Commercial Bank (Stevens Point, WI)

Episode Information

Episode UID
263098491122
Episode Type
Run → Suspension → Closure
Bank Type
trust
Bank ID
26309849 hash
Start Date
June 25, 1893
Location
Stevens Point, Wisconsin (44.524, -89.575)

Metadata

Model
gpt-5-mini (chosen from majority vote of a three-model LLM ensemble)
Short Digest
1a9a62184b19bc57

Response Measures

None

Description

Multiple episodes: 1893 suspension and resumption; 1895 run led to suspension and receivership/closure.

Events (6)
1. June 25, 1893 Run
Cause
Macro News
Cause Details
Run began during the 1893 financial panic and continued through late June into August
Measures
Paid out over $120,000 to depositors and certificate holders; later suspended payments and planned to realize on securities
Newspaper Excerpt
After standing an almost continuous run since June 25, during which time over $120,000 was paid out
Source
newspapers
2. August 3, 1893 Suspension
Cause
Macro News
Cause Details
Closed after continuous withdrawals during the Panic of 1893; expected to resume within thirty days
Newspaper Excerpt
After standing an almost continuous run ... the Commercial Bank of Stevens Point closed its doors this morning.
Source
newspapers
3. September 1, 1893 Reopening
Newspaper Excerpt
The Commercial Bank of Stevens Point expects to resume business Sept. 1, after a suspension of three weeks.
Source
newspapers
4. April 1, 1895 Receivership
Newspaper Excerpt
Byron B. Parks was appointed receiver. The property is in the hands of a receiver.
Source
newspapers
5. April 1, 1895 Run
Cause
Rumor Or Misinformation
Cause Details
Extended run allegedly caused by individuals 'frightening people' and persistent agitation against the bank/president
Measures
Suspended payments; posted statement assuring solvency but halted payments until securities realized; receiver appointed
Newspaper Excerpt
The Commercial Bank ... owing to an extended run, closed its doors this morning.
Source
newspapers
6. April 1, 1895 Suspension
Cause
Rumor Or Misinformation
Cause Details
Suspension followed an extended depositor withdrawal campaign and loss of confidence driven by accusations and agitation
Newspaper Excerpt
Owing to an extended run, closed its doors today. ... Byron B. Parks was appointed receiver.
Source
newspapers

Newspaper Articles (20)
1. August 4, 1893 The Anaconda Standard Anaconda, MT
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BUSINESS TROUBLES. Places at Which the Panic Got in Its Deadly Work Yesterday. BARLIN, Aug. 3.-The statement of the Imperial bank shows a decrease of 6,933.000 marks. STEVENS POINT. Wis.. Aug. 3.-The Commercial bank has failed. Assets,$200,000: liabilities. $100,000. WASHINGTON. Aug. 3.-The statement published that the First National bank of Nampa, Idaho, has failed 16 a mistake. There is no such bank. WOONSOCKET, R. I., Aug. --The plants of the Valley Falls company. making cotton dress goods here and at Valley Falls, running 2,000 looms, employing 750 hands, shut down indefinitely. MILWAUKEE, Aug. 3.-The grand jury has been called to investigate the South Side Savings bank failure. President Trumpff and Cashier Koetting are missing. The affairs of the bank are in bad shape. Depositors probably will lose everything. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 3. The Union Stock Yards company at Rodeo has suspended operations on account of the depressed financial condition. The plant is new and valuable. W. H. Silberkorn of Chicago is largely interested, also E. A. Hamms of Omaha. STAMFORD, Conn., Aug. 3.-The Yale and Towne Manufacturing company, manufacturers of Yale locks. hardware and hoisting machines, gave notice tonight of a reduction in wages and salaries of 10 per cent. during the continuance of the disturbance of business. NEW YORK. Aug. 3.-Henry Allen & Co., brokers. have announced that they intend to bring suit against the officers t of the National Cordage company and other members of the cordage pool for e whom they operated previous to the colI f lapse of the cordage company, and sensational developments are anticipated Papers have been prepared and the decisive steps will be taken in a day or two. 1" CHICAGO, Aug. Lazaras Silverman, a well-known private banker, has susy t pended. Liabilities, half a million: assets said to be greater; cash on band. $6,000. $ Silverman was one of the largest operad tors in the northwestern iron properties, y being interested to a considerable extent t with the Schlessinger syndicate. In the e absence of Silverman, a representative of the house claimed the embarrassment was only temporary. The deposits are $600,000, mostly by Hebrews engaged in small busie ness. The other liabilities are estimated e from $100,000 to $200,000. The assets have k a nominal value of $2,000,000, of which $700,000 is in real estate. KANSAS CITY. Aug. 3.-The assignees of the Kansas ity Safe Deposit and Say1. ings bank. which suspended three weeks of ago. flied an inventory of assets this afternoon. The total assets are $2,044,217. e Many of them. however, are real estate e paper of little value. The bank holds as 1. collateral the notes of Cashier Sattely. agis gregating $13,400. and notes endorsed by I Sattely to the amount of $19,200. The ind debtedness of H. P. Churchill, ex-presi1dent of the bank. amounts to $125,000. W.E. Winner. the promoter, who failed disastrously some three years ago, is indebted $33,200. There is an overdraft n standing against the Equitable Mortgage Y. company of New York for $22,000. Husted 0 Investment company of Kansas City, Kansas. and its officers owe the bank $65,000. ST. PAUL. Aug. 3.-The National Amerer ican bank of this city will not open its W doors for business to-morrow morning. a This step is rendered necessary by the steady drain upon its resources for sev-

