22873. Union National Bank (Racine, WI)

Bank Information

Episode Type
Run → Suspension → Reopening
Bank Type
national
Bank ID
2557
Charter Number
2557
Start Date
August 16, 1893
Location
Racine, Wisconsin (42.726, -87.783)

Metadata

Model
gpt-5-mini
Short Digest
20b6fdce

Response Measures

Capital injected, Full suspension, Books examined

Other: Directors initially voted liquidation but later reorganized/increased capital and resumed operations.

Description

Multiple contemporary newspaper dispatches report heavy withdrawals and the bank closed its doors / suspended on Aug 16, 1893 amid the money stringency. Directors voted liquidation and a receiver was appointed in the days after suspension, but the bank reorganized/increased capital and resumed business on Oct 23, 1893. Cause is generalized money/stringency (macro-news) rather than a discrete rumor or misinfo.

Events (10)

1. September 1, 1881 Chartered
Source
historical_nic
2. August 16, 1893 Run
Cause
Macro News
Cause Details
Nationwide money stringency and bank troubles in August 1893 prompted heavy withdrawals; articles note The Money Stringency Still Causing Suspensions and Starting Runs.
Measures
Closed/suspended operations; bank later posted for suspension and examiners took charge.
Newspaper Excerpt
RACINE. Wis., Aug. 16.-The Union National bank closed its doors this morning. The capital is $150,000. total resources $892,000. individual deposite $243,000.
Source
newspapers
3. August 16, 1893 Suspension
Cause
Macro News
Cause Details
Direct consequence of heavy withdrawals and the general money stringency of August 1893; several dispatches state the bank closed its doors or suspended.
Newspaper Excerpt
The Union National bank of Racine, Wis., has closed its doors. The capital is $150,000; deposits $243,000.
Source
newspapers
4. August 20, 1893 Other
Newspaper Excerpt
The directors of the Union National Bank. which suspended on Wednesday. have voted to go into liquidation. All depositors will be paid in full, as there is $1.75 of assets for every dollar of deposits.
Source
newspapers
5. August 23, 1893 Other
Newspaper Excerpt
The directors of the Union National Bank at Racine, which suspended a few days ago, have decided to go into liquidation and appoint a receiver to wind up the affairs of the bank. The bank has a sufficient amount of securities to pay depositors dollar for dollar.
Source
newspapers
6. August 31, 1893 Other
Newspaper Excerpt
Continual withdrawal of deposits caused the suspension of the Union national bank of Racine. Assets were $893,806 and deposits $545,314.
Source
newspapers
7. September 7, 1893 Other
Newspaper Excerpt
Bank Examiner Lynch outlined a plan and it was approved by Comptroller Eckels, whereby the bank hopes to resume inside of sixty days.
Source
newspapers
8. September 27, 1893 Other
Newspaper Excerpt
The officers of the Union National Bank, of Racine, which suspended August 16, have given notice that they will resume business on October 23. They have advertised for a stockholders' meeting on October 7, at which time the capital stock will be increased to $225,000.
Source
newspapers
9. October 23, 1893 Reopening
Newspaper Excerpt
RACINE, WIS., Oct. 23.-The Union National Bank, of this city, after a suspension of ten week, resumed business today with its capital stock increased to $225,000.
Source
newspapers
10. September 1, 1900 Voluntary Liquidation
Source
historical_nic

Newspaper Articles (24)

Article from The Helena Independent, August 17, 1893

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TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 16.-She:iff MoDade was to day appointed receiver of the wrecked Pacific bank. BOSTON, Aug. 16.-The Chicago. Burlington & Quincy to-day declared a dividend of 11/2 per cent, payable Sept. 15. STOCKTON. Cal.. Aug. 16. - The copper mines ns Copperopolis have alos d down, th owing 300 men out of employment. WASHINGTON. Aug. 16.-Efforts are being made by the stockholders to have the German National bank of Denver resume. LONDON, Aug. 16.-Twenty-fvc thousand pounds in gold were withdrawn from the Bank of England for the United States today. DELAND, Fla.. Aug. 16.-The Volusia county bank closed to-day, owing to inability to realize on paper. Liabilities $136,000, assets $190,000. ST. LOUIS, Aug. 16.-This afternoon at East St. Louis, III., in a jealous quarrel. John Seiten eit shot his wife and himself. Both are finally wounded. RACINE. Wis.. Aug. 16.-The Union National bank closed its doo B this morning. Capital $150,000. total resources $892,000. individual deposite $243,000. PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 16. .-The schooner Betty M. Listy, from Charleston, 8. C.. has one well developed OAMO of yellow fever and two suspicous cases ou board. LONDON, Aug. 16. -The prince of Wales' yachs Britanuia won first priz, in Royal Albert Yachs club race to-day as Smith's Sea. Royal Phelps Carroll's Navihoo 500ond. TROY, N. Y., Aug. 16.-The shoriff this afternoon took possession of the works al Green Island of the Gilbert Car Manufaoturing company on five judgments aggreRating $150,000.


Article from The Times, August 17, 1893

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More Bank Troubles. WASHINGTON, August 16.-Comptroller Eckels is informed of the failure this morning of the Union National Bank of Racine, Wis. GALLATIN, TEX., August 16.-There was a slight run by depositors yesterday on the Farmers' and Traders' Bank, and the directors posted a notice that only 10 per cent. for the present would be paid on deposits. Loans and other means are over $120,000 and deposits are about $80,000. There was a slight run on the First National Bank of Gallatin, less than $2,000 having been paid out. JACKSONVILLE, FLA., August 16.The Volusta County Bank at Deland, Fla., closed its doors this morning, being unable to meet obligations by reason of delays in realizing on its paper and mortgages. Liabilities, $136,000; assets, $190,000. The officers say it will eventually pay dollar for dollar. RACINE, WIS., August 16.-The Union National Bank closed its doors this morning. The capital is $150,000, and the total resources $892,000. The Commercial Savings Bank has posted a thirtyday notice. JACKSONVILLE, FLA., August 16.The Volusia County Bank, at Deland, Fla., closed its doors this morning, being unable to meet its obligations by reason of delays in realizing on its paper. Mortgages and liabilities $136,000; assets $190.000. Its State Bank officers say It will eventually pay dollar for dollar. MEMPHIS, August 16.-The Cole Manufacturing Company yesterday filed an application in chancery, asking that a recelver be appointed to take charge of the. personal property of W. A. Collier, president of the Memphis Appeal-Avalanche Company, and his associates in business. Some time ago the Cole Manufacturing Company obtained a judgment against Mr. Collier for material used in the Appeal-Avalanche building. A portion of the judgment was satisfied by attaching land owned by Mr. Collier, but this being insufficient to pay the claim, a receiver is now applied for to take charge of the personal property.


Article from The Sun, August 17, 1893

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TROUBLES OF THE BANKS. The Money Stringency Still Causing Suspensions and Starting Runs. RACINE. Aug. 16.-The Union National Bank closed its doors this morning. The capital is $150,000,and the total resources $892,000. The individual deposits are $243,000. INDIANAPOLIS, Aug.10.-The banks of this city are still refusing to take bills of exchange on New York and other Eastern cities, and business between this city and such places is almost at H. standstill. The high price of Eastern exchange is having its effect on all kinds of business. including the shipment of grain and live stock as well as of flour and other manufactured articles. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Aug. 16.-The Volusia County Bank at Deland closed its doors this morning. being unable to meet its obligations by reason of delays in realizing on its papers. mortgages. &c. Its liabilities are $136,000 and its assets $190,000. It is a State bank. H. H. Clough President. J. B. Clough cashier.


