8511. First National Bank (Lake City, MN)

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Bank Information

Episode Type
Run → Suspension → Closure
Bank Type
national
Bank ID
1740
Charter Number
1740
Start Date
December 28, 1885
Location
Lake City, Minnesota (44.449, -92.267)

Metadata

Model
gpt-5-mini
Short Digest
5070237c076bcff8

Response Measures

Accommodated withdrawals, Capital injected, Full suspension, Books examined

Other: Receiver appointed (F. H. Ross). Stockholders pledged to pay depositors dollar-for-dollar and to reorganize under a new charter (assessment/equity support).

Receivership Details

Depositor recovery rate
100.0%
Date receivership started
1886-01-04
Date receivership terminated
1886-06-01
OCC cause of failure
Losses
Share of assets assessed as good
36.7%
Share of assets assessed as doubtful
58.7%
Share of assets assessed as worthless
4.7%

Description

Newspapers report a run on First National Bank of Lake City in late Dec 1885; bank did not open Dec 28 and was placed in the hands of an examiner (Comptroller notified Dec 31). A receiver (F. H. Ross) was appointed Jan 20, 1886; Comptroller later ruled the closed national bank could not simply resume under same charter. Stockholders discussed paying depositors and reorganizing under a new charter, but the national bank remained in receivership and did not resume as the same institution. Reports also cite both rumors/speculation and an excessive overdraft by the cashier as proximate factors.

Events (7)
1. November 29, 1870 Chartered
Source
historical_nic
2. December 28, 1885 Run
Cause
Rumor Or Misinformation
Cause Details
Rumors circulated that the bank was unsound (wheat speculations, stockholders' real estate deals) which precipitated heavy withdrawals; contemporaneous reports also cite a large unauthorized overdraft by the cashier.
Measures
Directors posted notice asking time to realize on securities and paid depositors $14,000 the last day the bank was open.
Newspaper Excerpt
The First National bank of Lake City has closed on account of a run on it.
Source
newspapers
3. December 31, 1885 Suspension
Cause Details
Following the run and the bank's closure, the Comptroller placed the bank in charge of an examiner to ascertain its condition.
Newspaper Excerpt
The comptroller of the currency has received information of the suspension of the First National bank of Lake City, Minn. The bank has been placed in charge of Bank Examiner Taylor
Source
newspapers
4. January 4, 1886 Receivership
Source
historical_nic
5. January 20, 1886 Receivership
Newspaper Excerpt
Controller Carman of the U. S. treasury, has appointed F. H. Ross of Illinois, receiver of the suspended First National Bank of Lake City, Minn., pending the action of the stockholders as to resuming business.
Source
newspapers
6. February 13, 1886 Other
Newspaper Excerpt
Comptroller Canon decides that Bank, which went into the receiver's hands a few days ago, cannot resume the Lake City (Minn.) First National business as they have applied to do.
Source
newspapers
7. April 3, 1886 Other
Newspaper Excerpt
Maj. L. S. Van Vliet... arrested ... on the grounds that Van Vliet made a false report of the condition of the bank, which it will be remembered went to pieces not long ago.
Source
newspapers

