16833. City Bank (Oswego, NY)

Bank Information

Episode Type
Suspension → Closure
Bank Type
state
Start Date
February 23, 1879
Location
Oswego, New York (43.455, -76.510)

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gpt-5-mini
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bb77f8ae

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Description

Multiple contemporaneous reports (NY Herald Feb 23, 1879 and others) state the City Bank of Oswego went into the hands of a receiver (W. J. Barker) and will not open its doors. Officers had contemplated liquidation and financial difficulties precipitated the crisis. Depositors to be paid in full. No run on this bank is reported in these articles.

Events (2)
1. February 23, 1879 Receivership
Newspaper Excerpt
Judge Moxon has appointed W. J. Barker, of Syracuse, receiver. The City Bank ... will not open its doors to-morrow. The officers of the bank have for some time past contemplated liquidation, but the present financial difficulties have precipitated the crisis. Depositors will be paid in full.
Source
newspapers
2. February 24, 1879 Suspension
Cause
Bank Specific Adverse Info
Cause Details
Officers had for some time contemplated liquidation and present financial difficulties precipitated the crisis; bank declined to open next day.
Newspaper Excerpt
The City Bank ... will not open its doors to-morrow.
Source
newspapers

Newspaper Articles (11)
1. February 24, 1879 The New York Herald New York, NY
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AN OSWEGO BANK CLOSED. OSWEGO, N. Y., Feb. 23, 1879. The City Bank, of which Delos Dewolf is president, will not open its doors to-morrow. Judge Moxon has appointed W. J. Barker, of Syracuse, receiver. The capital stock of the bank is $220,000. The assets of the bank are $300,000. The amount due devositors is $75,000. The officers of the bank have for some time past contemplated liquidation, but the present financial difficulties have precipitated the crisis. The depositors will be paid in full. The bank was established twenty-nine years ago.

2. February 24, 1879 Chicago Daily Tribune Chicago, IL
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osw EGO, Oswrdo, Feb. 23.-The City Bank has gone into the hands of a Receiver. The depositors. will be paid in full.

