6660. Bank of Greensburg (Greensburg, KS)

Bank Information

Episode Type
Suspension → Closure
Bank Type
state
Start Date
December 23, 1893
Location
Greensburg, Kansas (37.603, -99.293)

Metadata

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gpt-5-mini
Short Digest
56aceb74

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Description

Multiple contemporaneous newspaper items (Dec 23–29, 1893) report the State Bank Commissioner Breidenthal closing/taking possession of the Bank of Greensburg and placing its assets in the hands of a receiver. Reports describe insolvency, large worthless paper, and appointment of a receiver; later (May 1894) a 15% dividend is disbursed by the receiver. No article describes a depositor run prior to suspension — action was by the commissioner because of insolvency. Bank type inferred as 'state' because a State Bank Commissioner closed it and it served as county depository.

Events (3)
1. December 23, 1893 Suspension
Cause
Bank Specific Adverse Info
Cause Details
Insolvency: large amount of worthless paper/real estate assets, low cash (only about $11,000 of assets liquid), liabilities large including county deposits; commissioner closed the bank for insolvency.
Newspaper Excerpt
State Bank Commissioner Breidenthal has taken possession of the Bank of Greensburg, Kiowa county. It is a bad failure.
Source
newspapers
2. December 29, 1893 Receivership
Newspaper Excerpt
Last week the Bank of Greensburg, Kiowa county, was closed by the bank commissioner and the assets placed in the hands of a receiver. According to the statement of the commissioner, the creditors of the bank are not likely to realize thirty cents on the dollar. The county had on deposit $50,000. T. C. Eberly of Greensburg was yesterday appointed receiver of the Bank of Greensburg. The Bank of Greensburg, Kan., closed its doors, with liabilities of $68,000. Bank Commissioner Briedenthal has closed the Bank of Greensburg, Kan. Receiver ... is disbursing a dividend of 15 per cent to the depositors (May 1894).
Source
newspapers
3. May 11, 1894 Other
Newspaper Excerpt
The receiver of the Bank of Greensburg at Kiowa is disbursing a dividend of 15 per cent to the depositors.
Source
newspapers

Newspaper Articles (14)
1. December 24, 1893 The Indianapolis Journal Indianapolis, IN
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THE SCHEME FAILED. No Receiver Appointed for the Chesapeake, Ohio & Southwestern. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Dec. 23.-The plan to get a receiver appointed for the Chesapeake, Ohio & Southwestern railway, at Nashville, yesterday, fell through. General Echols, with several other gentlemen, made a flying trip to Nashville, as they stated, to look after the grain trade. The suspicions of the attorneys for the commonwealth were aroused, and they telegraphed Judge Lurton, at Nashville, that should application be made for a receiver they desired to be heard. The scheme was to have General Echols appointed receiver of the C., O. & S. W. The object of Huntington, the Illinois Central and the Louisville & Nashville, it is stated, is to have the C., O. & S. W. railway sold under foreclosure in the United States Court, when the two roads will buy it up and divide it as best suits their interests. The appointment of a receiver is the first step in that direction. Judge Lurton refused to appoint a receiver until the State of Kentucky could be heard. He continued the case until next Thursday, when it will be heard at Clarksville, Tenn. Other Business Troubles. TOPEKA, Kan., Dec. 23.-State Bank Commissioner Breidenthal has taken possession of the Bank of Greensburg, Kiowa county. It is a bad failure. Its assets are said to be $95,000, but only $11,000 is in cash, the remainder being real estate and paper. out of which 50 cents on the dollar will not be realized. The liabilities are $52,000, $50,000 of which is due Kiowa county. The concern was organized in 1876, with a capital of $16,500, which was immediately invested in a bank building and fixtures with $4,000 of the depositors' money. LUDDINGTON Mich., Dec. 23.-Judge Judkins has ordered the discharge of F. E. Gary, who was appointed receiver of the Mendelson Manufacturing Company a few weeks ago. The court held that the complaint against the company did not contain evidence sufficient to warrant the appointment of a receiver. The affairs of the company are now entirely in the charge of its officers, with W. z. Mendelson, of Milwaukee, as president. NASHVILLE, Tenn., Dec. 23.-The special assignment of J. H. Riley, filed yesterday, was attacked to-day by the American National Bank, upon the ground that the assignment is a general one, in that the deed of assignment does not follow the law provided for the execution of special assignments. The bill filed asks for an attachment upon the goods in the stores in this city, Chattanooga and Jackson, Tenn. GLOUCESTER CITY, N. J., Dec. 23.The effects of the National Bank of this city were sold by the receiver to-day. Securities, the face value of which was $100,000, brought less than $200. The ratio was about 2 mills on the dollar. A judgment of $57,000 against C. L. Work, the president of the bank, sold for $101. PITTSBURG, Dec. 23.-Judgments aggregating $100,000 were entered to-day against Fleishman & Co., one of the largest drygoods and notion firms in the city. No executions have been issued, and the house was open as usual to-day. The firm may make an assignment for the benefit of creditors. NEW YORK, Dec. 23.-Schedules in the assignment of Wilson, Godfrey & Co., the lumber firm, to Elberton R. Chapman, filed in the Court of Common Pleas, today, show contingent liabilities $550,198 and direct liabilities $142,389; nominal assets, $129,086, and actual assets, $94,389. NEW YORK, Dec. 23.-Judgments aggregating $53,504 were entered in the county clerk's office to-day against Henry C. Albert, of the firm of Albert, Haager & Co., lace dealers, in favor of Nicholas Albert and John N. Crusius.

