Commercial Bank (Eau Claire, WI)

Episode Information

Episode UID
3685947391165
Episode Type
Suspension → Closure
Bank Type
trust
Bank ID
368594739 hash
Start Date
January 7, 1897
Location
Eau Claire, Wisconsin (44.811, -91.498)

Metadata

Model
gpt-5-mini (chosen from majority vote of a three-model LLM ensemble)
Short Digest
9018965c7b5aefb3

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None

Description

Closure explicitly attributed to suspension of the Allemania Bank (correspondent); receiver appointed shortly after.

Events (2)
1. January 7, 1897 Suspension
Cause
Correspondent
Cause Details
Closed because of the suspension/failure of the Allemania Bank of St. Paul, a correspondent/linked institution.
Newspaper Excerpt
The Commercial Bank of Eau Claire, capital $30,000, closed today. The failure is due to the suspension of the Allemania bank, of St. Paul.
Source
newspapers
2. January 8, 1897 Receivership
Newspaper Excerpt
On application of the depositors, the Commercial bank, which suspended yesterday, was today placed in the hands of C. M. Buffington as receiver.
Source
newspapers

Newspaper Articles (24)
1. January 7, 1897 Santa Fe Daily New Mexican Santa Fe., Santa Fe, NM
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FIVE BUSINESS DISASTERS Dr. Flower, Somew hat Known in New Mexico, Files Petition in Insolvency. HE FORMERLY OPERATED AT DEMING Accused of Embezzlement and Other Financial Crimes-Diamond Dealers Assign in New York-Bank Failures Elsewhere. Boaton, Jan. 7.-Dr. R. C. Flower, the famous millionaire, financier and traveling physician, has filed a petition in insolvency. His business has been much impaired recently because of the criminal suits brought against him by wealthy Chicago capitalists, who accused him of the embezzlement of thousands of dollars in A negotiation of the Deming Land company, of Deming, N. M., and many other gigantic financial undertakings. It is understood that the failure can not seriously affect the Deming company. DIAMOND DEALERS ASSIGN. New York. - S. H. Johnston & Co., dealers in diamonds, jewelry and silverware, to-day assigned to John R. Keim and Arthur H. Maston. The liabilities are reported to be $219,000; assets, $200,000. BAGK FAILURE IN WISCONSIN. Ean Claire, Wis.--The Commercial bank of Eau Claire, with a capital of $30,000, closed to-day. The failure is due to the suspension of the Allemania bank, of St. Paul. President Allen states that the depositors will be paid in full. TWO BANKS FAIL IN MINNESOTA. St. Paul.-A Preston, Minn., special to the Dispatch says that the Bank of Canton, at Caton, and the Citizen's bank of Lanesboro, both owned and operated by Field, Kelsey & Co., suspended yesterday.

2. January 7, 1897 Deseret Evening News Salt Lake City, UT
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Bank Failures, EAUCLAIRE, Wis., Jan. 7.-The Commercial Bank of EauClaire with a capital of $30,000 closed today. The failure is due to the suspension of the Allemania bank, St. Paul. President Allen states that the depositors will be paid in full. ST. PAUL, Jan. 7.-A Preston, Minn., special to the dispatch says the Bank of Canton, at Canton, and the Citiz n's Bank of Lanesboro, ooth owned and operated by Field, Kelsey & Co. suspended yesterday.

3. January 8, 1897 The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer Wheeling, WV
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BRIEF TELEGRAMS. The receiver and directors of the Union Pacific railroad are on an inspection tour. The steamer City of Duluth caught fire aff Milwaukee yesterday, and was saved with difficulty. The Bankers' Exchange Bank, at Minneapolis, which suspended some days ago, has resumed business. Fire in Pittsburgh early this morning gutted Davis' Eden Musee and endangered the Commercial Gazette buliding. Loss $15,000. The entire Pennsylvania national guard, numbering about 14,000 troops, will take part in the inaugural parade at Washington, on the 4th of March. President Cleveland began his annual series of state dinners last night, with a dinner to the members of the cabinet. Ex-Secretaries Hoke Smith and Bissell were among the guests. It having been definitely settled that Senator Allison. of Iowa. will not go in the McKinley cabinet, it is believed that Senator Sherman holds the key to the situation. It Is said that Mr. Sherman will visit the President-elect soon for a conference. The Commercial Bank of Eau Claire, Wis., capital $30,000. closed yesterday. The failure is due to the suspension of the Allemania bank of St. Paul. Prestdent Allen states that the Eau Claire Institution will wind up affairs and depositors will be paid in full. Governor-elect Powers. of Maine: Governor-elect Walcott of Massachusetts and Governor-elect Pingree, of Michigan, were all Inaugurated yesterday with the usual ceremonies. Their Inaugural addrepses were mainly devoted to state issues. Only Incidentally were national questions touched upon.