Newspaper Articles (19)
1. December 29, 1885 St. Paul Daily Globe Saint Paul, MN
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NUB OF THE NEWS. Ex-Gov. Ramsey talks reservedly on Mormon matters. An ex-convict at Stillwater threatens Warden Reed's life. The Irish National league have postponed their convention. A French riding master eloped with a fair New York maiden. St. Paul fire commissioners awarded con tracts for new hose. Veterans of the Second Minnesota held a reunion in St. Paul. An aged Maryland bridegroom went crazy during the honeymoon. Jack Burke knocked Mike Cleary out in three rounds in Chicago. The Delta Lawn Tennis club's ball at the Ryan was a brilliant affair. Most of the committee chairmen have been selected by Speaker Carlisle. Texan partisans of a defeated mayor are organizing a raid into Mexico. Charles Martin of Monte Christo fame has left the city for the city's good. The proposed British protective tariff threatens American interests. William Mavis was run over by an engine near Hinckley and badly injured. Vandals mutilated valuable oil paintings in St. Elizabeth's church, Chicago. The First National bank of Lake City has closed on account of a run on it. St. Paul and Minneapolis capitalists have urchased the Duluth street railway. An Alabama negro was burned at the stake for a felonious assault upon a woman. Box-makers in Chicago are on a strike against the use of nailing machines. A government steamer will be sent to search for the missing whaler Amethyst. Warner Miller is receiving decided opposition in the New York senatorial contest. Commissioner Sparks claims to have the unqualified indorsement of the president. Allequippa coal miners refuse to leave the settlement of their troubles to arbitration. The contract for the Cascade tunnel is absorbing the interest of railroad contractors. A St. Paul printer named Milton Lescher was knocked down on the street with a slungshot. The St. Paul chamber of commerce is investigating the question of who owns the levee. J. C. Litzelman, a Newton, Ill., contractor, fied the town, leaving thousands of dollars of de ts. Mary Dowd, a Cleveland grass widow, com-

2. December 29, 1885 St. Paul Daily Globe Saint Paul, MN
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The First National bank of Lake City has closed on account of a run on it.

3. December 31, 1885 River Falls Journal River Falls, WI
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but C. H. Upham the present incumbent refuses to recognize the new appointment. The ground of the refusal is that while the appointment was made during the congressional recess, Dr. Eberhard did not qualify until after Congress met and hence must be confirmed before he can be installed. The First National Bank of Lake City, Minn., did not open its doors on the morning of the 28th. There had been quite a run on Saturday previous and the directors posted a notice that they wanted time to realize on their securities but that depositors would be paid in full. The last published statement showed $125,000 in deposits. $14,000 was paid depositors the last day the bank was open. Gov. Hubbard has pardoned Thos. J. McAfee alias Gerald Moore, bigamist, sent from Ramsey county about a year ago. Two years of his sentence were unexpired. One of his wives is in Minneapolis, and the other in St. Paul, neither divorced, and it IS a legal problem if he can live with either without liability. $500 reward is offered for the recovery ofex-Treasurer Pease's ledger, by the county authorities at Valley City, D. T. The book disappeared between Dec. 1 and 15, and contained important evidence connected with the alleged Pease defalcation. Miss Kat ie Welch fatally injured Frank Woods, at Dubuque, Iowa, on the evening of the 28th. by throwing a can of vitriol in his face. Both eyes were burned out and he will die. Miss Kate claims that he wrouged her and then married another girl. Fred Webber, (formerly a St. Paul pugilist,) a brakeman on the C. M. & St. P. R. R., jumped from a train at La Crosse, catching a foot in a switch frog, and was run over, his leg being crushed so as to require surgical amputation. Samuel Hill and Thomas Lowry of Minneapolis, Thos. P. Wilson of St. Paul, A.S. Chase and G. G. Hartley of Duluth, have purchased for $100,000 the Duluth street railway. Four miles of extensions are promised at once. John Hutchinson, who shot Lockey McLain, at East Grand Forks, last September, has been convicted of murder at Crookston, Minn, and sentenced to be hung. The day of execution is to be fixed by the governor. The Methodist church at Taylors Falls has been placed in charge of Prof. E. E Edwards, formerly of the Colorado Agricultural college, and for the last three years principal of the academy at Olney, III. A. T. Flectwood, late postmaster at Sioux Falls. D. T., is missing. He left about three weeks ago to visit friends in Wisconsin and was last heard of at Milwaukee, where he left his trunk at a hotel. Samuel B. Strong of Jackson, Minn., the oldest Mason in the state and one of the oldest in the country, died Dec. 24th. He was born April 30th, 1798. The Wabasha county (Miun.) tax list shows the valuation of real property to be $3,957,660, personal property $987,907; total valuation $4,945,567. Prof. Heaton, of Winoxa, who accepted a call to the State Normal school at Weston, Oregon, has arrived at that place, accompanied by his wife, J. M. Bowman, a prominent merchant of Jamestown, D. T., died on the 28th, of apo-

