16987. German American Bank (Tonawanda, NY)

Bank Information

Episode Type: Run → Suspension → Reopening
Bank Type: state
Start Date: February 24, 1897
Location: Tonawanda, New York (43.020, -78.880)

Metadata

Model: gpt-5-mini
Short Digest: 386d6fdf

Response Measures

Full suspension, Books examined

Description

Multiple articles (Feb 24, 1897) report a run on the German-American Bank of Tonawanda, state superintendent took possession and the bank suspended. Reports state suspension was temporary and that the bank resumed business about March 8, 1897. Cause attributed to bank-specific adverse info: state examiner threw out $71,000 of paper and criticized cashier's carelessness; run followed and bank could not stand it. OCR variants (German-American / German American) normalized.

Events (3)

1. February 24, 1897 Run

Cause: Bank Specific Adverse Info
Cause Details: State examination threw out $71,000 of the bank's paper and criticized cashier for careless administration, prompting depositor runs.
Measures: State Superintendent Kilburn took possession; examination conducted; directors replaced cashier (Reisterer) with vice-president; assurances to pay depositors in full; temporary suspension announced.
Newspaper Excerpt: A run on the bank started yesterday, and the institution was not in a position to stand it.
Source: newspapers

2. February 24, 1897 Suspension

Cause: Bank Specific Adverse Info
Cause Details: Bank closed after run and state examiner's finding of unsound paper and carelessness; superintendent took possession citing insolvency concerns though depositors expected to be paid in full.
Newspaper Excerpt: The German-American Bank of Tonawanda has closed its doors, and Superintendent Kilburn, of the State Banking Department, took possession to-day.
Source: newspapers

3. March 8, 1897 Reopening

Newspaper Excerpt: The German-American bank at Tonawanda, N. Y., which suspended about ten days ago, has resumed business.
Source: newspapers

Newspaper Articles (17)

1. February 25, 1897 New-York Tribune New York, NY

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A TONAWANDA BANK CLOSES ITS DOORS. Albany, Feb. 24.-The German-American Bank of Tonawanda has closed its doors, and Superintendent Kilburn, of the State Banking Department, took possession to-day. He caused an examination of the bank to be made ten days ago. As a result he threw out $71,000 of the paper held by the bank, and said that $25,000 of this paper must be made good in cash and the balance charged off to the profit-and-loss account. In addition, Mr. Kilburn told the directors that Cashier Reisterer must be replaced by Vice-President Oelders. All the things suggested were done by the directors. A run on the bank started yesterday, and the institution was not in a position to stand It. It is a State bank, having a capital of $100,000, and deposits amounting to $400,000. Mr. Kilburn thinks the bank will be able to pay all depositors in full. He said that Cashier Reisterer was not guilty of any wrong-doing, but had been careless In administering the affairs of the bank. The last report of the bank made to the Banking Department, showing its condition at the close of business on December 9, stated that the total resources were $771,236; loans and discounts, $640,598; amount due depositors, $427,616. Tonawanda, Feb. 24.-The officers of the GermanAmerican Bank say that the suspension will be only temporary. and that the bank will reopen for business in a week. The depositors will be paid in full, but the stockholders will probably be assessed heavily.

2. February 25, 1897 The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer Wheeling, WV

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BRIEF TELEGRAMB. The committee on organization of the National Sound Money League met in New York yesterday, but has not yet completed its work. The President has issued the usual call for an extra session of the senate at noon on March 4, to confirm President McKinley's cabinet appointments. The German-American bank, of Tonawanda, N. Y., closed yesterday on account of n run that was made on it. The officials say the suspension is only temporary. President Cleveland declines to pardon Editor J. P. Wilson. of Indiana. convicted of sending his newspaper tontaining obscene matter, through the mails, and expresses his surprise that respectable people should sign a petition for such's pardon

3. February 25, 1897 The Times Richmond, VA

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Business Troubles. ALBANY, N. Y., Feb. 24.-The GermanAmerican Bank of Tonawanda has closed its doors and State Superintendent of Banks Frederick D. Kilburn has taken possession. Superintendent Kilburn says all the depositors will be paid in full. The bank has a capital of $100,000 and deposits of $400,000. NEW YORK, Feb. 24.-W. S. Alley announced his suspension on the Stock Exchange to-day. It is stated that the suspension was the result of litigation connected with the firm of Alley, Dowd & Co., and which dated back over ten years. Recent operations had nothing to do with the fallure.

4. February 25, 1897 Evening Journal Wilmington, DE

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BRIEF TELEGRAMS. United States Senator Wolcott left London on his return to America. Mrs. Frances Mansfield Johnston, wife of Colonel Richard Malcolm Johnston, the southern author, died in Baltimore. The German-American bank of Tonawanda, N. Y., shut its doors because of a run, and a state examiner is in charge. Lemon Thomson, aged 75 years, the wealthiest pulp producer and lumberman of Washington county, N. Y., died at Thomson's Mills, near Saratoga. Joseph H. Ker, a Washington speculator, was robbed of $3,200 in Twenty-sixth street, near Broadway, New York, by footpads, who threatened his life, and he complains of treatment he received from central office detectives. Mary Forward Black, widow of the late Judge Jeremiah S. Black, President Buchanan's attorney general, died suddenly at her home at Brockie, Pa. Mrs. Black was the mother of Chauncey F. Black, exlieutenant governor of Pennsylvania. Delegates representing gold standard organizations from 18 states met at the chamber of commerce, New York, and formed an organization to be known as the National Nonpartisan Sound Money league. Constitution and bylaws were adopted after debates that proved the intention of the league to fight the free silver idea.