Article from The Salt Lake Herald, August 17, 1893

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TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. A large batch of recess appointments was sent to the Senate yesterday. The copper mines at Copperopolis, Cal., closed down, throwing 300 men out of employment. The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy has declared a dividend of 1½ per cent., payable Sept. 15. The First National bank of Marion, Kan., has suspended. Bank Examiner Latimer took charge. Efforts are being made by the stockholders to have the German National bank of Denver to resume. Twenty-five thousands pounds in gold were withdrawn from the bank of England for the United States yesterday. The Volusio county, Fla., bank has closed owing to the inability to realize on paper. Liabilities, $136,000; assets, $190,000. Senator Frye yesterday reintroduced in the Senate his bill of last Congress providing for a refunding of the Pacific railroad debt. The Union National bank of Racine, Wis., has closed its doors. The capital is $150,000; deposits $243,000. The Commercial and Saving bank also posted & notice.


Article from The Sun, August 20, 1893

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Liquidation for a Racine Bank. RACINE, Wis., Aug. 10.-The directors of the Union National Bank. which suspended on Wednesday. have voted to go into liquidation. All deposite will be paid in full, as there is $1.75 of assets for every doll ir of deposits. The run on the other banks has entirely ceased.


Article from Watertown Republican, August 23, 1893

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WISCONSIN NEWS. RICHARD HANTZCH, a lineman in the employ of the Telephone and Lighting Company at Eau Claire, while at the top of a pole received the full incandescent current. With a cry of pain he fell and hung by one foot to the wires, apparently a corpse. Two fellow workmen ran up the polesand tried to lower him with a rope, but he fell, striking on the curbstone. Life was extinct. There is considerable agitation over the affair and the City Council has appointed a committee to investigate the street railroad and electric light svstem in relation to public safety. Hantzch is the second victim of the deadly'current at Eau Claire within a week. J. S. BROWN, charged with illegally marrying William Wallace to Mrs. Ida A. Clark, had a preliminary examination at Racine. From the testimony it appeared that the ceremony used was similar to that of all ministers. Mrs. Clark thought it was all in fun and Brown was of the same opinion. He was held to the circuit court for trial. A LIVE white sturgeon has been added to the attractions at Washington Park, Green Bay. The rare one is forty inches in length, pure white in color, and with eyes of deep indigo blue. Fishermen who have been in the business forty years say it is the first time a fish of that kind has been taken from the Waters of Lake Superior. THE directors of the Union National Bank at Racine, which suspended a few days ago, have decided togo into liquidation and appoint a receiver to wind up the affairs of the bank. The bank has a sufficient amount of securities to pay depositors dollar for dollar. CHARLES SPLITBERGER, of Cottage Grove, Dane County, pleaded guilty to the charge of assault with intent to do great bodily harm to John Allerton, of Deerfield, at a country dance, and was sentenced to eight months' imprisonment. FRED. J. SOMERFIELD, of Iron River, has commenced suit against the Western Union Telegraph Company for $1,000 damages for the non-delivery of message e THE ex-convict impersonating the Rev. T. J. Brown, of Waupaun, when arrested for burglary at St. Joseph, Mo., is Frank Bender, as surmised by Mr. Brown when he read the report of the arrest. In response to Mr. Brown's telegram the chief of pelice of St. Joseph had Bender's photograph taken and it was forwarded to Mr. Brown, who recognized it at a glance. THE Commercial Bank, of Eau Claire, which closed recently, will be reorganized and reopened. The schedule, which is nearly completed, will show diabilities about $154,000, with assets about $50,000 more than that. While the assets comprise not over $40,000 cash, Receiver Buffing believes all liabilities will be paid in full. STATE VETERINARIAN F. J. TOUSSAINT made a trip through the Northwestern counties recently finding many horses suffering with glanders. Horses belonging to Frank Bodwar, of Somerset, St. Croix County; Arthur Wilson, of Canton, Barron County, and Sam Wright, of Flambeau, Chippewa County, were ordered killed. Mr. Wright lost a horse with the same disease last winter. WILLIAM WALLACE SACKET, who participated in an illegal marriage with Sarah A. Clark, at Racine, and whois in jail, is desirous of pleading guilty, but Judge Fish is absent from the city, and he must wait until September 15. HERMAN POEHLING was arrested at La Crosse on a charge of grand larceny. He was bound over to the next term of the circuit court. IT is now certain that Mrs. Charles Urwin, of Chicago, who was supposed to have been drowned in Lake Mendota at Madison, committed suicide. A letter addressed to her husband was found on the table in her room at the hotel where she was stopping stating that she was tired of life and that when he received it she would be at the bottom of the lake. The police have not yet succeeded in finding the body All the claims against the Wisconsin Marine and Fire Insurance Company Bank and against its stockholders upon their individual liability are to be adjusted in one equity suit. Actions at law will not hold and all those who have already begun such suits will have to discontinue them. COMPTROLLER ECKELS has appointed W. F. Filter, general book-keeper of the Milwaukee National Bank, a bank examiner, and instructed him to go to Racine and take charge of the Union National Bank, under the direction of Bank Examiner Lynch. THE Wisconsin conference trustees of the Methodist Church have opposed the admission to probate of the will of the late Maj. E. H. Paine, of Oshkosh. The objection is that the testament bearing the date of May 3, 1892, is not the last will of the deceased. ELI DANKS, an old resident of the town of Dale, Outagamie County, died at the age of 70 years. MRS. KANDY, formerly a resident of Neosho, died at her home in Colby, aged years. 69 Gov. PECK has granted pardons to Daniel Hanley, who was sentenced by the circuit court ol Green Lake County, June, 1886, for a term of fifteen years, and John W. Hart, sentenced on February 26, 1886, for fifteen years for murder in the second degree. Hanley has always been a faithful worker and had an excellent record for good behavior. Recently he saved the life of a prison official, who had been attacked by one of the convicts with a large knife In referring to Hart's behavior Gov. Peck said: "For the past five years he has filled the position of engineer and fireman. As such he has faithfully cared for the machinerv and property of the


