20868. American National Bank (Nashville, TN)

Bank Information

Episode Type: Run → Suspension → Reopening
Bank Type: national
Bank ID: 3032
Charter Number: 3032
Start Date: August 10, 1893
Location: Nashville, Tennessee (36.166, -86.784)

Metadata

Model: gpt-5-mini
Short Digest: 521fba56

Response Measures

Full suspension, Books examined

Description

Multiple contemporaneous reports (Aug 10, 1893) describe a run on American National triggered by the suspension of the First National; American National suspended the same day and was later authorized to reopen in early September 1893 (Comptroller permission) and reported reopened by mid-September. Cause of run/suspension tied to runs/failure of other local banks (First National), not to misinformation or solvency scandal.

Events (4)

1. August 16, 1883 Chartered

Source: historical_nic

2. August 10, 1893 Run

Cause: Local Banks
Cause Details: Run was precipitated by the suspension/failure of the First National Bank of Nashville; panic spread and depositors rushed other banks including American National.
Measures: Directors announced a suspension of payments (invoked temporary suspension/sixty-day clause); bank examiner Plumlee took charge.
Newspaper Excerpt: When the bank opened for business ... it was evident a run had begun. In three-quarters of an hour large checks amounting to $95,000 had been presented and paid.
Source: newspapers

3. August 10, 1893 Suspension

Cause: Local Banks
Cause Details: Directors suspended payment after heavy withdrawals caused by panic following First National's suspension; examiner Plumlee was notified/took charge in some accounts and the bank temporarily closed to stem outflows.
Newspaper Excerpt: The run on the American National bank was stopped at 9:30 o'clock by the announcement of the board that they had decided to suspend payment.
Source: newspapers

4. September 1, 1893 Reopening

Newspaper Excerpt: The Comptroller of the Currency authorized the following National Banks to reopen on September 1: The American National Bank, of Nashville.
Source: newspapers

Newspaper Articles (24)

1. March 30, 1893 Connecticut Western News North Canaan, Salisbury, Canaan, CT

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NASHVILLE'S PANIC. Thousands of Excited Citizens Almost Mob the Bank. NASHVILLE, March 28.-The streets in the vicinity of the banking houses of this city echoed all day the vociferations of a panic stricken throng. Never before were such scenes witnessed here. The failure of the Commercial National bank on Saturday afternoon did not become generally known until after dusk. Nothing else was talked about, and it was known to half the town that a raid would be made on the money piles of the various institutions that would make some of them tremble if not topple over into financial ruin. The First, Fourth, American National, Merchants, Mechanics Savings Bank and Trust company and the Union Bank and Trust company, all of College City. and the City Savings bank, the Capital City bank and the Nashville Safe Deposit Trust and Banking company, just around the corner of Cherry, on Union street, opened up their doors. It was rumored later that the Mechanic's had been caught in the commercial collapse. The officers soon saw that a run which they could not stand was imminent. The directors resolved to take advantage of the state banking law, which gives banks organized under it the privilege to demand a 60-day notice from itors before they can withdraw their deposits.

2. March 30, 1893 Freeland Tribune Freeland, PA

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NASHVILLE'S PANIC. Thousands of Excited Citizens Almost Mob the Bank. NASHVILLE, March 28.-The streets in the vicinity of the banking houses of this city echoed all day the vociferations of a panic stricken throng. Never before were such scenes witnessed here. The failure of the Commercial National bank on Saturday afternoon did not become generally known until after dusk. Nothing else was talked about, and it was known to half the town that a raid would be made on the money piles of the various institutions that would make some of them tremble if not topple over into financial ruin. The First, Fourth, American National, Merchants, Mechanics 'Savings Bank and Trust company and the Union Bank and Trust company, all of College City. and the City Savings bank, the Capital City bank and the Nashville Safe Deposit Trust and Banking company, just around the corner of Cherry, on Union street, opened up their doors. It was rumored later that the Mechanic's had been caught in the commercial collapse. The officers soon saw that a run which they could not stand was imminent. The directors resolved to take advantage of the state banking law, which gives banks organized under it the privilege to demand a 60-day notice from depositors before they can withdraw their dc. posits.