5. February 27, 1897 The Democratic Advocate Westminster, MD

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Buffalo Boiler Makers' Union ordered a general strike in every Buffalo, N. Y., shop but one on Monday, and over 200 men have quit work. Over 100 more will go out. The union is very strong in that city, being organized to the full extent of the trade. There are five big boiler factories there. At Bloomsburg, Pa., the Magee Carpet Works, the Bloomsburg Carpet Works and the Leader Store Company, virtually one concern, failed Monday, with liabilities at $100,000; assets not given. The failure had been expected for some time. These plants are probably the best equipped in the state. J. Swann Everist, merchant at Havre-deGrace, has made an assignment. Ed. A. Zeitler, druggist, and the Pooley Shirt Company, both of the same place, have asked for receivers. The Imperial Life Insurance Company of America, Baltimore, Md., has asked for a receiver, At Tonawanda, N. Y., the German-American Bank, a State institution, has been closed. The suspension has been announced on the New York Stock Exchange of William A. Alley, a member of the exchange since 1878. At Rochester, N. Y., Crossman Bros., seedsmen, have filed a general assignment. In Washington, D. C., George L. Sheriff, wood and coal dealer, has assigned. The Hocking Valley (Ohio) Railroad Co. has gone into the hands of a receiver; $290,000 in interest are due on its bonds. This road is lacated in the great mining and iron region of that State.

6. February 28, 1897 Omaha Daily Bee Omaha, NE

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COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL. NEW ENTERPRISES-February 26: Mexican Gulf Steamship company of New York incorporated, car'tal stock, $20,000,000. BANK FAILURES-February 24: German American bank of Tonawanda (N. Y.); William S. Alley, member New York exchange, suspended; Bank of Ewing, Ewing, Neb., capital stock $10,000, deposits last report, $22,973. February 26: Bank of Lithonia (Ga.), l'abilities $12,000. MERCANTILE FAILURES-February 24: Groosman Bros., seedsmen, Rochester, N. Y., liabilities -$50,000. February 26: Central Loan and Trust company, Des Moines, Ia., capital $175,000.

7. March 4, 1897 Belding Banner Belding, MI

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J. E. Just who will become banking commissioner April 1. says he will retain Deputy E. A. Sunderlin. Rev. E. W. Wheeler. aged 76 dropped dead while teaching Sunday school at the M. E. church at Cedar Springs. The ice houses and warehouses of the A. Booth Packing Co., of Chicago, burned at Petoskey, causing a loss of over $4,000. The boiler in R. Ketts' slat and feed mill at Bannister, exploded. R. Letts, Henry Hustin and L. Crego were seriously scalded. William Fitsh, a well-preserved gentleman aged 70, and Miss Duford, a 16year-old Garfield girl, were married at Michie. Friends gave them a serenade. The last chapter in the famous Mrs. Robert Dobson murder trial for the murder of James Anderson, at Harrisville was concluded when the jury, after being out eight and one-half hours, brought in a verdict of not guilty. Frank Coleman, well-known farmer of Marion township, Livingston county, was driving through the woods with a sleigh when a tree which some men were chopping fell and instantly killed him. His two little girls were barely missed. Judge Maxwell, of Bay City, issued an order appointing the sheriff receiver for the St. Stanislaus Polish Catholic church property, valued at $150,000, and directed him to take immediate charge in the name of the bishop, and arrest all persons on the premises. The order is a kneckout blow for the rebellious faction. The Iowa state collegiate oratorical contest, held in Oskaloosa, was won by Alice Starbuck, of Penn College, Oskaloosa; T. E. Osborn, of Iowa Wesleyan University, Mount Pleasant, second; Sydney Heald, of Cornell, Mount Vernon, third. The meeting next year will be held at Simpson College, Indianola. In the New oYrk assembly a bill was introduced incorporating the South Buffalo Harbor and Ship Canal Improvement Company, with a capital of $10,000,000, to deal in real estate and build a ship canal connecting the Buffalo River with Lake Erie. A correspondent in Lima, Peru, telegraphs that the Peruvian government will probably send a special minister to the United States to arrange for a treaty of commerce. The South Carolina house passed the graduated income tax bill and the bill requiring licenses for every business, profession or calling, including ministers of the gospel and washerwomen. Mrs. Susan Russell of Jefferson, Iowa, aged 81, is dead. She was the first schoolma'am in Iowa. She taught at old Fort Des Moines, near Burlington, in 1837, ten years before Iowa became a state. The German tank steamer Diamant, from a European port for New York, fifteen days overdue, was brought to Halifax by the steamer British Empire. The Diamant lost her propeller February 10, when she was some 500 miles off Halifax. The German-American Bank of Tonawanda, N. Y., was closed by order of Superintendent of Banks Milburn, on the ground of insolvency. Walter Ayrault, assistant cashier, made a statement that the shut-down was only temporary, and that the bank would reopen. The bank has a capital of $100,000 and deposits of $400,000.

