10310. First National Bank (Kansas City, MO)

Bank Information

Episode Type: Suspension → Closure
Bank Type: national
Bank ID: 3456
Charter Number: 3456
Start Date: July 16, 1891
Location: Kansas City, Missouri (39.100, -94.579)

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Short Digest: 056f0d43

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Newspapers from July–August 1891 report the First National Bank of Kansas City closed doors in mid-July 1891 and the Comptroller of the Currency appointed a receiver (William T. Atkinson/Takinson) on Aug 17, 1891. No article describes a depositor run; the bank was closed and put into receivership by the comptroller, so classify as suspension leading to permanent closure/receivership.

Events (2)

1. July 16, 1891 Suspension

Cause: Government Action
Cause Details: Bank closed doors in mid-July 1891 and was subsequently placed under official control; closure led to receiver appointment.
Newspaper Excerpt: The liabilities of the First National Bank of Kansas City, ... which closed doors Thursday
Source: newspapers

2. August 17, 1891 Receivership

Newspaper Excerpt: The comptroller of the currency today appointed William T. Atkinson, of Hutchinson, Kansas, receiver of the First National bank of Kansas City.
Source: newspapers

Newspaper Articles (7)

1. July 18, 1891 Daily Kennebec Journal Augusta, ME

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CONDENBED DIBCE. The Pith of the News taken from the Current Events of the Day. President Diaz of Mexico is very ill. He suffers from insomnia. b Christian Bros. & Co.'s flour mill at e Minnespolis, Mian., was damaged $75,000 I by fire Friday night. Nearly three miles of #now sheds on the : line of the Central Pacific near Summit, Cal. was burned Friday. William Hall, aged 40, was killed and 1 John J. Moore, 31, was fatally injured by 1 a falling casting at West End Reilroad power station Boston, Friday. Schooner Franconia is ashore at Devil's 3 h Bridge, Vineyard Sound, and is being stripped. Her bull and cargo of coal will be sold at public auction. The liabilities of the First National Bank of Kansas City, Can., which closed doors Thursday, are said to be, including deposits, r $90,000. The total assets are $214,000. f Lieut. Commander Bartlett, command0 ing the United States ship Marion, received orders to join the Behring sea patrol at , Onnalaska. The Marion will start north t on Monday. e a During the thunder storm at St. Mary's, n Ohio, Thursday. the chain works of the e Standish Manufacturing Works were struck ; by lightning and 70 employee were knocked 8 speechless by the shock. e Herman Ridder has been appointed receiver of the J. H. Bonnell & Co. New t York, limited, manufacturers of printers t ink. Liabilities estimated $500,000; ase sets, $400,000. There will be no interrupr tion of business as those interested desire its continuance. d The public accounts committee of the Dominion House of Commons, Thursday, 1 unearthed more irregular payments in conV nection with the department of the interior. d In consequence of the disclosures made, a Lyndewade Peirra, secretary of the departS ment, was suspended. S e Attorney General Miller has submitted to the State department his opinion as to 8 the effect of contract labor laws of the United States as applied to the Chicago e, exposition. After discussing legislation on e o the subject, the attorsey general says perh sons coming to the United States in good d good faith for the sole purpose of aiding t foreign exhibitors, are outside of and nos N subject to contract laws of the country. s The Kentucky whiskey men are much troubled over the condition of the liquor g n market There has been an excessive proto duction for some time past, and now the is estimated surplus 40,000,000 gallons on e hand. It is probable that Congress will be noked to relieve the market by extending y 2 the three years bonded period now allowed e, for the payment of taxes on liquor. It will W take about $18,000,000 to pay the taxes this fall unless this be done.

