Irish American Bank (Minneapolis, MN)

Episode Information

Episode UID
9185743591153
Episode Type
Run → Suspension → Closure
Bank Type
state
Bank ID
918574359 hash
Start Date
January 16, 1896
Location
Minneapolis, Minnesota (44.980, -93.264)

Metadata

Model
gpt-5-mini (chosen from majority vote of a three-model LLM ensemble)
Short Digest
0f985f99457d2712

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None

Events (5)
1. January 16, 1896 Receivership
Newspaper Excerpt
Later in the day made an assignment to Frank R. Hubacheck ... Bank Examiner Kenyon is now in charge. The bank was indirectly connected with the American Savings and Loan association, which went into the hands of a receiver a few days ago. (articles Jan 16-18, 1896).
Source
newspapers
2. January 16, 1896 Run
Cause
Local Banks
Cause Details
Heavy withdrawals precipitated by the failure/suspension of the City Bank in Minneapolis.
Measures
Bank Examiner Kenyon placed in charge; attempted collection/assessment of stockholders previously ordered.
Newspaper Excerpt
Owing to a heavy run precipitated by the City bank failure, the Irish-American bank closed its doors at noon.
Source
newspapers
3. January 16, 1896 Suspension
Cause
Local Banks
Cause Details
Closed at noon after the run that followed the City Bank failure; bank examiner took charge.
Newspaper Excerpt
The Irish-American bank, a state institution, closed its doors at noon. Its suspension has been anticipated as it was known to be weak.
Source
newspapers
4. January 28, 1896 Other
Newspaper Excerpt
An order was issued ... allowing the assignee of the Irish-American bank until Feb. 3 to prepare a schedule of assets and liabilities.
Source
newspapers
5. March 10, 1896 Receivership
Newspaper Excerpt
The six judges ... have removed Mr. Hubachek as assignee of the Irish American bank, and have appointed Judge Mahoney in his place. Judge Mahoney filed his $600,000 bond as receiver of the Irish-American bank ... (March 1896).
Source
newspapers

Newspaper Articles (22)
1. January 16, 1896 The Topeka State Journal Topeka, KS
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MINNEAPOLIS HIT AGAIN Another Rank Failure in That City Today-Irish American Bank Breaks. MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 16.-The Irish American bank, a state institution, closed its doors at noon. Its suspension has been anticipated as it was known to be weak, and its few remaining depositors commenced to withdraw yesterday when the City bank suspension was announced. Its capital stock is only $100,000. In the last statemant issued December 31, 1895. the bank had $385,775 in deposits, $169,919 of which was subject to check. Loans and discounts were $427,959, cash on hand and due from other banks $72,535.

2. January 16, 1896 Deseret Evening News Salt Lake City, UT
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Another Bank Failure. MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 16.-The IrishAmerican bank, a state institution, closed today. Its depositors commenced to withdraw yes orday when the city bank suspension was announced. The capital is only $100,000. At the last statement, Dec. 13, 1895, the bank had $385,075 on deposits, $199,919 of which was subject to check. Loans and discounts $417,959; cash on hand and due from other banks, $72,535.

3. January 17, 1896 Birmingham State Herald Birmingham, AL
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The Minneapolis Bank Failure. Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 16.-The doors of the Irish-American bank were closed today. Bank Examiner Kenyon is now in charge. The bank was indirectly connected with the American Savings and Loan association, which went into the hands of a receiver a few days ago.

4. January 17, 1896 Great Falls Weekly Tribune Great Falls, MT
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Another Crash in Minneapolis, MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 16.- Owing to 8 run on the Irish-American I ank, on account of the failure yesterdav of the City bank. it was closed at noon today and ie

5. January 17, 1896 The Roanoke Daily Times Roanoke, VA
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FAILURES YESTERDAY. Cigar Manufacturers Assign Without Preferences. New York, Jan. 16.-Seidenberg, Stiefel & Co., cigar manufacturers, made an assignment to-day to Milton S. Guiterman without preferences. The members of the company are Emil Seidenberg, Joseph Seidenberg and Adolph Stiefel. The assets are $400,000; liabilities $725,000; both estimated. M. S. Guiterman said that the firm of Seidenberg, Steifel & Co., owed very little to the banks, the indebtedness being mostly for tobacco purchased from dealers. He said he had not ex amined the books and could not give the names of the principal creditors. He stated that the firm had cancelled more than $300,000 worth of deots since the first of July last. He thinks it is only a temporary embarrassment and that affairs can be straightened out 80 that the firm can resume business. The factory, which is at 1322 avenue "A" is closed at present. Wholesale Clothiers Fail. CHICAGO, Jan. 16.-Confessions of judgments aggregating nearly $150,000 were entered in the circuit court to-day against Kahn, Schoenbrun & Co., wholesale clothiers. The failure is attributed to the sudden demand of the banks for payment of the money due them from the firm. The assets are placed at about $400,000, but the liabilities are not yet known. The concern has large liabilities in the East, it is stated most of the creditors being Esstern,manufacturers. Sugar Importers Fail. NEW YORK, Jan. 16.-Perkins & Welsh, sugar importers and exporters, have assigned to; Benjamin Perkins with preferences to creditors for upwards of $125,000. The firm was rated at $200,000 and its credit good. The total liabilities are put at half a million dollars. Mr. Arnold, of counsel for the assignee, said that the cause of the failure was the Cuban war. Irish-American Bank Suspended. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Jan. 16.-The Irish-American Bank, & State institutution, closed its doors at noon. Its suspension had been anticipated as 1t was known to be weak and its few remaining depositors commenced to withdraw yesterday when the City Bank suspension was announced. Its capital stock is only $100,000. A Paper Company Assigns. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. 16 -The Benedict Paper Company, wholesale paper dealers, have failed with liabilities of $50.445 and Assats about the

6. January 17, 1896 The Madison Daily Leader Madison, SD
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Another Minneapolis Bank Closes. MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 17.-Owing to a heavy run precipitated by the City bank failure, the Irish- American bank close.i its doors at noon. The bank examiner is in charge, and as yet it is impossible to get any satisfactory statemens of the bank's affairs.