3. February 25, 1879 Daily Press and Dakotaian Yankton, SD
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the Datty Duketzian. YANKTON, DAKOTA. Tuesday Evening, Feb. 25, 1879 DEFERRED TELEGRAMS. TROUBLE IN PANAMA, Panama, Feb. 24.-In an ongagement between government troops and revolutionists at Olivares Ostioquia, twenty-five men were killed, and the revolutionists worsted. Canca is invaded by eight thousand Antioquine and the neighboring states are called upon for men and arms to repel the inveders. Some hard fighting and the expenditure of a million or more of money will be necessary to restore order. The national troops in Panama will be maintained at 200 men to preserve the. integrity of transit, menate by revolutionists frequently occurring. EARTHQUAKES. Another shock of an earibquake was felt at Arequipa on the 19th ultimo; also sumdry shocks at Iquiqui. No damage. FOR SITKA. Portland, Oregon, Feb 24. The revenue cutter Wolcott left Port Townsend for Sitka on the 20th inst. CHIEF MOSES. Lieut. Wood, of Gen. Howard's staff, reports that he has delivered to Chief Moses intelligence from the interior department that he cannot have the reservation asked for last fall through General Howard. Moses expressed great disappointment at the denial of his request, but said he would try and persuade his people to do the next best thing the government would allow. but could not do much for the manner in which they would receive such very bad news. POTTER COMMITTEE. Washington, Feb. 24.-In the Potter committee the chairman read an affidavit from Chas. W. Wooley, of Cincinnati, stating that it is dangerous for him to leave his bed, denying utterly all statements before the committee of John T. Coyle; that so far as they concerned himself they are absolutely untrue. He offers to prep are a sworn statement of all his transactions in Louisiana and Florida for the use of the committee. It was decided not o receive the affidavit. The chairman also read a letter from Alex. Torn, who, according to Coyle's testimony offered to sell the Florida returning board for $100,000. He a-ke permimion to relute before the committee the charges against him. No action was taken on the letter. Wm. E. Chandler asked leave to give the committee some papers in the handwriting of General Barlow. One was a letter written by him to Jon. Bell, of Monticello, Fla., introducing H. C. Perkins, of the postoffice department as a man fit to be trusted. These letters were put in evidence to show that at the time they were wri ten General Barlow was acting in the republiCAD interest. Chandler informed the committee of his Florida eipher and that unmerous telegrams sent by him to Florida were in possession of John I. Davenport. James H. Maddox, replying to Wharton's statement maid Wharton knew Gov. Wells was for sale, and he proposed they should see Packard in regard to it. Thev talked the matter over with him and $30,000 was mentioned as the sum required. Packard and not decline to put up the money, but *aid he would take the maiter under consideration a few days. Afterward it was suggested by Wharton that Packard <hould promise an office to Wells Packard said he could not promise him office at the time, but he had done Wells many other acts of kindness and he must judge from the past what he would in the future. Maddox reported the conversation to Wells, who declined the offer. He said he might want to leave New Orleans, and did not want an office, but money. Wharton proposed that he, Maddex, should keep up negotiations with Wells to prevent his falling into any other, but witness declined. D. J. M. Jewett, who acted secretary to the repubtican campaign committee of Loutsiana in 1876, testified to false protests being made from several parishes. SENTENCE OF A BULL DOZER. Baltimore, Feb. 23-In the circ it court Judge Bond sentenced Martin Burns, judge of election, pleading guilty to hindering a United States supervisor at the late congressional election, to a year in prizon and to pay a fine. ATTENDED A FUNERAL New York, Feb. 24 Bishops Burdell. of Ohio, and Seymour, of Springfield, III., attended to-day the funeral of Dr. Haight, forty years assistant minister of Trinity parish. RUN ON ABANK. Oswego, Feb. 24.-A run was made on the Oawego County Savings bank this fore noop, but the officers availed themselves of the sixty days clause, The bank has $12,000 deposited in the City bank which is closed. THE TELLER COMMITTEE. Washinton, Feb 24 -At a meeting of the Teller committee, the ebuirman said that If it was desired to investigate the manner of conducting elections in Pennsylvania, New York. Massechusetts, Vermont and Colorado it would be Decessary for the

4. February 26, 1879 The Princeton Union Princeton, MN
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MISCELLANEOUS In the Tyne ship yard 8000 shipbuilders are on a strike] The bank of Oswego, N. Y., has failed. The French Atlantic cable is broken 161 miles from St. Pierre, Miqueron. The departments at Washington will be closed on Saturday, Feb. 22, Washington's birth day. The city bank of Oswego, N. Y., has gone into the hands of a receiver. Depositors will be paid in full. Secretary Sherman has ordered the revenue cutter Oliver Wolcott, now at Post Townsemd, to Sitka, to preserve the peace. The British man-of-war Osprey, left Victoria, B. C. Feb. 18th, for Sitka at the earnest request of citizens who represent that they fear an indiscriminate massacre by Indians. A number of young citizens of Zurich have started for Georgia, where it is proposed to start a Swiss colony, under the auspices of the workingmen's association. Others will ollow. A St. Petersburg telegram says, despite the general thaw and warm weather throughout the infected districts, both public and private advices state that no fresh cases of plague have occurred. Cardinal Manning, archbishop of Westminster, has had a long and cordial interview with the pope, who congratulated the cardinal on the progress of Catholicism in Great Britain, and discussed measures for its extensionPreparations are making throughout the cities of the Eastern States for a grand celebration of the forthcoming anniversary of the birthday of the Irish patriot martyr, Robert Emmet, which occurs on the 4th of March next. A New York telegram of Feb. 23d, says, the cattle dealers have begun to ship f beef to England in refrigerators, instead of e live cattle, and will probably continue to do so as long as the recent order of the English privy council remains in force. It is not y probable that cattle dealers will ship cattle 1from Canadian ports. Mr. Pierpont Edwards, Ih British vice consul in New York said that the iprivy council would repeal the order as soon m as the danger of a spread of the disease had ceased. CAn Ottawa dispatch of Feb. 21 says ry The government intimated to Hickson, gen eeral manager of the Grand Trunk railway of who has been in active communication with a them respecting recent orders with regard to er importation and transportation through Canada of United States cattle, that if Wester en. States will take the necessary steps to guar olagainst the disease spreading into their terri fell tories which are free from it, they will use a ver their influence with the British governmen nt, to permit the shipment of cattle from Wester exStates through Canadian ports.

