3786. Sioux National Bank (Sioux City, IA)

Bank Information

Episode Type
Run → Suspension → Closure
Bank Type
national
Bank ID
2535
Charter Number
2535
Start Date
August 28, 1896
Location
Sioux City, Iowa (42.500, -96.400)

Metadata

Model
gpt-5-mini
Short Digest
30e959f6

Response Measures

Borrowed from banks or large institutions, Full suspension, Books examined

Other: Receiver appointed; building later sold by receiver.

Receivership Details

Depositor recovery rate
78.0%
Date receivership started
1896-09-09
Date receivership terminated
1902-07-24
OCC cause of failure
Losses
Share of assets assessed as good
25.9%
Share of assets assessed as doubtful
43.0%
Share of assets assessed as worthless
31.2%

Description

Contemporary reports state the bank did not open on Aug 28, 1896 and posted a notice of suspension owing to heavy withdrawals. Reporting and later Comptroller action (receiver appointed Sept 9, 1896) indicate an initial depositor run—linked in coverage to failures (Union Loan & Trust) and runs on other local institutions—followed by suspension and appointment of a receiver (permanent closure).

Events (5)

1. June 9, 1881 Chartered
Source
historical_nic
2. August 28, 1896 Run
Cause
Local Banks
Cause Details
Heavy withdrawals (depositor run) linked in coverage to runs and the failure of the Union Loan & Trust and runs on other local banks
Newspaper Excerpt
A notice posted on the doors says the bank has suspended, owing to heavy withdrawals
Source
newspapers
3. August 28, 1896 Suspension
Cause
Local Banks
Cause Details
Suspended because of large withdrawals and slow collections following local bank failures and runs (heavy withdrawals left bank without ready cash).
Newspaper Excerpt
A notice posted on the doors says the bank has suspended, owing to heavy withdrawals, and that depositors will be paid in full.
Source
newspapers
4. September 9, 1896 Receivership
Source
historical_nic
5. September 9, 1896 Receivership
Newspaper Excerpt
Comptroller Eckels to-day appointed Jonathan H. Brown receiver for the Sioux National bank, of Sioux City, Iowa.
Source
newspapers

Newspaper Articles (24)

Article from The Topeka State Journal, August 28, 1896

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Sioux City Bank Closes. Sioux City, Ia., Aug. 28.-The Sioux National bank did not open its doors this morning. A notice posted on the doors say the bank has suspended, owing to heavy withdrawals and that depositors will be paid in full. No statement was made as to liabilities or assets.


Article from Evening Star, August 28, 1896

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SIOUX NATIONAL BANK SUSPENDS. Failure of an Iowa Corporation Reported. Acting Controller Coffin has received a telegram announcing the suspension of the Sicux National Bank of Sloux City, Iowa. and he at once sent telegraphic instructions to Examiner George H. Stone to take charge of the bank. According to the last official returns this bank had a capital of $300,000; its liabilities to depositors were $314,000; it owed other banks $95,000, and it had borrowed $252,000. The bank has.been borrowing money extensively for some time, and its failure causes no surprise at the Treasury Department.


Article from Santa Fe Daily New Mexican, August 28, 1896

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Bank Failure in Iowa. Sioux City, Iowa, Aug. 28.-The Sioux National Bank did not open this morning. A notice posted on the door says that the bank suspended owing to heavy withdrawals and that depositors will be paid in full.


Article from Deseret Evening News, August 28, 1896

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A Bank Fatture. SIOUX CITY, Iown, Aug. 28.-Sioux National bank did not open this morn10g. A notice posted on the doors says the bank has suspended owing to heavy withdrawals, and the depositors will be paid in full, No statement 18 made,


Article from The Indianapolis Journal, August 29, 1896

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Business Troubles. SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Aug. 28.-The Springfield Brewing Company, organized under the laws of New Jersey, capitalized at $300,000, has been petitioned into the hands of a receiver. This is one of the largest breweries in the State and was supposed to be very sound. Selig Manilla, the president and principal owner, is in Europe. SIOUX CITY, Ia., Aug. 28.-The Sioux National Bank did not open its doors this morning. A notice posted on the door says that the bank has suspended, owing to heavy withdrawals, and that depositors will be paid in full. No statement was made as to liabilities or assets. CHICAGO, Aug. 28.-The firm of Baker & Smith, makers of steam heating apparatus, has been closed by the sheriff. Assets estimated at $125,000 and liabilities, $75,000.


