17742. First National Bank (Tiffin, OH)

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Bank Information

Episode Type
Suspension → Closure
Bank Type
national
Bank ID
900
Charter Number
900
Start Date
October 16, 1875
Location
Tiffin, Ohio (41.114, -83.178)

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Description

The First National Bank of Tiffin suspended operations Oct. 16, 1875 after the cashier John T. Huss committed suicide. Papers later revealed forgery and losses by the cashier; the Comptroller appointed Warren P. Noble receiver (reported Oct. 26, 1875). Contemporary reports state the suspension became permanent. No clear contemporaneous report of a depositor run forcing closure is present—coverage describes excitement and heavy depositors coming in, but not an explicit run.

Events (2)
1. October 16, 1875 Suspension
Cause
Bank Specific Adverse Info
Cause Details
Immediate trigger: suicide of cashier John T. Huss (articles explicitly state suspension due to his suicide). Underlying problem later revealed: cashier's speculations and forgery/defalcation leading to bank insolvency concerns.
Newspaper Excerpt
On account of the death of the cashier this bank will be closed until October 25th, for examination by the directors.
Source
newspapers
2. October 26, 1875 Receivership
Newspaper Excerpt
The Comptroller of the Currency has appointed Warren P. Noble receiver of the First National Bank of Tiffin, O.; appointed Warren P. Noble to be receiver (reported Oct. 26).
Source
newspapers

Newspaper Articles (18)
1. October 16, 1875 The Cincinnati Daily Star Cincinnati, OH
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LAST EDITION. THE SENSATION AT TIFFIN. Facts, Fictions and Finances-City and County Funds All Right. Special to the Star. TIFFIN, O., Oct.16.-The First National Bank of this city has suspended on account, as it says, of the suicide of its cashier, John T. Huss. Last evening a placard was placed on the door, with these words: "On account of the death of the cashier this bank will be closed until October 25th, for examination by the directors. "B. TOMB, (Signed) "President." Nothing is known as yet what caused Mr. Huss to commit the rash act, though something terrible it is thought, is withheld. He had been convalescent since Tuesday evening, yet gave directions all day yesterday to the directors. The people hero consider the special telegram sent to the Toledo Commercial last night by the agent of the Western Union Telegraph Company, alleging that the bank is undoubtedly in trouble and that the County Treasurer has $35,000 on deposit, which he demanded yesterday and was refused, a contemptible outrage and denounced him in unmeasured terms. The County Treasurer assures the public that there's not a cent of the county's or city's funds on deposit, and offers his book for examination. He made the Western Union agênt correct his falsehood this morning. The condition of the 0 bank is not known, but it is believed by the heaviest depositors and the directors that it will be able to continue business, though its affairs seem to be in a very bad shape. The other banks of the city, it seems, have contemplated trouble at the First National and have prepared for any possible run, and contidence in business circles is yet good.

2. October 17, 1875 Los Angeles Daily Herald Los Angeles, CA
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EASTERN NEWS. Bank Suspension. TIFFAN, Ohio, October 16th.-The First National Bank has suspended on account of the suicide of its Cashier, John T. Hess, last evening. A card on the door of the Bank reads as follows: On account of the death of the Cashier, this Bank will be closed until October 25th for an examination by the Directors. (Signed) B. TOURS, Pres't. Nothing is as yet known as to what caused Mr. Hess to commit the act, but it is thought to be trouble of some kind. He has been convalescent for several days, and gave instructions all day yesterday to the directors. Although the affairs of the Bank are in an embarrassing position, it is thought by the directors and heaviest depositors that it will be able to continue business.

3. October 17, 1875 Chicago Daily Tribune Chicago, IL
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TIFFIN, O. Special Disputch to The Chicago Tribune. TOWN, O., Oct. 16.-The First National Bank, of this city, srepended this "morning. Large numbers of courtry depositors have been in the city all day. M nch excitement prevails. ADOtice in the window OR of the bank reads, .. Closed until Oct. 25 ifer an examination of the ondition of the bank." An inquest began to-day on the body of ML Huse, the lat, Cashier, who committed suicide yesterday, but no verdict was reached.

