1648. Bunnell & Scranton (New Haven, CT)

Bank Information

Episode Type: Suspension → Closure
Bank Type: private
Start Date: May 19, 1891
Location: New Haven, Connecticut (41.308, -72.928)

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Short Digest: 4d06b20f

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Description

The firm was temporarily closed (suspended) reportedly because of the death of Bunnell and the illness of Scranton (no one to carry on), then a formal assignment/receivership followed in late May 1891 after statements showed insolvency. Newspapers report schedules filed May 27; an assignment is reported in dispatches around May 20–21. No clear run of depositors is described.

Events (3)

1. May 19, 1891 Suspension

Cause Details: Temporary suspension following the death of H. H. Bunnell and illness of Scranton; no one to carry on business leading to temporary closure.
Newspaper Excerpt: the bank was temporarily closed during the illness of Mr. Scranton ... the bank had suspended because there was no one to carry on the business.
Source: newspapers

2. May 20, 1891 Other

Newspaper Excerpt: The firm of Bunnell & Scranton, bankers and brokers, made an assignment this morning. Mr. Scranton also filed an Individual assignment, E. G. Stoddard ... being named as trustee.
Source: newspapers

3. May 27, 1891 Receivership

Newspaper Excerpt: Schedules of the suspended firm of Bunnell & Scranton have been filed in the probate court this afternoon. They show the assets to be about $150,000, and liabilities about $500,000. The failure is worse than at first expected and creditors will probably only realize about thirty-five cents on the dollar.
Source: newspapers

Newspaper Articles (17)

1. May 19, 1891 New-York Tribune New York, NY

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BUNNELL & SCRANTON MAY RESUME. A dispatch from New-Haven said yesterday that after the death of H. H. Bunnell, of the banking firm of Bunnell & Scranton, it was announced that the firm would liquidate. This started many rumors regarding the solvency of the firm. The bank was temporarily closed during the illness of Mr. Scranton, and the eashier of the bank was preparing a statement of the firm's affairs. Prince & Whitely, the local correspondents of Bunnell & Scranton, do not doubt the solvency of this firm. Maynard Eye, of Prince & Whitely, said yesterday that their credit with his firm was large, and he had no doubt but that the bank would resume business. As it was, Mr. Bunnell was dead, Mr. Scranton was in a critical condition. and the bank had suspended because there was no one to carry on the business. B. H. Preston, of W. S. Lawson & Co., said that the accounts of Bunnell & Scranton with his house showed $2,000 to their credit. It was a firm which did an unusually large business for a provincial firm, but he had no doubt as to its solvency, and so great was his faith in the house that he would honor a draft for $5,000 in its favor.

