10144. Henry County Bank (Clinton, MO)

Bank Information

Episode Type
Suspension → Closure
Bank Type
state
Start Date
December 5, 1896
Location
Clinton, Missouri (38.371, -93.768)

Metadata

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gpt-5-mini
Short Digest
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Description

Multiple contemporary dispatches (Dec 5–6, 1896) report the Henry County Bank at Clinton, MO, assigned to attorneys and did not open its doors. State bank examiner had been reviewing papers and notified directors of his intention to close and take charge, and the assignment was made with consent of the secretary. No article describes a depositor run prior to the suspension. This therefore appears to be a suspension/closure (assignment) driven by action of the state examiner/authorities.

Events (1)
1. December 5, 1896 Suspension
Cause
Government Action
Cause Details
State bank examiner reviewed the bank's papers, notified directors of intention to close and take charge; assignment to attorneys made with consent of secretary; bank did not open next morning (suspension/closure).
Newspaper Excerpt
The Henry County Bank assigned at 10 o'clock last night to Calverd & Lewis, attorneys, and did not open its doors for business this morning.
Source
newspapers

Newspaper Articles (13)
1. December 5, 1896 The Evening Times Washington, DC
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LATE TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. Archbold, Ohio, Dec. 5.-The postoffice at tihs place was robbed at 2 o'clock this morning of $400, in stamps and money. Montreal, Dec. 5.-Archbishop Fabre is very low today, and the last sacraments of the church have been administered. Allentown, Pa., Dec.5.-W.J. Crim today entered execution for $24,165.64 against Harry W. Hunsicker, dry goods dealer. Eldorado, Ark., Dec. 5.-Armstrong & Bros., dealers in general supplies, failed yesterday. Liabilities, $60,000; assests about the same. Chicago, Dec. 5.-The grand jury has voted indictments against five Western Union officials on the charge of aiding and abetting bucket-shop keepers. Baxter Springs, Kans., Dec. 5.-The Baxter Springs Bank closed its doors this morning, and is now in the hands of the deputy bank commissioner. The statement of the assets and liabilities cannot be obtained. Clinton, Mo., Dec. 5.-The Henry County Bank assigned at 10 o'clock last night to Calverd & Lewis, attorneys, and did not open its doors for business this morning. The deposits are about $125,000 and bills payable about $20,000. Newark, Ohio, Dec. 5.-The wife of A. F. Gleisner, a glass blower, undoubtedly demented, shot her seven-months-old son three times in the head and herself in the mouth this morning. The baby is dead and the woman is thoughtto be dying. Boston, Dec. 5.-Sophia Lawrence, aged nine; Sarah Lawrence, aged forty, and a lodger named Sawyer, all colored people, were found dead in the house No. 38 Newcome street, Roxbury, at 10 o'clock this morning, having been asphyxiated by gas. Richmond, Ind., Dec. 5.-J. W. Henderson, a prominent attorney of this city and late chairman of the Democratic central committee, was found guilty this morning n twenty-four counts by the grand jury for embezzling $1,800 from Woodward Lodge. 1. 0.0.M.

2. December 5, 1896 Las Vegas Daily Optic Las Vegas, NM
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Missouri Bank Fails. CLINTON, Mo, December 5.-The Henry county bank assigned at 10 o'clock last night, to Calvird & Lewis, attorneys, and did not open its doors for business, this morning. The deposits are about $125,000, and bills payable about $20 000. The bank was organized in 1882, and had a capital stock of $75,000.

3. December 5, 1896 The Jersey City News Jersey City, NJ
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ONE MORE MISSOURI BANK GONE CLINTON, Mo., Dec. 5. 1896.-The - Henry County Bank assigned at ten o'clock last night to Calverd & Lewis, attorneys, and did not open its doors for business this morning. The deposits are about $125,000, and bills payable about $20,000. At the time of rendering its last statement in August State Bank Examiner Gordon Jones insisted that certain requirements must be met. He has been going over the bank's papers for two days, and yesterday afternoon called a meeting of the directors and notified them of his intention to close the bank and take charge, whereupon, with the consent of Secretary Lesseuer the assignment was made. All deposits received in the course of business yesterday, one being for $5,000, have been laid aside and will be returned. The bank was organized in 1882 and had a capital stock of $75,000.