3. August 10, 1893 Asheville Daily Citizen Asheville, NC

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Not Paying Today. NASHVILLE, Tenn, Aug. 10.-The American National bank has suspended payment. The Safe Deposit Trust and Banking company has taken advantage of the 60 days notice.

4. August 11, 1893 The Indianapolis Journal Indianapolis, IN

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PANIC AT NASHVILLE. The American National and Two State Banks Temporarily Close Their Doors. NASHVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 10.-Yesterday at the close of banking hours there were six banks doing business in this city. Last night the City Savings Bank directors decided not to open this morning. having fol. lowed the suspension during the afternoon of the First National by this resolve. This morning at 7:30 the directors of the Safe Deposit Trust and Banking Company held a meeting and, being a State institution, decided to take advantage of the sixtydays' clause and posted a notice to that effect and temporarily suspended. No state. ment is ready for publication. but the secretary. W. H. Mitchell, says they hope to resume in a short time and have only suspended to prevent a sacrifice of the assets. This is essentially d trust concern. but also does a banking business. At 9 o'clook the American National Bank, one of the oldest and soundest banking institutions in the city, opened its doors in the presence of a large and expectant crowd. The room was soon filled and it was evident a run had begun. In threequarters of an hour large checks amounting to 895,000 had been presented and paid,

5. August 11, 1893 The Helena Independent Helena, MT

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BUSINESS DIFFICULTIES. The Banks of Nashville Experience Hard Times. NASHVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 10. - -The First National bank of this city, the oldest national institution south of the Ohio river, closed its doors this afternoon. Capital $1,000,000, deposits $1,000,000, surplus fund and undivided profits $100,000. The directors of the Fourth National bank and other capitalists representing several millions of property have signed a guarantee pledging themselves and their individual estates to the payment of all deposits. Bank Examiner Plumle is in charge. It is believed the bank will resume in sixty days. The directors of the City Savings bank held a meeting to-night and decided to suspend payment for sixty days. The bank is considered solvent. Deposits $40,707, assets $151,499. An uneasy feeling povails. The American National, one of the strongest in the city, capital $1,000,000, surplus $116,000, suspended AS a result of a run caused by the suspension of the First National, in spite of a published card by the officers ea ing the bank was perfectly solvent, and pledging their personal estates to depositors. A run also set in on the Fourth National, but it is considered perfectly solvent. The Safe Deposit Trust and Banking company, posted a notice that depositors are safe for every dollar. EBENSBURG, Pa., Aug. 10. .-Johnston, Buck & Co., with banks here and at Carrollton and Hastings, suspended. They claim Assets in excess of liabilities. LAFAYETTE. Ind., Aug. 10.-The - O'Brien Wagon works failed; liabilities $100,000. LEROY, N. Y., Aug.-Lathrop's bank failed. It is claimed it will pay in full.

6. August 11, 1893 The Morning News Savannah, GA

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RUN TO A CLOSE. Two Nashville Banks Succumb to the Pressure. Nashville, Tenn., Aug 0.-The suspension of the First National Bank last evening was followed to-day by the suspension of payment by the American National Bank, one of the largest and strong est in the city. The bank has a capital stock of $1.000,000 and a surplus of $1e6,000. When the bank opened for business at the usual hour there were MANY DEPOSITORS ABOUT ITS DOORS, and soon a run was made. The crowd was very orderly and were paid as rapidly as possible. Meanwhile a run began on the Fourth National Bank, which has a capital stock of $2,000,000, and a surplus fund of $200,000, and is regarded by business men as perfectly solvent. BOTH BANKS SOLVENT. The directors of both the American and Fourth National banks published cards this morning to the effect that their banks were perfectly solvent, and also pledging their personal estates to the payment of depositors. The run on the American National bank was stopped at 9:30 o'clock by the announcement of the board that they had decided to suspend payment. The Fourth National continued to pay depositors as fast as checks were presented, and at this hour (10 o'clock) is still doing so. Directors of the Safe Deposit, Trust and Banking Company met at an early hour and decided in view of the-excitement prevailing to TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE CLAUSE. of their charter requiring depositors to give sixty day's notice of withdrawal of deposits. The board posted a notice stating that the depositors are absolutely safe for every dol'ar they have in the bank. There was no run on this bank, and but few depositors presented checks for payment.