7. January 17, 1896 The Herald Los Angeles, CA
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A Bank Failure MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 16.-The Irish-American bank. a state institution, closed today. Its depositors commenced to withdraw yesterday, when the City bank suspension was announced. The capital is only $100,000. At the last statement, on December 13, 1895, the bank had $385,075 in deposits, $169,919 of which was subject to check; loans and discounts, $427,959; cash on hand and due from other banks, $72,535.

8. January 17, 1896 Marietta Daily Leader Marietta, OH
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CONDENSED NEWS Gathered From All Parts of the Country by Telegraph. W. H. Young, banker, Harrisonville, Mo., assigned Wednesday. Assets and liabilities unknown. The Kanawha river is again closed to navigation by the ice. The last boat. the Oneida, tied up Thursday. The Ohio is full of ice. At Denison, Tex., S. G. Holmes, dealer in dry goods. made an assignment Wednesday afternoon. Liabilities estimated at $40,000. A Cape Coast Castle dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Co. says: King Porempeh of Ashantee has agreed to the terms of the British governmeut. The factory of the Woonsocket Rubber Co., a branch of the United States Rubber trust, Millville, Mass., employing 1,000 men, making rubber boots, was closed Wednesday indefinitely. United States Marshal Nix received a telegram Wednesday announcing that his posse of deputies had captured the notorious Oklahoma outlaw, Bill Doolin, at Eureka Springs, Ark. The senate committee on commerec Thursday morning fixed on Thursday, January 30, as the date for a hearing on the bill authorizing the construetion of a bridge across the Detroit river at Detroit, Mich. The steamer Flamborough, which arrived at New York Thursday from West Indian ports, reports that while at Livingston January 8, the United States ship Dolphin was in port surveying the bay of Honduras. Announcement was made Thursday morning that the committee of the officers of the National Woman's Christian Temperance union, appointed to select a location for the next national convention, has decided to accept the invitation from San Francisco. Pension Agent Brandon was arrested at Clarksville, Tenn., Wednesday, by order of United States Marshal McKenzie, on the charge of violating pension laws. Maj. Brandon is the republican candidate for mayor. He was jailed in default of $1,000 bond. An agreement has been reached whereby a four-cornered four-mile race will be rowed about the middle of June between Columbia, Cornell, Harvard and Pennsylvania. The race will be rowed either at Poughkeepsie or Springfield, with chances favoring the former. The doors of. the Irish-American bank at Minneapolis were closed Thursday. Bank Examiner Kenyon is now in charge. The bank was indirectly connected with the American Savings and Loan association, which went into the hands of a receiver a few days ago. The treasury department has requested the postmaster general to ascertain from postmasters what percentage of gold is recived by them and where the gold has been deposited. This action is taken to ascertain the location of gold in the United States in connection with the recent bond circular.

9. January 18, 1896 The Irish Standard Minneapolis, Saint Paul, MN
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IRISH AMERICAN BANK I Makes An Assignment Because Of Bus. iness Depression. On Thursday last the Irish-American bank of this city closed its doors, placing its books in the hands of Bank Examiner Kenyon, and later in the day made an assignment to Frank R. Hubacheck, of the law firm of Rea, Hubacheck & Healy. The bank has paid out in the last six weeks a large amount of deposits and of course that sum was taken from the business of the institution. The bank has good paper and considerable real estate, although the latter cannot satisfactorily be converted into cash. The American Savings and Loan Association was a large depositor in the bank and the latter institution is now in the hands of a receiver. The bank examiner ordered an assessment of 35 per cent on the stockholders about a month ago. If this had been realized, it is thought the bank would have continued in good condition. The stockholders had 90 days in which to pay the assessment and as but 30 days had elapsed the full assessment had not been collected. The assets and liabilities have not yet been given out. The bank was organized in 1888 and the officers then elected have continued to hold their positions until now. The numerous friends of the institution will deeply regret the present unfortunate condition of affairs.

10. January 23, 1896 The Weiser Signal Weiser, ID
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ANOTHER MINNEAPOLIS BANK CLOSED The Irish'American, With Assets Large and Liabilities Moderate. Minneapolis, Jan. 16.-The IrishAmerican bank, a state institution, closed today. Its depositors commenced to withdraw yesterday when the City bank suspension was announced. The capital is only $100,000. At the last statement, December 13, 1895, the bank had $385,075 deposits, $169,919 of which was subject to check; loans and discounts, $427,759; cash on hand and due from other banks, $72,535.

11. January 24, 1896 The Pioneer Express Pembina, ND
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OWING TO A RUN, Precipitated by the Failure of the City Bank in Minneapolis. Minneapolis, Jan. 18.-Owing to a heavy run precipitated by the City Bank failure of yesterday, the IrishAmerican Bank closed its doors at noon. The bank examiner is in charge, and as yet it is impossible to get any satisfactory statement of the bank's affairs. The officers of the bank are: President, J. S. Coughlin; vice president, J. E. Gould; cashier, J. C. Scallen. James H. Bishop, of the AmerIcan Savings and Loan, is one of the directors. The American carried a big deposit in the Irish-American, which may have been a factor in the bank's action. The paid capital of the IrishAmerican was $100,000, and in a statement of its condition at the end of business Dec. 13, 1893, the resources and liabilities balance at $554,684.26. The heaviest liabilities are demand certificates of deposit, 39,000.22; time certificates of deposit, $176,866.64; individual deposits subject to check, $109,919.38; total, $385,786.24. Amount due to other banks, rediscounts and bills payable, foot up at $50,000. The heaviest item among the assets is loans and discounts, $427,959.16. There is also about $33,000 worth of real es. tate.