4. January 1, 1886 St. Paul Daily Globe Saint Paul, MN
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In the Hands of the Examiner. W ASHINGTON, Dec.31.-The comptroller of the currency has received information of the suspension of the First National bank of Lake City, Minn. The bank has been placed in charge of Bank Examiner Taylor, and his report is awaited to disclose the condition of the institution,

5. January 1, 1886 Savannah Morning News Savannah, GA
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FAILURES OF 1885. A Decrease of 3 ₽ er Cent. in Number and 50 Per Cent. in Liabilities. NEW YORK, Dec. SL-R.G. Dun & Co.'s Mercantile Agency report that the total number of business failures in the United States during 1885 was 10,637, with liabilities of a little more than $124,000,000, as compared with 10,968 failures in 1884, with liabilities of $226,000,000. While the failures for 1885 are only 3 per cent. less in number than 1884, the liabilities have decreased nearly 50 per cent. The number of traders reported in business in 1885, was 919,990. Of these I in every 86 failed. In 1878, with 674,000 traders. 1 in 64 cameto grief. The average amount of liabilities of each failure in 1885 was $11,678, against $20,632 in 1884, and 22,369 in 1878. It is seen from these figures that while the business casualties have decreased but slightly in number they are far less significant 111 amount and importance. SUSPENSION OF A BANK. W ASHINGTON, Dec. 31,-The Comptroller of the Currency has received information of the suspension of the First National Bank of Lake City, Minn. The bank has been placed in charge of Bank Examiner Taylor, and his report is awaited to disclose the condition of the institution. SUGAR DEALERS ASSIGN. NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 31.-Hansell & Webster, dealers in sugar and molasses, to-day made an assignment of their property to their creditors. The liabilities are about $200,000. The nominal assets are reported to be somewhat in excess of the liabilities. WEST INDIA MERCHANTS FAIL. LONDON. Dec. 31,-Eugene Scharrer & Co., West India mer hants. have become bankrupt. Their liabilities are reported at $500,000, and their assets are said to be hadowy. DEPOSITORS 2T TO LOSE. LAKE City, MINN. Dec. 31-The First rational Bank will go into liquidation. No depositors will lose as the stockholders are amply able to meet all demands. The suspension was caused by a run.

6. January 1, 1886 The Indianapolis Journal Indianapolis, IN
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General and Personal. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.-Harry Fry, of Union, who was here several months prior to September, seeking an appointment, and who was given a position by W. R. Brownlee, of Anderson, appointed United States Land Register at Larned, Kan., has returned here to renew his claims for an appointment. He says the place given him by Brownlee was not good enough, and he demands something better. Commissions have been issued for the following Indiana postmasters: William H. Thomas, at Clunette: Henry Secrist. at English Lake; James Wilson, at Fulton; James A. Sappenfield, at Greenville; Peter H. Ring. at Holman Station; George H. Sitterding, at Shields. Changes have been ordered in the time-schedule of the star mail routefrom Bowling Green to Coal City, Owen county, as follows: Leave Bowling Green on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 10 A. M.; arrive at Patricksburg by 12 M.; leave Patricksburg on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 7 A. M.; arrive at Bowling Green by 9A. M. There was recently presented to the Attorney. general, on behalf of William S. Warner and his brother-in-law, J. Henry Work, a proposition to refund to the creditors of the Marine Bank the full amount of the checks upon which their present indictment was found, namely, $152.800. The government has declined the proposition, and both accused will have to stand their trials. Secretary Manning holds that the sinking fund for the current fiscal year requires $48,000,000. He said that it would not do to call that amount at once, and hence he had to begin with a call of $10,000.000 only. This would indicate that between Feb. 1 and June 30 there will be four bond calls of $10,000,000 each. The United States Treasurer to-day mailed 42,745 checks, amounting to $6,054,385, in payment of the interest on registered United States four-per-cent. consols of 1907, and 1,387 checks, amounting to $1,938,705, in payment of interest of bonds issued to the Pacific railway companies. Treasurer Jordan will assume charge of the New York sub-treasury on Saturday morning, and immediately begin to count the cash, aided by several employes in his office. James W. Wallace, of Tennessee, and John G. Townshend, of. Maryland. have been appointed special examiners in the Pension Office. George A. Howard, of Dixon Spring, Tenn., has been appointed chief of the stamp division of the Postoffice Department. R. W. Gurley, chief of the free-delivery service in the Postoffice department, has resigned, and Col. John F. Bates, of Dubuque, Ia., was appointed to fill the vacancy. The Comptroller of the currency has received information of the suspension of the First National Bank of Lake City, Minn. The bank has been placed in charge of Bank Examiner Taylor, and his report is awaited to disclose the condition of the institution.