2. August 4, 1893 Richmond Dispatch Richmond, VA
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Telegraphic Tieks. The Savings Bank of Anthony, Kan., failed Wednesday. The mills of the Bibb Manufacturing Company, Macon, Ga., closed down yesterday. The Commercial Bank of Stevens Point, Wis., failed to open yesterday. Assets, $200,000; liabilities. $100,000. A dispatch from Buenos Ayres says that the Vice-Governor of Santa Fe, Argentina, was killed by the rebels Wednesday. Milton Wall, a nogro, was arrested Wednesday night for robbing registered-letter pouches, at Livingston, Mont., of large sums of money. John 8. Payne, of Tennessee, a retired army officer has been appointed & member of the Board of Pension Appeals in the Interior Department, Washington. The noted Atlanta case of Porter Stocks. convicted of the murder of Alpheus Cassin, came to an end yesterday, when Stocks was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. A fire yesterday morning in Cart's warehouses, Brewton, Ala., destroyed six stores and nearly all their contents Total loss about $11.000; insurance about $4,000. During the past two weeks there has been 8 departure of Austrians and Italians from Pueblo, Col, for their native land which has almost reached the extent of a stampede. The Union Stock-Yards, at Yodo, Cal., suepended operations yesterday, the cause of the suspension being the inability of the packers to continue under existing financial conditions. The private bank owned by Lazarus Silverman, Chicago, suspended yesterday morning, a notice declaring that the difficulty is temporary being posted on the doors of the institution. The plan for the resumption of business by the First National Bank of Birmingbam, Ala., has been approved by the Binalngham clearing-house and cheerfully endorsed by the dopositors. The Georgia railroad has readered free passes to delegates to the Georgia State Agricultural Association, which meets at Stone Mountain Wednesday, August 9th, and all other Georgia roads have already done the same thing. William Coleman. a depositor in the sun pended People's savings Bauk, of Deaver, Col, has began sult against the bank. its officers, shareholders, and directors to recover 88,000 which be had un deposit in that institution. and be asks for an execution against the bodies of

3. August 4, 1893 New-York Tribune New York, NY
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^ WISCONSIN BANK CLOSES ITS DOORS. Stevens Point, Wis., Aug. 3.-After standing an almost continuous run since June 25, during which time over $120,000 was paid out to depositors and certificate holders, the Commercial Bank of Stevens Point closed its doors this morning. The assets are over $200,000, while the liabilities are less than $100,000. No particular excitement results, and the other banks have sufficient funds to meet all demands. Depositors in the First National are guaranteed by the directors and stockholders. The Commercial expects to resume within thirty days. Anthony. Kan., Aug. 3.-The Savings Bank of Anthony failed yesterday. The County Treasurer had $14,875 on deposit.

