9302. Peoples Savings Bank (Mount Pleasant, MI)

Bank Information

Episode Type: Suspension → Closure
Bank Type: savings bank
Start Date: August 20, 1897
Location: Mount Pleasant, Michigan (43.597, -84.776)

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Model: gpt-5-mini
Short Digest: 7ea65f6f

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Description

The People's Savings Bank closed Aug 20, 1897 and was placed in the hands of the commissioner/receivers; it did not reopen. Later (Mar 16, 1898) the vault was robbed while the bank was in receivership. No explicit depositor run on this bank is described in the articles; the closure is described as government/commissioner action due to the bank's chaotic/insolvent condition.

Events (3)

1. August 20, 1897 Receivership

Newspaper Excerpt: The People's Savings bank ... closed its doors this morning, and is now in the hands of the commissioner of banking.
Source: newspapers

2. August 20, 1897 Suspension

Cause: Government Action
Cause Details: Bank closed and placed in hands of the commissioner of banking (suspension/receivership) after being in chaotic condition and unable to continue.
Newspaper Excerpt: MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich., Aug. 20.-The People's Savings bank, of this city, closed its doors this morning, and is now in the hands of the commissioner of banking.
Source: newspapers

3. March 16, 1898 Other

Newspaper Excerpt: The People's Savings Bank safety vault was robbed of $3,000 last night. Duplicate keys were used. The bank is in the hands of a receiver.
Source: newspapers

Newspaper Articles (19)

1. August 21, 1897 The Saint Paul Globe Saint Paul, MN

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NEW YORK MINING STOCKS. Cholor $0 60 Ontario $3 00 Crown Point 53 15 Ophir Con. Cal. & Va 15 1 05 Plymouth Deadwood 1 00 95 Quicksilver 10 00 Gould & Curry 33 do pfd 50 Hale & Norcross. 90 Sierra Nevada Homestake 29 00 Standard 1 55 Iron Silver 32 30 Union Con. 28 Mexican 20 Yellow Jacket BOSTON MINING SHARES. 1 Allouez Min. Co Franklin 161/2 Atlantic 24 21 Kearsarge Boston & Mont Osceola 38 1437/8 118 Butte & Boston 275/8 Quincy Calumet & Hecla.415 Tamarack 135 Centennial 9 Wolverine 13 1/2 FOREIGN FINANCIAL. NEW YORK, Aug. 20.-Evening Post's London financial cablegram: The stock markets here were irregular today, with an improving tendency on the better news from India. Americans, however, closed flat in the street on the absence of New York support. Sales by recent purchasers here are not being pressed, but there will be no initiative for a rise until New York gives a fresh lead. The recovery in silver and silver stocks is regarded as comewhat artificial. Foreigners were better, a feature being the recovery in Brazils on improved exchange. Kaffirs were hard at the close, on reports in good quarters that Kruger is regarding the concessions more favorably. NEW YORK MONEY. NEW YORK, Aug. 20.-Money on call easy at 11/4@11/2 per cent; last loan, 11/4; close 11/4 per cent. Prime mercantile paper, 33/4@41/2 per cent. Sterling exchange, steady, with actual business in bankers' bills at $4.85% @4.853/4 for demand and at $4.831/@4.8334 for 60 days. Posted rates, $4.841/2@4.86, and $4.861/2@4.87. Commercial bills, $4.82. Silver certificates, 50@521/2c. Bar 523/c. silver, Mexican dollars, 401/2c. BRACE IN SILVER. NEW YORK, Aug. 20.-There was a sharp recovery in the price of silver today, bar silver opening in London at 241/2 pence, an advance of 7-16 of a penny. The opening price here for bar silver was 523/c, a rise of 3/4c. Mexican dollars were quoted this morning at 401/2c, against 397/80 yesterday. Yesterday's low level invited buying, which induced the recovery, but the market is reported rather weak at the rise. SAVINGS BANK SUSPENDS. MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich., Aug. 20.-The People's Savings bank, of this city, closed its doors this morning, and is now in the hands of the commissioner of banking. No statement has been given out. According to the last statement, made in January, the capital stock of the bank was $100,000, with $90,000 in deposits. George E. Newell is president, and C. A. Carnahan cashier. BANK CLEARINGS. St. Paul $669,812.84. Minneapolis, $1,157,268. Chicago, $14,845,336. New York. $98,897,744. Boston, $13,531,925. PRIVATE BANK FAILS. EUREKA, Utah., Aug. 20.-The private banking house of G. A. Rice has suspended payment on account of heavy withdrawals and inability to realize. The bank had on deposit about $30,000. CHICAGO MONEY. CHICAGO Aug. 20.-New York exchange, 40c discount. Sterling exchange, posted rates, $4.841/2 and $4.861/2. TREASURY STATEMENT. WASHINGTON. Aug. 20.-Today's statement of the condition of the treasury shows: Available cash, $220,915,183; gold reserve, $143,052,321.