12. January 28, 1896 St. Paul Daily Globe Saint Paul, MN
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MINNEAPOLIS. MINNEAPOLIS GLOBULES. The suit of Louisa La Belle for divorce from William La Belle was dismissed in Judge Kerr's court. The ever popular "Fantasma" opened to bigger business than ever at the Bijou yesterday. There will be a popular-priced matinee tomorrow. There are forty cases on the jury calendar which should have been taken up before now. The court house was swarming with lawyers yesterday morning. A dwelling house at 2720 Thirteenth avenue south was entered by sneak thieves Sunday night while the family were away and a quantity of silverware stolen. An order was issued yesterday morning by Judge Jamison allowing the assignee of the Irish-American bank until Feb. 3 to prepare a schedule of assets and liabilities. The regular meeting of the Ishwara Theosophical society will be held this evening at 8 o'clock at 939 Guaranty Loan building. Subject, "Evolution," a paper written by Dr. J. W. B. LaPierre. City Comptroller Nye was at his desk yesterday morning after an absence of ten days in the East, during which he disposed of the reservoir bonds to Lamprecht Bros.' company at their bid of $208,042. The Methodist divines, at their meeting at the Hennepin Avenue church yesterday morning, first listened to and then discussed a paper by Rev. E. P. Robertson on the "Intellectual Satisfaction of the Religious niverse.' George A. Bracket has filed a claim against the city for $350, alleged to have been paid out in taxes from 1887 to Oct. 1895, on a strip of ground 9x59 feet, between Second avenue south and Washington avenue, in "Lock-up" alley. Peter P. Swenson was the first witness in the Weitzner, Gruenberg & Co. case yesterday, but he had not given any testimony before the court was adjourned until this morning. The case seems to be fated, for now it is P. J. McLaughlin, one of the attorneys for the plaintiff, who is ill. City Engineer F. W. Cappelen will address the Engineers' club, of the state university, this evening on the "Public Water Supply of Minneapolis." The meeting will be held in the lecture room of the department of physics at 8 o'clock. J. F. Kellogg, of Fond du Lac, Wis., is here to start a yeast factory. He is an expert in this business, and his product already has a good reputation on the market. The name of the new concern will be the Minneapolis Yeast company. Judge Charles M. Pond has extended the stay of proceedings in the case of Jennette W. Hale against the Life Indemnity and Investment company, now called the Iowa Life Insurance company, until and including Saturday, Feb. 1, 1896. The receiver of the City Bank has notified all depositors to bring their pass books to him that they may all be balanced up, and the work of preparing the schedules facilitated. It is not thought the schedules can be prepared before next week Monday. The armistice which was declared between the two factions of the house of Fred W. Eastman has been shortlived, and Mrs. Eastman, through her attorneys, Shaw, Cray, Lancaster & Baxter, has again commenced suit for absolute divorce from her husband, together with suitable alimony, the custody of their one child and attorney's fees. There was scarcely a vacant seat in the Metropolitan, Minneapolis, last night when the curtain went up on the elaborate production of Palmer Cox's "Brownies," and before the final transformation it is safe to say that there was not a person in the theater but was a fervent admirer of the gorgeous spectacle. The "Brownies" has been staged with a lavish hand, and in the selections of characters to represent the odd characters of Mr. Cox's creation the management have made excellent choice.

13. February 11, 1896 St. Paul Daily Globe Saint Paul, MN
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IRISH-AMERICAN CASH. Depositors Ask the Attorney General to Protect Them. Attorney General Childs yesterday received a large delegation of depositors in the suspended Irish-American bank, of Minneapolis, who were present to protest against the continuance of the assignment to Frank Hubachek. It seems that when the attention of the attorney general was called to the bank he decided to take steps at once for the appointment of a receiver, but when he reached the bank to make his inquiries the bankers defeated him by assigning immediately. The depositors who were at the capitol yesterday represented $51,500, and they brought with them a petition signed by representatives of over $60,000. They set up that the assignee, Hubachek, member of the firm of Rea, Hubachek & Healy, who, beside having been the attorneys for the bank, are also attorneys for the Penny Press, which has been the recipient of $17,000 or more of the moneys entrusted to the bank. This they thouht was suspicious, and they are also suspicious that the interests of the creditors would suffer by the continuance of the present assignee, who is thought to be too friendly to the officers of the bank, and would try harder to save the stockholders than the depositors. Yesterday's delegation included John Goodnow, who has been charged with aspiring to the receivership, or assigneeship, himself, but he disclaims this and says that he is in the movement merely to protect stock which he represents. Other members of the delegation were Aldermen Perry Long and Hugh Jennings, John Fleetham and C. W. Somerby. Mr. Childs assured the visitors that he would give the matter his immediate consideration. The state has an account of over $3,000 in the bank, and is a preferred creditor. Among those who have been suggested for assignee to succeed Mr. Hubachek, if removed, are John M. Reese and Walter N. Clarroll.

14. February 11, 1896 St. Paul Daily Globe Saint Paul, MN
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Papers Are Filed. Attorney General Childs yesterday filed in the Hennepin district court formal demands for the deposits of the state in the Irish-American and City banks, of Minneapolis, suspended.

15. February 29, 1896 St. Paul Daily Globe Saint Paul, MN
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MINNEAPOLIS. MINNEAPOLIS GLOBULES. Plans are on foot and nearing completion for a convention of barrel head manufacturers to meet in this city March 12. Prof. R. G. Moulton's third Saturday night lecture will be given this evening at Plymouth church, the subject being "King Lear." J. C. Wunder, one of Minneapolis' prominent German residents, departed Thursday evening, in company with his wife, for San Diego, Cal. Suit has been brought by the People's Bank of Duluth against C. E. Lovett, A. S. Lovett and R. B. Brown to recover $2,100 alleged to be due on a promissory note. Judge Mahoney yesterday filed his $600,000 bond as receiver of the Irish-American bank signed by the Fidelity and Deposit company, of Maryland. The bond was approved by Judge Belden. Funny Fanny Rice, who has not visited Minneapolis for several years, is announced for an engagement of four nights and matinee at the Metropolitan in "Nancy at the French Ball." There will be added interest in the production of the new play at the Bijou theater next week. "The Last Stroke" is the title of the piece, and it is alive with incident, action and general interest. The three highest honors competed for by the members of the senior class at the Central high school have been announced as follows: Miss Jessie Robertson, 95.84; Warren Jerome, 95.43; Ellen Fullerton, 95.37. The master plumbers of Minneapolis yesterday passed resolutions of sorrow at the death of E. C. Cauvet, a prominent member of the association. A letter of condolence and sympathy was ordered sent to the bereaved family. Rev. Pleasant Hunter, who has been spending his vacation on the gulf coast near Mobile, returned yesterday morning much improved in health. Dr. Hunter will preach as usual next Sunday morning and evening at the Lyceum. Jefferson Brennan and wife walked in from Corcoran township Thursday night. The young couple, when they arrived at the central station, stated that they had been working for a man who had turned them out yesterday without giving them a cent. William Zadel, aged fifty-four years, of 1801 Washington avenue north, died Thursday morning. The funeral will take place tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock from the residence under the auspices of the Robert Blume lodge, interment being at Crystal Lake cemetery. The Peavey Elevator company is to build at once a large elevator in Northeast Minneapolis near the present elevator owned by the concern in that locality. J. W. Day & Co. have sold the Peavey company 3,000,000 feet of lumber to go into the new elevator.

