14135. First National Bank (New Brunswick, NJ)

Bank Information

Episode Type: Run → Suspension → Closure
Bank Type: national
Bank ID: 208
Charter Number: 208
Start Date: September 6, 1884
Location: New Brunswick, New Jersey (40.486, -74.452)

Metadata

Model: gpt-5-mini
Short Digest: cb7f8909

Response Measures

Borrowed from banks or large institutions, Full suspension

Other: Multiple contemporary papers report a large depositor run, suspension of payments, and characterize the event as a failure with large cashier defalcation and suicides. Several articles note $200,000+ brought from New York to assist, indicating borrowing/assistance attempts.

Description

Multiple contemporaneous newspaper reports (Sept 6–12, 1884) describe a determined run on the First National Bank of New Brunswick precipitated by a large cashier defalcation by Charles S. Hill (≈$225k–$260k), suicide(s) (cashier Hill and bank president Runyon), suspension of payments (stopped at 12:45, Sept. 6 reported) and an overall characterization as a bank failure. Reports mention funds brought from New York but the bank is described as failed and the city 'shaken'—no clear reopening reported. Classified as run → suspension → permanent closure.

Events (4)

1. January 19, 1864 Chartered

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2. February 26, 1868 Voluntary Liquidation

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3. September 6, 1884 Run

Cause: Bank Specific Adverse Info
Cause Details: Run triggered by discovery/rumor of large cashier defalcation by Cashier Charles S. Hill (deficiency reported $225,000–$260,000).
Measures: About $200,000 (reports vary) was brought from New York to aid the bank; money expected from New York to tide over the crash.
Newspaper Excerpt: A rumored deficiency caused a run on the First National bank, which stopped payments at 12:45. The run had been tremendous all day.
Source: newspapers

4. September 6, 1884 Suspension

Cause: Bank Specific Adverse Info
Cause Details: Suspension followed the heavy run caused by the cashier's large defalcation and suicides of bank officers; deficit reported roughly $225,000–$260,000 (other reports cite ~$240,000).
Newspaper Excerpt: The First National Bank of New Brunswick, N. J., stopped payment at 12:45 Saturday. A tremendous run had been made all day.
Source: newspapers

Newspaper Articles (12)

1. April 6, 1877 The Albany Register Albany, OR

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Condensed Lightning. A fire in Green street, New York, destroyed $50,000 worth of property on the 31st ult. The First National Bank at New Brunswick, N. suspended on the 31st ult. Liabilities and assets about equal. Nine vessels the Long Island fishing fleet have been probably lost on the fishing banks. The boats were valued at $60,000. The Rocky Mountain quartz mills at Georgetown, Colorado, were destroyd on the 31st ult. Loss $50,000 ; insurance $18,000. Alfred Cox, of West Bowdoin, Me shot and killed his father while he was returning from church on the 1st. The boy is said to be insane. Six companies of artillery will leave Washington this week for New England. The Secretary intends making a complete reorganization of the treasury department. Hayes and members of Cabinet with Gen. Sherman, reviewed the troops at Washington on the 31st ult. E. M. Marble, of Michigan, has been g appointed assistant Attorney General of t the Interior Department. Troops will be withdrawn from the State House at Columbia, but not from h the State. 1 The Louisiana commission started for New Orleans on the 2d. The members of the commission are Brown, McVeigh, Lawrence, Hawley and Harlan. Ferdinando Wood considers the e e, breaking up of party lines in the Southern States and the administration secur)eing an organization in the House as e absurd. o Hampton left Washington at mid. Snight on the 31st ult. He is still und compromising, and will not listen to 1. Chamberlain's proposition to appoint a en board of arbitrators to settle their differISences. Democrats have arranged a celaebration at Columbus in honor of Hample ton's return. ck The Turkish Parliament is opposed to d ceding territory to Montenegro. b. Sufferers from the India famine are going to Ceylon in large numbers. General Mariscal has been nominated Ofor Governor of Sonora, Mexico. na The Prince of Montenegro has promised the Bosnian insurgents to act as their d. leader. g. he The protocol in which Turkey is he bound to certain reforms, said to have ut been signed. so Advices from Columbia, South Amernd ica, are favorable to the government oucause in the existing war, He Oakey Hall has arrived in England at under the name of Satelifle. Ile sailed of in the Victoria from Boston. The London Post announces positivenst ly that all differences between England tal and Russia have been smoothed away he It is stated that the bank of France 0,has advanced $100,000,000 to Russia ere to enable it to pay its debt interest due per in April. gh The Mexican government will grant een railway franchises through Sonora to neArizona, in the interest of a Mexican sed and New York Company. The following are the conditions at sist tached to the promise that the Porte ree an embas anto red accept sador will make to the St. protocol Petersburg peace and with send arrange Montenegro the of matters of demobilization. Schonvalof me, communicated the foregoing to Lore Ige Derby. ber Postmasters appointed Homer D ity. Harkness, Leland, Josephine county ard and Summer Allison Steers, Benton Oregon;Jeremiah county; Mt. Siias Hood, Henkle, W Crane, Wasco county Philomath poose, Lee and, Benton Warm Columbia Springs, county; Samuel Wasco county; T county; Mrs Gosa, Jame Scap Dermatt. Pleasant Grove, Yakima cour ty, W. T. der There were 55 deeds recorded orse Marion county last month, 33 mort gages. and 10 marriage licenses issued and 18 chattle mortgages filed. The Jackson county delinquent ta: list will amount to $5,000. way Astoria repudiates the fact that oar, boasts of its 30 saloons, for it has 40. beOnly one marriage license was grant ed in Umatilla county last month. toThe Lake creek Greenback club vors filling all offices by: direct vote. efTwenty or more steamers will mak who their headquarters at Astoria this seaso: se a Work is progressing, in all stage upon 189 new buildings in the city that Astoria. the Several Lake creek farmers inter st ofputting up warehouses along the riv this summer. lawThe Jay Beach, of Fort Klamath, w ic to shortly receive a lot of fine trotti horses from Kentucky. the It costs $2.00 for a four horse team teen cross the Farleigh bridge on Powd to a river in Baker county. The new Masonic Hall, at Jackso with ville, is ready for the alphabetical gent that men with pinatores. erva F Times are getting a little easier. h. fifteen cents you can now buy a genui calls imported Havana cigar that tastes