Article from The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, August 29, 1896

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Business Failures. Springfield, Mass., Aug. 28.-The Springfield Brewing Co., organized under the laws of New Jersey, with a capital stock of $300,000. has been put into the hands of receivers. Sellg Manilla, the principal owner, is in Europe. Sioux City, Iowa, Aug. 28.-The Sioux National bank, the oldest bank in town, capital $300,000. did not open this morning. A notice posted on the doors says it suspended owing to heavy withdrawals, and that depositors will be paid in full. No statement is made. Chicago, Aug. 28.-A great many settlements have been made by brokers interested in the Diamond Match and New York Biscuit deals. Early in the day the Moore Brothers sent to all brokers having stock a notice to the effect that no settlements were to be made without conference with them. A meeting was held, at which an agreement was reached as to settlements on account of trades. The figure for Match is 200 and for Biscult 80. It was claimed by the people at this meeting that the outlook for a satisfactory settlement by the pool members is excellent. Boston, Aug. 28.-0. S. Faxon & Co., Boston and Newark bicycle manufacturers, have assigned. The firm had a reported capital from $50,000 to $75,000.


Article from The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer, August 29, 1896

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Bank Falls. SIOUX CITY, Iowa. Aug. 28.-The Sioux National bank did not open its doors this morning. A notice posted on the door says the bank has suspended owing to heavy withdrawals, and that depositors will be paid in full. No statement was made as to liabilities or assets.


Article from The Copper Country Evening News, August 29, 1896

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Bank Failure at Sioux City. Sioux City, la.. Aug. 29.-The Sloux National bank did not open its doors Friday morning. A notice was posted on the door saying the bank had suspended owing to heavy withdrawals and that depositors will be paid in full. No statement of liabilities or assets are given.


Article from Rock Island Argus, August 29, 1896

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Suspends, But Promises to Pay All Sioux City, Ia., Aug. 29.-The Sioux National bank. one of the oldest in the city, did not open yesterday morning. The following notice was posted on the doors: "Large withdrawals and slow collections compel this bank to suspend. Depositors will be paid in full." The resources and liabilities are given as $953. 338. The bank's capitalstock was $300,000.


Article from The Madison Daily Leader, August 31, 1896

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The Sioux National bank, one of the best monetary institutions in Sioux City, closed its doors Saturday morning. The notice :posted on the door read, "Large withdrawals and slow collections compel this bank to suspend. Depositors will be paid in full."


Article from Hutchinson Gazette, September 3, 1896

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A Sloux City Bank Closed. SIOUX CITY, Ia., Aug. 20.-The Sioux National bank did not open its doors this morning. A note posted on the doors said the bank had Suspended, owing to heavy withdrawals, and that depositors would be paid in full. No statement was made as to liabilities or assets.


