13301. First National Bank (Buffalo, NY)

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Bank Information

Episode Type
Suspension → Closure
Bank Type
national
Bank ID
235
Charter Number
235
Start Date
April 14, 1882
Location
Buffalo, New York (42.886, -78.878)

Metadata

Model
gpt-5-mini
Short Digest
5aabeddb1db7c0d6

Response Measures

None

Receivership Details

Depositor recovery rate
43.5%
Date receivership started
1882-04-22
Date receivership terminated
1892-04-30
OCC cause of failure
Fraud
Share of assets assessed as good
39.1%
Share of assets assessed as doubtful
5.2%
Share of assets assessed as worthless
55.7%

Description

Contemporary reports (Apr 14–22, 1882) state the First National Bank of Buffalo suspended payment; government examiner Young attributed the suspension to mismanagement. The Comptroller appointed a receiver on 1882-04-26, and subsequent reporting documents criminal charges against the president and receiver's suits, indicating the bank did not resume normal operations and was wound up (dividend paid Dec 1882). No clear contemporaneous report of a depositor 'run' (heavy withdrawals) is given—coverage emphasizes suspension, mismanagement, and alleged embezzlement—so this is best classified as a suspension followed by permanent closure/receivership.

Events (6)
1. February 5, 1864 Chartered
Source
historical_nic
2. April 14, 1882 Suspension
Cause
Bank Specific Adverse Info
Cause Details
Government examiner reported suspension due to mismanagement; reports of large unpaid drafts and unsecured public funds; later allegations of defalcation/embezzlement against officers.
Newspaper Excerpt
The First National Bank of Buffalo closed this morning... Government bank examiner Young, now in charge of the bank, reports that the cause of the suspension, as now apparent, was management only.
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newspapers
3. April 22, 1882 Receivership
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historical_nic
4. April 26, 1882 Receivership
Newspaper Excerpt
The comptroller of the currency has appointed Elisha T. Smith as receiver for the First National Bank of Buffalo, N. Y.
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newspapers
5. December 7, 1882 Other
Newspaper Excerpt
The first dividend of 25 per cent was paid to the depositors of the defunct First National Bank to-day.
Source
newspapers
6. February 3, 1883 Other
Newspaper Excerpt
The receiver of the defunct First National Bank has obtained a judgment for $148,957 against Herman J. Hall...; President Lee committed for embezzlement of $200,000.
Source
newspapers

Newspaper Articles (20)
1. April 15, 1882 Memphis Daily Appeal Memphis, Hernando, Grenada, Jackson, Vicksburg, Atlanta, Griffin, Macon, Montgomery, Selma, TN
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ing, the evidence being insufficient, as was claimed. Buffalo, April 14. - -The government bank examiner in charge of the bank reports that the cause of the suspension of the First National Bank of this city, as far as now apparent, was mismanagement only. Cleveland, April 14 -Mrs. Alfa Boynton, mother of Dr. S. A. Boynton, one of President Garfield's physiciane, and only eister of Grandma Garfield, died to-day at her home in Hiram, aged seventy-five years. Wilmington, Del., April 14.-The Democratic commissioners are cited to appear before the Superior Court in each county in the State, to show cause for refusal to place a certain Republican petition on the assessment list. La Crosse, Wis., April 14. - The decision of Inspector G. W. Ordon and John F. Scott, who have been investigating the Bella Mace explosion, places the entire blame on Charles Monaghan, the second engineer, on watch at the time of the explosion. By his neglect five lives were lost. New York, April 14 - Yesterday Shipherd swore that William Henry Hurlbut informed him that he had a dispatch from Blaine to Hurlbut with a marginal note, "Go it, Seve." In to-day's World Hurlbut flatly denies this, and says he had but one, and that was on an inconsequential interview with Shipherd.

2. April 15, 1882 Daily Kennebec Journal Augusta, ME
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A Fruitless Attempt. Some discharged section men on the Boston & Maine road went out yesterday to coax away a new gang sent from Boston, but the authorities of the road shipped the men on a gravel train to another place, and their errand proved fruitless. Delta Kappa Epsilon. The Delta Kappa Epsilon alumni, of Maine, propose to form an association, and the gradnate members will meet at a banquet at the Falmouth Hotel, Portland, the latter part of April to organize. A Large Failure. BUFFALO, April 14. The First National Bahk of Buffalo closed this morning. A large number of their drafts issued to live-stock dealers have drawn on the Fourth National Bank of New York city on the 4th inst., and since, were yesterday dishonered in New York. The extent of draits unpaid is thought to be large. The failure will seriously affect a large number of live-stock dealers. It is believed the depositors will be paid in full. Government bank examiner Young, now in charge of the bank, reports that the cause of the suspension, as now apparent, was management only, no defalcation on the part of the bank officers being shown. The volume of business transacted was greater than the capital warranted. The loss, if any, will fall upon the stockholders. It is believed that the paper of the bank issued will be paid and customers protected.