2. September 7, 1884 The Democratic Leader Cheyenne, WY

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Shortage in Accounts. NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., September 6.-A rumored deficiency caused a run on the First National bank, which stopped payments at 12:45. The run had been tremendous all day. The surplus is exhausted. Cashier Charles S. Hill committed suicide. His deficiency ranges from $225,000 to $260,000. Money is expected from New York to tide over the crash.

3. September 9, 1884 Fort Worth Daily Gazette Fort Worth, TX

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raid the bank?" was the question which agitated the agonized depositors. Farmers from the country joined the throng and shouted for their money. The police flanked the street and with difficulty quieted the rising disturbance. At 1:20 o'clock one of the directors, Johnson Letson, was reported dead. An investigation revealed the fact that he had become exhausted on account of the strain on his nerves. He was a heavy stockholder and had deposited trust funds. Charley Davies, the clerk of the bank who had been reported dead, has been found alive and all right. THE CAUSE ASGIVEN IN WALL STREET. NEW YORK, Sept. 8.-The suicide of President Runyon of the First National bank of New Brunswick, is said in Wall street to be due to his overdrawing his account at the bank about $30,000. He also invested the bank's money in securities not negotiable at the value represented. A PITIABLE STATE OF AFFAIRS. NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., Sept. 8.The National bank of New Jersey is in a chaos. Over a million dollars have been stolen by Hill and others. Mahlon Runyon, the president implicated in the thef with Hill, was expected to be arrested when he took his life. The city is wild. Crowds blockade Church street where the bank stands. Acting Cashier Campbell is expected to be arrested for complicity in the conspiracy. Millionaires are trembling. More than two suicides are predicted. The mob threatened to burst open the bank, but was subdued by the police. Walter Carroll, a depositor, cut his throat on account of losses in the bank.

4. September 10, 1884 Union County Courier Elk Point, SD

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BUSINESS EVENTS. THE First National Bank of New Brunswick, N. J., stopped payment at 12:45 Saturday. A tremendous run had been made all day. Chas. H. Hill, the cashier, committed suicide. There is a deficiency of about $250,000. Two hundred thousand dollars was brought from New York to aid the bank the last hour of business. A heavy run is again expected. NEW YORK bank statement: Loans increase, $1,454,000; specie decrease, $210,000; legal tender decrease, $1,258,000; deposits increase, $411,500; circulation decrease, $80,000: reserved decrease. $1,571,000. Banks now hold $30,540,000 in excess of legal requirements. THE exports of specie from the port of New York for the past week ending Friday, were $109,309, making a total since Jan. 1 of $13,000,000; against $10,670,000 last year. THE loss by fire in August was $10,500,000, exceeding any previous known