Article from The Diamond Drill, September 5, 1896

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The News Condensed. Important Intelligence From All Parts. DOMESTIC. Calvin and George Diehl, brothers, aged 16 and 18 years, were drowned in the canal near Middletown, Pa. There were 320 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 28th, against 280 the week previous and 130 in the corresponding period of 1895. The firm of F. G. & I. N. Vanvliet, malsters and dealers in grain in New York, failed for $400,000. Over 1,000 men, women and children were said to be starving in burned Ontonagon, Mich. Light frosts were reported in different sections of Nebraska. For the first time in many years all the collieries under the Lehigh Valley Coal company's system have been ordered to work six days a week until further notice. Mrs. George W. Hibbard, an aeronaut, met instant death at Clayton, Mo., by falling from her balloon, a distance of 2,500 feet. In their annual report C. A. King & Co., of Toledo, O., say that clover seed in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan will be about two-thirds of a crop and that the wheat crop left in the states named will be unfit for milling, owing to damage by rains. Domestic troubles caused William R. Dederick, postmaster at Marion, Pa., to take his own life. While temporarily insane Mrs. C. W. Green, of Kansas City, Mo., murdered her three sleeping children, aged 13, 9 and 6 years. and then took her own life. LA Hung Chang, viceroy of China, smbassador extraordinary to Russia and world-renowned diplomat, arrived in New York and became the guest of the nation. Mrs. O. H. Stickles, of Stratford. Conn., gave birth to three girls and a boy. Every building at Moquah, Wis., was destroyed by a forest fire. TheSpringfield (Mass.) Brewing company, with a capital of $500,000, went into the hands of a receiver. John S. Holmes, of Oshkosh, Wis., one of the best-known horsemen and drivers in the country, dropped dead from his sulky in a race at Green Bay. Heavy withdrawals of deposits caused the failure of the Sioux national bank at Sloux City, Ia., with liabilities of $900,000. The percentage of the baseball clubs in the National league for the week ended on the 30th is as follows: Baltimore. .692; Cincinnati, .639; Cleveland, .607; Chicago, .577: Boston, .546; Pittsburgh, .542: Brooklyn, .481; Philadelphia, .477: New York, 468; Washington, .396: St. Louis, .308: Louisville, 255. Norman Allen, a wealthy cattleman. was killed by an unknown assassin near Mayo. Fla. Lightning set fire to the main building of the Iowa state institute for the feeble minded at Glenwood and it was destroyed. entailing a loss upon the state of $150,000. The George H. Taylor Paper company of Chicago made an assignment with liabilities estimated at $150,000. Fire at Cheboygan, Mich., destroyed a million feet of lumber belonging to Mr. Charlton. of Toronto, and the Sprv Lumber company of Chicago, entailing loss of $200,000. Li Hung Chang paid his respects to President Cleveland at the home of exSecretary of the Navy Whitney in New York. He also visited Gen. Grant's tomb and placed on it a wreath of flowers. The Knights of Pythias' supreme lodge in session at Cleveland, O.. refused the request for the restoration of the German ritual by a vote of 106 to 8. Prof. E. D. Cole, of Ann Arbor, Mich., an aeronaut. was drowned off Presque Isle "by his parachute alighting in the bay. A newspaper train and n freight col. lided near Orange, Mass., and Engineer William Clements was instantly killed and Fireman George Fowler received fatal injuries. Clarence White, Frank Carpenter and Walter Gurney. who were charged with the murder of T.J. Marshall, proprietor of a Chicago department store, were acguitted. Fred Lamoreaux was killed and his wife and wo children fataliy injured by a train near Worcester. Mass. For some unknown cause John A. Hunt fatally shot his daughter Mary at Columbia, Mo., and also endeavored to kill his wife, who was only slightly wounded. The visible supply of grain in the United States on the 31st ult. was: Wheat. 45,574,000 bushels; corn. 13,964.000 bushels: oats. 6,735,000 bushels: rye, 1,699,000 bushels; barley, 740,000 bushels. In a drunken frenzy Frank Beaubien shot his wife at Detroit, Mich., and then willed himself. A resolution was introduced in the supremelodge of the Knights of Pythias in session at Cleveland, O., prohibiting the payment of death benefits to suicides whether the victim be sape or insnne.


Article from The L'anse Sentinel, September 5, 1896

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The thirtieth annual meeting of the Universal Peace Union of America was held at Mystic, Conn. The feature was the dedication of the new peace temple, the only institution of its kind in America. The Avenue savings bank in Chicago closed its. doors with liabilities of $170,000. The supreme lodge of the Knights of Pythias in session at Cleveland elected Phillip P. Colgrove, of Hastings, Mich., supreme chancellor. The warship Brooklyn, on her official trial trip at Boston, averaged 21.92 knots an hour, earning a bonus of $350,000 for her builders. Fire at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., destroyed the Soo national bank block, the Prenzlauer block, Chippewa house, Cleveland house, Metzger block, Perry hotel, post office and United States custom offices, the total loss being $300,000. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 28th aggregated $748,084,748, against $812,957,866 the previous week. The decrease compared with the corresponding week in 1895 is 15.6. Calvin and George Diehl, brothers, aged 16 and 18 years, were drowned in the canal near Middletown, Pa. There were 320 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 28th, against 280 the week previous and 130 in the corresponding period of 1895. The firm of F. G. & I. N. Vanvliet, malsters and dealers in grain in New York, failed for $400,000. Over 1,000 men, women and children were said to be starving in burned Ontonagon, Mich. Light frosts were reported in different sections of Nebraska. For the first time in many years all the collieries under the Lehigh Valley Coal company's system have been ordered to work six days a week until further notice. Mrs. George W. Hibbard, an aeronaut, met instant death at Clayton, Mo., by falling from her balloon, a distance of 2,500 feet. Li Hung Chang, viceroy of China, smbassador extraordinary to Russia and world-renowned diplomat, arrived in New York and became the guest of the nation. In their annual report C. A. King & Co., of Toledo, O., say that clover seed in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan will be about two-thirds of a crop and that the wheat crop left in the states named will be unfit for milling, owing to damage by rains. Domestic troubles caused William R. Dederick, postmaster at Marion, Pa., to take his own life. While temporarily insane Mrs. C. W. Green, of Kansas City, Mo., murdered her three sleeping children, aged 13, 9 and 6 years. and then took her own life. John S. Holmes, of Oshkosh, Wis., one of the best-known horsemen and drivers in the country, dropped dead from his sulky in a race at Green Bay. Heavy withdrawals of deposits caused the failure of the Sioux national bank at Sioux City, Ia., with liabilities of $900,000. The Springfield (Mass.) Brewing company, with a capital of $300,000, went into the hands of a receiver. Mrs. O. H. Stickles, of Stratford. Conn., gave birth to three girls and a boy. Every building at Moquah, Wis., was destroyed by a forest fire.