4. October 21, 1875 The Stark County Democrat Canton, OH
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STATE AND NEIGHBORHOOD. AN Enquirer special says: At the County Fair ground near Greenfield, Ohio, on Thursday, seats around the race track fell, precipitating fully 1,000 people to the ground and severely injuring a large number of men, women and children. WOOSTER,-Two house painters on the 14th, Samuel Wilson and John Humphreys fell from a scaffolding thirty feet to the ground. Wilson was badly huit but is likely to recover; Humphreys was around the next day. Neither had any bones broken. MARTIN'S FERRY.-On the 16th a deaf and dumb man named Murphy, was a over struck train passed by freight his train body. and killed. It is The said deaf and dumb men prefer to walk on a railroad track. MINERVA.-Joseph Eakin while switching a freight car ten days ago got his foot caught between a plank and the rail and the car crushed his leg badly and otherwise bruised him. He was doing well at last accounts. Ex-GOVERNOR Wilson Shannon and wife, formerly of Ohio, now of Lawrence, Kansas, are visiting their friends in Wheeling. Mahoning county makes a Democratic gain of over 800. Defiance county gave a majority of 1,265 for Allen. Defiance is always right side up. The firm of Rogers & Burchfield, prominent iron manufacturers of Pittsburgh+ have suspended. They have been operating two mills, one at Leechburg and another at Appollo, Pa. Their assets and liabilities are not known. The body of Fred. Balter, from Sanwas dusky, found 15th in inst., the canal with his at throat Napoleon, on the cut. He had recently purchased a saloon at Napoleon, in a room over which was found a pool of blood, bank book, coat, vest and keys, and a blood-stained knife. Several persons have been arrested on suspision. The First National Bank of Tiffin, Ohio, has suspended on account of the suicide of its cashier, John T. Huss, on the 15th inst. A placard is placed on the door with these words: "On account of the death of the cashier this bank will be closed until Oct. 25th, for examination by the directors." Signed "B. Tombs, President." Nothing is known as yet, what caused Mr. Huss to commit the rash act, though some think trouble. He had been convalescent since Tuesday evening, yet gave directions to the directors up to shortly before his death.

5. October 21, 1875 The Democratic Press Ravenna, OH
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Suicide of a Bank Cashier at Titln. A telegram from Tiffin dated Oct. 15th, says: "John T. Huss, Cashier of the First National Bank of this city, committed suicide this evening, at halt-past five, by shooting himself through the heart with a revolver. He had been ill during the day, and had confined himself to the house. In the afternoon several men called and transacted business with him. At half-past five his family heard the report of a pistol, and rushed to his room. to find him lying on his bed, dead. The news of his death spread like wild fire through the city, and created the greatest excitement. His motive for committing the deed is not known, but financial embarrassment of some kind is supposed to be the cause. The bank will be closed until an investigation is had. The general supposition is that the bank will be compelled to suspend, at least for a few days, as their drafts on New York have been going to protest for the last week. The failure of the bank will affect quite a number of the business houses of our city, and be a serious embarrassment to trade. The Directors of the bank held a meeting to-night, and are confident that they will be able to meet all their obligations, so that none of their depositors will be compelled to loose anything.