5. September 11, 1884 The Iowa Plain Dealer Cresco, New Oregon, IA

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LATER NEWS ITEMS. Notices have been posted in variou parts of Lewis County, Tennessee, warnir the Mormons now residing there to leav within thirty days under pain of death. Julius B. Fredericks, one of the se geants in the Greely expedition, is at I dianapolis. He denies that there were tv factions in the expedition: says he has 1 knowledge of any cannibalism: and, speaking of Henry's execution, says he w shot by orders while in the act of stealir sealskins. A determined run on the First N tional Bank of New Brunswick, N. J., w soon followed by the suspension of payment Charles S. Hill, the cashier, who committe suicide last week, is now known to be a d faulter for $225,000 or more. In the National Base Ball Leagu race the record at the end of the week stoc as follows: Providence, TO games: Bosto 62; Buffalo, 51: New York, 50: Chicago, 4 Clevelanda and Philadelphi, 31 each. and D troit, 21. In the American Associatio games Metropolitan has won 58 games: Colur bus, 56; Louisville, 53; Cincinnati, 52: S Louis, 49; Athletic, 46: Baltimore, 45; Broo lyn, 33; Toledo, 31, and Pittsburgh and I dianapolis, 24 games each. The St. Lou leads in the Union Association, having we 57 games: Boston comes next with 3: game and Cincinnati and Pittsburgh are a tie wit 34 games each to their credit. The Nort western League has disbanded. The recent declaration of Earl Sper cer that the policy of concession towar the Irish could not be carried further ha Mr. Chamberlain retarded by twenty yes the pacification of Ireland, and the Parnallit orators have taken the expression as 11 text for their speeches in the autumn can paign. In the meantime a new party is sal to be in progress of organization in Irelan It proposes to favor home rule on the bas of loyalty to the crown: to establish peasar proprietorship in Ireland: and to form a Irish Parliament. to sit in Dublin, the men bers of which shall take an oath of alles ance to the Queen. It is expected to spl the Parnell party, in that it will grant ti two principles which form the foundation ( their political faith. With it all, the cond tion of Ireland is said to be rapidly impro ing. The Italians are greatly frightene by the cholera epidemic. They supers tiously regard it as an invention of the do tors and the priests. At a conference of the Tamman leaders in Now York, after a number e speeches had been made, John Kelly w asked to give his views. He spoke at son length. He referred to Tammany's recogn tion by the last State convention, and to ti proceedings of the national convention. I thought that all differences should be forge ten, and that Tammany should support ti regular Democratic ticket. "Tammany Hi has always been, is now, and alwa will be a Democratic organization," I said, "and as such must indorse the non nees of the Democratic convention. TI must be done, not only as a matter of polie but because We are Democrats and shou Le consistent with our record. This suppo is meant in good faith," he added: "Tat many always supports its candidates hone ly, and will 20 to the polls and vote I Cleveland and Hendricks." No formal vo was taken, but the opinion was unanimo after Mr. Kelly's speech that the organi: tion should support the Democratic tick Albany (N. Y. dispatch: The "Jac sonians"-a political organization-serena ed Gov. Cleveland to night. The Governo as he appeared, was saluted by the ba

