17718. German-American Bank (Sidney, OH)

Bank Information

Episode Type
Suspension → Closure
Bank Type
state
Start Date
August 24, 1904
Location
Sidney, Ohio (40.284, -84.155)

Metadata

Model
gpt-5-mini
Short Digest
801dc899

Response Measures

None

Description

Articles consistently report the German-American Bank of Sidney, Ohio, was placed in the hands of a receiver on Aug. 24, 1904. There is no description of a depositor run prior to the receivership in these items. Multiple wires/newspaper reprints report receiver appointment, assignments by officers, and later receiver actions. Minor OCR variations in cashier name (Frank B./Frank E. Reed) noted in sources.

Events (1)
1. August 24, 1904 Receivership
Newspaper Excerpt
On application of Frank B. Reed, cashier of the German-American Bank, the oldest financial institution in Sidney, was today placed in the hands of a receiver.
Source
newspapers

Newspaper Articles (12)
1. August 24, 1904 Evening Star Washington, DC
Article from Evening Star, August 24, 1904

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BANK IN HANDS OF RECEIVER. Oldest Financial Institution in Sidney, Ohio, Goes to the Wall. SIDNEY, Ohio, August 24.-On application of Frank B. Reed, cashier of the German-American Bank, the oldest financial institution in Sidney was today placed in the hands of a receiver. Reed stated in his petition that the bank could not meet the obligations as they came due. The bank has a capital stock of $73,000. Its liabilities are estimated at $250,000 and assets at $200,000. W. H. C. Goode was appointed receiver, and gave bond in the sum of $500,000. The opinion prevails that the bank will pay creditors in full, many of the stockholders in partnership being wealthy men. Following the appointment of the receiver, F. B. Reed, cashier, and John H. Wagner, president, made individual assignments. Later Peter Wagner, father of John H. Wagner and a large stockholder, assigned.

2. August 24, 1904 The Evening World New York, NY
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OLD BANK GOES UNDER. Officials of Ohio Institution Assign After Receiver Is Named. SIDNEY, O., Aug. 24.-On application of Frank B. Reed, cashier of the German-American Bank, the oldest Anancial Institution in Sidney, was to-day placed in the hands of a receiver. Reed stated In his petition that the bank could not meet the oblgations as they came due. The bank has a capital stock of $73,000. Its liabilities are estimated at $250,000 and assets at $200,000. W. H. C. Goode was appointed receiver and gave bond in the sum of $500,000. The opinion prevails that the bank will pay creditors in full. many of the stockholders Ino artnership being wealthy men. Following the appointment of receiver F. B. Reed. cashier. and John H. Wagner. President. made Individual assignments. Later Peter Wagner, father of John H. Wagner and a large stockholder, assigned.

3. August 24, 1904 The Providence News Providence, RI
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GERMAN-AMERICAN BANK IN HANDS OF RECEIVER. Sidney, O., Aug. 24.-On application of Cashier Frank E. Reed the German American bank, the oldest financial institution in Sidney, was today placed in the hands of a receiver. Reed stated in his application that the bank could not meet its obligations. The bank has a capital stock of $73,000; $250,000 are the estimated liabilities, and assets at $200,000. The opinion prevails here that the bank will pay creditors in full, many of the stockholders in partnership being wealthy men. Following the appointment of the receiver, Cashier Reed and President John H. Wagner made individual assignments. Later Peter Wagner, father of John H. Wagner, and a large stockholder, assigned.