6. October 21, 1875 The St. Cloud Journal Saint Cloud, MN
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LATE NEWS Passenger rates from Chicago cast have been advanced. Twenty thousand rendered homeless by the people recent floods were in India. -Russia, it is said, has after alldecided tennial. to be represented at the Cen-The St. Louis editors who fought a duel in Rockford county, Illinois, Is have been indicted. -The new and magnificent Palace Hotel at San Francisco was formally opened Saturday evening. -Nine of twenty-two confinedin the county jail at Council Bluffs, Iowa, escaped Tuesday. -A fire at Charleston, W. Va., Tuesday, destroyed property to the value of over $200,000. -c. & M. Cox, wholesale boot and shoe dealers, of Boston, have failed; liabilities, $225,000. -Twenty-one persons were lost by the wreck of a French schooner on the coast of France. -The Sepoys are deserting the English military service in India because of the poor pay. -Hundreds of hogs are being carried off by a fatal disease prevailing in Madison county, Ind. -A reunion of union and confederate soldiers held at Newark, N. J., Tuesday, was largely attended. -A killing frost at Memphis Saturday morning did some damage to the late cotton on the bottoms. -Franklin Pierce was the only President who went out of office with a cabinet as originally appointed. -For the best bread to be made and baked by a bachelor a Canadian prize. agricultural society has offered a -A political dispute at Sanatobia, Miss, Saturday resulted in an affray zens. and the death of two prominent citiBismarck has formally 00 accepted an honorary membership in the BisCity. marck Quartet Club of New York -John T. Huss, cashier of the First National Bank of Tiffin, Ohio, assigned. committed suicide Friday No cause -Two little children at Oil City, Pa., attempted to build a fire with kerosene death. Tuesday and were burned to Sitting Bull, with a large number of warriors, is threatening Fort Berthold, and reinforcements have been sent from Fort Lincoln. -The Pennsylvania Democrats are loath to drop the inflation issue. It looks now as if they would make it the principal question of the canvass. -Miss Charlotte Cushman has been obliged to cancel engagements to give public readings, on account of sickness. She says she is too ill to read or write. -Two brothers named Court wright, who shot the sheriff of Port age county, Wis., last week, were Tuesday night lynched by a mob of forty masked men. -Gov. Tilden has instructed the district attorneys throughout New York to prosecute all persons guilty of the improper use of money at elec tions, on pain of dismissal. -The Rev. Robert Laird Collier of Chicago, has declined a call to Boston Universalist church with $6,000 salary, and has accepted the England. pastorate of a church at Leicester -It is said that the Empress Eu genie is lame with rheumatism and uses. crutches. She is longer popular in Paris, and the de no mand for photographs of her has al most ceased. -In the Tweed case the answer the defense develops no prospect o any new evidence. It is chiefly effort to prolong the litigation by a raising fresh obstacles in the path the prosecution. -It is reported that 60 tons small arms and ammunition for th Chinese have been shipped from Lon don as merchandise, and landed Shanghai. The British Governmen is investigating the matter. One of the largest sales of short horn cattle made in this countr was that recently at Vinewood, Ky Forty-four,cows and beifers and nin buils were sold for a total of $123 450, or at anjavorage of $1,690. -London papers of Tuesday nounce the failure of Messrs. J. & an Dudgeon, engineers of the Sun En grine. Works, Mill Wall, and Iro Ship-yard, at Cubittown. Liabilitie estimated at half a million of dollar -The visit of the Emperor Wi liam to the King of Italy loses muc of its political interest by the absend

7. October 26, 1875 The Dallas Daily Herald Dallas, TX
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Minor Telegrams. The number of voters registered in New York city reaches 144,934. Rev. Kingston G. Goddard died last nignt at Richmond, Virginia. General Cassius M. Clay has gone to Mississippi to take the stump in behalf of the Conservatives. The race for the London Criterion stake was won by Clanrorald; Stringfield, second; Lutamise, third. The gamb'ers of Louisville, Kentucky, have all been indicted, and will probably be completely routed. The Comptroller of the Currency has appointed Warren P. Mobile receiver for the First National bank of Tiffin, William Carruth, the editor who was shot in the brain by Landis, in Vineland, New Jersey, on March 19th, died yesterday. The mixtures which killed Doctor Sherman and Saml. Parker, at Macan, Mo., was prussic-acid and whisky, taken by mistake. At a meeting of the Memphis Chamber of Commerce six delegates were appointed to attend the St. Louis International Railroad Convention. At Uniontown, Pennsylvania, James Wyatt, a hotel clerk, shot and dangerously wounded his brother William. The ball entered the left eye. Mr. and Mrs. Murray, who have been married but a few weeks, were burned to death during a fire in the house of Susan Bradley, at Cheshire, Conn. Conewago paper mills, six miles north of Gettyesburg, Penn., burned Saterday night. Loss $35,000. Insurance, $16,500. The work of an incendiary. At Owensburg, Kentucky, a balloon when several hundred feet high caught fire, and Prof. Alchesor was precipitatea to the earth. His recovery is doubtful. Brown, the colored Sheriff of Coabuma county, Mississippi, who has been in Helena since the Friar's Point trouble, has returned home and is to offer a new bond. An Avalanche, Helena, Arkansas, special says that Tom Daily, a carpenter, was stabbed and killed in Creamer's saloon by J. M. Hovey, who is in jail to answer. In the town of Mercer, Maine, Mrs. Walton, divored wife of Hiram Walton, who was living with Streenleaf Tracy, was shot dead by Tracy in a fit 8 of jealousy. Tracy then fled to the woods and kitled himself. A Munich dispatch says the King of Bavaria has ordered hisletter, expressing confidence in the ministry, placarded throughout the Kingdom. It f is again reported that Bismark conS templates resignation in consequence of ill health.