2. May 21, 1891 Morning Journal and Courier New Haven, CT

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THE BANK FAILURE. The Assignment Made YesterdayThe Deficit a Large One-About $125,000-Liabilities of a Quarter a Million-Talk About Town-One of the Most Serious Failures in Years-Prominent Features of the Case. The firm of Bunnell & Scranton has gone under, as indicated yesterday would be the case; and assignments were made yesterday, one by the firm and the other by Mr. Scranton personally The failure is bad one and fifty cents on a dollar is the maximum amount which it is now believed, on good grounds, that the wreck will pay its creditors. The failure is sad one, accompanied as it has been with such mournful attending circumstances and is deeply regretted in our community and was surprise to all our leading banking men, all of whom expressed confidence in the house when it first closed its doors. The continued suspension of business, however, excited alarm and suspicion that all was not right, and the outcome shows that a deplorable state of affairs has been existing at the institution for some months, mistrusted by hardly anybody, though among class of the most careful investors, who are also monied men, doubts were from time to time expressed that firm could go on paying 6 per cent. on monthly balances and on deposits without taking undue risks and uncertain chances and by such a criterion the firm's ultimate stability was questioned It appears now that the firm has for months been in tight place and dire finan cial straits, either owing to private speculations in Wall street stocks or carrying stocks for others in losing ventures All unncertainty as to the firm's affairs was dispelled yesterday morning by the news of the filing of the assignments. The necessary legal papers were brought into court by John W. Bristol, of the law firm of Bristol, Stoddard & Bristol E. G. Stoddard was named as trustee, and Judge Robertson fixed Wedn day May 27, at 10 a.m.as the time for the hearing No schedule of the assets and liabilities of the filed was firm The making of an assignment of insolvency was decided upon by Mr Scranton as the result of a consultation he had with Lientenant Governor Merwin, president of the Yale bank, President Leete of the Mechanics bank. James D. Dewell of J. D. Dewell & Co. President Stoddard of the County bank Attorney Louis H. Bristol of the law firm of Bristol. Stoddard & Bristol, counsel for the firm: A. M. Tuttle of Naugatuck, and Mr. Smith of New York, father of Mrs. Bunnell, formerly a bank president in New York Cashier Newton had, at the request of Mr Scranton, prepared statement of the assets and liabilities and submitted it to him. It was not complete, but left no doubt of the firm's insolvency It represented the liabilities in round numbers of $250,000 and assets of about $125,000 Mr Scrant ton's conferees immediately advised the making of an assignment, and Mr Scranton decided to act upon their advice. The assignment in each case was made to President Stoddard of the County bank, the one assigning all of the property of C. W Scranton, both of his interest as surg viving partner of the firm of Bunnell & Scranton and of his own realty and personal property; the other assigning all the firm's property e Judge Robertson fixed upon Wednesday May 27. at 10 a.m. as the date of the hearing on the appointment of trustee Hon E. G. Stoddard has been named for the office and he will undoubtedly be appointed, and from conversation had with Mr. Stoddard yesterday afternoon it is believed that he will accept the duties of the position In an interview with Mr. Scranton he said All care to say is that there has been an unfortunate concurrence of accidents It all came in a heap [ have been sick with inflammat tion of the bowels. and I really ought not to be sitting up to-day T don't care to say anything Mr Bristol will speak for me. 'We don't know ccurately as yet," said I Mr Bristol, just how matters stand. have heard it said that there are unsecured liabilities to the amount of $250,000. That may be nearly correct or it may not. We can't say yet The estimated assets of the firm, $125 000, are considered by many of the credi tors as large, and they are prepared to believe that when the statement is made they will be less than $100,000 One creditor said yesterday morning the best assets the firm had was Mr. Bunnell's $10,000 life insurance. It was generally supposed that all of this was made payable to Mrs. Bunnell. but it seems that such not the fact. This $10,000 is represented by four or five different insurance policies, some of which were taken out by Mr Bunnell many years ago One has run twenty- or thirty years About $5,000 of the money is made payable to the widow The rest goes into the general assets for the creditors. These policies are in the Mutual Life Insurance comparry of New York represented by John W. Nichols Both Mr Bunnell and Mr Scranton had their lives insured in the New York Life Insurance company, whose office is in the Lyon building, Chapel street, a few years ago. The policies were made payable to the survivor of either If Mr. Scranton died first, the policy was to go to Mr. Bunnell, and if Mr Scranton survived Mr. Bunnell, it was to go to Mr Scranton. The $10,000 on that policy will now be scheduled as an asset of the firm Another asset will be Mr. Bunnell 's seat in the New York Stock exchange Mr. Bunnell said have purchased it in 1882 for $32,000. Its market value -day is placed at $20,000 But report says that it is mortgaged. The New York Stock exchange has a gratuity fund of $10,000 which is payable to the widow or heirs of a deceased membe The $10,000 will be paid to Mrs. Bunnell Regarding the mortgaging of the seat in the Stcck Exchange Mr.Scranton says he has not heard. The failure of Bunnell & Scranton will have but little effect upon the banks in the city Inquiry at all the banks yester day revealed but two which were carrying any of the paper of the defunct firm. These two are the County and Mechanics banks, but what they have is amply and fully secured The opinion prevails among those as well posted as any outsiders in the affairs and business of the late firm and in the light of the developments that net dividend of 25 to 30 per cent will be all that the assets of the bank will eventually yield when all expenses are paid On the other hand gentlemen supposed to have good knowledge now of the bank's situation. think 45 or 50 per cent. will be realized The official statement of the bank's condition will not, it is thought, be ready until to morrow, so much and so complicated are the many of the transactions on the books. The force of employes at the bank is very busy preparing the much looked for statement But that it will afford

