern Illinois, Indiana and Western Iowa Wilson Arnold (colored) was taken from the jail at Yazoo City, Miss., on Monday and lynched for the murder of Captain Robert Johnson. Robert Hellesty, of Bivinsville, Todd County, Ky. who had bet his farm and stock on Cleveland being election, committed suicide. Adam Berkes, a man who was whipped recently at Sardinia, O., by the White Caps, went crazy on Thursday and was a raving maniac. The mayor of Havana, Cuba, resigned on Friday because of the clamor against his recent decree imposing a consumption tax on eatables. A man, his wife and three children who arrived at Denver, Col., on Thursday claimed to have been buncoed out of $10,000 in New York At the meeting of the National BaseBall League in New York on Wednesday Cleveland was unanimously elected to take the place of Detroit. August Schne der. who arrived in New York City on Friday, said he had walked all the way from Chicago, leaving there September 26 last. A satisfactory test was made of the temporary telephone line between Boston and Chicago, prepared by the Long Distance Telephone Company. A state conspiracy was discovered in Java, forty-two of the ringleaders were arrested, and eleven who refused to surrender were shot dead. At Bloomington, Ind., Wednesday William Norman, who was whipped by the White Caps, brought suit for $10,000, naming eleven defendants. The State Bank at Valparaiso Neb., failed on Thursday for $200,000, and it was reported that the proprietors, F. Scoville and G. A. Crafts, had fled. Cashier Barker. of the Argentine(Kan.) Bank, was robbed of $1.000 on street-car in Kansas City on Friday. He had just drawn the money from bank. Henry Jones, of Petersburg, Va. while drunk on Friday went to sleep on the porch of his resi lence, and when found by friends was frozen to death. Olaf Lunde, cashier of the New York Daily News, absconded Wednesday on learning that his accounts were to be investigated, taking at least $5,000 The treasurer of Indiana filed his annual report on Monday, showing that the total domestic debt of the State was $383,783, and the foreign debt was $6,770,668. Mrs. Mary Doran. of Columbus, O., who murdered her husband last July by pouring carbolic acid in his mouth. has been acquitted on the ground of insanity The Jenney electric-light works at Fort Wayne, Ind., were destroyed by fire early Friday morning, entailing loss of $200,000. The insurance aggregates $148,000. The Home Savings Bank of Norfolk, Va. suspended Wednesday. The directors state that the depositors, most of whom are colored, will lose little if any thing Four Marion (Ind.) butchers bought the same five beeves of Charles Clark Thursday night, each paying in cash. Clark is missing, and each butcher is claiming the cattle. o. F. Adams, city treasurer of Macon, Ga., was reported 0.000 short in his ac counts Wednesday and suspended from office. He could give no satisfactory explanation. A convention of boiler inspectors as sembled at Pittsburgh, Pa., on Tuesday, and formed a National organization, Will iam McClellan, of St. Louis, being chosen president. Thirty converts in charge of a Mormon elder passed through Montgomery, Ala. on Monday en route for Utah. All were from that neighborhood. Most of them were women. Three men were convicted on Tuesday at Freehold, N. J., of malicious mischief in trying to drive James J. McIntyre, an aged colored man, out of town, and were sentenced to imprisonment. Leonetto Ciprtani, son of an Italian count but American born and heir to a fortune of $25,000,000 left by his father was at Kalamazoo, Mich. Friday, on business connected with the estate. Spurgeon Perry, aged S9 years, at one time possessed of a fortune estimated at $1,000,000. accumulated in the patent-medi cine business, was on Thursday sent to the Brooklyn (N. Y.) poor-house at his own request. Switchmen Quit Work. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Nov. 24.-Three fourths of the switchmen here struck Thursday night, the uperintendents having refused to concede their demands Three engineers on the Belt Line were compelled to draw the: fires from their engines, and a fourth man, who refused, was beaten and seriously injured. The Oklahoma Movement. WICHITA. Kan., Nov. 22 The Oklahoma convention supplemented its work of Tuesday by establishing a bureau of information with headquarters in this city. Maps