2. December 29, 1893 The Kinsley Graphic Kinsley, KS
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LAST week the Bank of Greensburg. Kiowa county. was closed by the bank commissioner and the assets placed in the hands of a receiver. According to the statement of the commissioner, the creditors of the bank are not likely to realize thirty cents on the doilar. The county had on deposit $50,000. The repeal of the Sherman law does not seem to have restored sufficient confidence or properity to prevent the almost daily failure of banks, and the indications are that the end is a long ways off. Of all the evils that afflict the American people, and to which they submit with the least symptons of discontent, our present system of private banks has caused the most misery and misfortune. Statistics show that for the ten years prior to 1893, the average annual loss to depositors through the failure of banks was $11,000,000, which sum will probably be trebled if not quadrupled, this year. and yet neither of the old parties has ever brought forward a single practical measure for the establishment of a banking system in which depositers were insured against loss, although government savings banks, the deposits of which are guaranteed by the government, have been in successful operation in a number of countries for twenty years. How long will the people of this country submit to the extortions and robberies of our present private banking system? There is only one remedy-government banks.

3. December 30, 1893 Perrysburg Journal Perrysburg, OH
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ory building in Boston occ ifacturing concerns. G refused a charter to the etic club of Jacksonvill e which Corbett and Mit fight. J of Terre Haute, Ind., dec could not be excluded frot use of failure to be vac L the Ohio caused the sink which contained over coal. 400, M ENTER, Vt., suffered the incipal business section , $100,000. Fo men, supposed to be whit lered Pleasant Hendriel x near Lynchburg, Va., and set fire to the house. a to L. P. 81 ROSCOE killing PARKER, Ryan negro, and wife, confessed aged and 78 respectively, at their home near Winchester, O. A NEW YORK business agency says that the features of the business week ended on the 22d were the increased uniformity in reports that general trade was quite as much or more depressed than previously; that heavy trading had been unsatisfoctory and far below that of a year ago, and there was continued closing down of important industrial establishments, reduction of wages and increased instances where short time was being enforced. WAR on firms which sell patent medicines at cut rates will be made by the National Wholesale Druggists' association. IN a race war at Laguna del Gallo, N. M., five Americans and nineteen Mexicans were killed. THE mayor of Philadelphia made an appeal for aid for 50,000 unemployed workmen in that city. Miss STELLA COLBY, of Crown Point, is the first woman in Indiana to take advantage of a decision of the supreme court permitting women to practice law. THREE receivers were appointed for the Santa Fe railroad upon application of the trustees for the bondholders. The liabilities are said to be $240,000,000. FOR the murder of Ben Nabors, his employer, Sloan Allen, a negro, was hanged and burned by a mob near Wests. Miss. MRS. FANNY LANDERS, aged 30, died at Bangor, Me., from starvation. She refused to take food for fifty-five days. Despondency over the death of her husband caused her action. THE old house in New York of Albert Haager & Co., importers of laces, failed for $150,000. RICHARD McGOVERN, a Tacoma (Wash.) character, had $7,000 in gold taken from his room at a hotel. EIGHT men attempted to roba Mobile & Ohio train near St. Louis but the messenger refused to open the safe. EIGHT convicted white caps at Jackson, Miss., were pardoned by Gov. Stone, who urged them to become good citizens. A GREAT discovery of silver was reported near the town of Shafter, Tex., in a district which contains several abandoned mines which were worked a or more ago by the Spaniards. of Chinese were to be century HUNDREDS into the said United crossing the Rio Grande States. RICH & SILBER, one of the leading dry goods firms in Milwaukee, and the A. W. Rich Shoe company failed, the total liabilities being $331,000. JOSEPH DONJON, a man who has been threatening writing letters arrested to in promi- Washnent public men, was ington. THE Bank of Greensburg, Kan., closed its doors, with liabilities of $68,000. COUNTERFEITERS flooded Cincinnati with aluminum dimes of the date of 1893. This was the first counterfeit ever made of aluminum. PRINTING and engraving firms at San Francisco, Cal., were burned out with a loss of $850,000. SIX-DAY bicycle race commenced at Madison Square garden, New York, with a big field. WHILE a crowd looked on a thief at Marshall, Tex., knocked down an express messenger and stole $8,000. Gov. WAITE has issued a call convening the Colorado legislature in extraordinary session January 10. FISHBACK, of Arkansas, wants the to in out Indian Gov. stamping government exercise Territory authority outlawry. THE barn of the Keystone stock farm Pa., was near Kittaning, Brothers, destroyed owned by perished by fire Bowser and twenty-two valuable horses in the flames. ALL the policemen of Ironwood, Mich., arrested for stealing goods sent to destitute miners, were convicted. BENCH warrants were issued for the arrest of over fifty men indicted by the New York grand jury for election frauds.

4. December 30, 1893 The Greenville Times Greenville, MS
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OUR LATEST The Happenings of a Day Chronicled Brief and Concise Paragraphs E And Containing the Gist From All Parts of Twenty-seven new cases four deaths from cholera are at St. Petersburg, Russia. A very perceptible shoel quake was felt at Bradfor 1:35 Sunday afternoon, ilies fled from their houses, thinking & terrible calamity had happened. Bank Commissioner Bridenthal has closed the bank of Greensburg, Kansas. The commissioner says the bank owes about $68,000, that it has a quantity of worthless paper and that in his opinion, it will not pay more than 65 cents on the dollar. Receiver Wilson, of the Santa Fe, arrived in Topeka at noon Monday. He said the receivers would appoint D. B. Robinson, first vice president, the agent of the receivers, to have full charge of the active operation of the entire system. The Southern club, of Birmingham, Ala., held its annual election of officers Monday night. John W. MoQueen was re-elected president, Earnest A. Defuniak was elected vice president and Frank Foster, secretary and treasurer, Fire Monday morning destroyed the stables on the Keystone stock farm, near Kittanning, Pa., owned by Bowser brothers, of Manor township. Twenty-two horses were cremated, some of which were the finest stock in Pennsylvania. The anarchist laboratory, which was discovered at Vallvidrera, a village near Barcelona, Spain, was situated in a large cave at the bottom of & ravine. The opening of the cave was concealed by brushwood and boulders. A number of charged bombs were seized in this cave. Hon. Wayne MacVeagh, of Pennsylvania, accompanied by his wife and daughter and a party of five other ladies and gentlemen, arrived in Jacksonville, Fla., Monday and took rooms at the Windsor hotel. MacVeagh will remain in Florida about two weeks and will start for Rome about February 1st. A.St. Petersburg dispatch says: Of the 200 veteran soldiers, who were poisoned by eating putrid meat contained in pies recently at the annual banquet held in the winter palace of the soldiers, decorated with the cross of St. Andrew and St. George, 160 are still in a serious condition and thirtysix have died. A special from Wildwood, Fla, says: A difficulty between a white and a negro Christmas morning culminated in a riot in which two white men were shot by negroes-one seriously, the other slightly. The negroes congregated some distance from the town and the white men were shot from ambush. The names of the wounded men could not be learned. A Jackson, Tenn., special says: Court convened in the Howard trial promptly at 8:30 o'clock Monday morning, and only eleven jurors were in the box. The juror who had been ill nearly through the entire trial was present, but Mr. Terrell, another juror, was represented by his physician, who said that he must spend the day in quiet, and consequently court immediately adjourned until Tuesday morning. Fire broke out Sunday morning in the store of Alex McKinzie & Oo., fancy groceries and liquors at Montgomery, Ala,, and that store was completely gutted-loss about $10,000, covered by insurance. Over zie's store was occupied by sior Printing Company, wl was completely destroyed$10,000, insurance $4,000. of The Alabama Baptist in the ing building was also destroy A saw mill, owned by J. M. at Knoxville, Tenn., was blown to pieces Friday at a result three mangled bodie the city morgue. Another li bottom of the cold waters of nessee river, while two men or less seriously injured, and telly trace of the Kuld