5. February 27, 1879 River Falls Journal River Falls, WI
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MISCELLANEOUS. In the Tyne ship yard 8000 shipbuilders are on a strike The bank of Oswego, N. Y., has failed. The French Atlantic cable is broken 161 miles from St. Pierre, Miqueron. The departments at Washington will be closed on Saturday, Feb. 22, Washington's birth day. The city bank of Oswego, N. Y., has gone into the hands of a receiver. Depositors will be paid in full. Secretary Sherman has ordered the revenue cutter Oliver Wolcott, now at Post Townsemd, to Sitka, to preserve the peace. The British man-of-war Osprey, left Victoria, B. C. Feb. 18th, for Sitka at the earn est request of citizens who represent that they fear an indiscriminate massacre by Indians. A number of young citizens of Zurich have started for Georgia, where it is proposed to start a Swiss colony, under the auspices of the workingmen's association. Others will ollow. A St. Petersburg telegram says, despite the general thaw and warm weather throughout the infected districts, both public and private advices state that no fresh cases of plague have occurred. The St. Paul, Minn., boom company have made a contract with Kempt & Co., of the Eau Clair lumber company to operate the St. Paul boom for five years. These gentle. men are building the boom. Cardinal Manning, archbishop of Westminster, has had a long and cordial interview with the pope, who congratulated the cardinal on the progress of Catholicism in Great Britain, and discussed measures for its exten. sionPreparations are making throughout the cities of the Eastern States for a grand celebration of the forthcoming anniversary of the birthday of the Irish patriot martyr, Robert Emmet, which occurs on the 4th of March next. A New York telegram of Feb. 23d. says, the cattle dealers have begun to ship beef to England in refrigerators, instead of live cattle, and will probably continue to do so as long as the recent order of the English privy council remains in force. It is not probable that cattle dealers will ship cattle from Canadian ports. Mr. Pierpont Edwards British vice consul in New York said that the privy council would repeal the order as soon as the danger of a spread of the disease had ceased. An Ottawa dispatch of Feb. 21 says The government intimated to Hickson, gen. eral manager .of the Grand Trunk railway who has been in active communication with them respecting recent orders with regard to importation and transportation through Canada of United States cattle,that if Western States will take the necessary steps to guard against the disease spreading into their terri. tories which are free from it, they will use all their influence with the British government to permit the shipment of cattle from Western States through Canadian ports. A New York telegram of Feb. 21, says : The Euglish trustees of the Atlantic & Great Westerh mortgages have agreed upon terms of lease for ninety-uine years of that road to the New York, Lake Erie & Western railroad company, and a formal proposal has been mailed to President Jewett, of the latter com pany. The lease will go into effect after the Atlantic & Great Western road is sold under pending foreclosure proceedings and reor ganization has been effected. The sounsel of James McHenry announces that he will oppose the lease in courts. A letter from St. Petersburg says of