8. October 26, 1875 Evening Star Washington, DC
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GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS TO-DAY -Internal revenue, $230,672.30; customs, $510,215.22. THE AMOUNT of national bank note currency received at the Treasury to-day for redemption aggregated $350 750. BANK RECEIVER APPOINTED.-The Controller of the Currency has appointed Warren P. Noble to be receiver of the First National Bank at Titfin, Ohio. THE COMMISSION of Alexander S. Johnson as judge of the circuit court of the second judicial district, made vacant by the death of Judge Woodruff, has been signed by the President. MOVEMENTS OF U.S. NAVAL VESSELS.The torpedo boat Alarm left Philadelphia October 24 for Washington. The Tallapoosa arrived at New York October 25 from Boston. THE DECISION on the constitutionality of the enforcement act of 1870 was not rendered in the United States Supreme Court yesterday and is not now expected before the last of November. INDIAN AGENTS have been appointed by the President as follows: Thos. J. Mitchell, of Illinois, agent for the Crow Indians in Montana. Dexter E. Clapp, agent for the Indians tana. of the Milk river agency in MonTHE CIGARS seized by the revenue officers from D. Loughran, of this city, were released to-day. Satisfactory proof was furnished the department that there was nointent to defraud. Mr. Loughran was directed to stamp the boxes in accordance with law, which he has done. NEW NOTES FOR OLD.Some time ago the government sent a number of special messengers to California. The object of their mission was to take out new bank notes in exchange for an equal number, SO badly worn, as to be unfit for circulation. The commission accomplished the exchange and returned this morning with the old notes which will be burned at once. REID-SHEPHERD LIBEL CASE-In the Criminal Court to-day, Messrs. Durant & Riddle, attorneys for defendant, filed a motion to quash the indictment in the case of the United States against Whitelaw Reid. Our readers will remember that this is the case against the editor of the N. Y. Tribune for libels printed against Gov. Shepherd. THE SUIT of the government against the Union Pacific railroad company, for interest due on the second mortgage or government bonds of said road, appealed from the Court of Claims. is set for a hearing in the United States Supreme Court to day. Attorney General Pierrepont appears for the government and Messrs. Evarts and Stoughton, of New York, for the company. THE NATIONAL GRANGE OF P. OF H-A letter received by a gentleman in this city from Mr. O. H. Kelley, secretary of the National Grange Patrons of Husbandry, stating that the next annual session of that body will be held at the Galt house, Louisville on the 15th proximo. The members of the National Grange have been requested to b1 ing with them specimens of the leading products, and also the minerals of their respective localities. for exhibition during the session, which after its close will be presented to the citizens of Louisville as the nucleus of a museum. COST OF RUNNING THE GOVERNMENT ONE HUNDRED YEARS.-The warrant division of the Treasury department has been ordered by Secretary Bristow to prepare for the centennial exposition a statement showing the expenses of each department of the government since its organization. This will Involve great labor and will not be completed until some time in June next. The showing for the Navy department is the only one completed. From it, it appears that the department has cost the government since its organization one thousand million dollars. THE ANNUAL MEETING of the American Public Health Association will be held in the Academy of Music, Baltimore, on the 9th of November, with the Hon. John W. Garrett presiding at the evening session. Dr. Toner, of this city, will deliver an intro. ductory address. Dr. John S. Billings, of Washington, as chairman of the committee on the subject, will submit a report on a plan for a systematic sanitary survey of the United States, with introductory renarkson medical topography. On Thursday, November 11th, Gov. Shepherd will read a paper on sewers and sewer connections, and is put down for a discussion on the practical questions of house drainage and sewer connec. tions. Jonah Curtis, M. D., supervising medical officer to the Indian bureau, will read a paper on facts relating to diseases among the Indian tribes. INTERESTING CASES IN THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT.-In the case of Dainese agt. Hale, from the Supreme Court of the District, the Supreme Court of the United States held yesterday that the question whether consuls have jurisdiction in civil cases in Egypt depends upon the usages of Turkey, as by the treaty with that country and the act of Congress conferring juris. diction over the matter must be determined by those usages. Hence a plea in an action for damages against the consul for wrongfully issuing an attachment against the property of Dainese, that the jurisdiction existed at the date of the attachment, without set. ting up those laws or usages, is bad, and the judgment below is reversed. The case of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, plaintiff in error, agt. Oden Bowie, in error to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, came up in this court yesterday. On motion of Mr. R. T. Merrick, docketed and dismissed with costs. This was the suit brought by Governor Bowie to recover damages sustained by him by injuries to his racing mare Australian while being loaded on the cars at the depot in this city, for which he obtained judgment for $8,000. TITIENS-GODDARD.-The wide-spread reputation of these musicians caused a very large audience to assemble at Lincoln hall last evening to hear and pass judgment upon their respective merits. The personelle of the troupe included the violinist, Mr. Emile Sauret, Mr. Tom Karl, tenor, and Signor Orladdini, baritone. Of M'lle Titiens much has been said by able critics in this country, where she has been heard both in concert and oratorio, and it would seem from the selections made by her last evening, although calculated to please the popular taste, that her powers might be used to better advantage in oratorio. She is undoubtedly a great and thoroughly conscientious artist, and whatever slight falling off there may be in the freshness bervoice