2. July 24, 1891 The Black Hills Union Rapid City, SD

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000. A Baptist university is being constructed at Sioux Falls to cost $60.000. Chamberlain will build a pontoon bridge over the Missouri at that place. Grasshoppers are reported numerous in parts of North Dakota. Missouri river steamers are doing a good business this season. A man in Charles Mix county died recently from a rattlesnake bite. Sioux Falls claims to have no open saloons. A yeast factory at Centerville is in successful operation. Twenty-five thousand head of range cattle are reported on the reservation. More than two hundred men are employed in the quarries at Sioux Falls. Detroit stonecutters won. New York tailors were successful in their strike. Nevada has Chinese miners. Ohio miners are making an effort to reduce their days labor to nine hours. Kansas has 73,000 alliance farmers. Demoines' Iowa, bakers want ten hours. Key West has 4,000 idle cigar makers. Washington has double decked street cars. English agents are contracting for the Maine apple crop. Gas is promised at fifteen cents per 1,000 in Chicago. France has 1,000,000 socialists. Rochester boss tailors have been indicted for conspiracy. Only voters are employed oncity work in St. Louis. The trunk makers gained their demands by a strike in San Francisco. The coopers of Belleville, Ill., lost their strike for an advance. A Boston union is running a co-operatiye hat and cap factory. American laborers in Central and South America are workingat thirty-five cents per day. Experts estimate the crop yield this year at over 520,000,000 bushels. This will be the heaviest ever harvested in this country. The future outlook for the tin plateindustry in England is said to be gloomy. Skilled workingmen will find remunerative employment in America. The universal Postal congress which has just closed its labors at Vienna Austria agreed upon a schedule of low and uniform rates of postage among nearly all nations. It is said that the Louisana Lottery company is flooding Louisana with circulars offering to loan the farmers money at one per cent. This is done to secure legislation favorable to the lottery company. James B. Colgate, of New York has given a million dollars for the endowment of a Baptist college at Hamilton New York. The costs in the O'Shea divorce case amounted to $7,000. They were paid by Parnell. It is estimated that the U. S. will export 165,000,000 bushels of wheat this year. New wheat in Texas is selling at sixty five cents per bushel. The Ohio democracy oppose Cleve land's silver policy. The Iowa democracy favor the free coinage of silver. The Iowa republican convention indorsed the McKinley tariff and the Blaine reciprocity schemes. Independent republicans, of Pennsylvania, are organizingagainst"boss rule. The toast to the prince of Wales at a recent banquetinNorth Hampton evoked a storm of hisses. Ingalls says farming is a sedentary occupation. It is thought that Kansas City will be a heavy loser through the failure of the First National bank of that city. Gov. Hill has announced that he is a candidate for the presidential nomination at the hands of his party. A recent decision of the U.S. supreme court makes it legal to tax railroad property in any state. It had previously been held that it could only be taxed in the state where in corporated. Texas is the greatest pecan producing country in the world. The socialists, of Germany, have published a manifesto demanding uniyersal suffrage for both sexes, the abolition n the standing army the granting of free medical assistance and other reforms. The Russian government is taking pre caution to guard against famine in case of the failure of the wheat crop. The Egyptian cotton crop is reported to be very heavy. The annuities paid to the royal family now amount to over three million dol lars. More and more are thepeople pro testing against paying these unwarranted robberies. a wenty-eight million acres of land are irrigated in British India