5. January 3, 1894 Barbour County Index Medicine Lodge, KS
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THE Bank of Greensburg suspended last week, and Billy Bolton gives it a three column illustrated write up. It was the county depository, having all the public funds. Too much money in the country, so Carlisle says.

6. January 4, 1894 The News-Herald Hillsboro, OH
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NEWS ITEMS. Wm. Watkins Lloyd, the English archæologist, is dead. Mrs. Ann Stimson, of Hancock, N.Y., is dead at the age of 106 years. Bank Commissioner Briedenthal has closed the Bank of Greensburg, Kan. Charles Koch, a wealthy farmer, perished in the blizzard near Grand Forks, N.D. Assistant Secretary of State Uhl is acting secretary in the absence of Mr. Gresham. R. W. Shapleigh was Tuesday elected president of the Western Travelers association. Ex-Mayor Hugh J. Grant has been appointed receiver of the St. Nicholas bank, New York. Dr. F. Flay, a dentist, was burned to death in the fire at Providence, R. I Total loss, $200,000: insured. The grip is very fatal among Odanal Indians in Wisconsin. Within a few days four prominent ones have died. The Ashland, (Wis.) blast furnace will shut down January 4 till June 1. Five hundred men will be thrown out of employment. The Brazilian legation in Londor discredits the report that the Portuges minister is compelled to stay at Rio against his will. At Buck Creek, O., while lifting some barrels of feed from a sled, Reuber Martin, a farmer. burst a blood vesse and bled to death. Amack Lambert, a salesman, com mitted suicide by shooting, at the St Nicholas, hotel, Cincinnati, Thursday He was tired of life. The Italian government has notified the government of Spain that it is no possible for Italy to take special meas ures against anarchists. Mrs. Andrew Trim and an unknown man were drowned near Detour, Mich. while crossing the ice from Drummond island with a dog team. At Albany, N. Y., Judge Wallace Wednesday morning appointed Thom as C. Platt receiver for the New Yorl and New England railroad. Henry Clauser, Jr., the well-known New York city brewer, died Thursday morning at 5 o'clock. He had beer suffering from liver trouble. Harry L. McIlvaine, at one time : wealthy coal merchant of that city committed suicide at Chester, Pa. Wednesday by hanging himself. Miss Louisa Alexander, the young detective employed by Broadway (N Y.) jewelry stores, has captured eigh thieves so far during the holidays. At Youngstown, O., Charles Sass aged 11, went in a coal slope Wednes day morning to pick up some coal when the roof fell in, crushing his life out. At 1:35 Thursday afternoon the mon itor Miantonomoh left the Brookly navy yard. She has sea stores sufficien for two months and 240 tons of coa aboard. Vaillant will be tried on the charge of attempting to destroy a public building. His attorneys will advis him to apply for an appeal, to dela; matters. Catherine Eade and Mary Lamar servants employed at 26 east Fifty-sev enth street, New York, were found dead in their room, supposed to have been suffocated by gas. Capt. John Colter, one of the best known men in whisky circles, died a Louisville, Ky. He was a native o Kentucky and served with distinction in the confederate army. By the death of an aunt in Califor nia, Patrick Fitzgerald, formerly o Grand Rapids, Mich., has fallen hei to a fortune estimated at $1,360,000 His present address is unknown. Mrs. Margaret Martin, relict of th late Wm. Martin, one of the most em inent women in the Methodist Episeo pal church, and author of many book on Methodism, died in Columbia, S. o The Hanging Rock stove foundry two miles below Ironton, O., burne Wednesday morning and is a total loss It caught from an engine on the No folk & Western railroad. Loss, $30,000 fully insured. At Michigan City, Ind., police hav discovered an organized gang of high

