Farmers & Merchants Bank

Bank Information

Episode Type: Suspension → Closure
Bank Type: state
Start Date: February 2, 1894
Location: Talmage, Nebraska (40.531, -96.022)

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Model: gpt-5-mini
Short Digest: e12730df

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Description

Multiple newspapers (Feb 1894) report the Farmers & Merchants Bank at Talmage, Neb., was 'closed by the state bank examiner' and 'recently suspended.' Articles also allege an embezzlement by cashier Henry Renken (~$15,000). No article describes depositor runs or reopening; action appears to be a state closure following suspected embezzlement.

Events (1)

1. February 2, 1894 Suspension

Cause: Government Action
Cause Details: Closed by the state bank examiner after reports the cashier Henry Renken embezzled about $15,000, prompting suspension/closure.
Newspaper Excerpt: The Farmers' and Merchants' bank at Talmage, Neb., has been closed by the state bank examiner.
Source: newspapers

Newspaper Articles (4)

1. February 2, 1894 Iowa County Democrat Mineral Point, WI

Article from Iowa County Democrat, February 2, 1894

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MISCELLANEOUS. Ill health caused Senator Walthall of Mississippi to resign. Mrs. John Boder became insane on religion at Chiliicothe, O. A receiver has been appointed for the George Treadwell company, of Albany, N. Y. The Philadelphia Optical and Watch company has failed, with liabilities of $250,000. Miss Louise Alexander adds to her record as a detective by capturing the twelfth person in New York since December. Harvard defeated Yale in the fifth annual debate held at Boston. But one point separated the contestants. Methodists at Dubuque, Ia., are split over the playing of Ta-ra-ra-boom-deay in a church. Lordstown, Ohio, residents engaged in an old-fashioned fox hunt. Brushes of the two animals captured were sold at auction. George F. Slesson has signed an agreement to play in the billiard tourneys in Cincinnati and Boston. Small-pox at Manhattan, Will county, III., has been reported to the state board of health. The trip of the Miantonomoh to Brazil has been abandoned and it is doubtful if she goes even as far west as the West Indies. The Farmers' and Merchants' bank at Talmage, Neb., has been closed by the state bank examiner. Application has been made at New York for a temporary receiver for the Thomson-Houston Electric company. Postoffice department officials believe that the Korean government will join the Universal postal union within six months. Dr. Payton has been restored to health in a Pittsburg, Pa., hospital and will again preach the gospel. More than 600 conversions is the result of a revival of the Methodists now being held at Galesburg, III. Curt Michaels, a Hobart. Ind., wife beater, was driven out of the place by a party of indignant residents. Hawaiian Minister Thurston says there is no likelihood of Liliuokalani suing Uncle Sam for damages because of dethronement. The Citizens' Street Railway company of Indianapolis was ordered to tear up its tracks, its charter having expired. Commissioner of Pensions Lochren will appeal to the district court of appeals from the decision of Judge Bradley in the Judge Long pension case. Colawash Indians of Washington have asked government permission to burn one of their medicine-men at the stake because he failed to cure a sick chief. A delegation from the negro democratic league called on the president yesterday to urge the appointment of