Article from Las Vegas Daily Optic, September 9, 1896

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Receiver Appointed. WASHINGTON, D. C. September 9.Comptroller Eckels to-day appointed Jonathan H. Brown receiver for the Sioux National bank, of Sioux City, Icwa.


Article from The Wichita Daily Eagle, September 10, 1896

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Washington, Sept. 9.-The comptroller of the currency has apointed Charles A. Dailey receiver of the Citizens' National bank of San Angelo, Texas. and Jonathan A. Brown receiver of the Stoux National bank of Stoux City, la.


Article from The Topeka State Journal, September 10, 1896

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Bank Receivers Appointed. Washington, Sept. 10.-The comptroller of the currency has appointed Chas. A. Dailey receiver of the Citizens' National bank of San Angelo, Tex., and Jonathan A. Brown receiver of the Sioux National bank of Sioux City, Ia.


Article from The Morning Times, September 10, 1896

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Receivers Appointed. Comptroller Eckels has appointed Charles A. Dailey receiver of the Citizens National Bank, at San Angelo, Tex., and Jonathan H. Brown receiver of the Sloux National Bank of Sioux City, Iowa.


Article from The Pioneer Press, September 17, 1896

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Washington Talk. The following additional candidates have been admitted to the naval academy as eadets: D. W. Fowler, Iowa; Edwin H. Dodd, Illinois. The comptroller of the currency has appointed Charles A. Dailey receiver of the Citizens' National Bank of Sangelo, Texas, and John A. Brown receiver of the Sioux National Bank of Sioux City, Iowa.


Article from Omaha Daily Bee, November 11, 1896

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SIOUX CITY SAVINGS BANK FAILS. Carried Down Finally in the Wreck of the Union Loan and Trust. SIOUX CITY, Nov. 10.-(Special Telegram.)-A receiver was appointed for the Iowa Savings bank of this place by the district court this morning. The bank was the oldest savings bank in the city, having been organized in 1883, with D. T. Hedges, one of the big boomers, as president, and L. Wynn as cashier. In its early days it was closely connected with the Sioux National bank and both the banks were connected more or less with the syndicate of boomers who made Sioux City famous a few years ago. When the Union Loan and Trust company failed there were runs on both the Sioux National and Iowa Savings banks, and it was with difficulty that they were saved. Some weeks ago the Sioux National gave up and this affected the Iowa Savings also. During the campaign withdrawals of deposits were steady and yesterday the bank was left practically without ready cash. Mr. Manley of the Security National was placed in charge as receiver. The report shows the following: Assets:


Article from Courier Democrat, December 3, 1896

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Washington Talk. The following additional candidates have been admitted to the naval academy as cadets: D. W. Fowler, Iowa; Edwin H. Dodd, Illinois. The comptroller of the currency has appointed Charles A. Dailey receiver of the Citizens' National Bank of Sangelo, Texas, and John A. Brown receiver of the Sioux National Bank of Sioux City, Iowa.


Article from Omaha Daily Bee, January 3, 1897

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Sale of a Bank Building. SIOUX CITY, Jan. 2.-(Special Telegram.)Receiver Brown sold the Sioux National bank property at the corner of Fourth and Pierce streets, today for $20,300 to William Gordon, acting as an agent for other parties. No bidders appeared when the sale was announced, but in the afternoon two came, and Gordon got the building at a low price.


