Article Text
Missouri Bank Closed. NEW LONDON, Sept. 10.-State Bank Examiner Austin has closed the Center bank at Center, Balls county. William Christian was appointed receiver.
10123. Center Bank (Center, MO)
Bank Information
- Episode Type
- Suspension → Closure
- Bank Type
- state
- Start Date
- September 10, 1895
- Location
- Center, Missouri (39.508, -91.529)
Metadata
- Model
- gpt-5-mini
- Short Digest
5d6818e8
Response Measures
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Description
Multiple contemporaneous newspaper notices (Sept 1895) report the State Bank Examiner C. O. Austin closed Center Bank at Center, Ralls County, MO and Wm. (William) Christian was appointed receiver. One article OCR rendered 'Balls county' — corrected to Ralls County based on other items. No mention of a depositor run; action was taken by the state examiner and a receiver appointed, indicating suspension leading to closure/receivership.
Events (1)
1.
September 10, 1895
Suspension
- Cause
- Government Action
- Cause Details
- Closed by Missouri State Bank Examiner C. O. Austin; receiver Wm. (William) Christian appointed.
- Newspaper Excerpt
- The Missouri state bank examiner closed Center Bank, at Center, Ralls County. William Christian was appointed receiver.
- Source
- newspapers
Newspaper Articles (3)
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Article Text
TELEGRAPHIC CLICKS. Richard Mansfield, the actor and manager of Garrick theater, is dangerously ill with typhoid fever at New York. The Missouri state bank examiner closed Center Bank, at Center, Ralls County, Mo., Monday. William Christian was appointed receiver. At Pittsburg. Kan., heavy rains have fallen for the last three days. The whole country is flooded and the tracks of all railroads leading into the city have been washed away. The will of Susan W. Talmage, the wife of Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, was admitted to probate Monday. The estate, valued at $166,000, was left to her husband. The Frank Moseley company, at Montreal, leather merchants and tanners. one of the largest firms of its kind in Canada, is in financial difficulties. Its liabilities are about $300,000, while it is understood that its assets will make a poor showing. The gross earnings of the Iowa Central railroad for the year ending June 30, were $1,583,971, a decrease of $242,021; operating expenses, $1,058,821, a decrease of $139,768; net earnings, $535,150, a decrease of $92,253. Corrigan, McKinney & Co., of Cleveland, have closed a deal with the owners of the Northern Chief Iron company by which, control of the Germania, the Minnewawa, the Windsor and the Pence Mines on the Gogebic ranges are secured.
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Article Text
Center Bank. The bank at Center, Ralls county, was closed by C. O. Austin, state bank examiner. Wm. Christian was appointed receiver.