2. August 22, 1897 The Sun New York, NY

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MURDERED IN THE VAULT. CASHIER OF 1 MICHIGAN BANK KILLED BY ROBBERS. Rimer E. Struble of the Farmers' Bank in Shepherd, Mich., Goes to the Bank at a A. 38. and Meets Mis Death After a Struggle -30 Clue to the Identity of the Murderers. SHEPHERD, Mich.. Aug. 21.-Elmer E. Struble, cashier of the Farmers' Bank here. was killed this morning by robbers. The deed shows either careful planning, with inside knowledge of the cashier's movements, or a rare amount of good luck for the robbers. Mr. Struble was cashier of the bank for many years. The' bank is in the rear of Nathaniel W. Struble's hardware store. It was necessary for Cashier Struble to visit Mount Pleasant, the county seat, this morning, and be made no secret of this intention. as he purposed to return before the time for opening the bank. He left his home about 4 o'clock. intending to stop at the bank. get some papers which he needed in connection with his visit to Mount Pleasant, and then continue his journey. Mr. Struble must have been unmolested until he opened the vault. The vauit doors were opened, and had not been forced. and Mr. Struble's body was found lying half inside the vault. Appearances indicate that he made a fierce struggle before being overpowered. as his clothing was much disarranged. Nothing was known of the crime until shortly after 7 o'clock. when one of the clerks in the hardware store opened the store. Noticing the unusual conditions in the bank. he went there and found Struble still breathing. but unconscions. It was found that he had been shot four times. once in the arm, once in the back. and twice near the heart. The bullets were all of the same calibre, and were probably fired from the same weapon. The theory of the prosecuting attorney and Sheriff is that the robbers must have learned of Struble's intention and forced their way into the bank. where they awaited his coming. At first it was supposed that Struble might have committed suicide. as the Farmers' Bank was more or less hampered by the suspension of the People's Bank at Mount Pleasant two days ago. This suspicion is apparently without foundation. as everything about the office shows a flerce fight, all the furniture being wrecked. The Sheriff believes that the job was done by persons whom Struble recognized, and they shot him to protect themselves. J. F. Ryan of Mount Pleasant. the owner of the bank. is here. but refuses to even give an estimate of the amount of money taken, although it is reported that the sum is large. There is absolutely no clue to the identity of the robbers. The whole town is working on the case, business being almost entirely suspended. Struble lived until 11 clock. but did not regain consciousness.

3. August 26, 1897 Belding Banner Belding, MI

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PIERCED WITH BUL' ETS. The Farmers' Bank at Shepherd, Mich, Completely Looted. Elmer E. Struble, eashier of the Farmers' bank, at Shepherd, Mich., was found in the bank with three bullet wounds in his body, one near his heart. He was unconscions when found by E. A. Wisdom, proprietor of a hardware store in the same building in which the bank was located, and was lying on the flour in the office. He was earried to his home, and rallied enough to make a sworn statement as to who fired the shots, and died about an hour later. Robbers completely looted the bank, leaving but $10, which was found under the counter. The People's Savings bank at Mt. Pleasant failed and J. F. Ryan, proprietor of the Farmers' bank. telephoned the eashier, asking him if he anticipated any danger of a run on the bank as a result of the failare at Mt. Pleasant, and requested the cashier of the Farmers' bank to bring him the deposit ledger at an early hour in the morning. Mr. Struble said he thought no trouble would follow, and volunteered to bring the books wanted before banking hours in the morning. At 4 o'clock in the morning he went to the bank to get the books. The parties who fired the fatal shots were either in the building at the time when he entered or followed. Four shots were fired, three of which took effect, one passing through the body and piercing the left lung, one in the shoulder and one in the wrist. The finding of the bullets was proof conclusive that the shots were fired at the cashier while he was in the vault. It cannot be learned how much was-stolen, as the individual deposit, the cert.icate of deposit, the general and draft ledgers, were stolen. Not a cent was left in the bank, and no other books were disturbed. J. F. Ryan says that all losses will be made good to a cent. Discrepancies have been discovered in Struble's statement. as many of the parties he named are many miles away. The officers are doing all in their power to ferret out the perpetrators, and detectives are now at work on the case. Legal advice is carefully taken that a wrong move may be avoided.