4. January 8, 1897 Daily Kennebec Journal Augusta, ME
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The Commercial Bank of Eau Claire, Wis.. capital. $30,000. closed. Thursday. The failure is due to the suspension of the Allemania Bank of St. Paul. President Allen states that the Eau Claire institution will wind up its affairs and the depositors will be paid in full.

5. January 8, 1897 The Morning Times Washington, DC
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signment today. His liabilities are about $25,000. Preston, Minn., Jan. 7.-The Bank of Canton, at Canton, with a capital of $10,000, and the Citizens' Bank, of Lanesboro, a small institution, both owned and operated by Field, Kelsey and Company, suspended business yesterday. Eau Claire, Wis., Jan Commercial Bank of Eau Claire, capital $30,000, closed today. The failure is due to the suspension of the Allemania Bank, of St. Paul. President Allen states that the Eau Claire institution will wind up its affairs and that depositors will be paid in full. Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 7.-Owing to the delay in the appointment of a receiver Jacobs & Co., of New York, have attached the collateral of the defunct Columbia National Bank, of this city, on a claim of $10,000. Lexington, Va., Jan. 7.-H. L. Kennedy, general dealer in queensware, tinware, etc., has assigned for the benefit of his creditors; J. V Grinstead, trustee. The assets will probably pay preferred creditors in first class. Liabilities unknown. New York, Jan. 7.-Andrew Freedman has been appointed receiver for Oscar Hammerstein, the theatrical manager, by Justice Smith, in the supreme court, pending the trial of a suit brought by A. M. Byers & Co., of Pittsburg, to set aside certain deeds by which Hammerstein conveyed to his wife and sons, Arthur and William, the Olympia, the Harlem Opera House, and other property in this city. Byers & Co. obtained two judgments in October last against Hammerstein, which amount with costs to $7,808. They charge that subsequent to the incurring of the indebtedness and before the entry of the judgment, Hammerstein conveyed the Olympia, two apartment houses in West 126th street, and the Columbus Theater, to his wife, andthe Harlem Opera House to his two sons. The Olympia is stated to be mortgaged for $900,000, the Harlem Opera House for $300,000, and the other property for $25,000. The plaintiffs claim that the transfers were fraudulently made to evade the paymenthy Hammerstein of his just debts. Lynchburg, Va., Jan. 7.-J. H. Valentine, formerly of this city, but now of

6. January 8, 1897 Birmingham State Herald Birmingham, AL
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Eau Claire, Wis., Jan. 7.-The Commercial bank, of Eau Claire, capital $30,000, closed today. The failure is due to the suspension of the Allemania bank, of St. Paul. President Allen states that the Eau Claire institution will wind up its affairs and that depositors will be paid in full. Lynchburg, Jan. 7.-The Commercial bank was today merged into the First National bank. All the accounts and deposits of the former were transferred to the latter. Both are substantial financial institutions and the move was agreed upon by the board of directors jointly as a matter of business policy. The consolidation adds a large amount of business to the First National bank. Five of the Commerical bank directors will go on the board of the First National bank.

7. January 8, 1897 The Bryan Daily Eagle Bryan, TX
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ARMENIANS RELEASED. All the Prisoners Turned Loose at Constantinople Except Condemned Ones. NEW YORK, Jan. 7.-A dispatch to The Herald from Constantinople says that the last 20 of 388 Armenian prisoners at Constantinople have been liberated. There are still in prison 29 persons condemned to death. One of them is Bishop Arabgir. As to the number of Armenian priests in the province condemned to death, only two have up to the present time been mentioned to the patriarchate as worthy of pardon. Sixty-five Armenians who had sought refuge at Varna have been delivered without difficulty to the Armenian patriarchate. EAU CLAIRE, Wis., Jan. T.-The Commercial bank of Eau Claire, with a capital of $30,000, has closed. The failure was due to the suspension of the Allemania bank at St. Paul. President Allen states the Eau Claire institution will wind up its affairs, and that the depositors will be paid in full.