4. December 5, 1896 Alexandria Gazette Alexandria, VA
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TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. The gunboats Vicksburg and New. port were successfully launched from the Bath, Me., Iron Works, to-day. A dispatch from Havana asserts that the rebel leader Maceo has left the province of Pinar del Rio 00 board 5 ship. Two young women attacked burglars who were robbing a safe in sandy Lake, P3., last night, 8001 one and drove the band away. Sheriff E. A Moffitt, of Randolph county, N. C., while making E raid 00 moonshiners, was shot and killed in Ashebore last night. The Henry County Bank at Clinton, Mo., assigned last night, and did not open its doors for basiness this morning. The deposits are about $125,000. The bank was organized in 1882 and had 8 capital stock of $75,000. J. W. Henderson, & prominent attorney of Richmond, Ind., and late chairman of the democratic central committee, was found guilty this morning, of embezzling $1,800 from Woodward Lodge 0. O.F. Reports from Fischer, Mich., this morning are to the effect that the water in the Menominee river is falling, and that the moderate weather bas had the effect of softening the ice 80 that & passage will be cut through the jam. It is believed that the danger of further damage is passed. Frederick Dubieci, 30 experienced Italian quarryman, bad both eyes blown out of his head and was otherwise terribly mangled, last evening, by the premature explosion of a dynamite cartridge in the Bloomfield, Pa., quar. ries in which he was employed as foreman. His injuries will doubtless prove fatal. The wife of A.F. Gleisner, 8 glassblower, of Newark, O., undoubtedly demented, shot her seven months-old son three times in the head and berself in the mouth this morning. The baby is dead and the woman is thought to be dying. When the neighbors ran into the house the mother was clasping the baby in her arms on the floor. Sophia Lawrence. aged 9: Sarah Lawrence. aged 40. and alodger named Sawyer, all colored people, were found dead in a house in Roxbury, Mass., this morning. The cause of the deaths was a leaking gas pipe. Three members of George Curran's family who live in the next house, and & boarder named E. H. Thomas, were found under the influence of the gas and taken out by the police in season to save their lives. The Pittsburg, Pa., coroner's office has received notice that a seven-year old cbild named Berbick, residing in Braddock. died this morning the victim of a beating at the hands of its father. This morning the child's mother complained to the Braddock police that her husband had struck the child with & club last night, causing its death. Berbick is in jail, awaiting the coroner's investigation. Two lives were ended by inhaling gas in Philadelphia last night. One was suicide and the other was accidental. The first was John W. Leeds, of Atlantic City, N. J., who committed suicide at the Ridgeway House by inbaling gas, and the other Thomas L. Pattison, aged 70 years, a bookkeeper in the employ of Edmund D. Smith & Co., iron brokers. who was accidentally asphyxiated by fumes from a gas stove in his room at the Penn apartment house. The Chicago grand jury has voted indict ments against five Western Union officials on the charge of aiding and abetting bucket shop keepers. The grand later reconsidered their action in voting indictments against Western Union officials and finally decided to irop the matter altogether. State's Attorney Kern positively re fused to draw the indictments. The Barter Springs, Ksn. Bank closed its doors this morning and 23 now in the hands of the Deputy Bank Commissioner The statement of the assets and liabilities cannot be obtained. The postoffice at Archold, O. WM robbed s: 2 o'clock this morning of $400 in stamps and money Dispatches from Havana report more insur. gent repulses, with heavy loss. A YOUNG GIRL'S HORRIBLE DEATH Laura, the ten year old daughter of

5. December 5, 1896 Alexandria Gazette Alexandria, VA
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The Henry County Bank at Clinton, Mo., assigned last night, and did not open its doors for basiness this morning. The deposits are about $125,000. The bank was organized in 1882 and had 8 capital stock of $75,000.

6. December 6, 1896 The Sun New York, NY
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Two Western Bank Failures. CLINTON, Mo., Dec. 5.-The Henry County Bank assigned at 10 o'clock last night to Calverd and Lewis, attorneys. and did not open its doors for business this morning. The deposits are about $125,000, and bills payable about $20,000. Alldeposits received in the course of business yesterday. one being for $5,000, have been laid aside and will be returned. The bank was organized in 1882 and had a capital stock of $75.000. BAXTER SPRINGS, Kan., Dec. 5.-The Baxter Springs Bank closed its doors this morning and is now in the hands of the Deputy Bank Commissioner.