6. February 27, 1879 Stevens County Tribune Morris, MN
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MISCELLANEOUS. In the Tyne ship yard 8000 ship-builders are on a strike] The bank of Oswego, N. Y., has failed. The French Atlantic cable is broken 161 miles from St. Pierre, Miqueron. The departments at Washington will be closed on Saturday, Feb. 22, Washington's birth day. The pluero-pneumonia is spreading amoning the cattle of North and East Yorkshire, England. The city bank of Oswego, N. Y., has gone into the hands of a receiver. Depositors will be paid in full. The London Times says, the Pope has expressed a desire to make Dr. Newman a cardinal, but the doctor declines the honor. A London telegram of Feb. 17th says about 6000 weavers are out of employment at Marclesfield, on account of the depression in trade. Secretary Sherman has ordered the revenue cutter Oliver Wolcott, now at Post Townsemd, to Sitka, to preserve the peace. A small steamer on the Muskingum, Ohio, river, exploded her boiler Feb. 16th, instantly killing the fireman, and seriously scalding the captain and two of the crew. The British man-of-war Osprey, left Victoria, B. C. Feb. 18th, for Sitka at the earnest request of citizens who represent that they fear an indiscriminate massacre by Indians. A number of young citizens of Zurich have started for Georgia, where it is proposed to start a Swiss colony, under the auspices of the workingmen's association. Others will ollow. A St. Petersburg telegram says, despite the general thaw and warm weather throughout the infected districts, both public and private advices state that no fresh cases of plague have occurred. Cardinal Manning, archbishop of Westminster, has had a long and cordial interview with the pope, who congratulated the cardinal on the progress of Catholicism in Great Britain, and discussed measures for its extension. Preparations are making throughout the cities of the Eastern States for a grand celebration of the forthcoming anniversary of the birthday of the Irish patriot martyr, Robert Emmet, which occurs on the 4th of March next. A London telegram of Feb. 20th, says a meeting of the Mersey docks and harbor board has been held, where it was decided to spend £35,000 in erecting slaughter sheds and lairage, necessary to the continuance of the American cattle trade. The Brooklyn, N. Y. Presbytery, February 17th, adopted resolutions instructing the committee, if they find common fame report against Dr. Talmage fulfills all conditions of the book of dicipline, they shall formulate such common fame into a charge with specifications and names of witnesses to support them, and submit the same to the presbytery. A New York telegram of Feb. 21, says: The English trustees of the Atlantic & Great Western mortgages have agreed upon terms of lease for ninety-nine years of that road to the New York, Lake Erie & Western railroad company, and a formal proposai has been mailed to President Jewett, of the latter company. The lease will go into effect after the Atlantic & Great Western road is sold under pending foreclosure proceedings and reorganization has been effected. The sounsel of James McHenry announces that he will oppose the lease in courts. An Ottawa dispatch of Feb. 21 says: The government intimated to Hickson, general manager of the Grand Trunk railway, who has been in active communication with them respecting recent orders with regard to importation and transportation through Canada of United States cattle, that if Western States will take the necessary steps to guard against the disease spreading into their territories which are free from it, they will use all their influence with the British government to permit the shipment of cattle from Western States through Canadian ports.