8. January 8, 1897 The Saint Paul Globe Saint Paul, MN
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RECEIVERS NAMED. Pending the Resumption of Suspended National Banks. WASHINGTON Jan. 7.-The comptroller of the currency has appointed Bank Examiner Blading temporary receiver of the First National Bank, of Sioux City, and Examiner Anheirr receiver of the Citizens National of Fargo, N. D. Both of these appointments are temporary, pending resumption. Bank Examiner Turtilot has been appointed receiver of the Second National Bank, of Grand Forks, N. D. The comptroller has re eived information that the Commercial National Bank, of Roanoke, Va., which suspended some time ago, has raised sufficient funds with which to go into liquidation without the intervention of a receiver. Denver, Col., Jan. 7.-The American National Bank reopened today under new management, with $600,000 cash on hand to meet the liabilities and conduct business. There remains but $200,000 of liabilities to be provided for out of all the other assets of the bank. Eau Claire, Wis., Jan. 7.-The Commercial Bank of Eau Claire, capital $30,000, closed today. The failure is due to the suspension of the Allemannia bank, of St. Paul. President Allen states that the Eau Claire institution will wind up affairs, and that depositors will be paid in full.

9. January 8, 1897 Richmond Dispatch Richmond, VA
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Wisconsin Bank Closes. EAU CLAIRE, WIS., January 7.-The Commercial Bank of Eau Claire, capital $30,000, closed to-day. The failure is due to the suspension of the Allemania Bank, of St. Paul. President Allen states that the Eau Claire institution will wind up its affairs, and that depositors will be paid in full.

10. January 9, 1897 The Saint Paul Globe Saint Paul, MN
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Buffington for Receiver. EAU CLAIRE, Wis., Jan. 8.-On application of the depositors, the Commercial bank, which suspended yesterday, was today placed in the hands of C. M. Buffington as receiver.

11. January 13, 1897 Elmore Bulletin Rocky Bar, Mountain Home, ID
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A Wisconsin Bank Failure. Eau Claire, Wis., Jan. 11.-The Commercial bank, of Eau Claire, capital $30,000, closed today. The failure is due to the suspension of the Allemania bank, of St. Paul. President Allen states the depositors will be paid in full.

12. January 14, 1897 River Falls Journal River Falls, WI
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WEST AND SOUTH. An explosion of giant powder at Twin Lakes, Col., killed Peter Fagin and Michael Sebia and Joseph Larkin was fatally injured. Near Pickens, S. C., the residence of Rev. M. L. Jones was destroyed by fire, and his son Elbert and daughter Mary perished in the tlames. 1. N. Van Hossen, ex-mayor, was found dead in his home at Lawrence, Kan., having been sulfocated by coal gas from a store. At Eau Claire, Wis., the Commercial bank.capital $30,000, announced voluntary liquidation. The deposits amount to about $53,000. In Chicago five young men who comprise a gang of the most daring bank swindlers and forgers that has operated in this country in 20 years were captured. The Bank of Canton at Canton, Minn., and the Citizens' bank of Lanesboro, both owned and operated by Field, Kelsey & Co., suspended business. At Magnolia, C., Simon Cooper, a negro outlaw, murdered Ben Wilson, aged 80 years, his son Wesley, aged 40, and Mrs. Wesley Wilson, aged 35, and a colored man. The refusal of Wilson to loan Cooper a buggy was the cause. The entire business portion of Royalton, Wis., was destroyed by fire. Business has been resumed by the Bankers' exchange bank in Minneapolis, Minn., which suspended some days ago. In Chicago William J. Bryan was the guest of the Bryan league at a banquet given at the Tremont house in celehra. tion of the anniversary of Andrew Jackson's birth and made the principal speech,

