17685. Citizens Savings Bank (Portsmouth, OH)

Bank Information

Episode Type
Suspension → Closure
Bank Type
savings bank
Start Date
August 8, 1894
Location
Portsmouth, Ohio (38.732, -82.998)

Metadata

Model
gpt-5-mini
Short Digest
4903d6ff

Response Measures

None

Description

Multiple contemporary newspapers (Aug 11–23, 1894) report the Citizens' Savings Bank of Portsmouth, Ohio, passed into the hands of a receiver or is in the hands of an assignee. No articles mention a depositor run prior to suspension; the bank was placed in receivership (closure). Dates in notes reflect contemporaneous dispatches (early August 1894).

Events (2)
1. August 8, 1894 Receivership
Newspaper Excerpt
The Citizens' Savings bank of Portsmouth, O., has passed into the hands of a receiver. The Citizens' Savings bank of Portsmouth, Ohio, is in the hands of an assignee.
Source
newspapers
2. August 8, 1894 Suspension
Cause
Government Action
Cause Details
Bank was placed in the hands of a receiver / assignee (receivership ordered or accepted), reported across multiple newspapers in early August 1894.
Newspaper Excerpt
The Citizens' savings bank at Portsmouth, O., passed into the hands of a receiver.
Source
newspapers

Newspaper Articles (10)
1. August 11, 1894 The Irish Standard Minneapolis, Saint Paul, MN
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THE IRISH STANDARD: SATURDAY, AUGUST 11. FROM WASHINGTON. MINOR NEWS ITEMS. at Away For the Week Ending Aug. 8. Work of Legislators in the Fifty. Ex-Gov. The Citizens' savings bank at PortsThird Congress. govmouth, O., passed into the hands of in receiver. His Bills of Importance Discussed in the Gen. Caceres, elected president of o'clock Senate and House-The ProceedPeru in May, has assumed the duties ings Day by Day of his office. ysician Briefly Told. live The total of immigration from the embers port of New York during the month of THE SKNATE. They July was 19,968. has WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.-A bill was inCapt. Richard D. Blinn, one of the troduced in the senate yesterday by Friday country's most noted race track buildhis Senator Hill providing that no alien ers, died in Chicago. anarchists shall be permitted to land ailment Rev. J. H. Pierce died at Trenton, and at any port of the United States; also N. J., after a prolonged attack of hicbad providing for the exportation of any uncoughs, aged 56 years. was naturalized foreign-born person who, "Lily White" republicans of Texas upon a trial in any court, shall appear complinominated a state ticket headed by G. which to the judge of the court before which D. Smith for governor. he is tried to be an anarchist. The some The ninth anniversary of the death bed his house Hatch anti-option bill was reof Gen. U. S. Grant was observed at three ported. Mount McGregor, N. Y. A WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.-The last of year write the appropriation bills, the deficiency, In the 2-year-old pace at Buffalo, N. a War Y., Carbonate forced Directly to pace was passed in the senate yesterday, and the bills for the admission of New on a mile in 2:12, a new world's record. Mexico and Arizona to statehood were elieved Thirty-five buildings, comprising the hastenreported and placed on the calendar. business portion of Lake View, Mich., WASHINGTON, Ang. 6.-In the senate were destroyed by fire. Loss, $130,000. on Saturday bills were passed to amend Felch, The business portion of Franklin, the the quarantine regulations so far as III., was destroyed by fire. The loss succesthey apply to vessels plying between is put at $50,000, with insurance of but Gov. United States ports and foreign ports half. while on or near the frontier and to subject Henry E. Smith & Co., wholesale to state taxation national bank notes dealers in boots and shoes at Worcesand United States treasury notes. Compkins ter, Mass., assigned, with liabilities of his in Thirty-seven pension bills were also $200,000. and 1831, passed, including one increasing to politForest fires are still raging in north$100 a month the pension paid the same ern Wisconsin, and great damage is ofwidow of Gen. Abner Doubleday and being done to hay and cranberry 1860 in another granting a pension to the marshes. rominent widow of the arctic explorer, Lieut. SE party Grand Duchess Xenia, daughter of Frederick Schwatka. 1858 he the czar, was married to Grand Duke WASHINGTON, Aug. 7.-The bill for congress, Alexander Michaelovitch in the Peterelegation restricting immigration and for the deLinhof palace. portation of anarchists was passed in as year A receiver was appointed for the the senate yesterday. A resolution in 1860, Warren Live Stock company of Cheyaffirming that taxes can only be rightenne, Wyo. The liabilities were stated omewhat fully imposed to raise revenue for supin and at $200,000 port of the government Was offered by Greeley. The governors of three states took Senator Mills. for part in the celebration of the 100th ana few WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.