Article from The Worthington Advance, August 24, 1893

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A CONVENTION of the Pan-American Bimetallis association will be held in St. Louis on October 3 next. A CYCLONE near Humboldt, Neb., did great damage and Mrs. G. Schultz and her son were fatally injured and horses and cattle were killed. THE Union national bank at Racine and the banks at River Falls and Ellsworth, in Wisconsin, closed their doors. The private bank of Levi Hall at Oswego, III., and the Cardington Banking company at Cardington, O., also suspended. A BLAZE in St. Paul did $100,000 damage to the music house of W. J. Dyer & Bro. and Michael Clenan, a fireman, was killed. INTERPRETER YOSHIKAWA and Commissioner Minano, Japanese representing their government at the world's fair, have been converted to Christianity. THE impeachment of President Cleveland and Secretary Carlisle is demanded by the Advocate, the organ at Topeka of the Kansas populists, for failure to purchase the prescribed quantity of silver in July. THREE cars were dropped 60 feet by the giving way of a bridge near Milton, Va., and seven persons were killed and four injured. THE First national bank at Dubuque, Ia., the bank at Albany, Mo., and the Kendall county bank at Yorkville, III., closed their doors. MARTIN SCHULTZ and -his wife, an aged couple living near Cherokee, Ia., were murdered and their home ransacked by robbers. THE doors of the National bank of commerce at Denver, Col., have reopened for business. IN Cincinnati the Standard Wagon company, one of the largest concerns of the kind in the west, failed for $700,000; assets, $1,200,000. By a collision on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad near Dubuque, Ia., twelve persons were injured THE death of John Logan Chipman, member of congress from the First district of Michigan, occurred at his home in Detroit, aged 63 years. THE Nebraska democrats will hold their convention at Lincoln October 4. IN a fit of anger Cyrus Brown, of Cincinnati, shot and killed his wife, to whom he had been married thirty years. VIRGINIA democrats in convention at Richmond nominated Charles T. O'Ferrall for governor and R. C. Kent for lieutenant governor. THE four banks in Le Mars, Ia., suspended. They were the First national and Le Mars national, with a capital of $100,000 each, and the Le Mars state and German savings banks. DRINKING water from an impure well caused the death of three children of J. L. Casey, of Little Rock, Ark., and the rest of the family were seriously ill, A TRACTION engine near Martin's Ferry, o., became unmanageable and ran backward down a hill, killing Carrie and Nellie Ackerman, aged 5 and 11 years, respectively, and fatally injuring Ella King. A FIRE at Benton, III., destroyed the city hall, post office and the Chronicle office. J. S. JOHNSON made 3 miles in 7:55% in a bicycle race at Minneapolis, lowering the record 15 1/4 seconds. BUSINESS has been resumed by the First national bank of Anthony, Kan., which suspended payment in July. A MOB wear Morganfield, Ky., lynched Charles Watson, a negro who cut the throat of little Sam Keith, 10 years old, to secure four dollars. WILLIAM J. JAMISON (colored), who murdered Supervisor Charles N. Aaron April 19, 1892, was hanged at Quincy, III. This was the third hanging in Quincy in sixty-five years. WITHIN ten days twenty members of the Meacham gang have been killed near Jackson, Ala., and five others were surrounded, but escaped.


Article from River Falls Journal, August 24, 1893

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WEST AND SOUTH. AT Goodland, Kan., a hailstorm wrecked several buildings and fatally injured a man named Wood and his two sons. IN St. Paul C. 0. Rice & Co., dealers in carpets and wall paper, made an assignment with liabilities of $112,000. FLAMES destroyed the Tubbs hotel at East Oakland, Cal., the loss being $200,000. IN convention in Des Moines the Iowa republicans nominated Frank D. Jackson, of Des Moines, for governor; W. S. Dungan, of Chariton, for lieutenant governor; G. S. Robinson, of Storm Lake, for supreme judge; J. W. Luke, of Hampton, for railroad commissioner, and Henry Sabin, of Des Moines, for superintendent of public instruction. The platform approves the administration of Benjamin Harrison; favors maintaining both gold and silver as unlimited legal tender for the payment of debt. every dollar to be of equal value; opposes state bank money; says the pension system now in practice is a menace to the honor of the brave and deserving national defenders, and declares in favor of local option. A CONVENTION of the Pan-American Bimetallic association will be held in St. Louis on October 3 next. A CYCLONE near Humboldt, Neb., did great damage and Mrs. G. Schultz and her son were fatally injured and horses and cattle were killed. THE Union national bank at Racine and the banks at River Falls and Ellsworth, in Wisconsin, closed their doors. The private bank of Levi Hall at Oswego, III., and the Cardington Banking company at Cardington, 0., also suspended. A BLAZE in St. Paul did $100,000 damage to the musie house of W. J. Dyer & Bro. and Michael Clenan, a fireman, was killed. THE doors of the National bank of commerce at Denver, Col., have reopened for business


Article from Warren Sheaf, August 24, 1893

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A CONVENTION of the Pan-American Bimetallis association will be held in St. Louis on October 3 next. A CYCLONE near Humboldt, Neb., did great damage and Mrs. G. Schultz and her son were fatally injured and horses and cattle were killed. THE Union national bank at Racine and the banks at River Falls and Ellsworth, in Wisconsin, closed their doors. The private bank of Levi Hall at Oswego, Ill., and the Cardington Banking company at Cardington, O., also suspended. A BLAZE in St. Paul did $100,000 damage to the music house of W. J. Dyer & Bro. and Michael Clenan, a fireman, was killed. INTERPRETER YOSHIKAWA and Commissioner Minano, Japanese representing their government at the world's fair, have been converted to Christianity. THE impeachment of President Cleveland and Secretary Carlisle is demanded by the Advocate, the organ at Topeka of the Kansas populists, for failure to purchase the prescribed quantity of silver in July. THREE cars were dropped 60 feet by the giving way of a bridge near Milton, Va., and seven persons were killed and four injured. THE First national bank at Dubuque, Ia., the bank at Albany, Mo., and the Kendall county bank at Yorkville, Ill., closed their doors. MARTIN SCHULTZ and his wife, an aged couple living near Cherokee, Ia., were murdered and their home ransacked by robbers. THE doors of the National bank of commerce at Denver, Col., have reopened for business. IN Cincinnati the Standard Wagon company, one of the largest concerns of the kind in the west, failed for $700,000; assets, $1,200,000. By a collision on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad near Dubuque, Ia., twelve persons were injured THE death of John Logan Chipman, member of congress from the First district of Michigan, occurred at his home in Detroit, aged 63 years. THE Nebraska democrats will hold their convention at Lincoln October 4. IN a fit of anger Cyrus Brown, of Cincinnati, shot and killed his wife, to whom he had been married thirty years. VIRGINIA democrats in convention at Richmond nominated Charles T. O'Ferrall for governor and R. C. Kent for lieutenant governor. THE four banks in Le Mars, Ia., suspended. They were the First national and Le Mars national, with a capital of $100,000 each, and the Le Mars state and German savings banks. DRINKING water from an impure well caused the death of three children of J. L. Casey, of Little Rock, Ark., and the rest of the family were seriously ill. A TRACTION engine near Martin's Ferry, O., became unmanageable and ran backward down a hill, killing Carrie and Nellie Ackerman, aged 5 and 11 years, respectively, and fatally injuring Ella King. A FIRE at Benton, Ill., destroyed the city hall, post office and the Chronicle office. J. S. JOHNSON made 3 miles in 7:15% in a bicycle race at Minneapolis, lowering the record 15 1/4 seconds. BUSINESS has been resumed by the First national bank of Anthony, Kan., which suspended payment in July. A MOB near Morganfield, Ky., lynched Charles Watson, a negro who cut the throat of little Sam Keith, 10 years old, to secure four dollars. WILLIAM J. JAMISON (colored), who murdered Supervisor Charles N. Aaron April 19, 1892, was hanged at Quincy, Ill. This was the third hanging in Quincy in sixty-five years. WITHIN ten days twenty members of the Meacham gang have been killed near Jackson, Ala., and five others were surrounded, but escaped. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. THE decision rendered in Paris by the court of arbitration on the subject of the dispute between the United States and Great Britain as to the rights of seal fishing in Behring sea was in favor of Great Britain on every point of real dispute. A STORM wrecked a fishing boat in the Baltic off Hapsal, Russia, and many boats floundered and seventeen persons were drowned. BY the capsizing of a boat in Carrigaholt bay seventeen of an excursion party from Kilkee, Ireland, were