4. August 25, 1904 Evening Journal Wilmington, DE
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THE WORLD'S NEWS THE WAR. EPORTS from Port Arthur via Chifu indicate that the Russians R hold the Japanese at bay. At Liaolitse, Itsheshan and Panlunshan the Russians have been forced from the fortifications, but still sweep these positions with artillery, preventing their occupation by the enemy. The fall of the fortress will follow the final of Itsheshan or from these points is capture artillery Laolitse, brought when to bear on Golden Hill and the city proper. The Japanese cruisers Nisshin and Kasuga are reported to have silenced forts at Taipangtse, two miles east of Golden Hill. By order of the Czar, the Russian flage have been lowered on the Askold and Grozovol at Shanghai. Both ships will disarm. POLITICAL Elihu Root announced, while at Sagamore Hill, that under no circumstances will be be the Republican candidate for Governor of New York. Judge Parker is working on his letter of acceptance, which will be made public about September 15. FOREIGN. Alexis Nicholaevitch, heir to the 1 throne of Russia, was christened in the chapel of the Peterhof Palace. The g Czar signalized the event by issuing a t manifesto granting exceptional privileges and immunities to the Russian, 1 Finnish and Jewish peoples. e As a result of the two years' dock e strike at Marseilles merchant ships are e being withdrawn from the Mediterranean. f Panic-stricken foreigners are leaving Asuncion under escort of the diplomatic corps. The belief is growing that y the government of Paraguay must yield t to the revolutionists. MISCELLANEOUS. Atotal of $144,712,787 was expended for pensions within the fiscal year ending June 30, 1904. The Postoffice Department has issued a fraud order against the Provident Mercantile Company, of Philadelphia. t Salvatore Bossoto, an Italian youth, n was shot dead in his father's restaurant in New York, supposedly by the e agent of an Italian secret society of banditti upon whom he had informed. Paymaster Dana White, of the O'Rourke Construction Company, New e York, was held up by an Italian highwayman near Little Falls, N. J., and robbed of $5112. Miners deported from Cripple Creek have sent a petition for intervention to n President Roosevelt. J. T. Laney, formerly receiving clerk ! for the Western Union Telegraph Comr pany at Dallas, Tex., was arrested, and confessed stealing $11,000 on false < telegrams. e The German-American Bank at Side ney, Ohio, was placed in a receiver's hands. Li Masked horsemen killed more than o 1000 thoroughbred sheep in Crook couny ty, Oregon. The financial embarrassment of Thomas E. Waggaman, treasurer of the Catholic University of America, is 3, attributed to unfortunate real estate ventures in Washington city. The Chicago court issued an injunction restraining the city from interfering with the lodging of non-union men employed in the stock yards packing houses. H. F. Page & Company announced their suspension on the New Orleans Cotton Exchange, and caused another wild market. John Redmond and a party of Irish Nationalist leaders arrived in New York to attend the Irish League convention.

5. August 27, 1904 The Van Buren Press Van Buren, AR
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IN HANDS OF A RECEIVER Failure of the German-Amerinn Bank at Sidney, O.-The Oldest Bank In the City, Sidney, O., Aug. 25.-The GermanAmerican bank, the oldest financial institution in Sidney, has been placed in the hands of a receiver. Liabilities, $250,000; assets, $200,000. Following the appointment of a receiver, F. B. Reed, cashier, and John H. Wagner, president of the bank, made individual assignments. Later, Peter Wagner, father of John H. Wagner, and a large stockholder, assigned.

6. August 31, 1904 The Fulton County News McConnellsburg, PA
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RE BAT The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid Reading. Domestic, The Edward Hines Lumber Com- a of Chicago, has purchased in Misspany, tract of 50,000 acres $1,timber issippi. The sum involved is 000,000. New York a second indictment WeinseiIn found charging Philip Trades was president of the Building mer, Alliance, with extortion. A. White, of Baltimore, was A. the speakers at the Convention Master among of the National Association of Bakers, in Julian St. Louis. Bennett, of Water Judge D., who weighed 440 pounds largest and town, who S. was known as the life judge in America, is dead. Davis, one of the oldest drowned Afred at Atlantic City, was bather while guards attempting to secure a who was rescued. J. Sicard, a former Cleveland, law partGeorge of ex-President Grover the ner dead at Buffalo, aged 66 years. in is Brazos Four children River, near were Acton, drowned Tex., by the capsizing of a boat. Comptroller Edward M. Grout, have gubernatorial aspirations Patrick H. whose nurtured by Senator out in McCarren, been of Brooklyn, came the nomias a candidate for York. the open for governor of New nation Robert B. Armstrong, assist- adant Mr. secretary second of the annual Treasury, Convention Bank dressed the American Institute of Fair grounds. of Clerks, the in session on the World's Weinseimer president of York the Philip Trades Alliance of New of under Building indictment on the guilty. charge He extortion. pleaded not bonds. released on $2,000 was Legal proceeding are of pending Crip28 prominent citizens accused of against Creek, Col., who are kill in the conspiracy ple and assault to deportation United cases. Garmentworkers, at The session in Buffalo, took general up the their Henry White, former have case segretary, of against whom charges been preferred. Youngstown O., pickets Ameri- are At the upper mill of the Striketed. breakers can guarding Steel are, Hoop however, Company. being admitHenry Baas, of London. Eng- Inn, land, Rev. died suddenly at the Inside World's National Fair grounds. Association of conven- Master Bakers The is holding its annual tion in St. Louis. The Connecticut tobacco crop years. is said to be the largest for many injured people were in wreck near a a two cars collided Eastern Thirty-five trolley of Rochester. with sin- A gle train car on the Rochester and Railway. A petition has been mailed to to Presi- interRoosevelt asking him deported dent in behalf of the men death from vene the Cripple Creek district. to Salvatore Bossato was shot because Rossati in New York secrets he disclosed by Carlo to the police the of the Black Hand. has been Another the fruitless Western effort railroads the su- to bring made about by an adjustment of gar-rate complications. strikes. affecting 9,000 of men, the Two declared against the plant were Republic Iron and Steel Company, Pittsburg. cotton firm of H. F. Page caus- & The New Orleans, failed and ed Co., much of excitement on the exchange. the paymasked men held Construction up of the O'Rourke master Four N. J. near Paterson, Company McKinley, associate Courier, editor Carlyle the Charleston News and died of after a long illness. E. Poyer, assistant stabbed city solic- by itor Harry of Cleveland, O., was his father-in-law. National Conference of the Seventh-Day The Adventists is in session at Nortonville, Texas Prohibitionists Kan. nominat- and a ed The W. D. Jackson for governor state ticket. liner Teutonic. rived full John in Redmond, New York the on Irish the White leader, Star arGerman-American Bank of hands Sidof receiver. ney, hTe O., has been placed in the a annual movement of currency has to The the West for crop-moving purposes ment begun. destroyed five four-story tene- secFire houses in the Williamsburg tion of Brooklyn. for an expedition Plans have to Egypt been by completed several Princeton professors. Florence Maybrick left Catskill New York Mrs. for Ellenville, in the & Mountains. the glue factory of of Armour $100,000. Fire Co., Chicago, in caused a loss