7. January 5, 1894 The Big Sandy News Louisa, KY
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VOL, IX. NO. 19. NEWS ITEMS. Wm. Watkins Lloyd, the English archaologist, is dead. Mrs. Ann Stimson, of Hancock, N.Y., in dead at the age of 100 years. Bank Commissioner Briedenthal has closed the Bank of Greensburg, Kan. Charles Koch, a wealthy farmer, perished in the blizzard near Grand Forks, N. D. Assistant Secretary of State Uh1 is Gresham. acting secretary in the absence of Mr. R. W. Shapleigh was Tuesday elected president association. of the Western Travelers' Ex-Mayor Hugh J. Grant has been appointed receiver of the St. Nicholas bank, New York. Dr. F. Flay, a dentist, was burned to death in the fire at Providence, R. I. Total loss, $200,000: insured. The grip is very fatal among Odanah Indians in Wisconsin. Within a few days four prominent ones have died. The Ashland, (Wis.) blast furnace will shut down January till June 1. Five hundred men will be thrown out of employment The Brazilian legation in London discredits the report that the Portugose minister is compelled to stay at Rio against his will. At Buck Creek, O., while lifting some barrels of feed from a sled, Reuben Martin, a farmer, burst a blood vessel and bled to death. Amack Lambert, a salesman. committed suicide by shooting. at the St. Nicholas, hotel. Cincinnati, Thursday. He was tired of life. The Italian government has notified the Pernment of Spain that it is not possible for Italy to take special measures against anarchists. Mrs. Andrew Trim and an unknown man were drowned near Detour, Mich. while crossing the lee from Drammond Island with dog team. At Albany, N. Y., Judge Wallace Wednesday morning appointed Thomas c. Platt receiver for the New York and New England railroad. Henry Clauser, Jr., the well-known New York city brewer, died Thursday morning, 5 o'clock. He had been suffering from liver trouble. Harry L. Mellvnine, at one time a wealthy eoal merchant of that city, committed suicide at Chester. Pa., Wednesday by hanging himself. Miss Louisa lexander, the young detective employed by Broadway (N. Y.) joyelry stores, has captured eight thieves 50 far during the holidays. At Youngstown, O., Charles aged 11, went in a eoal slope Wedness Sass, day morning to plck up some coal, when out. the roof fell in, crushing his life At 1:35 Thursday afternoon the monftor Miantonomoh left the Brooklyn navy yard. She has sea stores sufficient for aboard. two months and 240 tons of coal Vaillant will be tried on the charge of attempting to destroy a public building Ills attorneys will advise him matters. to apply for an appeal, to delay Catherine Eade and Mary Lamar. servants employ ed at 26 east Fifty-seventh street, New York, were found dead in their room, supposed to have been suffocated by gas. Capt. John Colter, one of the best known men in whisky circles, died at Louisville, Ky. He was a native of Kentheky and served with distinction in the confederate army. By the death of an annt in California, Patrick Fitzgeraid, formerly of Grand Rapids, Mich, has fallen heir to a fortune estimated at $1,560,000 His present address is unknown. Mrs. Margaret Martin, reliet of the late Wm. Martin, one of the most emInent women in the Methodist Episcopal church. and author of many books on Methodism, died in Columbia, S. C. The Hanging Rock store foundry, two miles below Ironton, O., burned Wednesday morning and is a total loss, It caught from an engine on the Norfolk & Western railroad. Loss, 880, 000; fully Insured. At Michigan City, Ind., police have discovered an organized gang of highway boys, who are aged from 12 to 14. They were well armed and hold boys eaught In lonely places. Arrests up will be made. A careful investigation made failed to locate the crank, Joseph Donjon, under arrest at Washington for sending threatening letters to United States senators, asever having lived or worked as molder in Salem, 0. The steamship Seneea, which returned to Havana Sunday morning with fire in her forehole, was sunk in the harbor at that port in order to save her. The Seneca had caught fire in the lower hole just after leaving Havana. A large quantity of dynamite found under the only saloon in Ossian. was Ind., Tuesday, and it is supposed it was to be blown up Tuesday night, The same saloon had its front blown out few paired. days ago, and bad just been re William W. McWhirrel. alias Mc Guire, a crook with a provincial repu tation, was arrested at Woburn, a few miles east of Toronto, Ont., Tuesday morning, on a charge of killing James Williams and his wife at Port Crediton December 14. Congressman Van Voorhis Thursday appointed David Porter Wheeler, Zanesville, 0., to the West Point endet ship. Otto King Parker, of Keith, No ble county, was appointed substitute The appointments were determined by competitive examination. William A. Brady, manager of Cor beth left New York Tuesday for Jack sonville. He said before leaving tha there would surely be fight, no mat tor whether it takes place at Jackson ville or some other place. If can no be private. held in public it will take place A mass meeting of the unemployed held at San Francisco Tuesday after noon, was attended by two thousan persons. Resolutions were passed asi ing merchants for assistance and re questing them to attend a meeting Wednesday to provide means and mean ures for relief. A reduction of wages in all depar ments of the Ford City Plate Glas works, Kittanning, Pa., was announce Wednesday. Yearly wages amountin to $1,000 and over were ent one-thire Employes making $2.95 a day will ceive $1.60, and laborers 81.15 instea of $1.25. Newspapers of Rome Wednesdr