3. August 7, 1891 The Columbian Bloomsburg, PA

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BRIEF MENTION OF NEWS Happenings of the World from Pole to Pole. TOLD IN A FEW SECONDS OF TIME. The Developments of Each Day During the Week Caught Fresh from the Busy Wires and Carefully Edited and Condensed for Our Readers. Colonel L. L. Polk, the Alliance leader, says be could not vote for Cleveland for president. William J. Elliott. who shot Editor A. T. Osborn in Columbus, O., June 23, has been convicted of murder in the second degree. F. C. Havemeyer. the founder of the great sugar firm, is dead. In Lawrence county, Ills., a disease is raging among cattle which kills within fifteen minutes after the attack. The average number of deaths daily in New York state for the month of June '0681 'aunf u; 168 usupese SR '018 SUM A carriage containing six persons was struck by a train at Elmira, N. Y., and four of the occupants were killed outright and two fatally injured. A telegraph messenger, aged fifteen, and a flower boy, aged sixteen, were arrested Boston uo 148g ezud B up peSsSue common. Theodore D. Lorich, of Jersey City, was drowned at Sharon. Mass. The anti-pool selling law at St. Louis has been declared unconstitutional Captain William W. Bair, of Clarion, Pa., has been appointed president judge of Clarion county, to succeed the late Theophilus Wilson. Eighty motor men and conductors of the Newark (N. J.) Passenger Railway company have struck for a reduction of hours and an increase of wages. The Massachusetts Democratic state convention will be held on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 18 The First National Bank of Kansas City -du aq THE receiver V st """" pointed. E. H. Morris, of the Republican state central committee of Illinois, has been offered the position of minister to Liberia by the president. Mrs. Samuels, the mother of Jesse James, the outlaw, has received an offer to exhibit the James log house near Kearny, Mo., at the World's fair. The lobster factories at Bay of Islands, N. F., with the exception of those operated eq: sq closed been have em sq commander of the British ship Pelican. A conscience stricken unfortunate has sent thirty-eight one dollar lottery tickets. none of which drew a prize, to the dead letter office, with the comment that the Snquiny 8 st Intred Treasury officials are said to be greatly worried over the letter written by Mr. Owen, superintendent of immigration, in which he said tin plate workers might be brought into this country in spite of the contract labor law. The total loss by fire at Dallas, Tex., will UE THM '000'008$ new dn 1001 000'000% about 10 During a heavy thunder storm at Greenville, Pa., the tall steeple of the United Presbyterian church was demolished by lightning Rev. Scouller was just finishing his sermon and about 200 people were in the building. The greatest excitement prevailed for a while, but no one was inpain! While Edward Dwyer was walking near Washington Park Lake, Albany, N. Y., eq: up rolled pus 1y 8 421-M 18381 SWM eq water. Before assistance could reach him hedrowned. His body was recovered later. W. C. Tiffany's picture store, 233 Seneca are &q ребешер SUM "A N $100.118 -un Insurance '000'0'$ 10 quaire the 01 known. Charles Curtis, a well known thief, snatched a pocketbook from Miss Bessie Mead, of 18 East Thirty-second street, New York, while she was walking on Madison avenue, near Fifty-first street. Curtis chase e JO superview Jerse SUM Christie Hughes, saloon keeper, of Stone street, Newark, N. J., who took a prominent part in the Clark Thread works strike, has disappeared, owing many debts. George Gasser, of Newark, N. J., whose two sons and son-in-law were drowned recently, is to be admitted to the Krueger home. He is seventy-two years old and nearly blind. Major Grover shot his brother Henry at Lexington, Tenn. Both men were drunk. The Pokegama Athletic association, of Grand Rapids, Mich., has decided to offer '178y eq2 201 000'01$ with or without gloves. The United States steamship BenningNew eqf 18 penuid pus perpoop eq IIIM not York yard in a few days for her final trial. Syracuse is out of the Eastern associa108 01 Hujan st when President pus things the club into Toronto. Passengers on the steamer Drew, which collided with an excursion barge on the Hudson river, near Albany, believe at least two persons were drowned. Harvey J. Searles has been appointed postmaster at Liberty, N. Y.; Clement Russell, postmaster at Massillon, O. Levi Gaines, of Illinois, serving a sen tence of one year in the Chester (Pa.) penitentiary for violating the pension laws, has been pardoned. Josephine Sickengen, a beautiful and 01 emou oum [11] op 01 IIeM escape from & marriage she could not en dure, was burned to death at New York. President Ignatius Donnelly, of the Minnesota State Farmers' Alliance, has of members 01 Intern uedo us opposition to the scheme for withholding the wheat crop. Mr. Donnelly says the market would eventually be glutted with snoujns 01 dosp pinom preces pus whent figures. The tower of a church in the process of erection at Szalatina, Hungary, fell, killing sixteen workmen. S. Gerber, who lived in Omaha, Neb., for five years, has, it is said, been exiled to

4. August 18, 1891 Los Angeles Herald Los Angeles, CA

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Treasury Notes. WASHINGTON, August 17.-Two hundred and seventy-two thousand ounces of silver were purchased today at prices ranging from $.99 to $.992. The comptroller of the currency today appointed William T. Atkinson, of Hutchinson, Kansas, .receiver of the First National bank of Kansas City. Secretary Foster has gone to Cape May, in response to a summons from the president.