8. November 29, 1888 Wood County Reporter Wisconsin Rapids, WI
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ELECTRIC SPARK: Fires And Casualties. THE plant of the Fr. Wayne, Ind., Jenny Electric Ligh: company burned. Lose, $250,000. THE principal bank of Osceole, Iowa, has suspended. Of $90,000 of deposits only $3,000 was found in the vaulte. The presideur speculated in wheat. FOUR men were killed and four fatally injured by the explosion of a boiler at Meadville, Mont. BALTIMORE. Maryland.-A fire destroyed the busines part of Pocomoke City, Wor cester county. The loss is nearly $550, 000. AN explosion occurred at Bristol on board the steamer United, which was laden with 310 barrels of petroleum. The asset was wrecked and three men were killed. PITTSBURG.-The Beaver Falls rolling mill at Beaver Falls, Pa., has been burned; loss, $15,000. Six men were seriously burned, two of whom will probably die. OMAHA, Nebraska.-A Bee special from Valpariso says: The state bank at this place has closed its doors and the proprietore, F. Schovel and G. A. Crafts, have fled the country leaving many debts unsatisfied. Liabilities not known. WATERLOO, Iowa.-United States Marshal Esmund, of Iowa, is at Fort Dodge with warrants for ejectments of the one thousand or more families on Des Moines Lands. Bloodshed is feared upon attempt to execute the writs. A CASE of leprosy, exists at Harrold, Dakota. The victim is the child of a Mrs. Bausum, who was a missionary in China when the child was born. The afflicted family have no communication with their neighbors. LINCOLN, Neb.-The failure of the State bank of Valparaiso, which occurred Tuesday, IS even more serious than was at first anticipated. The unsecured liabilities run up to something like $100,000 and many eastern firms are sufferers. It is supposed thst Scoville and Crafts, proprietors, have skipped for Canada. Sooville's family is left penniless.

9. December 1, 1888 Huntsville Gazette Huntsville, AL
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NEWS IN BRIEF. Compiled from Various Sources ParPERSONAL AND POLITICAL. of the JUDGE 21st, fined Mr. of PRESIDING Commission, HANNEN £500 the on for contempt the court in Edward nell Harrington publications reflecting upon died, judges. LYMAN BISSELL, in U. New S. A., Haven, seventy-fil Conn., on the MAJOR aged 22d. at his home E. years. Schudder, of ON the 20th clerk Walter in the Government and himself Printing Jersey, Office, a while accidentally drawing a shot cartridge from killed his revolver. the Commissioner of GENERAL BLACK, spoken of in connection National Pensions, superintendency is of O. the with the Home at Dayton, Soldiers' a rumor in Boulangist cir- govern= THERE was 22d, that the a cles in Paris, on the expel Boulanger on charge ment intends of conspiring to to overthrow the isting government. DICKERSON, a popular lawyer held edi- of J.S. Mont., who formerly and St. Helena, positions in Indianapolis 22d, aged torial of pneumonia, on the General Paul, died He studied law in stenogforty-one. Harrison's office, where he was a rapher. citizens meeting in Boston, an inde- on AT & it was decided to put nominapendent the 22d, candidate for mayor in tion. 22d the State Bank of Valparaiso, proprieON the closed its doors, and the have Neb., Scoville and G. A. Crafts, debts unfled the tors, F. country, leaving many that satisfied. Sauray's Baron THE Selliere Paris private Intransigeant has asylum been for placed states the in insane Dr. situated in Paris. Carolina State Board of THE South has decided the Ellio:t-Miller Canvassers the Seventh Congressional Democrat, contest in in favor of Elliott, South Carodistrict making the Democratic. delegation from The vote of the lina solidly Elliot, 8,358; Miller, 7,003. district wa will carry his contest to of Congress. ex-EmMiller birthday anniversary quietly THE of Germany was the observed press Frederick at