4. August 4, 1893 The Madison Daily Leader Madison, SD
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Expects to Resume. STEVENS POINT, Wis., Aug. 4.-After standing an almost continuous run since June 25, during which time over $120,000 was paid to depositors and certificate holders, the Commercial bank of Stevens Point closed its doors. The assets are over $200,000, while the liabilities are less than $100,000. No particular excitement results and the other banks have sufficient funds to meet all demands. Depositors in the First National are guaranteed by the directors. and stockholders. The Commercial expects to resume within 30 days.

5. August 24, 1893 Reporter and Farmer Webster, SD
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WILL RESUME SEPT. 1. Setvens Point, Wis., Aug. 21.-The Commercial Bank of Stevens Point expocts to resume business Sept. 1, after a suspension of three weeks. The officials are securing the signatures of depositors for an extension. The First National was never in better condition, and Saturday loaned $2,500 to the city for completing the new high school.

6. April 2, 1895 The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer Wheeling, WV
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TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS. Camille Doucet, perpetual secretary of the French Academy, is dead. St. Louis ministers omulated Dr. Parkhurst and visited theatrical dives Sunday night to getevidence. The Commercial Bank at Stevens Point, Wis., has closed its doors. Liabilities. $60,000; assets, $100,000. Viscount Hill, of England, is dead. His son and heir, Charles Rowland Hill, is now in the United States. The trial of Anna Dickinson's suit for damages for alleged incarceration in an insano Rsylum, was auspended on account of the illness of the wife of a juror. The bill for the dis-establishment of the church in Wales passed its second reading in the British house of commons last ovening. The government had a majority of forty-four. At the battle in the mountains near de gents Santiago and Spanish Cuba troops. between the the latter insur- lost 279 in killed and wounded and the Cubans lost 18 killed and 50 wounded. At the Park Ilotel in Columbus, O., Mrs. W. Ii. B. Williams, wife of a real estate man of Grove City, cut the throats of two of her children, Maud, aged twelve, and Harry, aged seven. It is supposed that alio is ineane. The April crop report of the Orange Judd Farmer makes the condition of whoat 85.3, or two points lower than was reported last year, immediately after the severe March freezing. The plant is but little further advanced than it was in December.

7. April 2, 1895 The Times Richmond, VA
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A When Bank Fals STEVEN'S POINT, WIS., April 1.The Commercial Bank of this city, owing to an extended run, closed its doors this morning. Syron B. Parks was appointed receiver The bank closed its doors last summer during the pante, but opened up again. The assets are put at $100,000 and the liabilities at $60,000.

8. April 2, 1895 St. Paul Daily Globe Saint Paul, MN
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CAN PAY DOLLAR FOR DOLLAR. Senseless Run Causes a Stevens Point Bank to Close. STEVENS POINT, Wis., April 1.The Commercial bank closed its doors today. The following unique statement from the president of the bank is posted on the door: "To Our Customers and Depositors: Owing to the fact that those who are unfriendly to me or to the bank have persisted for a month in frightening people who have being doing business with me, and have caused constant withdrawal of funds by our depositors, we find it necessary to suspend payment to all entitled thereto until we can realize upon our securities. We assure all that we are solvent and will pay every dollar we owe in due time. The property is in the hands of a receiver. "EMMONS BURR, President." Byron B. Park was appointed a receiver. The liabilities are about $60,000, the assets $100,000. This bank closed its doors during the panie of 1893, but opened again immediately. The president of the bank is one of the owners of "B B P." the famous trotting horse. The horse was named after Byron B. Park, the receiver of the bank.

