2072. Citizens National Bank (Orlando, FL)

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Bank Information

Episode Type
Run → Suspension → Closure
Bank Type
national
Bank ID
3802
Charter Number
3802
Start Date
July 24, 1893
Location
Orlando, Florida (28.538, -81.379)

Metadata

Model
gpt-5-mini
Short Digest
17cff0175eb8e838

Response Measures

Full suspension, Books examined

Description

Newspapers (July 1893 and March 1894) report heavy withdrawals after news spread about the National Bank at Orlando, doors being closed and a receiver (B. Lin) appointed; later references call it a defunct/failed national bank and a bank examiner investigating its affairs. This indicates a run, suspension and permanent closure/receivership. Dates are taken from the July 27, 1893 article (the suspension wired earlier that week).

Events (5)
1. October 12, 1887 Chartered
Source
historical_nic
2. March 22, 1893 Voluntary Liquidation
Source
historical_nic
3. July 24, 1893 Receivership
Newspaper Excerpt
B. Lin was appointed receiver of bank. ... The exemption allowed by law were not taken advantage of, and every bit of his property, real and personal, has been turned ... Bank Examiner Lynch arrived at Orlando Friday night and immediately went to work investigating the affairs of the defunct national bank of that place. He says a great deal of cash will be required to resume. Those drawing out big sums just before the failure must replace them.
Source
newspapers
4. July 24, 1893 Run
Cause
Bank Specific Adverse Info
Cause Details
News that the National Bank at Orlando had suspended/was in trouble spread and depositors rushed to withdraw funds.
Measures
Bank closed its doors to stem withdrawals; subsequently receiver appointed.
Newspaper Excerpt
News of the suspension of the National Bank at Orlando was wired Apopka Monday, and as the information spread over the town depositors began ... which necessitated closing the doors.
Source
newspapers
5. July 24, 1893 Suspension
Cause
Bank Specific Adverse Info
Cause Details
Following heavy withdrawals after reports of trouble, the bank suspended payments/closed its doors and a receiver was appointed.
Newspaper Excerpt
News of the suspension of the National Bank at Orlando was wired Apopka Monday ... which necessitated closing the doors. B. Lin was appointed receiver of bank.
Source
newspapers

Newspaper Articles (2)
1. July 27, 1893 The Morning News Savannah, GA
Article from The Morning News, July 27, 1893

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Article Text

C.S. Noble's year-old baby fell from second-story window twenty feet at Cocoa on Wednesday without sustai ing any injury. The freight and express rates took of the profits of the grape crop grown DeLand this season, The fruit also to market in bad condition. A few nights since some scoundrel fire to the house belonging to Paul Colso pus between our old Mills place, on Levy Lake The and entire contents were destroyed. On Tuesday morning the barn and bles of C. Stephens on the Suwann river, below Ellaville. were complete destroyed by fire. He lost all of his fodder, farming implements, harness, bonse. euo pun A young son of C.J. Conova, of Pala ka. who is summering on Anastas island, with his family, fell down Tuesday morning. The boy was scious for several hours and may possibl be internally injured. At Sanford, Aug. 5, Horace M. manager of the International Ocean egraph office at Sanford, will be marrie at that place to Miss Louise Teresa ler. The ceremony will take place at Church of the Holy Cross. The wholesale fish dealers at Tamp are not doing much business now. are getting ready for the busy seasor which will open about a month The Tampa Fish and Ice Company shipping about a hundred barrels a weel mostly mullet. Capt. Risk made very careful sounding along the various channels of Biscay Bay and he says thedepth of water is misrepresented on thecharts. The gover ment soundings having been made years ago, great changes have since they were taken. Three gentlemen of Fort Myers, from Lake Okeechobee a few days 250 alligators, catching them mainly their hides. They say that the around this great inland sea is the riches land in the world, and that the lake three or four feet lower than ever known. A few days since Miss Mary Fitz-Hug and Mr. Beakman discovered, while Frand 4S 18 punour Indian uu up Suid some very fine specimens of Indian nuity consisting of some earthern or jars, which were probably buried ago, while the Indians inhabited this of the state. Jonathan Hoag, the man who was have walked from Ocala, leaving there the morning of the 15th to New York, already reached his destination. He seen by Henry Martinot to board steamer Iroquois. of the Clyde line, Jacksonville, at 11 o'clock last Thursday and had bought a ticket direct to York. return uodn Orlando JO Ind SunoA V ing home from shopping a few days missed her pocket book with what chang was left over It was too late to retra her steps down the street to look for The next time she started out, howeve upon opening her parasol the pocket very much to her surprise and satisfa tion, fell out from its folds. Monday Dr. Davidge, of Wekiva boarded the Florida Central and sular train at Tavares and got off Toronto. As he attempted to get off the station platform he made a misste and fell over. striking the ground three feet below. His right shoulde struck first and was dislocated anterorl: the wound being a very severe one. The Fernandina Mirror says that dn brishten 04 di Suiddiys the delayed phosphate vessels are ually making their appearance in port. The steamship Macedonia arrive there Wednesday and will take on a go of 2,000 tons from the French Compa ny mines. The Ruabon came in Friday to load with 2,000 tons. The Kappa finished loading with 800 tons urday. The cargoes of those two are also from the French Company mines. There are six others on the and the prospects are very good for shipments during the next six weeks. News of the suspension of the National Bank at Orlando was wired Apopka Monday, and as the informatic spread over the town depositors began 8 H 10 rueq prevate the uo una which necessitated closing the doors. B. Lin was appointed receiver of bank. which will be able to meet liability. Dr. Prince made an ment to Chas. B. Lin of Apopka. deed of assignment includes everythir that the doctor possessed, not even home being reserved. The exemption allowed by law were not taken advanta of, and every bit of his property, real and personal, has been turned