Windsor, England, congratula- on received scores of called tions, 21st. and She many German officials bearing postmaster presents. of Baltimore matter has a THE collecting city mail the street scheme means of for letter-boxes placed on cars. PERRY BELMONT his took the oath dentials Ex-CONGRESSMAN as of office Minister Chief and Wm. to received Spain, Printup, on the Grand died cre- 23d. ON the of 23.1 the Tuscarora Indians, He was Sachem the reservation, in New York. on able and intelligent man. that an Associated Press statement House, THE Gearney, of the Tremont incorrect. Silas Mass., was insolvent is Tremont Boston, He is not connected with the House. DAVID HAMILTON, a real estate of business dealer, of a number failed, on and owner at Wabash, Ind., to $30, the structures 23d, with liabilities amounting and assets of $25,000. 000 HARRISON denie the statements truth of GENERAL reports of alleged annexation made published by him concerning the of Canada. 23d General Miles arrived the at San DiON the took command of Howard Francisco an of the Pacific. General for New York. left vision San Francisco the same night PRESIDENT HANNEN of the Parnell the Com- resays that he will admit they mission ports made by the police for what are worth. ON the 23d Mr. Powderly was re-elected Knights workman of the Inof Labor general master for the next two years at dianapolis. AN intimate friend of Samuel J. Ran- condescribes him as in very good the dition, dall and certain to be in his seat on reassembling of Congress "DEACON" RICHARDSON has given nothat only American citizens, native tice ornaturalized, will hereafter be employed conon his Brooklyn street-car lines as ductors and drivers. BISHOP FOLEY, the new Bishop of De- the troit, was received in that city, on pro23d, by a reception committee and a cession of ten thousand persons. J.W. MACKINTOSH & Co., Boston stockbrokers, have suspended. PRESIDENT BRADFORD RAYMOND of Law- has rence University. Appleton, Wis., been tendered the presidency of Conn. Wesleyan University, at Middletown, It is believed the offer will be accepted. the EDITOR CHARLES C. CORBITT, of Providence (R. I.) Dispatch, was for libel arrested, on the 24th, upon a suit brought by J. F. Moore, for $10,000. in AN extensive purchase of coal land Mr. Allegheny County, Pa., made which by for a Blaine seven years ago, and retime looked like a losing venture, has cently increased in value three-fold. Ox the 24th John Teemer, of McKeesport, Pa., was defeated for the champion- the ship of America and $2,500 a side, on Wm. Potomac river, at Washington, by O'Connor, of Toronto, Can. BISHOP FOLEY was formally installed Bishop of Detroit on the 25th. The ceremonies were of a very imposing characOx the 23.1 Chief-Justice Armstrong of of the Canadian Labor Commission, died $poplexy at Sorel, Quebec. J. ARRANGEMENTS have been made by Williamson, of Philadelphia, to apply es$12,000,000 of his vast wealth to the for ablishment of an industrial school DOTE, to be known as the "Williamson A School of Mechanical Trades." select meeting was held, on the 24th, to to trustees for the endowment fund and n other details. CARDINAL GIBBONS has been instructed the Pope to congratulate Mr. Harrison his election to the presidency. IT is stated that Boulanger's wife is taking steps to obtain a divorce, and also is that one of the richest widows in France willing to marry Boulanger. MR. PURCELL O'GORMAN, ex-member of the British Parliamento for Waterford

10. December 1, 1888 The Osceola Times Osceola, AR
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NEWS IN BRIEF. Complied from Various Sources PERSONAL AND POLITICAL THE SUI of R. W. Milbank, of New York, against ex-Congressman Jones, to re. cover $5,000 said to have been paid to Mr. Jones for his influence in getting a fran. chise through the Board of Aldermen, has been decided in favor of the defendant. GOVERNOR-ELECT HOVEY of Indiana is to be tendered a reception by resident Hoosiers upon his return to Washington. A CIRCULAR was issued by Cardinal Gibbons, on the 21st, to the Catholic clergy, secular and regular, recommending a general observance of the President's