13. January 15, 1897 The Columbia Herald Columbia, TN
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THE RECORD OF PROSPERITY, As Told in the Headlines of City Dailies. The following short paragraphs, clipped from the headlines of large city dailies, tell in a nutshell the inroad "prosperity" is making upon the commercial world: The Commercial Bank of Eau Claire, Wis., closes doors. Two more suspend.-The Bank of Canton and the Citizen's Bank of Loneboro, Minn. In receiver's hands.--The Columbia Drill Co., of Liberty, Ind., forced to the wall. Jewelers assign.-J. S. Johnson & Co. of New York fail, with $210,000 liabilities. Bank quits.-First National Bank of Bridgeport, Ala., concludes to liquidate. McMaster & Co., Toronto, Ont., assign.-Liabilities, $213,000; assets, $345,000. Knoxville failure.-C.J. Gording, druggist, assigns; liabilities, $7,309.71. Sheriff takes charge of the Walter White Lead Company at Cincinnati. New York assignment.-The Stewart Ceramic Co. quits business. Syracuse, N. Y.-Thomas W. Dueston & Son make an assignment. The Merchant's State Bank, of Herrington, Kan., has gone out of business. Receiver asked for Harris & Boque, at Clarksville.-About $100,000 worth of property involved. Big Milwaukee assignment.-Gov. Upham files a bond of $200,000 against E. A. Shores and E. A. Shores, Jr. J. W. Hawkins & Co., tobacco merchants of Nashville, make an assignment.-Total liabilities, $1,490. Out of existence.-Chicago Dime Saving Bank decided to quit on account of hard times.

14. January 15, 1897 Alma Record Alma, MI
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News Summary. The Bank of Canton, at Canton. Minn., and the Citizens' bank of Lanesboro, Minn., both owned and operated by Field. Kelsey & Co., have suspended business. The Commercial bank of Eau Clare, Wis.. capital $30,000, closed last Thursday. The failure is due to the suspension of the Allemania bank of St. Paul. Depositors will be paid in full. The anti-trust law in Georgia has invalidated the contracts made by the tobacco, snuff, potash, coffee, match and other trusts and has thrown these hitherto closed markets open to competition. Capt. George M. Crossman, of Co. I. Connecticut National Guard, created quite an excitement by threatening a private with a dishonorable discharge because he moved that the Company meetings open with prayer and close with a benediction. The Italian ship Francesco Clampa, upon her arrival at San Francisco last week reported that she had ran into and sank the fishing schooner Moett during a fog off Scilly. Ten of the Moett's erew were drowned. The steamer City of Duluth had a narrow escape from destruction by fire while lying at her dock last week Fire broke out in the lamp room and filled the cabins with smoke. The city engines by prompt action saved the craft. Anthony Henderson was lynched at Unadilla, Ga., for the assassination of old man George Summer, and attempted assault upon the person of Sumner's daughter. At the preliminary hearing he made a full confession of the crime. The United States Court of Appeals at Chicago has decided that the leases Lade by the old whisky trust cannot be enforced and are void. This rids the American Spirits Manufacturing Company of about 50 leases running for about 20 vears and involving something like $1,500,000.

15. January 17, 1897 The Saint Paul Globe Saint Paul, MN
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Opposed to the Receiver, EAU CLAIRE, Wis., Jan. 16.-After a long secret discussion last night 125 depositors and stockholders of the Commercial bank adopted a resolution that the court be asked to allow an assignment to be made to R. K. Boyd. Meantime a receiver appointed by the court is in charge. There is much bitter feeling.

16. January 17, 1897 Omaha Daily Bee Omaha, NE
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Stockholders Ask for a Receiver. ST. PAUL, Minn., Jan. 16.-An Eau Claire (Wis.) dispatch says: After a long secret session last night 125 stockholders and depositors of the failed Commercial bank adopted a resolution that the court be authorized to allow an assignment to be made to R. K. Boyd. In the meantime, a receiver appointed by the court is in charge.