4. August 27, 1897 The Owosso Times Owosso, MI

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MICHIGAN MELANGE. NEWS OF GENERAL INTEREST TO OUR READERS. Important Happenings in the State During the Past Few Days Reported by Telegraph-Matter Selected for the Benefit of Our Own People. Shepherd, Mich., Aug. 23.-It now appears that the murder of Elmer E. Struble, cashier of the Farmers' bank, and president of the village, who was shot at 4:30 o'clock Saturday morning, is not such a mystery after all. Friday afternoon he held a conversation over the telephone with J. F. Ryan, owner of the bank, and in that conversation Ryan ordered him to come to Mount Pleasant, the county seat, and bring with him all the books and money in the bank. This he refused to do, but agreed to go there Saturday morning with all the valuable papers. The People's bank in Mount Pleasant failed last week, and it was supposed that the Farmers' bank here was affected. It is supposed by the sheriff that this conversation over the telephone was heard by the persons who committed the crime. The officers gave out at first that Struble, after being borne unconscious from the bank to his home, had died without making a sign. From a conversation with the sheriff late Saturday night it appears that this statement is not true. Struble died at 11 o'clock, but a few minutes before death he rallied, and in the presence of a notary made an ante-mortem statement. in which he swore that he recognized three of the robbers, and he gave their names to the prosecuting attorney and sheriff, but these officials refuse to divulge this information. The startling feature of the case is, it is reported, that the crime was committed by several depositors who, fearing the bank was about to fail, followed Struble to the bank, demanded their money, and upon being refused shot the cashier and looted the bank. Struble told them that he forced the shooting by refusing to give up the money, and in the fight tore the masks from their faces and recognized them. It is supposed they left him believing he would be dead before he could give this information. Mount Pleasant, Mich., Aug. 24.-The situation at Shepherd is practically unchanged and the impression is gaining ground that the ante-mortem statement of Cashier Struble cannot be used in the enforcement of arrests. The suspension of the People's Savings bank and the subsequent robbery and murder are being discussed in every phase, but nothing new has developed. The proprietor of the Farmers' bank at Shepherd spent yesterday trying to solve the question of the amount of the liability and getting the pass books of the depositors. All rumors to the effect that vigilance committees have been formed to lynch the murderers in the event of their capture are erroneous and the law will be allowed to take its course.

5. August 27, 1897 The Yale Expositor Yale, MI

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PIERCED WITH BUL: ETS. The Farmers' Bank at Shepherd, Mich., Completely Looted. Elmer E. Struble, cashier of the Farmers' bank, at Shepherd, Mich., was found in the bank with three bullet wounds in his body, one near his heart. He was unconscious when found by E. A. Wisdom, proprietor of a hardware store in the same building in which the bank was located, and was lying on the flour in the office. He was carried to to his home, and rallied enough make a sworn statement as to who fired the shots, and died about an hour later. Robbers completely looted the bank, leaving but $10, which was found under the counter. The People's Savings bank at Mt. Pleasant failed and J. F. Ryan, proprietor of the Farmers' bank. telephoned the cashier, asking him if he anticipated any danger of a run on the bank as a result of the failure at Mt. Pleasant, and requested the cashier of the Farmers' bank to bring him tne deposit ledger at an early hour in the morning. Mr. Struble said he thought no trouble would follow, and volunteered to bring the books wanted before banking hours in the morning. At 4 o'clock in the morning he went to the bank to get the books. The parties who fired the fatal shots were either in the building at the time when he entered or followed. Four shots were fired, three of which took effect, one passing through the body and piercing the left lung, one in the shoulder and one in the wrist. The finding of the bullets was proof conclusive that the shots were fired at the cashier while he was in the vault. It cannot be learned how much was stolen, as the individual deposit, the certificate of deposit, the general and draft ledgers, were stolen. Not a cent was left in the bank, and no other books were disturbed. J. F. Ryan says that all losses will be made good to a cent. Discrepancies have been discovered in Struble's statement, as two of the parties he named are many miles away. The officers are doing all in their power to ferret out the perpetrators, and detectives are now at work on the case. Legal advice is carefully taken that a wrong move may be avoided.

