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BANK CLOSES ITS DOORS. Illinois Financial Institution Suspends Payment Ashley, Ill., Feb. 26.-The Centennial bank closed its doors today. No statement is obtainable. The bank carried $36,000 in deposits.
Centennial Bank (Ashley, IL)
Episode Information
- Episode UID
1456093191214- Episode Type
- Suspension → Closure
- Bank Type
- private
- Bank ID
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145609319hash - Start Date
- February 26, 1901
- Location
- Ashley, Illinois (38.329, -89.191)
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- Model
- gpt-5-mini (chosen from majority vote of a three-model LLM ensemble)
- Short Digest
dbca7c51bba32964
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None
Events (1)
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February 26, 1901
Suspension
- Cause Details
- Article reports suspension/closure without giving a specific cause or linking to runs or government action.
- Newspaper Excerpt
- The Centennial bank closed its doors today. No statement is obtainable. The bank carried $36,000 in deposits.
- Source
- newspapers
Newspaper Articles (3)
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LATER. Sixty-five cotton mills in the south have approved the plan for the curtailment of the production of yarn. These mills represent 330,000 spindles. Mrs. Maggie Deithorn, aged 26 years. walked out on the Twenty-second street bridge at Pittsburg on the 26th ult. with her two children, aged 2 and 4 years, and when in the center of the structure picked up the little ones and threw them into the Monongahela river. Before she could follow she was arrested. Boats rescued one of the children, but the other was drowned. The census, taken December 1, 1900, shows the population of the German empire to be 56,345,014, of which number 27,731,067 were males. Thirtythree of the largest towns have populations of over 100,000 each, or an aggregate of 9,108,814. Since 1895 the increase in the population of the empire has been about 4,000,000, or 7.78 PRE cent. The Centennial bank, a private institution at Ashley, Ill., has suspended payment. The deposits are said to aggregate $36,000. The postoffice department has destroyed about 54,000 postal cards wkich belonged to the republic of Hawaii. There were about 28,000 onecent and 25,600 two-cent cards burned. One thousand dollars' worth of diamonds, jewelry and watches was wrested from a citizen within sight of a Chicago police station on the night of the 25th ult. The victim of the robbers was Marcus Stronz, a jewelry salesman. Six detectives who have been working for two weeks trying to find some clew in regard to a robbery of $10,000 worth of jewelry in the Hotel Savoy, at New York City, from Percival Kuhne, a banker, have succeeded in recovering one of the stolen pieces, valued at $2,500. The bank of Palmer & Mayer, at Desplaines, Ill., a village 12 miles from Chicago, has closed its doors. The institution is said to have held deposits aggregating $26,000, of which $6,000 was village funds. Experiments with liquid air are said to have caused the trouble. The greater part of the senate's session on the 26th ult. was consumed in the discussion of what our policy should be toward Cuba when its government shall be established The house indulged in a tumultuous session which was caused by a sbeech from Mr. Lentz (dem., O..) who claimed that Speaker Henderson was to blame for the omission from publication in the Record of a speech recently delivered by Mr. Lentz Much excitement followed and by a party vote the ho ise refused to allow the speech to go in the Record.
