Milford Five Cents Savings Bank (Milford, NH)

Episode Information

Episode UID
54010270898
Episode Type
Run โ†’ Suspension โ†’ Closure
Bank Type
savings
Bank ID
5401027 routing
Routing Number
54-0102
Start Date
October 28, 1874
Location
Milford, New Hampshire (42.835, -71.649)

Metadata

Model
gpt-5-mini (chosen from majority vote of a three-model LLM ensemble)
Short Digest
dcc9baba31c6fa6d

Response Measures

None

Description

Contemporary reports say the bank will likely be wound up, but no explicit receivership/closure date in these articles.

Events (2)

1. October 28, 1874 Run
Cause
Bank Specific Adverse Info
Cause Details
Depositors made nervous by failure to pay expected dividend in August and prior suspensions in Nashua, prompting heavy withdrawals.
Measures
Heavy withdrawals; led to suspension of payments
Newspaper Excerpt
a heavy run Wednesday induced the suspension
Source
newspapers
2. October 30, 1874 Suspension
Cause
Bank Specific Adverse Info
Cause Details
Suspension followed heavy run and depositor nervousness; liabilities ~ $500,000 believed covered by securities.
Newspaper Excerpt
The Milford Five Cents Savings Bank has suspended, with liabilities of half a million dollars
Source
newspapers

Newspaper Articles (11)

Article from Public Ledger, October 30, 1874

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Suspension of a Bank. MILFORD, N. H., October 30-The Milford Five Cents Savings Bank has suspended, with liabilities of half a million dollars-covered, it is believed, by assets.


Article from The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer, October 31, 1874

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-The total loss by fire at Green Castle, Indiana, is about $825,000. Insurance $133,000. - The Milford, N. H., five cents Savings Bank has suspended with liabilities of half a million dollars, covered it is believed by assets. 1 -Three executions will take place in Pennsylvania on the 12th ot November. Udderzook at West Chester, and O'Mears and Ervin at Montrose.


Article from Nashville Union and American, October 31, 1874

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Suspension of a Savings Bank. MILFORD, N. H., Oct. 30 - -The Milford Five Cents Savings Bank has suspended with liabilities of half a million dollars, covered, it is believed, by the assets.


Article from The Daily Gazette, October 31, 1874

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GENERAL NEWS. / George H. Kingsbury. Assistant Receiving Teller of the National Bank of Redemption at Boston. was arrested yesterday for stealing $31,000 from the bank. He returned $20,000. The Milford Five Cents Savings Bank, at Milford, N. H., has suspended. Its liabilities are about $500,000, but will be covered, it is believed, by securities held by the bank. It is likely that the concern will be wound up. There is considerable popular feeling against some of the officers.


Article from The Portland Daily Press, October 31, 1874

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NEW HAMPSHIRE. Suspension of a Savings Bank. MILFORD, Oct. 30.-The Milford Five Cen t Savings Bank has suspended with liabilities at half a million, which will be covered it is believed by securities held by the bank. Excitement runs high against some of the bank officials and is increasing. The bank has stood well in the past, but failure to pay an expected dividend in August and the suspension of the Nashua banks last year made depositors nervous and a heavy run Wednesday induced the suspension. It is likely the concern will be wound up.


Article from Daily Kennebec Journal, October 31, 1874

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NEW HAMPSHIRE. Nashua, October 30. Julia A. Goodale. suffering from a cancer, committed suicide this morning by drowning. Herbody was re covered. Milford, October 30. The Milford Five Cent Savings Bank has suspended, with lia bilities of half a million, which will be covered, it is believed, by securities held by the bank. Concord, October 30. Thursday, Nov. 26, has been appointed by the Governor and Council as a day of public thanksgiving.


Article from Chicago Daily Tribune, October 31, 1874

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BANK SUSPENSION. MILFORD, N. II., Oct. 80.-The Milford Five Cent Savings Bank has suspended, with liabilities of $500,000, covered, it in believed, by its assots.


Article from Juniata Sentinel and Republican, November 4, 1874

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"The Milford (N. II.) Five-Cents Savings Bank has suspended, with liabilities of half a million dollars, which will be covered, it is believed, by securities held by the bank. Excitement runs high against some of the bank officials, and is increasing. The bank has stood well in the past, but the failure to pay an expected dividend in August, and the suspension of Nashua banks last year, made the depositors nervous. It is likely that that the concern will be wound up."


Article from The Redwood Gazette, November 12, 1874

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The East. The Episcopal General Convention, at its recent session in New York, adopted a canon against ritualistic practices by a vote of 72 to5. The fourth annual session of the American Bee-Keepers' Association is to be held in Pittsburgh, Pa., commencing on the second Wednesday of November. The suspension of R. W. Burke, petroleum refiner, in New York city, was announced on the 29th. The Milford (N. H.) Five Cent Savings Bank has suspended, with liabilities of $500,000, covered, it is believed, by its assets. Ex-Gov. Enos T. Throop, of New York, died at Willow Brook on the 1st. The base-ball season closed on the 31st ult., the Boston club (Red Stockings) still retaining the championship.