Article from Union County Courier, April 1, 1897

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This is April fools day. Grass is beginning to come out of the ground. George Card purchased a car load of cattle of Oluf Nelson on Monday. Mrs. Frank Cummings: has been ill this week, but at this writing she is much improved. Miss Nellie Freeman of this city returned to her studies in Vermillion the fore port of the week. Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Smythe and daughter Josie were Sioux City visitors the fore part of the week. Mrs. C. F. Lufkin returned from Fairbult, Minn., on last Friday after a very pleasant visit of a month with relatives. Harry Joy arriyed home from Yankton to enjoy his vacation with his parents. He is doing very nicely at the Yankton college. Messrs Thompson and Gamble, the evangelists haye gone to Elmore, Minn., to take up their work in that state, having finished the conversion of all within their reach in South Dakota. Receiver Jonathan Brown of the Sioux National bank of Sioux City predicts that every man holding a claim against the Sioux National will get dollar for dollar. This is something of a surprise. Amander Kimball, an old time resident of Union county, is back among his old friends after a thirteen years absence in the Black Hills. He thinks he will let well enough alone, and settle down here for life. Tommy McInery whs has been spending his vacation here returned to Vermillion where he will again take upthe work in the university. Tommy graduates this year. In all he has attended the university for four years. Many people in this city will remember A. L. Davis, formerly of Vermillion, as having visited in this city a number of times. Mr. Davis is now attending the Ann Arbor school and is a candidate for the presidency of the College Republican League. The Milwaukee road is now taking passengers and freight out on the Sioux Falls line as far as Hawarden. Reports are to the effect that the soft weather of the last few days has melted the snow and the Milwaukee track in the vicinity of Dell Rapids is under water. There was quite a large crowd out last Saturday evening at the Armory to witness the wrestling match between William Murray of Hawarden and Charles Tillsbury of this place, for $25 a side and gate receipts. The match was won by Tillsbury, who threw Murray twice in succession, the latter then giving up the contest. Mike Goodness of Jefferson and F. Cameron of Sioux City then turned their hand at wrestling for a purse. Goodness won the contest getting the second and third falls. Harry Lamar, well known here, having covered this territory for years for the McCormic Harvester company, has located permanently in Sioux City. He rented sometime ago the Vendomme hotel and has had it revenoated, repapered, recarpeted and renovated generally. The name has been changed to that of "The Lamar" and Harry now stands at the depot greeting his friends as they come in. Under Mr. Lemar's management this hotel will rank with the best in Sioux City and all those who do not care to pay $5 a day will find it to their advantage to stop at The Lemar when in Sloux City. The evangelist who is holding forth in the Methodist church is apparently a drawing card. He had for his subject last Sunday evening "Hell's Banquet with Elk Point Guests." He handled the subject in a very aggressive manner. He said he knew what he was talking: about and that he was no spring chicken himself. He made an impression upon the audience that will be remembered for some time. It is not every man that can talk about hell and its guests, particularly those of the guests who come from Elk Point, for their reputation has never been made known in this line. It was |with great surprise to the editor to learn that any of them had been ticketed in that direction, for our impression has always been that we would all meet on the pearly streets of the New Jer-


Article from Decorah Public Opinion, May 25, 1897

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The Corn Belt Editorial Associati hold its annual meeting at C tionville June 10 and 11. A co program has been prepared a papers and discussions will be to editors and publish nerally. The Harrah & Stewart Mfg. Co., Moines, Ia., have solved t oblem of making a strictly hi, up-to-date bicycle for a noming and the wheels they now h: the market are unexcelled in eve spect. See them. The railroad employes of the st organizing for the purpose part in the campaign this fa order to assist in electing men legislature who will favor 1 mediate enactment into law of mple amendment, or a similar bodying its principles. Mason C a club with more than 700 me Clubs are also being formed buque, Council Bluffs, Iowa Fal Boone, Waterloo, and in oth where railroad men reside isiderable numbers. The C., B. & will not be represented in ganization. It is to be :1 n rtisan organization, with the si of electing friends of the Tem tendment, and good speakers will sent into the various districts accomplish this. Dick Dodd, of Ottumwa. has e to complicity in the robbery Eldon bank. In searehing Do chief of police found a far knife with the name of Jas. lesworth on it. Aylesworth was veling man, who came to Ottum April 16, got on a drunk and v gged in an alley and robbed of mond valued at $165 and a numl other valuables. He was ba gged. and died at his home icago a few days after, though is said to have been caused phoid pneumonia. Dodd told icers that he got the knife from known young man. The pol rned that this young man, with t was seen with Aylesworth saloons, and the arrest of t them followed. Those arrest Fred Grube and Gerry Dev and the other one not : rested are from prominent famili The depositors in at least one of 1 City failed banks will so eive their money in full, w erest. This is the Sioux Natio Some time ago the receiv direction of the comptroller of 1 rency, ordered a 75 per cent asse on the stock to pay off 1 ditors of the institution. T yıeld $225,000, which, with 1 assets, would nearly pay The deposits amounted 0,000. Nearly all the stock is h New England, and at first 1 stern stockholders determined sisting the assessment. A few da