6. September 1, 1897 The Representative Saint Paul, Minneapolis, MN

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prosperity. If an intelligent stranger from India or Japan was visiting this country and reading the daily papers, he would conclude, by the articles sent out from Room 1, Glover Building, Washington, that we were in the high tide of the most tremendous prosperity the world had ever seen. The increased price of wheat, due to the failure of the crops all over the world, is presented as one proof of prosperity; the vast accumulations of money in the banks, because the solvent don't want to borrow it and the insolvent cannot get it, is alleged as another proof; and yet in the face of all this, millions of workmen are unemployed and a vast strike is in progress, involving hundreds of thousands of miners, and which may eventuate in violence and possibly civil war; and at the same time we find in the papers such items as the following: CHICAGO, Aug. 25.-The W. R. Page Confectionery company, one of the largest candy making concerns in the city, made an assignment to the Chicago Title & Trust Co. today. Assets $100,000. liabilities not to exceed $33,000. Difficulty in making collections is said to be the cause of the assignment. The A. R. March Manufacturing Company, makers of bicycles at 43 South Canal street, failed yesterday. The factory of the company was closed by the sheriff on executions issued by the circuit court in favor of David Kelly. The company bought steel tubing of Kelly and gave him three judgment notes for $2,788 each and one for $2,106. When Deputy Lee reached the factory he found a custodian in charge, who had been placed there by H. O. Stone & Co., agents of the building. who had a distress warrant of $900 for rent due. The sheriff also placed a custodian in the place to look after the interests of the judgment creditor. The company has been in business three years and during the present season has turned out a large number of wheels. The liabilities are about $20,000 and the assets, which consist of stock on hand and book accounts are higher. AKRON. Ohio, Aug. 20.-John T. Seiberling, formerly a prominent manufacturer, assigned to Francis Seiberling. his nephew, today. The assets and liabilities are about $150,000 each. His affairs have been in an unsettled condition since the failure of the J. F. Seiberling Mower and Reaper Company. Inability to realize in silver mining failure. property helped to bring about the MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich., Aug. 20.The People's Savings Bank of this city closed its doors this morning and is now in the hands of the commissioner of banking. No statement has been given out. According to the last statement. made in January, the capital stock of the bank was $100,000. with $90,000 deposits. George E. Newall is president and C. A. Carnahon cashier. EUREKA, Utah, Aug. 20.-The private banking house of G. A. Rice has suspended payment on account of heavy withdrawals and an inability to realize. The bank had on deposit about $30,000. If we took all the daily papers of this country and set a clerk to cull out