3. April 15, 1882 The Salt Lake Herald Salt Lake City, UT
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Business Failures. New York, 14-The business failures for seven days, as reported to R. G. Dun & Co's commercial agency, number 122, as follows: Southern states 38, western 34, middle 19, eastern 22, pacific and territories 8, New York city 6. ThePoughkeepeie ironland steel company suspended, as also the New York and Boston manufacturing company. The other feilures in this city are unimportant. Buffalo, N. Y., 14-The first national bank has closed its doors. A large number of drafts issued to livestock dealers, drawn on the fourth national of New York, on the 4th inst., and since that date, were yesterday dishonored in New York. The extent of the drafts unpaid cannot be ascertained now, but it is thought large. The failures will seriously affect a large number of cattle dealers, who sent these drafts in payment for stock sold by them. It is believed that depositors will be paid in full.

4. April 17, 1882 The Silver State Unionville, Winnemucca, NV
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TELEGRAPREIC ITEMS. W. S. Lockwood, a horse trainer, and manager of A. McFarlaud's stables, in Napa City, California, was shot and instantly killed by John F. Zollner, ex-Sheriff. Zolluer and officer McGee, of St. Helena, were walking up Main street, when Lockwood came out of Grigsby's saloon. Zollaer stepped forward, saying: "Here's the I'm looking for!" and, placing a large-sized navy revolver within a few inches of Lockwood's head, fired, killing him instantly. The ball entered the right side of the face near the temple and came out behind the left ear. The First National Bank, which suspended Saturday at Buffalo, N. Y., held an enviable financial position, although lately rumors have been flying about that the young President was speculating too much in Chicago. The bank's last statement showed assets $1,337,000; liabilities, outside of the stock, $1,130,000. It had $80,000 in United States Court money, $26,000 city and $12,000 county funds, secured by almost worthless bonds. A large defalcation is rumored, but the officials deny it. President Lee says the bank did too large a discount business. Complaints continue to reach the Postoffice Inspector regarding the loss of many drafts, etc., from the mails while enroute from Colorado to New York. The amount stolen since December is estimated at nearly $1,000,000. The detectives are nonplussed.

5. April 20, 1882 Savannah Morning News Savannah, GA
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The General Changes-Failures in the Southern States. There were 111 failures in the United States reported to Bradstreet's during the past week, a decrease of 8 from the preceding week, and 5 more than during the corresponding week of last year. The decrease was almost entirely in the Middle States, which had 19 failures, a decrease of 12; New England had 26, an increase of 4; Southern States 26, a decrease of 1; Western States 33, the same as the preceding week; California and the Territories 7, an increase of 1; Canada 13, an increase of 10. Two banks suspended, the First National of Buffalo, and the Central of Indianapolis. Among the other failures of interest were Sealey & Co., manufacturers of hats at Newark and New York: R. Childs, manufacturer of silk at Hillsboro Bridge, N. H., and New York city; Stevens & French. wholesale boots and shoes, Boston; John H. Bryant & Co., manufacturers of sumac, Richmond; W. T. Dalton & Co., general traders, Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. In the principal irades the failures were as follows: General traders 20, grocers 18, liquors 12, manufacturers 7, tobacco and cigars 5, shoes 4. grain 4, drugs 4, hardware 3, clothing 2, dry goods 2, fancy goods 2, millinery 2, books and stationery 3, furniture 2, banks 2. butchers 2. During the week failures occurred in the Southern States as follows: ALABAMA. Mobile-James W. Daniel has assigned, and offers to compromise at 25 cents. GEORGIA. Coehran-J. A. D. Coley, general store, has failed. Columbus-E. T. Harris. grocer, has failed. Liabilities $6,500, assets $3,000. Isabella-W. J. Herring, general store,has failed. Isabella-H. H. Rouse, general store, has failed. Savannah-Max Eiseman, clothing, has failed and assigned. NORTH CAROLINA. Warrenton-W. J. White & Brother, general store, have assigned. Liabilities $6,000, preferred claims $2,500. SOUTH CAROLINA. Brunson's-B. F. Brown, general store, has assigned. Liabilities about $5,000. He recently asked an extension. Charieston-George Lunz, cigars, has assigned to Gerhard Ricke. Liabilities a' out $6,000. TENNESSEE. Louisville-H. T. Cox & Son, general store, who recently assigned, owe about $25,000; nominal assets $12,000. Union City-J: W. Smith, saddlery, has failed and been attached. White Bluffs-G. H. Morton, general store, has assigned.