7. September 1, 1904 The Plymouth Tribune Plymouth, IN
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Ohio Bank Fails. On application of Frank B. Reed, the cashier, the German-American Bank, the oldest financial institution in Sidney, O., was placed in the hands of a receiver. The bank has a capital stock of $73,000. The liabilities are estimated at $250,000 and the assets at $200,000.

8. September 2, 1904 Highland Recorder Monterey, VA
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NEWS IN SHORT ORDEP. The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid Reading. Domestic, The Edward Hines Lumber Company, of Chicago, has purchased a timber tract of 50,000 acres in Mississippi. The sum involved is $1,000,000. In New York a second indictment was found charging Philip Weinseimer, president of the Building Trades Alliance, with extortion. A. A. White, of Baltimore, was among the speakers at the Convention of the National Association of Master Bakers, in St. Louis. Judge Julian Bennett, of Watertown, S. D., who weighed 440 pounds and who was known as the largest judge in America, is dead. Afred Davis, one of the oldest life guards at Atlantic City, was drowned while attempting to secure a bather, who was rescued. George J. Sicard, a former law partner of ex-President Grover Cleveland, is dead at Buffalo, aged 66 years. Four children were drowned in the Brazos River, near Acton, Tex., by the capsizing of a boat. Comptroller Edward M. Grout, whose gubernatorial aspirations have been nurtured by Senator Patrick H. McCarren, of Brooklyn, came out in the open as a candidate for the nomination for governor of New York. Mr. Robert B. Armstrong, assistant secretary of the Treasury, addressed the second'annual Convention of the American Institute of Bank Clerks, in session on the World's Fair grounds. Philip Weinseimer president of the Trades under indictment on the Building Alliance of New charge York He of extortion, pleaded not guilty. was released on $2,000 bonds. Legal proceedings are pending 28 who are against ple Creek, prominent Col., citizens accused kill of in Crip- the of conspiracy and assault to deportation cases. The United Garmentworkers, at their session in Buffalo, took up the case of Henry White, former general secretary, against whom charges have been preferred. d At Youngstown, O., pickets are e guarding the upper mill of the American Steel Hoop Company. Strikebreakers are, however, being admitted. Rev. Henry Baas, of London, Engd land, died suddenly at the Inside Inn, World's Fair grounds. Is The National Association of Master Bakers is holding its annual convention in St. Louis. The Connecticut tobacco crop is said d to be the largest for many years. Thirty-five people were injured in a trolley wreck near Rochester. A e train of two cars collided with a sinis gle car on the Rochester and Eastern e Railway. e A petition has been mailed to Presis dent Roosevelt asking him to interis vene in behalf of the men deported le from the Cripple Creek district. Salvatore Bossato was shot to death e by Carlo Rossati in New York because he disclosed to the police the secrets of the Black Hand. in Another fruitless effort has been in made by the Western railroads to bring about an adjustment of the sugar-rate complications. es Two strikes, affecting 9,000 men, g were declared against the plant of the Republic Iron and Steel Company, nt Pittsburg. d The cotton firm of H. F. Page 1Co., of New Orleans, failed and payn, ed much excitement on the fruction to m Four masked men*held d ct master of the O'Rourke editor I VCompany near Paters Lociate Courier, h Carlyle McKinle and hof died the after Charlestonness lot assistant city soliceHarry a and, O., was stabbed by by itor of Ch-law. n his fatNational Conference of the se Tkh-Day Adventists is in session SNortonville, Kan. The Texas Prohibitionists nominata ed W. D. Jackson for governor and full state ticket. John Redmond, the Irish leader, arrived in New York on the White Star liner Teutonic. hTe German-American Bank of Sidney, O., has been placed in the hands of a receiver. The annual movement of currency r to the West for crop-moving purposes has begun. Fire destroyed five four-story teneis ment houses in the Williamsburg secn tion of Brooklyn. Plans have been completed for an d. expedition to Egypt by several Princenton professors. Mrs. Florence Maybrick left New d aYork for Ellenville, in the Catskill ris Mountains. Fire in the glue factory of Armour n& Co., Chicago, caused a loss of $100, ne 000