7. January 14, 1898 The Yale Expositor Yale, MI

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Harrison. He was picked up dying in an old shanty and cared for by the army. Many attended. Schooleraft taxpayers will have a chance to vote for a waterworks and electric light plant. At present t is no fire protection and the streets lighted with kerosene lamps. The Kempf Commercial and Savings bank, of Chelsea, capitalized at $40,000, and the Wakefield State bank, of Morenci, at $30,000, have filed capitalized commissioner. articles with the bank In the case of Burdick vs. Kalamazoo being tried at Kalamazoo, Burdick sues for possession of land which was donated for cemetery purposes, but which has been transformed into a park. The receivers of the defunct People's Savings bank of Mt. Pleasant, have filed a report showing that the bank was in a chaotic condition at the time Deof its suspension, Aug. 19, 1897. posits were $65,067.94. Gen. D. B. Ainger, receiver of the First National bank, of Benton Harbor, says he will pay depositors an- He other dividend of 20 per t soon. had already paid 30 per cent since taking hold of the bank three months ago. Isabella county supervisors have ordered the prosecuting attorney to collect $13,449.25 from Treasurer Brubaker and his bondsmen. The money was deposited in the banks at Shepherd and Mt. Pleasant which afterwards failed. Theron F. Giddings has declined the the United States marshalship for western district of Michigan, having received flattering inducements from a prominent insurance company to remain with it as general superintendent of agencies. H. A. Chapin & Son. the millionaire the mine owners of Niles, are planning beconstruction of an electric railroad tween Niles and South Bend, Ind. own the South Bend electric derived light They works and power will be from this plant. The President has made the followMichigan appointments: internal Charles ing Wright, of Detroit, collector of Michifor the first district of be revenue gan;James H. Stone, of Detroit, to disappraiser of merchandise in the triet of Detroit. Twenty years ago Arthur N. Hart inherited a fortune of about $100,000 his father and he soon started just on from the "pace that kills." He has after been adjudged insane at Lansing He is an attempt to commit suicide. physical and mental wreck. The fifth victim of the electric car collision near Birmingham last month, Chas. been claimed by death. Mrs. has of Carleton, died at Pontiac. the Pratt, she had been taken after accident. where She suffered from an amputated leg and internal injuries. The $100,000 opera house at Marhas been reopened after being at quette decorated and furnished backed newly of $5,000. It is wealthy an expense Mrs. J. M. Longyear. a Marquette lady, by whose desire is to give people first-class entertainments. David Schimmel, of Eggleston, has held in $5,000 bonds on a Garvey. charge been criminal assault on Rosa month of has been in hiding for a particHe is a second offense and is a alThis aggravated case, it being to ularly leged that Schimmel used a shotgun intimidate the girl. company is being organized utilize with the A stock of $200,000 to Menoma capital of Chappee rapids near supply power to generate electricity to mills, power and other inee for street railways, manufacturing paper saw mills at Menominee and Marinette. dam concerns Work will be begun at once on a to cost $30,000. W. Turner, of Lansing, of War has Stanley appointed by Secretary special been as one of the three the Alger who are to accompany which clerks relief expedition supplies to is government a large amount of said to to carry Klondike miners who are clerks the danger of starving. These the party. be in be the only civilans in Miss will Gifford, of Chicago, and drove Charles of Eaton Rapids, E. M. Johnson, latter's home to Lansing, but from the secure a marriage license, they miles, to could not be found SO where the clerk 12 miles farther drove they succeeded to Mason and were married night, back home the same bitter They making drove 60 miles in all on a cold day. Another company has been county. formed prospect for coal in Bay Banto thousand acres in Monitor, have One Kawkawlin townships will be gor and secured and drilling close been With the of started at once. will be fully 20 rigs winter, in there different parts of the known, county. work exception. so far as hole put coal Without has been struck in every down. Albert Grenville Boynton, Boynton, gen- and Hon. known as Judge of the for erally 27 years past political editor

8. March 16, 1898 Las Vegas Daily Optic Las Vegas, NM

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Bank Robbed of $3,000. MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich., March 16-The l'eople's Savings Bank safety vault, was robbed of $3000 last night. Duplicate keys were used. The bank is in the hands of a receiver. Bill

9. March 17, 1898 Richmond Dispatch Richmond, VA

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Savings Bank Robbed. MOUNT PLEASANT, MICH. March 16.-The People's Saving Bank safety vault was robbed of $3,000 last night. Duplicate keys were used. The bank is in the hands of a receiver.

10. March 17, 1898 The Copper Country Evening News Calumet, MI

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Safety Vault Robbed. Mount Pleasant, Mich., March 17.The People's Savings Bank Safety vault was robbed of $3,000. Duplicate keys were used. The bank is in the hands of a receiver. The People's bank gained a wide notoriety in connection with the Farmers' bank at Shepard, Mich., the cashier of which was supposed to have been murdered in August last.

11. March 17, 1898 The Scranton Tribune Scranton, PA

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Savings Bank Robbed. Mount Pleasant, Mich, March 16.--The People's Savings bank safety vault was robbed of $3,000 last night. Duplicate keys were used. The bank is in the hands of a receiver. The People's bank gained a wide notoriety in conectnion with the Farmers' bank at Shepherd, Mich., the cashier of which was supposed to have been murdered in August last.

