10517. Farmers Bank (Orrick, MO)

Bank Information

Episode Type
Suspension → Closure
Bank Type
state
Start Date
July 17, 1895
Location
Orrick, Missouri (39.213, -94.123)

Metadata

Model
gpt-5-mini
Short Digest
4155badc

Response Measures

None

Description

Cashier embezzlement/peculation led to the bank's suspension and eventual failure. OCR variants of the cashier's name appear (L. T. Parrish / L. T. Parrish / Farris / Farrish). Initial reports of missing cashier and missing funds appear in July 1895; by Feb 1896 the bank is described as suspended/defunct and suits against it were compromised. No explicit depositor run is described in the articles.

Events (3)
1. July 17, 1895 Other
Newspaper Excerpt
the Farmers' Bank of Orrick, ... is in trouble, its cashier, L. T. Parish, being missing, and, it is reported, $15,000 to $20,000 of the bank's funds being also missing.
Source
newspapers
2. February 15, 1896 Other
Newspaper Excerpt
Twenty-two suits against the defunct Farmers' bank at Orrick have been compromised by the plaintiffs accepting 50 cents on the dollar from the directors.
Source
newspapers
3. February 15, 1896 Suspension
Cause
Bank Specific Adverse Info
Cause Details
Suspension attributed to embezzlement/peculations by the cashier (named variably Parrish/Farris/Farrish in reports).
Newspaper Excerpt
The bank suspended on account of the peculations of Cashier Farris.
Source
newspapers

Newspaper Articles (4)
1. July 17, 1895 Richmond Dispatch Richmond, VA
Article from Richmond Dispatch, July 17, 1895

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Telegraphic Briefs. Ensign Harry J. Field, United State navy, has been found qualified for pro motion and so certified to the President. The reports received by the Marine Hos pital Service from Cuba show an alarm ing increase in the number of death from yellow-fever. Medical-Inspector G. H. Cook and Sur geon B. S. Mackey, United States navy have been ordered to examination for pro motion at the Washington navy-yard. The Hotel Richelieu, Chicago, yesterda passed into the hands of a receiver, ap pointed by Judge Payne, on the applica tion of H. V. Bellis. proprietor of th hotel. It will be continued. Chief-Engineer Herschell Main. United States navy, has been disqualified for ac tive service on account of physical disa bility, and his retirement has been re commended to the President. The Berlin Tageblatt says that Baro von Hammerstein, formerly editor-in chief of the Kreuz Zeitung, has fled from Berlin, taking his effects with him, and that official seals have been placed upoi his dwelling. At Cayajas, Cuba, Monday night, : family, consisting of one man, three wo men, and two girls, were attacked b) five negroes and brutally murdered, thei bodies being frightfully gashed with knives and machetes. The President has promulgated a nev rule modifying Rule V of the civil ser vice rules, the effect of which is to great 1y limit the number of promotions 11 classified customs districts, except afte appropriate examination. Chief Post-Office Inspector Wheeler has received a telegram from Inspector John ston, at St. Louis, Mo., announcing th arrest of William Weeks, postmaster a Hartshorn, I. T., for embezzling abou $7,000 in money order funds. A special from Richmond, Mo., say that the Farmers' Bank of Orrick, ter miles southwest of Richmond, is in trou ble, its cashier, L. T. Parish, being miss ing, and, it is reported, $15,000 to $20.00 of the bank's funds being also missing. The United States grand jury at New York yesterday turned in to Judge La combe its presentment anent the escap of the three post-office thieves from the Ludlow-street jail, severely criticising Warden Raabe and Keepers Schoen and Schneer, Rev. J. Howkins, D. D., editor of th Lutheran Visitor, author of Howkins' Catechism, and one of the most eminen divines in the Lutheran Church, died a his home, in Newberry county, S. C., yes terday from a stroke of paralysis, re ceived two weeks ago, Dr. J. Y. Porter, Florida's State healt! officer, arrived in Jacksonville yesterda from Tampa, and in speaking of the general health of the State said that I was about as usual at this season of the year; that there was no dangerous dis ease prevailing anywhere, and that non was anticipated. Private John Allen notified the Jackson (Miss.) Bimetallic League Monday nigh that he could not fill his promise to mee Hon. W. H. Simms, of Washington, it joint debate last night, but Editor Car mack, of the Commercial-Appeal, of Mem phis, telegraphed that he would be or hand to take his place, The Council of the French Legion o Honor have resigned, in consequence o the action of the Chamber of Deputies in adopting an interpellation calling upor the government to introduce a bill to re organize the Council, because of their re tention of M. Eiffel upon the member ship rolls after the disclosure connecting him with the Panama-canal swindles. Si the Denaue 3.