3. May 21, 1891 New-York Tribune New York, NY

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NEW-HAVEN BANKERS FAIL. BUNNELL & SCRANTON'S LIABILITIES PLACED AT $250,000, THEIR ASSETS AT $75,000. New-Haven, Conn., May 20 (Special).-The firm of Bunnell & Scranton, bankers and brokers, made an assignment this morning. Mr. Scranton also filed an Individual assignment, E. G. Stoddard, president of the New-Haven County Bank, being named as trustee. Mr. Bunnell died a few days ago. The hearing in the Probate Court is assigned for Wednesday, May 27. No schedule of assets or liabilities has been filed, but one will be made in a day or two. It is represented that the liabilities will reach from $250,000 to $300,000, and that the assets will not exceed $75,000. This statement cannot be verified. but the failure is undoubtedly a bad one. Both Mr. Bunnell and Mr. Scranton had their lives insured in the New-York Life Insurance Company a few years ago. The policies were made payable to the survivor of either. The $10,000 on that policy will now be scheduled &S an asset of the firm. Another asset will be Mr. Bunnell's beat in the New-York Stock Exchange. which he is Its said to have purchased in 1882 for $32,000. market value to-day is placed at $20,000, but it is said to be mortgaged. The New-York Stock Exchange's gratuity fund of $10,000 will be paid to Mrs. Bunnell. Mr. Scranton is confined to his home by illness and refuses to fake a statement. Conservative men think yorse news will follow.

4. May 27, 1891 Evening Journal Wilmington, DE

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The Bunnell & Scranton Failure. NEW HAVEN, May 27.-Schedules of the suspended firm of Bunnell & Scranton have been filed in the probate court this afternoon. They show the assets to be about $150,000, and liabilities about $500,000. The failure is worse than at first expected and creditors will probably only realize about thirty-five cents on the dollar. NEW HAVEN, May 27.-The - schedule of Charles W. Scranton, of the bankrupt banking house of Bunnell & Scranton, was filed in the probate court. It showed individual liabilities, $31,553 and assets of less than $5,000.

5. May 27, 1891 Richmond Dispatch Richmond, VA

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Worse Than at First Expected. [By telegraph to the Dispatch.] NEW HAVEN, CONN, May 26.-The suspended private banking firm of Bunnell & Scranton filed a long statement in the Probate Court late this afternoon, showing the assets to be about $150,000 and liabilities about $500,000. The failure is worse than at first expected.

6. May 28, 1891 The Iowa Plain Dealer Cresco, New Oregon, IA

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THE EAST. HARRY and James Gasser, brothers, 30 years old, Joseph Voss and Jacob Hautenbeck, were drowned at Newark, N. J., by the upsetting of a boat while fishing. All leave families. IN Metztown, Pa., Ferdinand De Long died from the effects of eating 140 raw oysters in two minutes and three seconds. CITIZENS of Delaware defeated the proposition to hold a constitutional convention. IN the Jersey pine forests the losses by fire this spring are estimated at $200,000. THE failure of the Davis Shoe Company of Boston for $1,000,000 was announced. THE steamer El Sol has broken the record from New Orleans to New York, making the run in four days, twentythree hours and fifteen minutes. CARS loaded with dynamite were blown up near Tarrytown. N. Y., killing eighteen men and terribly injuring fifteen others. BY the caving of a sewer at Providence, R. I., four Italians were killed. THE banking firm of Bunnell & Scranton. of New Haven, Conn., has failed for $300,000. SATTERLEE, BOSTWICK & MARTIN, of New York, insurance agents, failed for $100,000. IT was said that City Treasurer Bardsley, of Philadelphia, had embezzled $930,000. AT Bow, N. H., Aaron Nichols celebrated his 100th birthday. AN incendiary fire destroyed the blacksmith and machine shops of the New York Central railroad at West Albany, N. Y. Loss, $200,000. AT Englewood, N. J., Frank Turke, a shoemaker, murdered his wife and then killed himself. They had only been married two weeks. IN Brooklyn, N. Y., Mrs. Charlotte Smith celebrated her 101st birthday. There were five generations represented at the domestic gathering.