9. October 26, 1875 The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer Wheeling, WV
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COURT ON 1 QUESTION OF INTEREST. The Supreme Court to-day decided in 1 the case of the Farmers and Mechanics Bank of Buffalo against Peter C. Dearing. The New York Court of Appeals held that the agreement for the discount of an note above the legal interest in New York was corrupt and illegal, and that under the law of the State the whole debt was forfeited, but this opinion the Supreme Court has reversed to the effect that under the National Bank law the plaintiff forfeited only the excess of the legal rate of interest. RECEIVER APPOINTED. The Comptroller of the Currency has appointed Warren P. Noble receiver of the First National Bank of Tiffin, O.

10. October 26, 1875 The Wheeling Daily Register Wheeling, WV
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A telegram from Milford, Pa., states that a disease similar to the epizootic, is killing off the cattle in several counties bordering on the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware river. The Comptroller of Currency has appointed Waren P. Noble receiver of the First National Bank, of Tiffin, Ohio. It is re-affirmed that the Crown Prince of Germany will visit the Centennial.

11. October 26, 1875 Chicago Daily Tribune Chicago, IL
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can escape from the full payment of these bonds." # LIFE-SAVING STATIONS The Treasury Department has prepared a letter of instructions to Superintendents of Life-Saving Stations, directing them to see that no efforts are neglected to promote the efficiency of the life-saving service, and charging them specially to see that none but the most worthy and competent men are employed in this important work. Instructions as to the time when surfmen shall be employed, to remain continuously at the several stations, have also been prepared. # REVENUE APPOINTMENT Gen. John D. Stevenson, appointed Marshal of the Eastern District of Missouri, has been selected with special reference to prosecutions against the whisky-ring there. The Attorney-General was solicitous on this point, and, of three names submitted by the President, he final-ly selected Gen. Stevenson. The latter was an officer in the late War, of excellent record, and is personally well known to the President. # POSTAL ITEMS The report of the Postmaster-General will show that, for the first time, postage upon local matter in the various cities where free-delivery has been established will pay the entire cost of the delivery-system. [In the Associated Press.] # LEGAL RATE OF INTEREST WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 25. The United States Supreme Court to-day decided the case of the Farmers' and Mechanics' National Bank of Buffalo against Peter O. Dearing. The New York Court of Appeals held that the agreement for the discount of a note above the legal interest in New York was corrupt and illegal, and that under the law of that State the whole debt was forfeited; but this opinion the Supreme Court has reversed, to the effect that, under the National Bank law, the plaintiff forfeited only the excess of the legal rate of interest. # RECEIVER APPOINTED The Comptroller of the Currency has appointed Warren P. Noble Receiver of the First National Bank of Tiffin, Ohio.