7. January 6, 1886 The Bozeman Weekly Chronicle Bozeman, MT
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The First National Bank of Lake City Miun., is still in the hands of the examiner. There were rumors that some of the bank funds had been used for speculative purposes but this is emphatically denied. It is admitted however that a Minneapolis man was allowed to largely overdraw his acount but this could not have alone caused the run on the bank. It is believe that will the exercise of due care and prudence, the depositors will all be paid in full and a large balance left over.

8. January 7, 1886 The Stark County Democrat Canton, OH
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The Lake City Bank. RED WING, Minn., Jan. 5.-A short time ago rumors were afloat that the First National bank of Lake City was not in a sound condition financially, This started a run on the bank and it was closed. The directors promise that all depositors will be paid. Bank Examiner H. W. Knox has taken possession and is looking up the aocounts. The last published statement of the bank showed the deposits to be $125,000Rumors of wheat speculations by the stockholders and of extensive real estate deals are current.

9. January 9, 1886 The Panola Weekly Star Sardis, MS
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MISCELLANEOUS THOMAS GREEN, residing near Palmyra, Wis., has created considerable excitement and much comment by abstaining from nourishment of any kind for over fourteen days. Recently, while attending a series of revivals at the Free Methodist Church in his village, Mr. Green became possessed of the idea that he should receive "power" by, fasting and prayer. He still asserts he will continue to fast until he receives this "power." ON the 29th three hundred and ninetyseven patents were issued from the Patent Office at Washington. THE new connt discovered December 29th by Prof. Brooks, of Phelps. N. Y., is visible through a madina-sized telescope, and is increasing in brightness. THE Postmaster-General has signed a convention to take effect January 1, 1886, for the exchange of money orders between the United States and the Leeward Islands, comprising the islands of Antigua, St. Christopher, Neuvis, Dominica, Monserratt and the Virgin Islands. THE British had a s'tirmish recently with the rebels in Egypt and came off vic. torious. ORANGEMEN and Catholics are engaged in active hostilities again at Conception Bay, N.F. A STRIKE is threatened of locomotive engineers on the elevated roads at New York. AN eruption has occurred at the volcano at Colima, Mexico. ON the evening of the 3)th at a banquet given by the Boston (Mass.) Merchants' Association several distinguished Senatora and Representatives were among the invited guests. FROM reports received on the 30th, it seamed probable that there would be shown a slight increase in the public debt for December. THE Ohio Central Railroad, recently sold, will be known hereafter as the Kanwho & Ohio. AN American Institute of Hydrophobia, on the Pasteur plan, is to be established in New York. THE Toledo, Cinclunati & St. Louis Railway was sold under foreclosare of mortgage at Indianapolis on the 30th, and was bought by Sylvester H. Kneeland, of New York. SILVER has declined in value in the Lon. don market during the past three months from $1,000 to $1,008 per flue ounce, or a reduction of over six cents. THE total number of hogs packed in the West from November 1st to December 20th was 4,080,000 against 3,653,000 for the same time last year. THEP OF will hold a consistory for creating Bishops at the end of the present month. ENGLAND has ceded to China part of Up. per Barmah in order to make the Chinese and Indian frontiers contiguous. ON the 50th, 230 ruluers of the Third Pool returned to work in the mines of Keeting & Co., at the old rate, after having been out all summer and tall. THE suspension is announce of the First National Bank of Lake City, Minn. Tax actual count of Vand-chill's securities showed an aggragata of $313,000,000. Os the 1st. T. D. Sullivan. the new Lord Mayor of Dabile, wasingallel with such ceremony and great enthusinal.