Article from The Andrew County Republican, November 13, 1874

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POI UTICAL. -Among those mentioned as probable candidates for the Presidency, at the next election, is Hon. Joseph Medill, late Mayor of Chicago. -The Milford (N. H.) Five Cent Savings Bank has suspended, with liabilities of $500,000, covered, it is believed, by its assets.


Article from Vermont Farmer, December 4, 1874

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new election must be had, in which case he an would stand about as much chance of election as Ben Butler does of being elected governor of Massachusetts. It seems that Congressman James H. Platt, a West Virginia carpet bagger from Vermont was reelected in November on the republican ticket, but the democratic commissioners are trying to count him out by fraud. The entire vote in several precincts where he had majorities is thrown out by them, and the clerks' offices in one or two counties have been broken open and the poll books and ballots from those precincts giving Platt majorities stolen. Talk about the purity of either party! They are as pure hell is righteous. A shocking massacre of white settlers by the Esquimaux Indians occurred at the set. tlement of Indian-Tiekle, Labrador, on the 15th inst., two whole families, with the ex. ception of young girl, being the victims. For some time back the Indians had been committing robberies, and several of the depredators being captured they were pubwhipped. In revenge, on the night of the 15th inst., they attacked the families of William J. Morrison and his two SODS Thomas and Herbert, and Robert Morrison and wife and their children, William Charles, James and Lizzie, murdering all except the last named. This is the first in. stance of criminal or troublesome conduct among the Esquimaux in Labrador in the memory of the oldest fisherman. Agriculture has enriched no section of the country with the suddenness and the abun. dance with which it has poured wealth into California. While. commercial San Francisco has had the blues, rural California has suddenly grown rich, Everybody, says the San Francisco Bulletin, has capital to lend 'And the bank on California street to raise its capital to $5,000,000, and money. lending overtops all other business. Private citizens open offices to dispose of their own capital, and "laboring-men and servant-girls' join the army of lenders. The city savings banks, which used to refuse to lend on coun. try property, are now receiving remittances for investment from the savings banks which have been established in the country itself. In fact. the surplus of idle capital is greater than that in St. Louis or Chicago, which have double the population of San Francisco, and the demand is urgent for manufactures commercial investments, or "something to do. California is hard money state, NEW HAMPSHIRE All the Manchester manufactories, except the print-works, have been running only five days a week for some time, but they are to resume on full time in a for days. The investigation of the affairs of the Milford savings bank, recently robbed, re sults in cutting down the accounts of de positors 10 per cent, though the bank had estimated the loss at only 41 per cent. The actual loss is probably about 8 per cent. MASSACHUSETTS. James McCann of Boston upset a kero sene lamp while drunk on Monday night, and was burned to death. An officer of a large manufacturing corpo ration, having his head-quarters at Boston gets big salary as the president of the United States. Wonder if the manufactory he represents is running on half time on count of poor markets and the high wages of operatives? A West Roxbury fireman heard what he supposed to be the screams of an infant in burning building, last week, and, seizing blanket, he rushed into the blinding smoke, and, catching up the child, made a hasty exit. When he carefully unwrapped the blanket before the crowd, he disclosed three months' pig. CONNECTICUT. The Connecticut poultry society propose to make their exhibition at Hartford, next month, the best one of the season in this country. The premiums amount to $1611. RHODE ISLAND Eliza A. Cranston, wife of Jackson Cranston, recently from Boston, was burned to death at Providence, Sunday morning. The husband was stupidly drunk in bed, with his clothes on, and the wife, partially in toxicated, upset a table, with a kerosene lamp, and was fatally burned when the oth. er tenants of the house reached the scene. NEW YORK. Mayor Havemeyer, of New York City fell dead while engaged in his official business at City Hall, Monday. are The inspectors in the custom-house alarmed over a prospective reorganization which, it is believed, will throw out men who have not done enough political work to please their superiors and replace them with more serviceable tools. A New York jury and a New York judge (Barrett) have actually gone and done broken the spell of 22 years' immunity, and convicted and sentenced a liquor dealer, one Sigismund Schwab, to 30 days in the city prison and to pay fine of $200 for selling without a license, The judge furthermore warned the liquor-dealers that, if their ganized resistance to the law continued. the full penalty would be meted out in all future cases, The conviction and sentence of Sigismund Schwab in New York City, for selling liq uor without license, has thoroughly scared the liquor dealers, as is evinced by the sud. den and overwhelming increase in the de. mand for licenses, many of them from men who haven't taken out a license before for If decade. Friday, the excise board received 200 applications and took in $14,000, and many went away uuable to be attended from want of sufficient clerical force. Here. tofore $100 day has been an unusually good day's work, and $100 a week not infrequently the average. A horrible tragedy is reported from Ham ilton county. A carpenter named Elias Williams and an assistant named George Smith, who were erecting a frame house he midst of the forest, got into a drunken quarrel, when Williams in the course of the struggle throw Smith over a wooden saw horse, and then with a hand-saw, which h all the time held in his hand, sawed off the head of his antagonist, severing it entirely from the body. His rage cooling, remorse followed, and he cut his own throat with the saw, falling corpse beside the remains of Smith. A lad named Grant witnessed the tragedy and conveyed the news two miles to people who reside nearest the scene of the