Bank of Superior (Superior, NE)

Episode Information

Episode UID
945077291142
Episode Type
Suspension → Reopening
Bank Type
trust
Bank ID
94507729 hash
Start Date
February 11, 1895
Location
Superior, Nebraska (40.021, -98.070)

Metadata

Model
gpt-5-mini (chosen from majority vote of a three-model LLM ensemble)
Short Digest
8325ebd18752b737

Response Measures

None

Description

Closed by state bank examiner; article implies temporary closure with no depositor loss expected.

Events (1)
1. February 11, 1895 Suspension
Cause
Government Action
Cause Details
Closed by the state bank examiner reportedly due to general business depression.
Newspaper Excerpt
The doors of the Bank of Superior were closed by the state bank examiner today.
Source
newspapers

Newspaper Articles (2)
1. February 12, 1895 The Salt Lake Herald Salt Lake City, UT
Article from The Salt Lake Herald, February 12, 1895

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lows: Twenty per cent., the Baker City National banks, of Baker City, Ore.; 10 per cent., the Livingston National Bank of Livingston, Mont. Omaha, Feb. 11.-A special to the Bee from Superior, Neb., says: The doors of the Bank of Superior were closed by the state bank examiner today. General business depression is alleged as the cause. The depositors are not expected to lose anything. Lyons, N. Y., Feb. 11.-Mrs. Davis, the teacher of the district school three miles north of this village, was found dead, frozen to death in a snowbank, where she had lain since Friday morning. She left the school when the blizzard was well under way, and was overcome on her way to her home. Pittsburg, Kansas, Feb. 11.-The offices of the Long-Bell Lumber company, in this city, were entered by burglars early this morning, the safe blown open and $15,000 in notes and mortgages stolen. There was no money in the safe. The work bore marks of experts. Boston. Feb. 11.-In the House today by a vote of 190 to 2, the bill was passed which prohibits the exhibition of a foreign flag on any public building or school house except during a distinguished foreigner's visit and by the governor's approbation. San Francisco, Feb. 11.-Rain began falling at noon yesterday and has continued steadily since, the precipitation being general over the state. Rain has fallen from Roseburg, Oregon, southward to Los Angeles between the Sierra Nevada and Rocky Mountains. The trains are welcome everywhere. Omaha, Feb. 11.-A special to the Bee from Atlantic, Ia., says: Ex-President Ketzer. of the defunct Cass County bank. was confined in jail today in default of $7,000 bonds pending his appeal to the supreme court, he having been convicted of wrecking the bank. Ex-Vice Pres But Dickerson secured bondsmen and Wansteleased. Chicago, Feb. 11.-Judgments by default aggregating $226,744 were entered today against the stockholders of the defunct Columbia National Bank, which has failed to pay the 75 per cent. assessment levied to enable the receiver of the bank to pay out the money due the depositors. Judgment for $120,098 was entered against - Zimri D. Wiggins, the former president 1 of the bank, and $52,683 against W. C. Bentley, who was vice-president of the concern.

2. February 16, 1895 The Diamond Drill Crystal Falls, MI
Article from The Diamond Drill, February 16, 1895

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Jones thirteen years' imprisonment. Two COLORED women, Sarah Jackson and Bettie Fishback were convicted of vagrancy at Georgetown, Ky., and sold into slavery for the period of six months. LIFE savers succeeded in rescuing two of the crew of the schooner Louis V. Place, ashore at Point of Woods, N. Y. The other seven were drowned or frozen to death. THE Crescent tobacco warehouse and a woodenware factory were burned at Louisville, Ky., the loss being $175,000. W. J. EDWARDS rode a mile on a bicycle at Livermore, Cal, in 1:3436, a new world's record. Ex-POLICE OFFICERS MORAN AND HEALY were convicted in Chicago of the murder of Swan Nelson and their punishment fixed at fourteen years' imprisonment. THE schooner Clara F. Friend, of Gloucester, Mass., was wrecked near Liverpool, N. S., and her crew of fifteen men were drowned. FIFTEEN firms were burned out by a fire in Ottawa, Kan., the losses aggregating $100,000. TWELVE oyster sloops were wrecked and from twenty to thirty lives lost in the Chesapeake during a blizzard. AT Dinsmore, Fla., John Thomas (colored) with his wife and two children, were instantly killed by the falling of a log shack in which they were sleeping. JOSEPH COURTER fatally shot his wife while she lay asleep in bed at Newark, N. J., and then committed suicide. Jealousy caused the act. THE doors of the Bank of Superior, Neb., were closed by the state bank examiner. CYRUS BUSSEY, ex-assistant secretary of the interior, was run over by a sleigh in Washington and badly hurt. THE report of the bureau of statistics on the foreign trade of the United States for the calendar year 1894 shows that during that year our commerce with foreign countries fell below the low-water mark. MRS. WILLIAM SIEFERT, while temporarily insane, drowned her two children and herself in the Ohio river at Coraopolis, Pa. FOUR MILLION acres of Sionx Indian reservation land in South Dakota were thrown open for settlement by purchase at fifty cents an acre. GEORGE W. STOUT'S wholesale grocery establishment at Indianapolis was destroyed by fire, the loss being $115,000. AN unsuccessful attempt was made to hold up a Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe passenger train near Overbrook, I.T. BUILDINGS occupied by the Campbell Paint company, the Creamery Supply company and Reeves & Co., at Kansas City, were burned, causing a loss of $150,000. THE Bank of Leesburg, Fla., assigned for the benefit of creditors. THE French line steamer La Gascogne, from Havre, nine days overdue, arrived in New York. Accidents to the machinery caused the delay. A PETITION containing 6,000,000 names, and which had taken twelve years to complete, in opposition to the liquor and opium habit. left Chicago for Washington in care of Mrs. Carse, of the Woman's Christian Temperance union. It is the largest petition in history and will be presented to the court of every ruler in the world. THIRTY inches of snow fell at Rifle, Col. J. L. DICKSON. a bank cashier at Fayetteville, Ark., discovered to be $21,000 short, committed suicide by taking strychnine. A SECRET society, whose object is the mating and marrying of young people, has been formed at Lexington, Ky. SINCE the Fifty-third congress was elected there has been a total of twenty-nine changes in the membership of the house, eleven of them caused by death, three by removal as the result of election contests and sixteen by resignations. THE visible supply of grain in the United States on the 12th was: Wheat, 82,322,000 bushels; corn, 12,883,000 bushels; oats, 7,163,000 bushels; rye, 364,000 bushels; barley, 173,000 bushels. IN an address at the Auditorium in Chicago Henry Watterson reiterated his belief that Lincoln was inspired by God. LINCOLN'S birthday was generally celebrated throughout the country. A LARGE section of the business portion of McComb, O., was swept away by fire. THE supreme court at Jefferson City, Mo., sentenced five murderers to be hanged March 21. FRANK STORY and wife were fatally injured by the collision of an electric car with their wagon at Louisville, Ky. THE summer hotel at Brown's Mills, N. J., was totally destroyed by fire, the loss being $150,000. The building was vacant. A FREE silver resclution présented in