2. July 24, 1895 The Ely Miner Ely, MN
Article from The Ely Miner, July 24, 1895

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THE NEWS. Compiled From Late Dispatches. DOMESTIC. ROSWELL G. HORR, of New York, and William Hope Harvey, of Chicago. began an eight-day contest in Chicago over the currency question, the former speaking for gold and the latter for silver. ORDERS were issued by the post office department abolishing the post office at Pisgah, Morgan county, Ill. NEBRASKA silver democrats will hold a state convention in Omaha on Au29. grust AT a. meeting in Louisville the leading distillers of Kentucky decided to make no whisky in the state during the season beginning July 1, 1895, and ending July 1. 1896. A SLEEPING car conductor and porter were arrested at Detroit for smuggling Chinamen in berths from Canada. THE floods along the Rio Grande put 12 square miles of East El Paso, Tex., under water and all traffic was blocked. AT a meeting in Chicago of the supreme executive board of the American Protective association a resolution was unanimously adopted against the giving of lectures by ex-priests and exnuns under the auspices of the organization, and declaring that the order is not making war on the Roman Catholic religion, but on its political features. AT the twentieth annual convention in Chicago of the National Amateur Press association William Hancock. of Fargo, N. D., editorof Prairie Breezes, was elected president. THE ninth annual convention of the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experimental Stations opened at Denver. JAMES and Thomas Maloney and James McNerney were arrested near Union City, Pa., where they were counterfeiting silver coin. HIGHWAYMEN held up the Wilmot Springs stage near Howard Hill, Ore., and robbed the driver and a passenger of $300. CASHIER L. T. PARRISH, of the Farmers' bank of Orrick, Mo., was missing with $20,000 of the bank's money. FIGURES compiled by the treasury bureau of statistics in Washington for the last fiscal year show the exports of merchandise to have been $731,860,319, or excess of exports over imports of $75,732.943; gold coin and bullion, $66,131,183, or excess of exports over imports of $30,984,449; silver coin and bullion, $47,226,612, or excess of exports over imports of $37,707,684. THE family of C. C. Newton, en route from Marion, Ind., to Arkansas, ate "III 'oroqseror at suoo.usnusnouosjod and three of the children died. TAE Richelien hotel in Chicago, H. V. Bemis, proprietor, went into the hands of a receiver with liabilities of Z. T. LEWIS, the Urbana (0.) bond forger, also floated many thousands of dollars of spurious bonds of Indiana towns. WILLIAM BROSSEAU, the accomplice of Mrs. Nellie Pope in the murder of Dr. Horace N. Pope, on February 2, in Detroit, Mich., was sentenced to twenty-five years imprisonment. THE bank of Norborne, O., and the Carrollton county (0.) bank were placed in the hands of receivers. ACCORDING to the annual report of the American Bible society it printed 1,000,000 Bibles during the year. HUGHES FISHER, an old soldier at Uniontown, Pa., extracted a bullet from his leg which he received thirtythree years ago at the battle of Gaines THE Puget Sound national bank of Everett. Wash. closed its doors with liabilities of $55,000. A BR.DGE on the Santa Fe road fell with a freight train near Monument. Col., and three persons were killed and twelve others were injured, three fatally. AT New London, Conn., four sailors, members of the engineers' gang of the torpedo boat Eriesson, were fatally scalded by the bursting of a hot water pipe. MANY homesteaders will lose the work of years because of irregularities found in the affairs of the Marquette Mich.) land office. BECAUSE his divorced wife would not remarry him Joseph Nickma shot her 'dead at Miller, Neb., and then killed himself.