Article from Eagle River Review, August 24, 1893

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WISCONSIN NEWS. ERKINSTOWN, a small village a few miles west of Medford, was the scene of a horrible murder. The victim was a woman who lived alone in a shanty about half a mile from the village and about a mile from a logging camp operated by O. Darwin. When found her body was covered with knife wounds, sixty-nine in number, probably inflicted while she was struggling for life, the greater part of the wounds were in the hands and arms. The left side of her throat was cut, the large arteries being severed, and her face hacked and slashed in a frightful manner. The woman's name is Kone-man and her home is at Schofield, Marathon County. A man, whose name is unknown, has been arrested charged with the crime and is in jail at Medford. When arrested his clothes were saturated with blood. DARING highway robbery was committed at Racine in broad daylight. As Charles Fohn was walking along the street he was accosted by two strangers who made inquiries regarding the time a boat left for Chicago. He accepted an invitation to take a drink with the men. After drinking a glass of beer he became stupefied and the strangers led him to a vacant lot where they relieved him of $45 in cash. Fohn was found unconscious shortly afterwards and a physician was summoned. He was quickly brought to consciousness and said that he had evidently been drugged by the men. The police have been working on the case, but have not been able to find any trace of the strangers. A DESPERATE attempt to break jail was made at Florence a few days ago by Nelson Curtis and Chris Maloney, both of whom were awaiting trial on a charge of forgery. When Sheriff Keyes entered the cell of Curtis with his dinner the latter struck the sheriff and stunned him. Maloney then put in an appearance and the two prisoners beat Mr. Keyes in a frightful manner. They made their escape, but were recaptured the same day. Sheriff Keyes is in a serious condition. THE remains of William Barker, who died a few days ago at Rushville, Neb., were taken to Lake Geneva for burial. He was formerly a well-known resident of Geneva. DAVID GILLEN, aged 56 years, died at his home in Racine. He was alderman of the Fourth Ward and a well-known contractor. RICHARD HANTZCH, a lineman in the employ of the Telephone and Lighting Company at Eau Claire, while at the top of a pole received the full incandescent current. With a cry of pain he fell and hung by one foot to the wires, apparently a corpse. Two fellow workmen ran up the poles and tried to lower him with a rope, but he fell, striking on the curbstone. Life was extinct. There is considerable agitation over the affair and the City Council has appointed a committee to investigate the street railroad and electric light system in relation to public safety. Hantzch is the second victim of the deadly current at Eau Claire within a week. S. BROWN, charged with illegally marrying William Wallace to Mrs. Ida Clark, had a preliminary examination at Racine. From the testimony it appeared that the ceremony used was similar to that of all ministers. Mrs. Clark thought it was all in fun and Brown was of the same opinion. Brown was held to the circuit court for trial. LIVE white sturgeon has been added to the attractions at Washington Park, Green Bay. The rare one is forty inches in length, pure white in color, and with eyes of deep indigo blue. Fishermen who have been in the business forty years say it is the first time a fish of that kind has been taken from the waters of Lake Superior. THE directors of the Union National Bank at Racine, which suspended a few days ago, have decided to go into liquidation and appoint a receiver to wind up the affairs of the bank. The bank has a sufficient amount of securities to pay depositors dollar for dollar. CHARLES SPLITBERGER, of Cottage Grove, Dane County, pleaded guilty to the charge of assault with intent to do great bodily harm to John Allerton, of Deerfield, at a country dance, and was sentenced to eight months' imprisonment. FRED. J. SOMERFIELD, of Iron River, has commenced suit against the Western Union Telegraph Company for $5,000 damages for the non-delivery of a message. THE ex-convict impersonating the Rev. W. T. J. Brown, of Waupaun, when arrested for burglary at St. Joseph, Mo., was Frank Bender, as surmised by Mr. Brown when he read the report of the arrest. In response to Mr. Brown's telegram the chief of police of St. Joseph had Bender's photograph taken and it was forwarded to Mr. Brown, who recognized it at a glance. THE Commercial Bank, of Eau Claire, which closed recently, will be reorganized and reopened. The schedule, which is nearly completed, will show liabilities about $154,000, with assets about $50,000 more than that. While the assets comprise not over $40,000 cash. Receiver Buffing believes all liabilities will be paid in full. STATE VETERINARIAN F. J. TOUSSAINT made a trip through the Northwestern counties recently finding many horses suffering with glanders. Horses belonging to Frank Bodwar, of Somerset, St. Croix County; Arthur Wilson, of Cameron, Barron County, and Sam Wright, Flambeau, Chippewa County, were ordered killed. Mr. Wright lost a horse with the same disease last winter. WILLIAM WALLACE SACKET, who participated in an illegal marriage with Sarah A. Clark, at Racine, and who is in


Article from The Iola Register, August 25, 1893

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ITALIANS were not allowed to work on the new sewers at Denver, Col. ONE hundred employes of the Chicago & Erie railroad have been laid off at Huntington, Ind. THE Missouri Pacific will fight the payment of the increased taxation in Kansas. THE Atchison has given notice of withdrawal from the Southwestern association. THE lines of the Western Passenger association will try a week of straight one-fare-round-trip rates to the world's fair in the near future. THE arrest of a tramp at Logansport, Ind., disclosed the existence of a thorough organization of thieves. THE striking world's fair chair pushers have issued an appeal to fellow college students not to take their places. MICHAEL CLOONAN, of the St. Paul fire department, was killed at a fire in that city the other night. IOWA republicans nominated F. D. Jackson for governor and adopted an anti-prohibition plank in the platform. Much comment was caused. A MAIL carrier from Laconia, Ind., says the report that Bill Conrad was killed was false. HENRY HUTCHINGS, of San Francisco, was in Chicago making inquiries into the death of his father, which occurred there and who is supposed to have left a valuable estate. THE Cardington Banking Co., at Cardington, O., closed its doors. The assets approximate $100,000 and are said to be sufficient to meet the demands of the creditors. THE Union National bank, of Racine, Wis., closed its doors. The capital is $150,000 and the total resources $893,000. IN order to increase the circulation and provide a means for moving the crops of the northwest the banks of Minneapolis and St. Paul are formulating a plan by which certified checks shall circulate as money. THE First national bank of Rice, Col., which suspended in June, having complied with the conditions imposed by the comptroller, has been allowed to begin business again. THE International Union of Carriage and Wagon Workersat Chicago adopted a resolution indorsing Gov. Altgeld's action in pardoning the anarchists. THE official report of the receiver of the Indianapolis national bank makes a case of perjury against the officials who signed the last statement of the bank's condition. AN appeal of the Lafayette opera house riot case has been filed in the supreme court at Indianapolis. A FAMILY of nine persons were poisoned by drinking from an Indiana well. Three of them cannot recover. THE First national bank of Dubuque, Ia., suspended. It was one of the oldest institutions in the city and had a capital of $200,000. CoL. BRENNAN, who led the mob in the recent Denver lynching, has been arrested. THERE is considerable excitement in Iowa over the action of the republican convention in regard to prohibition, and some papers are demanding a citizens' convention. AT the world's peace congress at Chicago telegrams were sent to Queen Victoria and President Cleveland congratulating them upon the outcome of the Behring sea arbitration. JEFFERSON HANKINS, the well known Chicago horeman, died suddenly of paralysis of the heart. Two robbers boarded the 'Frisco train near St. James, Mo. They compelled the messenger to open the safe. After taking the contents they pulled the bell cord and escaped when the train stopped. THE street car employes of Superior, Wis., struck, owing to a 20 per cent. cut in wages. THEGerman-American national bank, of St. Paul, which suspended a few days ago, will resume business just as soon as the necessary formalities can be complied with. A BILL to foreclose a mortgage of $14,668 was filed against the company owning the John Brown fort which was recently taken to Chicago for exhibition. The bill alleges that the exhibition has been a failure. THE San Francisco Examiner says that the attacks on Chinese are due to the government not enforcing the Geary law. ROBERT KINCAID, the missing exbanker of Mound City, Kan., has returned. He denied any intention of acting dishonestly by his creditors. DAN ARATA, the Denver saloonist and murderer recently lynched by a mob, was leader of a gang of Italian counterfeiters. ST. PAUL and Minneapolis publishers are talking of reduced prices for type-