12. March 18, 1898 Rock Island Argus Rock Island, IL

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: ABBREVIATED TELEGRAMS. The Ohio house defeated a 2-cent per mile railway fare bill by a vote of 48 t to 54. A movement has been started at Eau Claire, Wis., to nominate W. K. Coffin : for mayor on the Republican ticket. John S. Fear, city auditor of Burlington, Ia., has disappeared, leaving a statement that he is $2,900 short in his accounts. Three of our eight monitors - - the Canonicus, Mahopac and Lehigh - are useless and cannot be put in condition for service. Senator Thurston has arrived at , Washington with the body of Mrs. Thurston, who died at Sagua la Grande, ) Cuba, on Monday last. Chili having a little misunderstanding on hand with Peru will sell the battleship O'Higgins to neither the United States nor Spain. Admiral Bermejo, the Spanish minister of marine, has wired the commander of the torpedo flotilla at the Canaries not to proceed to Havana. A verdict for $75,000 damages for libel has been awarded the American Book company against the Kingdom Publishing company, of Minneapolis. Rev. Samuel G. Bettes, the cowboy preacher, is going to the Klondike. He will do evangelical work along the way and will depend upon his collections for subsistence. The 5-year-old son of John H. Falter, of Janesville, Wis., swallowed a capsale containing bi-chioride of mercury and was only saved by vigorous medical treatment. Senator Stewart has given notice of an amendment he will offer to the naval appropriation bill providing for the construction of eighteen coast defense monitors. Lydia Matteson McGinnis, aged 62. wife of John McGinnis, Jr., of New York, is dead at Paris. She was a daughter of the late Governor Joel A. Matteson, of Illinois. Ih the United States court at Galveston, Tex., five Chinamen were adjudged to be in the United States contrary to the provisions of the Gray act. They were ordered deported. Tomas Estrada Palma, head of the Cuban rebellion in the United States, has issued a proclamation again declaring that the rebels will never accept anything except Cuban independence. The people's Savings bank at Mount Pleasant, Mich., which suspended last October, and is now in the hands of receivers, was robbed Monday night. The thieves secured $5,000 in bonds and $700 in cash. Governor Scofield, of Wisconsin, has issued a proclamation fixing June 7 as the day, and Madison as the place for the official observance of the semi-centennial of the taking of the oath of office by the first state officers.

13. March 19, 1898 Baxter Springs News Baxter Springs, KS

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Robbery Causes a Bank Failure. MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich., March 17.The People's Savings bank safety vault was robbed of $3,000 last night. Duplicate keys were used. The bank is in the hands of a receiver.

14. March 19, 1898 The Irish Standard Minneapolis, Saint Paul, MN

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Savings Bank Robbed. Mount Pleasant, Mich.. March 17.The People's savings bank safety vault was robbed of $3,000. Duplicate keys were used. The bank is in the hands of a receiver.

15. March 24, 1898 The Hocking Sentinel Logan, OH

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Big Bank Robbery. The Peoples' Savings Bank safety vault at Mount Pleasant, Mich., was robbed of $3,000. Duplicate keys were used. The bank is in the hands of a receiver. The Peoples' Bank gained a wide notoriety in connection with the Farmers' Bank, at Shepard, Mich., the cashier of which was supposed to have been murdered in August last.