2. February 15, 1894 River Falls Journal River Falls, WI

Article from River Falls Journal, February 15, 1894

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A TORNADO which swept over Indiana did great damage, unroofing houses and blowing down fences and trees. BURGLARS secured the combination of the safe in the poolroom of John Payne at Covington, Ky., and robbed it of $1,400 in cash. THE execution of Robert Marler took place at Pineville, Ky. He with two others had fired into a passing train, killing Mrs. Mary Bowling. IT was said that Henry Renken embezzled $15,000 from the Farmers' and Merchants' bank at Talmage, Neb., recently suspended. CHARLES FEHRMAN shot and killed his wife at Milwaukee and then cut his on n throat. SIX elevators of the Farmers' Mutual Elevator company at Crookston, Minn., went into the hands of a receiver with liabilities of $240,000 and assets of $200,000. A GRAND jury found twenty indictments for swindling against James Thompson and Jesse Arnold, bankers at Columbia City, Ind. IN the woods near Concord, N. H., Joseph Reindeau was found and two persons arrested for killing him were released. IT is said that planters of the lower Mississippi valley will import German labor to supplant the negroes, who are unreliable. ROBERT and Jacob Wilgus and Reuben Conna were drowned in the Ohio river between Uniontown and Shawneetown in trying to cross in a skiff during a high wind. W. O. JONES' livery stables were burned at Atlanta, Ga., the loss being $100,000. FIRE among tobacco warehouses at Henderson, Ky., caused a loss of $200,000. FOR forty years two brothers are said to have lived at Acme, W. Va., on charity. AT Athens, Ga., a negro named Collins was flayed alive by white caps. He was accused of enticing away servants. A MOB took Henry McCray (negro) from a train and hanged him near Knoxville, Tenn., for assault upon Mrs. Sallie Taylor. T. P. SEARLS and M. H. McDonald resorted to firearms to settle a guarrel at Rush Springs, Kan., and both were fatally injured. FOUR attempts were made by mis creants to fire the world's fair build ings. FIRE swept away the board of trade building at Duluth, Minn., the loss be ing $100,000. IN the states of Louisiana and Mississippi a cyclone left in its wake many casualties and a vast amount of de struction. IN St. Louis the Gibson Heights Land Improvement company filed deeds O. assignment with liabilities of $150,000. THE ore found on the farm of M. W. Carpenter near Brazil, Ind., is said by experts to be rich with silver and gold. A BLIZZARD which was almost unprecedented in the area covered and the amount of snowfall, swept through the western states, causing great damage to property and the loss of many lives. At Cross, O. T., Sherman Stone killed his wife and five children to prevent them from freezing and then took his own life. AT Crookston, Minn. the Farmers' Mutual Elevator company failed for $240,000. A MEXICAN woman named Wesley while visiting the grave of her child near Silver City, N. M., was devoured by bears. FLAMES swept away over half the business portion of Genoa, 0., a village of 2,000 inhabitants. NEAR Tell City, Ind., William H. Artman, a farmer, killed his wife and oldest son, aged 12. No cause was known. ON the Wheeling & Lake Erie road freight trains collided near Bellevue, 0., and Engineers Connell and Stowell, Fireman McMullen and Brakeman Johnson were killed.