3. February 16, 1896 Omaha Daily Bee Omaha, NE
Article from Omaha Daily Bee, February 16, 1896

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Bank Will Pay Half. LIBERTY, Mo., Feb. 15.-Twenty-two suits against the defunct Farmers' bank at Orrick have been compromised by the plaintiffs accepting 50 cents on the dollar from the directors. The bank suspended on account of the peculations of Cashier Farris. The liabilities are $40,000.

4. February 18, 1896 The Wichita Daily Eagle Wichita, KS
Article from The Wichita Daily Eagle, February 18, 1896

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TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. Boston, Mass., Feb. 15.-Thos. Hewes Hinckley, an artist of wide fame, died at his home in Milton today aged 8. New York, Feb. 15.-The two Fitzgerald boys, William and James, have been re-arrested in connection with the murder of Max Eglau in a deaf and dumb institution. Washington, Feb. 15.-Colonel Dangerfield, Eighteenth infantry, has been ordered home from his commond in the department of Texas, at his own request, to await retirement. Berne, Feb. 15.-John L. Peak of Missouri, the new United States minister to Switzerland, has presented his credentials to the president and vice president, who have returned his visit. Chicago, Feb. 15.-At the Cook county Republican convention today delegates were appointed to the state convention at Springfield and instructed for John R. Tanner for governor. Eagle Pass, Texas, Feb. 15.-The extensive machine shops of the Mexican International railroad at Ciudad Porfirio Diaz, Mexico were destroyed by fire this afternoon, togther with two locomotives. Jacksonville, Fla., Feb. 15.-John Wright died at his home in Santa Rosa county aged 128 years. He had bene blind for many years but was mentally sound. He leaves four generations of descendants. Alexandria, La., Feb. 15.-The Republicans of the Fourth congressional district today elected Dr. B. F. O'Neal of Bossier and William Harper of Caddo parish, delegates to St. Louis and instructed for Reed. Granby, Quebec, Feb. 15.-Rev. M. Gill, cure of the church of Notre Dame, has been committed to prison by a magistrate for refusing to disclose secrets of the confessional in a suit in which he was called as a witness. Clarksville, Tenn., Feb. 15.-The tobacco stemmery of T. D. Luckett & Co., one of the largest concerns in Clarksville, was destroyed by fire last night and about 1,500,000 pounds of tobacco stock was destroyed; loss $80,000. Liberty, Mo., Fez. 15-Twenty-two suits against the defunct Farmers' bank at Orrick have been compromised by the plaintiffs. The bank suspended on account of the speculations of Cashier Farrish. The liabilities were $40,000. New Haven. Conn., Feb. 15.-Rev. William Lathrop of Kingsley, aged 77, one of the profoundest scholars of New England, died last night of old age. He was editor of the New Englander, and the Yale Review for nearly forty years. Grand Island, Neb. Feb. 15.-The extra eastbound passenger on the Union Pacific collided with the westbound pas senger here this morning. Fireman Dill of the extra and Conductor Palmer of the westbound passenger were injured, but not seriously. Macon, Mo., Feb. 15.-Hon. Richard P. Gilex of Shelbina, Democratic candidate for congress in the First district, was accidentally thrown from a carriage while going to Shelbyville yesterday. His right arm was broken at the elbow and he was badly shaken up. Linn, Mo., Feb. 15.-Emil Davis was hanged here this morning for the murder of Frank Anderson, his sister's