6. September 11, 1884 The True Northerner Paw Paw, MI

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LATER NEWS ITEMS. Notices have been posted in various parts of Lewis County, Tennessee, warning the Mormons now residing there to leave within thirty days under pain of death. Julius B. Fredericks, one of the sergeants in the Greely expedition, is at Indianapolis, He denies that there were two factions in the expedition; says he has no knowledge of any cannibalism: and, in speaking of Henry's execution, says he was shot by orders while in the act of stealing sealskins. A determined run on the First National Bank of New Brunswick, N. J., was soon followed by the suspension of payments. Charles S. Hill, the cashier, who committed suicide last week, is now known to be a defaulter for $225,000 or more. In the Natioual Base Ball League race the record at the end of the week stood as follows: Providence, 70 games; Boston, 62; Buffalo, 51; New York, 50; Chicago, 45; Clevelanda and Philadelphi, 31 each, and Detroit, 21. In the American Association games Metropolitan has won 58 games; Columbus, 56; Louisville, 53; Cincinnati, 52; St. Louis, 49; Athletic, 46; Baltimore, 45; Brooklyn, 33; Toledo, 31, and Pittsburgh and Indianapolis, 24 games each. The St. Louis leads in the Union Association, having won 57 games; Boston comes next with 37 games, and Cincinnati and Pittsburgh are a tie with 34 games each to their credit. The Northwestern League has disbanded. The recent declaration of Earl Spencer that the policy of concession toward the Irish could not be carried further has, Mr. Chamberlain says, retarded by twenty year the pacification of Ireland, and the Parnallite orators have taken the expression as the text for their speeches in the autumn campaign. In the meantime a new party is said to be in progress of organization in Ireland. It proposes to favor home rule on the basis of loyalty to the crown; to establish peasant proprietorship in Ireland; and to form an Irish Parliament, to sit in Dublin, the members of which shall take an oath of allegiance to the Queen. It is expected to split the Parnell party, in that it will grant the two principles which form the foundation of their political faith. With it all, the condition of Ireland is said to be rapidly improving. The Italians are greatly frightened by the cholera epidemic. They superstitiously regard it as an invention of the doctors and the priests. At a conference of the Tammany leaders in New York, after a number of speeches had been made, John Kelly was asked to give his views. He spoke at some length. He referred to Tammany's recognition by the last State convention, and to the proceedings of the national convention. He thought that all differences should be forgotten, and that Tammany should support the regular Democratic ticket. "Tammany Hall has always been, is now, and always will be a Democratic organization," he said, "and as such must indorse the nominees of the Democratic convention. This must be done, not only as a matter of policy, but because we are Democrats and should be consistent with our record. This support is meant in good faith," he added; "Tammany always supports its candidates honestly, and will go to the polls and vote for Cleveland and Hendricks." No formal vote was taken, but the opinion was unanimous after Mr. Kelly's speech that the organization should support the Democratic ticket. Albany (N. Y.) dispatch: The "Jacksonians"-a political organization-serenaded Gov. Cleveland to-night. The Governor, as he appeared, was saluted by the band playing "See, the Conquering Hero Comes," and the cheers of the crowd. Gov. Cleveland acknowledged the compliment of the serenade, and complimented the club on its handsome appearance, expressing hope that the cause it so creditably represented might be successful. The appearance of the Governor and his remarks were greeted with great enthusiasm.

7. September 12, 1884 The Kenosha Telegraph Kenosha, WI

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18. Canada, SERGEANTS LONG and Brainard, and Private Connell, of the Greely party, who had been on exhibition in a dime museum at Cleveland, O., were on the 6th ordered to report at ones at Portsmouth, N. H. THE President has appointed Robert F. Crowell, of St. Paul, Minn., Auditor of the Treasury for the Post-Office Department, vice Judge Ela, deceased. THE exchanges at twenty-three leading clearing-houses in the United States during the week ended on the 6th aggregated $684,556, against $630,169,105 the previous week. As compared with the corresponding period of 1883, the clearings showeda decrease of 21.1 per cent. The East. THE death of Charles J. Folger, Secretary of the Treasury, occurred at his home in Geneva, N. Y., as 4:55 o'clock on the afternoon of the 4th. He had been in failing health for some time, his lungs and kidneys being affected. Judge Folger was born in Nantucket, Mass., April 16, 1818, and removed to Geneva, N. Y., when twelve years old. made Secretary of the Treasury October 27, 1881. The Secretary leaves one son and two daughters, his wife having died seven years ago. THE following Congressmen were nominated on the 4th: Republican-New Jerser, Fifth District, William Walter Phelps (renominated.) Massachusetts, Twelfth District, Francis W. Rockwell (renominated). Democratic-Pennsylvania,Third District, Samuel J. Randall (renominated). A FEW evenings ago a frame house which was being raised at Pittsburgh fell, a young man being killed and his father fatally hurt. A woman and several children who occupied the structure escaped unhurt. THE other morning a murderous Hungarian was lynched by his countrymen near Wilkesbarre, Pa. CHARLES HILL, Cashier of the National Bank of New Brunswick, N. J., for twenty years, was found dead in bed the other morning. Inhaling gas was the cause. IN a mining village near Ashland, Pa., seven deaths occurred recently as a result of eating canned meats and pork, and twenty-four persons were ill on the 5th. 1. RETURNS from 227 towns in Vermont on the 4th gave Pingree (Rep.) for Governor, 41,188; Redington (Dem.), 19,197; Independent, Greenback and scattering, 733. Pingree's plurality, 21,991; Pingree's majority, 21,218. There were only thirteen towns to be heard from, and these four years ago cast an aggregated vote of 996. They would probably add 400 to the Republican majority. AT the Enterprise mine, near Port Bowkley, Pa., two caves took place the 5th, 250 acres of land settling about six feet, and the ground was full of seams and cracks. The mine was being flooded by water rushing through the fissures, and could not be worked for at least a year. The loss was placed at $500,000. Five houses were wrecked, and six mules were killed by falling rocks. Five hundred persons were thrown out of employment. A FEW days ago Thomas J. Libby, proprietor of a summer resort at Scarborough, Me., shot and killed one of his female employes and then fatally shot himself. NEW HAMPSHIRE Greenbackers met in State Convention at Manchester on the 5th and indorsed General Butler. George W. Carpenter was nominated for Governor, and John F. Woodbury and J. E. Williams for Congressmen. The platform of the National Convention at Indianapolis was indorsed. ON the 5th a forest fire which broke out in Talbot County, Me., had burned over 1,000 acres of timber lands, and, aided by a prevailing drought, was still burning fiercely. The loss would be heavy. IN Philadelphia on the 5th measures were being taken to prevent the landing of "assisted emigrants" from Hamburg. ADVICES of the 5th state that the Republican majority in the recent State election in Vermont was 22,000 in round numbers. The complexion of the House of Representatives is: Republicans, 98; Democrats, 34; Greenback 4; Independents, 31; no choice, 1. The next Senate will consist of 27 Republicans and 3 Democrats. RECENTLY two little girls arrived in New York from Ireland, each wearing a heavy cardboard with their names and destination printed thereon. They traveled alone, and were forwarded to their mother at Urbana, O. THE imports at New York since January 1 have amounted to $305,391,534, against $320,773,015 for the corresponding time in 1883. OFFICIALS at Farmington, N. H., discovered on the 6th that Mrs. Thomas Armoux, a helpless invalid, had starved to death, while her husband lay about the house in a beastly-intoxicated condition. ON the 6th the funeral services over the remains of Senator Anthony took place at Providence, R. I., President Arthur and other National and State officials being present. OWING to a run the first National Bank of New Brunswick, N. J., was compelled to suspend payments on the 6th. The defalcation of the cashier, Hill, who committed suicide, was said to be about $240,000. 1 AT New York on the 6th the Corporation