6. April 22, 1882 Huntsville Gazette Huntsville, AL
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YUT TELL NEWS AND NOTES. A Summary of Important Events. A. T. STEWART & Co., of New York, are winding up their affairs. BLAINE as to be heard by the committee on Chileno-Peruvian matters. THE Mormon conference at Independence Mo., has adjourned to meet next year at Lamoni, Iowa. THE President thinks that he can do All nothing in the Fitz John Porter case. the Cabinet concur. THE April report of the Department indicates an two of Agriculture wheat increase acreage. of per cent. in the winter Mexican commander on the Rio has stationed troops Grande THE opposite Laredo, and Americans are not allowed to cross. UNITED STATES troops are expelling stockmen from Cherokee lands on account of non-payment of the tax levied by the Indians. PROCEEDINGS have been instituted in Pennsylvania to make 213 insurance companies show cause why their charters should not be surrendered. A PLOT for the assassination of the Egyptian Minister of War has been discovered at Cairo, and many Circassian officers have been arrested for complicity. So deeply charged with electricity was the atmosphere, between Chicago and the Atlantic coast on the 16th, telegraph wires were operated without batteries. AT Philadelphia, Pa., on the 15th, six or thousand at meeting eight expressed indignation workingmen Chinese the in action mass- bill. of the President in vetoing the PRESIDENT ARTHUR'S reception to the officers of the army and navy. the other night, was a brilliant affair. He was assisted by Mrs. Frelingbuysen and Miss Folger. : THE Saints at Salt Lake have been advised their in the gentiles. cle boycott by preachers the Gentile discharg taberna- merchants will probably retaliate by ing all Mormon employees. ON the ground that it should have been to the Probate of Loomis has refused to Judge presented Court the appointment consider Chicago, the petition of Mrs. Scoville for of conservator for the estate of Charles J. Guiteau, and quashed a summons thoughtlessly issued by a deputy clerk. THE convention of the National Land at resocontinuance of in Ireland. lutions League siting urging a Washington of James adopted the policy Mooney of was elected enpassive Buffalo resistance president League for receipts the suing year. The total Land in this country since the Buffalo convention were nearly $300,000. THE First National Bank of Buffalo has concern of $100,000, and suspended payment. reported The loans and has of Hugh Examiner, finds ernment discounts capital Bank $1,054,849 Young, that $80,000 Gov- and of Federal court funds are unsecured, $88,000 in city and county deposits rest upon poor bonds. THE Irish Catholics of Turners's Falls, Mass., have decided to "Boycott" L. a member of the Grand Jury which for who Father McCarthy. indicted Rist, shot manslaughter David The boycotters McMillan, think should have on a of murder. charge McMillan Father been improper indicted Purcell told the people that Rist asked an question in the jury room. THE following Presidential nominations have been confirmed by the Senate: W.E Chandler, of New Hampshire, Secretary of the Navy; W. H. Hunt, Louisfana, Minister to Russia; J. R. Partridge, Maryland, Minister to Peru; John H. Smythe, North Carolina, Minister to Liberia: Wm. Williams, Indiana. Charge d'Affairs to Paraguay and Uruguay; John J. Knox, Minnesota, Comptroller of Currency. R. W. City, Iowa, was killed a burglar on STUBBS, by Mayor of Polk the 15th. Mr. Stubbs and wife were sleeping in a and at an early mornIng Stubbs was chamber, Mrs. awakened hour in by the her hearing husfootsteps on the stairs. Arousing band he rose in bed and asked Who is there?' The answer was, "You lay still or you'll shot." Mr. person out of the house up from and as he did so the to get get Stubbs and told sprang reflection the of flashed on at he was shot, the dark the same bed, lantern instant was his the face heart. bullet and entering his breast and piercing his He reached the head of the stairway, when he fell dead and rolled to the bottom of the stairs. By the light of the lantern Mrs. Stubbs discovered there were two burglars. They rushed out of the house after firing the fatal shot, mounted horses and fled. THE Secretaria

7. April 22, 1882 Huntsville Gazette Huntsville, AL
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THE First National Bank of Buffalo has suspended payment. The concern has a capital of $100,000, and reported loans and discounts of $1,054,849. Hugh Young, Government Bank Examiner, finds that $80,000 of Federal court funds are unsecured, and $88,000 in city and county deposits rest upon poor bonds.

