10190. Bank of Excelsior Springs (Excelsior Springs, MO)

Bank Information

Episode Type
Suspension → Reopening
Bank Type
private
Start Date
March 1, 1894*
Location
Excelsior Springs, Missouri (39.339, -94.226)

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Short Digest
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Description

Articles report the Bank of Excelsior Springs (described as a private concern) suspended/assigned/failed in March 1894. Depositors were paid in full by Dr. S.R. Keith and the concern was reorganized and resumed business as the Clay County State Bank by May 1894. No article describes a depositor run; sequence is suspension followed by reorganization/reopening.

Events (3)
1. March 1, 1894* Suspension
Cause Details
Bank 'assigned' / 'failed' per contemporary reports; officers claimed ability to pay but depositors disbelieved. Exact trigger not specified.
Newspaper Excerpt
The Bank of Excelsior Springs, Mo., a private concern with $50,000 capital, has assigned.
Source
newspapers
2. April 12, 1894 Other
Newspaper Excerpt
All the depositors of the Bank of Excelsir Springs, suspended, have been paid in full by Dr. S. R. Keith, the vice-president. The concern will be reorganized and resume business.
Source
newspapers
3. May 5, 1894 Reopening
Newspaper Excerpt
The recently suspended bank of Excelsior Springs has been reorganized under the name of the Clay County State bank.
Source
newspapers

Newspaper Articles (5)
1. March 14, 1894 The Seattle Post-Intelligencer Seattle, WA
Article from The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, March 14, 1894

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BANKERS' TROUBLES. Andrew Sauer, cashier of the defunct Defiance, O., savings bank, now deputy collector of internal revenue, has been arrested, charged with having embezzled $37,000. The Bank of Excelsior Springs, Mo., a private concern with $50,000 capital, has assigned. The officers claim to be able to pay in full, but the depositors do not believe it. James H. Britton, ex-mayor of St. Louis, has been arrested, charged with being an accessory to the embezziement of his son, who was president of a national bank at Vernon, Tex. Judge M. B. Talley, of the North judicial circuit of Alabama, has been recommended for impeachment by the grand jury for actively aiding and abetting the Skelton boys in the murder of Banker Cross. R. M. Page, president of the Merchants' National bank, of Fort Worth, Tex., now in liquidation, shot and killed A. B. Smith. formerly cashier of the bank, Tuesday. The immediate cause of the killing is unknown. The embezzlement case against S. M. Folsom, president of the defunct Albuquerque, N. M., National bank, was dismissed in the United States court Monday, the indictment being irregularly drawn. Much indignation is expressed. A. J. Tusk, Charles Menke and John Chapman, officers of the defunct Hutchinson, Kan., National bank, have been placed under arrest by a deputy United States marshal on warrants charging them with making false entries and altering the books of the bank.