5. August 19, 1891 Evening Capital Journal Salem, OR

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GENERAL NEWS NOTES. Gilman & French, of Heppner, one day last week shipped 200 head of beefcattle by rail to Seattle. Nearly $35,000 has been raised in stock for a hosiery and underwear factory to be built at Waterloo, Lion county. Last week at Yaquina while a couple of young men were shooting at a mark one of the bullets passed through the hat of Roy Stuart, a boy, who was playing near by. A smart confidence man was at work in a Pendleton saloon Friday night and succeeded in getting about $16 on a change racket. He left the city on a freight train. Several cases of diphtberia are reported in Crook county. Two children of John Savage, who lives two miles from Prineville, have died, and another was dangerously ill at last accounts. Saturday afternoon while Smith Armstrong was standing near a saw in a mill at Milton, a board twenty feet long and eight inches wide flew from the saw and struck him on the forebead, cutting a fearful gash in his head. He will recover. Farmers living on the east fork of Hood river have determined to utilize the water of that stream by building an irrigation ditch four feet wide at the bottom and about the same depth. The head of the ditch will be 1500 feet above the Columbia river. Barnard & Ce., of St. Louis, have sued Grant's Paas for the sum of $188 for books furnished the city on the order of R. G. Smith, the former recorder. The books failed to ar. rive in time for the old council to audit the bill, and the new body refused to allow it. James Garrity,a sheepherder,cam into Heppner the other day and proceeded to get gloriously full. He was proceeding to capture the town, when the city marshal, after a hard struggle, with the help of several citizens, succeeded in landing him in jail a little the worse for wear. The suspension of the British Bank of Australia of Melbourne is announced. The liabilities are $800,000 half of which is owed by creditors in Eugland. The comptroller of the currency appointed William T. Sakinson of Hutchinson, Kan., receiver of the First National bank of Kansas City. The creditors of John Thyson, who failed Saturday, held a meeting in St. Louis. Thyson said he was short 85,000 bushels of wheat, The meeting adjourned without taking any definite action. Justice Brien at New York on Monday appointed # committee to inquire into the saulty of Elliot Roosevelt, a brother of Theodore Roosevelt, United States civil service commissioner, and brother inlaw of Baron Von Zedlitz. The pttition is made by Theodore Roosevelt, with the consent of his wife. He has three children and bonds and stocks amounting to $170,000Drink is said to have impaired Mr. Roosevelt's reason. As M. Laur was leaving a meeting at Girque Hiver, Paris, Monday an auarchist attempted to assassi nate him, but failed. The anarchist was arrested. Andrew W. Oppman, president of the Oppman Brewing company, of Cleveland, was arrested Monday on the charge of murder. Saturday night he beat Fred Seigel, one of his hostlers, so badly that he died. David Jacobs and Mrs. Mary Johnson, the Chesterfield, S. C., poisoners, whom Governor Tillman reprived on the gallows Friday, just as the heriff was about to swing them off, had their sentences com muted to life imprisonment in the penitentiary. John Heming was mortally wounded at Colorado Springs, Col., Monday night by one of two men, who attempted to rob him and L. A. Ward. They are motorman and conductor on an electric street car, respectively. Two men have been arrested suspected of the crime. The international hygienic congress closed in London. Budha Pestb was chosen as the next meeting place. The international labor congress did little at Brussels but complete its organization and read fraternal telegrams from all parts of the world. The road leading from Pine valley 0 Little's Landing on Snake river, leading to the Seven Devils, which has been under construction for some time, is reported as having been comuleted. Itisina passable

6. August 22, 1891 The Dalles Times-Mountaineer Dalles, OR

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Bank Receiver Appointed. WASHINGTON, Aug. 17-The comptroller of the currency to day appointed William T. Takinson, of Hutchinson, Kan., receiver of the Firet National bank of Kansas City.