9. April 2, 1895 Daily Kennebec Journal Augusta, ME
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NEWS NUGGETS. Brought by the Wires from the North, East, South and West. Twenty-five hundred miners in Appanoose county, Ohio, quit work, Monday morning. The English House of Commons passed the Welsh dis-establishment bill through its second reading, Monday, 304 to 260. The Minnesota Legislatute, Monday, passed a resolution congratulating Prince Bismarck on his 80th birthday anniversary. Mrs. Paran Stevens is reported to be dangerously III with pneumonia, at her home at New York. Mrs. Stevens is 70 years old. Some 80 journeymen painters at Lawrence, Mass., struck, Monday, owing to a refusal of the master painters' company thata day's pay be fixed at $2.25. By the explosion of a boiler at Loring & Jones' leather factory at Woburn, Mass., Monday, four men were killed and five men injured. The building was wrecked. Charles Camille Doucet, the distinguished French dramatic author and member and permanent secretary of the French Academy, was found dead in bed, Monday. His age was 83. The Commercial Bank at Stevens' Point. Wis., closed its doors, Monday, owing to an extended run. Byron B. Parks was appointed receiver. The assets are put at $100,000; liabilities, $60,000. An increase of $2,497,950 in the national bank note circulation during March, is shown in the monthly statement issued by Comptroller Eckels, April 1, making a total of $209, 450, 144. About 250,000 feet of sawed lumber in the mill yard of F. Whitehouse at Lincoln, N. H., was burned, Sunday. Loss, $2000 to $2500; insurance unknown. The fire probably caught from burning refuse. Carl Priem, the first witness to furnish the Lexow investigation committeee with testimony regarding the police corruption in New York, was found dead in his room there, Monday, having com mitted suicide by taking poison. All the coke operators in the Connellsville, Pa., region, Monday, announced that they would pay the 16 per cent. advanced in wages, inaugurated by the Frick Co. about two weeks ago. This will avert a strike in the region. The official treasury statement issued, April 1, shows that during March the excess of expenditures over the receipts was $246,382. The receipts were $637,778 greater than in March, 1894, and the expenditures $5,420,603 less than last March. Herbert Asquith, home secretary, announced in the English House of Commons, Monday, that the Irish political prisoners O'Callahan and McCann had been released. Each had served 12 years of their term. O'Callahan's eyesight is going fast, Asquith said,and McCann has passed his 70th year. The Hartford, Ct., city election, Monday, was very quiet. The Republicans elected three aldermen, and the Democrats five. Hold-over aldermen, six Republicans, two Democrats, which gives the Republicans control of the board by two majority. The new common council will stand 17 Republicans, 15 Democrats. Notice was given, Monday, in woolen mills at Andover and North Andover, Haverhill and Franklin Falls, N. H., owned by ex-Congressman Moses Stevens & Sons, that beginning April 1, an advance of 15 per cent. in wages would be made. This increases the pay to that given before the reduction in 1894 and will affect about 1200 hands. The Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co., Monday, defaulted in the dayment of $7000 interest on the bonds of the Chester Valley Railroad, and $1000 interest on bonds of the Camden Count Road. The interest is due semi-annually, respectively upon the issuances of $380,000 and $39,000. The reason for the non-payment by the lesseen was that the interest was not earned. Washington officials are informed from sources that they deem entirely reliable that a prominent Eastern shipbuilding firm has agreed to furnish the insurgents in Cube, at an early day, with a torpedo boat to be used to destroy the Spanish war vessels now cruising in Cuban waters. The Spanish government is said to be aware of this scheme and has notified the state departmenntt. The New York police are looking for Harry Keene Carleton, aged 40 years, who disappeared from his boarding house, 116 East 22d street. New York, March 7. He was bookkeeper for Johnson & Faulkner, 118 East 17th street, and was given leave of absence, March 1. He returned to his boarding house, March 7, badly injured about the face and body. He told several conflicting stories of his injuries. The theory of suicide is advanced. Steamer Ymuri, which arrived at New York, Monday, from Havana, brought Captain Greene and five of the crew of the three-masted schooner Nna Jillson, which was burned at sea, March 21, as previously reported. on the Bahama bank. while on a voyage from Baltimore to Gal-

10. April 2, 1895 Richmond Dispatch Richmond, VA
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Wisconsin State Bank Closes. STEVENS POINT, WIS., April 1.--The Commercial Bank, of this city, owing to an extended run, closed its doors this morning. Byron B. Parks was appointed receiver. The bank closed its doors last summer during the panie, but opened UD again. The assets are put at $100,000, and the liabilities at $60,000.