8. September 12, 1884 Iowa County Democrat Mineral Point, WI

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GENERAL NOTES. THOMAS R. WRIGHT, lumberman and for miller at Granby, N. Y., has failed $49,000. BISHOP PIERCE, of the M. E. Church at South, died Wednesday morning Augusta, Ga. cholera is fearfully fatal in Naplea THE and Spezia, Italy, and is spreading in Spain. MABLE, the 15-year-old daughter stockman, of X. Griffich, a prominent home in John and killed herself at her a fit shot Shenandoah, Iowa, Sunday during of temporary insanity. THE value of the imported January foreign landed at New York since $15,381. goods date is $305,391.534, being period 481 less 1, to than for the corresponding last year. democrats of the Third Pennsyl- Samuel THE District have nominated vania Randall for re-election to congress, New J. the republicans of the Fifth renominaJersey and District have likewise ted William Walter Phelps. meeting of Ohio wool-growers at AT a at the Ohio State Fair Wednesday, it was resolved to support not no Columbus, candidate for congress who would restore pledge himself to make efforts to the duty on wool. wife of ex Senator James HarTHE of Iowa, died at Fortress Monroe mothlas, night. Mrs. Harlan was the Lincoln. last .in-law of Secretary of War husband whose father's Cabinet her the in Secretary of the Interior at time was of the President's assassination. THE returns from 240 towns giving state a gubernatorial vote of the recomplete Vermont, shows the following 62,of Total number of votes cast, 41.Fult: Pingree, republican, received Saule, 421. 917: Redington, democrat, 19,838; scatreenback, 480; indeperdent and matering, g 1,861; making Pingree's jority 21.413. Baltimore association of battle "OH THE who took part in the Point in 1812. has it fenders," North requirement disbanded, that of the constitutional members as continued as long as five can be left to carry on the e organization death of not are be fulfilled because of the the veterans. Monarch Line Company, running LivTHE between en New York and and steamship is declared to be insolvent, at rpool, petition has been presented of the that lon 2 to wind up the affairs Lon The company protests against it has the latter concern. action, maintaining that a largesurplue. verbal leaves of absence of SerTHE Brainard and Long and Private have geants Cornell, of the Greely expedition, have been been ordered recalled, they at once exhibited and to the Portsmouth, men themselves N. in H., dirue because museum at Cleveland, Ohio. on the First National bank of A RUN Brunswick, N. J., Saturday, The com- deNew it to suspend payments. compelled of the cashier, Hill, is said to be falcation mitted suicide, $200.000 about who $240,- was From New York meet the 000. in the afternoon 10 Monday. brought which will be made able demands The president is confident of being to pay HENRY all depositors. B. ANTHONY, the veteran Island LION. States Senator of Rhode Daily United editor of the Providence Proviand died at his home in of that Journal, Mr. Anthony was a native of his dence. and was in the 70th year in state, He was Governor of that state ix States Senator age. and 1850, and was elected 1859, United and times re-elected. was the four senior member of the as its SenHe was was three times chosen term ate, President and pro tem His present ha e expired in 1889. the would HENRY B. ANTHONY, veteran Island HON. States Senator of Rhode Daily United editor of the Providence and died at his home in Providence. state, Journal, Anthony was a native of that He Mr. was in the 70th year of his in age. 1840 was and Governer and was of elected the State United times States reand 1850, in 1859. and was four member of Senator He was the senior chosen elected. Senate, and was three times His present the its President pro tem. 1889 as would have expired in term BALTIMORE dispatch of Sept. of 3rd the A the third annual meeting Ensays National met Association Tuesday. of J.G. Stationary Beckerley, of of vincers in the chair. The report he adwas read, in of the laws for the The report of the gineers. vocated Chicago: president protection which secretary associa- enfifty -eight subordinate members. showed comprising about 2.000 is fortions, number of delegates present ected. The ty-eight, and more are Pittsburg dispatch of the between 3d says the the correspendence of the official Minister and Secretary to the Austrian Frelinghuysen in regard in comState Chief of Police Braun, Consult Schamberg to of flag displayed in consular pelling action of birthday. was honor received remove the the by Emperer's Fulton fr m Governor Pattison amMayor night. It is understood an Braun late last will be made. Chief out of ple whole trouble grew that of Consul Schamberg not says >apology the could the re- he of threat put up a sign he intention would and that he had no the course insulting move, the flag of Austria in pursued by him.