7. December 6, 1896 The Norfolk Virginian Norfolk, VA
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Condensed News. Baxter Springs, Kas., Dec. 5.--The Baxter Springs Bank closed Its doors this morning, and is now in the hands of the Deputy Bank Commissioner. The statement of the assets and liabilities cannot be obtained. New York, Dec. .-For November the Southern railway earned $1,677,502. a decrease of $209,843; Norfolk and Western, $834,287, a decrease of $62,387, and the Georgla railroad earned net for October, $63,675. a decrease of $16,511. Clinton. Mo., Dec. 5.-The Henry County Bank assigned at 10 o'clock last night to Calvard & Lewis, attorneys, and did not open its doors for business this morning. The deposits are about $125,000 and bills payable about $20,000. Berlin, Dec. 5.-The North German Gazette prints the statement that the German Government disputes President Cleveland's tonnage dues contention, and has lodged a protest against the action of the United States Government. New York. Dec. 'he Clyde liner Cherokée from Charleston, which was two days' overdue, was signted off the Highlands shortly after 2 o'clock this afternoon. The Morgan line steamer Excelsior from New Orleans, and the Cherokee, which arrived to-day, were in the heavy gale off the Carolinas on the 2d and 3d of the present month. Jacksonville, Fla., Dec. 5.-In the Circuit Court this morning Judge Call dismissed the rule requiring T. T. Stockton, general manager of the Florida Time:-Union, to show cause why he should not be punished for contumpt for publishing the headline "Smith Not Ready to Swing" over an article in reference to the motion applying for a continuance in the case of Sus Smith, charged with the murder of William Doyle. Baltimore, Dec. -The Baltimore reorganization committee of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad company is not satisfied with the report of Stephen W. Little on the financial condition of the property between the dates of September 30. 1888, and November 30, 1895, the period of the Mayer management, and will probably make an independent examination of the books and accounts of the corporation on lines entirely different from those followed by Mr. Little in his Investigation for the NEW York reoganization committee.

8. December 6, 1896 Birmingham State Herald Birmingham, AL
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WENT OUT OF BUSINESS. Clinton, Mo., Dec. 5.-The Henry County bank assigned at 10 o'clock tonight to Calvered & Lewis, attorneys, and did not open its doors for business this morning. The deposits are about $125,000, and bills payable about $20,000.

9. December 6, 1896 The Morning News Savannah, GA
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TWO BANKS STOP PAYMENT. One of Them Located in Missouri and the Other in Kansas. Clinton, Mo., Dec. 5.-The Henry county bank assigned at 10 o'clock last night to Calvert & Lewis, attorneys, and did not open its doors for business this morning. The deposits are about $125,000, and the bills payable about $20,000. Baxter Springs, Kan., Dec. 5.-The Baxter Springs Bank closed its doors this morning, and is now in the hands of the deputy bank commissioner. A statement of the assets and liabilities cannot be ob. tained.

10. December 6, 1896 The San Francisco Call San Francisco, CA
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Henry County Bank Fails, CLINTON, Mo., Dec. 5.-Henry County Bank assigned at 10 o'clock last night to Calverd & Lewis, attorneys, and did not open its doors for business this morning. The deposits are about $125,000, and bills payable about $20,000 The bank was orranized in 1882 and had a capital stock of $75,000.

11. December 10, 1896 White Oaks Eagle White Oaks, NM
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THAT REVIVAL OF BUSINESS. St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 2.-The Providence Jewelry Company made an assignment yesterday. No schedule of assets or liabilities is made. D c. 2.-Whittier, Burdett & Co., wholesale clothiers of Boston, failed. Liabilities not stated. December 4.-Peacock, Dunwody & Haugh, Atlanta, Ga., assigned, with liabilities $53,000. W. C. Dapree. hardware and imple. ments, failed. Liabilities, $250,000. Bradstreet's report of bank clearings in the United States for the week, shows a loss of 4 per cent as compared with the corresponding week of 1895 Dec. 4.-Julius Seidler, dry goods, at Georgetown, Colo., closed. Liabilities, $4,500. Porteans & Mitchel. dry goods, announce that they will close their business at Middletown, Conn., March 1st. Henry County Bank, at Clinton, Mo., closed. No statement of condition. Armstrong & Co. failed at El Dorado, Ark., for $60,000. General Merchandise. Dec. 5.-Bank at Baxter Springs, Kan., closed its doors. Liabilities not reported. Bradstreets says: "General trade continues in moderate volume, jobbers and wholesalers being agreed that there was no business revival this year. There is some activity in holiday goods. "There are 359 business failures reported throughout the United States this week, 88 increase of 63 as compared with last week, 41 as compared with the corresponding week a year ago, 27 as contrasted with 1891, but a failing off of 21 as compared with 1893." Denver, Dec. 5-A special to the News from Tres Piedras, saye: Felix Grant, dealer in general merchandise, failed

12. December 11, 1896 The Columbia Herald Columbia, TN
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The liabilities will probably amount to about $250.000. Pencock. Danwoody & Hough, retail dry goods merchants of Atlanta, Ga., assigned last Friday. The debts of the firm amount to about $53,000 and the assets are placed at $71,000. The J. B. Owens Drug Company, of Kansas City, Mo., has failed as a result of the Missouri National Bank failure. The bank holds notes of the firm aggregating $11,250. The Henry County Bank, of Clinton, Mo., has been closed by the state bank examiner. The capital stock is $50,000 The Baxter Springs Bank, of Baxter Springs, Kan., has closed its doors. No statement of the assets and liabilities can be obtained. Hon. W. J. Bryan's book, "The First Battle," will be issued some time in the early part of January. Two boys, 7 and 14 years old, were arrested in Birmingham this week for horse-stealing. They confessed to their theft. Tullahoma had a disastrous fire on Thursday night of last week. The loss is estimated at $25,000. W. J. Crenshaw, dealer in general merchandise at Colliersville, Tenn., closed his doors Friday. About $1,600 involved and assets unknown. Whitecaps perpetrated a number of outrages on negroes near Reelfoot Lake last week. It seems that a great deal of stealing had been going on in that part of the country for some time, and several negroes had been warned to leave the country. One of the negroes may die from his injuries. Last Friday evening James Kenley, a brakeman at Nashville, had his life insured for $700, and fifteen minutes later, was crushed to death beneath the car wheels.