8. April 22, 1882 The Milan Exchange Milan, TN
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to Parker's Variety Theater, when an alarm of fire was raised, and in the stampede that followed, Frank 'Donnell, a boy, was seriously injured by being thrown and trampled upon. THE Yanktonnais Indians at Poplar River have been drawing farming implements and seeds from the agent, who also paid them fifty cents per day and rations for cultivating the soil for their own profit. Now they have struck for higher wages. AT Philadelphia, Pa., on the 15th, six or eight thousand workingmen in massmeeting expressed indignation at the action of the President in vetoing the Chinese bill. THE Mexican commander on the Rio Grande has stationed troops opposite Laredo, and Americans are not allowed to cross. HENRY GALLAGHER, of Allentown, Pa., who has a daughter suffering from St. Vitus' dance and harbors the hallucination that Father Dongan can but will not cure her, saluted the pastor with two shots from a revolver, a few days since, both of which missed. A. T. STEWART & Co., of New York, are winding up their affairs. THE April report of the Department of Agriculture indicates an increase of two per cent. in the winter wheat acreage. WHILE temporarily insane, a merchant of Louisville, O., named C. R. Oblinger, leaped from a night train at Newport, Del., and wandered into a residence, where he was shot as a burglar, and dangerously wounded. FIRE at Titusville, Pa, the other day, destroyed the Hotel Brunswick, the Parshall Opera-house and hotel, and the Watson stables, on which the loss is estimated at $250,000. A fireman was fatally burned, and a colored cook probably lost her life. UNITED STATES troops are expelling stockmen from Cherokee lands on account of non-payment of the tax levied by the Indians. OLIVER MORRELL, a boy connected with a newspaper office in Omaha, has had access to the Post-office while his mails were being weighed. The other morning he was caught stealing a package of letters. It is believed that he has taken from the mails checks and drafts amounting to $30,000, as his depredations were sufficiently great to sound the alarm. THE First National Bank of Buffalo has suspended payment. The concern has a capital of $100,000. and reported loans and discounts of $1,054,849. Hugh Young, Government Bank Examiner, finds that $80,000 of Federal court funds are unsecured, and $38,000 in city and county deposits rest upon poor bonds. THE Ford boys, indicted for the murder of Jesse James at St. Joseph, Mo., pleaded guilty and were sentenced to death, whereupon Governor Crittenden granted them full and unconditional pardon. So deeply charged with electricity was the atmosphere, between Chicago and the Atlantic coast on the 16th, telegraph wires were operated without batteries. THE Saints at Salt Lake have been advised by their preachers in the tabernacle to boycott the gentiles. Gentile merchants will probably retaliate by discharging all Mormon employees.

9. April 26, 1882 Evening Star Washington, DC
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P THE comptroller of the curr ncy has appointed Elisha T. Smith as receiver for the First National Bank of Buffalo, N. Y. -

10. April 27, 1882 Iron County Register Ironton, MO
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THE First National Bank of Buffalo has suspended payment. The concern has a capital of $100,000, and reported loans and discounts of $1,054,849. Hugh Young, Government Bank Examiner, finds that $80,000 of Federal court funds are unsecured, and $38,000 in city and county deposits rest upon poor bonds.

11. April 28, 1882 The Iola Register Iola, KS
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THE First National Bank of Buffalo has suspended payment. The concern has a capital of $100,000, and reported loans and discounts of $1,054,849. Hugh Young, Government Bank Examiner, finds that $80,000 of Federal court funds are unsecured, and $38,000 in city and county deposits rest upon poor bonds.