-Only a short he niversary of the building of the fort at session of the senate was held yesterENSEI lected on Defiance, O. day, the most important event being state Joseph Hunt, of New York, killed his the passage of a resolution directing prosewife because she refused to permit was the president to take steps for the reo but lease of American citizens confined in to pawn his clothes to buy liquor and then shot himself. I the island of Cuba for participation in the recent rebellions. In one hour $180,000 worth of propONA. The House. erty was destroyed by fire in St. Paul. to hem WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.-In the house The Northwestern Fuel company was The above the heaviest loser. yesterday the army officer at Omaha Forty acres ead Mexwho ordered target practice on Sunday acre cash and $ John Danerer, a wealthy farmer near were After Mai was scored by Mr. Grosvenor, of Ohio. Davenport, Ia., hung himself to an apand 52 per acre In the The contested. election case of Moore ple tree as a result of despondency Parties pu utional of land in our vs. Funston was decided in favor of over the death of his The locati deleMoore. An hour was spent in the disHenry Russell (colored) nearly defronting on the chosen cussion of a bill to authorize the secreSaints Bay), re capitated his wife with a razor in ChiThe follow on tary of the navy to establish and maincago and hurled her body from a winfornia, and at I 1895, be of interest t tain free public schools for children dow and then cut his own throat. meet The Bay under 17 years of age at Worthington, A mob of French-Canadian Catholics Diego, on the followon the naval reserve of the Pensacola Francisco pass wrecked the mission houses of the constiTodos San bay, Fla., but no action was taken. Baptist and Anglican churches and the ter of a large a the peoWASHINGTON, Aug. 4.-A resolution Los Palmas, Sa Salvation Army barracks in Quebec. be to San Rafael and was introduced in the house yesterday lands all the tr The Baker City (Ore.) national bank first he by Mr. Bland (Mo.) to place all sugars wine and olive has suspended, owing deposi tors $75, time San Rafael, an on the free list and to raise $100,000,000, and with assets of $160,000. Rea years when the 000 revenue by an income tax. A bill the valley land sumption is expected within a month. of abo 9,000 in th was introduced by Mr. Baker (Kan.) The Diamond Jo line at Dubuque, Arizona the 160,000 acres to establish reservoirs for the storage ravines and by Ia., announced the withdrawal of all of rainwater for the tillable lands property with boats on account of low water. This for best land lying west of the 96th meridian, and Mr. is the shortest river season on record. and support of elecBlair (N. H.) offered a resolution for As corrob A traction engine on which Charles quoted from th the investigation of lynchings in this Hudson and Will Dandelien were ridfornia. He say country in the past ten years. Ad"The ques ing broke through a bridge near Is it adapted to journed to the 6th. The soil of the Springfield, III., and the men were WASHINGTON, Aug. 7.-In the house as any one can Takes killed. apples, or into yesterday Mr. Richards (0.) introduced He will have as An attempt to hold up a Lake Shore a bill providing that every session of "As to wa Baker, express train at Kessler, Ind., was the legislative body of the national agement there Tuesseemed a hopel foiled by the engineer, who ran his congress shall be open to the public. the land selling at train through the obstruction at full WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.-A report was this magnificen second was originally speed. made in the house yesterday from the MorCopy of o Three Englishmen who indulged in judiciary committee against the admption mission of Japanese to citizenship. In derogatory remarks concerning Amerhe ica and Americans were soundly the democratic caucus resolutions urgin only thrashed by "Uncle Billy" Shull, of Lands ing speedy action by the conferrees on from Omaha. the tariff bill were presented, but rowded gon, Califor Herman Barnes and Joseph Wiley, finally withdrawn. skull farmers near Rolfe, Ia., had a quarrel alFor any fu Took a Box Containing $7,000. and agreed to fight to a finish. Barnes SPRINGFIELD, III., Aug. 8.-0. D. died Monday. Wiley was arrested for Evans, of St. Louis, late advertising murder. agent for the Chicago, Peoria & St. echselPresident Cleveland set aside the Louis railroad, was in the city Tueswas at court-martial sentence of Lieut. Maney day night enroute to Washington to almost for the shooting of Capt. Hedberg and accept a government position; when norning restored him to command at Fort Sherhe was robbed at the Wabash depot by idan, Ill. while asleep in the waiting room of a a coldHenry F. Johnson was hanged at tin case which contained $7,000 in gova by Allentown, Pa., for the murder of his ernment bonds and notes, and all valit not daughter, and Harry Manfredt was uables on his person. nade by hanged at Pottsville, Pa., for the murOr JO Felsch Big Fire in an Iowa Town. der of George Ochs. was ADAIR, Iowa, Aug. 8.-Fire here cn Braggio Turko, an Italian banker, to Monday night burned twenty business has disappeared from Boston, and this houses and three residences. The enled to an uprising of the depositors, tire block was burned between First's who have $20,000 in the bank, which bank and Wetmore's bank on the south -Forest forced a temporary suspension. vilside of +he principal street, and from