9. September 12, 1884 The State Rights Democrat Albany, OR

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as heretofore—$100 per month; freight conductors are reduced from $90 to $85 per month; passenger and freight brakemen, from $60 to $55 per month, and baggage masters to $65. The reduction went into effect on the 1st inst. Brunswick, N. J., is shaken to the very center by the worst bank failure and series of suicides yet chronicled in the United States, Cashier Hill, of the National Bank, speculated with $7,000,000 of money belonging to depositors and lost it all. Monday he committed suicide, and the President of the bank followed suit, also a depositor. Hundreds in the city are ruined and more suicides are looked for. Nearly everybody in the place is said to be wild. Oregon may be a Webfoot country and very lonesome off in this extreme corner of the world; but when it comes to fast running horses it is decidedly up to the times. Oregon horses have the best time at the following distances: Hickory Jim, 1200 yards in 1:10; Jim Renwick, ⅝ mile, 1:00½; Blue Mountain Belle, ½ mile and repeat, 0:49,0.48, Olitipa, by imp, Leamington, has the credit of the best ½ mile, but in fact Susie S., of Baker City, Or., made the distance in 0:47½, Olitipa's time being 0.47¾. An Indian confined in the jail at Cheney, W. T., was taken out last Sunday night by a mob of lynchers, a rope was tied to his neck, one end was thrown over the limb of a tree and then jerked down, suspending him in mid air, which proved too much for his nerves and he soon died. His brothers are said to be donning their war paint. A marriage occurred at Eagle Point Thursday night says the Ashland Tidings in which the respective ages of the bride and groom were rather remarkable. H G Shock, the birdegroom, is 54 years of age, and Mrs