Article from The Cape Girardeau Democrat, August 26, 1893

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WEST AND SOUTH. IN convention in Des Moines the lowa republicans nominated Frank D. Jackson, of Des Moines, for governor; W. S. Dungan, of Chariton, for lieutenant governor; G. S. Robinson, of Storm Lake. for supreme judge; J. W. Luke, of Hampton, for railroad commissioner, and Henry Sabin, of Des Moines, for superintendent of public instruction. The platform approves the administration of Benjamin Harrison; favors maintaining both gold and silver as unlimited legal tender for the payment of debt. every dollar to be of equal value; opposes state bank money; says the pension system now in practice is a menace to the honor of the brave and deserving national defenders, and declares in favor of local option. A CONVENTION of the Pan-American Bimetallic association will be held in St. Louis on October 3 next. A CYCLONE near Humboldt, Neb., did great damage and Mrs. G. Schultz and her son were fatally injured and horses and cattle were killed. THE Union national bank at Racine and the banks at River Falls and Ellsworth, in Wisconsin, closed their doors. The private bank of Levi Hall at Oswego, III., and the Cardington Banking company at Cardington, O., also suspended. A BLAZE in St. Paul did $100,000 damage to the music house of W. J. Dyer & Bro. and Michael Clenan, a fireman, was killed.


Article from The Progressive Farmer, August 29, 1893

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RACINE, Wis. Aug. 19.-The Union National Bank, of this city, will go into liquidation. All depositors will be paid in full. The run on the other banks has ceased. BRADDOCK, Pa, Aug. 22 -Carnegie's Edgar Thompson steel works at this place have been shut down, owing to the lack of orders. Two thousand men are thrown out of employment. NEW YORK, Aug. 22.-Sykes & Co., wholesale clothiers, have assigned; liabilities, $100,000.


Article from River Falls Journal, August 31, 1893

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tached by the sheriff on claims aggregating $50,000. By a final decision the honor of being the senior G. A. R. post in Wisconsin has been awarded to C. C. Washburn post, No. 11, of Madison. Commander in Chief Weissert has approved the decision. Nicholas Udell, of Sparta, was found murdered near Elgin, Minn. It was supposed he became engaged in a quarel with tramps and was killed. Mrs. John Dunbar, aged 60, died in Beloit after a long illness. John Lang, of Chicago, was run over by a freight train at Sheboygan and killed. The Frost Veneer Seating company of Sheboygan assigned to George A. Atwell, of Milwaukee. Assets, $300.000; liabilities, $100,000. The assignee will continue the business. The S. Y. Hvde Elevator company and the Cargill Elevator company in La Crosse jointly issued a "hold-yourwheat" circular to the farmers in the northwest. The governor has appointed Paul D. Carpenter, a son of ex-Senator Matt Carpenter, a commissioner to settle the tax debt and other differences between the new county of Vilas and the parent county of Oneida. A statement by Receiver Becker, of the Milwaukee Fire and Marine bank, shows assets of $7,256,290 and liabilities of $6,710,374. Several hundred unemployed Milwaukee laborers, after demanding work of Mayor Koch, looted a number of truit stores. Henry Dernberger, who was accidentally shot by Colin McMullen at Clifton, died from the effects of the wound. Peter Eilman was arrested at Sheboygan on a charge of having stolen $400 in bank certificates and money from John Dietzler, of Kaukauna. The Upham Manufacturing company's sawmill at Marshfield has resumed operations, giving employment to 150 men. Farmers around Berlin are eucumbering the cannery at the rate of twenty tons a day. Grasshoppers are doing great damage to the wheat and hay fields near the town of Wanwatosa. In many parts they have destroyed the entire crop. Bolton & Wherry, provision dealers at Racine, assigned with liabilities of $17,000. The assessed valuation of Eau Claire foots up $400,000 more than that of last year. A sneak thief relieved General Pas senger Agent Pond, of the Wisconsin Central, of his clothes while in a sleeping car. One hundred thousand pounds of cheese was shipped to England and Scotland by S. R. Udell & Co., of Green Bay. Gov. Waite. of Colorado, whose "blood up to the bridles" talk has been SC widely noticed, formerly kept a store in Princeton. A wealthy lady of Chicago will build in Janesville as a memorial of her father a row of flats in which the deserving poor of that city may live rent free for all time. Continual wiihdrawal of deposits caused the suspension of the Union na tional bank of Racine. Assets were $893,806 and deposits $545,314. John Lightfoot, aged 10 years, was drowned by falling between two logs while playing on Kellogg's mill pond at Antigo. The body was recovered. Richard Hantzeh, lineman for the Eau Claire Telephone company, was killed while working at the top of a pole by touching a live wire. The F. J. Palica Trunk company at Racine made an assignment to C. M. Dietrich. The assets were stated to be $20,000 and the liabilities $4,000. Mrs. John Ehlert, of Gilmanton, hanged herself while suffering from a severe headache. Nearly all the brass bands in southern Wisconsin picnicked at Mineral Point. Mrs. Sara McKenna, of Ashland. who served through the war as an army nurse, died at Sheboygan while visitl a daughter. The school census of Appleton shows a population of 15,564. At Whitefish Bay the body of a welldressed man. about 35 years old, was taken from the lake. He wore masonic emblems and a gold watch and chain. The Mead murder trial at Waupaca cost the county $26,016.02. The attorney general has made 7 ruling that no agent or manager of an insurance company not a resident of Wisconsin can write insurance in the state. Capt. Williamson, the largest hardwood lumber dealer in Racine, assigned. His assets were $35,000 and liabilities, $60,000. Fred Bennett, aged 12, in passing through an alley in Eau Claire stopped to pick up a broken electric killed His