8. March 4, 1897 The Monmouth Inquirer Freehold, NJ

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NEWS OF THE WEEK. Wednesday. Feb. 24. Richard Croker sailed from New York for Europe. Two murderers committed suicide, one at Emsdale, Ont., and the other at Tallahassee. Captain John D. Hart of the Laurada was convicted in Philadelphia of aiding a military expedition against Spain. Vice Admiral Jorge Montt, ex-president of Chile, arrived in New York and will study the United States navy with the view of improving that of Chile. A Westchester county (N. Y.) grand jury has returned a presentment to the supreme court calling for the indictment of 46 assessors for gross neglect of duty. A mass meeting of Greeks and sympathizers with Greece was held in Chickering hall, New York, and resolutions of sympathy were passed. Letters from Senator Hoar and others were read, and speeches were made by men familiar with eastern conditions. Thursday, Feb. 25. United States Senator Wolcott left London on his return to America. The German-American bank of Tonawanda, N. Y., shut its doors because of a run, and a state examiner is in charge. Joseph H. Ker, a Washington speculator, was robbed of $3,200 in Twentysixth street, near Broadway, New York, by footpads, who threatened his life, and he complains of treatment he received from central office detectives. Destructive floods raged in the valleys of the Ohio, Alleghany and Monongahela and tributary streams, doing great damage, particularly at Pittsburg, Alleghany City and Cincinnati. Nineteen people are reported to have been drowned, and the property loss is roughly estimated at $2,000,000. Delegates representing gold standard organizations from 18 Dates met at the chamber of commerce, New York, and formed an organization to be known as the National Nonpartisan Sound Money league. Constitution and bylaws were adopted after debates that proved the intention of the league to fight the free silver idea. Friday, Feb. 36. Edwin Gould's match factory at Passaic, N. J., was set on fire, and a discharged employee is suspected of being the incendiary. The disabled German tank steamer Diamant, which was thought to have been lost, was towed into Halifax by the steamer British Empire. Thomas King of Saugerties, N. Y., has been indicted for the murder of Captain Mulligan, which occurred at that place some time ago. King is under arrest. It was announced in New York that a banquet will be given by the Reform club in the latter part of April to commemorate Mr. Cleveland's eighth year of service as chief executive of the nätion. A Spaniard whom Senor Jose G. Acuna, the Spanish vice consul in New York, had befriended and taken into his home stole $20,000 worth of jewelry and heirlooms from his house on Monday night and got away safely. The Reform club of New York passed resolutions strongly indorsing the ratification of the arbitration treaty. ExSecretary Charles S. Fairchild, Edward Atkinson, R. R. Bowker. W. W. Witmer, Dr. L. T. Chamberlain and others took part in the discussion preceding the adoption of the resolutions. Saturday, Feb. 27. General Russell A. Alger, the next secretary of war, arrived in Washington. An Idaho legislator has made affidavit that he was bribed to vote for the election of Senator Heitfeld. It was reported at Montreal that the Dominion government had requested the Vatican to appoint a papal ablegate for Canada. Hi Wang, said to be the first Chinese pauper ever received at the Kings county almshouse, has refused the aid of his countrymen. He has no cué and therefore does not want to go back to China. William J. Bryan delivered an address at Carnegie hall, New York on "Money." He regarded the future of the Democratic party as bright. He believed no permanent prosperity could be expected as long as the country remained on a gold basis. Three burglars broke into the country house of John D. Rockefeller near Tarrytown, N. Y. The butler pursued them with revolver and shotgun and saved several thousand dollars' worth of silverware which they had packed up to carry away. Monday, March 1. Four well known men of Shreve, Q., have been arrested, charged with being members of a gang of robbers. The Brewers' National union warned all workmen in its ranks of a threatened lockout in and about New York on April 15. Typographical union No. 6 of New York adopted resolutions declaring against the adoption by congress or the legislature of antiscalpers' bills. Secretary Olney instructed Consul General Lee in Cuba to demand a civil trial for George Washington Scott, an American prisoner in Cuba. Mrs. Ray Aldridge, a variety actress. accused Charles Spencer of drugging and robbing her of $100 in a house in West Twenty-second street, New York. the request of the Whisky Bot-