16. March 10, 1896 Willmar Tribune Willmar, MN
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NEWS IN MINNESOTA A Rebekah lodge has been established at Amboy. Sisters of St. Benedict will build a new hospital at Duluth. Williard S. Dennis, a leading cigar dealer of St. Paul, has assigned. The senate bill giving Fergus Falls a federal building has been reported favorably. The ladies of St. Paul will begin a war against high hats at theatrical performances. A lamp explosion in the postoffice at Minneota considerably damaged the mail on hand. An interesting immigration convention was held at Fergus Falls. J. J. Hill and E. V. Smalley were among the speakers. George W. Somerville, a prominent attorney of Sleepy Eye, announces himself a candidate for congress from the Second district. State Auditor Dunn has gone to Hot Springs, Ark., in the hope that he will recover from the effects of a severe attack of the grip. A letter received from Young America, Ind., says that a large colony is being organized there to emigrate to the Red Lake Indian reservation. The grand encampment of Minnesota Odd Fellows was held at Minneapolis. W. W. Trafton of Faribault was elected grand patriarch of the grand lodge. William E. Lee, formerly warden of the St. Cloud reformatory, has announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for governor of Minnesota. Congressman Towne has secured favorable report from the war department upon the proposed construction of a bridge across the Mississippi river at Aitkin. Dr. David Day is seriously ill at his residence in St. Paul. He has been long afflicted with chronic bronchitis, which of late has become complicated with an ailment of the heart. John A. Hartigan, grand regent of the grand council, Royal Arcanum of Minnesota, has issued a circular, calling the annual meeting of the grand council at the Bowiby block, St. Paul, March 24. United States Marshal O'Connor has appointed Robert G. Beaulieu of White Earth deputy marshal in the place of E. H. Funk, who has resigned. Deputy Beaulieu will have charge of some of the work in the Indian reservations. The directors of the State Agricultural school will hold a summer school for girls, with a term of six weeks, beginning April 28. Accommodations will be provided for between 200 and 300 girls. The six judges of the Hennepin district court have united in a decision removing F. R. Hubachek as assignee of the Irish American bank, and have appointed Judge Mahoney in his place. The opinion scores the management of the bank. The Minneapolis term of the United States courts has been postponed from March 3 to March 17, and the Fergus Falls term to April 6. Judge Thomas of Deadwood, S. D., will open the Minneapolis term of court in the absence of Judge Nelson. The Swedish Lutheran church of Worthington has expelled 10 members for belonging to the A. O. U. W., it being contrary to the tenets of the church for members to belong to secret societies. There is much bitter feeling over the matter. A peculiar pension bill was passed by the senate, pensioning Christopher Schmidt, a private citizen of St. Paul, at $40 per month because of blindness resulting from a shot striking him while he chanced to pass before the rifle range at Fort Snelling. The remaining indictment against M. Kauffman and Dave B. Yezner, the Ely merchants, who were indicted on a charge of securing from St. Paul merchants goods on credit on the strength of misrepresentations alleged to have been made regarding their financial condition, has been dismissed. Preparations are being made by the state game and fish commission for an active warfare against those who fish during March and April. All fishing during those months is prohibited in this state and the commissioners will enforce the law rigidly this year. Previously a great deal of leniency has been shown, but it will not be so this season. The law allows dealers five days in which to dispose of stock on hand

17. March 12, 1896 Mineral Point Tribune Mineral Point, WI
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DOMESTIC. Archbishop Kendrick, St. Louis, is dead, aged 83. Charles L. Colby, the railroad man, died in New York. Lord Dunraven is expelied by the New York Yacht club. President Cleveland is to have a duck preserve of his own. The Seventh district immigration convention is a "hummer." The old receivers of the Northern Pacific filed their last report. Prohibition is killed for five years, at least, by the Iowa house. At Sleepy Eye, Minn J. N. Montgomery, aged 71, is dead. Republican National Committeeman Campbell, of Illinois, is dead. Horseless mail wagons will shortly be used in all the large cities. Considerable snow comes down in Montana and the Dakotas. Much damage has been inflicted along the Hudson by an ice gorge. Arthur Gough has been appointed postmaster at Chippewa Falls, Wis. Judge Ewing, of Chicago, rules that a city can fix fares on street railroads. Richard Little, who was injured in the mines at Houghton, Mich., has died. A fire at Stockton, III., destroyed many business houses and residences; loss $40,000. Frank Bates, of Stanford Station, Conn., shot and killed himself in Bridgeport. The official dock trial of the torpedo boat Ericsson was begun at New London, Conn. The postoffice at Footville, Wis., was broken open by unknown thieves, who secured $275 in stamps. The house committee on agriculture has begun hearings in opposition to the anti-option bill. A [ lke is threatened on the street car lines of all the gréat eastern cities, Chicago and Milwaukee. There are only 200 cats at the New York show. Trick cats are a feature. The prizes amount to $1,500. At Cloquet, Minn., Benj. Dietz, manager of the slate quarry, was fatally injured by a dynamite explosion. Geese and ducks in large swarms have been seen flying north in the last few days all over the northwest. Aristide Griffel. of La Crosse, Wis., pleaded guilty to incendiarism and was given a sentence of six years. President N. C. Hill, of Jewell Lutheran college, Iowa, is dead. He was active in educational work for years. At Olivia, Minn., Strong & Miller's elevator and flat house were consumed by fire and 5,000 bushels of grain was lost. Mr. Hubachek is removed as receiver of the Irish-American bank, Minneapolis, and Judge Maheny succeeds him. Theodore Harper, aged fourteen, of Astoria, N. Y., accidentally discharged a rifle and killed his younger brother, Fletcher. A mass meeting of labor people and others in New York protest against the proposed appropriation for coast defenses. At Joliet, III., a jury has been secured in the Preston-Curtin murder trial and witnesses are being examined. President Cleveland presided at the mass meeting in New York in the interest of the Presbyterian home missions. Resolutions recognizing the Cubans as belligerents are reported in the house and received with much enthusiasm. Rev. J. H. Lippard. of Rockford. has accepted a call to the pastorate of the First Congregational church at Shopiere, Wis. Captain J. E. Braden, founder of the Northern Indiana regulators, has called the survivors to meet in Ligonier. April 15. Andrew Wharton murdered his wife Louisa, in St. Louis, cutting her throat while she was asleep. Jealousy was the cause. Clara Barton writes that she is given a cordial welcome and that much is being done by officials to help her mission. Congressman Tawney fails in an at-