7. February 28, 1879 Iowa County Democrat Mineral Point, WI
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THE WORLD'S WORK. MISCELLANEOUS. KANSAS Pacific railway stock jumped from 7 to 211, Feb. 20th. MCHENRY, Ill., has enjoyed a vigor temperance revival. BISHOP FOLEY, of Chicago, died Feb. aged nearly 57. A FIRE at Owenton, Ky., Feb. 20th, estroyed $40,000 worth of tobacco. Ex-MAYOR WESTERVELT, of New York city, died Feb. 21st. THE heaviest snow storm of the prevailed throughout Nova cotin, Feb. 21st. REPORTS from westernstates and tertories show that the immigration this will exceed anything ever known. THE City bank of Oswego, N. Y., has into the hands of a receiver. A BOILER explosion at Stockton, Calion the 22nd of Feb., resulted in death of six or eight men. THE amount of claims already filed gainst Archbishop Purcell amount to 3,600,000. C. W. ANGELL, the absconding secreof the Pullman car company, arin Philadelphia on the bark hooting Star, Feb. 21st. MR. M. STANLEY, superintendent of Selina, Rome & Dalton railroad, who was injured in the recent acon that road, has since died. A FIRE at Minneapolis, Feb. 20th, the wholesale and retail house Lumley, grocery and wine merchant. $26,000; insured for $8,000. THE government inspector declares is no contagious disease among cattle at the Chicago Union Stock THE executive committee of the proworld's fair to be held in New in 1889, is at work selecting a site the big show. THE North Chicago rolling mills affered loss by fire on the 19th of ebruary amounting to $14,000, nearly covered by insurance. THE Illinois state house commissionreport shows that up to date $3,21,399.33 has been expended under direction, and the end is not yet. A EUROPEAN tour for clergymen is anned by some New York preachers. is to consume July and August, and clergymen are to be taken as far as Italy and back at a cost of $350 each. A COLLISION of ferry boats running tween San. Francisco and Oakland courred on the 19th of February. confusion followed and it is bemany were drowned. THE British steamer Zanzibar left York Jan. 11 for Glasgow and has since been heard from. It is bethe vessel has sunk with all on THE directors of the Chicago & Northestern railway company have declara quarterly dividend of 11 per cent. preferred stock, and have decided to quarterly dividends on these hereafter. THE United Order of Workmen

8. March 5, 1879 Watertown Republican Watertown, WI
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WORLD'S WORK MISCELLANEOUS. -CONGRESSMAN HASBROUCK died N. Y., Feb. 23rd. Pacific coast is pretty solid f inti-Chinese immigration bill. W. ANGELL has been se to ten years in the penitentiar City bank of Oswego, N. Y., h into the hands of a receiver. national butter, cheese and e meets in Chicago March 7. BOILER explosion at Stockton, Ca on the 22nd of Feb., resulted death of six or eight men. amount of claims already file Archbishop Purcell amount 0,000. reports from Leadville sta that young city now numbers 1. nhabitants. Nebraska legislature adjourne at 2:45 a. m. Feb. 26. It passe during the session. PAUL BOYNTON started fro Pa., Feb. 24, for his loi to New Orleans in his life-savir old settlers of Wisconsin wl to the state prior to 1848, are r to meet July 16, to form a pe association. CARNIVAL took formal posse of the city of New Orleans Fe and ordered the season of mer to begin. Illinois senate passed a bill pr for the election by the people commissioners, who are no by the governor. PANAMA dispatch says: Anoth of earthquake was felt at Ar on the 7th ultimo. Also sundi at Iquique. No damage W of consequence. SCHOONER ran ashore near Bor Feb. 26, and several of the cre drowned in the surf. The ca wife also died before aid cou her. Illinois senate by a vote of 18 dopted a resolution thanking se and representatives at Washin for adoption of a law for restric Chinese immigration. W. ANGELL, the defaulting se of the Pullman Car Co,, arrive hicago from his foreign trip Fe immediately went to jail. local difficulties at New Mexi unabated. A few days sin Chapman, a lawyer, and head McSween faction, was shot dead of the court house in Linco LACHAPELLE, the little Fren strienne, after completing h mile walk in 2,700 consecuti hours in Chicago, started up tramp of 300 quarter mile it on time, and making t score on record. taking of testimony by Ignati in the contested election ca Washburn, closed Feb. 24th. T stigation extended through for It is understood that Mr. Was will not take any testimony. DEWEES chairman of the gree