2. March 7, 1894 The Morning News Savannah, GA
Article from The Morning News, March 7, 1894

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FLORIDA. A permanent line of steamers is to be established to run from Port Tampa to Jamaica. While Henry Bird, a white man, was cutting wood at his home, near Montague, recently, a small piece struck him in the left eye, knocking it entirely out. Ex-Gov. Oliver Ames and daughter, Miss S. E. Ames, are prominent Bostonians at the Tampa Bay hotel. Mr. Ames is a successful capitalist and a prominent man in Bay state politics. It is stated that a movement is on foot at Apalachicola to organize a stock company that will build a steamboat to ply in connection with the Bay City. A considerable portion of the stock has already been subscribed. Capt. F. A. Mahan has arrived from Washington and relieved Capt. Philip M. Price, engineer in charge of the government work in the Pensacola district. Capt. Price goes to Washington to assume the duties of engineer secretary of the lighthouse board. Bank Examiner Lynch arrived at Orlando Friday night and immediately went to work investigating the affairs of the defunct national bank of that place. He says a great deal of cash will be required to resume. Those drawing out big sums just before the failure must replace them. William Malbeck, a white stevedore living in the suburbs of Pensacola, was waylaid Sunday night while going home and robbed of 820 cash and his hat, coat and shoes. He was struck on the head, and lay insensible for several hours before he was discovered. He does not know who assaulted and robbed him. The rumor that Mr. Flagler is going to build a hotel on the Burch property at Jacksonville is again in circulation. this time in more definite shape than before. It is said that if Mr. Flagler is encouraged he will erect a very fine suburban inn, which will be surrounded by handsome grounds, improved to the hight of the landscape gardner's art. In the grounds will be tennis courts, bowling alleys and elegant baths. Twenty-seven minutes after 12 o'clock yesterday morning, after being out exactly sixteen minutes, the jury in the criminal court entered a verdict of not guilty in the ease of Mrs. and Miss Townsend, charged with larceny, and a moment later Solicitor Christie asked that the other two cases of a similar nature be nol prossed, which was done. Then, for the first time in many weeks, Mrs. and Miss Townsend were free women. The South Florida railroad station at Longwood was totally destroyed by fire Sunday morning, and the store of D. Washburn & Co., west of the station, narrowly escaped destruction, being on fire several times. Several other buildings caught fire, among them the opera-house building and the residence of Mr. Seibert. Most of the property of the South Florida Railroad Company was saved. In trying to move the safe out of danger W. B. Zachry, the agent, hurt his back severely, and Dr. Walker thinks he will be laid up for maybe some months. In his exertions to save everything he overdid himself and fainted, and was brought to with difficulty. The body of a mulatto was found on the tracks of the Louisville and Nashville rallroad 40 miles north of Pensacola Monday, with the head severed from the trunk. The legs and arms were broken, and the remains otherwise mangled. The corpse was recognized by Acting Coroner Pritchett, of Bluff Springs, as that of George Washington, of Jacksonville, who registered as a tramp at the police station at Pensacola, last Thursday. He had evidently been run over by the south bound fast mail train. Near the body were a new coat, several pairs of new trousers, men's and women's shoes, shirts, underclothing, etc., and a double barrel, breech loading shotgun. The man is supposed to have robbed a store at some point on the road. In the preliminary trial at DuFuniak Springs, Monday, the evidence in the case of the state against James Meacham, before County Judge Campbell, shows that the prisoner and deceased were at Fitzgerald's steam mili and mashed each other's fingers slightly. The mill stopped for noon and the deceased went down to a brook to water his horses. The prisoner followed him, and down by the brook in the mud, away from any one else, the fight began. Shortly a crowd of mill hands collected, and the deceased was on the prisoner beating him in the face. Some of the men proposed separating them, and others said: "Let them fight it out." In the scuffle the prisoner took out his knife and cut a two-inch gash in the throat of the deceased, entirely severing the jugular vein. The deceased died in less than fifteen minutes. The prisoner's clothes were torn and bloody, and his face and chest badly bruised. He says he killed deceased in self-defense, as he was choking the prisoner to death. The prisoner swas committed. ### Gainesville Sun: H. M. Tillis, of Rouchelle, was in the city Sunday, and while here related a novel and thrilling experience he had with a woman crank at his place of business on Friday. The version of the story he furnished the Sun is as follows: Mr. Tillis was engaged at his desk writing, when a middle aged woman entered his store, who, without introducing heaseif, denanded to be paid immediately $1,700 in cool cash. The demand was made in very forcible language, which could not have been accepted in any other way but that the lady in question meant every word she said. She carried a handsachel in her left hand. which was resting against her breast. Her right hand she kept dexterously concealed under the said handsachel, as though it held something she wished to hide. Mr. Tillis was not frightened -at least not very badly, but he at once came to the conclusion that the right hand held something the size of a pistol. However, he did not propose to part with such a large amount of money these hard times at the demand of a woman he did not know from Eve. He endeavored to remonstrate with her. but only received the following emphatic demand: "Hand me over $1,700 I tell you, and that pretty quick." On the pretense of searching for papers, Mr. Tillis secured his pistol from under the desk. and throwing it into the woman's face, told her to take that hand from under her sachel. Of course the woman was frightened to a limited extent, and did as requested. She was then told to give an account of her actions. She refused point-blank, but Mr. Tillis had turned the tables on her and forced her to talk. The woman then claimed that a man who was indebted to her to the extent of 1.700 had told her to demand the money from Mr. Tillis. She insisted upon concealing her identity, but was made to open her sachel and fork over some papers. Among the papers were found tax receipts issued to Mrs. Mary