12. May 20, 1882 The Salt Lake Herald Salt Lake City, UT
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Crime. Lebanon, Ky., 18.-Rose Osborne, & colored woman, and her daughter 10 years old, were murdered by unknown persons last night. The former was killed with a billet of wood, and the latter's throat was cut in bed. Buffalo, 18.-R. Porter Lee, president of the wrecked First National Bank, was committed to jail on complaint of Receiver Smith in the United States circuit court, for embezzlement of $200,000. Mount Vernon, Ills., 18.-Charles W. Yost was killed by W. A. Smith, city Marshal, understood to be on account of a political quarrel. The murderer mounted a horse and rode away. A posse IS in search of him. Syracuse, 19.-Miss Holmer was found not guilty of murder. This accords with the popular view. Chicago, 19.-Inquiry by specials a d by the Associated Press develops the fact that there are DO utusual outrages by Mollie Maguires at Shamakin and thereabouts. The official reporting them was bogus news. Keokuk, 19.-The Constitution's Fort Madison special: The jury returned a verdict of murder in the first degree against Poke Wells and Cook, who murdered the jail guard, and a verdict of murder in the second degree against Fitzgerald, who was an accomplice. The trial has been the shortest on record, lasting only two days. Wells and Cook are to be imprisoned for life, and Fitzgerald's sentence will be determined by the judge.

13. May 26, 1882 The Daily Gazette Wilmington, DE
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MORNING SUMMARY. The Readjusters carried Petersburg, Va., by a large majority yesterday. The shoe finishers in some of the factories is at Montreal have struck for higher wages. The Common Council of Boston passed an e order last night fixing the pay of city laborers at not less than $2 per day. Andrew Neal, rowdy and horse thief, was d lynched by vigilants near Rockford, Washt ington Territory, on Monday last. n George Beecroft was killed yesterday in the Trenton Iron Works at Trenton, New Jersey, by his head being cut by coming in contact with a fly wheel. The Woman's Christion Union State Convention, of Michigan, in session at Detroit, voted on Wednesday in favor of female suffrage by 19 majority in a total vote of 113. Wood Reeder was killed and two other men were injured by the fall of an elevator platform in Newburgh, New York, yesterday. The elevator "was flimsily constructed." Major Charles Burdette, the dwarf of Forepaugh's menagerie, died yesterday at Pontiac, Michigan, of congestion of the lungs. He was 32 inches high and 32 years of age. William A. Hall, ex-clerk in the City Treasurer's office at Newark, N. J., who absconded recently after having,it is alleged, embezzled $35,000, was arrested yesterday in Toronto. The strike of the operatives of the Reading Cotton Mill, at Reading, is partially at an end. One hundred and fifty of the strikers resumed work yesterday at the reduced wages. Lewis T. Frye, the champion bicyclist of the United States had his skull fractured by being thrown from his bicycle, at Marlboro, Massachusetts, on Wednesday. It is feared he is fatally injured. The municipal election in Lynchburg, Virginia, held yesterday, resulted in the success of the Democratic ticket by 130 to 300 majority. The Readjusters and Republicans had united against the Democrats. A telegram from Milford, Massachusetts, says that Father Cuddihy, of that parish, has announced that he will not permit the Grand Army of the Republic to enter the Catholic cemetery on Decoration Day." The assignee of R. Peter Lee, ex-president of the defunct First National Bank of Buffalo, reports Lee's liabilities at $600,000, and his assets at $46,617. The liabilities include a suit for the recovery of $200,000 begun by the receiver of the bank. James Fitzgerald, on trial in Boston for fraudulently obtaining money from Charles Francis Adams by the "banco game," was yesterday convicted on three counts of the indictment. Hts counsel filed exceptions, which will be heard before the Supreme Court. By a fall of 20 tons of rock yesterday in a shaft of the new tunnel of the New York, Ontario and Western railroad at Union Hill, New Jersey, James Mulcair and Bartley Fox were killed and Charles Brown was severely injured. After the accident all the men in the tunnel quitted work. Another meeting of iron manufacturers was held yesterday in Pittsburg to consider the labor troubles, at which it was unanimously voted to resist the demands of the iron workers. The mills which will, doubtless, shut down as a consequence of this action, pay out nearly $2,000,000 in wages every month. William Brockway, alias Edward W. Spencer, and Charles H. Smith, alias Charles Smyth, were indicted by the Grand Jury in Washington for stealing bond plates from the vaults of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Brockway and Smith are implicated by a recent confession of the counterfeiter Doyle at Chicago. At a meeting of the creditors of the Providence Tool Company, held yesterday in Providence, Rhode Island, the property of the corporation was reported at $2,123,622, and its indebtedness at $1,117,943. It was resolved to appoint a committee to select three trustees to continue the manufacture of sewing machines for three years, unless they conclude that the profits do not warrant so long a continuance, and to continue the other branches of the business until the property and machinery can be judiciously disposed of.