16. March 24, 1898 Mineral Point Tribune Mineral Point, WI

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domestic or the had The temperance general committee assembly has is- to Presbyterian circular advising parents for sued be careful a in selecting institutions their boys. Gardiner enticed will Pulaski, Rogers Perry unoccupied building at with a into an beat his brains out club. III., and Gardner and Rogers were playmates, aged Tome, 16. the millionaire philan- Jacob Jacob and founder of the Deposit, thropist institute, died at Port pneuMd., Tome after a brief illness of monia. Matteson McGinis, aged of New 62, Lydia of John McGinnis, Jr., She was a daughter wife York, i of lead the at late Paris. Governor Joel A. Matteson J. of Butler Illinois. of Fort Scott, dollars repHenry about a half million in resenting interests of Pennsylvania people disapof Kansas, is reported to have peared. Frederick Gebhard, her promi- sister, Mrs. Morris, and other ladies in Miss New York society appeared nent in for the benefit of the of Decorative tableaux Art. Society court Pennsylvania supreme to The affirmed a decision refusing the has injunction to prohibit costly new grant an out of plans for a state carrying capitol at Harrisburg. millionaire Charles operator O. Skeer, and an the ex-director company, of ccal Valley Railroad He was 80 the is dead Lehigh at Mauch Chunk, Pa. years Martha old. Lyda Poland Thurston, ThursMrs. United States Senator apoplexy wife of Nebraska, died from entering on ton the of yacht Anita as it was Sagua harbor, Catholics Cuba. who wish to secular be inPolish of bishops in the formed the dependent parish affairs with side of and their discese of Chicago, synod Bishop Kozlowski catch presiding. on Lake Michigan The herring was 22,000,000 pounds, Lake Erie, and greatly last 2,000,000 year pounds more exceeding than the on catch of any previous year. mill cotton New Bedford, have Mass., been out nine strikers, weeks, are who appealing unless for funds, they and can acknowledge get Edward financial Dorsey, assistance. defeat aged nearly an Indianapolis 100, 54. was It colored Tuesday man to a widow and of he has married sixth marriage, wives. 49 children head of cattle unless is Dorsey's 100,000 by his other five year will starve to to Over death in California be this persuaded the modify the quarantine Savings which susagainst speedily The government fever. People's can Bank lines the at Mount Pleasant, October Mich. and is now in hands of receivers. thieves secured $5,000 pended day. The last in cash. was robbed women Mon- in bonds Tillie and Anderson, $700 champion and of Lisette, racers in America, fair sex in bicycle expert of the in match the most will probably meet part a of race Europe, in Chicago the latter April. Ex-State's Attorney E. in S. Chicago. Bottum of Bright's disease Mr. Bottum died was 40 years. prosHis age by his successful the assassin secution won celebrity of Prendergast, Sr. an in of Carter H. Harrison, Missouri supreme court, by Chief tax opinion that the inheritance in 1895 eided legislature The the Justice Gantt, law de- for the passed benefit by of the state university unconstitutional. Hofmann, the pianist. while on met with Josef an accident recently a consequence Mr bicycle ride, and as compelled to cancel and Thomas in has Philadelphia, are to be Ky. TWO at Glasgow, been committed the dates Washington legal slavery negroes been law Baltimore for sold vagrancy county They into have the state for sale and under their services conviction. during Iowa, has advertised the time of their the Christian At Chariton, reague has permits succeeded taken in having all the stores in Citizensh P away Application from the liquor drug was immediately permits. Chariton. made to the court Mich., for new an anti-saloon of stuAt Ann Arbor. principally the is endeavoring within dents. of saloons would league, prohibition composed university. to It secure drive five of the Ann Arbor. miles saloons out of the cowboy all the Samuel G. Bettes, Klondike in preacher, is going canoe, which at Grand Rapids along a building Rev. nineteen-foot to work the Mich. he the He is way. will do and evangelical depend upon his collections for subsistence. houses at Sikagua

17. June 25, 1898 The Topeka State Journal Topeka, KS

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A BANK MYSTERY. Governor Pingree Orders an Imediate Investigation. Lansing, Mich., June 25.-The affairs of the People's Savings bank of Mount Pleasant, which failed last year, just after the mysterious shooting of Elmer Struble, cashier of the Shepherd branch, are to be thoroughly investigated, Governor Pingree having directed Attorney General Maynard to probe the case to the bottom. Since the bank has been in the hands of receivers the vault has been robbed of an amount yet to be determined. John F. Ryan, cashier of the People's bank, was recently arrested on a charge of making excessive loans.

18. August 19, 1898 Alma Record Alma, MI

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Looking For the Hole. A real live detective, one of those read about human sleuths, has been in the city all the week and 111 conjunetion with E.J. Adams, of Grand Rapids, brother of the Fremont township treasurer who lost $2,600 by having it taken out of the tin cans which he rented in the vault of the defunet People's Savings bank. The two have been on a "still hunt" endeavoring to locate the hole by which this money escaped. This is the first that has been heard of that little episode for some time, but in the lieu of dividend it serves well to attract attention to the institution. It has been almost a year now since the bank's doors were closed and people were rapidly learning to forget that such an establishment ever existed and were only reminded of it by the occasional appointment of a new receiver and the daily visit of the gentleman who is tiggeria' and fretting his young life away in his attempt to find out who S ruck Billy Patterson. In the meantime Attorney Chas. T. Russell has filed his bonds and has taken hold as a receiver of the bank. Lawyer Adams says there will soon be some rich and rare deve lopments in the Oyster Can Mystery, and hints at arrests and lawsuits. In the interist the depositors cast their eyes heavenware ud exclaim, how long, etc.-Mt. Pleasant Democrat.