9. March 6, 1879 Wood County Reporter Wisconsin Rapids, WI
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HISTORY OF THE WEEK MISCELLANEOUS THE Pacific coast is pretty solid for I the anti-Chinese immigration bill. CHARLES W. ANGELL has been sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary. THE City Bank of Oswego, N.Y., has gone into the hands of a receiver. THE national butter, cheese and egg association meets in Chicago, March 5, 6, and 7. A BOILER explosion at Stockton, California, oa the 22d of February, resulted in the death of six or eight men. THE amount of claims already filed against Archbishop Purcell amount to $3,600,000. LATEST reports from Leadville state that that young city now numbers 15,000 inhabitants. THE Nebraska legislature adjourned sine die at 2:45 a. m. Feb. 26. It passed 900 bills during the session. THE State Fair of Ohio has been located at Columbus for the next two years. OF the 5,000 inhabitants of Decorah, Iowa, 2,250 have recently signed the total abstinence pledge. THE Maine legislature has passed a bill suspending the public high schools for one year. THE Northern Pacific railroad between Fargo and Bismarck, was snowbound three days last week. JOHN P. LEWIS, dry goods merchant of Winona, Minn., has suspended with liabilities of about $35,000; assets said to be $22,000. THE old settlers of Wisconsin who came to the state prior to 1848, are requested to meet July 16, to form a permanent association. KING CARNIVAL took formal possession of the city of New Orleans February 24th, and ordered the season of merriment to begin. THE Illinois senate passed a bill providing for the election by the people of the park commissioners, who are now appointed by the governor, IT is reported from Winnepeg that the Dominion government are going to prevent American boats running in the Canadian waters of the Red river this summer. THE Irish-Catholic societies of Toronto, Canada, have resolved to walk as usual on St. Patrick's day this year, and intend inviting all Irish Protestants to join the precession. A "CENTENNIAL SAFE" containing lot of photographs of "distinguished men' was locked up at Washington the other day, and it is not to be opened till 1976, and then by the President of the United States. FAIRBURY, Nebraska, is greatly afflicted with small-pox. Out of a population of 1,200, eighty-seven are now down with the disease, which is of a most malignant type. A SCHOONER ran ashore near Borngate February 26, and several of the crew were drowned in the surf. The captain's wife also died before aid could reach her. THE Illinois senate by a vote of 18 to 16, adopted a resolution thanking senators and representatives at Washington for the adoption of a law for restricting Chinese immigration. CHAS. W. ANGELL, the defaulting secretary of the Pullman Car Company, arrived in Chicago from his foreign tri February 25, and immediately went to jail. THE manufacturing property of the Atlantic Delaine company in Providence, R.I., was sold at auction last week for $300,000. The property cost over $2,000,000. THE United States marshall swooped down upon the towns of Peoria and Pekin, III., Feb. 28th, and arrested about fifty men under indictment for conspiracy in the whisky frauds. A DISPATCH from Nelsonville, O., states that the house of J. M. Lunsford was burned to the ground about 12 o'clock on the night of Feb. 28th. Mr. Lunsford and six of his children, who were asleep were smothered or burned to death. Only the wife and one child escaped. THE United States district court at Des Moines, Iowa, has ordered the writ of ejectment to issue against B. F. Allen to oust him from his $150,000 homestead for the benefit of his creditors, which the court decided that he forfeited by voting as a citizen of Chicago. THE estimated cost of the proposed inter-oceanic canal across the American Isthmus, Nicaragua route, is $53,000,000 but it is considered wise to regard the actual cost, including the interest on dormant capital, at double that sum. EXILDE LACHAPELLE, the litttle French pedestrienne, after completing her 2.700 milewalk in 2,700 consecutive quarter hours in Chicago, started upon another tramp of 300 quarter miles, finishing it on time, and making the best score on record. THE taking of testimony by Ignatius Donnelly in the contested election case with Washburn, closed Feb. 24th. The investigation extended through forty days. It is understood that Mr. Washburn will not take any testimony. F.P. DEWERS, chairman of the greenback national committee, accepts the challenge of Thomas M. Nichol, secretary of the Honest Money League, for a public discusssion of the greenback question. THE heavy-brained youths in the eastern colleges ar distinguishing themselves by the usual rows with the faculty. Wholesale expulsions of students have occurred at Trinity college, Hartford, and at St. Stephen's college, Poughkeepsie. A FOND DU LAC, Wis., dispatch of March 1st says a respectable German named Helm was found dead and mutilated on Horicon Marsh yesterday. His watch, buffalo coat, and large sum of money which he was known to have was missing. No clew to perpetrators of the deed.