Article from Mineral Point Tribune, September 2, 1893

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A. A. Stratton, of Plainfield, had his hand partly amputated by con with a circular saw. Peter Peterson, a Bayfield young fell off the dock at that place and rowned. His body was recovered. Joseph Durkie pleaded guilty at Ash nd to the charge of forgery. He will sentenced at the next term of court Herman Wagner, a teamster at Me ominee, Mich.. was nearly trample death by a horse. His recovery is oubtful. Pete B. Jessey was granted a divorce his wife. Mary Jane Jessey, a ausau. The parties formerly lived Antigo. Jame Cheney, who shot and killed obert Murphy Friday night near Bis was taken to Grand Rapids be Judge Webb, where it is expected will waive examination and give for his appearance at the circui The County National bank bas re pened its doors for business at Waupa after a suspension of less than : onth. George Comstock, who eloped with Cleary, has been caught at Chica by Sheriff Murphy and brought bael Marinette. Willie Kranchus of Appleton while laying in a barn at Seymour fel feet and received injuries tha be fatal. The position of station agent of the Shore road will be discontinues Appleton, the Northwestern and Shore depots being managed by agent. Albert Goertz, of Watertown, has appointed to the secretaryship o ongressman Barwig's committee in house of representatives. Henry Meincke, of Tomah. has con to furnish the 18,000 pounds o eef the Indian school at that place wil during the ensuing year. Thomas Mack, a West Superior resi nt, was arrested and bound over to circuit court for trial on a charge assaulting a httle girl. Two barn belonging to John Var yke, of the town of Freedom, Outa county, were destroyed by fire $2,000. young man named Blink was se ously stabbed during a row at Com onwealth. He is in a critical con Bank Examiner Lynch, who is in of the Union National bank a pending its opening. has made statement. It says that the bills re eivable are $655,000 and the liabilitie $470,000. The examiner urges the sumption and says that it will be to cerdit of the bank and the interes the depositers and a great advan to the business public of Racine a prompt and generous response il to the proposition as represented the committee of the stockholders the bank. H. Wheeler. a farmer residing Lake Geneva. sustained a heavy by fire. Three barns and a shed hich contained a quantity of hay and and all his carriages, harness sleighs, eight blooded horses and cords of wood were destroyed origin of the fire is unknown. The is not less than $12,000, partially An action for $5,000 damages for per injuries sustained on a defective has been against


Article from River Falls Journal, September 7, 1893

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Union national bank of Racine Bank Examiner Lynch outlined a plan and it was approved by Comptroller Eckels, whereby the bank hopes to resume inside of sixty days. Frederick Erickson was run over by the cars near Jefferson and killed. He lived in Mitchell county, Kan., had been working at Marinette and was on his way home. Several hundred unemployed men marched to a Milwaukee hotel and asked for food. Police were called and the crowd dispersed. The safe of D. A. Taylor & Sons. lumber dealers at Platteville, was blown open and $25 and revolver were taken. Joshua E. Dodge, of Wisconsin, was nominated by the president to be as sistant attorney general. This season's blueberry shipments from Grand Rapids and Centralia amounted to 7,672 baskets of ten quarts each. About $5,000 was paid out to pickers. After September trout fishing can not be legally indulged in. Fifty-four thousand pounds of cheese were sold on the Mineral Point board at eight cents pound. George B. Burnet, aged 44 years, cashier of. the defunct State bank at Manitowoe, was drowned while fishing. His body was recovered. At Manitowoe, George Burnet, late cashier of the defunct State bank, was drowned while fishing. He was 44 years of age and leaves a wife and one child. Finlanders at Brule are suffering from destitution and the women and children are famishing. The body of Edward Reitz, aged 32 was found hanging in his room at his boarding house in Milwaukee. No cause was known for the act. Mr. Savage has taken charge of In dian affairsat Shawano. The clerk is Mr. Parks, of Oconto. George C. Cribb, an extensive dealer in agricultural implements, wagons and carriages in Milwaukee, made an as signment to William Mariner. His as sets were placed at $800,000; liabilities between $600,000 and $700,000. G. C. Trumpf, the missing president of the Milwaukee South side savings bank, is said to have been seen in Ger many. Michael Kemmeler, one of the pro prietors of Kemmeler's brick yard at Jefferson, committed suicide by cut ting his throat. He had been sick for some time. James S. Duket has won a test suit at Ashland. He married Mrs. French when Mr. French was serving a life sentence for murder. Two weeks after French was granted a new trial. The validity of the marriage was questioned. Carl Nadler, a prosperous farmer at Oakland, was kilied on his farm by a loaded wagon passing over his body. The post office at Sparta was entered by burglars and stamps, postal cards and cash taken to the amount of $700 Mistaking his companion for a deer Wensal Goetz seriously wounded Lon Carl in the Wisconsin woods. A jury returned a verdict of $680 at West Superior in favor of Summerfield vs. the Western Union Telegraph com pany on account of the delay in a mes sage James Ayars, president of the Chi cago Fire Underwriters' association, died suddenly at Devil's Lake. V. V. Noad was sued at West Superi or for breach of promise by Florence Byrne, a school teacher of Chicago. Damages are placed at $20 000. Rev. John Walworth, of Wisconsin. is claimed to be the oldest living chap lain of the war. He was chaplain of the Forty-third Wisconsin volunteers and is now 89 years old. Theodore Bloomer's house at Freedom was destroyed by fire. Two chilren were so badly burned that they lived but a short time. The rest of the family barely escaped with their lives. A prize fight at West Superior be tween Jimmy Purtell, the "Saginaw Kid," and the colored lightweight Dobbs resulted in a draw. Sisters Aquelie and Scholastra, of the St. Rose convent in La Crosse, both died within a few hours of each other. They were both from Dubuque, Ia. Two footpads held up Chief Engineer A. U. Libby, of the Superior Free man mill, and robbed him of $265. The old Maguire mill on Otter creek, near Darlington, á relie of the 40's, was blown down during a storm. John Fiddler, the mulatto charged with assaulting a child of Leon Sargent at Stratford, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to six years in the state prison. The Sercombe-Bolte company in Milwaukee, bicycle manufacturers, was placed in the hands of a receiver. Assets, $100,000. Notices were posted at West Superior that the contemplated sale of the West Superior Iron and Steel company's plant is postponed until September 15. Corrigan, Ives & Co., of Milwaukee, attached the Buffalo iron mine for $420,000. There are previous attachments secured by the Northwestern railroad, by unpaid miners and others. Mrs. Cadelia Johnson Barber died at the home of herdaughter, Mrs. Charles Vanness, in Jonesville, aged 94 years. She was the eleventh child of her father's family and the last to be taken away. Banker A. A. Cadwallader, in jail at Janesville awaiting trial, was taken to the home of his family by the sheriff and permitted to watch at the bedside of a sick child that died soon after his arrival