7. May 28, 1891 The Redwood Gazette Redwood Falls, MN

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THE EAST. HARRY and James Gasser, brothers, 30 years old, Joseph Voss and Jacob Hautenbeck, were drowned at Newark, N. J., by the upsetting of a boat while fishing. All leave families. IN Metztown, Pa., Ferdinand De Long died from the effects of eating 140 raw oysters in two minutes and three seconds. CITIZENS of Delaware defeated the proposition to hold a constitutional convention. IN the Jersey pine forests the losses by fire this spring are estimated at $200,000. THE failure of the Davis Shoe Company of Boston for $1,000,000 was announced. THE steamer El Sol has broken the record from New Orleans to New York, making the run in four days, twentythree hours and fifteen minutes. CARS loaded with dynamite were blown up near Tarrytown. N. Y., killing eighteen men and terribly injuring fifteen others. BY the caving of a sewer at Providence, R. I., four Italians were killed. THE banking firm of Bunnell & Scranton, of New Haven, Conn., has failed for $300,000. SATTERLEE, BOSTWICK & MARTIN, of New York, insurance agents, failed for $100,000. IT was said that City Treasurer Bardsley, of Philadelphia, had embezzled $930,000. AT Bow, N. H., Aaron Nichols celebrated his 100th birthday. AN incendiary fire destroyed the blacksmith and machine shops of the New York Central railroad at West Albany, N. Y. Loss, $200,000. AT Englewood, N. J., Frank Turke, a shoemaker, murdered his wife and then killed himself. They had only been married two weeks. IN Brooklyn, N. Y., Mrs. Charlotte Smith celebrated her 101st birthday. There were five generations represented at the domestic gathering.

8. May 28, 1891 The Worthington Advance Worthington, MN

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THE EAST. HARRY and James Gasser, brothers, 30 years old, Joseph Voss and Jacob Hautenbeck, were drowned at Newark, N. J., by the upsetting of a boat while fishing. All leave families. IN Metztown, Pa., Ferdinand De Long died from the effects of eating 140 raw oysters in two minutes and three seconds. CITIZENS of Delaware defeated the proposition to hold a constitutional convention. IN the Jersey pine forests the losses by fire this spring are estimated at $200,000. THE failure of the Davis Shoe Company of Boston for $1,000,000 was announced. THE steamer El Sol has broken the record from New Orleans to New York, making the run in four days, twentythree hours and fifteen minutes. CARS loaded with dynamite were blown up near Tarrytown. N. Y., killing eighteen men and terribly injuring fifteen others. By the caving of a sewer at Providence, R. I., four Italians were killed. THE banking firm of Bunnell & Scranton, of New Haven, Conn., has failed for $300,000. SATTERLEE, BOSTWICK & MARTIN, of New York, insurance agents, failed for $100,000. IT was said that City Treasurer Bardsley, of Philadelphia, had embezzled $930,000. AT Bow, N. H., Aaron Nichols celebrated his 100th birthday. AN incendiary fire destroyed the blacksmith and machine shops of the New York Central railroad at West Albany, N. Y. Loss, $200,000. AT Englewood, N. J., Frank Turke, a shoemaker, murdered his wife and then killed himself. They had only been married two weeks. IN Brooklyn, N. Y., Mrs. Charlotte Smith celebrated her 101st birthday. There were five generations represented at the domestic gathering.

9. May 28, 1891 The Morning Call San Francisco, CA

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WRECKED FIRMS. Troubles of an Old Southern Firm-Statement of a Suspended Bank. ATLANTA, May 27.-The liabilities of Stephen A. Ryan are estimated at over $1,000,000, with assets aggregating $800,000. The house is one of the oldest in the South. Stephen A. Ryan is now sole proprietor. Two or three months ago there were rumors of his being financially embarrassed and suit was brought by Schloss & Co. of New York, which created a stir. Ryan won the suit and afterward sued the New York firm for $100,000 damages. That suit is still pending. After the first suit was decided In his favor Ryan met a member of the Schloss firm and a personal encounter resulted, in which Ryan came off best. Ryan claims the suit brought by Schloss was one of the causes leading to the failure, as it induced his creditors to push their claims. NEW HAVEN (Conn.), May 27.-The suspended banking firm of Bunnell & Scranton has filed a statement in court, showing a sets of $150,000 and liabilities about $500,000. It is doubtful if the creditors will realize more than 40 cents on the dellar. COUNCIL BLUFFS (Iowa), May 27.--The Judd Wells Investment Company failed here to-day. The assets are $75,000, liabilities $150,000. The failure was caused by injudicious investments in real estate. PHILADELPHIA, May 27.-Juagments aggregating $180,000 were entered to - day against the American Machine Company. The liabilities are believed to be about $200,000. An effort will be made to induce the creditors to agree to an extension.