12. October 27, 1875 Clearfield Republican Clearfield, PA
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A FOOLISH BANK,-The First Na. tional Bank at Tiffin, Ohio, suspended on the 18th, because its Cashier, John T. Huss, saw fit to commit suicide, A "National" concern should be able to stand the death of at least one rogue.

13. October 28, 1875 The Eaton Democrat Eaton, OH
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OHIO NEWS. J. T. Huss, cashier of the First National Bank of Tiffin, committed suicide last week by shooting himself through the heart. MUCH excitement prevails at Tiffin over the suspension of the First National Bank. It is said the closing of the doors is only temporary, pending an examination of its condition. AT the Highland county fair grounds, near Greenfield, last week, the seats around the race-track fell, precipitating fully 1,000 people to the ground, severely injuring a large number of men, women and children. THE little daughter of a man named Casey, a fireman on the Toledo road, death at aged 6 years, was burned Deshler last Thursday. She was playing about a fire in the yard, when her clothes took fire, burning her in a frightful manner. ALOIS HERDBERG, Barthel Spitzenberger, David Crail and Anna Crail were arrested at Cincinnati, last week, charged with passing counterfeits on the First National Bank of Aurora, III. Only about $100 in counterfeit money was found in their possession. W. C. DUNN, a convict sent from Hamilton county in February last for eight years for burglary, escaped from the Penitentiary at Columbus one day last week. Dunn was working on the outside wall, and, at quitting-time, managed to secure a suit of workmen's clothes, and passed out with the other workmen. He has a fine record as a bank robber.

14. October 29, 1875 The Findlay Jeffersonian Findlay, OH
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STATE NEWS. McDoNALD & Co., of Wooster, O.,one of the largest agricultural implement manufacturing establishments in the West, has'failed, throwing over 200 men out of employment; liabilities $500,000, assets not given. J. S. RUTLEDGE, an insurance agent, of Lima, has absconded, leaving a family, taking with him a large amount of other people's money, and taking a Delphos man's wife with him. HENRY TULDWEDER, a saloon-keeper at Urbana, claims to have discovered petroleum in large quantities in his well. An examination showed over five barrels on the surface of the water, and has caused intense excitement in that locality. Perhaps it has been salted. A very destructive fire occurred at Vermillion, Erie, Co., on last Friday. Eleven buildings were burned, and the loss is estimated at 75,000, partially insured. WILLIAM DRESSEL, a prominent German citizen of Tiffin, and dealer in lumber, committed suicide last Friday by shooting himself through the heart. Financial embarrassments are supposed to have been the cause. The Directors of the First National Bank of Tiffin, which has been placed in the hands of WARREN P. NOBLE, as receiver, estimate the assets at,$311, 031.58. The liabilities, as found by the Government examiner, foot up $339,512.62. Papers found among the effects of the late Cashier, develop the fact that he has speculated in Railway stocks, gold, bonds, etc., since 1868, and has lost steadily, to retrieve which he resorted to forgery to the amount of many thousands. Finding the penitentiary staring him in the face, he took refuge in suicide.

15. November 4, 1875 The Democratic Press Ravenna, OH
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A DEMOCRATIC paper is talked of in Massillon. POTATOES are hardly a legal-tender these days. n3 dol TAE weather prophets have figured out twenty-six snow storms for the coming winter. THE new postal cards have got into use. Opinions differ as to whether they are any improvement upon the old, THE Seneca Advertiser says the suspension of the First National Bank of Tiffn is permanent. THE wild geese are winging their way to the sunny South where the weather is warmer. THE President has designated Thursday the 25th of November, as a day of Thanksgiving. MONDAY night was the celdest of the season, The mud was frozen solid in the roads, and ice of considerable thickness was formed on streams where the water was still. LAST week Mr. E. D. Scripture was afflicted with a slight stroke of paralysis, but at last accounts he was improving AT ИГАЛЧ MR. BRADFORD S. MOPKINS has been confined to his residence for some time by seyere illness, but is now recovering.