8. January 5, 1894 The Iola Register Iola, KS
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Penn at Hyndman, Pa Bank at Albany. Mo Oliver Iron & Steel company of Pittsburgh, Pa.; $700,000 Standard Wagon company at Cincinnati: $700,000. Aug 25-Ford county and First national banks at Paxton, III. Aug. 22-Samuel W. Clark, lumber dealer of Zanesville, O.: $1,500,000. Aug. 24-Navarro Mill company in San Francisco, $1,000,000 Dillon national bank at Helena, Mont Aug. 28-First national bank of York, Neb George C. Cribb, dealer in agricultural implements in Milwaukee; $600,000. Aug. 30-Nicaragua Canal Construction company of New York. Sep 1-Equitable Mortgage Ca of Missouri, at New York: $19,000,000 Denver (Col.) savings bank; $670,000. Sep. 18-Crippen. Lawrence & Co., Denver loan concern: $1,000,000. Sep. 19-Mast. Bufford & Burwell Carriage company at St. Paul: $1,200,000. Oct. 6-Merchants' bank of Lockport, N. Y. Oct. 18-National bank at Hutchinson, Kan., $135,000. Nov. 1-James C. Savery. proprietor of the largest hotel in Iowa, assigned at New York; $1,000,000. Nov. 22-American Casualty company in New York; $1,700,000. Dec. 11-Receivers appointed for agricultural implement establishment of C. Aultman & Co. at Canton, O.: $1,000,000. Dec. 15-Crane Iron company of Philadelphia; $700,000. Dec. 21-St Nicholas bank in New York. Dec. 23-Bank of Greensburg, Kan Other banking houses that succumbed to the financial troubles of the year were as follows: Capital national. Lincoln, Neh: State bank, Wahoo. Neb.: U. S. Banking company, Gervais, Ore: Bank of commerce. Nashville, Tenn.: Northwestern state bank. Sibley, la Central savings bank, Lansing, Mich.; Bank of Milbank, S. D.: First national bank, Ponce, Neb.; Ingham county savings bank, Lansing, Mich.: Second national bank, Columbia, Tenn.: Bank of Salem, S. D.; Kissamee (Fla) city bank: Bank of the Carolinas, Florence, S. C.: First national bank, Cedar Falls. Ia: Citizens bank, Minneapolis, Minn.: Bank of Zumbrota. Minn.: Evanston (III.) National bank: Oglethorpe national bank and Brunswick national bank, Brunswick, Ga.: Farmers' state bank, Brooklyn, Mich.; Brunswick (Ga.) state bank: Bank of Puyallup, Wash: National bank of North Dakota, Fargo: White county bank. Beebe, Ark.: Potter's bank. Paulding, O.; Merchants' national bank. Fort Worth, Tex.: Savings bank. Sandusky, 0.; State bank, Cortland, Neb.: Bedford (Ind.) bank: City bank, Carbondale, Ill.: Deflance (O.) savings bank: State bank, Manitowoc. Wis: Bank of Two Rivers, Wis.: New Albany (Ind.) Banking Co.; Shell Lake savings bank, Washburn, Wis.: banks at Mascoutah. Ill. Hudson, Wis., Ellenburg, Wash., Missoula, Mont. Gillespie, III: Park City bank at Salt Lake City; McCague savings bank at Omaha. Neb.: bank at Everett, Wash.: Riverside (Cal) Banking company; banks at Lebanon and Albany in Oregon, and Hanover. N. C: bank a: Ridgeway, Me Columbia bank at New Whatcom. Wash: Cataract bank at Niagara Falls, N. Y.; Sabina(O bank: First national bank of Provo. U.T.: Chaffee county bank at Salida. Col.; First national at Phillipsburg, Mont: First national bank of Cisco, Tex.: Jefferson county bank at Bolden, Col: Everett (Wash.) national bank; Arkansas state bank of Stuttgart; Arkansas Farmers' and Traders' bank at Dewitt: Somerset county bank at Trenton, N. J.; State bank at Shubert, Neb: Holt county bank at O'Neil, Neb.; First national bank of Cedartown. Ga.: Bank of Sterling and Bank of Loveland, Col.: Hutchinson (Kan.) national bank; Bank of Parker, Kan.: Woodson bank of Yates Center, Kan.: First national bank of Harrisonville, Mo.; First national bank of Anthony, Kan.: Bank of Belleville, Kan: First national bank. at Cheyenne, Wyo.: First national bank at Canyon City, Col: Union bank at Greeley, Col.; Bank of Crested Butte, Col.: Traders' bank at Tacoma, Wash.: Plainview (Neb.) state bank: First national at Orlando, Fla: Tacoma (Wash.) national bank; National bank of the Commonwealth and Bank of New England at Manchester, N. H.; Commercial national. Ainsworth national and Portland savings banks at Portland. Ore.: Ex-

9. January 6, 1894 The Cape Girardeau Democrat Cape Girardeau, MO
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WEST AND SOUTH. EIGHT men held up a train on the Union Pacific at Seminole, I. T., and the mail and express car and the passengers were robbed of all their valuables. THE policemen of Ironwood, Mich., arrested for stealing goods sent to destitute miners, were convicted. JOHN A. NICHOLLS died at Blackshear, Ga. He represented the First Georgia district in the Forty-sixth and Fortyseventh congresses. A THIEF at Marshall, Tex., knocked down the express messenger and stole $8,000. Gov. WAITE issued a call convening the Colorado legislature in extraordinary session January 10. CINCINNATI was flooded with aluminum dimes of the date of 1893. This was the first counterfeit ever made of aluminum AT Sioux City, Ia., Farmer Pira, who killed two confidence men, was wildly cheered upon acquittal. SEVERAL printing and engraving firms at San Francisco, Cal., were burned out with a loss of $350,000. C. H. ANDREWS, a millionaire railroad, coal and iron operator, died at Youngstown, O., aged 69 years. THE doors of the Bank of Greensburg, Kan., were closed, with liabilities of $68,000. SILVER was discovered near the town of Shafter. Tex., in a district which contains several abandoned mines which were worked a century or more ago by the Spaniards. IN Milwaukee Rich & Silber, one of the leading dry goods firms, and the A. W. Rich Shoe company failed, the total liabilities being $331,000. UPON application of the trustees for the bondholders three receivers were appointed for the Santa Fe railroad. The liabilities are said to be $240,000,000. SLOAN ALLEN, a negro, was hanged and burned by a mob near Wests, Miss., for the murder of Ben Nabors, his employer. A MOB lynched Calvin Thomas, a negro who assaulted Mrs. Sellers at Bainbridge, Ga. TRACY F. AND OSCAR BINGHAM, sons of Bisl.op Bingham, and John Ashlander were drowned while skating on a creek at Riverdale, Utah. THE first woman in Indiana to take advantage of a decision of the supreme court permitting women to practice law is Miss Stella Colby, of Crown Point. IN Cincinnati the Banner Brewing company went into the hands of receivers with liabilities of $275,000. THE death of Almon Root, in his 100th year, occurred at Whitewater, Minn. ASSIGNEES were named for six Milwaukee concerns, with total liabilities of $490,000. TEMPERANCE worker in Indiana propose to begin a crasade to forcesaloous out of residence sections.

