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RECEIVER FOR ATHENS BANK. BATTLE CREEK, Mich., Sept. 4.At a conference in the circuit court between Bank Examiner Zimmerman and Assistant Attorney General Henry Chase, representing the state banking department. and Attorney Wm. E. Ware, in behalf of the Athens State Savings bank, a decision was reached to appoint a receiver to take temporary charge of the bank's affairs. The receiver will be named soon
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MICHIGAN ITEMS. John Oatley, Lansing, a member of the grand jury which indicted Frank P. Glazier, was drawn on the petit jury which will try Glazier. The trial will begin about September 28. While working on a clover huller on the upper farm' in Lamotte township, Matthew Warner, of Almont, was caught in the machine and instantly killed. He leaves a widow and eight children. Fire which started in the plant of the Hudson Creamery Co., in Cadmuth, Saturday morning, totally destroyed the structure; loss, $2,000. The company had just purchased the plant and had occupied it only four days. Believing the mayor would see that they were not prosecuted, 14 Saginaw saloonkeepers took his word and remained open until 12 instead of 11 o'clock. They were arrested by order of the police commissioners and bound over to circuit court. Assistant Quartermaster General Rogers left for Camp Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, to prepare for the encampment of the M. N. G. there. The first field artillery of Lansing and Mason has been ordered to attend target practice at Sparta, Wis., September 14. Despite the fact that officials had raised $20,000 on outstanding loans. a receiver was decided upon in circuit court Thursday for the Athens State & Savings bank. Attorneys for the bank opposed a receiver, but they were fought by Assistant Attorney General Chase and Banking Commissioner Zimmerman. Frank Wolf, vicer president of the Central National bank of this city, was named as receiver. A 5-inch hat pin was removed from the stomach of the 15-months-old daughter of James McQueen, of Brimley, and she may recover. The child stumbled while the pin was in her mouth and swallowed it.
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John Haan, aged 80, has been missing from his home in Muskegon since Saturday, and relatives fear that he has taken his life. It is said that he purchased a quantity of chloroform before he left. A decree ordering Receiver Frank H. Wolf to turn the Athens State & Savings bank over to the stockholders' officials has been signed by Circuit Judge North, and means that the bank is to be reopened. It has been closed since last August, when a petition was filed to have it declared insolvent. The stockholders fought the step successfully.