16. November 5, 1875 Perrysburg Journal Perrysburg, OH
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The Directors of the First National Bank of Tiffin, which has been placed in the hands of WARREN P. NOBLE, as receiver, estimate the assets at $311,031 58, The liabilities, as found by the Government examiner, foot up $339,512 62. Papers found among the effects of the late Cashier, JOHN L. Huss, develope the fact that he has speculated in Railway Stocks, Gold, Bonds, etc., since 1868, and has lost steadily, to retrieve which he resorted to forgery to the amount of many thousands. Finding the penitentiary staring him in the face, he took refuge in suicide.

17. March 17, 1876 The Findlay Jeffersonian Findlay, OH
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SHUCK & BROWN. DRIFT. Rain, rain, rain. Mud, mud, mud. Remember the eleventh command ment. The Blanchard has been on a "high," the past week. Bro. Wilkins, of the Forest News, paid us a visit last Monday. Public sales appear to be the order of the day in this county. There will be preaching at the Presby terian Church next Sabbath. There is to be a citizen's reception at the Commercial House this evening. Pay your debtsas fast as you can, and do not get in debt unnecessarily. Wear your old coat, if it is a little out arter at the elbows, rather than ask credit for a new one. The letter received from Arcadia, this week, is not exactly suited to our col90c, umns. The County Commissioners have bought'a Patent Time Lock for the County Safe. achThe Council failed to pass the ordinance dividing the Corporation into four 20c wards. d at The demand for wood in Findlay may be rated as "good" and the supply "short." very There is considerable sickness in town Onat present. Not much of a very serious nature, however. Capt. C. B. Sholt.v, of Pleasant township, will accept our thanks for favors. More of that, Captain! David Beagle, Esq., of Jackson township, will have a public sale of personal property on Thursday, the 30th inst. The social of the M. E. Church will meet at the residence of Mrs. Henry Brown on Tuesday evening, March 21st. f FindA young lady on Lincoln Street, wearHouse ing a pair of squeaking shoes, remarked March to some friends that "Her soul (sole) lowing was full of music." Mr. Linn, of Seneca county, has pur two north of to become chased Forest, the for McClurg $7,275. farm, and expects miles hip are one of our citizens April 1st.-Forest Neas. House, I MonThe ladies of the Congregational pose of Church will hold a pound party at the a Comresidence of Mr. Charles Elmes, next ask for thoriz Tuesday evening, March 21st. Findlay Over one hundred and fifty miles of new 1 townFree Turnpikes have been petitioned for in f such this county, and still they come.-Kenton ore the Republican. Irn-out. If you owe ever so much, and have ZENS. ever so little with which to pay, go and der by pay what you can. Do not let your notion, money lie idle these dull times. pointed SecreDon't be ashamed, in these hard times, to work at any respectable occupation, $ stated and remember that any lawful occupa tion is more respectable than loafing. V, Esq., the citi The Presbyterian Social will meet at e meet the residence of Mr. D. C. Connell, West E, Esq., Main Cross Street, Wednesday evening, ted to March 22, 1876. The ladies and gentlepetition men will appear in the costumes of '76. ture of A cordial invitation is extended. Findlay The First National Bank of Tiffin, at the which collapsed last Fall on account of tion of the defalcation of the Cashier, John T. wnship Huss, who suicided, under the receiverd also ship of Warren P. Noble, has declared to ap a dividend of ten per cent., aggregating g the $26,000. umbus, Seneca county is agitating turnpikes, sage of and a meeting has been held in Tiffin to results consider some plan of macadamizing the o, that leading roads of the county. Putnam, rish a Van Wert, Wood, in fact all Northwest of this ern Ohio, is moving in the same direc tion. Shall Hancock county remain nously, behind in the mud? Com

18. May 3, 1877 The Tiffin Tribune Tiffin, OH
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Notice. ECEIVER'S OFFICE OF THE FIRST D National Bank of Tiffin, o., has been n removed to River Side Block, opposite G. W. Cunningham's mill. All persons having any business with this bank, will please call between the hours of 9:30 A. M. and 12:00 M., and from 1 P. M. to W.P. NOBLE. 3:30 P. M. Receiver. 294t*