Thanksgiving proclamatic THE funeral of the late Dr. Henry B. Sands, of New York City, occurred on the 21st. Three hundred students of the College of Physicians and Surgeons attended the services. The oral offerings were many and beautiful. The remains were interred in Woodlawn Cemetery. It is announced that General Panker will succeed Admiral Passiet as Russian Minister of Railways. ON e evening of the 21st Mr. James Russell Lowell was entertained at a ban quet by the Society or Liver pool, and sailed for America on the 22d. PRESIDING JUDGE HANNEN of the Par nell Commission, on the 21st, fined Mr. Edward Harrington £500 for contempt of court in publications reflecting upon the judges. MAJOR LYMAN BISSELL U. S. A., died, on the 22d, at his home in New Haven, Conn., aged seventy- five years. ON the 20th Waiter E. schudder, of New Jersey, a clerk in the Government Printing Office, accidentally shot and killed himself while drawing a cartridge from his revolver. GENERAL BLACK, the Commissioner of Pensions, is spoken of in connection with the superintendency of the National Soldiers' Home at Dayton, O. THEEK was rumor in Boul angist circlesid Paris on the 22d, that the govern. ment intends to expel Boulanger on charge of conspiring to overthrow theex. listing government. J.S. DICKERSON, a popular lawyer of Helena, Mont., who formerly held editorial positions in Indianapolis and St. Paul, died pueumonia on the 22d, aged forty-one. He studied law in General Harrison's office, where he was a stenog rapher. AT a citizens' meeting in Boston, on the 22d, it was decided to put an independent candidate for mayor in nomination. ON the 22d the State Bank of Valparaiso, Neb., closed its doors, and the proprietors, F. Scoville and G. A. Crafts, have fied the country, leaving many debts unsatisfied THE Paris Intransigeant states that Baron Selliere has been placed in Dr. Sauray's private asylum for the insane situated in Paris. THE South Carolina State Board of Canvassers has decided the Elliott-Miller contest in the Seventh Congressional district in favor of Elliott. Democrat, making the delegation from South Caro. lina solidly Democratte The vote of the district was: Elliot, 8,338: Miller, 7,003. Miller will carry his contest to Congress. THE birthday anniversary of ex-Empress Frederick of Germany as quietly observed at Windsor, England, on the 21st. She received scores of congratulations. and many German officials called bearing presents. a THE postmaster of Baltimore has scheme for collecting city mail matter by means of letter-boxes placed on the street cars. Ex-CONGRESSMAN PERRY BEL MONT took the oath of office and received his credentials as Minister to Spain, ou the 23d. ON the 23.1 Chief Wm. Printup, Grand Sachem of the Tuscarora Indians, died on the reservation, in New York. He was an able and intelligent man. THE Associated Press statement that Silas Gearney, of the Tremont House, Boston, Mass., was insolvent is incorrect. He is not connected with the Tremont House. DAVID HAMILTON, a real estate dealer, and owner of a number of business structures at Wabash, Ind., failed, on the 23d, with liabilitiesamounting to $30, 000 and assets of $25,000. GENERAL HARRISON denies the truth of published reports of alleged statements made by him concerning the annexation of Canada ON the 23d General Miles arrived at San Francisco and took command of the Division of the Pacific. General Howard left San Francisco the same night for New York. PRESIDENT HANNEN of the Parnell Commission says that he will admit the re. ports made by the police for what they are worth. ON the 23d Mr. Powderly was re-elected general master workman of the Kuights of Labor for the next two years at Indianapolis. AN intimate friend of Samuel J. Ran. dall describes him as in very good condition, and certain to be in his seat on the reassembling of Congress. "DEACON" RICHARDSON has given no. tice that only American citizens, native or naturalized, will hereafter be employed on his Brooklyn street-car lines as conductors and drivers. BISHOP FOLEY, the new Bishop of D3. troit, was received in that city, on the 28d, by a reception committee