10. May 28, 1891 The Seattle Post-Intelligencer Seattle, WA

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Business Failures. PHILADELPHIA, May 27.-Judgments aggregating $18,000 were entered today against the American Machine Company. The liabilities are believed to be about $200,000. An effort will be made to induce the creditors to agree to an extension. COUNCIL BLUFFS, Ia., May 27.-The Jud-Wells Investment Company failed here today with assets of $75,000 and liabilities of $150,000. The failure was caused by injudicious investments in real estate. NEW HAVEN, Coun., May 27.-The suspended banking firm of Bunnell & Scranton has filed a statement in court showing assets of $150,000 and liabilities of $250,000. It is doubtful if the creditors will realize more than 40 cents on the dollar.

11. May 28, 1891 River Falls Journal River Falls, WI

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THE EAST. THE banking firm of Bunnell & Scranton, of New Haven, Conn., has failed for $300,000. SATTERLEE, BOSTWICK & MARTIN, of New York, insurance agents, failed for $100,000. IT was saidthat City Treasurer Bardsley, of Philadelphia, had embezzled $930,000. AT Bow, N. H, Aaron Nichols celebrated his 100th birthday. AN incendiary fire destroyed the blacksmith and machine shops of the New York Central railroad at West Albany, N. Y. Loss, $200,000. AT Englewood, N. J., Frank Turke, a shoemaker, murdered his wife and then killed himself. They had only been married two weeks. IN Brooklyn, N. Y., Mrs. Charlotte Smith celebrated her 101st birthday. There were five generations represented at the domestic gathering. SEVEN ministers of the Reform Presbyterian church at Allegheny City, Pa., have been suspended for voting at a political election. IN the case of Capt. Loar and deputies, charged with murder at the Morewood (Pa.) riots, the jury returned a verdict of acquittal. IN the jail yard at New Castle, Del., nine men were whipped, seven of them receiving five lashes each and two ten lashes. ON the 23d a phenononon which probably has no parallel occurred at Buffalo, N. Y., when a storm of shot from the clouds fell'for over an hour.

12. May 28, 1891 Warren Sheaf Warren, MN

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THE EAST. IN Metztown, Pa., Ferdinand De Long died from the effects of eating 140 raw oysters in two minutes and three seconds. THE banking firm of Bunnell & Scranton, of New Haven, Conn., has failed for $800,000. SATTERLEE, BOSTWICK & MARTIN, of New York, insurance agents, failed for $100,000. IT was said that City Treasurer Bardsley, of Philadelphia, had embezzled $930,000. AT Bow, N. H., Aaron Nichols celebrated his 100th birthday. AN incendiary fire destroyed the blacksmith and machine shops of the New York Central railroad at West Albany, N. Y. Loss, $200,000. AT Englewood, N.J., Frank Turke, a shoemaker, murdered his wife and then killed himself. They had only been married two weeks. IN Brooklyn N. Y., Mrs. Charlotte Smith celebrated her 101st birthday. There were five generations represented at the domestic gathering. SEVEN ministers of the Reform Presbyterian church at Allegheny City, Pa., have been suspended for voting at a political election. IN the case of Capt. Loar and deputies, charged with murder at the Morewood-(Pa.) riots, the jury returned a verdict of acquittal. IN the jail yard at New Castle, Del., nine men were whipped, seven of them receiving five lashes each and two ten lashes. ON the 23d a phenononon which probably has no parallel occurred at Buffalo, N. Y., when a storm of shot from the clouds fell for over an hour.

13. May 28, 1891 The Salt Lake Herald Salt Lake City, UT

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Bunnell & Scranton's Statement. NEW HAVEN, Conn., May 27.-The suspended banking firm of Bunnell & Scranton has filed a statement in court showing assets to be $150,000 and liabilities about $500,000. It is doubtful if the creditors will realize more than 40 cents on the dollar.