10. March 12, 1879 Watertown Republican Watertown, WI
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# THE WORLD'S WORK. MISCELLANEOUS. TOLEDO, O., is threatened with another post-office war. STERLING, Ill., has elected an anti-license ticket. THE Wisconsin legislature adjourned sine die March 5th. THE national greenback convention met in Chicago March 4th. THE supreme court of Iowa meets at Council Bluffs on the 17th inst. THE City bank of Oswego, N. Y., has gone into the hands of a receiver. THE California constitutional convention after a long session, adjourned sine die March 3rd. A BOILER explosion at Stockton, California, on the 22nd of Feb., resulted in the death of six or eight men. THE amount of claims already me! against Archbishop Purcell amount to $3,600,000. THE net earnings of the Union Pacific railroad for the year ending Dec. 31, 1878, were $7.931,672. THE president's veto of the Chinese bill is strongly denounced by the California press. THE Lincoln public school at Ottumwa, Iowa, was destroyed by fire March 4th. Loss $20,000; insured for $11,000. An explosion of sulphuric acid near Pottsville, Pa., March 5th, resulted in the death of three men. THE new director of the mint, Hon. H. C. Burchard, of Ill., took possession of his office March 5th. GOV. ROBINSON, of New York, has presented to the senate formal charges against the state superintendent and recommends his removal. An anti-liquor license ticket has been nominated for city officers at Champaign, Ill., headed by Colonel Frank Wilcox for Mayor. CALIFORNIA will not be represented in the lower branch of congress at the extra session, the election for members not being held until next September. NOTWITHSTANDING the women of Sabula, Iowa, labored hard in unison with the temperance men, to elect the temperance ticket on the 4th inst., the license men carried the day. REV. SANFORD HUNT, of Buffalo, has been chosen senior book agent and publisher in charge of the Methodist Book Concern, in place of the late Rev. Reuben Nelson. IT is reported from Winnepeg that the Dominion government are going to prevent American boats running in the Canadian waters of the Red river this summer. THE Irish-Catholic societies of Toronto, Canada, resolved to walk as usual on St. Patrick's day this year, and intend inviting all Irish Protestants to join the procession. THE academy at Lake Forest, Ill., (preparatory department of the Lake Forest University), north of Chicago was destroyed by fire March 1st. Loss about $12,000. A DES MOINES special of March 4th says the city and town elections held yesterday, so far as heard from, show decided gains for the license party over the prohibitionist, this generally being the work of exciting local questions. A "CENTENNIAL SAFE" containing a lot of photcomsumguisned "men" was locked up at Washington the other day, and it is not to be opened till 1976, and then by the president of the United States. By the bursting of a kerosene lamp at Fond du Lac, Wis., last week, a young woman by the name of Josephine McHugh was fatally burued and died in horrible agony. She was an employe of the Patty House. THE very Rev. Martin Kundig, vicar-general of Milwaukee, died of congestion of the heart in that city March 6th, aged 74. He was born in Switzerland, came to Milwaukee in 1842, and had been vicar-general 15 years. NEW HAMPSHIRE will be represented by only one senator in the extra session of congress, unless the governor shall appoint a senator to act until the legislature cau elect a successor to Mr. Wadleigh, whose term of office expired March 4th. It is said that the Texas Pacific lobby will move on the new congress, and endeavor to get a bill passed at the extra session. The leaders assert that the new congress will be more favorable to their scheme than the one which has just expired. THE republican state convention of Michigan met at Lansing March 6th, and nominated the following candidates: For associate judge of the supreme court, the present incumbent, James V. Campbell, of Detroit; for regents of the universiiy E. O. Grosoenors, of Jonesville, and James Shearer, of Bay City. In the Illinois senate nineteen bills are pending for the regulation of gas, express, telegraph, and other companies, in most of which the power of the legislature to regulate, suspend and oversee, as well as to fix specfiic rates of charges, is asserted in the most decided terms. A RICHMOND, Va., dispatch says the state-debt-paying party in the legislature was forced to yield, and the bill was killed. Nothing can therefore be done toward paying the debt until another legislature is convened. It is thought the governor will call an extra session.