9. March 5, 1897 The Yale Expositor Yale, MI

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J. E. Just who will become banking commissioner April 1, says he will retain Deputy E. A. Sunderlin. Rev. E. W. Wheeler, aged 76 dropped dead while teaching Sunday school at the M. E. church at Cedar Springs. The ice houses and warehouses of the A. Booth Packing Co., of Chicago, burned at Petoskey, causing a loss of over $4,000. The boiler in R. Ketts' slat and feed mill at Bannister, exploded. R. Letts, Henry Hustin and L. Crego were seriously scalded. William Fitch, a well-preserved gentleman aged 70, and Miss Duford, a 16year-old Garfield girl, were married at Michie. Friends gave them a serenade. The last chapter in the famous Mrs. Robert Dobson murder trial for the murder of James Anderson, at Harrisville was concluded when the jury, after being out eight and one-half hours, brought in a verdict of not guilty. Frank Coleman, well-known farmer of Marion township, Livingston county, was driving through the woods with a sleigh when a tree which some men were chopping fell and instantly killed him. His two little girls were barely missed. Judge Maxwell, of Bay City, issued an order appointing the sheriff receiver for the St. Stanislaus Polish Catholic church property, valued at $150,000, and directed him to take immediate charge in the name of the bishop, and arrest all persons on the premises. The order is a kneckout blow for the rebellious faction. The lowa state collegiate oratorical contest, held in Oskaloosa, was won by Alice Starbuck, of Penn College, Oskaloosa; T. E. Osborn, of Iowa Wesleyan University, Mount Pleasant, second; Sydney Heald, of Cornell, Mount Vernon, third. The meeting next year will be held at Simpson College, Indianola. In the New oYrk assembly a bill was introduced incorporating the South Buffalo Harbor and Ship Canal Improvement Company. with a capital of $10,000,000, to deal in real estate and build a ship canal connecting the Buffalo River with Lake Erie. A correspondent in Lima, Peru, telegraphs that the Peruvian government will probably send a special minister to the United States to arrange for a treaty of commerce. The South Carolina house passed the graduated income tax bill and the bill requiring licenses for every business, profession or calling, including ministers of the gospel and washerwomen. Mrs. Susan Russell of Jefferson, Iowa, aged 81, is dead. She was the first schoolma'am in Iowa. She taught at old Fort Des Moines, near Burlington, in 1837, ten years before Iowa became a state. The German tank steamer Diamant, from a European port for New York, fifteen days overdue, was brought to Halifax by the steamer British Empire. The Diamant lost her propeller February 10, when she was some 500 miles off Halifax. The German-American Bank of Tonawanda, N. Y., was closed by order of Superintendent of Banks Milburn, on the ground of insolvency. Walter Ayrault, assistant cashier, made a statement that the shut-down was only temporary, and that the bank would reopen. The bank has a capital of $100,* 000 and deposits of $400,000.

10. March 13, 1897 The Diamond Drill Crystal Falls, MI

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The visible supply of grain in the United States on the 8th was: Wheat, 42,763,000 bushels; corn, 26,377,000 bushels; oats, 13,723,000 bushels; rye, 3,574,000 bushels; barley, 3,213,000 bushels. In Philadelphia Capt. John D. Hart was sentenced to two years in prison and to pay a fine of $500 for taking part in a filibustering expedition against the Spanish government in Cuba. The Consolidated Building & Saving company in Cincinnati failed for $230,000. Mr. Cannon, of Illinois, chairman of the appropriations committee of the house, says the appropriations of the Fifty-fourth congress amounted to $1,043,437,018, which is $49,797,812 more than the appropriations for the preceding congress. Jelenke Bros. & Loeb, the largest department store in Charleston, W. Va., failed for $100,000. The German American bank at Tonawanda, N. Y., which suspended about ten days ago, has resumed business. The entire village of West Boylston, Mass., is to be destroyed to make way for new waterworks for Boston. Clara Rawson Jaccard died of starvation in New York. In two months she would have inherited $21,000. It is said that the amount of money involved in the inaccuracies of the books of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen-while Eugene V. Debs was grand secretary and treasurer is $57,000. The first formal meeting of President McKinley's cabinet was held and affairs of state were considered, including the president's message to congress. Leslie Combs, the most noted moonshiner in Kentucky was found dead near Hazard with his throat cut, He is said to have killed 50 men. A train struck Orlando Howe and two sons on a trestle near Oliphant, Ark., instantly killing Howe and one son and fatally wounding the other boy. A Louisville & Nashville north-bound mail train was held up by six masked men near Calero, Ark., and the express car was robbed of $10,000. Anderson & Co.'s private bank at Pleasant Plains, Ill., was gutted by burglars. Three persons were killed and one other fatally wounded by a fire in a apartment building in Brooklyn, N. Y. The first official order issued by Secretary Wilson, of the department of agriculture, concerns the exportation of beef to foreign countries and provides for assurance to foreign purchasers that they receive just what they buy. The will of the late Cornelia V. R. Thayer, of Lancaster, Mass., bequeaths $200,000 to charity. The Youngstown (0.) council passed a curfew ordinance, and at nine o'clock nightly fire-alarm whistles will be blown to warn boys and girls 14 years old and less to go home. A family by the name of Wilson was drowned in Richland creek near Washington, Ind., while trying to escape from a flooded house. Damages by a freshet in the vicinity of Bedford, Ind., will reach $2,000,000, all the county roads having been washed out and swept away and farm lands ruined. At Louisville, Ky., the Germania Safety Vault & Trust company made an assignment with liabilities of $271,000. The one hundred and thirteenth session of the "Mother" conference of Methodism in America came to an end in Baltimore. The great strike of the metallic miners of Leadville, Col., which has been in progress since June 19 last, was called off by the miners' union.