11. April 2, 1895 St. Paul Daily Globe Saint Paul, MN
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CAN PAY DOLLAR FOR DOLLAR. Senseless Run Causes a Stevens Point Bank to Close. STEVENS POINT, Wis., April 1.The Commercial bank closed its doors today. The following unique statement from the president of the bank is posted on the door: "To Our Customers and Depositors: Owing to the fact that those who are unfriendly to me or to the bank have persisted for a month in frightening people who have being doing business with me, and have caused constant withdrawal of funds by our depositors, we find it necessary to suspend payment to all entitled thereto until we can realize upon our securities. We assure all that we are solvent and will pay every dollar we owe in due time. The property is in the hands of a receiver. "EMMONS BURR, President." Byron B. Park was appointed a receiver. The liabilities are about $60,000, the assets $100,000. This bank closed its doors during the panie of 1893, but opened again immediately. The president of the bank is one of the owners of "B B P." the famous trotting horse. The horse was named after Byron B. Park, the receiver of the bank.

12. April 2, 1895 New-York Tribune New York, NY
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WESTERN BANK CLOSES ITS DOORS. A Steven's Point, Wis., April 1.-The Commercial Bank of this city, owing to an extended run, closed Its doors this morning. Byron B. Parks was appointed receiver. The bank closed its doors in the panic, but opened up again. The assets are put at $100,000, and the liabilities at $60,000.

13. April 3, 1895 The Madison Daily Leader Madison, SD
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CLOSED ITS DOORS. The Commercial Bank of Stevens Point, Wis., in the Receiver's Hands. STEVENS POINT, Wis., April 3.-The Commercial bank has closed its doors. The following unique statement from the president of the bank is posted on the door: "To our customers and depositors: Owing to the fact that those who are unfriendly to me or to the bank have persisted for a month in frightening people who have been doing business with me, and have caused constant withdrawal of funds by our depositors, we find it necessary to suspend payment to all entitled thereto until we can realize upon our securities. We assure all that we are solvent and will pay every dollar we owe in due time. The property is in the hands of a receiver. "EMMONS BURR, President." Byron B. Park was appointed receiver. The liabilities are about $60,000, the assets $100,000. This bank closed its doors during the panic of 1893, but opened again immediately. The president of the bank is one of the owners of "B B P," the famous trotting horse. The horse was named after Byron P. Park, the receiver of the bank.

14. April 3, 1895 The Manning Times Manning, SC
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Another Western Bank Goos Under. STEVENS POINT, Wis., April 2.-The Commercial Bank, of this city, owing to an extended run, closed its doors yesterday. Byron B. Marks, was appointed receiver. The bank closed its doors last summer during the panic but opened up again. The assets are put at $100,000 and the liabilities at $60,000.

15. April 4, 1895 The Princeton Union Princeton, MN
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CLOSED ITS DOORS. The Commercial Bank at Stevens Point, Wis., Fails. Stevens Point, Wis., April 3.-The Commercial bank closed its doors today. The following unique statement from the president of the bank is posted on the door: "To our customers and depositors: Owing to the fact that those who are unfriendly to me or to the bank have persisted for months in frightening people who have been doing business with me, and have caused constant withdrawal of funds by our depositors, we find it necessary to suspend payment to all entitled thereto until we can realize on our securities. We assure all that we are solvent and will pay every dollar we owe in due time. The property is in the hands of a receiver. Emmons Burr, President." Byron Park was appointed receiver. The liabilities are about $60,000, the assets $100,000.