2. March 23, 1894 Idaho County Free Press Grangeville, ID
Article from Idaho County Free Press, March 23, 1894

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NEWS OF THE WEEK. wires There in are the country. 266,456 miles of telephone The trial of Dan Coughlin, just in $100 Chicago, 000. is said to have cost the closed state in James the Davis, a lunatic, hanged himself morning. jail at Ashland, Oregon, Tuesday Lionel A Buffalo, N. Y., man will bank. National Stagge as receiver of the succeed Oregon Some,antiduarians claim that there is proof known that the locomotive engine was in China 200 years ago. The body of an unknown found land floating in the Willamette man at Port- was suicide. of Monday. It is thought to be a case A post mortem on a Seattle COW deo for veloped the fact that she had been living her some heart. time with a steel wire through Quinn Gallagher, a 12-year-old Tacoma o horse. boy, was kicked in the head by a vicious E will likely His die. skull was broken and he G A. Smith, a farmer of Celma, Tenn. and went home drunk, murdered his wife child, and fled to the woods. He will be lynched it caught. d While working on a bridge four miles from Garfield, Wash., J. A. Hinckley d Sprague, fell 65 feet to the rocks below of and was horribly mangled. Samuel Bogel, a lumberman, was ried over the falls at Post Falls, Idaho, carMonday. A search was made for the body, but no trace was found. d On account of a reduction in wages, car cleaners of the Great Northern 1, Seattle walked out Thursday. Their at places were filled by green hands. At Ash Fork, A. T., Thursday, Tim Casey, a saloon keeper, was shot and killed by William Martin, a gambler. A row over a woman was the cause. of T. D. Yarrington, ex-cashier of the bank of Orting, on trial connected with ks the failure of the Orting bank, was found not guilty of any criminal conduct. The president has notified the democratic leaders in the house that the to amount of appropriations for river and harbors must not exceed $10,000,000. At Langsport, Ind., Wednesday, Philip Petrie killed his wife and then committed suicide. Petrie left a note in ly which ful. he said his wife had been unfaithMichael McCutcheon was burned to death and a woman named Hetherton bad her ankle broken as a result of a fire 10 day. at 682 Eighth avenue, New York, ThursThe government receipts for the first third of March show a decided improvement, the aggregate to date being $9,350,000, month. indicating $26,000,000 for the in John Brecht, a young German farmer, shot his bride of four months and then blew out his own brains at Ravenna, Neb., Tuesday. No cause for the crime 18 known. HO W.C. Baldwin, a well-known broker and commission merchant of Quebec. has failed. His liabilities are $100,000, of Ho doubtful. which $40,000 is secured and $60,000 Charles Anderson was shot in the rstork cheek, not dangerously, in a row on An rge erson island, Tacoma, Tuesday. by O. G ar. Carlson. Clubs and a revolver were freely used. LL The house committee on election o president and vice president has agreed to report a bill providing for the election of United States senators by direct vote of the people. RS The Vermont Central train wa ing wrecked near Montpelier, Monday morn by boulders rolling on the track One person was killed and several ser HO ously injured. LD An Italian druggist named Triori com mitted suicide in New York Wednesda by taking poison because of the disgrac felt over the arrest of his son for abduct ing a young girl. The bank of Excelsior Springs, Mo., private concern, with a capital of $50,00 E failed Monday. The officers claim to able to pay in full, but none of the de b positors believe it. The Bank of Pleasanton, Kansas, wa burglarized Wednesday night. Fiftee hundred dollars in cash was secured, an the postmaster's private box was rifled an $600 worth of stamps. The recent difficulties which ha arisen between the Atchison & Topel and the Southern Pacific are about to overcome and rates are to be restored their former standard. best Senator Dolph has introduced a b extending the time two years for begi ning and constructing the bridge acro the Columbia river by the Oregon Washington Bridge Company. the Senator Aldrich has notifed the sta central committee of Rhode Island th he intends to resign from the Unit RS States senate if the legislature elected the people in April is republican. John Walker, of South Saanich, B. while extracting a charge from his sh ssler. gun Monday night, accidentally d charged the weapon, fatally shooting little child and maiming his wife. Last Saturday Victor Ledewyn, ployed by a chocolate dealer, Milla e of New York, stole $100 and disappear ROPS. Wednesday he died in the hospital, ha ing committed suicide by taking poise Elijah Bressler, a workingman ab ER 26 years of age, committed suicide Hand Salem, Oregon, Friday morning, shooting himself in the head. Bress had been acting queerly for several da a 100 Ex-United States District Attorn Winston, of Spokane, has entered suit the United States circuit court agai the government for $4200. The suit VANS attorney. for fees while Mr. Winston was dist S The boiler of a locomotive on Lehigh Valley railroad exploded Tannary, Pa., Thursday evening, kill rket three men-John Lennay, fireman; ward Fox brakem

3. April 12, 1894 Iron County Register Ironton, MO
Article from Iron County Register, April 12, 1894

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MISSOURI CULLINGS. The Lafayette Presbyterian met at Booneville. James W. Owsley has been appointed postmaster at Palmyra. All divisions of the state supreme court convened on the 10th. W. J. Jones is the new mayor of Nevada, defeating 4. Ambrose. O. V. Bingham, editor of the News, was elected mayor of Shelbina. James Anderson, 76, a veteran of the Mexican war, died near Chillicothe. R. B. Worrell, a well-known hotel man of Mexico, died the other night. Fulton elected a democratic ticket and Mount Vernon a republican ticket. Ground has been broken at Perryville for the Chester & Perryville railThe Central District Medical society of Missouri held their meeting at Sedalia. The Clinton district presbytery, representing southwest Missouri, met at Clinton. Incendiary fire at Maryville burned H. Hamill's barn. Loss, $3,000; no insurance. At a dance near Tipton, Henry Latner stabbed and fatally injured Jacob Wormbroad. Gov. Stone has appointed James E. Lee coal oil inspector for Ray county for two years. Gov. Stone has appointed Wm. D. Murphy inspector of oils at Gorin, Scotland county. Lee Brewer, wanted in Mercer county for alleged perjury, was arrested in Menard county, Ill. The residence of S. C. G. Hopkins, near Marshall, was burned. Loss, $3,700; insurance, $1,500. The town limits of Farmington will be extended, giving an increased population of several hundred. A. Kellar, dry goods and clothing at Lamar, has assigned. L'abilities, $16,000; nominal assets, $15,000. The Palmyra presbytery met at Louisiana. The session was opened with a sermon by Rev. E. B. Walker. Charles Schideck's 10-year-old girl was fatally burned at a brush fire on her father's farm near California. Complete returns give Webster Davis, republican, 2,159 majority over all other candidates for mayor of Kansas City. W. J. Hayes & Son, bankers at Cleveland, O., purchased $20,000 worth of Poplar Bluff waterworks bonds for $20,965. Rev. W. T. Gilliam, of Warrensburg, has accepted a call to the pastorate of the Cumberland Presbyterian church at Union, Neb. Rev. W. H. Barnes has resigned the pastorate of the First Baptist church at Macon, but he has not decided where he will locate. The Nodaway Valley bank, at Maryville, capital $100,000, has been incorPaant H "V Faston S 'V 4q perated A. G. Easton and Samuel Plant. Cooper county's board of equalization has reduced the valuation of horses and mules 10 per cent. from the valuation of the county assessor. At St. Joseph, Horace Davenport, an old soldier, fatally slashed his throat with a penknife. His pension was recently dropped, and he became despondent John Joeps was elected president of the board of managers of Asylum No. 3, at Nevada, in place of D. D. Kennedy, recently appointed consul to Malta. The 4-year-old daughter of William Hatfield, living at Elmer, Macon county, was burned to a crisp. She was playing with matches when her clothes caught fire. The Kansas City presbytery has chosen Rev. W. M. Pocock, of Clinton, and Rev. A. McClaren, of Nevada, delegates to the general assembly, which meetsat Saratoga in May. All the depositors of the Bank of Excelsir Springs, suspended, have been paid in full by Dr. S. R. Keith, the vice-president. The concern will be reorganized and resume business. The Charleston district conference of the M. E. church, south, embracing the counties of Scott, Cape Girardeau, Mississippi, Stoddard, New Madrid and Pemiscot, met at Sikeston, Bishop W. W. Duncan presiding. Sheriff Hogg, while placing James Jones behind the bars at Poplar Bluff, discovered that the lock had been tampered with. Jailer Melton's investigation showed that a plan had been arranged for a general jail delivery. Rev. E. A. Spring, of Erie, III., closed a meeting of several days recently at the Farmington Baptist church. There were four additions to the church. It is probable that Mr. Spring will be chosen asresident pastor of the church. Adam Young, who was granted a new trial by the supreme court, has been granted a change of venue to the Hannibal court of common pleas from the Palmyra circuit court. He was convicted of the murder of his father. Rev. J. M. Hardy, of the M. E. church south, died suddenly at his home in California, He was one of the oldest and most honored residents, having been public administrator for twenty years past. He was one of the pioneer preachers of the county. George Burns, 17, son of Thomas Burns, of Crawford county, quarreled with his father. He then went to his brother's house, while the family was away, and in the presence of his 3-yearold nephew put a trace-chain around hisneck and strangled himself to death. The board of curators of the state university has ordered the executive management to admit free to the un:versity, in the department of medicine students having the highest

4. May 5, 1894 The Cape Girardeau Democrat Cape Girardeau, MO
Article from The Cape Girardeau Democrat, May 5, 1894

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including ministers, were present. A letter was read from Mayor Walbridge expressing a willingness to co-operate with citizens who are sincerely interested in good government. A New State Geologist. The state board of geology has elected Prof. Charles Rollins Keyes, of Iowa, state geologist. Prof. Keyes is at present assistant state geologist of Iowa, is about 30, and is a graduate of Iowa state university and Johns Hopkins university. Sedalia's Choice. Irvin Rautenstranch, the 17-year-old son of John L Rantenstrauch, of Sedalia, was selected out of six contestants to represent the Sedalia high school in the inter-state oratorical contest to be held in Kansas City, May 4. A Suspended Bank Reorganized. The recently suspended bank of Excelsior Springs has been reorganized under the name of the Clay County State bank. The stockholders are the best business men of the city and farmers near the city. Kept Gasoline in the House. A can of gasoline exploded in a small house about a mile and a half south of St. Louis. A 2-year-old child was turned to death, an old woman died from burns, and three others were badly injured. Murdered in Mexico. Daniel Malony, of St. Louis, who went to Mexico at the opening of the races there last fall, has been found dead, ,probably murdered for his money. "As In a Looking-Glass." Wm. P. Guion, of 7612 O'Reilly avenue, St. Louis, while gazing in a mirrer, placed a pistol to his head and sent a bullet through his brain. Lexington M. E. Conference. The annual conference of the Lexington district of the M. E. church, south, met at La Monte, Pettis county, continuing in session several days. Stores Burglarized. Burglars went through several stores in Parnell City, Nodaway county, securing money, silk goods and clothing from some of the stores. Counterfeits Circulated in St. Joseph. Several hundred counterfeit dollars have been put in circulation in St. Joseph. They are a very clever imitation of the standard dollar. Fined for Whipping a Pupil. B. W. Lyle, teacher of a country school north of Nevada, was fined five dollars and costs in the circuit court for whipping a pupil

5. May 5, 1894 The Cape Girardeau Democrat Cape Girardeau, MO
Article from The Cape Girardeau Democrat, May 5, 1894

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A Suspended Bank Reorganized. The recently suspended bank of Excelsior Springs has been reorganized under the name of the Clay County State bank. The stockholders are the best business men of the city and farmers near the city.