10. January 6, 1894 The Topeka State Journal Topeka, KS
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LOCAL MENTION. Charles S. Elliott has gone to Chicago. H. K. Rowley's bicycle was stolen last night. T. C. Eberly of Greensburg was yesterday appointed receiver of the Bank of Greensburg. George Buckner, son-in-law of Ben Jordan, was fined $10 today for being drunk and disorderly. The First Congregational and First Presbyterian churches will hold union meetings during the evenings of the week of prayer, which begins on Monday. December's business at the postoffice department was a large one. The receipts from the sale of stamps and stamped envelopes amounted to $7,414.37. The board of directors of the Gulf and Interstate railroad (the north and south road) meet in this city on Tuesday, to organize and take out a charter for the road. It is reported that a suit of clothes and a diamond shirt stud were stolen last night from the room of Alfonza Van Laeys, at the Metropolitan restaurant in North Topeka. Fannie Wright and Carrie Jordan were arrested last night on the complaint of Ella Buckner, for calling her names. They gave security, and will be tried Wednesday. Bill Higgins was in police court today. He was charged with being disorderly. Officer Jenkins arrested him for being noisy. He was discharged. This Bill Higgins is a hostler, and not the ex-secretary of state. Secretary J. B. French, of the State Farmers Alliance, has been notified that the National Farmers Alliance will meet in Topeka February 6th, at Representative hall. Thirty-five states will be represented, and each state is entitled to three delegates. Dick Colver, formerly of this city, now an editorial writer on the Oakland, (Cal.) Tribune, is the father of a boy. The birth notice reads: Born, Colver-To the wife of Richard J. Colver, at 722 Seventeenth street, Friday, December 29, a son. Mother and child doing fine. The annual business meeting of the Madison street Baptist church was held Friday evening. The following were were chosen to office for the easuing year: L. C. Baxter, trustee; W. F. File, Superintendent of the Sunday school; William Allaway, assistant; Annie Purl, secretary; Mrs. Stone, organist.