10. January 14, 1886 River Falls Journal River Falls, WI
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NORTHWESTERN NEWS. The cold wave has given the St. Paul Ice Palace a big boom and the inhabitants of the city are so happy over it that they turned out with a military and torchlight parade to lay the corner block. The weather was so cold that the words of the speaker on the occasion broke in chunks as they were spoken, and the reporters for the daily papers only had to stand and eatch the ice sentences in a bucket and taking them to their offices thawed them out and thus had a complete transcript of the "unpremeditated remarks" of the orator. The palace is to be opened with great festivities on the evening of Monday, Feb. 1. The Duluth chamber of commerce building was formally dedicated on the 6th. Representative business men from St. Paul, Minneapolis, Fargo, Chicago, Milwaukee, New York and many other points being present. At the evening banquet, Gov. Hubbard of Minn., and Gov. Pierce of Dakota responded to toasts and were followed by Gen. J. H Baker. railroad commissioner of Minn., Mayor Moore of Duluth, J.J. Hill of the St Paul & Manitoba railroad and many others. The building has a frontage on Superior street of 55 feet and 115 feet on Third avenue west and has been erected at a cost of $85,000. The body of the late J. B. Raymond of Fargo, D. T., was buried in Rock Creek cena etery at Washington on the 11th. The re mains of his wife who was buried in Washington last spring were removed to a family burial lot and they were both interred together. There were no funeral services save the brief ceremony at the grave. Sen. ator Sabin, with whom Mr. Raymond's daughters are living, had charge of the burial. The Secretary of the Interior recommends the beginning of a suit against the Gull River Lumber company of Minneapolis and also the Clearwater and Red River Lumber companies for trespass on government timber lands The amount involved is a little over $25,000. J. H. Dolchy, alias, J. H. Laine, the business manager of the Cal. Wagner minstrel troupe, has been arrested at Stillwater Minn., and confined in jail for deserting his wife and child. the wife having followed him from New Jersey to prosecute. U.S. Marshall Denny of Minnesota, has tendered his resignation, all charges against him having been withdrawn. His term would have expired Feb. 20th. His successor will probably be W. M. Campbell of Litchfield. Roller rinks seem to be especially inflammable this winter. Almost every paper contains an account of the destruction of one some where. La Moure, D. T., contributed her quota on the 9th, by the burning of the Opera roller rink. The Merchants National Bank has been organized at Duluth with $150,000 capital. The President is A. W. Wright who is a millionaire capitalist from Saginaw, Mich. Oswald, who shot McWeeney at Devils Lake, has been held on preliminary examination for murder and is confined in jail without ball. A cold wave with the mercury from 15 to 38 degrees below zero swept over the Northwest on the Sth, 9th, and 10th. The suspended National Bank at Lake City, Minn., is expected to resume in about two weeks. F. H. Ross of Bushnell, Iowa, has been appointed receiver of the First National Bank at Lake City. In the trial of Wm. Streeter for murder, at Duluth, the jury failed to agree. The St. Paul & Omaha railroad depot at Superior, Wis., burned on the 9th. The Eagle foundry at Eau Claire. Wis., burned on the 11th. H. L. Dousman, of Prairie du Chien, Wis, is dangerously ill. E. T. Silverson, a merchant at Fargo, has failed.