Article from The River Falls Times, June 22, 1897

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# General. Private George F. Flascher, Fort Snelling, has been discharged. Private Frank Randur, of Company D, Third infantry, Fort Snelling, has been ordered dishonorably discharged. S. H. H. Clarke, one of the Union Pacic receivers, is seriously ill at St. Louis. The degree of LL. D. has been conferred upon ex-President Cleveland by Princeton college. Cambridge university has conferred an honorary degree on Hon. Wilfred Laurier, premier of Canada. The homeopathic physicians of Northwestern Iowa met at Hartley and organized a medical association. The controller has declared a dividend of 20 per cent in favor of the creditors of the Sioux National Bank of Sioux City, Iowa. A serious landslide has occurred near Brieg, Canton of Valais. Part of the forest there and a number of buildings have been buried. P. Carey has resigned as chief of the fire department of Marquette, Mich. He has held the office ten years and has been twenty-seven years in the service. The Dental Trade Association of America began its seventeenth annual convention at Lookout inn at Chattanooga, Tenn. Over 100 members were present. Secretary of State Le Sueur of Missouri has granted the British and American Mortgage Company of London, Eng., authority to do business in that state. Many Americans, among them United States Consul Genéral DeKay and Mrs. DeKay, attended the diamond jubilee banquet given by the British colony at the Kaiserhof at Berlin. The union plasterers employed on all buildings in New York where the contractors refused to nominate foremen to be elected by the union, have struck. Great dissatisfaction is felt with the programme of the jubilee procession in London because it gives no recognition to the civil and industrial side of the queen's reign. Sheriff Conroy of Stark county, N. D., passed through Miles City, Mant., with fifteen deputies in hot pursuit of a band of horse thieves who had about 150 horses, making for the north. The seven graduating cadets from West Point who have been selected for assignment to the engineer corps are: W. D. Connor, Oakes, Wolf, Morgan, Cheny, Altstaetler and Ferguson. The eighth annual convention of the Second Iowa District Christian Endeavor societies met at Webster City, Iowa. About 300 delegates were in attendance and the session lasted three days. Mrs. Gusta Hennessey of Kaukauna, Wis., has just been awarded $5,000 damages for the death of her husband, James Hennessey, who lost his life while switching in the yards of the Northwestern road. The jury at Austin, Tex., in the case of the Waters-Pierce Oil company, charged with violation of the anti-trust law, has brought in a verdict for the state, cancelling the company's permit to do business in Texas. Sir Henry Irving unveiled the memorial statue of Mrs. Sarah Scott Siddons, the famous English actress, on Paddington Green, close to Paddington old cemetery, where her remains were interred sixty-six years ago. Tommy Dixon and Johnny Lavack fought a fifteen-round draw at Rochester, N. Y. Both boys were careful and mixed it up only in a few rounds. The contest was very close and the decision was received with satisfaction. The Barlow Corn Planter works at Quincy, Ill., was closed by creditors who are secured by mortgages on the real estate and personal property of the company. The claims are for $35,000 which is secured and $30,000 unsecured. Asa W. Fiske of Boston, son of a noted money lender by a former marriage, has brought suit at San Francisco to have his father's estate held in trust until certain claims amounting to $1,099,064, have been satisfied. He was cut off in the will. It is reported that Capt. Norman Perkins will be reinstated some time this week as division superintendent of the railway mail service for the tenth division with headquarters at St. Paul, to succeed Robert H. Barclay, who will be transferred to some other superintendency. Coroner Hewitt, at Urbana, Ohio, has rendered a verdict on the death of Harry Bell, who was killed when the first attack was made on the county jail on the night before the lynching of Click Mitchell. The verdict is in accordance with the facts, and no one is held responsible.