2. August 14, 1894 Oakes Weekly Republican Oakes, ND
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Foreign Gossip. Many Americans offer to serve in the Japanese army in the war with China. The Carina wins the yacht race for her majesty's cup, beating the Vigilant. The Vigilant is disqualified. G. I. Benfie, a rich mine owner, was assassinated at San Nicholas del Oro, Mex., by Benabe Boyes, who escaped. A death from cholera is reported at Amsterdam. Cholera is reported at Marseilles, France. The evicted tenants bill passed its third reading in the house of commons by a vote of 199 to 167. Indians of Labrador are said to be in danger of extinction from starvation, owing to the scarcity of game and furbearing animais. Russia is credited with an intention of seizing one of the most important ports of Corea and establishing a SOVereignty over it. A dispatch from the London Standard from Athens says that a bomb exploded with terrific force in the Jewish quarter of the city of Corfu, killing seven persons and doing considerable damage to property. There is no clue to the perpetrators of the outrage. A special dispatch to the London Times from Quito says that owing to the protest of English holders of the Ecuadorian bonds against the suspension of interest on the public debt, congress has decided that the money necessary to pay the interest shall be deposited in the Bank of Ecuador pending negotiations on the subject. The head of the Corean traitor, Kimok-Kium, which the government intended to exhibit in all provinces, was stolen a few weeks ago while the watchman who had it in charge was asleep. The king has offered a big reward for the discovery of the thief. It is said that since the theft the father, wife and daughter of the conspirator have been beheaded. General. Bowen and Carroll fight twenty-one rounds to a draw. Many more foreigners leave the United States for Europe than arrive. Corn makes a jump of seven cents in Chicago. Two large mills, a grocery and several small business houses burned at Marion, Iowa. Loss, $75,000. The Citizens' Savings bank of Portsmouth, Ohio, is in the hands of an assignee. G. L. Ferris, proprietor of one of the largest retail hardware stores in Central Missouri, has assigned. Of the 988 deaths in New York last week, the unprecedented number of 51 were due directly to the heat. Three hundred mines at Mystic, Iowa struck yesterday because part of their wages is held back every pay day. The miners' strike at Dunfermline, Ill., is practically over. The men have been ordered to take their tools from the pits. Negroes will be put to work. The large receipts of fruit at San Francisco have sent the price of peaches and plums down to 5 cents a basket. Fifty thousand acres of land have been purchased in the State of Arkansas by the Slavok Colonization company of Pittsburg, Pa. A rich strike of lead carbonate, the ore which gave Leadville, Colo., its great boom, has been made on Mineral Hill, Cripple Creek, Colo. At the camp meeting of the Indiana Spiritualists fifty mediums indulged in a war dance while under control of Indian spirits. Extra meetings are necessary to accommodate the crowds of visitors to the Moody conference at East Northfield, Mass. Over 300 women voted in the school election at Canton, Ill. Mrs. Carrie Black defeated Ephraim Shadley by two votes. At the national convention of Colored Voters' leagues in New Castle, Pa., measures looking to the social and political advancement of the race will be considered. The Chinese have apparently come to the conclusion that it is no longer safe to bring coolies into San Francisco, and the "merchants" are now coming by way of Mexico.