17. March 27, 1897 The Dickinson Press Dickinson, ND
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NEWS IN BRIEF. OverNow From the Wires in a Condensed Form. Dan Stuart is preparing for another fistic carnival in September. Another filibustering expedition got away from Punta Gorda, Fla. The Greater New York charter bill has passed the New York assembly by a vote of 117 to 28. The princess of Wales and her daughter, Princess Victoria. have started for Copenhagen. D. J. Sachsel, treasurer of the Christopher Columbus Building and Loan association, has left Chicago with $35.000. In anticipation of an increase in the American tariff Canadian distillers are shipping large quantities of whisky to the United States. Francisco J. Casanas, a naturalized American citizen who has been confined in the prison at Sagna, Cuba. for thirty-nine days, has been released from custody. Upon the recommendation of the archbishop of Canterbury the original log of the Mayflower, now in the IIbrary of Lambeth palace. will be presented to the State of Massachusetts. Receiver Buffington has filed his report on the Commercial bank at Eau Claire, Wis. It gives the total liabilities at $64.906 and the assets at actual value, $35,191, a shrinkage of about 60 per cent. Articles of incorporation have been granted at Trenton, N. J.. to the Composite Type Bar company, with an authorized capital of $10,000,000. The company is to manufacture machinery and objects used in the art of printing. An ordinance was Introduced at Eau Claire, Wis., granting a franchise to the Chippewa Valley Electric Railway company, which will entirely rebuild the old line in this city and add a long extension. A line between Eau Claire and Chippewa Falls will also he completed. J. H. Brigham of Delta, Ohio, took the oath of office as assistant secretary of agriculture and immediately assumed his duties. Dr. Dabney, the retiring assistant secretary, will remain in Washington for some time, and will not resume the presidency of the University of Tennessee until next autumn. C. B. Oldfield, formerly of Sioux City. has been indicted, charged with having accepted deposits while president of the Commercial Savings Bank of Leeds after he knew the bank was incolvent. He was in Sioux City when the indictment was returned and was released on his own recognizance. Though president he was not actually coreerned in the bank's management.

18. April 9, 1897 The Pioneer Express Pembina, ND
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# Miscellaneous. Dan Stuart is preparing for another fistic carnival in September. Another filibustering expedition got away from Punta Gorda, Fla. The Greater New York charter bill has passed the New York assembly by a vote of 117 to 28. D. J. Sachsel, treasurer of the Christopher Columbus Building and Loan association, has left Chicago with $35,000. Marie Ricks, the notorious window smasher and woman of the street, has turned up at Marinette, Wis., coming from Michigan. Mr. John Nordhouse of Illinois, formerly private secretary to Mr. Morton, has been appointed by Secretary Wilson to serve in the same capacity. In the Maine senate the bill to prevent the reproduction of prize fights by photograph, kinetoscope, etc., was passed to be engrossed. In anticipation of an increase in the American tariff, Canadian distillers are shipping large quantities of whisky to the United States. Secretary Bliss has approved for patent to the State of Minnesota school indemnity list No. 3, embracing 2,721 acres in the Crookston district. The effort to secure the mulct saloon by petition in Dubuque, Iowa, has failed by fifty-six signatures. It has been a bitter fight. The lumbermen of San Francisco are again trying to organize a trust with the hope of raising the price of lumber from $4 to $6 a thousand. Ex-Mayor Stewart of Dubuque, Iowa, has been granted a franchise for a telephone line. Rates are to be $24 and $18. The present rates are $42 and $30 a year. Application has been made for the appointment of a receiver for the Pittsburg (Pa.) Provision company. The concern has a capital of $250,000, and it is alleged that its affairs have been mismanaged. Judge W. W. Wood, of the Johnson (Kan.) county circut court, has decided that the Sedalia school district must pay $23,000 to the holders of school bonds, issued in 1883 and fraudulently sold to Eastern people. The ninth biennial meeting of the Iowa Legion of Honor convened at Fort Dodge, Iowa, with every county in the state represented, making an attendance of about 300. The steamer Ohio, which left New York Feb. 6 for an excursion to the West Indeas, has arrived at New York, having covered a total distance of 7,323 miles. An arrangement has been effected by Ambassador Bayard with the archbishops of London and Canterbury whereby the original log of the Mayflower will be returned to the United States. Receiver Buffington has filed his report on the Commercial bank at Eau Claire, Wis. It gives the total liabilities at $64,906 and the assets at actual value, $35,191, a shrinkage of about 60 per cent. The parents of Elva Ham, aged twelve years, placed her on the cars at Vandalia, Ark., for Linton, a mining town south of Terre Haute, Ind She was tagged, and a note was pinned on her coat to her grandfather, Washington Morris. Since her departure from Arkansas the child has not been heard from.