11. January 11, 1894 Iron County Register Ironton, MO
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banks 'III 18 Paxton, Aug. Samuel W. Clark, lumber dealer of Zanesville, O.: $1,500,000 Aug. 24-Navarro Mill company in San Francisco, $1,000,000.. Dillon national bank at Helena, Mont Aug First national bank of York, Neb. George C. Cribb, dealer in agricultural impleup ments 000'009$ Aug. Nicaragua Canal Construction comMJ0X MON JO Aued Sep -Equitable Mortgage Co. of Missouri, AUS (Too) Denver 000'000'613 Xork MON 18 ings bank: $670,000. Sep. 8-Crippen, Lawrence & Co., Denver Inan concern: 000'000'13 Sep. Mast. Bufford & Burwell Carriage 000'00%'1$ Paul 1S 18 Ausduity Oct. Merchants bank of Lockport, N.Y. Oct. 18-National bank at Hutchinson, Kan., 000'9813 Nov. 1-James C. Savery. proprietor of the TOTAL MeN 18 pensisse "RMOI up hotel 000'000'13 Nov. American Casualty company in New 000'002 18 Xork Dec. -Receivers appointed for agricultural implement establishment of C. Aultman & Co. 18 Canton. :0 000'000'18 Dec. Crane Iron company of Philadelphia; 000'00's Dec. 21-St Nicholas bank in New York. Dec 23- Bank of Greensburg. Kan. Other banking houses that succumbed to the financial troubles of the year were as follows: Capital national. Lincoln, Neb. State bank, Wahoo, Neb. S. Banking company, Gervals, Ore Bank of commerce Nashville Tenn. Northwestern state bank. Sibley Ia Central savings bank. Lansing. Mich Bank of Milbank, S. D. First national bank, Ponce, Neb. Ingham county savings bank, Lansing, Mich. Second national bank, Columbia. Tenn: Allo CHICE Missamee CI S Salem 10 Bank bank; Bank of the Carolinas, Florence, S. First national bank, Cedar Falls. Ia. Citizens bank, Minneapolis, Minn. Bank of Zumbrota. Minn Evanston (III.) National bank: Oglethorpe national bank and Brunswick na tional bank, Brunswick Ga. Farmers state bank, Brooklyn, Mich.: Brunswick (Ga.) state bank; Bank of Puyallup, Wash. National bank of North Dakota, Fargo: hite county bank. Beebe, Potter's bank Paulding, Merchants national bank Fort Worth, Tex Savings bank. Sandusky, O.; State bank. Cortland, Neb. Bedford (Ind.) bank: City SQUIATE (O) Defface TII Carbondale "Hutq SIM "yueq eithe IV MeN SIM Rivers OML 10 Mush bany (Ind.) Banking Co. Shell Lake savings bank, Washburn, Wis. banks at Mascoutah. Ill., Hudson, Ellenburg. ash. Missoula, Mont Gillespie, IIL: Park City bank at Salt Lake City: McCague savings bank at Omaha. Neb. bank at Everett, Wash. Riverside pus Lebban 10 shusq Conduct Banking (780) Albany in Oregon. and Hanover. N. bank at Ridgeway Me Columbia bank at New What com. Wash. Cataract bank at Niagara Falls. N. Sabina(O) bank; First national bank of Provo. U.T. Chaffee county bank Salida.Col. First national at Phillipsburg. Mont: First national bank of Cisco, Tex. Jefferson county bank at Bolden, Col. Everett (Wash.) national an JO Hueq 01818 Arkansas HUBQ kansas Farmers' and Traders' bank at Dewitt: eivis T N 18 Hueq Ajunoo 18 yueq Ajunoo 110H Neb 18 HUBQ Neil, Neb. First national bank Cedartown Ga. Bank of Sterling and Bank of Loveland, Col.: Hutchinson (Kan. national bank Bank of Parker, Kan. Woodson bank of Yates Cen ter, Kan.: First national bank of Harrisonvile, Mo. First national bank of Anthony, Kan. Bank of Belleville. Kan First national bank at Cheyenne, Wyo. First national bank at Canyon City, Col. Union bank at Greeley, Col. Bank of Crested Butte, Col. Traders bank at Tacoma, Wash. Plain view Neb.) state bank First national at Orlando, Fla. Tacoma (Wash. national bank: National bank of the Commonwealth and Bank of New England at Manchester, N. H.: Comrcial national, Ainsworth national and Port land savings banks at Portland, Ore. Ex Eag 'III Number 18 rueq change national bank at Whatcom Wash National bank at Waxahachie, Tex Bank of Plaque 18 MUEQ 18119 :WI Ala. National bank of South Penn at Hyndman. Pa.: Kendall county bank at Yorksville, III.: The Le Mars (Ia. state and German savings banks: Citizens' national bank, Grand Island, Neb. Minnekahta bank, Hot Sp ings, 10 MURR : pur "Hueq 010:S :a S Willow City, N.D.: Bank of Rushville, Neb. CASUALTIES 'Top 'Su:y 18 CORL up 11 "ther" 16 men killed Jan. 21-Death of 30 persons caused by explosion resulting from a railway collision near TII Allong Feb. 9-County farm insane asylum near up perishing " *peurnq "H N Dover. Mar. flames. 3-Thirty-three persons killed in cyclone in Georgia Seven persons killed by cyclone up MISS Mar Marion. Every person in town of Kelly, Peupl 0510 suosed CC up pener "ssin up pum Cleveland Apr. 12 Tunica -Two persons killed at Rockport. Ind. 17 others at Robinsville. Miss. nine at -xam 10 DAH "Hueq SUIMMER 18 eth SUMOT Pared 10 9Ag pus Signature 18 OMB 10:20 of Missouri, by cyclones and windstorms Apr. It-Cyclone striking Thibodeans, La., killed 15 persons Thirty men reported killed 481H pus Terry Homestered us sq land mines near Deadwood. S. D. Apr. Seven persons killed in cyclone at -Ao up Pample persons 09 Neerry MJV Roles. clone in Jasper, Clarke and Jones counties Take uo storm up 1801 seas 20-NIH udv Michigan near Chicago... aterworks crib at uaur " puu Storm, Aq Jame peqsem Apr. perished. 25-Seventy-five persons reported dead as result of cyclone in Oklahama territory Ten persons killed in railroad wreck near Somerset, May Pa. -Twenty persons killed In cyclone which destroyed town of Ladonia. Mo June Twenty two clerks killed by the falling through of floors in Ford's theater building. -IP record pus pension Aq pasn up 10 eq1 JBM department vision June Twenty persons killed in cyclone in Jefferson county, Kan. Seven persons killed by lightning striking a circus tent at River SIM Malls July 6-Cyclone starting at Quimby, Ia., killed 82 persons Seven persons drowned by MeN Juan seq Gransess up 10 York July 10-In fire on world's fair grounds at Chicago 21 men perished Man, wife and four susury 10 uo poop up реимолр children SATU 01 posoddns performs dj.ns 001 J940-61 Cheroke -9nv pus perished in hurricane on Atlantic coast Attached ehe suoje Storm terrific UI-8% Snv 10 18800 the no pue uo South Carolina and Georgia-it was estimated fully 1,500 people perished By capsizing of Port JO performs XIS THE up Thont Sep. Henry, N. Y., drowned Michigamme river breaking through Mansfield iron mine near Crystal Falls, Mich, drowned 28 employes Oct. Nearly 2,000 persons reported killed in southern 041 JO suojicts up terrible auf gulf. Oct. states along 14-At Magnolia Beach, S. C., cyclone killed 15 persons in storm that swept entire chain of lakes 20 persons perished. By sinking of steamer near Dunkirk, N. Y., 18 persons Oct. drowned. Near Battle Creck, Mich. in Grand Trunk yards, 20 people killed in railway collisuot Jeen ueur 02 GIVE put seates 100 puu Auguly - useM Shoust AON collided on Lake Huron off Point aux Barques to seament. Dec. drowning Fourth span of bridge over the Ohio from Louisville, Ky., to Jeffersonville. Ind., fell, killing 33 workmen Wreck on the New York & Pennsylvania road six miles north of Dunkirk. N. Y., caused eight deaths. Dec. 22-In a cave-in at Homestead. Pa., 14 workmen killed Four men killed by boiler explosion near Knoxville, Tenn Six persons drowned in Grand lake near Mermenteau, La. CRIMES Jan. 4-At Bakersville, N.C. in struggle to 10 II pur essod sheriffs 10 II 8 mob Jan. were 10-Jury killed. at Pittsburgh found guilty the 10 Duquesne strikers charged with riot. M.10M 01 03 1snui aq 1841 plos uur Thomas Kilday fatally shot his father, mother and Jan. sister in District Philadelphia. Master Workman Hugh Dempsey, K. of L. found guilty in Pittsburgh 01 qui Homesters 18 posiod SUIAIS JO III" Jan. 25-Charles Burg shot Mr. and Mrs. pener then Month Buile 18 M opΓaM Mar. himself. 22- William Frazier killed his wife, her Hileman 18 Zei S, nis NO ino pue stater siy tous Hunter T M "ORM 1V wife fortally and then killed himself. Mar. Choctaw fevd resulted in encounter Edd penns suos. of AL I A the 'art'm siq 1048 Neb. 10 Sterrett killed himself. any killed 30-Joseph his Halson

