S. B. French - Menomonie, WI

Episode Information

Episode UID: 5178106391030
Episode Type: Suspension → Closure
Bank Type: trust
Bank ID: 517810639 hash
Start Date: October 1, 1885*
Location: Menomonie, Wisconsin (44.876, -91.919)

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Model: gpt-5-mini (chosen from majority vote of a three-model LLM ensemble)
Short Digest: a1b2aa9f9ad4b0e5

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Description

Article states the banker assigned, indicating an assignment for creditors (failure); newspaper spells Menomonie as Menomonee.

Events (1)

1. October 1, 1885* Suspension

Cause: Voluntary Liquidation
Cause Details: Made an assignment for the benefit of creditors (insolvency indicated by debts of $35,000 against property of $50,000).
Newspaper Excerpt: S. B. French, a banker of Menomonee, Dunn County, who assigned recently, owed $35,000, and had property worth $50,000.
Source: newspapers

Newspaper Articles (1)

1. October 2, 1885 The Kenosha Telegraph Kenosha, WI

Article from The Kenosha Telegraph, October 2, 1885

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Article Text

# WISCONSIN STATE NEWS. The following are the Milwaukee grain quotations: Wheat – No. 2, 84¼@84½c. Corn–No. 2, 43@43¼c. Oats–No. 2, 25@25¼c. Rye–No. 1, 57@58c. Barley–No. 2 Spring, 61c. A farmer of Greenville, near Appleton, is the owner of a dog which has five legs. A. B. Jones has written to the Appleton Post from Orlando, Montana, that there is no more danger there from Indians than in some parts of Wisconsin. It had been reported that he and his family had been massacred by Indians. S. B. French, a banker of Menomonee, Dunn County, who assigned recently, owed $35,000, and had property worth $50,000. The flouring-mills in La Crosse are being supplied with new wheat from Southern Minnesota. In 1840 the population of Wisconsin was about 31,000. In 1850 it showed 305,000 inhabitants, and at the outbreak of the war these figures had risen to 775,000. The present population is 1,563,930. The village of Soldiers' Grove, Crawford County, was almost entirely destroyed by fire a few days ago. The loss was estimated at $30,000. At Hewitts, Wood County, the other night William Taylor was dangerously injured by Charles Schulhauser in a fight by being struck with a beer-glass. Schulhauser was arrested for attempted murder. Miss Arvilla M. Bogart, aged twenty-three, living at Monterey, Waukesha County, was stung on the head by a bee a few days ago, and died in twenty minutes from the effects of the sting. The bodies of two of the crew of the wrecked schooner Advance were recovered recently at Port Washington, Ozaukee County. The remains of two other men were still missing. The 1885 crop of Wisconsin tobacco is now nearly all in, and the quality is reported as very fair. S. J. Waugh, the famous artist, of Philadelphia, died of paralysis in Janesville a few mornings ago. He was well known in the art world, having painted portraits of Lincoln, Grant and Thorwalsden, the sculptor. An ingenious cooper of Green Bay has invented a machine that will cut six thousand round barrel hoops daily. A resident of Janesville is having manufactured a mink-skin robe, which is supposed to be the only one of the kind in the United States. It will be worth several hundred dollars. The coolness between some of the congregation of St. Hedwig's Polish Church and their pastor, at Milwaukee, occasioned by the latter's appointment of an unacceptable organist, resulted in a violent row a few days ago, at the priest's house, where a committee went to talk the matter over. A large crowd gathered, some of the priest's furniture was broken, several persons were badly injured with stones and others seriously wounded with knives. A number of arrests were made. William Riethmueller, a traveling man from Pittsburgh, and Louis Bleyer, a Milwaukee newspaper man, while fishing on Muskego Lake, near Milwaukee, the other night capsized their boat. Riethmueller attempted to swim to shore and was drowned. Bleyer crawled upon the inverted boat and was saved. Ira Redford, a farmer living near Lamon Springs, Waukesha County, was robbed the other night of $300 which he had received from the new Chicago, Wisconsin & Northern Railroad for right of way the day previous. Two men called him to the door and one covered him with a revolver while the other searched the house and secured the money. A large black bear was brought to Appleton from Herman Brook a few evenings ago which weighed 150 pounds. A most singular death from blood-poisoning is reported from Appleton, the victim being B. T. Rogers, a leading citizen, who recently smashed one of his fingers in a piece of machinery. The schooner Floretta, of Chicago, ore laden, sprung a leak and sunk off Manitowoc the other day. The crew were saved. Rev. John Roche, pastor of the Catholic Church at Janesville, was aroused the other night by masked robbers, who placed two revolvers at his head and took a gold watch and between $15 and $20 in money and made their escape. The gain in population in the State over the Federal census of 1880, as exhibited by the State census recently taken, is distributed by Congressional Districts as fol- lows: