Dime Savings Bank (Hartford, CT)

Episode Information

Episode UID
51005870945
Episode Type
Suspension → Closure
Bank Type
savings
Bank ID
5100587 routing
Routing Number
51-0058
Start Date
September 30, 1878
Location
Hartford, Connecticut (41.764, -72.685)

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Model
gpt-5-mini (chosen from majority vote of a three-model LLM ensemble)
Short Digest
0b3514a9ee53740c

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None

Description

Bank was enjoined/suspended by state bank commissioners (1878) and later placed in receivership (1879).

Events (2)
1. September 30, 1878 Suspension
Cause
Government Action
Cause Details
Enjoined/suspended from prosecution of business by the State Bank Commissioners after sustained withdrawals and asset concerns.
Newspaper Excerpt
The Dime Savings Bank of this city was to-day enjoined by the bank commissioners from further prosecution of business.
Source
newspapers
2. December 12, 1879 Receivership
Newspaper Excerpt
Judge H. Doery has appointed Robt. E. Day receiver for the Dime Savings Bank, of this city. The bank has about $500,000 deposits and 7,000 depositors.
Source
newspapers

Newspaper Articles (17)
1. October 1, 1878 Daily Kennebec Journal Augusta, ME
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Sudden Death. James S. Carr, a native of Ripley, Maine, died suddenly here to-day, of apoplexy. Railroad Matters. BOSTON, September 30. The meeting of the stockbolders of the Eastern Rairoad was held today, to take action on the proposed new leases by the road, of other roads now occupied by it. Pending the vote a recess was taken till October 7, the polls to be kept open meanwhile. Gen. Butler. GLOUCESTER, September 30. Butler delivered an address here this evening before & large audience, and was very enthusiastically received. CONNECTICUT. A Bank Stops Business, HARTFORD, September 30. The Dime Savings Bank of this city was to-day enjoined by the bank commissioners from further prosecution of business. The amount of deposits is $493,978. The bank has had an average of $8,000 per month of deposits withdrawn auring the past year, and to meet the drain bas had to borrow $87,500 upon the pledge of $166,282 of its best mortgage loans. The commissioners say the loans of the bank of $481,497 on mortgage securities, are generally good, and that the loss to depositors will not be large if the assets are judicially managed.

2. October 1, 1878 The Rock Island Argus Rock Island, IL
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CONNECTICUT HARTFORD, Sept.30.-The dime savings bank, of this city, was to-day enjoined by the Bank Commissioners from further prosecution of business. Amount of deposits, $493,978. The bank has had an average ot $8,000 per month of deposits withdrawn during the past year, and to meet the drain has had to borrow $87,500 upon a pledge of $166,582 of the best mortgage loans. The commissioners say that the loans of the bank on mortgage securities are generally good, and that the loss to depositors will not be large.

3. October 1, 1878 The Portland Daily Press Portland, ME
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Savings Bank Closed. HARTFORD, Sept. 30.-The Dime Savings Bank of this city was today enjoined by the Bank Commissioners from further prosecution of business. The amount of deposits is $493,978 88. The bank has had ao average of $8000 per month of dep sits withdrawn during the past year and to meet the drain has had to borrow $88,500 upon the pledge of $166,282 of its best mortgage loans. The Commissioners say the loans of the bank of $481,497 on mortgage security are generally good and that the loss to depositors will not be large if the assets are judiciously managed.

4. October 1, 1878 New-York Tribune New York, NY
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New-York Daily Tribune. FOUNDED BY HORACE GREELEY. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1878. THE NEWS THIS MORNING. FOREIGN.-The Turkish paper currency is depreIt 18 intended to extend the ciating rapidly. East Indian frontier largely in the event of war The British fleet has retired with Afghanistan. to Artaki Bay, seventy miles southwest of Constantinople. Russia says her Afghan Mission was simply an act of courtesy to the Ameer. DOMESTIC.-A temporary injunction was granted yesterday against the payment of the expenses of the late ball to British officers at Newport. President White was welcomed home to Cornell UniThe President versity, last night, at Ithaca. The leaves Washington to-day for New-York. Dime Savings Bank at Hartford, Coun., has suspended business. A table has been prepared at Washington showing that the cost of the Customs service of this country is less than that of England. CITY AND SUBURBAN.-Mr. Tilden's counsel explained yesterday the manner in which the missing books were taken. Steps are being taken for a The union of all the Anti-Tammany factions. Toutonia Savings Bank trustees were held for .trial. The Denver extension bondholders appointed a committee on reorganization. Preparations were made for the coming religious conference. Gold 1003g, 1003g, 1008 Gold value of the legal-tender dollar at the close 99610 cents. Stocks less active, but fauctuating, closing feverish and unsettled. THE WEATHER-TRIBUNK local observations indicate warmer and clear or partly cloudy weather. Thermometer yesterday, 65°, 69°. 63°.

5. October 4, 1878 Perrysburg Journal Perrysburg, OH
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only mote the election of those candidates who stand on this platform." were made by nominations Il The following Democratic State Conver Boston the Massachusetts on the 25th: Governor Wil Jo tion held'at Abbott; Lieutenant Governor, State, Henry siah G. Plunkett; Secretary of David N liam R. Treasurer and Receiver, Attor C. Dewing Auditor John E. Fitzgerald; resolutions n Skilling; General, Richard Olney. The par of ney that the National people Democratic and declare the party of the Republican ty is Constitution that the people the defrauded both State and Chief Magis party their circonstitutionally has elected and State have of that both nation enterprise trate; made the tools of private have shaped been and Legislatures thereof; that reciprocal and Congresses meet the demande world their laws free to trade with the measures civilized to pro restricted only by necessary revenue, will alone once vide the National with the sails of Americ more whiten the Congress seas has no power to make 1 can ships; anything that lest it be gold or silver legal tender, annual etc., etc. meeting of the stockholders was The Pacific Railroad Company The gross the North York on the 25th. were $1,193,381 at New road for the year net balance ings of the $631,302, leaving a over last year of expenses, or net increase of million $562,079 $169,381. Nearly firee-quarters acres of land were sold. of for Judge G. B. Bradley was nominated the New York Dem- the on the Court of Appeals held at Syracuse that gold 26th, on platform and oeratic Convention which declares into and silver coin holder, the only currency the will of the toward specie payat country; steady steps of the public the the honest payment rule no cen ments; tariff for revenue; home justice to debt; equal and exact of force and tralization conspiracy an that by the infamous of the Republican party and fraud the leaders the Nation's choic for the in put Presidency, nulled and reversed defeated candidate of Washington. at Philstorm on Pa., adelphia, the chair heavy wind and rain of the 26th, erection, During the afternoon was blown it, and seven new building in process workmen of were engaged upon dandown, while the persons were injured, three Covention was gerously. New York Republican the State 26th, Senator The held at Saratoga on George F. DanResolutions forth Roscoe was Conkling, nominated president. for Judge were of adopted the Court de is Nation sacredly of Appeals. that the faith of the of the public debt claring to the payment promises to the advanced pledged and the redemption spirit and of letter public of the engage to cording the country having there should o step ment: point that of specie payment, postponement; the backward and no that the Electora favor of hard money wise and honorable that mode Commission was dangerous dispute, and conclusion of settling impair the to undo or and evolutionary attempt established npatriotic elections it free and unintimidated declaration for demand renew their the basis the South; the public on performelevation tenure of during the faithful term; etc. a secure of official duties for a fixed Polar Expediance Tyson, of the Howgate Newfoundland, on the Capt. St. Johns, fourteen months tion, reached He has been absent Com 27th. expedition were well. Finance All of the published by the School Union A card was American Sunday misstatements mittee of 27th, the stating that some in regard on been published wish to correct. have recently the Committee and searching find affairs, Committee which made a careful any defalcainvestigation, The found, and failed however, to that publishing some mis takes tions; have they been made in the of the mispartment. department In the no defect or able neglect promptly sionary Union abundantly finanfound. The all its obligations and is in no cial embarrassm was over passing proces in the As funeral the Long Island Railroad, 28th, one the track of N Y., on the beside city of Brooklyn, five persons, the carriages containing struck by train and and alittle the occupants, driver, was Miss Mary Redwood were killed, its Stephen Callahan, her children seriously, son of Mrs. Callahan and McNamara, two of the driver, and Mrs. and Patrick and conductor of the train, fatally injured. and the The flagman engineer at the crossing were arrested. Transportation Company Pleas The Empire decree of the Common the 28th. dissolved by 3, a of Philadelphia, on with Court, No. was taken in accordance This action filed last spring. the released Fenian petition Condon and Melody, York on the 29th, arrived at New by large number prisoners, warmly received were delighted and were countrymen. They was granted of their which English the cordial reception member of the at New Dean Stanley, Committee, arrived on the American Bible Revision the 29th. The Dean Committee called now that and was city, York on Bible Revision introduced Dr. Schaff an session the committee in by its address President of welcome, the he impression and In replying spoke favorably to of of the the regular progDean everywhere of the happy had received approaching conclusion effect it would ress vision work, and upon the the study and bringing under have, not of only the Bible, but union also the in different standing in true spiritual christendom. together of English speaking Hartford, Conn. branches Savings Bank, of The Dime the Bank the 30th was enjoined prosecution by of business $493,978. on The Comfurther Amount of deposits, loss to depositors ult. state that the are judicially will not missioners be large if the assets of the holders managed. meeting of the held bond at New York At Pacific Railroad earnings Kansas statement of the the term of the 30th, of the road, including 21, 1876, to Sept 15, penses from Nov. Gross earnings receivership made, as follows: $3,826,854 1878, was operating expenses, $2,069,153; less $5,896,007; earnings, not approximate net transpo transportation $455,000; per $895,000 Government and available company earnings, $1,614,152, annum applicable being paid, at the to rate interest of about on mortgage bonds WEST AND SOUTH. was nomincumbent, R. Bradley, present J.M. Adams for Lieu- Coninated L. for Governor, and W.E. F. Deal State for Contenant-Governor Nevada Democratic declarer gress by the 24th. The platform for the vention favor of on hard the money, on and silver. calls in of all restrictions of the Tennessee moval reunion of the Army Ind., Oct The place at Indianapolis, Sheridan, Hanwill take Sherman, and Jeff and 31. Generals Burnside, Logan, indications Buell, promcock, Pope, will attend. The other States, and C. Davis large attendance from made accordingly ise a being Lebanon, Ind. preparations are passed over were roofed severe storm 25th. Houses was unon A the afternoon and the new of the Presbyterian Church

6. October 11, 1878 The Jasper Weekly Courier Jasper, IN
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denies that he potsoned Mrs. Bishop, and imputes the murder to the woman. The whole makes one of the most terrible chapters in the annals of crime. Cashier Calder, of the Grocers' Produce Bank of Providence,R. B. is under arrest charged with embezzling from $80,000 to $100,000 of the funds hatinstitution. He says he lent the money to various friends, who failed to repay it when called upon. Mr. George Baneroft, the historian, was seriously injured on the 1st,by being thrown from a carriage at Newport, R. 1. Dennis Kearney was hooted at and pelted with vegetables at an open-air meeting in Boston on the 1st. The Hartford (Conn.) Dime Savings Bank is being wound up by the State Commissioners. Depositors are assured that their losses will not be large if the assets are judiciously managed. FOREIGN. Official advices from Mexico received by the State Department indicate that thesituation there is growing prederious for the Government of Gen. Diaz. Revolutionary movements are occurring with increasing frequency, and are extending over theentire country. The Treasury is without funds, and great complaint is made by merchants of extensive smuggling now being conducted, it is said, with the connivance of the Mexican Governmentofficers on the border. The latter are said to be making large profits from this contraband trade. The reports ra. ceived are such as to indicate that the Gov. ernment which was born of revolution may itself be compelled to surrender to revolution. The threatened war between the Argentine Republic and Chill had not yet broken out, according to the latest advices from South America, but a peaceful solution of the difficulty seems improbable. It is expected that Peru and Bolivia may take a part in the contest, should war be declared, the former on the side of Chili. The result would determine whether the Argentine Republic or Chili should have the privilege of conquering the savages of sterile Patagonia. Gen. Grant was entertained by the citizens of Zurich, Switzerland, on the 23d. He is now in Paris. A Berlin dispatch says that after a strict investigation into Hoedel and Nobeling's cases, no trace of a conspiracy could be discovered. England is threatening to invade Afghanistan with an Indian army, on account of the Ameer having received a Russian representative with great favor. while at the same time refusing a British Mission entrance to his dominions. Russian influence at Cabul is believed to be responsible for this indignity to Britain's representative, and it is not unlikely that very serious complications may result therefrom. Dr. August Heinrich Petermann, the well knownGerman geographer, died from apoplexy on the 26th. Gen. Phillippovich officially reports that the Bosnian revolt has been effectually suppressed and that the main portion of the Austrian army can be withdrawn by the end of the present month. Gen. Jovanovieh telegraphs that after five days'violent bombardment, Klobsxk, the last refuge of the Herzegovinian insurgents, had surrendered, having made a brave defense. The destruction of the fortified rock was immediately commenced. The Austrian loss was trifling. War talk again prevails in consequence of Gen. Trevino approaching the Rio Grande with 12,000 men from Central Mexico. It is thought that Trevino aiming at the Presidency of Mexico, and may take decided steps to gain popularity with the Mexican masses, who deeply bate Americans. Telegraphic dispatches from India leave little room for hope that the Afghan difficulty will be arranged peacefully. The Government is hastening on military preparations, and troops are being collected from all sides and sent to various points on the northwest frontier of India. The Hungarian Ministry have resigned, on account of their unwillingness or insbility to provide the money required as the contingent of Hungary to the expenses of the Bosnian invasion, There was great excitement in Vienna on account of the Ministerial crisis. GENERAL. Gen. Sherman has written a letter to D. D. Colton, Vice-President of the Southern Pacific Railroad, dwelling upon the importance of the road to the interests of Arizona, and to the development of trade and friendly relations with Mexico, closing with the permission to publish the text with the understanding that it is written without consultation with the War Department, although the writer is almost certain that it will meet with the sanction of the Department. The Commissioners appointed to select a new reservation for the Ute Indians have chosen a location at the headwaters of the Navajo and Blanch Rivers isolated from

7. October 11, 1878 Essex County Herald Island Pond, Guildhall, VT
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SUMMARY OF NEWS. Eastern and MiddleStates met The at New York Democratic State convention On the Syracuse, and held & two days recognition first day there was bitter struggle session. for from New between contesting delegations delogations York and Kings counties. The Tammany from New York county represented two were and Anti- Tammany, and the bate. admitted On after a fierce and protracted former was the second day George B. de peals, nominated and for judge of the court Bradley of gold and a platform adopted which claims apcolh at nilvet and paper convertible rency of the the will of the holder, the only into steps country approves of ourpayment toward specie payments and the steady the of the public debt honest date Republican in the party put & defeated charges that the chair of Washington, and indorses candi administration of Governor Hobinson. The held New York Republican State convention was Democratic at Saratoga on the same day of Conkling convention in Syracuse. the long was elected chairman, and Senator made as the address. George F. Danforth was & of party's candidate for judge of the selected the appeals, and the platform adopted court demption payment of the public debt, and favors the letter of the public promises according the refor hard and spirit of the engagement. to in public money, specie resumption, calls vice, and expenses, and an elevated economy toral declares that the action of givil,setmen of Commission all parties. should be declared as the final Elec- by East By Side the giving way of a scaffolding on three Elevated railroad, in New the R distance workmen of were thrown to the York was about forty feet, And ground, injured. killed, while the other two were one severely man South The Norwalk, steamer Adelphi, which runs between ploded her Conn. and New York exforce of the boiler near Gregory's Point city, bow to explosion shook the steamer The the boiler. stern, and tore away a large from twenty five A feet space wide of about fifty feet section long by of port side of the was ripped out of the above the Boiler boat, and the Baloon deek ing along such of was the huried overboard. carry. cupying after the seats and passengers sofas. as were 00fragments the explosion of the air was filled Immediately with of wood, followed by flying affrighted escaping passengers, steam, and then the screams hissing of cloud the The came with appalling suddenness. upon whom the disaster on board some of ran the hither and thither in their fright, people the windows, while women making a frantic rush for servers, in many put on the life-prethe water. anticipation One of a struggle for life in as follows The passenger first knew gives his experience had the steam occurred was was a hissing noise, that as anything though was at the moment escaping somewhere. There such as usually no concussion or Before I had follows the bursting of report, boiler were flying in time to speak or think timbers of my timber flew every past me direction. and out of A large the piece coat AR clean as a tailor could skirt of I Was so excited that did have done it, got ashore. The timber not notice it until and some went bodies from the starboard side of all the appeared boat to come landing in the rushi water g at through the air with them, ahead, to fifty feet. An instant distances later the of from boat twenty the water. and the victims were left forged the On board it was like struggling a in rushing women screaming and fainting, madhouse, the hurrying to pell and fro. mell, stamping upon each other, men Some shouted. Nobody somewhere, anywhere. any reason knew what he did as insane as why the he rest. was It doing it, and was just or surd if it had not been would have been abwas before the boat 80 terrible. How long it Point, or what was pulled up at Gregory's cannot say. The anybody did in the meantime and somehow captain was tolerably coolsiderable his orders wore obeyed. there was : part of the main deck was gone A con getting ashore big h le in the port side. After and their wits the people began to recover killed or missing. and to inquire I who was hurt, lost, brought saw several dead bodies be not ashore before left, and there Ewelve less than fifty persons wounded. must jured, persons were killed And twenty-one insome fatally. avenue, As a funeral procession was crossing Atlantic ing along Brooklyn, a locomotive came thunderbreaking it and ran into one of the copants into to fragments and hurling carriages, the carriage, Mary the E. Street Redmond, The driver of the 00 Thomas Callahan, aged sixteen, and and four aged twelve. were jured. other persons in the vehicle were killed. inhas The been Dime savings bank, of Hartford, Conn. from the enjoined by the bank commissioner further prosecution of business. Napoleon Major August Rullman, who fought day, aged I., died at Newark, N. J., the under other with the ninety-seven years. He had from Moscow first Bonaparte in the terrible march been at and in numerous battles. of the Waterloo, Legion and of Honor. was decorated with the ending cross ings The trustees of the suspended Teutonia trial, bank, of New York, have been held sav funds. for embezzlement of the institution's for from George his Bancroft, the historian, was thrown 10 R. I., and carriage severely while injured. out riding at Newport, The New York city grand jury has made a Elevated presentment, declaring the Metropolitar ae of private railroad a nuisance and an invasion 18 the rights, and asserting that should annoyances be removed. caused by the road could many and of it An Australian team of eleven cricketer If arrived they have in New York, from England, or made a successful tour, where y8 first many match of the in best this clubs of Great Britain. defeating Their twenty-tw picked country was played with whom they defeated players from New York er with four wickets to spare. by a score of 162 to 161 elected The Vermont legislature organized and ne James L. Martin speaker. re United Officers of the Secret Service, assisted by ne been States marshals and deputies Id tensive actively gang engaged of in running down an hav ex various counterfeiters, ag The points in Kentucky and operating a er been gang was thoroughly organized, Tennessee and ha ds of engaged extensively in the manufactur In preconcerted counterf silver coin and currency. an in movement, the officers By r. capturing arresting a twenty-six of the gang. succeede and i nd counterfeit money. large amount of machinery an it The Western and Southern States. he treasure coach of the Cheyenne nd Black wood, Hills stage line, on its way from Dead and ry. killed was stopped by five armed men, to and one passenger, wounded two who to robbed the stage of treasure messengers a nearly $80,000. Two of the robbers amounting wer or wounded during the fight. es ticket The Nebraska Democrats have nominated we court judge. headed by John D. Howe for suprem in ticket of the Greenback Three of the party. nominees are on th Indians During and an United encounter between Cheyenn north States troops. sixty OW of Fort Wallace, Kansas. mile of Colonel Lewis was killed, and two men Lieutenant wound as ed. The hostiles were defeated. of A destructive fire in Easton, Md., as a an loss entire block of valuable buildings, destroye entailin a estimated at from $75,000 to $100,000 partly covered by insurance. ow nd Two officers attempted to arrest a tram near cerned Akron, Ohio, on suspicion of being en by in a robbery, when they were set con wo their a gang of thirty tramps and had to flee upo lives. Thereupon militia on called tramps out, and arrested eighteen company of W8

8. December 12, 1879 Daily Press and Dakotaian Yankton, SD
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REGARDING POSTAGE. Washington, Dec. 12.-The house committee agree to report adversely the bill allowing circulars to be carried in the mails under newspaper rates. RAILROAD REPRESENTATIVE3 BEFORE C N GRESS. Washington, Dec. 12-The national board of trade committee made arguments before the house committee on commerce to-day, favoring the regulation by congress of charges for transportation of freight by railroad companies, and advocating a na tional railread commission to supervise the railread matters. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION New York, Dec. 12.-The American Agricultural association resumed its session to-day. Alletter from President Hayes was read. The president expressed his regrets at not being able to personally acknowledge the invitation to be present, and emphatical ly expressed this appreciation of the objects of the association. and his ishes success and future welfare John Merriman, of Maryland, has been chosen president. The vice presidents include John Scot of lows Gilley of Illinois. and D.H. Wheeler of Nebras New York, Dec. 12.-The agricultural convention bad final session to-day. VA paper was read on the American problem of land holding. followed by addresses on different subjects. IS TALMADGE A LIAR? New York Dec. 12-The twenty two com plainants' to the synod of Long Island from the decision of the Brooklyn presbytery in the case of Rev. T. Dewitt Talmadge pub licly denounce the statement read by Dr. Talmadge to his congregation last Sunday morning and puolished in the newspapers Monday as a tissue of falsehoods, and say they shall hold hfm to his responsibility as a false accuser. POINTED. batti Hartford, Dec. 12.-A receiver has been appointed for the Dime Sayings bank. Its deposits are half a million. NEW YORK STATE OFFICIALS. Albany, Dec. 1243 The board of state canvassers declare all the republicas candidat elected except state engineer and, surveyor. Horatio Seymour, Jr., the democra IC candidate for that office, is declared elected ANAB REFUGE New York, Dec. 12.-A number of Arab fugitives from Cayenne and about 30 des titute Poles recently arrived at Castle Gatden to be sent to persons who have written for wood choppers. The Arabs appealed to the commissioners of emigration to sist them in securing employment, NO they might earn enough money to ultimately reach Tunis where they hope to meet their families and live under Turkish government. They claim It would not be wise for them to venture on French territory, having been banished to Cayenne by the French government for participating in a revolt in Algiers. GRANT'S DEPARTU BFROMOIECINSATI Cincinnati, Dec. 12.-Gen. Grant this morning received eptescatesidos the Evangelical Ministerial Alliance at the Gibson House, and later the members of the There was no time for speeches HH the train left at 11 o'clock, and with IN brief hand chake and a fraternal word he hurried away to the Miami depot and took the train for Columbus amid the lef the crowd there assembled. BAILROAD ON BROADWAY New. York, Dec 12.-A railroad on Broadway is again talkett of with branches to all the the Broadway road with Vanderbill Fourth avenue line and with the Fortv-Sec. ond street and Manhattanville road and run cars from the ferry 40 Harlom river. The right also m given-other railway companies to connect with the Broadway line This of making Broadway R receptacle for care of nearly IF ine and practically exclote riagen and srucke GRANT AT COLORIDUS Columbus, o, Dec. 12- Gen. and Mra

9. December 12, 1879 Public Ledger Memphis, TN
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Receiver for a Savings Bank. HARTFORD, December 12.-Judge H. Doery has appointed Robt. E. Day receiver for the Dime Savings Bank, of this city. The bank has about $500,000 deposits and 7,000 depositors.

10. December 12, 1879 The Rock Island Argus Rock Island, IL
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CONNECTICUT. HARTFORD, Dec. 12.-The receiver appointed for the Dime Savings Bank, deposits half a million as security.

11. December 13, 1879 Daily Republican Wilmington, DE
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WWS SUMMARY. New.York Board of CanvannersHelp for Closed-Postmoster Tyler Vindicated-Other Incidents,Aecidents, Crimes, &c. The Board of State Canvassers of New-York met yesterday in Albany,and the returns of the It was found, as canvassed tion. already late elec- published, that all the Republican candidates, except for State Engineer and Surveyor, were elected, Horatio Seymour, Jr., Democrat, being elected to the latter office. Representative Kenna, of West Virginia, has secured subscriptions from Congressmen in aid of the suffering poor in Ireland to the amount of over $500, and he expects the sum to reach $1000. There is no political significance in the contributions; they areacts of purely personal charity. All the public schools in Petersburg, Va., were closed yesterday for one month. The State failed to contribute its full quota to carry them on, and rather than reduce the salaries of the teachers, the Board of Education deoided upon & winter vacation. It is understood that after examining the evidence against Postmaster Tyler, of Baltimore, and his rejoinder, the President is satisfied there is no cause for removal, either on personal or official grounds. While "Father Quinn," an ex-priest, in was lecturing in a Methodist church Norwich, Conn., last night, stones were thrown through the window from without. A girl was cut in the face by broken glass, but the meeting was not broken up. A Chinaman and women were recentchopped to pieces by another Chinaly at Victoria, B. C. The murderer man, set fire to the house, but the fire ex. tinguished and the crime discovered. Three graves at Oxford, Mich., were robbed of their dead on Thursday night. Two men, having the bodies their possession, were arrested at railway station near Oxford, yesterday morning. Robert E. Day was yerterday appointed receiver of the Dime Savings bank, Bank, of Hartford, Conn. The which has been under an injunction for eighteen months, has 7000 depositors, and owes them $500,000. The Virginia Legislature yesterday elected Captain Asa Rogers, Jr., Readto be Railroad Commissioner. juster, The term of Col. Carter, the present until Commissioner, does not expire April, 1881. The Secretary of War informed the House of Representatives yesterday that donations of condemned cannon monumental purposes have ex- on hausted for the supply of such cannon hand. The whaling echooner Arizona, sailed from Providence, R. I., in April and has not been heard of since, is last, given up for lost. She had sixteen persons on board. General William Mahoue was unani- by nominated for U. S. Senate the mously Readjusters' caucus of the Virginia Legislature last night. Amos Tuck, ex-member of Congress New Hampshire, died of apoplexy at from Exeter, in that State, on Thursday night. He was a native of Maine. The House Committee on Post Offices the agreed to report adversely carried on in has bills allowing circulars to be the mails at newspaper rafes. Frederick Hay, John Rickler and named James, were killed by near fall boy of slate in the Forest Colliery, Fremont, Pa., yesterday morning. Three men were killed and seven in by the caving in of an embankment jured in Plattsmouth, Neb., yesterday. The Truth COMING Out. The Carroll (La.) Conservative, SunDemocratic organ, says thaton the David night before the election, on day a colored man living in Armstrong, near Milliken's Bend, his Parish, was taken a mob of twenty or the armed men. After his house plantation Madison by abduction, from thirty more than people twenty in the neighborhood shots fired, heard and next

12. December 13, 1879 The Daily Gazette Wilmington, DE
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General News. Representative Kenna, of West Virginia, has secured subscription from Congressmen in aid of he suffering poor in Ireland to the amount of over $500, and he expects the sum to reach $1000 There in no political significance in the contributions; they are acts of ! urely personal charity. The Board of State Canvassers of New York met yesterday in Albany, and canvassed the returns of the late election. It was found, as already published, that all the Republican candidates, except for State Engineer rnd Surveyor, were elacted Horatio Seymour, Jr., Democrat, being elected to the latter office. The Virgiuia Legislature yesterday elected Captain Asa Rodgers, Jr, Readjuster, to be Railroad Commissioner. The term of Col. Carter, the present Commissioner, doe. not expire until April, 1881. Abraham Anneto, colored, and Franets Adams, sailor=, were arrested in Baltimore, yesterday, on the charge of murder OR the high seas, and attempting to destroy the schooner M. E. Henderson, of Philadelpbia, bound to Baldimore with phosphate from Bull River. The vessel went to pieces on the 30th ult., near Kitty Hawk, and Anneta and Adams, with another satior, not yet arrested, were the only ones who es. caped from the wreck, and as soon as they got near shore they ran away. As the bodles of the officers were not found it is believed that the three men murdered them, and then beached the vetsel to conceal their crime. All the public schools in Petersburg, Va., were closed yesterday, for oue month. The State failed to contribute its full quota to carry them on, and rather than reduce the salaries of the teachers, the Board of Education decided upon a winter vacation. Robt. E. Day was yesterday appointed receiver of the Dime Savings Banki O. Hartford, Conn. The bank, which has been under an injunction for eighteen months, has 7000 depositors, and owes them $500,000.

13. December 18, 1879 Fayette County Herald Washington Court House, OH
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The Dime Savings Bank at Hartford, Conn., was placed in the hands of a receiver on the 12th. The bank has about $500,000 of deposits and 7,000 depositors.

14. January 9, 1880 Morning Journal and Courier New Haven, CT
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LOCAL NEWS. Savings Banks. Important Report of the Commission ers The annual report of the Bank Commissioners was submitted in the House, Wednes day afternoon, and referred to the Committee on Banks. The report shows the amount of deposits in the savings banks October 1, 1879, as being $72,842,443.39 a gain of $326,974. 86 as compared with 1878. The interest and surplus was $2,863,187.74, an increase of $11,067.70 for the year. The total number of depositors 202,385, being a gain over 1878 of 2,590. The number of accounts opened during the year was 26,670, an increase of 254. The accounts closed were 24,080, being decrease as compared with 1878 of 7,116. a The amount withdrawn was $14,221,087.64, decrease of $4,732,372.93. The assets include loans on real estate, $45,108,803, a decrease of $3,033,894 for the year; Government bonds $803,695. an increase of $1,383,131; real of tate owned $4,959,119 being an increase $1,251,986. The total assets are $76,241,816, and the excess of assets over liabilities $2, 863,188 The Commissioners say the general reduc. tion in the rate of interest upon United States bonds, and upon State and municipal securities, has affected to a considerable extent the earnings of savings banks. Interest upon loans, real or personal, is by law re stricted to six per cent. and as but four or five per cent can be realized upon invest ments, except in rare instances, it is evident that the earnings of an equal amount of assets must be somewhat reduced from those of previous years. Considering the low rate of interest of almost every description of reliable investment securities. the depositors in savings banks in this State have no reason to com plain of the dividends they have received and the fact that the entire income has not been divided shows that the officers are pursuing conse rvative policy, and are unwilling to jeopardize the principal of the deposits for the name of paying large dividends Of the 86 banks in the State 35 paid five per cent 26. four and one-half per cent 12. four 3. four and three-fourths five and one-half and six per cent. Five of the banks paid nothing, four of them being under in junction during the year. and the oth was winding up its affairs. The dividend of one of the banks paying six per cent amounted to but $15.49. the bank having paid off nearly all its depositors. Considerable space is devoted to e status and affairs of the late Dime Savings Bank Hartford, now in the hands of receiver. The report says The losses of the bank are in great measure the result of loans made by a former treasurer. N. B. Stevens, upon insufficient security, and in many instances in violation of law. He used the bank largely in his own interest making loans to personal friends, to associates in real estate speculations, and to himself through veils so thin that the real nature of the transactions is not concealed. If it had been the deliberate in tention to unload upon the bank outlying and unsaleable real estate at valuation some of the loans could hardly have been better arranged. The officers and trustees seem to have left the management of the bank pretty much to the treasurer, and cannot cape whatever of consure attaches to a neglect of duty. As required by law. we report the irregularities, or the more prominent ones, to the General Assembly. THE RECOMMENDAT As some of the banks under the present statute cannot profitably invest all the money which might be deposited within them, and so are obliged to turn away depositors, the Commissioners recommend (1) That trustees be themselves allowed to decide how much to lend on real estate instead of fixing the amount at half the deposits. (2) That recognizing the growth of the West bonds of other cities and States than those now named in the law be made legal investments. (3) That the first mortgage bonds of sound, dividend-paying railroads be also allowed as investments. The Commissioners also recommend that the State Treasurer be custodian of the bonds and that these be renewed at least once in five years. They renew the recommendation that savings banks be forbidden to lend on securities as collateral which the law forbids them to own as assets. In regard to State banks and trust companie they think the restriction as to the amount of loans to individuals no long er need to be made and they recommend that the treasurers of trust companies be required to give bonds. STATE BANKS. The number of banks doing business under State charters is four- the same as at the date of the last report. The stock of the Conneeticut River Banking Company has been re duced to $150,000, as approved by the last General Assembly its suspended and overdue paper has been written off and with its present capital it has a handso surplus. Dividends were resumed in July The Mechanics Bank at New Haven also paid dividend in July so that all the State banks are now on dividend paying basis. [TRUST COMPANIES. There are, as last year, ten of these institutions in the State. The Merchants Loan and Trust Company at Willimantic, though retaining its organization. is not in active busi ness, and the Thames Loan and Trust Com pany at Norwich is closing up its affairs. The Equitable Trust Company at New London, and the Middlesex Banking Compan deal ex. clusively in real estate loans so that there but six doing a general banking business. But four report dividends during the year. The receivers of the Townsend Savings Bank paid 10 per cent. dividend last year, making 40 per cent so far The nominal assets remaining are $935,020.27, valued at $200,623.61. The heavy charges of the receivers and the current expenses are to be paid from this, so that there will be only a small final dividend to come. The Meriden Poultry Show. At the fourth annual exhibition, at City Hall, Meriden, of the Meriden Poultry and Pet Stock Club, which closed last evening, the following New Haven parties were awarded premiums J. A. Howarth, first prize on buff cochin fowls and chicks. F. W. Babcock, first on white oochin fowls and chicks and second on white cochin chicks and black cochin fowls. a. P. Jordan, first and second and special on black Hamburg chicks and third on black Hamburg fowls F. A. Chase, second on blue wing turbits and special on black rose-combed bantams. George Cosgrove, of Whitneyville, first and second on black Leghorn chicks. Among the New Haven visitors to the ex hibition yesterday were Messrs. Chase, Ensign, Edward Todd, Jordan, Babcock and Bunnell, of this city, and Cosgrove, Nichols Baker, Vining and Talbot, of Whitneyville. The exhibition drew throngs of people and a large number of Meriden ladies and gentlemen of prominence evinced a decided in terest. CIDER CIDER 50 BARRELS of the Cider KLAUS' CIDER Whalley