11. January 15, 1886 Little Falls Transcript Little Falls, MN
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The original Misfit parlors at St. Paul were closed by the sheriff. At Watertown, Dak., at 7 a. m. on the 8th inst., the mercury stood 38 below. A. L. Lewis was elected president of the reorganized West St. Paul Citizen's union. At St. Vincent the mercury was 35 below zero a few days ago, and the wind blew a thirty-mile rate. Mrs. Behner, at Winona, shot her husband and then attempted to kill herself. Neither is seriously injured. Attorney General Hahn decides that original owners may redeem land twice sold for taxes. The thermometer ranged from 85 below at Devil's Lake early Friday morning the 8th inst., to 15 below at noon. The senate committee reported adversely on the appointment of Posmaster Hallat Preston. Melchor Knudent of Crookston has applied for a writ of habeas corpus in the United States court. He is in jail charged with using themails for an illicit purpose. Unknown parties cut down and carried away several rods of the telephone wire between Princeton and Elk River. Mrs. Margaret M. Becker, mother of Mrs. R. S. Burdick, and Mrs. S. E. Coots of St. Paul, and Mrs. A. D. Ross of Litchfield, died at the home of Mrs. Ross, Litchfield, aged 79years. The Lakeside mills at Bingham Lake were destroyed by fire. Several people sleeping in the building narrowly escaped with their lives. Loss not stated. Insured for $10,000. The will of the late Dr. John Steele, of St. Paul, was probated recently. The real estate in appraised at $163,500, and personal property at $86,296; total $249,796. The fee for probating this will was $1,000, the largest fee ever paid in theprobate court. It is very likely that the suspended First National bank of Lake City, will resume business in & couple of weeks, or a little later. One of the stockholders, J. C. Hassinger, living in California, is expected there soon. Most of the stockholders have signified a disposition to respond promptly to such an assessment as may be necessary to put the bank on a good footing again. The Lake Side mills at Brigham Lake, a small station four miles east of Windom, were burned. Loss about $15,000 on building and machinery and $5,000 on stock. The stock was owned by David Heibert, of Mountain Lake, and Haycock & Neidhardt owners of the mill. Fourteen son3 of Harvard University held a banquet at St. Paul. Twenty-six years had intervened between the time the youngest and oldest man had graduated, and there were stories and songs which covered the whole period. Asa Farnum, at Owatonna has failed with liabilities of $2,300; assets $1,700. At the annual meeting of the Anoka Agricultural society. Hon. Jared Benson was elected/president. Gladstone's Hall, Red Wing, burstedirom an accumulation of snow. The Gladstone block was owned by James Lawther and was in an unfinished condition, the walls laid, the roof on and the windows boarded up, he intending to finish it in the spring. On Monday, Dec. 28, there was a brilliant assembly of Minnesotians at the Wilkins house, Santa Cruz, Cal. They met there. to the number of 101, to organize a Minnesota association, composed of former Minnesotiansnow resident in Santa Cruz and vicinity. An appetizing supper was served, after which Dr. C. L. Anderson, formerly of Minneapolis, delivered a highly entertaining address of welcome, which was responded to by Mrs. L. Wheeler of Minneapolis, A permanent organization was offected with Dr. Anderson for president, Rev. O. C. Tillotson, secretary, and Mrs. D. C. Sherman, treasurer. William Denning of St. Paul and Miss Maggie Foley of Clermont, Iowa, weremarried at the cathedral by Rev. Father Shanley. News has reached Minneapolis of the par. doning of Jennic McPherson, a woman well known thereabouts, who was sentenced to Sing Sing for five years for forgery. The details of the woman's checkered career are sufficiently familiar. She was sentenced July 5. 1885, and is now about thirty years old. It is said she will return to Minneapolis. A. R. Helmer, a tramp. attempted to commit suicide in the police station at St. Paul. The pressure on Vilas was too great and Postmaster Hall Preston will be relieved. Jacob Morganatern, a wholesale jeweler at St. Paul has iniled.