18. March 12, 1896 Wood County Reporter Wisconsin Rapids, WI
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TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF. DOMESTIC. Archbishop Kendrick, St. Louis, is dead, aged 83. Charles L. Colby, the railroad man, died in New York. Lord Dunraven is expelled by the New York Yacht club. President Cleveland is to have a duck preserve of his own. The Seventh district immigration convention is a "hummer." The old receivers of the Northern Pacific filed their last report. Prohibition is killed for five years, at least, by the Iowa house. At Sleepy Eye, Minn J. N. Montgomery, aged 71, is dead. Republican National Committeeman Campbell, of Illinois, is dead. Horseless mail wagons will shortly be used in all the large cities. Considerable snow comes down in Montana and the Dakotas. Much damage has been inflicted along the Hudson by an ice gorge. Arthur Gough has been appointed postmaster at Chippewa Falls, Wis. Judge Ewing, of Chicago, rules that a city can fix fares on street railroads. Richard Little, who was injured in the mines at Houghton, Mich., has died. A fire at Stockton, III., destroyed many business houses and residences; loss $40,000. Frank Bates, of Stanford Station, Conn., shot and killed himself in Bridgeport. The official dock trial of the torpedo boat Ericsson was begun at New London, Conn. The postoffice at Footville, Wis., was broken open by unknown thieves, who secured $275 in stamps. The house committee on agriculture has begun hearings in opposition to the anti-option bill. A & rike is threatened on the street car lines of all the great eastern cities, Chicago and Milwaukee. There are only 200 cats at the New York show. Trick cats are a feature. The prizes amount to $1,500. At Cloquet, Minn., Benj. Dietz, manager of the slate quarry, was fatally injured by a dynamite explosion. Geese and ducks in large swarms have been seen flying north in the last few days all over the northwest. Aristide Griffel, of La Crosse, Wis., pleaded guilty to incendiarism and was given a sentence of six years. President N. C. Hill, of Jewell Lutheran college, Iowa, is dead. He was active in educational work for years. At Olivia, Minn., Strong & Miller's elevator and flat house were consumed by fire and 5,000 bushels of grain was lost. Mr. Hubachek is removed as receiver of the Irish-American bank, Minneapolis, and Judge Maheny succeeds him. Theodore Harper, aged fourteen, of Astoria, N. Y., accidentally discharged a rifle and killed his younger brother, Fletcher. A mass meeting of labor pèople and others in New York protest against the proposed appropriation for coast defenses. At Joliet, III., a jury has been secured in the Preston-Curtin murder trial and witnesses are being examined. President Cleveland presided at the mass meeting in New York in the interest of the Presbyterian home missions. Resolutions recognizing the Cubans as belligerents are reported in the house and received with much enthusiasm. Rev. J. H. Lippard, of Rockford, has accepted a call to the pastorate of the First Congregational church at Shopiere, Wis. Captain J. E. Braden, founder of the Northern Indiana regulators, has called the survivors to meet in Ligonfer, April 15. Andrew Wharton murdered his wife Louisa, in St. Louis, cutting her throat while she was asleep. Jealousy was the cause. Clara Barton writes that she is given a cordial welcome and that much is being done by officials to help her mission. Congressman Tawney fails in an attempt to have a $100 a month the year through appropriated for members' clerks. A joint resolution authorizing the erection of a statue of Francis E. Spinner at the treasury department has passed the house. Ellis Jacobs, aged eleven, fearing a promised whipping, ran away from his