12. May 11, 1894 People's Voice Wellington, KS
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The Santa Fe pays the City of Chanute $1,800 a year for water service. Manhattan prisoners are credited with only 75 cents a day on the rock pile. It is stated that the Prosser branch of the Central branch will be extended to the Black Hills country. An Industrial council has been es. tablished at Kansas City, Kan., with eight unions and 1,000 members. The receiver of the Bank of Greensburg at Kiowa is disbursing a dividend of 15 per cent to the depositors. The College of Emporia defeated the State Normal at a game of base ball on Saturday by a score of 12 to 2. In Washington county 108 pupils in the common schools were examined for graduation and ninety of them passed. The Atchison physician who was appointed by the city board of health to look after the smallpox cases gets $10 day. The amount of fines and costs collected in the Fort Scott police court during April was $1,350-$400 less than usual. An Iola correspondent says that half the farms near Moran. Elsmore and Humboldt have been covered by oil leases. The Johnson County Fair association has definitely decided to hold its second annual fair at Olathe, August 28, 29, 30 and 31. Two incendiary blazes in Salina within a few days testify to the fact that the fire-bugs who have been operating there for a month have not left the town. There are "razzers a-flin' in de air" at Salina because one of the barbers has broken the agreement signed last summer to close at a certain hour each evening. Dr. Allen Day, famous for his successful treatment of inebriates, and who for the past twenty-five years has been identified with the Washingtonian home at Boston, is dead. There is a movementon foot in Kansas City, Kan., to close the joints, or at least the worst of them. Several establishments have already been compelled to shut up shop and others are on the list. Allen Alford, of Beatrice, Neb., aged 22, was arrested at Atchison on a telegram from his home charging him with forgery. Alford was accompanied to Atchison by a handsome young woman who admitted she was not his wife. The committee on mines and mining of the Denver chamber of commerce has decided that it is unwise to ask for the removal of the mint at Carson City to Denver as to do so would antagonize the Nevada people and the plant is too small any way, Congress will be petitioned. however, to establish a mint in Denver. Secretary Carlisle has transmitted to the house a equest for an appropriation of $8,500 for better guarding the seal islands against poachers and for internal improvements to the islands. The amount includes $1,000 for fifty Winchester rifles and amunition, and $2.000 for nine telephones to connect the guards at the various seal rookeries. O. S. Kirkland, a planter near Ozark, Ala., and his son, Dennis, quarreled over plantation matters. The son finally went to town but returned during the night very drunk. He renewed the quarrel with his father, finally drawing a knife and slashing him fatally. In the meantime the latter had drawn a pisto! and succeeded in discharging a bullet into the son's breast, killing him instantly. The wheat crop which now looks fine in this part of the country has been put a long way toward an abundant crop by the rain of Monday and Tuesday evenings. Farmers are once more riding on the top wave of high anticipation. Western Kansas, it would seem, has become disgusted with some of its chronic habits, has flung them off, at least for a time, and now seems inclined to come out in Sunday World. More new ground is being broken up in Smith county this season than ever in any one year before. It is but a matter of a few years until farmers will have to look elsewhere than the common wild grass for feed for their stock. Already the importance of the idea is forcing itself upon the farmers and many are preparing to meet the emergency by the use of alfalfa-and like crops. Hundreds of acres of alfalfa will be planted in Smith county this season, and if successful the acreage will increase from now on.Smith County Journal. On Sunday afternoon Jesse, son of Oscar Meyers of Leavenworth. aged 5 years, fell into the Missouri river and drowned, right at the place where Mrs. Mettman's body was found cut to pieces several years ago. He was in company with his father fishing, who leaned against a tree and fell asleep. When he awoke the little boy was missing, but his hat on the end of some logs tied to the shore gave unmistakable evidence that he had fallen into the water where it was about nine feet deep. A little dog that had been with the Myers child was running along the shore making

13. July 18, 1894 The Advocate Topeka, KS
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NOTES. The German-American league of KanB&B will hold a political conference in Topeka, September 2. The Suffrage Advocate, a new paper whose name indicates its purpose, is published by W. H. T. Wakefield in Lawrence. Major Morrill has retired from the field for the hot term, but Dick Blue's gold-bug speeches still grate on the ears of the republicans. Susan B. Anthony has requested the Populist state committee to make dates for her to speak in the state during the month of September. Judge James A. Ray, of Wellington who still pretends to think he is a republican, is writing articles in favor of government ownership of railroads That's a step towards the dizzy heights of Populism. Conductor R. J. Sloat, the nominee for representative in the Thirty-sixth district, Shawnee county, is president of the local A. R. U., and was discharged by the railroad company for refusing to run a train with a Pullman car attached. O.L. Miller, the Second district candidate for congress, is one of the regulation kind. He is 8 well paid attorney for several railroad companies, and would continue to be in case he was elected. It is said his several salaries amount to over $12,000 a year. C.W. Myers, vice president of the defunct Bank of Greensburg, Kiowa county, has been convicted of receiving deposits when he knew the bank was in a failing condition. Of course he is one of the "Redeem Kansas" fellows, like E. B. Purcell, of Manhattan; Robert Kincaid, of Linn county; J. O. Davidson, of Wichita, and dozens of other bank and loan company frauds who have been bringing disgrace on the state by their "business" transactions of that kind and then trying to lay the blame on the Alliance and the People's party.

14. April 20, 1898 The Advocate and News Topeka, KS
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not the choice of one-tenth of the people of Osage City and that the situation at Lyndon is worse. John Seaton was a Democrat once. In 1884 he wanted the Republican nomination for Representative. On the day of the convention the opposition opened a bitter fight on him, which so incensed him that he withdrew and announced that "henceforth and forever" he would be against the Republicans. He became an anti-Republican candidate for Representative and the Democrats immediately endorsed him. In a short time he repented and went back to the old party. He could not keep away from the Blaine and Logan campaign club. At the First district Republican convention there was no chaplain. Tom Anderson called attention to the fact that the convention was without prayer, when someone said, "Pray for us, Tom," and he proceeded with a prayer which for irreverence and indiscreetness is without parallel in Kansas history. The Kansas City Gazette (Rep.) says: "We think that prayer of Tom Anderson's was about as scandalous as anything we ever knew of in Kansas, and what makes it worse was that there seemed to be no one among the seventy or eighty delegates to rebuke it. In 1893 Bank Commissioner Breidenthal closed the Bank of Greensburg because it was insolvent. His action was bitterly denounced as a political scheme and Sam Peters said that it was an outrage, as the bank's assets were worth every dollar they represented. Such a furore was raised by the ring politicians that the Sheriff felt called upon to guard Mr. Breidenthal to prevent the gang from doing violence to him. The notes in the bank amounting to $107,000 have just been sold at receiver's sale, bringing but $600, showing that Breidenthal knew what he was talking about when he said they were worthless.