16. April 6, 1895 The Diamond Drill Crystal Falls, MI
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one DGB EDGAR A. COHEN, commission merchant at San Francisco, failed for $331,000. FIRE destroyed a barn in Fowler, belonging to Mrs. Ruth Sigler and with it fifty-six sheep and four horses. PRAIRIE fires which had been raging in western Nebraska for three days had destroyed a large number of ranches. FIRE destroyed the better part of the business portion of Hays City, Kan., including seven stone and twenty frame buildings. Two CHIEDREN were murdered at Columbus, O., by their mother, Mrs. H. H. B. Williams, who confessed the crime. ST. LOUIS ministers visited many of the city's dives and then swore out warrants for their keepers. Six MEN were killed and several seriously hurt by the explosion of a boiler in the Cann tannery in Woburn, Mass. GEORGE N. SCOTT, cashier at Beef Slough, Minn., for the Mississippi Logging company, was reported to be $20,000 short. THE Colorado legislature adjourned sine die. FIVE persons lost their lives in forest fires in Kentucky. THE Commercial bank of Stevens Point, Wis., owing to an extended run, closed its doors. THE log cut on the St. Croix, in Wisconsin, for the season is estimated at 400,000,000 feet. THE twenty-first annual national soldiers' reunion will be held at Caldwell, O., June 14 and 15. OVER 2,500 miners in Appanoose county, Ia., quit work because of a reduction in wages. IOWA was visited by a snowstorm, while heavy rains in other states allayed all fears of drought. THE United States Rubber company at Springfield announced to the trade an advance in prices of 6 per cent., which is to prevail for the coming year. MISSES ANNA K. WELLS, Eugenie Armstrong and Maggie Farrelly, of E1lensburg, Wash., left Tacoma, Wash., to seek their fortunes in the gold fields of Alaska. POSTMASTER GENERAL BISSELL issued an order restricting second-class matter to actual subscribers for journals entitled to the pound rate. REPORTS to the director of the mint show coinage during the month of March as follows: Gold, $2,866,102; silver, $573,535; minor coin. $80,195; total coinage, $3,509,835. THE post office at South Omaha, Neb., was broken open and robbed of over $3,000. THE British ship Morseby, long overdue, reached San Francisco 241 days from Liverpool, having been delayed and disabled by South Atlantic storms. THE public debt statement issued on the 2d showed that the debt increased $18,317,105 during the month of March. The cash balance in the treasury was $187,917,261. The total debt, less the cash balance in the treasury, amounts to $908,730.046. THE Forty-ninth general assembly of Tennessee reconvened at Nashville. By the upsetting of a skiff John Brotia and Thomas Grogan. both residents of Pittsburgh, were drowned. THE visible supply of grain in the United States on the 2d was: Wheat, 74,307,000 bushels; corn, 13,407,000 bushels; oats, 6,184,000 bushels; rye, 267,000 bushels; barley, 787,000 bushels. GREEN BAY and Fort Howard, Wis., voted to consolidate, the name of the new town to be Green Bay. ELIAS J. HALE, judge of probate of Foxcroft, Me., who shot himself, was found to be a defaulter as treasurer of the town in the amount of $115,720. THE supreme court of Iowa rendered a decision sustaining the constitutionality of the "mulet" law. A CYCLONE in Boone county, Ky., did great damage to property and many horses and cattle were killed. The village of Lewisburg was nearly wiped out. THE steamboat City of Haverbill was said to have gone down with all hands in a fierce gale off Barnegat, on the New Jersey coast, and ten lives were reported lost. THE Florida legislature convened at Tallahassee for its biennial session of sixty days. FIRE at St. Charles, III., did damage to the extent of $100,000, burning a number of buildings. WHILE Mrs. Thomas Jones was preparing her ballot at the polls in Newcastle. Col., she fainted and fell. bursting a blood vessel, from the effects of which she died. THE Findlay Rolling Mill company of Findlay, O., made an assignment with assets of $250,000 and liabilities of $125,000. IN a runaway accident near South Bend, Ind., two children of James Hicks were trampled to death. MISS AMY WEST was awarded $30,000 damages at Pikeville, Ky., against Moses Deskins and wife in a suit for slander. IT was discovered that employes of the United States Express company had during the past vear defranded the

17. April 11, 1895 River Falls Journal River Falls, WI
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A Bank Closes Its Doors. The Commercial bank of Stevens Point, owing to an extended run, closed its doors. Byron B. Parks was appointed receiver. The bank closed its doors last summer during the panic, but opened up again. The assets were put at $100,000, and the liabilities at $60,000.