3. February 17, 1894 The Cape Girardeau Democrat Cape Girardeau, MO

Article from The Cape Girardeau Democrat, February 17, 1894

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FOR murdering his sweetheart, Ellen Smith, Peter Degraff was changed at Winston, N.C. THE supreme court of Kansas decided that Gov. Lewelling had no authority to remove Mrs. Mary E. Lease from the state board of charity. THE Jeffersonian democrats, or the Kolbites, and the people's party, in state convention at Birmingham, Ala., nominated a full state ticket, with R. F. Kolb for governer, to oppose the regular democratic ticket. AT Alton, III., Mrs. Mary Galloway (colored) celebrated her 110th birthday IT was said that Frederick Marvin, cashier of the Third national bank at Detroit, Mich., who had fled, was short $100,000 in his accounts. The schooner Bangor arrived at San Francisco fifteen days from Honoluin. The captain of the Bangor reports everything quiet at Honolulu. By a cyclone at Port Hudson, La, many persous were hurt; much property destroyed and a negro child killed. THE_rope broke as William Purvis was swung off the seaffold at Columbia, Miss., and the sheriff refused to hang him again. WHILE making a call in Washington George W. Houk, of Dayton, representing the Third Ohio district in congress, dropped dead. He was 69 years cld. ROBBERS tortured J. Clayton, living in Cumberland county, Ky., until he revealed where $1,800 was hidden. FIRE swept away the entire plant of the Ute Pass works at Colorado City, Col., the loss being $100,000. IN a 10-mile race at Jacksonville, Fla., Jack Prince, bicyclist, beat a horse. JUDGE SHAW sentenced John Hart, convicted of killing his two sisters at Rockford, III., to be hanged on Friday. March 16. AT her home in Zanesville, O.: Mrs. Mary E. Williams celebrated her 100th birthday. CHARLES PLUNKETT, Henry Rruce and Bob Plunkett were lynched in the Gulch country in Arkansas for the murder of an aged couple. ROBBERS murdered Henry Snoderly. aged 91. one of the wealthiest farmers of Union county, Tenn., and his wife, aged 70. THE National Farmers' Alliance at the annual meeting in Topeka, Kan., elected Marion Butler, of North Carolina. as president. Resolutions were adopted denouncing Secretary Morton as an enemy to the welfare of the American farmers, and therefore to the general welfare of the country. BURGLARS secured the combination of the safe in the poolroom of John Payne at Covington, Ky.; and robbed it of $1,400 in cash. A TORNADO which sweptover Indiana did great damage, unroofing houses and blowing down fences and trees. THE execution of Robert Marler took place at Pineville, Ky. He with two others had fired into a passing train, killing Mrs. Mary Bowling. IT was said that Henry Renken embezzled $15,000 from the Farmers' and Merchants' bank at Talmage, Neb., re cently suspended.

4. February 23, 1894 Iowa County Democrat Mineral Point, WI

Article from Iowa County Democrat, February 23, 1894

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quitted. Burglars broke into Pawnbroker Kahn's flat, New York, and stole diamonds and other jewels worth $10,000. The First National bank of Watkins, N. Y., has suspended. The cashier absconded with $50,000. John Warring was arrested at Fostoria, Ohio. charged with assaulting Miss Bertha Tilland, of the salvation army. Deputy Treasurer Armstrong was convicted at Kohomo, Ind., of embezzling $40.000. Four hard characters bored their way through iron and brick out of the jail at Erie, Pa. Thomas Miller, a farmer, was found dead in the road near Thompsonville, III. He had been murdered. Twenty indictments for swindling were found against James Thompson and Jesse Arnold, bankers, at Columbia City, Ind. M. H. MacDonalds and T. P. Searls resorted to firearms to settle a quarrel at Rush Springs, Kan. Both will die. Six burglars bound Agent Church at Sparta, III., and robbed the station of the Mobile and Ohio railway. John White and John Hayes, supposed to have committed many robberies at Freeport, III., have been arrested. Dr. Will Nolin. who killed John and Will Turner at Harlan Court House, Ky., has been indicted for manslaughter. Mike Gorman, express robber, caught at Salem, Ohio, will return to Sultville, Pa., without a requisition. A black sloop which has been used for the purposes of robbery along Long Island sound, has been captured with a lot of stolen goods on board. George Polk and Walter Cribbes were arrested at Hartshorne, Ind., T. for the murder of Alexander Laneir at Birmingham, Ala., in October. George Walker, the murderer of John Terrell. was sentenced at Pittsburg to twelve years in the penitentiary. Charles Williams was convicted on two counts and James Robinson on a single count of violation of the Kansas liquor law. John Hart, the Rockford murderer, was sentenced to be hanged Friday, March 16. J. Clayton, living in Cumberland county, Ky., was tortured by robbers until he revealed where his money was hidden. Robert Marler was hanged at Pineville, Ky. He, with two others, had fired into a passing train, killing a woman. Henry Renken is said to have embezzled $15,000 from the Farmers' and Merchants' bank of Talmage, Neb., recently suspended. Thursday the postoffice at Newport News, Va., was robbed. The safe was cracked and $250 in money and $3,000 in stamps stolen. Bruce, Bob and Charles Plunkett, accused of robbing and murdering an aged couple, were lynched in Van Buren county, Ark. Stephen Benson, John Lubura and