10. September 12, 1884 The Times Owosso, MI

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sussion 000, has closed its doors. Denver reports three failures, the largest being that of Rust, Harris & Co., hardware dealers. While six men were blasting a huge piece of iron at the Valley furnace, near Sharon, Pa., some giant powder was prematurely exploded. William Ayres was killed and four others seriously burned. Chapman, who was arrested in Missouri for the murder of Nicholas Hubbard at Charleston, Illinois, made to the sheriff a voluntary confession of his guilt, but implicated another person in the crime. Mervyn Smith, a wealthy citizen of Montreal, who married a handsome American girl, named Kate Wheeler, ten years ago, has become jealous of an has and entered English coachman, suit for a separation. Sitting Bull, when leaving the St. Paul opera-house, Thursday evening, was confronted by an unknown man with a revolver, who was with great difficulty restrained from avenging the death of General Custer. Dr. McEachran, inspector of the Canadian cattle quarantine, urges upon the minister of agriculture the necessity of a complete quarantine to prevent the introduction of pleuro-pneumonia from the United States. On reports of the state veterinarian, the governor of Illinois has declared pleuro-pneumonia epidemic among cattle in nine herds, and enjoined their owners from transporting them without a certificate of good health. E. B. Power, a wealthy farmer, who resided near Petersburg, Illinois, since 1829, celebrated his 85th birthday by giving a dinner to five hundred descendents aud friends, and was presented with a gold-headed cane. Thetwenty-fourth: anniversary of the loss of the Lady Elgin in Lake Michigan off Evanston was observed in the Milwaukee Catholic Cathedral Monday by a solemn high mass for the faithful who perished on the occasion. C. A. Kincaid, representing the governor of Kentucky, has sailed for Europe to secure the remains of Joel T. Hart. the American sculptor. The state of Kentucky will erect a monument in the latter's honor at Lexington. Official reports of the state of crops in Nebraska are encouraging. The condition of corn is placed at 106 per cent, wheat 100, rye 100, oats 93, barley 961, Irish potatoes 1041, tobacco 100, apples 1091. This is a splendid showing. The demonstration Saturday in Glasgow in favor of the franchise bill took the form of a procession ten miles in length, comprising seventy thousand persons, among them being four hundred survivors of the reform agitation of 1832. Three coaches were, on Monday evening, thrown from the track of the Memphis and Charleston road near Corinth, Mississippi. Most of the seventy passengers received bruises, and a colored brakeman had his jaw broken. The first attempt toward enforcing the prohibitory liquor law at Dubuque was made Thursday, when a wealthy citizen applied to the district court for injunctions to restrain seventeen leading saloon-keepers from continuing business. The commission dealers at the Chicago stock-yards have tendered to the national committee ten head of cattle, to be placed among herds said to be afflicted with pleuro-pneumonia, as an experiment to decide the question of contagion. Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood has formally accepted a nomination for the presidency by the woman's national equal rights party of California, promising, if elected, to recommend a uniform system of laws in regard to marriage and divorce. The funeral of Senator Anthony at Providence was signalized by the closing of the main business houses. The arrangements were in charge of the senate sergeant-at-arms. President Arthur and Senator Edmunds entered the church together. C. H. Trosdorff, the owner of several farms near New Philadelphia, Ohio, went to Cleveland to be treated for an affection of the brain. When he was advised that recovery was impossible he went to the lake park and ended his life with a. revolver, A determined run on the First National bank of New Brunswick, New Jersey, was soon followed by the suspension of payments. Charles S. Hill, the cashier, who committed suicide last week, is now known to be a defaulter for $225,000 or more. The earnings of the Mexican Central road for August are said to have been nearly $250,000. There is some gossip in Boston over the inability of the former president, Thomas Nickerson, to pay a personal loan which had matured in a banking house in State street. Andrew Jackson, a capitalist of Hammond's Station, New York, was found on the railway track with both legs severed. Before dying he accused two neighbors of throwing him under a train, and thev were arrested at Mechanicsville. The feud grew out of a lawsuit. Sergeant Fredericks, of the Greely expedition, who is now in Indianapolis, says the sentence of death pronounced upon Private Henry was executed by himself and Sergeants Brainard and Long, who put two bullets into his back. Fredericks is anxious to make another

11. September 13, 1884 The Milan Exchange Milan, TN

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four districts. CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. THERE was burned on the steamer Merido, at Havana, a valuable collection of Mexican rarities, zoological and botanical, destined for the New Orleans Exposition. General Diaz, head of the Mexican Commission, is much affected by the loss, and says it can't be replaced in ten years. ON the 5th a coal mine'caved in at Port Burkley, Pa., rendering the property useless for many months to come and entailing a loss of fully $1,000,000. Five hundred persons are thrown out of employment. IT was reported on the 5th that the emigrant ship Lastingham, from London for Wellington, New Zealand, was wrecked in Cook's Strait, and all on board except fourteen of the crew drowned. By a premature blast of dynamite on the Pennsylvania Railway, near the Union Depot at Pittsburgh, Pa., on the 5th, one man was killed and Superintendent Pitcairn's private car was wrecked. ON the evening of the 4th, during a political discussion at Dawson, Pa., W. J. Mullen became so enraged at his friend, Samuel Short, that he plunged a knife into bis side, inflicting a fatal wound. Two nicks in a knife blade led to the identification of Howard Sullivan, a negro, as the murderer of Miss Ella Watson near Salem, N. J. ON the night of the 4th John Graham, aged twenty-eight, locked upat Avondale, o., for stealing, hung himself with a strip torn from a blanket. THE fall of the grand stand at the G. A. R. reunion at Fremont, Neb., resulted in the injuring of sixty-four persons, several of whom it is thought will die. The cause is said to be the insecure bracing of the stand. FIRE destroyed McKee Brothers' creamery at Vincennes, Ind., on the 7th. AT Cleveland, o., on the 7th, Jonas Hunkens had his throat cut in a bar-room brawl and died in a few minutes. IN New York on the 7th there were 153 deaths. The intense heat is said to have caused most of them. NEAR Wheeling, W. Va., on the 7th, James Nelson shot and killed Peter Seip. They were out hunting and Nelson mistook Seip's head for a squirrel. IN Brussels on the 7th a clerical parade was made the occasion for a riot, in which many people were injured, three being killed. The police were powerless to protect the paraders. ON the night of the 7th an extensive conflagration in Cleveland, O., destroyed an immense amount of property in that portion of the city known as "the flats." The burned district includes lumber yards and manufacturing establishments of many kinds. At midnight the fire was still burning and it was impossible to estimate the loss. ON the 8th Dr. Geo. F. Lewelling, of Scottsburg, Ind., fell from a ferry boat and was drowned. ON the 8th union stove molders at Cincinnati severely beat two non-union men t who went out after beer. Several of the strikers were arrested. SUNDAY night's destructive conflagration at Cleveland, O:, occasioned losses exceeding a million dollars. The fire was not under control until late on tae mornx ing of the 8th. NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., was in the wild1 est state of excitement on the 8th over the g failure of the First National Bank, caused t by Cashier Hill's rascality. Runyon, the President, followed Hill's example and committed suicide. A depositor who had d lost all be had cut his throat. Farmers r were in town demanding their money; estates are wrecked and the city is mixed up with the affair and will probably be bankrupted. Directors are sick and worried, and altogether it is one of the worst failures imaginable. ON the 8:h Oliver Bateman confessed to y the outraging and murdering of the two If McLaughlin girls at Flagg Springs, Mo. He was alone in the commission of the 1, deed. e