and a procession of ten thousand persons. J.W. MACKINTOSH & Co., Boston stockbrokers, have suspended. PRESIDENT BRADFORD RAYMOND of Lawrance University. Appleton, Wis., has been tendered the presidency of Wes. leyan University, at Middletown, Conn. It is believed the offer will be accepted. EDITOR CHARLES C. CORBITT, of the Providence (R. I.) Dispatch. was ar. rested, on the 24th, upon sait for libel brought by J. Moore, for $10,000. AN extensive purchase of coal land in Alleghony County, Pa. made by Mr. Blaine seven years ago, and which for a time looked like a losing venture, has recently increased in value three-fold. ON the 24th John Teemer of McKees. port, Pa. was defeated for the hampion. ship of America and $2,500 a side, on the Potomac river, at Washington, by J. O'Connor, of Torouto, Can. BISHOP FOLEY was formally installed Bishop of Detroit on the 23th The cere. montes were of a very imposing character. ON the 231 Chief-Justice Armstrong. of the Canadian Labor Commission, died of apoplexy at Sorel, Quebec. ARRANGEMENTS have been made by J. Williamson. of hiladelphia. to apply

11. December 5, 1888 Union County Courier Elk Point, SD
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Bloux. 1.839: Upper Yunktonnais hands. cappe Blonx. sue: mixed bloods of above 130. Total 5.994. Fort Berihold Agency-Arickaree 501: Gros Ventre. 502: Mandan. 286. Total. 1.289. Pine Ridge Sioux. 537. 4.549; mixed bloods. 503: Cheyennes, Total, 5,609. Rose Bud Agency Brule S'oux. Loafer No. 1. 2.028; Binle Sioux. No. 2. 1.117: Northern Sloux. 1.300; mixed Sioux. 473: Sloux. 323: Two Keitle Si ux, 332: Wuhzahzah Sloux. 1.771. Total. 7.404. Black Hills People Are Happy A greater feeling of confidence prevails in than ever before as to ture of this country. the Hills Republicans the and fu democrats alike are jabilant over the prospects for Dakota. The result of the reelection. making statehood and the of the reservations a cent opening meeting certainty, in in a call for a mass to take action toward of in culminated the Deadwood work congress admitting hastening Dakoti. of The Daily Pioneer, a republican paper Deadwood, has also come out in a strong editorial favoring admission under has the Sioux Falls constitution. This paper heretofore maintained silence on the subject. The Black Hills can be said to be well nigh unanimous on the subject of ad mission under the Sionx Falls constitution. The provision in the Platt bitl. now before congress, providing for resubmitting the prohibition and minority representation question, as well as the entire constitution, goes far to make this feeling unanimous. Bon Hemme County Bonds Must be Paid. The case of Brown vs. the county of Bon Homme has just been tried in the district court, sitting in Yankton, and the result was that the jury returned a verdict in of the for the about $7,000, claimed, favor plaintiff without full amount leaving their seats. This case originated during the days when Charley McCoy was run- The ning the affairs of Bon Homme. the present commissioners claim that bonds were issued frundulently bv McCoy and others, and it was on this ground that they went to trial. The plaintiff showed by competent evidence that the commission ere had tacitly acknowledged the validity of the bonds by paying the interest on them for three years, and it was principally this fact that led the Mary to return verdict in favor of the plaintiff, Defacing the Custor Monument. the souvenirs of his western trip Mr. of the Century Among Rackecliffe, Publish- from ing company, has a piece of stone the Custer monument. He says that this is one the fragments of stone which have been from the monument of knocked destroyers. by curi- It osity seekers or malicious is a fact that the Indians who have ridden by the monument for years have made a practice of shooting at it, each ball doing its share toward defacing what should So be sacredly guarded by the government. far had this work of destruction been carried that it has been found necessary to re. cut the names on the monument. The monument should be guarded Pierre Banks Consolidate. It has been given out that a