14. December 8, 1882 New-York Tribune New York, NY
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TELEGRAPHIC NOTES, A DRAWN GAME OF CHESS. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 7.-The fourth game of chess in the second series between the champion, Stetuitz, and D. M. Martiuez was played to day, and termi nated in a draw. ACTION OF THE LAND COMMISSIONERS ALBANY, Dec. 7.-The Commissioners of the Land Office met this morning. Land comprising 4,584 acres was ordered to be sold to Hurd, Hotchkiss & McFarlane, or Bridgeport, Conn., at $2 per acre, Several applications to purchase land were received. but no action was taken on them. TWO COMPANIES INCORPORATED. ALBANY, Dec. 7.-The Hammerschlag Manufacturing Company, of New-York, capital $300,000. and the New-York and Pennsylvania Telephone and Telegraph Com pany. or New York, capital $50,000, were incorporated to-day. PROPOSED COTTON EXCHANGE IN BOSTON. BOSTON, Dec. 7.-it is stated that efforts are being made to establish a Cotton Exchange in this city. for the purpose of developing business in spot and future cotton. DIVIDEND FROM A DEFUNCT BANK. BUFFALO, Dec. 7-The first dividend of 25 per cent was paid to the depositors of the defunct First National Bank to-day. ROBBERY OF A POST OFFICE BY BURGLARS. LEWISBURG, Penn., Dec. 7.-The post office at this place was broken into last night by burglars, who forced open the safe and stole a number of registered letters. and between $800 and $900 in money and stamps. PANIC IN A HOTEL BOSTON, Dec. 7.-A panic occurred at the Hotel Warren, in Somerville, this morning. among some hundred guests of the house, occasioned by a slight fire in the laundry. For a time a scene of great confusion ensued, but the fire was extinguished without much loss, and order was soon restored. FAILURE OF AN ALABAMA FIRM SELINA Ala., Dec. -Herzfeld Brothers & Hagedorn. general merchants. have failed. They gave a deed of trust to secure local banks for $19,000. sold out their general merchandise and dry goods, and made an assignment to Isaae Bloch. The habilities are placed at $75,000. a large part of Which is due in New. York. ELECTION CASES DISMISSED. RALEIGH, N. C., Dec. 7.-In the case of the United States against Oppenheimer, Pittman and White, one of the Hallfax County election cases, the evidence for the Government was 80 insufficient that the District-Attorney withdrew the case and the matter drops. The defendants were released. state PROPOSED SOLDIERS MONUMENT. NEW-HAVEN, Dec. 7.-At an adjoarned tow. meeting this afternoon $50,000 was voted to be appropriated for the erection of a soldiers' monument. Governor H. B. Bigelow, ex-Governor James E. English. General Samuel E. Merwin, Henry B. Harrison. Joseph D. Plunkett, John F. Weir, Simon J. Fox and John McCarthy were appointed committee with power to procure designs and erect the monument

15. February 4, 1883 The Salt Lake Herald Salt Lake City, UT
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One Caught. Buffalo, 3.-The receiver of the defunct First National Bank has obtained a judgment for $148,957 against Herman J. Hail, now on bail as accessary of President Lee, now in the penitentary on the charge of disposing of the funds of the bank.

16. February 4, 1883 The Dallas Daily Herald Dallas, TX
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will Suffer, BUFFALO, Feb. 3.-The receiver of the defunct First National bank obtained judgment for $148,957 against Herman Hall, now on bail, as accessory of President Lee, now in the peuitentiary, charged with the disposing of funds of the bank.