3. August 16, 1894 The Princeton Union Princeton, MN
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puty marshais at their own request. Three strikers have been arrested. In Jacinto county, Tex., Road Overseer D. M. Saunders and his son were shot and killed by S. R. Barnett in a quarrel arising out of an old grudge. Joe O'Neill and an unknown man were arrested charged with robbing the safe of the Hawkins Flouring Mills company at Pantoka, III., of $150. J. G. McCloskey, J. Martin and a third operator named Mittelberger, were arrested at Columbus, Ohio, for tapping pool-room wires. Isare Roy, a prospector, well-known throughout the Canadian Northwest, was murdered in his camp near the town of Edmonton, Man. Fritz Baumer, a German, was slugged by footpads at Omaha, Neb., and robbed of $2 in cash and a gold watch. Ffty dollars in his shoe was not touched. Paul Bitterman of Chicago was fined $250 and sentenced to sixty days in jail at Cleveland Ohio, charged with stealing packages from express wagons. Gov. Altgeld has offered $200 reward for the conviction of Joseph Sasdiekie, charged with the murder of Thomas Walmaniski at Braceville, III., August 1. Peter Maroney, Frederick Letcher and Harley Hegnes have been arrested at Central City, Col., for hanging E. A. Mills, playmate, who offended them. Mills is in a critical condition. Deputy Sheriff Holmes attempted to arrest Amos Leash at Cisco, Ill., for selling liquor without a license. A gun fight followed in which Carlton Shidler was fatally wounded and five other persons seriously injured. Steve Brodie the bridge jumper, was stabbed in the neck at New York close to the door of his place on the Bowery, by William Heaney, a well-known book-maker. The men quarreled over a bet. At Rolfe, Iowa, Herman Barnes and Joseph Wiley two farmers, had a quarrel and agreed to fight to a finish. The battle was a bloody affair, and Barnes was badly hurt. He died later of his injuries. Wiley was arrested on charge of murder. Ethel Leroy was murdered at San Frisco, Cal., after a desperate struggle with Frank Larabee. He overpowered her with a razor cut her throat. In the terrible struggle the woman's checks, neck and breast were frightfully slashed. Pushing the dying woman from him he then attempted his own life. Foreign Gossip. It is reported that Japan's navy has been defeated by Chinese war vessels. The sealer Viva has arrived at Victoria, B. C., with 20,000 skins. Queen Victoria gave a grand banquet at Osborn in honor of the German emperor. Seventy covers were laid C. P. Huntington has reopened negotiations with the Mexican government for the purchase of the Tehuantepec Isthmus railway. The Monte de Piete, or national pawnshop at Roubaix, department of Nord, France, was destroyed by fire. The damage amounts to 2,000,000 francs. Sixty-nine million lire in Italian silver has been collected in Belgium, France and Switzerland. Italy has redeemed in gold 56,000,000 lire of this amount. Shinichiro Kurino, chief of the diplomatic bureau of the department for foreign affairs of Japan, has been appointed minister to the United States. He studied at Harvard. Cipriana, the Italian anarchist who was accused of plotting with the exDeputy Felice and Pietre Casselli during the troubles in Sicily recently, has been ordered to leave Brussels. He will go to London. Great Britain desires to act entirely in accord with the United States at Bluefields, Nicaragua, and will refrain from any interference, except such as is considered necessary for the protection of British life and property and to maintain treaty obligations. The marriage of the grand duke Alexander Michalovitch and the grand duchess Xenia, daughter of the czar, was celebrated at the imperial palace at Peterhof in the presence of the imperial family, the queen of Greece, Prince Christian of Denmark, the Princess of Wales and numerous other members of the royal families and distinguished personages. Otherwise. The small-pox quarantine at the Joiiet (III.) prison has been raised. New York capitalists will erect a large zinc smelting plant at Cherokee, Kan. Of the 988 deaths in New York last week, the unprecedented number of 51 were due directly to the heat. Zeimer & Co., retail dry goods merchants in New York city, have failed. The liabilities are placed at $90,000. The Citizens' Savings bank of Portsmouth, Ohio, is in the hands of an assignee. G. L. Ferris, proprietor of one of the largest retail hardware stores in Central Missouri, has assigned. The Church of the Immaculate Conception was dedicated at Pesotum, Ill., by the Rev. J. L. Spalding, bishop of Peoria. Daniel Small and Harvey Mills escaped from the asylum at Logansport,