19. April 18, 1896 The Irish Standard Minneapolis, Saint Paul, MN
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IRISH-AMERI AN BANK Further Matters in Connection With the Defunct Institution. Ever since the Iriah-American bank assigned, creditors of the defunct instituto have heard something of a large tion of real estate said to be transferred lot one of the directors during the year It and by a half preceding the assignment. has been hinted that Assignee Mahoney bewould give the matter his attention the estate was finally settled up in fore effort to secure the setting aside of an It is probable that he will dow the trouble. Monday Wm. C. Baxter, who recently the be saved deeds. began afternoon the of sensational suits against the directors the corporation, secured a writ of attach- the ment on the property and filed it with register of deeds. This writ is directed against Jerry Rea, Coughlin, Michael W. Nash, John P. Frank W. Shaw, James H. Bishop, Thos. E. E. Bishop, Joseph Scallen and John Gould. In the affidavit, the plaintiff from sets "the debts due the plaintiff and each up the that said defendants, of the them, part fraudulently contracted on and that Nash, has of ant, was said Michael defendants, assigned, the defend- secrety ined and disposed of his property with tent to delay and defraud his creditors." The property attached includes a number of lots in Bradford & Lewis' addition and in Atwater's addition. The amount at of the claim of the plaintiff is fixed in $30,000, and the same amount stated the action, and the property is said to be of about the same or of more value. The suit commenced by Baxter was sensational, in that it charged the directors and officers of the bank with having acted fraudulently and with having misrepresented the condition of the bank to a such an extent that he deposited of money. It was him large to sum directors commenced on individually against the the these grounds. The attachment of real estate property will involve several be important questions. First, it will required to show that the original transNash and others was fraudand it is claimed ulent fer from or illegal, M. thing that to this do. will be a somewhat difficult that the will arise or not If the it question is shown transfer whether is void, the claim of Baxter is a valid one, and whether or not the property should be inclosed in the estate of the insolvent bank, or is individually that of the directors. The step is an important one in the Irish-American bank litigation, and will be watched with interest by stockholders and creditors. Mr. Nash denies many of the allegations made in the above complaint and says he proposes to commence an action without delay. He has secured the services of Frank Hubachek, and on Tuesday they were in the office of the county treasurer after evidence. They propose going after W. C. Baxter and others who it is claimed traduced Nash, and make them suffer to the extent of several thouMr. Nash claims that his have made accusers sand dollars. statements will that are utterly false, and he says he prove of them so. He they has transferred his every say he word property claims and to his family, when he has not done so, in proof of this he waived a large bundle of tax statements which show that he pays taxes upon more than $100,000 worth of city property, and that the property deeded to his daughters does not exceed $5,800 in value. Nash claims that he owns a piece on First street of worth every cent of Mr. property and $75,000, Nicollet be12 quarter-acre pieces sides avenue inside $100,000, of Ninth avenue south, worth which the assessor values on his lists at $83,000. In the face of this he says his traducers secure attachments against him, and papers print the fact repeatedly, after it has become news that is old. "I am in this city to stay," said Mr. Nash, "and I am going to live and die here. This has got to stop. I have lived here for 36 years and never owed a man a dollar, and never had one judgment against me, and I intend to see if people I can jump on me as if I was a criminal. have suffered on account of the IrishAmerican bank, and I intend to stand loss like a man, which is more than some my of these people are doing. I had no ] time to attend to its matters because for the public, and seeing needs were properly that was its working several attended thou- to For that reason I have lost sand dollars. I will fight this matter now, and see what they think of that."

20. February 19, 1898 The Saint Paul Globe Saint Paul, MN
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THE TWIN CTES. Appraisers at Work-John Lally, H. ing W. E. Noxon, assignee of E. T Blaisdell, P. D. McMillan, G. R. Chipson, to pay himself $75 assignee's his attorneys $50. afterward distrib man and J. H. Davis, the appraisers appointed by the Minneapolis board of balance to the creditors pro rata. to appraise the of Dead in His Bed-T. Radstad, property along Minnehaha for taking commissioners damages parkway park 2206 Washington avenue north, Mi the city, held a busy session yesterday, was found dead in bed at his home hearing the evidence of property owners inmorning. He retired Thursday n terested. Another meeting will be held Feb. 23. at 10 a. m. ing well. He was 65 years of age, one son living in Wisconsin. Owner of the Big Hog HonoredFor Fishing Through the John I. Bernard, of Pipestone county, who Trapp. A. Miller and John Wederski will be remembered by visitors to the Chiwith violating the game and fish la cago exposition in 1893 as the owner of deavoring to catch fish through t the immense hog which exceeded all rivals Vadnais lake, were before Judge T in size, was yesterday appointed by Gov. terday. Their cases were continue Clough as a member of the commission to 28. look after the interests of Minnesota at the Trans-Mississippi exposition, to be held Judge Shaw Honored- The this summer at Omaha, Neb. portrait of the late Judge Shaw will in the big coourt room at Minneap X-Ray Case Goes Over-The libel cases at 2 o'clock p. m. The occasion against the proprietor of the Minneapolis o wholly informal and the members X-Rays will not be tried this term. Freeman are requested to be present. P. Lane is too ill to take charge of them and it has been agreed that they will be set Pierpont Morgan's Collies over for trial at an early date next term. cials in charge of the forthcoming Mr. Lane is recovering slowly and will take state that the fine collection of Pier a trip South to recuperate before the next gan's collies will be on exhibitio term begins. show. The collection is regarded of the finest -that has been got toge Fine Police Station Floor-Secretary dogs fi!! car. Hart, of the state board of corrections and charities, has inspected the Fourth precinct Schools Will Close-In all of (North Minneapolis) police station, and finds schools special preparations are be it in good condition, especially the cement for the observance of Washington's floor. which has stood eight years' usage The schools will be closed on Tue without apparent impairment. Mr. Hart also on Monday exercises will be held visited the Washburn Memorial orphans' the buildings and in all grades. home while in Minneapolis. Hand Crushed in a Prex Two Small in a closet Meyer, a fourteen-year-old youth, upon the third floor of 51 Seventh street 410 Erie street, had his right han south, Minneapolis caught fire last evening in a press at Zander's printing estab and caused an alarm to be sent in. The and after being attended by Dr. R blaze was speedily extinguished with a taken home in a hack. chemical line. The loss will be about $100. The roof of a dwelling at 415 Madison street Name of a Railroad Chan northeast was also scorched by fire yesterNorthern Minnescta & Wisconsin day afternoon. The damage will be light. company yesterday filed with the of state an amendment. changing W. C. T. U. Meeting Tonight - The to the Minnesota & Northern regular Saturday evening meeting of the Railroad company. Central W. C. T. U. at the Volunteers' hall. New Church at Siayton-The on Jackson. between Seventh and Eighth Church of St. Anne, at Slayton, file streets, will be addressed tonight by Rev. L. A. Johnston, of the First Lutheran of incorporation with the secretary yesterday. The incorporators are Bi i church Mrs. J. B. Foltz. of Hamline, with a quartette, will furnish the music. ter, Vicar General Coyne, Fr. Michael Webber and Charles McShe Caught a Bicycle Thief-Oscar DunWill Be Ready Next Weekham was arrested in Minneapolis Thursday Hart, of the state board of correc night by Inspector Morrissey just as he was pawning a bicycle which was identified as charities, yesterday received a cop the wheel stolen from 1580 Park avenue. Dunprogramme of the New York meeth national conference of corrections ham was arraigned in the police court and a ities. It will be given out for publi his case will be taken before the grand jury. a day or two. Vietim of Diphtheria Hetta Mayer, Down With the Measles daugbter of Rev. George Mayer, aged nine years and ten months died Thursday at the three of the boys in the dormitor family residence. 290 Sixteenth avenue north. school of agriculture are down Minneapolis of diphtheria The funeral will measles. There is no serious illne occur today at 2 D. ni. from the residence. any of the patients, and the disease Interment will be at Lakewood cemetery. spread to the ladies' hall. Wood Harvester Plant-The Walter He Gets a Day of Grace-Th A. Wood Harvester company matter will have Valentine Holzapfle, charged with a hearing today at a special term of the liquor without a license. was con district court. The receivers will ask leave the St. Paul police court yesterda to be allowed to further operate the plant a morning. The defendant entered in the interest of the stockholders. The orignot guilty. inal debt of the concern was $1,250,000. but New Ladies' G. A. R. Circl by judicious management the amount has will be a meeting at Central hall, been reduced to something like $200,000. after Seventh streets, Monday afternoo the payment of a 25 per cent dividend. o'clock, for the purpose of institutir Charged With Lareeny-Hen Precircle of the Ladies of the G. A. fontaine was arrested yesterday by Detectives Triple Link Masquerade-T1 Werrick and Wells, charged with the larlodge. D. or R., will give a prize ma ceny of silk handkerchiefs and jewelry from ball at Twin City hall, corner Rice the store of D. Marks & Son. at 338 Sibley versity avenue, Monday evening, F street, St. Paul. The police say he was peddling the goods when taken in custody. He Ends the Ging Case-Judge N will be arraigned in the police court this the Hennepin district court, has deni morning. trial in the case of Julia A. Ging istratrix, against the Travelers' Wanted in Minneapolis-Ernest Colby, company. arrested Thursday, charged with the larceny of two pair of rubbers from the Treadwell Present Religious Crisis-D Shoe company's store. was not taken to court will preach at the People's church yesterday. The police say that Colby is morning on "The Present Religious wanted in Minneapolis for grand larceny, and in the evening on "The Prese and will be turned over to the authorities of Crisis. that city. Died at the Hospital-Joseph Buckeyes will Organize-There will laborer, without relatives in this CO be a meeting of former citizens of Ohio and living at 43 South Fillmore avenue who are now residents of Minneapolis, at the city hospital Thursday night fr the Commercial club rooms, Minneapolis, next monia. , Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock for the purpose of forming an Ohio association. NoMorton Guilty-Daniel Morton, tices for the meeting are being sent out by Minneapolis on a charge of grand 1 City Assessor B. C. Gibbons. the second degree was yesterday found guilty. Sentence was deferre Dole Is President-The Produce Refrigerating company, of Minneapolis, filed Fun at Lake Como-There wa articles of incorporation Thursday with querade at Como last evening. The George A. Dole as president and treasurer illuminated and the evening's ente and J. H. Gordon as secretary, and Madison heightened by a lavish display of rei Cooper Jr. as a third incorporator. The capiPension Examiner-D John tal stock is $25,000. ledge of Minneapolis, has been app Bank Cases Nolled-The case against the board of pension examining su John E. Gould, one of the officers of the Minneapolis. insolvent Irish-American bank, Minneapolis, charged with having received a deposit after Frances Willard-The pastor the bank was insolvent. was nolled Thursday. Woodland Park church will speak night on "Frances Willard." The cases against the other officers were nolled Wednesday. He Had the Grip-Judge J. J. Can Pay Himself-Judge Smith, of the ty is out again after a serious attac Hennepin court, has signed an order directthat kept him indoors for ten days. REVIUE maire