17. February 5, 1883 Daily Globe Saint Paul, MN
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Seven men were lost off the foreyard when the mast went overboard. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 3.-On Wednesday when the first news of the wreck of the Tacoma was the assistance of a res afternoon, quiring received lifeboat here, to re men then on the wreck, a crew of men volunteered and cue eight the proceeded saving station that night after dark to the life at Port distant from nine where they miles, Gregory, arrived informed here at about about the o'clock that night, and of the station of the they came as a volunteer crew keeper off wreck; and the that that stathe steam Escort would be tion at to take them to daylight tug keeper, the wreck. They, under direction of the proceeded to the boat in the trip and launched her, and with in charge put went condition about the for keeper two The for miles practice. crew in pulling the boat, then pulled back to the station. When a short time after the arrived off the station, the refused to or allow the men to tug go, keeper take small the Three of the men then got a boat from the lighthouse boat. keepers, captain went that off to the tug and informed the the would not go, or His excuse for such was go. keepers only let conduct the boat that he would not go without an experienced crew. Captain Hill, tag who returned from Fearless, boat the of wreck and the tothinks that if the life gun for lines had been at day, throwing the the Tacoma place of the disaster all those lost on would have been saved. A BIG BLAZE. JERSEY CITY, N. J., Feb. 3.-A fire starting in the show window of Seabronski's the millinery destroyed establishment of L. with that place together goods the clothing house, store of G. W. Clerikew, dry and Cowan & Moasbey's store. Cassidy's Hugh wholesale large tenement grocery of H. carried flames to the clothing house they Strahl & Son, whence the to goods fancy spread house of Alfred Burton, which was wiped out, the fancy goods of & Co. and Andrew likewise Spotts confectionery establishment then store of Charles Pepper. The flames attacked the fancy goods store of Charles a Friend. Here the firemen, aided by brick building obtained the mastery. Loss on property $128,000. PENNSYLVANIA BODY SNATCHING READING, Pa., Feb. 3.-Considerable excitement prevails in the vicinity of Reinhold's on the Reading & station, body Columbia snatchrailway, owing to a case of A farmer, Gardner, suicided by hanging ing. recently young Jacob Muddy himself. Creek The remains were interred at near Adamstown. a was afterward church, light observed Several in nights grow- the Friends of the had the grave ing graveyard. suspicious, family subsequently discovopened, when to their horror was ered the coffin with the shroud It is remaining. empty nothing supposed medical but the body was stolen to be sent to some institution. An investigation is being made in the matter. It is feared more graves have been robbed. A HEAVY JUDGMENT AGAINST A BANK WRECKER Feb. 3,-The receiver of the National a defunct BUFFALO, First bank H. obtained J. Hall, judgment of $148,957 against now held on bail as an accessory of President Lee, now in the penitentiary, charged with disposing of the funds of the bank. FIGHT WITH SMUGGLERS. Feb. 3.-Near Salinas, yesseven leagues OCcurred a fight terday, MONTEREY, desperate north between of here, custom house and a seizure of days ago guards smugglers. contraband Several border goods near Lampazo, on the of zone. The goods thence south, toward was taken the made, free Salinas, forty seized under were a of ten men. About smugattacked the convoy four of the glers noon, guaid killing customs yesterday guard, afterwounding several, and getting off with the the recaptured contraband goods into mountains. No smugglers killed. NOT THAT SMITH. CHICAGO, Feb. 3.-A special dispatch here to-day, states a man of published Smith, traveling New that Carlisle, E. C. O., suicide on a train near Richand a coroner's acmond, committed Ind., jury to-day found cordingly. Mr. Smith was here in health. It is a mistake on the of the coroner's good part jury, of it to identity Smith sold a satchel with his name on a man named Geo. Hank, of New Carlisle, who was on that train. KILLED IN A QUARREL. DANVILLE, Va., Feb. 3.--J. H. Clay, a farmer, was killed in a quarrel with a man named Kennedy here to-day. FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR VINCENT. Ala., offers reward of $5,000 MONTGOMERY, a Feb.3.- for The the governor capture to the sheriff of Montgomery of Isaac H. and county return Vincent, adopted late joint state treasurer. The legislature a resolution authorizing it and sustaining him in the offer. FIRE AT MONTREAL. Feb. -Warden King's iron burned at this foundry MONTREAL, morning. Loss the Insured two-thirds. Later to the silk $100,000. fire extended factory of Belding, Hall & Co.