12. January 20, 1886 Mower County Transcript Austin, Lansing, MN
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Receiver Appointed. Controller Carman of the U. 8. treasury, has appointed F. H. Ross of Illinois, receiver of the suspended First National Bank of Lake City, Minn., pending the ac tion of the stockholders as to resuming bus iness.

13. January 21, 1886 The Iowa Plain Dealer Cresco, New Oregon, IA
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Receiver Appointed. Controller Carman of the U. S. treasury, has appointed F. H. Ross of Illinois, re ceiver of the suspended First National Bank of Lake City, Minn., pending the action of the stockholders as to resuming bus iness.

14. January 21, 1886 The Worthington Advance Worthington, MN
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Receiver Appointed. Controller Carman of the U. S. treasury, has appointed F. H. Ross of Illinois, receiver of the suspended First National Bank of Lake City, Minn., pending the action of the stockholders as to resuming bus iness.

15. January 23, 1886 St. Paul Daily Globe Saint Paul, MN
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The First National Bank of Lake City to Pay Dollar for Dollar and Resume Business. A Ranchman Near Bozeman Suspects His Wife of Infidelity and Kills Himself With a Razor. Nelson's Chippewa Bill Reported Favorably--A Lookout for Cannon's Successor. Walker on the Upper Mississippi-Accidental Killing at Rochester-The Fire Record. On Its Feet Again. Special to the Globe. LAKE CITY, Minn., Jan. 22.-Various stockholders of the First National bank of this city indicate that they intend to pay the depositors dollar for dollar, and it is expected the new organization will assume the liabilities of the old bank, paying off all indebtedness as rapidly as possible. In response to inquiries regard.ng the cause of the suspension of the First National bank of Lake City, President Young has the following to say: No one is to blame, as far as my knowledge goes, for the troubles of the First National bank of this city, except the cashier. who allowed Willis Baker to overdraw his account too largely unknown to the other directors and contrary to their orders. I stood ready before the doors of the bank were closed, and now stand ready to pay my proportion to all depositors within a few hours' notice. We had hoped that permission would be granted by the comptroller to allow us to continue business under the old charter, and we were planning to resume business within a week or two, but we learn that it cannot be done. The shareholders are now planning to organize under a new charter. How soon this can be brought about, and if it is practicable for all purposes, I cannot tell at this moment.