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Sunday, February 24 A public meeting of citizens of Wichita, Kaneas, under the auspices of the Ministerial Association, was held and resolution passed, demanding the forcement of the prohibitory law. No specific time was set for the jointists to close their places, and doubt is expressed that the citizens will ever adopt hatchets. W. W. Wilmot, whose parents are said to be wealthy residents of Tasmania, committed suicide at Portland, Oregon, by taking cyanide of potassium. He had shipped on board the American ship Kennebec bound for Australia. After asking the captain to release him and being refused he took his life. A Washington dispatch says: Our government has now received assurances from nearly all the powers represented by military forces at Pekin of their tire agreement with the United States as to government the inexpediency China of resuming military operations in while the peace negotiations are in progress. The federal authorities are much worried over the possible attitude of Governor Gage of California in case the special commission appointed to go to San Francisco and examine conditions there should report that the plague does exist in San Francisco. The secretary of the treasury has wired Governor Gage asking him to give the federal authori ties full charge of the situation and the stamping out of the disease if it should be declared to exist. Newspaper editors throughout Kansas were commended at a meeting held Kansas City by Kansas and Missouri for their comments on negroes the lynch- of ing at Leavenworth in January Alexander, the alleged rapist. The "South Africa of Oregon," is the name given to that mining district of Baker county contained in the triangle lying between the Powder river, Snake river and the O. R. & N. railroad track running from Huntington to North Powder. Large bodies of both high and low grade ore are found in every direction. The transport Solace arrived from Manila with 6 officers and 17 privates sick and wounded. She also brought is military prisoners, among whom Frederick M. Baker, a deserter, who was captured while serving as an officer in the Filipino army. He is under sentence of life imprisonment. Dr. Thomas O'Reilly, for 52 years a prominent physician of St. Louis, and notable home rule advocate, died suddenly from grip. Dr. O'Reilly was 74 of years old and born in Ireland. One his ancestors, Count Alexander O'Reilly, was the first governor of Louisiana, under Spanish rule. Monday, February 25. The dead body of Maggie Hoel, the young woman who mysteriously disap- to Dec. 23, and was supposed the been kidnaped. was river below Col. The peared have Arkansas Pueblo, found and in girl's right arm was shattered, this in conjunction with other circumfact, connected with her disappearstances ance, leads to the belief she was murdered. The date for the execution of Tom Ketchum, better known as" Black Jack, the territory of fixed New for a long time, has for Mexico who terrorized been court the territorial supreme f several by 22. Although accused of murders March and other feloniee, Ketchum train only tried for the robbery of a for was Folsom, N. M., the penalty near which in that territory is death. John John Yocum, Tim Stevens Mine,Butte, and employed in the Rose escape Regan, had the most remarkable ac Mont., death in the history of mining the from in the camp. They entered feet cidents to descend the shaft, 450 and bucket the bucket was swung clear rethe The men deep, brakes on the hoisting apparatus descended at fused to work. speed to the bottom. and Yocum the had lightning one of his legs broken, others were cut and bruised. Carrie Nation arrived her at Peoria, arrival Mrs. from Topeka, Kan., but Ill., attended with a demonstration. She will remain three The and deliver an edit was She not will paper days. address. outlined of a her plans are not yet rest Grand Rapids, officially The take steps toward council will Mich., waterworks common investigating the alleged the indictwhich has resulted in Salisbury deal, ment of City Attorney L. K. for the althe grand jury in Chicago $50,000. It is embezzlement of of several leged Salisbury is only one are insaid prominent local persons who volved in the matter. a school Ida Finklestein, while walking aged through 20, a lonely house of woods from the line, strip ehe taught to the Haute, teacher, where miles east of Terre Interurban school unknown Ind. three assaulted and killed by an back of the who shot her in the Several susbeen negro, head and cut her throat. arrested and public pects have is aroused to a high pitch. at Helena, feeling vote for U. S. senator Frank, 24; The Mantle, 26; 2; MacGinnie, Mont., stands: 18; Cooper, 6; Conrad, Toole, 1; Clements, Hamilton, 1. convicted of Frank H. the first degree, was at Minn. sentenced the manslaughter state to penitentiary seven in years at hard Stillwater, labor Tuesday, with February caucus 26 decision, In accordance the Montana legislature for voted for 28, Frank the 86 republicans He Carter in received instead of of Mantle and MacGinnies senator. 19, the The others object in springpresent scattering. is that the republicans votes to ing Carter capture again enough fusion The and there elect hope to him. Centennial bank of Ashley, is great Ill. exNo closed its among doors the depositors. The bank citement is obtainable. statement carried $36,000 after April deposite. 1, says of transporting a San Francisco On dispatch, and the Pacific price coast points to hops eastern from markets all will be raised.