11. March 13, 1897 The Irish Standard Minneapolis, Saint Paul, MN

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MINOR NEWS ITEMS. For the Week Ending March 10. The Lexington savings bank of Baltimore elosed its doors. The Consolidated Building & Saving company In Cincinnati failed for $230,000. The legislature of Indiana adjourned sine die, after having been in session 61 days. Anderson & Co.'s private bank at Pleasant Plains, III., was gutted by burglars. Jelenke Bros. & Loeb, the largest department store in Charleston, W. Va., failed for $100,000. The will of the late Cornelia V. R. Thayer, of Laneaster, Miss., bequeaths $200,000 to charity. The Park theater, the popular-price playhouse in Indianapolis, was burned, the loss being $100,000. Clara Rawson Jaccard died of starvation in New York. In two months she would have inherited $21,000. President McKinley's first official act was to sign the commission of John Sherman as secretary of state. The South Ottumwa (la.) bank, a small private institution, closed its doors with liabilities of $17,000. The entire village of West Boylston, Mass., is to be destroyed to make way for new waterworks for Boston. The German-American bank at Tonawanda, N. Y., which suspended about ten days ago, has resumed business. John M. Dandy, one of Chieago's oldest newspaper men, died of pneumonia in Los Angeles, Cal., aged 44 years. Robert G. Blaine, a brother of the late James G. Blaine, died at his residence in Washington, aged 65 years. At Louisville, Ky., the Germania Safeby Vault & Trust company made an assignment with liabilities of $271,000. One of the bunkhouses at the Daly mines near Park City, Utah, was swept away by an avalanche and four men were killed. A block of business buildings was burned at Worcester, Mass., the loss being $400,000, and eight firemen were badly injured. The Missouri legislature has passed a bill which prohibits bookmaking and poolselling, except by a license from the state auditor. A family by the name of Wilson was drowned in Richland creek near Washington, Ind., while trying to escape from a flooded house. J. Walter Blandford, who has been private secretary to Secretary Olney, has been selected to act in a similar capacity to Attorney-General McKenna. A dispatch from Rio Janeiro says that an outbreak occurred in Babia in which a colonel, 200 soldiers and three civil officials were killed by a band of fanatics. It is said that the amount of money involved in the inaccuracies of the books of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen while Eugene V. Debs was grand secretary and treasurer is $57,000.

12. March 17, 1897 The Ely Miner Ely, MN

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OMESTIC. The Lexington savings bank of Ba timore closed its doors. Mr. Cannon, of Illinois, chairman the appropriations committee of tl house, says the appropriations of tl Fifty-fourth congress amounted to $ 043,437,018, which is $49,797,812 mo than the appropriations for the prece ing congress. Jelenke Bros. & Loeb, the largest d partment store in Charleston, W. Va failed for $100,000. The German American bank at Ton wanda, N. Y., which suspended abo ten days ago, has resumed business. The entire village of West Boylsto Mass., is to be destroyed to make wa for new waterworks for Boston. Clara Rawson Jaccard died of starv tion in New York. In two months sl would have inherited $21,000. In Philadelphia Capt. John D. Ha was sentenced to two years in priso and to pay a fine of $500 for taking pa in a filibustering expedition against tl Spanish government in Cuba. It is said that the amount of mone involved in the inaccuracies of the bool of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fir men while Eugene V. Debs was gran secretary and treasurer is $57,000. The first formal meeting of Preside McKinley's cabinet was held and affai of state were considered, including tl president's message to congress. Leslie Combs, the most noted moo shiner in Kentucky was found dea near Hazard with his throat cut. He said to have killed 50 men. A train struck Orlando Howe an two sons on a trestle near Oliphan Ark., instantly killing Howe and one so and fatally wounding the other boy. A Louisville & Nashville north-bour mail train was held up by six maske men near Calero, Ark., and the € press car was robbed of $10,000. Anderson & Co.'s private bank Pleasant Plains, Ill., was gutted by bu glars. Three persons were killed and or other fatally wounded by a fire in apartment building in Brooklyn, N. The first official order issued by Se retary Wilson, of the department of a riculture, concerns the exportation beef to foreign countries and provid for assurance to foreign purchasers th they receive just what they buy. The will of the late Cornelia V. Thayer, of Lancaster, Mass., bequeat $200,000 to charity. The Youngstown (0.) council pass a curfew ordinance, and at nine o'clo mightly fire-alarm whistles will be blow to warn boys and girls 14 years old ai less to go home. A family by the name of Wilson W drowned in Richland creek near Was ington, Ind., while trying to esca from a flooded house. Damages by a freshet in the vicini of Bedford, Ind., will reach $2,000,00 all the county roads having been wash out and swept away and farm lan truined. At Louisville, Ky., the Germania Saf ty Vault & Trust company made an a signment with liabilities of $271,000. The one hundred and thirteenth se sion of the "Mother" conference Methodism in America came to an en in Baltimore. The great strike of the metall miners of Leadville, Col., which h been in progress since June 19 last, W realled off by the miners' union. The California Mortgage, Loan ar "Trust company at San Diego failed f $200,000. A cyclone a mile wide struck Ralsto O. T., and nearly every house in tow and in the path of the storm was blow