19. October 28, 1898 Alma Record Alma, MI

Article from Alma Record, October 28, 1898

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a Lake Linden has contracted for complete sewer system. The Bloomingdale 'illing Co., will mill. rebuild Bloomingdale's burned grist The sea serpent in Indian lake. near Dowagine, proved to be an otter and muskalonge. Geo. W. Shelters. of Sebewaing was sent up for 12 years for assaulting year-old girl A cooperage plant with a capacity of 600 barrels a day will be established at Traverse City. to build an road The from project electric rail. Lansing to Pine lake has been abandoned. Berrien county has another diphtheria epidemic. Benton township schools are closed. The report that the M. and the Hocking Valley railroads are to consolidate is denied. county farmers and men propose to erect a Monroe large business sugar beet factory at Monroe. victim of the Pentwater was T. L. enboiler The explosion third Palmer, gineer at the bedstead fa tory. Col. Milford Harmon, a prominent manufactu er of Jackson. an unele of Mrs. Grover Cleveland, is dead. Rev. A. J. Comden, Methodist. of Entrican, took a dose of aconite by mistake and died in a short time. About 60 members of the Seventh Michigan cavalry met at Lansing on the anniversary of Sheridan's ride. The National General Passenger and association convention Ticket was held Agents' at Detroit and was a big affair. Ed Carns, of Three Rivers, has been missing for over a week. It is feared he accidentally shot himself in the woods. Mrs. Lillian Pratt an attractive young woman of lock. was rested at Hudson enarged with passing forged orders. A third dividend of 71/2 per cent has been declared in favor of the creditors of the defunet First National bank of Mt. Pleasant The planing mill property of Wm. A. Blakely in Petoskey, was completely wiped out by fire. Loss $2,000; no insurance The North American Chemical Co., of Bay City, has received orders from headquarters in London to double the size of its plant Fire destroyed the house Miss Naney Simpson belonging It to at Milan. was occupied by the Milan laundry. Loss about $1.200. W. W. Cummer has sold 20,000 acres of hardwood timber lands adjacent to Cadillae to Delos F. Diggi is. The timber will be cut this winter. Holly fears another gang of firebugs is at work. The destruction of Morrison Beardslee's eider mill is the second incendiary fire in a short time. A new light produced by a chemical battery and much stronger than in candescent lights has been invented by James Whiteomb. a laborer o Hudson. f Bay City has offered $40.000 and site to L. E. Woodward, recently burned out at Owosso, if he will build a furniture factory in that city. He may accept. a The national civic philanthropic t ference at Battle Creek was attended 1 by prominent scientists, educators preachers and reformers from all over e the country. g The shop and barns, with contents and several stacks of hay and straw t on the John Gorndry farm, near Belle o ville. were destroyed by fire. Los about $1,100. v The Belt mines. at Houghton, valued t at $500,000. have been transferred to n company of Houghton capitalists who y will reopen the mines which have bee Z idle since 1887. n Work is in progress on an extension of the Prescott division of the D. & S railroad, which will open up a larg h tract of pine timber which will e taken to Tawas City. o The Houghton county election boar decided by unanimous vote not to plac Sam Stephenson's name on the officia ballot as a candidate for congress t the Twelfth district. n The directors and stockholders d the "busted" Peoples Savings bank d Mt. Pleasant will be sued to recove n an assessment on the stock of theinst r tution to meet its debts. Benj. F. Powell. of Birch Run. o plied for a divorce from his wife. n tha, on the ground of extreme cruelt The couple were married May 17. an ilived together two weeks t The crownsheet of the boiler on n tug Arthur D. Capt. Lillis, blew out Alpena. killing Arthur Pontwood. h fireman, instantly. and badly scaldin a deck hand named Peppler. e The furloughs of all the Michiga men run out Nov. 4. The war depar h ment has instructed Capt. Irvine h allow the soldiers pay from that da s to the date of mustering out. Veterans of the Fifth Michigan