14. May 28, 1891 Pittsburg Dispatch Pittsburgh, PA

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LATE NEWS IN BRIEF. Walter Damrosch, son-in-law of Mr. Blaine, has arrived in Berlin. Green Wells, colored, was lynched at Columbia, Tenn., for killing a farmer named John Fly. -Owing to the intervention of the Government, the strike of the Paris stage drivers has ended. -The United States grand jury at Florence, Utah, has returned 42 indictments, 27 of which are under the Edmunds polygamy law. -Four more badly injured Italians from the effects of the awful dynamite explosion at Tarrytown last week have been discovered. -The Argentine Senate has extended for an indefinite period the delay of 20 days aocorded to the banks in, the payment of deposits. -The British House of Commons, by a vote of 78 to 52, has rejected a proposal to legalize the election of women as members of County Councils. -William Stilt, William Gilmour and Charles Lockwood were drowned in Rideau Lake, Ont., Monday night by the upsetting of a canoe. -The will of millionaire John T. Farish was filed for probate in New York yesterday. There are charitable bequests aggregating $280,000. -It is now charged that four men found drowned in the Hackensack river, near Newark, N. J., on May 16, lost their lives in a fight with fishermen. -The death is announced of Joseph Roumanille, the Provencalpoet. M. Roumanille was born in 1818, and was crested a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1874. -Professor Koch is preparing a statement for publication as to the results of the chemical analysis of the substances contained in tuberculin, Professor Koch's remedy. -A silver miner named Phillips, from Montana, went on a big drunk Tuesday night in New York and amused himself by throwing $6,000 worth of bullion in the gutter. -The tailors strike in London has been virtually settled. The employers and the delegates of the strikers are arranging the details of the compromise which has been agreed upon. -At Paducah, Ky., Monday night Beverly Reed shot and killed John Slaughter. They had been skylarking in Reed's room and became angry, when Reed picked up a pistol and shot Slaughter. -Notice was received Tuesday by the Grand Officers of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen of the withdrawal of the Switchmen's Union from the Supreme Council of Federated Railway employes. The New York Lard Trade of the Produce Exchange has amended the lard ruless that a tierce of laid hereafter will contain not less than 310 nor more than 370 pounds, the standard net weight to be 340 pounds. -The Minister of Agriculture of Ottawa has received a cable message from Sir Charles Tupper stating that the cattle by the Lake Huron had been detained on suspicion of disease, but after an investigation the cargo had been released. -The Executive Committee of the San Francisco World's Fair exhibition have adopted a resolution indorsing the appointment of Walter S. Maxwell, of Los Angeles, as Chief of the Bureau of Horticulture of the World's Columbian Exposition. -Gov. Eagle, of Arkansas, has issued a proclamation calling a State World's Fair Convention to meet in Little Rock August 5. The representation will be the same as that of the House of Representatives, with the addition of six delegates from the State at large. -The suspended private banking firm of Bunnell & Scranton, of New Haven, Conn., filed a long statement in the Probate Court Tuesday evening, showing the assets to be about $150,000 and liabilities about $500,000, and it is doubtful if the creditors will realize more than 35 or 40 cents. -The two meetings of the stockholders of the Louis and San Francisco Railroad Company, which were to be held yesterday, were adjourned to June 5, pending the hearing of an application made some days ago for an injuction restraining the issuance of $50,000,000 bonds, which will be heard next Friday, May 29.

15. May 29, 1891 Shenandoah Herald Woodstock, VA

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THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. ELEVEN Italians were buried by the caving in of a sewer at Elmwood, near Providence, R. I. Four of them were suffocated to death. THE Davis Shoe Company, of Boston, Mass., has made an assignment. The com. pany does a large business and has a paid in capital of $250,000. BUNNELL & SCRANTON, bankers, of New Haven, Conn., have made an assignment. The liabilities will reach nearly $300,000, with comparatively small assets. CLARA LONG, teacher of a country school at East Bluehill, Me., was ringing a bell from the school-house window to open the session, when it flew from the handle and struck Ward Long, a pupil, on the head, fracturing his skull and killing him. CITY TREASURER BARDSLEY, of Philadelphia, has resigned pending an investigation of his methods of depositing city money in suspended banks. According to a statement made by Bardsley, there is $930,000 of the State money place in his care unaccounted for. THE corner stone of the Home for Indigent and Aged Masons was laid at Utica, N. Y., with impressive ceremonies. THE blacksmith and machine shops of the New York Central Railroad at West Albany, N. Y., were destroyed by an incendiary fire. The loss is about $200,000. THE Star Rubber Company, of Trenton, N. J., has failed, with liabilities reckoned at $500,000. FRANX TURKE, a shoemaker of Englewood, N. J., shot his bride of two weeks and then took his own life, the tragedy being the result of a quarre!. ALBERIGO ARNONE was shot and killed and John Remington, his brother-in-law, fatally wounded by Joseph Cangro, in New York City, The shooting occurred during a tight in Harlem's "Little Italy."