9. September 16, 1904 The Bellefontaine Republican Bellefontaine, OH
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The attorney for the receiver of the German-American bank at Sidney, announces that by adding to the assets of the bank, the property of the stockholders, it is believed that a dividend of 25 per cent. can be paid, provided that it is carried forward without delay and without expensive and prolonged law suits.

10. September 20, 1904 The Bellefontaine Republican Bellefontaine, OH
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SPECIALS. Wapakoneta, O., Sept. 15.-A report that the Boesel Bank at New Bremen had lost $40,000 as a result of the failure of the German-American Bank at Sidney and that it was about to go under caused a iun to be made on the bank today. When the depositors went to the bank they found a pile of money awaiting them and the run was soon stopped. The Boesel bank is one of the strongest in this part of the country. Marysville, Ohio, Sept. 19-The assignment of ministers is causing much discussion. The Williams street church, Delaware, wants either Rev. C. R. Havighorst. of Findlay, or Rev. R. D. Hollington, of Kenton, but both will probably be returned to their old charges. The Marysville church wants Rev. A. E Smith, of Marion, and it is understood that he will leave the Conference if he is sent to Marysville. The Marysville church offers him $1,500. Kenton Epworth League church have a delegation here, who ask that Webster T. Stockstill be changed. He has been there seven years and as it is his first charge, they think he should be changed to reap a benefit of experience. It is said that this church would like to have Rev. Jesse Swank, of Bellefontaine, for pastor. Washington, September 18.-Pending an investigation of the case, State Department officials are disposed to treat as a fraudulent scheme to obtain money the information which press reports from Pasadena, Cal., state has come to a relative of Congressman McLachlan, of California, of the reported death of Louis Blaisdell in a Spanish hospital and the detention of his fourteen-year-old daughter in a convent at Arajuez. According to the views of the department officials, the reports bear the earmarks of a gang of imposters who have operated at various places in Spain for a long time and who have obtained sums of money from foreigners who have believed the representations made to them. The customary practice of these imposters is to report that a parent has died. leaving a confession with a priest and a young daughter in his charge, and the information is conveyed that a certain amount of money is required to obtain access to, or data concerning the location of a fortune which the decedent is alleged to have left to a supposed relative in a foreign country. The story is an old one to the department and they have constantly warned the public against being duped by this and similar schemes. The request of Mr. McLachan, acting in behalf of his relative, that an investigation of the facts in the case be made by the State Department, has not yet reached Washington, but as soon as it does it will be taken into consideration. Charles Humphreys, the foundry man, recently received a communication from the gang and turned the letter over to the authorities.

11. September 23, 1904 The Bellefontaine Republican Bellefontaine, OH
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To allow the filing of a bankruptcy petition the Federal Court at Cincinnati was opened after 9 Monday night. The petition filed is an echo of the sensational failure of the GermanAmerican Bank at Sidney, 0, August 24. Judge Van Deman, of Dayton, Ohio, filed the petition on behalf of Edward E. Burckhardt, executor; Morris M. Line and Lena Robertson, who were patrons_of the bank. They alleged that the liabilities of the bank amount to more than $700,000, while the assets will be less than $200,000. They also stated that the bank was a partnership concern, and asked that the copartners be declared bankrupts, that their assets might be used to pay the creditors. There are 28 partners in the bank. Those holding the largest interests were John H. Wagner, Anna M. Wagner, Peter Wagner, H. C. Wagner, F. D. Reed, J. E. Bush, Daniel Dickens, Mary Linder, B. C. Epler, William Shine and a number of others. Judge Thompson set the preliminary hearing for Friday morning, when the matter of appointing a receiver will be brought up. The failure of the bank created a sensation in Sidney and a large number of people in that locality sustained heavy losses. The partners own considerable property. The creditors will try to get possession of all of it to reimburse themselves.

12. October 28, 1904 The Bellefontaine Republican Bellefontaine, OH
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The safety deposit vault at the German-American bank is locked and unable to be opened by the safe appliances. The business of the bank affairs being transacted by the temporary receiver will not be stopped on account of the break of the ""safe.-Sidney News