12. September 18, 1884 Wood County Reporter Wisconsin Rapids, WI

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TELEGRAI PHIC. GENERAL NOTES. A SEVERE drouth in the South is se riously affecting the cotton crop. BURGER. HURLBUT & LIVINGSTON an extensive sugar-refining firm of New York City, have failed. MABLE. the 15-year-old daughter o John X. Griffith, a prominent stockmą shot and killed herself at her home it Shenandoah, Iowa, Sunday during a fi of temporary insamity. THE value of the imported foreig goods landed at New York since Januar 1, to date is $305.391.534, being $15,381, 481 less than for the corresponding period last year. A PHILADELPHIA judge ruled Thursda that the occupant of a house may cu telegraph or telephone wires if stretche over his roof without his permission. S. D. SLONER and Mrs. W. J. Scot were married Wendesday night at Burn side, III, and after the wedding-diune seventeen of the guests were take seriously ill, three of whom are not ye out of danger. What caused the pois oning can not be determined. A HEAVY thunderstorm did damag Thursday afternoon in Mas-achusett towns, par icularly at Madden, where number of trees were prostrated and windows blown in. Lightni g struc in many places, damaging houses an shocking the inmates THE democrats of the Third Pennsyl vania District have nominated Samue J. Randall for re-election to congre SS and the republicans of the Fifth New Jersey District have likewise renomina ted William Walter Phelps. THE Baltimore association of "Ol Defenders," who took part in the battl of North Point in 1812, has disbanded as the constitutional requirement that i be continued as long as five member are left to carry on theorganization ca not be fulfilled because of the death o the veterans. THE Monarch Line Company, running steamships be New York and Liv erpool, is declared to be insolvent, an that a petition has been presented a LonJon to wind up the affairs of th concern. The company protests agains the latter action, maintaining that it ha a largesurplus. THE verbal leaves of absence of Ser geants Brainard and Long and Privat Corneli, of the Greely expedition, hav been recalled, and the men have bee ordered at once to Portsmouth, N. H. because they exhibited themselves in dime museum at Cleveland, Ohio. 6 THE Edgar Thempson Steel Compan ct Pittsburg Thursday notified the em ployes that unless they accepted a re duction in wages the mills would b closed. There is great distress in Pitts burg because of the number of factorie and mills now idle, and the appropria tion for out-door re ief is already ex hausted, with six months yet to run. THE proposition of the Chicago Liv Stock Exchange to practically demor strate whether pleuro-pneumonia is con tagious or not, by supplyi ten hea of healthy cattle and guaranteeing th expense of exposing them to the con tagion said to exist among certai Itlinois herds, was heartily endors ( Wednesday, by the Omaho Live Stoc Exchange. SOME excitement was created amon the scientists in session at Philade phia Wednesday by Mr. whitehouse, o New York, desiring to deliver a lectur on the Egy ptian Pyramids unde r th auspices of the association. White house created a disturbance by speaking against the wishes of the gathering, an a motion which he made was prompti negatived. A RUN on the First National bank o New Brunswick, N. J., Saturday, com pelled it to suspend payments. The de