11. March 12, 1879 Mineral Point Tribune Mineral Point, WI
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# THE WORLD'S WORK. MISCELLANEOUS. TOLEDO, O., is threatened with another post-office war. STERLING, Ill., has elected an anti-license ticket. THE Wisconsin legislature adjourned sine die March 5th. THE national greenback convention met in Chicago March 4th. THE supreme court of Iowa meets at Council Bluffs on the 17th inst. THE City bank of Oswego, N. Y., has gone into the hands of a receiver. THE California constitutional convention after a long session, adjourned sine die March 3rd. A BOILER explosion at Stockton, California, on the 22nd of Feb., resulted in the death of six or eight men. THE amount of claims already me! against Archbishop Purcell amount to $3,600,000. THE net earnings of the Union Pacific railroad for the year ending Dec. 31, 1878, were $7,931,672. THE president's veto of the Chinese bill is strongly denounced by the California press. THE Lincoln public school at Ottumwa, Iowa, was destroyed by fire March 4th. Loss $20,000; insured for $11,000. AN explosion of sulphuric acid near Pottsville, Pa., March 5th, resulted in the death of three men. THE new director of the mint, Hon. H. C. Burchard, of Ill., took possession of his office March 5th. GOV. ROBINSON, of New York, has presented to the senate formal charges against the state superintendent and recommends his removal. An anti-liquor license ticket has been nominated for city officers at Champaign, Ill., headed by Colonel Frank Wilcox for Mayor. CALIFORNIA will not be represented in the lower branch of congress at the extra session, the election for members not being held until next September. NOTWITHSTANDING the women of Sabula, Iowa, labored hard in unison with the temperance men, to elect the temperance ticket on the 4th inst., the license men carried the day. REV. SANFORD HUNT, of Buffalo, has been chosen senior book agent and publisher in charge of the Methodist Book Concern, in place of the late Rev. Reuben Nelson. It is reported from Winnepeg that the Dominion government are going to prevent American boats running in the Canadian waters of the Red river this summer. THE Irish-Catholic societies of Toronto, Canada, resolved to walk as usual on St. Patrick's day this year, and intend inviting all Irish Protestants to join the procession. THE academy at Lake Forest, Ill., (preparatory department of the Lake Forest University), north of Chicago was destroyed by fire March 1st. Loss about $12,000. A DES MOINES special of March 4th says the city and town elections held yesterday, so far as heard from, show decided gains for the license party over the prohibitionist, this generally being the work of exciting local questions. A "CENTENNIAL SAFE" containing a lot of photographs of "distinguished men" was locked up at Washington the other day, and it is not to be opened till 1976, and then by the president of the United States. By the bursting of a kerosene lamp at Fond du Lac, Wis., last week, a young woman by the name of Josephine McHugh was fatally burned and died in horrible agony. She was an employe of the Patty House. NEW HAMPSHIRE will be represented by only one senator in the extra session of congress, unless the governor shall appoint a senator to act until the legislature can elect a successor to Mr. Wadleigh, whose term of office expired March 4th. It is said that the Texas Pacific lobby will move on the new congress, and endeavor to get a bill passed at the extra session. The leaders assert that the new congress will be more favorable to their scheme than the one which has just expired. In the Illinois senate nineteen bills are pending for the regulation of gas, express, telegraph, and other companies, in most of which the power of the legislature to regulate, suspend and oversee, as well as to fix specific rates of charges, is asserted in the most decided terms. A RICHMOND, Va., dispatch says the state-debt-paying party in the legislature was forced to yield, and the bill was killed. Nothing can therefore be done toward paying the debt until another legislature is convened. It is thought the governor will call an extra session.