19. December 1, 1897 Watertown Republican Watertown, WI
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EXAMINATION OF F.. C. ALLEN. President of Commerciali Bank of Ean Claire Questioned by Receiver. Eau Claire, Wis., Nov. 29.-[Special] -The examination of F.. C. Allen, who was president of the defument Commercial bank, by T. F. Frawley, representing the receiver, commenced this morning in the circuit court. The receiver'Seattorney tried to ascertain what consideration was actually represented by assets; im which there was heavy shrinkage and asked a line of questions to show that several large concerns, including the Union Log and Trust company of Sioux City and the Sioux City Stove works, whose paper was being carried as assets, were at such time in the hands of receivers.

20. December 28, 1897 Rock Island Argus Rock Island, IL
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# ABBREVIATED TELEGRAMS. Fitzsimmons' second installment of profits from the veriscope pictures was $10,000. Twelve thousand of Chicago's poor were fed Christmas by the Volunteers of America. At Mount Morris, Mich., a son of Daniel Callahan was choked to death by a peanut. The average condition of wheat in Michigan Dec. 1 was 88 per cent. of condition in average years. More than 150,000 Christmas trees were shipped from the northern Wisconsin pine woods this year. There is talk of extending the scope of the new steel wire trust so as to include the steel billet mills of the country. It is claimed that between $75,000 and $100,000 worth of buildings are under course of construction in Petoskey, Mich., at the present time. Six thousand families in the Nineteenth ward, Chicago, feasted on turkey or chicken Christmas Day at the expense of Alderman John Powers. Warden Fuller, of the Michigan house of correction at Ionia, has procured a couple of man-hunting hounds to use in trailing escaped convicts. J. Roy Hammett, a student at Northwestern university, Evanston, Ills., introduced his wife to his parents at Tuscola, Ills., as a Christmas dinner surprise. "Auntie" Julie Moore, for thirty years the only colored member of the Plymouth church, and a friend and beneficiary of Henry Ward Beecher, died Christmas Day in Brooklyn. A young man named Bennett, living near Williams' Bay, Wis., has confessed to placing a steel rail on the railway track near Braidwood, Ills., which came near wrecking a passenger train. N. W. Phillips, of Saginaw, Mich., a fruit tree agent, writes to Governor Pingree that the black gnat pest among plum and cherry trees is spreading rapidly throughout the state. Herman Rudolph, a former resident of Janesville, Wis., who has just returned after eight years' residence in the Klondike region, brought back over $50,000-made in the sawmill business. C. M. Buffington has asked to be released from the receivership of the Commercial bank at Eau Claire, Wis., as its affairs are about straightened out. A final dividend will soon be declared. Captain William C. Oldreive has planned to walk across the Atlantic ocean with his sea-going shoes, starting from Boston July 4. Captain William A. Andrews will accompany him in a new fourteen-foot sailboat.

21. December 31, 1897 The Saint Paul Globe Saint Paul, MN
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Receiver Discharged. EAU CLAIRE, Wis., Dec. 30.-C. M. Buffington, receiver of the Commercial bank, was today granted his discharge on application to Judge Bailey. His report shows $27,723 in cash realized out of the assets and $24,877 disbursed. The face value of the assets turned over when the receiver was appointed was about $90,000 and the liabilities about $65,000. The depositors will get nothing unless the stockholders are held liable. An order was made allowing as compensation 7 per cent of the assets to the receiver and the same amount to the attorneys.