13. December 12, 1896 The Democratic Advocate Westminster, MD
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News of the Week. Iowa orchards suffered enormous damage during the recent storm. The First Presbyterian Church, Chicago, was damaged by fire Sunday to the extent of about $4000. An incendiary fire Sunday destroyed 21 11 store buildings and five dwellings at Shaws, Miss. ;loss about $75, partially insured. Be caresul of whom you entertain over night, as smallpox prevails at Ironton, Ohio; Pittsburg, Penna., and Pensacola, Florida. The Westham Granite Company, owning large quarries in Chesterfield county, Virginia, has made an assignment. Liabilities, $89,000. The Henry County Bank, at Clinton, Missouri, has suspended payments. The deposits are about $125, 000, and bills payable about $20,000. The funded debt of the railways of Pennsylvania is $897 086,938, which, with a capital stock and floating debts. makes a total capitalization of $2,007,191,535. Daniel Ryan, aged 6 years, and William and Josephine Burk, aged 7 and 11 respectively, were drowned in the Naugatuok river, at Thomaston, Conn., on Saturday, by the breaking of the ice. A fire in New Orleans, Louisiana, on Saturday destroyed the wholesale grocery of B. H. Flaspoller & Son, and the store of the J. C. Morris Co., dealers in wooden and willow ware. Loss, $155,000. A Santa Fe train was wrecked 25 miles north of Fort Worth, Texas, on Friday night, by miscreants. who placed obstruetions on the tracks. Two of the trainmen were killed and another badly scalded. During a fight in New York city on Saturday night Giuseppe Dsario shot and killed Francisco Garlula and fatally wounded his brother James Garinla. The row started in a saloon over a game of cards. According to a Chicago despatch the Standard Oil Company and the Rockefellers have bought a large tract of land in the Calumet river region of South Chicago and will build the largest steel plant in the country. Because their demand for food and shelter was not complied with, two tramps, on Saturday night, set fire to and destroyed the home of Sarah and Mary Leech, near Shelbyville, Ind. Mary Leech was probably fatally burned. Sophia Lawrence, aged 9: Sarah Lawrence. aged 40, and a lodger, named Sawyer, all colored people, were found dead in their house, in Roxbury, Mass., on Saturday. They had been asphyxiated by gas from a leaky pipe. United States Secret Service detectives in New York on Saturday night arrested Charles Poppas, a resturant keeper, and Annie Kranis, on a charge of making spurious coin. Dies, moulds and a furnace for melting metal were seized. The United States District Attorney at Des Moines, Iowa. on Saturday swore out warrants for the Commandant and Trustees of the Iowa Soldiers' Home at Marshalltown. charging them with violating Federal laws by retaining liens on pensions. George Evans and Charles Pink were killed by negroes near Sugar Hill, Perry county, Tenn., on Thursday of last week; while endeavoring to check a race riot which was in progress. The murders have intensified the trouble and further bloodshed is probable. An opinion of importance to Eastern investors was handed down by the Kansas Supreme Court. in Topeka, on Saturday. It was in effect that the Kansas law does not authorize the assessment of judgments rendered by the State Courts in favor of citizens of other States. A Kansas City despatch says that the Omaha, St. Joseph and Kansas City packers have determined to form a company and purchase salt mines in Kansas, and hereafter produce all the rock salt that may be needed in the packing business of the three cities. County treasurer W. N. Coe was arrested at Dallas, Tex., on Saturday night on a grand jury indictment charging him with embezzling $5695 of Dallas county funds. Coe claims to have been robbed in his office by two men at midnight last Sunday night and to have been shot in the back of his head. An investigation of the work of the turnpike raiders in Kentucky shows that 1500 miles owned by corporations have practically been confiscated and are being travelled free of toll. It is estimated that the destruction of tollgates in the Blue Grass region has aflected $4,000,000 worth of property. It is said that Senator Faulkner will resign his seat as United States Senator this winter 80 that he can accept a very lucrative offer as attorney for a New York corporation. Senator Faulkner said Sunday night in reference to the rumor that in view of political conditions in his State he will not resign until the expiration of his term