4. August 16, 1894 Mineral Point Tribune Mineral Point, WI
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TELFGRAMS IN BRIEF. AT HOME. Corn made a jump of seven cents to 60 in Chicago. Many more foreigners leave the United States for Europe than arrive Mrs. Sidney Drew has brought suit for divorce at New York. Congressman George B. Shaw is at his home. in Eau Claire, Wis. A bill to prevent lobbying, and which carries heavy penalties, was introduced in the senate by Mr. Allen. The Citizens' Saving bank of Portsmouth, Ohio, passed into the hands of receiver. McCord, Bragdon & Co's wholesale grocery at Pueblo, Colo., burned; loss $250,000; insured one-half. Unofficial returns from the Alabama election place the democratic maiority 26,124. Judges at Helena, Mont., charge an attorney of that city with subornaof perjury. Felix Geoffrion. who had been a member of the Canadian parliament for thirty-one years, died at Montreal. Directors of the American Railway union are considering establishing an Insurance department of the order. Work was resumed in all but two of the departments of the Pullman car works, virt ally ending the long strike. After a struggle lasting three years the Woman's Baking company has made an assignment for its creditors. In the race for the town prize at Cowes the Britannia defeated the American yacht Vigilant St. Louis grain dealers complain that railroads are favoring Chicago rates to southwestern territory. The business portion of Winneconne, village in Wisconsin. was swept by ire, doing damage of $50,000. Thousands of acres of valuable timhave been destroyed by a forest Ire fifty miles in leugth in Wisconsin. Democrats in session at Oskaloosa, towa, nominated F. E. White for congress to oppose J. F. Lacy. George W. Faris, a lawyer of Terre Haute, Ind., has been nominated by the republicans for congress. Illinois members are yet hopeful that a bill providing for a new fedbuilding at Chicago will pass. Secretary Carlisle is very much encouraged by the gain in the gold re serve of $468,000 since Wednesday. One woman was killed and another fatally injured by the explosion of a aanging lamp at Lauderdale Lake, III. Rev. Charles England, a Swedish minister, of Michigan City, Ind., was frowned while bathing in the surf. Fred Davis, 19 years of age, was frowned while swimming in the White River, near Red Cloud, Ind. Carl Dahlgren, a Chicago merchant, dropped dead with heart disease on the street at St. Joseph, Mich. Deputy Sheritf Colley, who killed a Polish striker at La Salle, III., was ex**erated by the coroner's jury. Health officers in Milwaukee fought furious mob in an attempt to remove smallpox patients to the pesthouse. Members of the Illinois board of agriculture will establish a permanent fish hatchery at the state fair. At seranton. Pa., a deserted mine

5. August 16, 1894 Democratic Northwest and Henry County News Napoleon, OH
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OHIO STATE NEWS. NOTES OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS IN OUR OWN STATE. Concise and Condensed Telegraphic Reports of the Week-An Interesting Collection of Items From Here and There Throughout the State. James Call, an employe of a Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton construction train, at tunnel No. 4, near Ironton. O., was run down and instantly killed by an engine III charge of Engineer Regan. Edward Heiss, aged about 15 years, son of Contractor George Ifenss of Celina, O., fell from a roof he was slating, sustaining serious injuries. The city council of Delaware, O., after considerable discussion on another telephone system in the city, has granted a franchise to Hon. F. M. Marriott, H. W. Hague, F. T. Jones and S. W. Fowler, permitting them to erect and maintain a Harrison telephone system in the city. Two strangers were stripped naked in a boxcar at Beaver Falls, O., by tramps and robbed. A new trial was refused at Georgetown, O., to Edward Jones, the felicide, sentenced five times to hang. Albert Watkins, an artist at Portsmouth, O., was caught pinching ladies in hallways and dark streets. Colored: Fellows are in session at Middleport, O. A receiver has been asked for the Citizens' Savings bank at Portsmouth, O. A party of five young ladies have started from Oberlin, O., as missionaries to the Sandwich Islands. R. E. Andrews is the new president of the Clinton county (0.) teacher's institute. Owing to the gambling allowed at the Wayne centennial at Deflance, O., the committee in charge has been enjoined. from collecting any fees for the privileges. granted. C. G. Carroll, 19, a newspaper man from Columbus, O., and a Miss Danley, 13, of Manchester, O., eloped to Flemingsburg, Ky., but were refused a license. It is supposed they returned home. Burglars robbed and fatally beat P. L. n Cooke, saloonist. at Straitsville, O. Mrs. L. Sabine of Wellington, O., threw herselt into a pond. Despondency. R. Y. Amen, nephew of ex-Governor Foraker, shot himself fatally at Hillsboro, Ohio. Samuel Wagner, a Butler county (Pa.) farmer, was fatally injured by the explosion of his thresher boiler. Evan A. Jones, a prominent Columbus (O.) youth, became suddenly insane and murderously assaulted his mother and sister, who escaped. There has just died at Ottawa, O., Wile liam Morfier, who became blind, deaf, n dumb, insane and epileptic in succession, all within a few years.