18. February 5, 1883 Sacramento Daily Record-Union Sacramento, CA
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oners were placed in the dock. There was a painful pause when the witness Fitzsim- mons was called. The prisoners in the meantime shook hands with each other and joked among themselves, nodding to their friends. The reading of the charges that the prisoners did feloniously kill and slay Cavendish and Burke was greeted by the prisoners with loud laughter. Brady, O'Brien and McCaffrey were identified as the persons seen near the scene of the tragedy on the day of its occurrence. Fitzsimmons, who lodged in the house of Counsellor Carey, testified that he found secreted there the knives which the physicians swore could have made the rents in the clothing and wounds in the bodies of Cavendish and Burke. He was se- verely cross examined. His wife also identi- fied O'Brien and Brady. George G. Odder, a park ranger, identified Brady as one of the five men seen on a car the evening of the murder, and driving furiously. Powell, son of a small farmer, identified Brady and McCaffrey as lurking under the trees that evening. As each prisoner was identified there were loud exclamations in the Court- room, and the magistrate threatened to have it cleared. There was considerable commo- tion when all the prisoners were placed in the dock and remanded. ### Action of the French Senate. PARIS, February 33.-The Senate has de- cided that a committee on the expulsion bill shall be elected on Monday. The Right ad- vocated Monday, the Left Thursday, and the Left Center pronounced against the bill, but will compromise on a measure that is imper- sonal and general, and not directed against a particular personage. ### Plon Plon Bejected. PARIS, February 31.-During the removal of Prince Jerome to Auteul, a strong guard was placed about to prevent his escape. No visitors are allowed to enter the asylum where the Prince is placed. The prince has become very dejected. ### A Siberian Prisoner's Story. VIENNA, February 31.-A letter from a political prisoner in Siberia details the suf- ferings of the prisoners in the province beyond Lake Baikal. They are robbed, beaten and badly fed. The directors being informed, exclaimed it did not matter if the prisoners died of starvation. ### The Czar's Manifesto. BERLIN, February 3.1. - It is stated that the Czar has ordered the coronation manifesto to be ready for signature on the 20th of Febru- ary. ### The Salvation Army. GENEVA, February 3d. -The authorities of Neufchatel have prohibited evening meetings of the Salvation Army. ### A Steamship Lost. LONDON, February 3d-The steamship James Gray has foundered, and the officers and crew were lost. ### MISCELLANEOUS, The French Embassador at Vienna has re- signed. The Montreal fire was extinguished Satur- day morning, with little damage to the silk factory. Two students have been expelled from Austria, suspected of being concerned in the Socialist agitation at Berlir. The New York Mercantile Agency has pe- titioned Congress either to retire trade-dollars or make them on a par with the gold dollar. The Receiver of the defunct First National Bank of Buffalo has obtained a judgment for $148,957 against Herman J. Hall, now on bail as the accomplice of President Lee, now in the Penitentiary, charged with disposing of the funds of the bank.

19. February 6, 1883 The Indianapolis Journal Indianapolis, IN
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dered the vigorous prosecution of the offender, and the latter threatens to smirch his superior officers. Marcellus E. Thornton, editor and proprietor of the Atlanta, Ga., Post Appeal, has purchased the Atlanta Herald and consolidated tite paper. It will be published as the Evening Herald. In a conflict near Salmas, Mexico, between smugglers and custom house officers, four of the latter were killed. The smugglers captured a lot of contraband goods and escaped to the mountains. All the naval cadeta quartered on the Santee, saveseven in solitary confinement, were allowed to go to church Sunday, according to custom. There have been no new orders ou insubordination since Thursday. On Sunday afternoon an old German woman named Zilmendarf was found by a granddaughter, suspended from a garret rafter in the family residence at Milwaukee, The age of the suicide was eighty-one years and SIX months. The receiver of the defunct First National Bank of Buffalo, N. Y, obtained a judgment for $148,957 against Herman J. Hall, now on bail as accessory to President Lee, now in the penitentiary, charged with disposing of the funds of the bank. Divorce in Canada is a luxury beyond the reach of a poor man. Peter Nicholson, a customs inspector at Prince Arthur's Landing, is for the third time appealing to the divorce committee of the senate to free him from a woman now living in Detroit with another man. The wife of John Zahnika, a blacksmith at Milwankee, has been missing since Friday morning. under circumstances which lead to the be lief that she committed suicide. It appears fre m a statement made by her son that Mrs. Zahul a had become it monomaniae on the subject of religion, and as her husband and children were not in full religious sympathy, her home life for some time had been rather unpleasant. This probably led to her self-destruction. The missing woman is forty-eight years of age.

20. August 18, 1883 The Delaware Ledger Newark, DE
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bank, in cash, $40.000, and the proceeds of the draft were mingled with the other moneys in the bank. A bill in equity was filed against the insolvent bank and its receiver-Illinois Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago VS. First National Bank of Buffalo-in the United States Circuit Court for the Northern District ef New York, to en force the equitable lien of the Chicago bank for this special collection, but the bill was dismissed. Judge Wallace, in the opinion, said: "It was undoubtedly a fraudulent act by the Buffalo bank in its hopeless insolvency to mingle the proceeds of the draft with its own funds, 80 that all identity was lost The cases hold that if a trustee converts a trust fund into money and mingles the money with other moneys, so that it is indistinguishable, the beneficiary cannot follow his fund into the hands of an assignee in bankruptey or an executor of the trustee, but he must occupy the position of a general creditor. The right to follow a trust fund ceases when the means of ascertainment fail, as is the case here." -Reported for Phila. Rocord.