13. March 18, 1897 Mineral Point Tribune Mineral Point, WI

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Yale juniors who sent a letter to Corbett were lectured by the faculty. Missourians are angry because Minnesota does not release the Younger boys. A receiver has been appointed for the Consumers' Brewing company of Utica, N.Y. Specific duties on sugar are decided upon by the ways and means committee. Miss Hanna announces her engagement to a young business man of Toledo. Arthur Sewall, one of Bryan's running mates, went to Central America to recuperate. Snow has fallen every day this month in Minnesota and North and South Dakota. Thomas Evans was fined by a New York judge for spitting on the floor of B. street car. Justice Lawrence. of the supreme court of New York, has declared another Oklahoma divorce invalid. The Texas Cotton-Growers' association adopted resolutions urging farmers to raise more food crops. A bill has been introduced in the Illinois legislature to prohibit continuous long distance bicycle racing. Leslie Combs. a noted moonshiner, who said he had killed fifty men, was found dead near Hazard, Ky. C. C. Snider, engaged in the hardware trade in Canton, O., assigned. The assets are estimated at $60,000. President McKinley's plan to secure an international monetary agreement in favor of bimetallism is announced. Gus Norling, 35, shot and fatally wounded his wife and killed himself at 607 May street, Kansas City, Mo. Thomas M. Bram was sentenced in Boston to be hanged June 18 for the murder of Capt. Charles I. Nash. Henry W. Lanier, son of Sidney Lanler, the poet, was married at Greenwich, Conn., to Miss Josephine L. Stevens. Ex-Senator Dolph of Oregon is dead. An absolutely sure cure for hog cholera is said to have been found in Iowa. The Chicago and St. Paul passenger pool, which has been in existence for more than a year, has practically collapsed. Secretary Sherman asked Gen. Lee to remain in Havana and promised to support him with all the power of the government Jelanco Brothers & Loeb. who have a big department store in Charlestown, W. Va., assigned. Assets large, HabilItles, $75,000. The German-American Bank, of Tonawanda, N. Y., which was closed by the banking department. has reopened Its doors for business. The report of the Lexow committee to the New York legislature recommends national and not state legislation for the regulation of trusts. Alonzo J. Whiteman, a former state senator in Minnesota, was arraigned in R New York court on a charge of having swindled a bank. James Powers, living at 292 Aberdeen street, Chicago, shot his wife, killing her instantly. He then fatally shot himself. Jealousy was the cause. A special train bearing a French opera troupe of 150 people to San Francisco was wrecked near Casa Grand. Arizona. One boy was killed and ten tramps injured. The big hotel at Rodeo. Cal., was burned to the ground. It was unoccupied and cost $50,000 a few years ago when the stock yards at Rodeo were started. The new Canadian census shows the surprising fact that seventeen in every thousand in the Canadian population were born in the United States This is seven more in the thousand than the number reported from all European countries outside of Great Britain. Three men entered the jewelry store of Jerome N Desio in the buslest part of Washington and stole a trav of Hamend rings and pins valued at $3.000 and escaped. Ella Parker. 10, and Robert Parker 12 sister and brother were struck by the fast Knickerbocker on the Big Four at Terre Haute, Ind. Sunday and killed. They were on a trestle. Senatorial leaders agree that the republicans retain control of the committees and the general offices be in the hands of the democrats until the regular session in December Two thousand Chicago plasterers and hod-carriers went on strike. and as the Masons and Builders association later in the day set aside the agreement about employing union labor a general strike may follow. Mrs. Ruiz, wife of the American dentist who WILB tortured and killed by Spanish officers

14. March 18, 1897 Wood County Reporter Wisconsin Rapids, WI

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TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF. DOMESTIC. Specific duties on sugar are decided upon by the ways and means committee. Miss Hanna announces her engagement to a young business man of Toledo. Arthur Sewall, one of Bryan's running mates, went to Central America to recuperate. Snow has fallen every day this month in Minnesota and North and South Dakota. Thomas Evans was fined by a New York judge for spitting on the floor of a street car. Justice Lawrence, of the supreme court of New York, has declared another Oklahoma divorce invand. The Texas Cotton-Growers' association adopted resolutions urging farmers to raise more food crops. A bill has been introduced in the Illinois legislature to prohibit continuous long distance bicycle racing. Leslie Combs, a noted moonshiner, who said he had killed fifty men, was found dead near Hazard, Ky. C. C. Snider, engaged in the hardware trade in Canton, O., assigned. The assets are estimated at $60,000. President McKinley's plan to secure an international monetary agreement in favor of bimetallism is announced. Gus Norling, 35, shot and fatally wounded his wife and killed himself at 607 May street, Kansas City, Mo. Thomas M. Bram was sentenced in Boston to be hanged June 18 for the murder of Capt. Charles I. Nash. Henry W. Lanier, son of Sidney Lanier, the poet, was married at Greenwich, Conn., to Miss Josephine L. Stevens. Ex-Senator Dolph of Oregon is dead. An absolutely sure cure for hog cholera is said to have been found in Iowa. The Chicago and St. Paul passenger pool. which has been in existence for more than a year, has practically collapsed. Secretary Sherman asked Gen. Lee to remain in Havana and promised to support him with all the power of the government. Jelanco Brothers & Loeb, who have a big department store in Charlestown, W. Va., assigned. Assets large, liabilities, $75,000. The German-American Bank, of Tonawanda, N. Y., which was closed by the banking department, has reopened ILS doors for business. The report of the Lexow committee to the New York legislature recommends national and not state legislation for the regulation of trusts. Alonzo J. Whiteman, a former state senator in Minnesota, was arraigned in a New York court on a charge of havmg swindled a bank. James Powers, living at 292 Aberdeer street, Chicago, shot his wife, killing her instantly. He then fatally shot himself. Jealousy was the cause. A special train bearing a French opera troupe of 150 people to San Francisco was wrecked near Casa Grand, Arizona One boy was killed and ten tramps in jured. The big hotel at Rodeo, Cal., was burned to the ground. It was unoc cupied and cost $50,000 a few years age when the stock yards at Rodeo were started. The new Canadian census shows the surprising fact that seventeen in every thousand in the Canadian population