6. August 16, 1894 Wood County Reporter Wisconsin Rapids, WI
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ELEGRAMS IN BRIEF. AT HOME. Corn made a jump of seven cents 60 in Chicago. Many more foreigners leave the States for Europe than arrive. Mrs. Sidney Drew has brought suit divorce at New York. Congressman George B. Shaw is at his home in Eau Claire, Wis. bill to prevent lobbying, and ich carries heavy penalties, was induced in the senate by Mr. Allen. The Citizens' Saving bank of Portsuth, Ohio, passed into the hands of receiver. McCord, Bragdon & Co's wholesale ocery at Pueblo, Colo., burned; loss 50,000; insured one-half. Unofficial returns from the Alabama ction place the democratic maiority 26,124. udges at Helena, Mont., charge an torney of that city with subornaof perjury. Felix Geoffrion. who had been a ember of the Canadian parliament thirty-one years, died at Montreal. Directors of the American Railway are considering establishing an surance department of the order. Work was resumed in all but two the departments of the Pullman car orks, virtually ending the long strike. After a struggle lasting three years Woman's Baking company has an assignment for its creditors. the race for the town prize at wes the Britannia defeated the nerican yacht Vigilant Louis grain dealers complain railroads are favoring Chicago rates to southwestern territory. The business portion of Winneconne, village in Wisconsin, was swept by doing damage of $50,000. Thousands of acres of valuable timhave been destroyed by a forest fifty miles in length in Wisconsin. Democrats in session at Oskaloosa, wa, nominated F. E. White for conto oppose J. F. Lacy. George W. Faris, a lawyer of Terre aute, Ind., has been nominated by republicans for congress. Illinois members are yet hopeful a bill providing for a new fedbuilding at Chicago will pass. Secretary Carlisle is very much enuraged by the gain in the gold rerve of $468,000 since Wednesday. One woman was killed and another tally injured by the explosion of a inging lamp at Lauderdale Lake, III. Rev. Charles England, a Swedish inister, of Michigan City, Ind., was owned while batbing in the surf. Fred Davis, 19 years of age, was owned while swimming in the White ver, near Red Cloud, Ind. Carl Dahlgren, a Chicago merchant, opped dead with heart disease on street at St. Joseph, Mich. Deputy Sheriff Colley. who killed a blish striker at La Salle, III., was exgrated by the coroner's jury. Health officers in Milwaukee fought furious mob in an attempt to remove tallpox patients to the pesthouse. Members of the Illinois board of riculture will establish a permafish hatchery at the state fair. At scranton. Pa., a deserted mine ved in for a distance of three blocks, recking twenty-three houses. Owing to the high price of corn the stilleries operated by the whisky

7. August 17, 1894 The Times Owosso, MI
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HISTORY OF A WEEK. Thursday, Aug. 9. Congressional nominations: At Chip pewa Falls, Wis., J J. Jenkins, Republican, Tenth district At Ottumwa, Ia., Rev. Allen Clark, Populist, Sixth district. At Dowagiac, Mich., Henry F. Thomas, Republican, Fourth district. At Chicago, William Lorimer, Republican, Second dis. trict. McCord, Bragdon & Co.'s wholesale grocery, at Pueblo, Colo., burned. Loss, $250,000; insured one-half. The Citizens' Savings bank of Portsmouth, O., has passed into the hands of a receiver. The long continued deadlock in the Thirty-first district Republican senatorial convention at Black River Falls, Wis., was broken by the nomination of J. J. McGillivray, of Jackson county, on the 337th ballot. Congressman George B. Shaw is dangerously ill at his home in Eau Claire, Wis. It is reported at Yokohama that the Japanese have defeated the Chinese in several battles on land, killing 500 Celes tials in one battle.