16. May 30, 1891 The Helena Independent Helena, MT

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SPARKS FROM THE WIRES. Dr. Garrison, who shot and killed Dr. Baird at Wheeling, W. Va., in March last, was found guilty of murder in the second degree. Green Wells, colored, who shot and killed John D. Ely at Columbia, Tenn., Monday, was captured and lynched Tuesday night at Polk station. The suspended banking firm of Bunnell & Scranton, of New Haven, Conn., have filed a statement in court showing assets of $150,000 and liabilities of about $500,000. It is doubtful if the creditors will realize more than forty cents on the dollar.

17. June 5, 1891 Iowa County Democrat Mineral Point, WI

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LATEST TELEGRAMS. NEWS IN BRIEF. IOWA'S crop bulletin shows continued bright prospects for grain and fruit. JOHN Ryan's SONS, the largest dry goods house in the south, failed Tuesday. JOHN Ryan's Sons, dry-goods merchants of Atlanta, failed Tuesday for $1,000,000. THE switchman'stunion has withdrawn from the superior council of Federated Railway Employes. FIVE children in one family in St. John, N. B., have gone insane. THE Hon. S. M. Brockinridge of St. Louis dropped dead while he was addressing the Presbyterian general assembly at Detroit. ONE HUNDRED and forty-four lumber firms of New York have agreed not to seil lumber to builders until the striking lumber handlers come to terms. GOVERNOR Winans has vetoed the bill appropriating $30,000 for the entertainment of the Grand Army of the Republic during the national encampment in Detroit. Ex-CHIEF Justice Thomas R. Sherwood of Michigan, was stricken with paralysis, and lies in a critical condition. THE will of John T. Farish, a wealthy New Yorker, was filed for probate Tuesday. Charitable and religious institutions receive $280,000 from the estate. CUT WORMS are reported to be doing much damage to corn and potatoes around Waterloo, Iowa. THOMAS A. EDISON has invented an instrument by which images of objects can be transmitted over a wire after the principal of the telephone. The rttal of 'Frenchy No. 1" for the murder of Catrie Brown at New York has been set for June 15. S. F. TAYLOR, a brother of Congressman Taylor, of Chicago, was stricker with paralysis Sunday at his farm near Clinton, 111. FRANCIS F. EMERY, a boot and shoe dealer of Boston, has assigned. His liabilities are estimated at $300,000. THE Barnum family have decided to in cinerate the remains of the showman in order to prevent a repetition of last week's attempt to steal the body. IT is announced that an additional $2,500,000 is to be raised in Chicago by the Columbian exhibition. The additional amount is found necessary to carry out the constantly growing plans of the management. By a vote of 87 to 39 the house of representatives at Springfield passed the Mintia bill, apropriating $132,500 per annum for the Illinois National Guard. THE World's fair bill, making an appropriation of $1,000,000 for a state exnibit passed the Illinois senate Tuesday morning by a vote of 36 to 11. OMAHA was selected as the place for holding the next Trans-Mississippi congress. AT New Haven, Conn., Bunnell & Scranton, bankers, failed Wednesday with $300,000 liabilities and no assets. CATTLEMEN in the vicinity of Emporia, Kas., are alarmed over the appearance of an unknown fatal disease among all their herds. AT New haven, Conn, Bunnell & Seanton, bankers, assigned Wednesday. Litabilities about $300,000; assets probably less than $100,000. It is estimated that 100,000 pounds of opium have been smuggied into the United States by the yacht Haleyon by the way of British Columbia. The duty is $12 a pound. This gives the opium ring a profit of $1,200,000. THE amendment attached to the world's fair bill in the Illinois senate Wednesday making a compulsory eight-hour day on all work done on the Illinoi exhibit, was reconsidered Thursday morning, and the bill with a $1,000,000 appropriation sent to a third reading.