Article from Watertown Republican, September 27, 1893

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been granted a pardon by Gov. Peck. The pardon was granted on recomdation of the judge and district attorney for the reason that Suilivan was never guilty of the crime of which he was convicted. It appears that the prisoner was intoxicated at the time the crime was committed and his refusal to testify against a companion and his efforts to sLield him resulted in his being convicted with him. DURING an electric storm at Racine 100 telephones were burned out or crippled. Residents in the vicinity of East Park state that a ball of fire burst in the air. Lightning entered the residence of Stephen Bull on a telephone wire and shocked Mr. Bull SO badly that he could not move for some time, and other members of the family felt it. The residence of W. B. Dutton was struck. The roof was damaged and Mr. Dutton was thrown out of bed, and members of -his family shocked. JOHN STRANGE, president of the Strange Paper Company, of Menasha, has purchased the trotting horse, "American Jay," for $600. This horse won the 2:30 trotting race at the Oshkosh fair. THE Eau Claire Y. M. C. A. decided to continue its work in the face of its deficit of $200. O.H. Ingram was elected president and W. II. Fowler secretary. A THUNDER-STORM which had almost attained the force of a cyclone passed over Madison. Several large trees were blown down or uprooted and branches strewn profusely. At Hess & Smith's block, corner of Gilman and State streets, the roof was lifted and twisted and the heavy cornice blown entirely off, causing a loss estimated at about $2,000. ARTICLES of incorporation of the CodyPowell Coffee Company, of La Crosse, have been filed. The president is Buffalo Bill and his associate is Mayor Powell (White Beaver). Coffee will be manufactured according to a formula prepared by Mr. Powell. A large building has been leased and they expect to employ 100 hands within six months. THE officers of the Union National Bank, of Racine, which suspended August 16, have given notice that they will resume business on October 23. They have advertised for a stockholders' meeting on October 7, at which time the capital stock will be increased to $225,000. A BARN on the farm of George Miller, in the town of Grand Chute, Outagamie County, was struck by lightning and burned with all its contents, includ ng grain, hay, machinery, two calves and one horse. Loss, $2,000; small insurance. THE application for the appointment of a guardian over Mrs. Sadie Weber, of Caldwell's Prairie, Racine County, recalls one of the most sensational attempts at murder in Racine County. The maiden name of Mrs. Weber was Tindall and her home was in the town of Waterford. When but 17 years of age she met one John H. Tarbell and he married her and in the neighborhood she was known as the child wife. Time ran on and a child was born. Tarbell had taken his young wife to Lyons, Walworth County, to live. During the month of April, 1887, Tarbell and his wife went to Waterford and visited Mr. and Mrs. Tindall, parents of Mrs. Tarbell. On May 1 they left for home in a wagon drawn by a spirited horse. On the way over to Lyons Tarbell drove down a lone country road to a bridge which crossed Fox River and where there was a deep gravel pit. He pulled out a revolver and fired a ball into the head of his wife at his side. The noise attracted the attention of a farmer. Tarbell told the farmer that he and his wife had been attacked by robbers on the road who had fired at them and one bullet had struck his wife. The wife hovered between life and death for many days. Tarbell finally broke down and made a full confession. He was tried and sentenced to twelve years at Waupun, where he is at present. The bullet remains embedded in the woman's brain. Last summer she was married to a Mr. Weber. Two years ago the father of Mrs. Weber died, leaving a large estate. Her share amounted to several thousand dollers. Her brothers now seek to have 2 guardian appointed over her to take charge of the estate on the ground that she is not competent to manage her affairs. Her alleged incompetency grows out of the injury received at the time of her attempted


Article from Courier Democrat, September 28, 1893

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WILL RESUME. Racine, Wis., Sept. 23.-The officers of the Union National bank, suspended Aug. 16, have given notice that they will resume on Oct. 3. They have advertised for a stockholders' meeting Oct. 7, at which time the capital stock will be increased to $225,000. In the meantime the stock has been nearly all subscribed for, and an extension of time has been secured on a large part of the deposits.


Article from River Falls Journal, October 5, 1893

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ing 2 miles from Beloit, was chloroformed and robbed at his home. The sum taken was not large. John Frazer, aged 65, was killed by the bursting of a circular saw in a mill at La Crosse. He leaves a family of grown children. George J. Beebe was put in jail at Hudson for attempting to kill John Dorsey. The trouble grew out of Dor sey's attentions to Beebe's young wife. Dorsey is 43 years old. The roof of the new electric power house at West Superior fell in and two of the men working on it were seriously injured. Two men. a Swede and a German. employed at O. K. Fryklund's mill at Mellen, were killed by tipping a load of slabs on themselves. The $5,000 race from Chicago to Milwaukee between the whaleback steamer Christopher Columbus, of Chi cago, and the Goodrich line steamer Virginia, was won by the Columbus. The First national bank of Ashland, which closed its doors July S1, is again open for business. The vote on the license question at Cumberland resulted in a victory for high license at $500. Workmen while digging a cellar or the Schushardt farm on Pine lake found the skeletons of a woman and a child Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Cahoon, of Apple. ton, celebrated their golden wedding. The normal school at Superior is to be on a five-acre tract at the corner a Hill avenue and Belknap street. Schools at Stanley were closed on ae count of diphtheria. There were over twenty cases and eight deaths had oc curred. Wright Brothers, of Iron Mountain. have contracted to get out 600,000 ties 5,000,000 feet of logs, 5,000 cords 0) spruce and 500,000 posts. Iron Mountain will be their base of supplies for fifty different contracts. Beloit is forming an association for the protection of fish and game. The late Abner Kirby, of Milwaukee left his entire estate, valued at $85,000 to his widow, Mrs. Letity B. Kirby. Or the death of the widow the estate is to be divided evenly among the five sun viving children. George A. Buffington, of Eau Claire left an estate valued at $500,000. Eighteen orphans from New York found homes around Green Bay and Fort Howard. Among the nominations of President Cleveland is that of Joseph H. Wood north to be pension agent at Milwau kee. Fire in P. O. Herdes' clothing store a Brodhead did damage to the extent 0 $3,000. The Cody-Powell Coffee company with W. T. Cody (Buffalo Bill) president, was organized at La Crosse. The officers of the Union national bank of Racine, which suspended Au gust 16, have given notice that the bank will resume business October 23. Headquarters of each traffic and oper ating official of the Wisconsin Central road were ordered removed to Milwaukee at once. Rev. W. D. Thomas was indicted at La Crosse for writing an uncompli mentary postal card to a fellow preacher. Earl Shaddock, a lad 12 years of age, had a hearing at Marshfield on a charge of horse-stealing and was bound over to await the circuit court. Resolutions favoring prohibition and opposing all forms of license were adopted by the Wisconsin Methodist conference. A long-talked-of bicycle road race of 15 miles between Clarence Taylor and Charlie Taylor, local riders of some note, was run at Barron and was won by Clarence Taylor. The saloonkeepers at Fort Atkinson called a special election on the question of the price of liquor licenses for the ensuing three years, which resulted as follows: $500 received 293 votes, $350 received 11. $200 received 135. Black diphtheria has reached an epilemic in Racine and thirty houses were nder quarantine. In many cases the persons attacked die within forty-eight hours. William Schutt, a coal-heaver at Marine City, while wheeling coal onto a steamer stubbed his toe and fell into the water and was drowned. His brother lost his life in the same way a year ago. The soldiers and sailors of Macomb county held their annual reunion at the Armada fair. August Sauer, of Onalaska, wa burned to death by setting his clothes on fire with a match. Graham L. Rice, formerly postmaster of West Superior, has been appointed deputy sheriff to succeed Henry Ber


Article from St. Paul Daily Globe, October 24, 1893

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Racine Bank Resumes. RACINE, W18., Oct. 23.-The Union National Bank, of this city, after a suspension of ten week, resumed business today with its capital stock increased to $225,000.