8. August 17, 1894 The Herald-Advance Milbank, SD
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Foreign Gossip. Many Americans offer to serve in the Japanese army in the war with China. The Carina wins the yacht race for her majesty's cup, beating the Vigilant. The Vigilant is disqualified. G. I. Benfie, a rich mine owner, was assassinated at San Nicholas del Oro, Mex., by Benabe Boyes, who escaped. A death from cholera is reported at Amsterdam. Cholera is reported at Marseilles, France. The evicted tenants bill passed its third reading in the house of commons by a vote of 199 to 167. Indians of Labrador are said to be in danger of extinction from starvation, owing to the scarcity of game and furbearing animals. Russia is credited with an intention of seizing one of the most important ports of Corea and establishing a SOVereignty over it. A dispatch from the London Standard from Athens says that. a bomb exploded with terrific force in the Jewish quarter of the city of Corfu, killing seven persons and doing considerable damage to property. There is no clue to the perpetrators of the outrage. A special dispatch to the London Times from Quito says that owing to the protest of English holders of the Ecuadorian bonds against the suspension of interest on the public debt, congress has decided that the money necessary to pay the interest shall be deposited in the Bank of Ecuador pending negotiations on the subject. The head of the Corean traitor, Kimok-Kium, which the government intended to exhibit in all provinces, was stolen a few weeks ago while the watchman who had it in charge was asleep. The king has offered a big reward for the discovery of the thief. It is said that since the theft the father, wife and daughter of the conspirator have been beheaded. General. Bowen and Carroll fight twenty-one rounds to a draw. Many more foreigners leave the United States for Europe than arrive. Corn makes a jump of seven cents in Chicago. Two large mills. a grocery and several small business houses burned at Marion, Iowa. Loss, $75,000. The Citizens' Savings bank of Portsmouth, Ohio, is in the hands of an assignee. G. L. Ferris, proprietor of one of the largest retail hardware stores in Central Missouri, has assigned. Of the 988 deaths in New York last week, the unprecedented number of 51 were due directly to the heat. Three hundred mines at Mystic, Iowa struck yesterday because part of their wages is held back every pay day. The miners' strike at Dunfermline, III., is practically over. The men have been ordered to take their tools from the pits. Negroes will be put to work. The large receipts of fruit at San Francisco have sent the price of peaches and plums down to 5 cents a basket. Fifty thousand acres of land have been purchased in the State of Arkansas by the Slavok Colonizátion company of Pittsburg, Pa. A rich strike of lead carbonate, the ore which gave Leadville, Colo., its great boom, has been made on Mineral Hill, Cripple Creek, Colo. At the camp meeting of the Indiana Spiritualists fifty mediums indulged in a war dance while under control of Indian spirits. Extra meetings are necessary to accommodate the crowds of visitors to the Mass. Moody conference at East Northfield, Over 300 women voted in the school election at Canton. III: Mrs. Carrie Black defeated Ephraim Shadley by two votes. At the national convention of Colored Voters' leagues in New Castle, Pa., measures looking to the social and political advancement of the race will be

9. August 18, 1894 The Cape Girardeau Democrat Cape Girardeau, MO
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DOMESTIC. IN the 2-year-old pace at Buffalo, N. Y., Carbonate forced Directly to pace a mile in 2:12, a new world's record. A TRACTION engine on which Charles Hudson and Will Dandelien were riding broke through a bridge near Springfield, Ill., and the men were killed. CAPT. RICHARD D. BLINN, one of the country's most noted race-track builders, died in Chicago. THE Gossard Investment company at Kansas City, Mo., failed for $200,000. MICHIGAN'S total tax levy for 1894 is $1,889,135, or $242,078 less than last year's levy. Gov. CROUNSE, of Nebraska, was petitioned to convene the legislature that measures may be taken to relieve the people in the drought-stricken sections of the state. A RECEIVER was appointed for the Warren Live Stock company of Cheyenne. Wyo, The liabilities were stated at $200,000. FIRE destroyed $180,000 worth of property in St. Paul, the Northwestern Fuel company being the heaviest loser. THE total receipts from internal revenue since June 30, 1894, was stated at the treasury department in Washington to be $30,394,661. against $17,708,558 during the same period last year. THE wholesale grocery house of McCord, Bragdon & Co., at Pueblo, Col., was burned the loss being $250,000. GOVERNMENT reports showed that most northwestern states were still suffering from drought. All unhar vested crops had been injuriously affected. FOREST fires were still raging in northern Wisconsin, and great damage was being done to hay and cranberry marshes. TWENTY business buildings and three residences in the center of Adair, Ia., were burned, causing a loss of $152,000. HENRY F. JOHNSON, was hanged at Allentown, Pa., for the murder of his daughter, and Harry Manfredt was hanged at Pottsville, Pa., for the murder of George Ochs. THE governors of three states took part in the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the building of the fort at Defiance, O. HENRY RUSSELL (colored) nearly decapitated his wife with a razor in Chicago and hurled her body from a window and then cut his own throat. THE Citizens' savings bank at Portsmouth. O., passed into the hands of a receiver. THE total of immigration from the port of New York during the month of July was 19,968. THE business portion of Franklin, Ill., was destroyed by fire. AN attempt to hold up a Lake Shore express train at Kessler, Ind., was foiled by the engineer, who ran his train through the obstruction at full speed. THE ninth anniversary of the death of Gen. U. S. Grant was observed at Mount McGregor, N. Y. WILLIAM BEAM, a farmer near Bowling Green, O., was instantly killed by a bumble bee sting on the temple. THE fire loss of the United States and Canada during July aggregated the enormous sum of $16,307,000. For the fire seven months of 1894 the total was $77,920,200. H. H. WARNER, the patent-medicine man. returned to Rochester, N. Y., from Europe penniless, having lost the remains of his fortune at Monte Carlo. THE Hawkeye Commission company of Omaha. Neb., failed for $200,000. EIGHT of the men who resorted to unlawful tactics in the labor troubles at Paterson, N. J., were given sentences ranging from three months to six years. WINNECONNE. Wis., a town of 1,000 inhabitants, was practically wiped from the map by a conflagration caused by burning forests. HARRY A. GARDNER, cashier of an Altoona (Pa.) national bank,disappeared with $20.000 of the institution's funds.