18. May 14, 1895 St. Paul Daily Globe Saint Paul, MN
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New Receiver Wanted. STEVENS POINT, Wis., May 13.-A number of the depositors of the Commercial bank, who have become dissatisfied with the receivership of J. P. Malick, today engaged attorneys to draw up a petition asking for the removal of Malick and the appointment of a new receiver.

19. November 7, 1895 Union County Courier Elk Point, SD
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NEWS OF THE WEEK. Condensed Items of Interest From all Parts of the World. DAYTON, Ohio-Gov. McKinley and ex-Gov. Foraker were given a cordial welcome here this afternoon. After a reception by the Garfield club, the distinguished visitors were driven to the fair grounds, where they addressed a large number of people from this and neighboring counties. Senator Sherman who was billed to speak, could not be present. CHICAGO-The general court martial convened to investigate the charges against Lieut. Samuel S. Pague, of the Fifteenth United States infantry, for shooting at Col. R. E. A. Crofton, of the same regiment, on Oct. 3, com. menoed its proceedings at Fort Sheridan this morning. PARIS, Tex.-The town of Bagwell, in Red River county, 22 miles east of here, was completely destroyed by fire only a few buildings in the outskirts of the place being left standing. The loss will reach $100,000. ST. PETERSBURG is officially announced that the Prussian Minister in Korea has taken no official action whatever in relation to the situation there, although he does not recognize or approve of the illegal state of affairs existing. HAVANA-Advices received here from the interior of this province report the prevailence of heavy floods. The villages of Nueva Paz, San Nicholas and La Catalina are submerged and a large amount of property has been destroyed, but no loss of life is reported. Sr. Louis-Alex Brown, son of a prominent farmer, met W. L. Garrett on a lonely road this morning. and in a quarrel which ensued both men drew revolvers. Brown's gun refused to fire, and Garrett put two bullets into Brown's body and one into his horse. The latter ran home with his dying master on his back. Brown died a few minutes later. ST. LOUIs-Disastrous prairie fires have been raging in various portions of western Missousi and western Kan, sas owing to the continued drouth. ST. Louis-Thebody of Jack Hender son, a farm laborer who yesterday attempted to outrage the wife of his employer, at Vinegar Bend, was found hanging to a tree riddled with bullets. MILWAUKEE-The Wisconsin stockholders of the Standard Telephone company, which was organized with a capital of $210,000,000, and which was to revlutionize the telephone business, have demanded au accounting of the moneys subscribed by them. MaDISON, Wis.-Miss Jean Miner's heroic statue, symbolizing Wisconsin's motto, "Forward," was unveiled in the capitol park. Mrs. John Winans, of Janesville, presented the statue on behalf of the women of Wisconsin, and Gov. Upham made the speech of acceptance. WEST SUPERIOR, Wis.-There will be important developments within the next few days in the matter of retaining the La Belle Wagon Works in this city, and if T. G. Fish, who purchased the machinery of the plant from the assignee, insists upon moving it to his new works at Clinton, Iowa, an injunction already prepared will be served. WEST SUPERIOR, Wis.-Judge Vinje, of the circuit court, appointed Robert Celly as receiver of the West Superior Iron and Steel company, on application of the Central Trust comany, of New York, which holds a mortgage on the works of $1,300,000. t ASHLAND, Wis.-The state administration is after $40,000 belonging to the state of Wisconsin, and what is t worse, it does not expect to get it. W Attorney General Myrea sse d t through the city on his way to Sud perior, where he will have an intert view with various bondsmen of some S of the Superior banks that went to a the wall, in which there was deposited c some $40,000 belonging to the state of o Wisconsin in these banks. BALTIMORE, Md. - H. Gilbert, of pirit Lake, Iowa, won the Dupont sand championship for trap shooters. M Alester ("Hayward",) of Philadelpla, won second money; Wagner, of V Wshington, took third, and Coe, of Basimore, fourth. P SEVENS POINT, Wis.-In strong contrasto Lis action last Tuesday, when W Emmans Burr, president of the Com mercia bank, placed all his private S properly eyond the reach of the creditor a stockholders by mortgagthe ing it, come the announcement that va he had iledvaims against the instituB tion to the amount of $42,651 as one D of its creditor Mr. Burr gives as his no excuse for nokeeping his promise in regard to turnig over his property to the creditors tat they wouldn't prom. to ise immunity Am criminal prosecutb tion if he did so at tu PLAINFIELD, - Fully 400,000 W bushels of potato have been frozen as in the ground in is section by the , sharp frosts of the ast few nights. at BUFFALO, N. Y. The Lake Shore pi fast train arrived the from Chicago CE at 11:30:34 a. m. Ela time 8:01:07. tr Average including Stps, 63.10 miles per hour; average cluding stops 64.98 miles per hour. This beats the G world's record. at STEVENS POINT VETA