Article from Morris Tribune, October 25, 1893

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Tuesday, Oct. 24. The reports of impending changes in the Prussian ministry are denied upon authority. St. Louis brewers have locked out their union drivers and are hiring nonunion men. The Union National bank of Racine, Wis, after a suspension of 10 weeks, resumed business Monday with capital stock increased to $225,000. At Detroit Judge Swain, by consent of all parties concerned, appointed Don M. Dickinson receiver of the Detroit, Bay City and Alpena railway. Mr. Crain of Texas has introduced a bill in the house providing that the District of Columbia be represented in the house by a delegate as territories are now represented. The ministers of Kausas City have joined in a crusade against the Sunday opening of saloons, grocery stores, meat markets, barber shops and all other places which are required to be kept closed on the Sabbath by the state law.


Article from The Irish Standard, October 28, 1893

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Business Resumed. RACINE, Wis., Oct. 24.-The Union national bank of this city resun.ed business Monday after a suspension of a little over two months, The capital stock has been increased from $150,000 to $225,000.


Article from River Falls Journal, November 2, 1893

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The seniority of the Wisconsin G. A. R. posts is again being discussed. Col. Gray is accused of perverting the records. Mrs. Peter Johnson and Richard Ooghe were taken to Milwaukee from San Francisco on the charge of a conspiracy to kill the woman's husband When arrested they both confessed. Herman Cheeseboro, for many years superintendent of hotels in the Santa Fe system, died at Milwaukee at the age of 65 years. Frank Pomainville, one of the party of Wisconsin visitors at the Paris exposition of 1889, died at Grand Haven. The big boot and shoe factory of Atkins, West & Co. was closed by the sheriff on judgments aggregating $30,000. A portion of the Lehigh company's dock at West Superior gave way and 3,000 tons of coal went to the bottom of the bay. Henry Mitchell, the pioneer wagon manufacturer of the west, died at his home in Racine, aged 84 years. Heirs of George A. Porter have begun suit to recover possession of 160 acres of land within the limits of Superior. The wife of Rhoda Whalen, the notorious criminal of Beloit, committed suicide at Rockford, IIL The Union national bank of Racine resumed business after a suspension of a little over two months. The capital stock has been increased from $150,000 to $225,000. Street Commissioner Hedegan and A. P. McDonald have been acquitted at Ashland of the charge of conspiracy against the United States in obtaining government lands. Myron Turner, a farmer, and his son were thrown from a wagon by a ruua-way near Eau Claire, and the father was so badly injured that he would probably not recover. Sneak thieves raided, the town of Brule and used a hand car to carry away their plunder. E. W. Judson, an insurance agent at Marshfield, left his home for Chicago September 9, telling his wife at parting he should be gone only a few days, and since then no trace of him has been found. W. E. Elliott and wife, of Milwaukee, returned from the world's fair to find their daughter Alma, aged 21, hanging to a rafter. No cause was known. The contract for building and completing the Rice Lake, Dallas & Menominee Railway company's first section between Rice Lake and the Minneapolis, St. Paul, & Sault Ste. Marie railway has been let and the work commenced. By climbing a ventilating shaft 43 feet deep Harry Harris, a horse thief, escaped from a police station at Milwaukee. Mrs. Esther King, aged 71, while trying to descend the stairs to the cellar of her home in Waukesha, fell and was instantly killed. She leaves five children Ervine Norquist, a West Superio. lad fell under a moving train and was literally cut in two, forty loaded cars passing over his body. The state board of equalization has reduced the realty assessment of Milwaukee county from $155,000,000 to $125,000,000. Theodore Kirchner, with an allowance of nine minutes, won the Milwankee road race from a field of sixty-three. James McNeese was fatally stabbed at Janesville. Jacob Bender was arrested, and he said he used his knife to defend himself from a man unknown to him who tried to rob him. The Eau Claire Pulp & Paper company, whose paid-up capital stock is $100,000, was placed in the hands of Clarence M. Buffington as receiver. W. H. Titton died suddenly of heart disease on the main street in Osceola, aged 7 years. He was an old settler. Claud Girard, a Frenchman, was found hanging on a farm near Clinton. He was 87 years old. At New Lisbon the store of N. Josephson was robbed of goods to the value of $1,000. The position of state secretary of the Young Men's Christian association has been offered to C. B. Willis, secretary of the Milwaukee association. At Milwaukee Richard Ooghe and Mrs. Johnson were sent to prison for ten years for an attempt to kill the woman's husband. Ernie Norquist, a young boy living at West Superior, was completely cut in two by falling under a freight train.


Article from Grant County Herald, November 9, 1893

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The News Condensed. The seniority of the Wisconsin G. A. R. posts is again being discussed. Col. Gray is accused of perverting the records. Mrs. Peter Johnson and Richard Ooghe were taken to Milwaukee from San Francisco on the charge of a conspiracy to kill the woman's husband When arrested they both confessed. Herman Cheeseboro, for many years superintendent of hotels in the Santa Fe system, died at Milwaukee at the age of 65 years. Frank Pomainville, one of the party of Wisconsin visitors at the Paris exposition of 1889, died at Grand Haven. The big boot and shoe factory of At. kins, West & Co. was closed by the sheriff on judgments aggregating $30,000. A portion of the Lehigh company's dock at West Superior gave way and 3,000 tons of coal went to the bottom of the bay. Henry Mitchell, the pioneer wagon manufacturer of the west, died at his home in Racine, aged 84 years. Heirs of George A. Porter have begun suit to recover possession of 160 acres of land within the limits of Superior. The wife of Rhoda Whalen, the notorious criminal of Beloit, committed suicide at Rockford, III. The Union national bank of Racine resumed business after a suspension of a little over two months. The capital stock has been increased from $150,000 to $225,000. Street Commissioner Hedegan and A. P. McDonald have been acquitted at Ashland of the charge of conspiracy against the United States in obtaining government lands. Myron Turner, a farmer, and his son were thrown from a wagon by a runaway near Eau Claire, and the father was so badly injured that he would probably not recover. Sneak thieves raided the town of Brule and used a hand car to carry away their plunder. E. W. Judson, an insurance agent at Marshfield, left his home for Chicago September 9, telling his wife at parting he should be gone only a few days, and since then no trace of him has been found. W. E. Elliott and wife, of Milwaukee, returned from the world's fair to find their daughter Alma, aged 21, hanging to a rafter. No cause was known. The contract for building and completing the Rice Lake, Dallas & Menomince Railway company's first section between Rice Lake and the Minneapolis, St. Paul, & Sault Ste. Marie railway has been let and the work commenced.