7. September 24, 1891 Delaware Gazette and State Journal Wilmington, DE

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IN GENERAL John Lahalotte stabbed and killed his cousin. Frank Lahalotte, in St. Joseph, Mo., Friday. The Michigan Methodist Conference, in session in Detroit, Friday, by a vote of 149 to 73, decided to admit women as lay delegates. The appraisers in the case of the suspended First National Bank of Kansas City, Mo., report the assets at $1,680 and the liabilities at $34,000. Lorenz Brentano, ex-congressman, consul and editor. who had a checkered career in Europe and this country, died Friday in Chicago, aged 78 years. Secretary Tracy on Friday awarded the contract for building torpedo boat No. 2 to the Iowa iron works of Dubuque, Ia., the lowest bidder, at $111,500. Charles M. Miller, a clerk in Deering's book store in Louisville. Ky., is short $25,000. He returned $13,000. It is said that he will not be prosecuted. R. H. Duncan, who, in February, 1889, killed the Williamson family of four persons, in San Saba county, Texas, was last Friday hanged at Eagle Pass. John Turton's Sons, merchants in naval supplies in New York, made an assignment Friday to Charles B. Turton. with a preference of $10,500 to the assignee. M. D. Thrasher, postmaster of Edwardsville, Ala., has been arrested. He is charged with corresponding with green goods men in New York city with a view to getting a supply. It is reported from Guthrie, Oklahoma. that the Cherokees have given notice that they will appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States from Judge Green's decision regarding the outlet. A settler named Westermund. of New Stockholm. in the north-west territory, recently became insane because of the death of his wife. and chopped off the head of his three-years-old daughter with an axe. The hearing of J.L. Bay, charged with appropriating $100,000 in scrip to offset ex-State Treasurer Wondruff's indebtedness to the state, was concluded at Little Hock, Arkansas, on Thursday night, and Justice Wilson discharged the defendant. Proofs of a portrait of Madame Diss Debar, published in a New York paper, were received in Chicago on Friday, and a number of persons who had Miss Vera Ava, the alleged philanthropist, now in Cincinnati, unhesitatingly identified it as that of Miss Ava. Albert Morea, colored. was hanged in Savannah, Ga., on Friday. Before entering the death cell he handed the reporters a confession. He confessed the killing of his first wife in 1889, and his second wife in April last. Both murders were committed through jealousy. A severe storm broke over Ottawa, Canada, last Friday afternoon. Great damage was done to trees and shrubbery. The glass roof of the house of commons was broken by falling cornices, the members' desks on the ministerial side were deluged, and many valuable papers were destroyed. A dispatch from Guthrie, Oklahoma, says that great clouds of smoke are rising from the Cherokee strip, and thousands of acres are being burned over. The cause of the fire is not known, but it is thought that the boomers have commenced their raid and are carrying out their threat to burn the grass of the entire country. Colonel Frederick A. Conkling, a brother of the late Roscoe Conkling, died on Friday in New York. He was 75 years of age. Colonel Conkling was at one time a state senator. and he was a member of the 37th Congress. When the war broke out he organized the Eighty-fourth Regiment of New York militia. An investigation of the accounts of Col. W. A. Couthoy, Boston agent of Chubbs & Sons, general agents for the Marine Insurance Company of London, has revealed a shortage of about $10,000. It is understood that he will not be prosecuted, as his wife has made transfers of certain property, which will cover in great part the deficiency A. Branley, a farmer of Taylor county Ia., has been bound over to the United States grand jury for violation of the census law. He has mortgaged a farm. and when he received a blank from the census bureau inquiring for particulars, he wrote Mr. Porter, requesting that gentleman to attend to his own affairs. Branley's arrest followed. The United States Savings Bank in Kansas City, which failed last March and was reopened July 2d. was again placed in the hands of a receiver on Friday. The assets and liabilities have not been made public. Justice Collins, at Chicago, has decided to appoint a receiver for the American Mutual Live Stock Insurance Company. The officers of the concern have consented to a dissolution. James E. Ostrander was, on Thursday night, removed from the position of treasurer of the Ulster County Savings Instituion, at Kingston, N. Y., because he had embezzied its funds. The amount stolen is variously estimated at from $60,000 to $90,000. It is said that Ostrander will turn over real estate enough to cover the amount. He had been treasurer of the savings institution for more than 25 years. Joseph Scheide, a tinware manufacturer in Brooklyn, N. Y., and Portland, Conn., was arrested Friday, charged by Charles B. Rouss, who keeps a notion store on Broadway, N. Y., with obtaining $75,000 from his firm for goods he had not furnished, by duplicating his bill and making fraudulent charges. Scheide denies this and threatens to sue Rouss for libel and false imprisonment He was required to furnish $1,000 bail for examination. The Democratic state convention of Nebraska met in Grand Island on Thursday week. Judge J. H. Broody was nominated for justice of the supreme court. and A. Brogan and Captain N F. Heneker for regents of the State University The platform declares for "a tariff for revenue, limited to the necessities of the government. economically administered, and for a law restablishing reasonable maximam freight rates governing railroads' of that state. The state department has received formal notice that a band of hostile men contemplating a forcible invasion of Mexico are on the Texas frontier The information has been transmitted to the war department and to the governor of Texas. It is not clear yet what can be done in the matter, and if the usual practice is followed the revolutionists can be arrested in Texas only by the action of the district attorney when he has reason to believe