15. March 20, 1897 The L'anse Sentinel L'anse, MI

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DOMESTIC. The legislature of Indiana adjourned sine die, after having been in session 61 days. Gus Norling, aged 35, a stereotyper at Kansas City, Mo., shot his wife fatally and then killed himself during a quarrel. The Consolidated Building & Saving company in Cincinnati failed for $230,000 Mr. Cannon. of Illinois, chairman of the appropriations committee of the house. soys the appropriations of the Fifty-fourth congress amounted to $1.043.437.018, which is $40,797,812 more than the appropriations for the preceding congress. Jelenke Bros. & Loeb, the largest department store in Charleston, W. Va., failed for $100,000. The German American bank at Tonawanda. N. Y., which suspended about ten days ago, has resumed business. The entire village of West Boylston, Mass., is to be destroyed to make way for new waterworks for Boston. Clara Rawson Jaccard died of starvation in New York. In two months she would have inherited $21,000. In Philadelphia Capt. John D. Hart was sentenced to two years in prison and to pay a fine of $500 for taking part in a filibustering expedition against the Spanish government in Cuba. It is said that the amount of money involved in the inaccuracies of the books of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen while Eugene V. Debs was grand secretary and treasurer is $57,000. The first formal meeting of President McKinley's cabinet was held and affairs of state were considered, including the president's message to congress. Lealie Combs, the most noted moonshiner in Kentucky was found dead near Hazard with his throat cut. He is said to have killed 50 men. A train struck Orlando Howe and two sons on a trestle near Oliphant, Ark., instantly killing Howe and one son and fatally wounding the other boy. A Louisville & Nashville north-bound mail train was held up by six masked men near Calero, Ark., and the express car was robbed of $10,000. Anderson & Co.'s private bank at Pleasant Plains, III., was gutted by burglars. Three persons were killed and one other fatally wounded by a fire in a apartment building in Brooklyn, N. Y. The first official order issued by Secretary Wilson, of the department of agriculture, concerns the exportation of beef to foreign countries and provides for assurance to foreign purchasers that they receive just what they buy. The will of the late Cornelia v. R. Thayer, of Lancaster, Mass., bequeaths $200,000 to charity. The Youngstown (0.) council passed a curfew ordinance, and at nine o'clock nightly fire-alarm whistles will be blown to warn boys and girls 14 years old and less to go home. A family by the name of Wilson was drowned in Richland creek near Washington, Ind., while trying to escape from a flooded house. Damages by a freshet in the vicinity of Bedford, Ind., will reach $2,000,000, all the county roads having been washed out and swept away and farm lands ruined. At Louisville, Ky., the Germania Safety Vault & Trust company made an assignment with liabilities of $271,000. The one hundred and thirteenth session of the "Mother" conference of Methodism in America came to an end in Baltimore. The great strike of the metallic miners of Leadville, Col., which has been in progress since June 19 last, was called off by the miners' union. The California Mortgage, Loan and Trust company at San Diego failed for $200,000. A cyclone a mile wide struck Ralston, O. T., and nearly every house in town and in the path of the storm was blown down. Many persons were wounded. The Western association baseball season will open April 29 and close September 22, making a total of 126 games, The dam in the Genessee river at Mount Morris, N. Y., was washed away by a flood, causing a loss of $100,000.