20. March 26, 1896 River Falls Journal River Falls, WI
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The News Condensed. In court at Stephens Point George J. Leonard, a groceryman who failed recently, testified that he lost $1,350 in a green goods game at Oshkosh. Leonard's liabilities greatly exceed his asstate George Reed, yardmaster for the St. Paul road at Prairie du Chien, was killed by the cars. Hans England, aged 73, a prominent farmer of Primrose, was found dead in bed. Death resulted from old age. Dr. William A. Scott, assistant professor of political economy in the state university, has received a call to the chair of economies in the Minnesota university. In the county court at Stevens Point the receiver of the Commercial bank filed claims for $87,000 against the estate of the late Benjamin Burr, of whom Emmons Burr, ex-president of the bank, is the sole heir. John Livesy, of Augusta, arrived home, after several weeks' absence, and immediately took a large dose of carbolie acid, which resulted in death. The residence at Madison of H. A. Taylor, editor of the State Journal, was entered by burglars, who secured considerable booty. The sixth annual meeting of the Retail Lumber Dealers' Association of Wisconsin was held in Milwaukee. Timothy Follett Strong, Jr., a veteran Wisconsin editor, died at Fond du Lac, aged 56 years. Peter Swanson, an old settler, was accidentally killed by a freight train two miles below Spooner. Mrs. Ruth McDougal, of La Grange, was granted a divorce from Edward McDougal, $5,000 alimony and $200 a year for the support of the children. Winnebago county has paid out $8,500 for the entertainment of 4,300 tramps since November 1 last. The Elkhorn Implement company's building and contents and the adjoining laundry of F. D. Lore were burned. Mrs. Lore and child were researed from the flames badly burned. The total loss was $5,000. D. B. Rudd, a millionaire banker and manufacturer at Reedsburg, died in Florida, where he, with his family, was spending the winter. He was a pioneer Misconsin. jo F. J. Short, of Chicago, has leased the Hotel Myers in Janesville for seven years. The Fond du Lac police arrested Joseph Koch, whom they suspect is the murderer of Fred Messner, the farmer who was so brotally killed at his home near that city a few weeks ago. Business reverses led Leopold Grombach, a Milwaukee cattle dealer, to fire a bullet into his brain. Gust Neethe, who was arrested over a year ago for selling bogus unmutation tickets on the Chicago a Northwestern railroad, pleaded guilty and was fined $350. Caroline Frances Strong, the widow of Moses M. Strong, one of the bestknown Wisconsin pioneers, died at Mineral Point, aged 86 years. Charles P. Shields & Co., a leading dry goods firm at Oshkosh, made an as signment to ex-Mayor William H. Dichmann. The assets were $20,000 and lia$222000.00 bilities Illness made Frederick Schroeder, of Milwaukee, tired of life and he hanged himself. He was 72 years old. James E. Quinn, of Dodgeville, injured while coupling cars, has secured a verdict for $5,000 against the Northwestern road. The state board of fire underwriters has resolved against acetylene gas, and declare it a dangerous explosive. Similar action was taken against a new hydro-incandescent lamp, involving the use of gasoline. William Marks' shingle mill at Amberg was destroyed by fire. Loss, $5, ou THE '000 Chris Schroeder, of Neenah, was accident Ily killed in a lumber campnear Eland Junction. The new Monroe county courthouse wasdedicated at Sparta. Five thousand people were present, including Gov. Upham and Attorney-General Mylrea. Frank Klein, a pugilist, was convicted of manslaughter in Milwaukee. He killed Louis Schmidt May last in a prize fight.