21. January 28, 1899 The Irish Standard Minneapolis, Saint Paul, MN
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# IN AND AROUND THE CITY Sheriff Megaarden has returned from Kansas City empty-handed. He had gone there to bring back Allyn J. Coon, who is under indictment here for an alleged manipulation of a gilt-edged investment deal with Dr. Frankyln Wright and others. Coon showed to the satisfaction of the Kansas City judge that the arrest was practically for debt, and the extradition papers were refused. Rev. Henry A. McGill, O. P., preached an eloquent and impressive sermon at Holy Rosary church last Sunday morning on the forgiveness of injuries inflicted by our enemies. "Unless you forgive those who injure you," said Fr. McGill, "your Heavenly Father will not forgive you." He kept the congregation in rapt attention during the delivery of his discourse. J. C. Scallen has been appointed by Mayor Gray as inspector of pawnshops. The case of Wm. H. Baxter vs. the officials of the suspended Irish-American Bank resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff after a trial which lasted two weeks. A motion for a new trial has been made by the defendants. District Chief Edward I. Kingsley, of the fire department, has been called to Great Falls, Mont., by the serious illness of his sister. His place is being filled by Capt. Michael Hanley, Engine company No. 1. Capt. J. R. Johnson has partly finished his pleasure barge, which he will put on Lake Minnetonka this summer. The barge is 20x70 feet in size and will have an eight foot deck. The structure will be well fitted up. There will be electric light, a piano and necessary accommodations. The floor will be of seasoned hardwood, and as it will be laid especially for dancing, it will undoubtedly be well patronized during the season. W. M. Regan has received a letter from Col. J. H. Page, Third infantry, acknowledging the receipt of 19 boxes of reading matter for the troops. The books have been loaded on the cars and sent East. Col. Page wishes to express the thanks of the men to the people of Minneapolis, and assures them that their great kindness is fully appreciated. He also says that the magazines will be turned over to the 13th Minn: at Manila. D. F. Brown, a young man employed at the Pillsbury milling company's warehouse, Seventeenth avenue and Seventh street southeast, had an almost miraculous escape from death last Tuesday. Brown was working on an upper floor of the warehouse when he stepped into a hole and fell 30 feet to the floor below. His fellow workmen saw him fall and rushed down to where he lay expecting to find him dead, but the young man sat up, and an examination showed that he was suffering from nothing more serious than a badly bruised leg and a strained back. He was removed to his home, 1712 Linden avenue north, and is recovering rapidly. Thomas West, an ex-policeman, has been appointed jailor at the Fifth precinct station by Mayor Gray; and Officer Bean, who has been acting as jailor at that station, has been ordered back to his beat. West is an old soldier. He resigned from the force during the Eustis administration. O. F. Whitney had his right shoulder dislocated Tuesday night in an accident which occurred on the Washington avenue bridge. Mr. Whitney was driving across in company with a friend. In trying to avoid a collision with a street car, the rig was turned sharply to the side, and Mr. Whitney was thrown out. The injury was dressed at the City hospital, after which the injured man went to his home, 876 Bedford street southeast. William Mackey, who was arrested by Inspectors Morrissey and Stavlo on a charge of vagrancy, was tried before Judge Kerr Tuesday morning. He proved to the satisfaction of the court that he was about to obtain employment, so the case was continued for one month, at the expiration of which he is to report what success he has met. Mrs. Matilda Stenstrom, a widow, 60 years old, was found dead in her apartments at 1106 East Eighteenth street, last Monday night. She had not been seen during the day by neighbors and they asked the police to investigate. The room was broken into and the body was found near the bed, watched by a pet dog. Coroner Nelson decided that death had been due to a bursted blood vessel. Mrs. Stenstrom's husband died about two years ago. A small amount of money was found in the room and several certificates of deposits in banks. The young ladies of Fr. Cleary's church gave a card social and served lunch Wednesday evening in the church parlors, Fourth street and Thirteenth avenue south. It was largely attended. J. S. Coughlin, the popular conductor on the Milwaukee road, has been seriously indisposed for the past month and under the care of a physician. He is slowly convalescing and left last Thursday for the hot springs at Baden-Baden, Ind. It is to be sincerely hoped that