10. August 23, 1894 Courier Democrat Langdon, ND
Article from Courier Democrat, August 23, 1894

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General. Bowen and Carroll fight twenty-one rounds to a draw. Corn makes a jump of seven cents in Chicago. Two large mills, a grocery and several small business houses burned at Marion, Iowa. Loss, $75,000. The Citizens' Savings bank of Portsmouth, Ohio, is in the hands of an assignee. G. L. Ferris, proprietor of one of the largest retail hardware stores in Central Missouri, has assigned. Of the 988 deaths in New York last week, the unprecedented number of 51 were due directly to the heat. Three hundred mines at Mystic, Iowa struck yesterday because part of their wages is held back every pay day. The miners' strike at Dunfermline, Ill., is practically over. The men have been ordered to take their tools from the pits. Negroes will be put to work. The large receipts of fruit at San Francisco have sent the price of peaches and plums down to 5 cents a basket. Fifty thousand acres of land have been purchased in the State of Arkansas by the Slavok Colonization company of Pittsburg, Pa. A rich strike of lead carbonate, the ore which gave Leadville, Colo., its great boom, has been made on Mineral Hill, Cripple Creek, Colo. At the camp meeting of the Indiana Spiritualists fifty mediums indulged in a war dance while under control of Indian spirits. Extra meetings are necessary to accommodate the crowds of visitors to the Moody conference at East Northfield, Mass. Over 300 women voted in the school election at Canton, Ill. Mrs. Carrie Black defeated Ephraim Shadley by two votes. At the national convention of Colored Voters' leagues in New Castle, Pa., measures looking to the social and political advancement of the race will be considered. The Chinese have apparently come to the conclusion that it is no longer safe to bring coolies into San Francisco, and the "merchants" are now coming by way of Mexico. A mass meeting at Spring Valley, Ill., attended by over 1,000 miners, resulted in a unanimous vote to accept the Columbus scale, with several conditions. At Komoko, Ind., the wholesale liquor house of Parker & Sayler made an assignment for the benefit of creditors, J. H. Watson being appointed assignee. The assets are estimated at $15,000, with liabilities $5,000. Junius Dana, vice president of the First National bank of Warren, Ohio, states that the whole amount of the notes of David R. Paige improperly indorsed by John Huntington was $735,000 instead of $240,000 as has been reported. A receiver has been appointed for the Warren Live Stock company at Cheyenne, Wyo. The liabilities are $200.000, assets $300,000. Ex-Senator Warren is president of the company. The receivership was forced by the failure of the Kent bank. The death of Elbridge W. Walker, aged 20 years. which occurred at Ocean Point. Me., was of a peculiar nature. During the process of shaving a barber accidentally removed a pimple. Blood poisoning set in and young Walker immediately took to his bed. Medical assistance was without avail.