22. January 6, 1898 Eagle River Review Eagle River, WI
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Shaw's tannery at Rib Lake was burned, entailing a loss of $1,500, with full insurance. The Bertillon system of identifying crimmals will be adopted by the Racine police department. John S. Sweet, formerly clerk at the Grand Hotel at Janesville, died at Biloxi, Miss., of yellow fever. Mrs. Frank Gray, one of the pioneer residents of Janesville, died suddenly. she fell recently and broke her hip. The Wisconsin Malt and Grain Company at Appleton has decided to double the capacity of its plant at once. Joseph Unger, a Milwaukee brewer, will spend the next six months in the house of correction for abusing a baby. At Appleton, the family of Albert Bentz had a narrow escape from death by the escape of gas from a coal stove. Miss Almena De Puy, a library expert of Jackson, Mich., has been engaged to classify and organize the public library at Appleton. W. R. Durfee has in prospect for 1898 another good season's run for his sawmill. He has closed contracts for sawing 30,000,000 feet. Mrs. Hannah A. Woods, wife of Alanson Wood, landlord of the Hotel Marinette, died suddenly at Marinette of heart failure. She was 52 years old. Dan Shea of Appleton was murdered at Watersmeet, Mich., but by whom or under what circumstances is not known. He was a man of about 26 years. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Yahr of Washington County celebrated the golden anniversary of their wedding. The couple came to Wisconsin from Germany in 1847. The machinery for the new knitting plant-fifty-two knitting machines and thirteen loopers-at Stevens Point, has arrived and is placed in the building. The plant will start. Eau Claire people have not yet given up hopes of getting the normal school located in their town. They will try to get the matter of relocating the school before the Legislature. Arthur Keller of Brookfield confessed to the theft of $215 from William Keller of Tomah and has produced the money. The case against him was continued to the next term of court. Fritz Gerber, a cheese maker, living near Afolkey, Ill., sixteen miles from Monroe, was struck and killed by a St. Paul passenger train on a crossing three miles east of that city. C. M. Buffington has asked to be released from the receivership of the Commercial Bank at Eau Claire, as its affairs are about straightened out. A final dividend will soon be declared. A young man named Bennett, living near Williams' Bey, has confessed to placing a steel rail on the railway track near Ringwood, Ill., which came near wrecking a passenger train. Father Joseph Tiepel, late missionary ogiest in the diocese of Tennessee, has leeed in charge of the Sacred Heart Catholic Cash at Manawa. The church has been without a priest mince October. More than 150,000 Christmas trees were shipped from the northern Wisconsin pine woods this year. One dealer in Marinette County shipped eleven carloads. The total value of the cut is about $30,000. The Chicago and Northwestern passenger train from Chicago, via Janesville, dashed into a loaded coal train in the Fond du Lac yards the other evening, injuring five persons. An open switch on a sharp curve was the cause of the accident. The postoffice at Iron River, Bayfield County, over which there has been such a bitter fight as to who should be the incumbent, lacked only $1 of coming in the class appointed by the President. C. D. Gorman has been recommended for the -position. Winnebago County might have had a new court house and jail if water and willing hands hadn't been so plentiful. Fire did several thousand dollars' damage to the ramshackle structure, and as the loss is covered by insurance it will probably be repaired. State Deputy Game Wardens Stone and Johnston arrested two persons named Beauregard and Butler of Spooner, near Shell Lake, charged with violating the game laws. About 300 pounds of fish were found in their huts, which was confiscated and sold. A small dog belonging to a Marinette family recently became angered at the mistress of the house, Mrs. Ryan, and chased her and the hired girl into a pantry and kept them there for several hours. The dog was finally killed by a man who discovered their predicament. Mrs. A. Moses, a wealthy woman of Chippewa Falls, was badly burned by a fire which caught in the feathers of her hat from a gas jet which she was lighting. The drapery in the room also ignited and in an effort to extinguish the blaze Mrs. Moses received serious injuries. O. Delisle, an elevator boy of Marinette, was unleading goods from an elevator in the basement of a three-story block in that city when the GOO-pound weight became loose and dropped, and the elevator shot skyward at a terrific rate. It struck the top of the shaft, and by an almost miraculous chance Delisle was hurled out of the opening on the third floor by the shock. He was uninjured,

23. March 30, 1898 Vernon County Censor Viroqua, WI
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Two Eau Clair Cases Consolidated. In the matter of the receivership of the National Electric Manufacturing Company, Judge O'Neill filed an order at Eau Claire consolidating the two actions, adding largely to the number of defendants, and vacating Judge Bailey's three orders of Dec. 30 closing the receivership. Judge O'Neill also removed Receiver R. E. Rue, but said his removal was due only to the fact of his having been made a defendant. The receivership of the Commercial Bank, also closed by Judge Bailey, is being reopened.

24. March 31, 1898 Eagle River Review Eagle River, WI
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Two Eau Clair Cases Consolidated. In the matter of the receivership of the National Electric Manufacturing Company, Judge O'Neill filed an order at Eau Claire consolidating the two actions, adding largely to the number of defendants, and vacating Judge Bailey's three orders of Dec. 30 closing the receivership. Judge O'Neill also removed Receiver R. E. Rue, but said his removal was due only to the fact of his having been made a defendant. The receivership of the Commercial Bank, also closed by Judge Bailey, is being reopened.