15. January 31, 1880 Morning Journal and Courier New Haven, CT
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Dime Savings Bank. The committee appointed by the depositors of the Dime Savings Bank, Hartford, to prepare a petition to be presented to the Superior Court opposing the appointment of a receiver, find that the desire is almost unanimously in favor of this course, nearly every one having an opportunity having signed. Depositors representing three-fifths have already signed, and it is supposed that all the names will be obtained.

16. October 26, 1880 Morning Journal and Courier New Haven, CT
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nominated by the Democrats as their candidate for sheriff of Tolland county. The Rev. Franklin Countryman has accepted an invitation to become pastor of the Georgetown Congregational church. The new dam of the Mineral Springs company at Stafford was swept away by the freshet Friday night, while the old dam just back of it stood the pressure. Company G of Waterbury, Captain Bannon, who were on their way home from Atlanta, stopped over at New York and visited General Hancock at Governor's Island on Saturday. The stockinet mill at Windsor has a new Troy bell weighing 1,118 pounds to replace the cracked one which was put up in 1845, and weighed eleven pounds less than the new one. S. Maslin & Son, of Hartford, are now putting up a splendid Quincy granite sarcophagus in the family lot of J. Luther Spencer at the cemetery in Suffield. It will be 91 feet long, consist of eight pieces and weighs 15 tons. The cost is about $5,000. The depositors of the Hartford Dime Savings bank have signed a contract to permit nearly $200,000 to remain on interest in the bank, in order that it may resume and not go into a receiver's hands. It is believed that after 18 months there will be money enough to pay all depositors in full.

17. November 10, 1880 Morning Journal and Courier New Haven, CT
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LOCAL NEWS. The Dime Savings Bank. Judge Hovey, on the petition of Judge McManus for a receiver of this bank, decided yesterday afternoon that under the law he could not appoint a receiver unless it was asked for by the bank commissioners (who do not ask it), or upon the petition of a majority of the depositors. The case was argued by Judge McManus and Charles R. Chapman, the latter claiming that in the absence of the bank commissioners Judge McManus, with two-or three depositors, could not be heard. The judge sustained this view. Judge McManus then gave notice that he would ask for an order that a dividend of twenty per cent. be declared.- - Hart. ford Times.