16. January 6, 1898 Phillipsburg Herald Phillipsburg, KS

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A YEAR REVIEWED What Has Been Done During the Past Twelve Months. THE YEAR 1897 A BUSY ONE All of the Important Happenings the World Over Briefly Noted in Chronological Order. BUSINESS AND INDUSTRIAL NOTES Disasters of Various Kinds-Crimes, Suicides and Lynchings-A Year's Famous Dead -Political Events-Sporting BANK FAILURES. Jan State savings, Whitehall, Mich Citizens' national, Fargo, N. D. Omaha (Neb.) savings, $850,000. Jan St. -Germania ($1,000,000) and West Side, Paul, Minn First City, Nora Springs, Ia. Merchants' national, Devil's Lake, N. D. Jan -Commercial, Eau Claire, Wis Bank of Canton, Minn Citizens', Lanes. boro, Minn. Jan 8-Bank of North St. Paul, Minn. Jan 9-First national, Alma, Neb. Jan 12-Bank of Mayview, Mo. Jan 13 -Seattle (Wash.) savings. Jan 14-Merchants' national, Ocala, Fla. Jan 15-Citizens state, Fullerton, Neb. Jan 16-Bank of Conway, Mo. Jan 18-German national, Louisville, Ky First national, Newport, Ky Minnesota savings, St. Paul. Jan 21-German savings, Des Moines, Ia., $554,000 Jan I-Upland (Ind.) bank (voluntary suspension Farmers' and Merchants bank, Excelsior Springs, Mo. Jan 25-Pottsdam (N. Y.) national. Jan 26-First national, Olympia, Wash. Jan 29-Wautauga bank, Johnson City, Tenn. Jan -Dime savings, Chicago. Feb 2-First national, Oakesdale, Wash. (voluntary suspension) Moscow (Ind.) national. Feb 1-First national, Griswold, Ia. Feb 5-First national, Franklin, O. Northwestern national, Great Falls, Mont., $700,000. Feb -State savings, Atlanta, Ga. Feb 9-Farmers' and Merchants', Freeport, III. (voluntary suspension). Feb 10-Bankers' exchange, Minneapolis, Minn. Feb 13 State trust and savings, West Superior, Wis. Commercial savings, Leeds, La. Merchants' national, Helena, Mont., $1,000,000. Feb 16-Merchants' national, Jacksonpville, Fla State national, St. Joseph, Mo. Feb 24-German-American, Tonawanda, N.Y. (Resumed March 8.) Feb 26-Bank of Lithonia, Ga Security Loan and Trust company, Des Moines, Ia. Commercial, Milwaukee, Wis. Feb 27-Mullanphy savings, St. Louis, Mo., $500,000. Mar 8-Lexington savings, Baltimore. Mar 12-Bank of Mulhall, O. T. Mar 22-West Point (Ga.) state bank. Mar 23-Farmers' and Merchants', Paris, Tex. Mar 24-De Kalb county bank, Maysville, Mo. Mar 27-American exchange, Buffalo, N. Y. (voluntary suspension). Apr 5-Globe savings, Chicago, $640,000. Apr 27-N. Barnes, Son & Co., bankers, Norfolk, Va. Apr 28 Bank of Hutchinson, Kan William Van Ordstrand & Co., bankers, Heyworth, III. Apr 29- New Hampshire Banking Co., Nashua, $849,352. May3-J.B. Wheeler & Co., bankers, Man.itou and Aspen, Col. May 7-Exchange bank, Atkinson, Neb. Dalles (Ore.) national. May 12--Traders', Lynchburg, Va. May 19-Miners' state, Cripple Creek, Col. Belknap savings, Laconia, N.H. May 20 State, Monticello, Ind State national, Logansport, Ind Third national, New York. May 21-First national, Orleans, Neb. May 24-Bank of Johnston, Neb. Jun 1-Merchants', Lincoln, Neb. Jun 9-Boone county, Harrison, Ark. Jun 14-First state, Fenton, Mich, and TaJun 29-Union Trust Savings, coma. Wash Keystone national, Erie, Pa. (voluntary) Jul 7-First national, Mason, Tex. Jul 14-Nebraska national, York, Neb. Jul -Bank of Monmouth Springs, Ark. Jul 31-First national, Asheville, N. C., (voluntary). Aug -People's savings, Mount Pleasant, Mich. Aug 27-Bank of Minneapolis, Minn. Aug 31-State, Ambia, Ind First state, McPherson, Kan. Sep 2-First national, Greensburg, Ind. Sep 14-Bank of Durand, III. Sep 18-First national, Benton Harbor, Mich. Sep 20-Bank at Rico, Col. Bep 29 -Bank at Montrose, Col. Oct 18- -City, Sherman, Tex. Oct 19-Edgerton (Wis.) bank. Oct 21-Bank of Lodi, Wis. Oct -National of Asheville, N.C. Nov 9-John A. Willard, banker at Mankato, Minn.: $480,000. Nov 13-Bank of Antigo, Wis Banks at Leavenworth, Marengo and English, Ind. Nov 16-Della county (Col.) bank. Nov 20-State bank of Holstein, Neb. Dec 2-Pledmont state, at Morgantown, N C. Dec Stock exchange, at El Reno, O.T. Dec 21-First national, Pembina, N. D. Dec 23-Chestnut Street national, and Chestnut Street Trust and Savings Fund Co., Philadelphia; $3,000,000.

17. August 3, 1898 The Indianapolis Journal Indianapolis, IN

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TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. The Dominion government has received a cablegram stating that Lieutenant Colonel Hutton had been selected as the head of the Canadian militia in place of Major General Gascoign.e. Six petitions have been lodged against the return of members of the British Columbia legislative assembly, five government and one opposition. The grounds are bribery and corruption. William H. Marston, sixty-five years old, a broker, committed suicidé by cutting his throat at his home, in New York, Monday. He was a brother of Charles E. Marston, who has been missing from home since last Tuesday. Survivors of the Regular Brigade, Fourteenth Corps, Army of the Cumberland, will hold their seventeenth annual reunior in Cincinnati during the meeting of the National Encampment, G. A. R., at No. 519 Main street, Sept. 5. While attempting to dig a fox out of a hole near Hamilton, Mo., John and Will Parker were killed by a cave-in. James Keys was crushed and died later. Clarence Baker is badly bruised about the back. The two sons of W. S. Martin are badly injured. George Tod. a wealthy resident of New York, committed suicide yesterday by jumping from a tenth-story window in the Hotel Majestic. Mr. Tod had been a sufferer from melancholia for some time past. He was a brother of J. Kennedy Tod, of New York. The directors of the German-American bank, of Tonawanda, N. Y., have decided that the institution shall go into liquidation, and have arranged with the Buffalo Commercial Bank, of Buffalo, to take charge of the affairs of their bank with that end in view. Hart H. North, commissioner of immigration at San Francisco, has received instructions from Washington to treat all immigrants from Hawaii as aliens until such time as laws can be perfected to govern them. The rule will settle all questions as to the entrance of certain races for the time being, and will be a warning to steamship companies. The Rev. Dr. Richard Gear Hobbs, of Springfield, III., has received news of his (election as president of Bengali College, the Methodist Episcopal college for males at Calcutta, India. The college has six hundred students. Dr. Hobbs recently resigned as pastor of Grace Church, Jacksonville, Ill., to engage in the work of raising $75,000 in this country for the college. A mysterious assault, which may result in a triple murder, was made upon a family residing in the lower part of Baltimore early Tuesday morning. The victims are: Mrs. Hanna Lillis, widow, aged thirtythree; Winnie Lillis, aged seven, and Mrs. Bessie Whetler, aged twenty-nine. A negro is suspected. All the victims are in the hospital, and the physicians think they have little chance of recovery. No motive can be assigned for the crime.