16. January 28, 1886 River Falls Journal River Falls, WI
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the supreme court of Dakota. Postmasters- N. E Ives. Marion. Iowa: Paul Dow lin. Greenfield, Iowa: S. L. Childs, Atlantie, Iowa: F S. Brokawa, Mount Vernon, Iowa: Annie Brennock, Dunlap, Iowa: J. Bak, Red Oak, Iowa; L. M Thomas, Watertown, Dakota: M. P Stattery. Bismarek, Dakota: J. D. Pratt, Ipswich, Dakota: G. C.Laskell, Larimore, Dakota: E. W. Carr, Woonsocket, Dakota: F.G. Wharton, El endale, Da ota: P.B. Brod, Li-bon, Dakot : W P. Carr, Sioux Falls, Dakota: J.F. Ryan, Anaconda. Mont. The house committee on territories on the 25th, heard arguments from Messrs. Thompsou and Johnson, two prominent citizens of Dakota, in favor of the admission of the entire Territory of Dakota as a state and against division. They said the interests of the entire territory were identical. and that the state's resources should be kept together. They cannot think that the northern portion of state should cut off Mr. Johnson said the north and south division was a political scheme gotten up by Judge Moody to send bimself to the senate. The state, if divided at all, should be divided from east and west: and they claimed that such was the sentiment of the people of Dakota. with the exception of Judge Moody and a few others. The Senate committee has decided favor ably on the comfi mation of the following officers: Col Sheafe, register at Watertown, Dsk G W. Warner, register at Tracy, Minu Capt. Marble, register at Dututh: William Smith. register at Crookston: D.T. Bramble receiver atertown, Dak. M. D McHenry, receiver at Des Moines, and P. K. Wesser, receiver at Tracy, Minn. A locomotive boiler explo ded in the Milwaukee & St. Paul round house at Madison, Wis.. on the evening of the 22d. killing ne man instantly, injuring to others fatally and seven more considerably The engine had been fired up to go out and the valve which allowed the escape of steam failed to work. The building WAS badly damaged and the loss is $15,000 to $20,000. Toe board of directors of the Northern Pacific, have authorized the letting of the tunnel, two miles in length, through the Cascade mountains, to Nelson Bennett of Dear Lodge, Mont The tunnel will cost something under $800,000, and is to be completed by May, 1888. 3 The Minnesota State Agricultural society met at the capitol in St. Paul on the 26th President N P Clarkedeliveredan address showing a gratifying financial condition The society was out of debt and had $350,000 worth of property. Mr Clark having declined the presidency, Horace W Pratt, of Faribault, Rice county was elected. R. C. Judson of Farmington, was re-elected secretary. The Northern Pacific committee having charge of the settlement of accounts with the Oregon Transcontinental, have found matters so complicated, owing to the Villard system of bookkeeping, that the whole affair has been turned over to expert accountants. Corsett, the cashier of the Devil's Lake, D. T., bank, whowas arrested for receiving deposits when the bank wasin a shaky condition, has had an examination before a justice and been discharged. Reuben Noble has been appointed receiver of the bank. Congressman Rankin of Wisconsin, died in Washington at noon on the 24th, after an illness of long duration. For several weeks he was not expected to live from day to day. The President of the First National bank of Lake City, Minn, charges the failure to the cashier allowing over drafts, one man being allowed to overdraw his account $50,000. W. R Smith's book store at Fergus Falls, Minn., burned during the night of the 22nd. The mercury was 38 below zeroand the firemen suffered badly. Loss $5,000. Two car loads of cattle were frozen to death last week on a blockaded freight train, on the Iowa & Dakota division of the Milwaukee & St. Paulroad. Gov. Larabee of Iowa, has reinstated State Auditor Brown, who was foreibly ejected from his office last March by Gov. Sherman. Four prisoners broke out of jail at Alma, Wis., on the 23d, and three of them were captured at Winona, Minn., on the 24th. President Baseom of the Wisconsin State University announces that he will resign on the 1st of June, 1887. E. W. Warding of Plainview, Minn., dropped dead of apoplexy at Fargo, D. T., on the 23d. The city hall at St. Peter, Minn., burned on the 21st. Loss $6,000.

17. February 13, 1886 The Desmet Leader Desmet, SD
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COMPTROLLER CANON decides that Bank, which went into the receiver's hands a few days ago, cannot resume the Lake City (Minn.) First National business as they have applied to do. He holds that when a national bank's doors are once closed that ends it, and the stockholders must organize anew if they wish to continue business.

18. April 4, 1886 Savannah Morning News Savannah, GA
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Capture of a Cashier. ST. PAUL, MINN., April 3.-Cashier Van Viet, late of the Lake City National Bank, which is now in the hands of a receiver, was brought to St. Paul this afternoon. The exact nature of the charges against him are unknown.

19. April 4, 1886 St. Paul Daily Globe Saint Paul, MN
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A Bank Official Arrested by Marshall Denny and Held in Heavy Bonds. The Board of Health Takes a Hand at the Much Mooted Garbage Question. Many Visitors Were at the Hotels Who Talked on Many Topics. Deaths of a Week--What Caused the Southern Floods--The Local Summary. # A BANKER ARRESTED. Maj. L. S. Van Vliet of Lake City Placed Under Arrest. United States Marshal Denny yesterday went to Lake City and arrested Maj. L. S. Van Vliet, formerly cashier of the National bank of that place. The warrant was sworn out by Receiver Ross on the grounds that Van Vliet made a false report of the condition of the bank, which it will be remembered went to pieces not long ago. The prisoner arrived here late yesterday afternoon and was arraigned before United States Commissioner Cardozo. He waived examination and gave bonds to the amount of $10,000. It was learned that Van Vliet returned to Lake City last night.