controlling interest in the First National bauk of Pierre. with its cashier hip, has been turned over to the Pierre Savings bank, the W. latter buying a majority of the stock. G. Nixon, cashier of the First National, wishes to give his time to the Security, Mortgage and Investment company, in which he is interested, and hence the change. The present officers of the savings bank will probably take charge and the two will be consolidated. Ex-Gov. Ordway ie now H director in the First Na tional. Left for Parts Unknown. A sensation has been created at Huron by the annonneement that H. A. Gregory had skipped the country and was short in his accounts as treasurer of Fairfield township is he put on nearly said the that $1,000 mortgages school fund. ninety It head of stock and other property, aggre. gating $1,300, but little of the property is visible. Gregory's family have no idea of his whereabouts. Interested parties are attaching pro, erty and will work up the case. Gregory had the confidence and was regarded as an especially good citizen. Thirteen Trumps at Whist. Local whist players will be interested to know that the thirteens of the trumps ere recently dealt in H hand at Aberdeen, and that, too, nuder circumstances that quite forbade trickery. According to Pole, the recognixed authority. the odds against each nu occurrence are as 157,750,000,000 to one. NEBRANKA Sensational Bank Failure. The failure of F. A. Scoville and G. A. Crofts, president and cashier, respectively of the State Bank of Valparaise, has proved to be more than a failure. It appears to be the most gigantic swindle and defalcation ever known in Saunders It that Scoville has altered of the notes the county. many making develops payable much to bank, the amounts more originally were, and then dethese notes with as for than positing collateral, they currency, other which banks he got. Notes that were paid, and should have

12. December 6, 1888 Mineral Point Tribune Mineral Point, WI
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ELECTRIC SPARKS Fires And Casualties. THE plant of the Ft. Wayne, Ind., Jenny Electric Light company burned. Loss, $250,000. Two bank failures are reported-the State Bank, at Valparaiso, Neb., and the Osceola Bank of Osceola, Iowa. THE late storm thai swept the Atlantic moust, proved very destructive to life and property. THE principal bank of Osceola, Iowa, has suspended. Of $90,000 of deposits only $3,000 was found in the vaults. The president speculated in wheat. 6BALTIMORE, Maryland.-A fire destroyed the busines part of Pocomoke City, Wor cester county. The loss is nearly $550,000, THOMAS A. EDISON was thrown from a mrriage "by a runaway team at Menlo Park, New Jersey, Monday, and slightly bruised. The coachman was badly hurt and one horse was killed. A TERRIFIC gale, accompanied by snow, rain and sleet, swept the Atlantic coast region. Much damage to shipping is reported. In New England the snow-drifts interfere with travel. The storm continues. THE losses caused by the storm at Atlantic City, N. J., are greater than has been experienced since the incorporation of the city. Scores of photographers and artists are sketching the ruins. AT Rossville, Ill., Tuesday morning, the three-story brick school-house worth $20,000, was burned to the ground. There has an insurance of $10,000, divided be. tween the Home of New York and the Germania of Peoria. LINCOLN, Neb.-The failure of the State bank of Valparaiso, which occurred Tuesday, 18 even more serious than was at first anticipated. The unsecured liabilities run up to something like $100,000 and many eastern firms are sufferers. It is supposed that Scoville and Crafts, proprietors, have skipped for Canada. Scoville's family is left penniless. AT noon Wednesday the employes in the various breweries of New York were interrogated as to whether they wonld quit the union. All answering in the affirmative were retained; those expressing loyalty were discharged. About 15,000 men were thrown out of employment. A great army of workmen at once presented themselves for the vacant places. Trouble is feared, but the police are still masters of the situation.