22. March 18, 1899 The Irish Standard Minneapolis, Saint Paul, MN
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# IN AND AROUND THE CITY. Patrick Nally, for many years a resident of Minneapolis, died in Chicago, Sunday night, at the residence of his son. E. J. Nally, assistant general superintendent of the Postal Telegraph Cable Company. The remains were brought here Monday morning and funeral services were held at St. Stephen's church in the afternoon. The deceased was eighty-three years old and was born in Ireland. The A. O. H. Cadet band, forty strong, enlivened the entertainment at the Lyceum on St. Patrick's night with their enchanting Irish airs. The boys are improving rapidly on their instruments, and their playing was enthusiastically applauded. J. R. Corrigan, a former Minneapolis attorney and judge of probate, who, for the last four years has been an assistant corporation counsel of Chicago, has returned and will again resume the practice of his profession here. Attorney W. H. Donahue, receiver in the stockholders' suit in the Irish-American bank insolvency, has filed an application for the appointment of a reciver for Michael W. Nash, one of the stockholders. The application is based upon an affidavit to the effect that judgment in the stockholders' suit for $13,285.07 was secured against Mr. Nash and is unpaid, though before a referee it was disclosed that he was owner of certain property. The matter will be heard today. Kennet C. Beaton, a former member of the Tribune staff, and war correspondent during the Pillager troubles, has returned from Nelson, B. C., where he edited a paper, and is again connected with the Tribune in his former capacity. Col. John T. West, proprietor of the hotel bearing his name, dropped dead behind his desk on Monday night after replying to a question from a reporter. He had a cigar in his mouth and a paper in his hand when he fell to the floor. He never uttered a word. He was 52 years old and had resided in this city since 1875. He was a widower and leaves two daughters and one sister, besides a host of friends, to mourn his untimely and sudden death. The funeral occurred yesterday afternoon from the Church of the Redeemer, Rev. Marion D. Shutter officiating. The pall bearers weree selected from among his most intimate companions. A large concourse gathered at the church and followed the remains to Lakewood, where they were placed in a vault. William Kennedy, the attorney, succeeded in obtaining from President McKinley the pardon of Leroy Berrier, who was sentenced to the state prison for a term of two years for sending objectionable literature through the mail. James R. Corrigan announces that he will deliver a lecture at the Lyceum theater on the evening of March 27 on "Chicago Politics and Politicians." Division No. 8, A. O. H., of this city, will commemorate the birth of Thomas Moore with a fine musical and literary entertainment on the evening of May 28th. P. A. Demens, of Los Angeles, Cal., owner of the Brunswick hotel property, was in the city during the week. Speaking of expansion he said, as a Republican: If a vote should be taken today on the question in the commonwealths bordering the Pacific, the anti-expansionists would win by a large majority. He believes that, as the course of events are now showing, it will be found an impossiblity to Americanize the Filipinos. He is convinced that if the Philippines are annexed they will forever prove "a thorn in the national body," and that a decided impetus will be given to the present corruption in American politics. The funeral of ex-Mayor E. C. Babb was held last Sunday afternoon from his late residence, 2804 Garfield avenue. A large number of friends of the family were present. The Grand Army and Zion commandery were well represented. Rev. Marion D. Shutter, of the Church of the Redeemer, of which Capt. Babb was one of the oldest members, officiated. The members of Rawlins post, G. A. R., of which Capt. Babb was a comrade, marched in a body to the residence, and afterwards accompanied the hearse to Lakewood cemetery. The pallbearers were: R. G. Evans, Maj. W. D. Hale, W. P. Roberts, Maj. H. A. Norton, Thomas Downs, Judge Eli Torrance, Judge H. G. hicks and Emerson Cole. Murat Halstead lectures here tonight in place of George Kennan, who has been unable to appear and fill his engagement. The recital given by Plunket Greene, the famous Irish baritone, at the Lyceum on Tuesday evening was attended by the leading citizens of Minneapolis. The program was a lengthy one and admirably rendered in classical style. The great singer was accompanied by Melville Ellis, who gave three piano solos. C. A. Pillsbury, in a letter dated Milan, March 2, and received by James Everington, says that he believes that unless wheat prices advance 10 or 15 cents the farmers will hold back their wheat for a rise. P. E. Murphy, of St. Paul, the popular traveling salesman, was a visitor at the