7. August 11, 1893 Rock Island Daily Argus Rock Island, IL

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NASHVILLE'S TURN For One of the Current Financial Stampedes. TWO BANKS CLOSED BY PRESSURE And One Fighting for Its Life-All Own Abundant Collateral, But Depositors Will Not Be Assured-Grand Rapids Furniture Factories Begin a Policy of Retrenchment - Currency Famine at Gotham Abating. NASHVILLE, Aug. 11.-The suspension of the First National bank, simply because with a safe full of gilt-edged collaterals it could not get any money, caused intense uneasiness in financial circles and the directors of the other national banks, the Fourth and the American; went into very errnest conference. They both decided to open their doors as usual and try to stand the run that was sure to come, and as expected the streets on which these banks are situated were crowded with people long before the time for opening arrived. The doors were hardly opened before the rush commenced and increased every minute. In twenty-five minutes from the opening, the American National had paid out $75,000 and decided to close, finding the run much greater than they expected. The bank has $1,000,000 capital and about $1,000,000 deposits, and was immediately put in the hands of Bank Examiner Plumlee, who came here to take charge of the First National. The American National bank officials state that the bank is perfectly solvent, and that it will resume business as soon as the comptroller of the treasury will permit. At the time of the closing the house was crowded with anxious depositors, who accepted the announcement quietly and went out in an orderly manner. The line in front of the teller's desk at the Fourth increased every moment and extended far Into the street, but all were paid ard the bank officials said they would weather the storm. Many prominent local financiers, however, thought it a matter of a short time only when the bank would be forced to close. This bank has $1,000,000 capital and considerably over $1,000,000 deposits, and is looked upon as one of the strongest banks in the south. The Safe Deposit Trust and Banking company, with a capital stock of $100,000, did not open. and posted a notice on its doors that because of inability to realize on collateral it had availed itself of the privilege of sixty days' notice of intention to withdraw deposits. The crowds about the banks was increasing but very orderly and seemed inclined to take things philosophically.

8. August 11, 1893 The Daily Morning Astorian Astoria, OR

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IN THE BUSINESS WORLD Big Corporations Cutting Their Wage Sheets. TAIL END OF THC PANIO A Large Milling Company Resumes Work in the East and Gives Labor to Thousands. Associated Press. Panama, Aug. 10.-The Pacific Mail employes are much excited over a reduction in their salaries of fifty per cent. Notice was given today that the salaries of all employes from the general agent down, shall be paid after September 1st, in common silver instead of American gold. The reduction, it is said, will not be accepted, and it is believed that the best officers will leave. Boston, Aug. 10.-The local office of the Union Pacific Railroad company will be permanently closed on August 15th, in pursuance of orders received from the Omaha headquarters. Nashville, August 10.-The American National, one of the strongest banks in this city, with a capital of a million, dollars and a surplus of $116,000 has suspended. A. thousand miners are on strike in East Tennessee. Lafayette, Ind., August 10.-The Obrien Wagon Works have failed, with liabilities amounting to $100,000. Omaha, August 10.-The Union Pacific has issued an order cutting down the time of shop men along the whole system another hour per day, making the time 35 hours per week or seven hours per day and no work on Saturday. Provodence, R. I. August 10.-The B. B. & R. Knight Mills, which have been idle for the past will start up on Monday. This firm operates mills in Pontiac, Natick, River Point, Arctic, Fishville, Arkwright, White Rock, and this city, in this state, and Hebronville, Dodgeville, Manchaug, and Readville Mass, employing between 7000 and 9000 hands.

9. August 11, 1893 The Seattle Post-Intelligencer Seattle, WA

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CONDENSED DISPATCHES. Lathrop's bank, at LeRoy, N. Y., has suspended. Mrs. Langtry has again cancelled her engagement in this country. Hon. Patrick Egan, ex-minister to Chile, arrived in New York yesterday. The O'Brien Wagom Works, of Lafayette, Ind., have failed. Liabilities, $100,000. Gen. Miles has received orders to clear and keep clear the Cherokee strip of squatters. President Cleveland was hung in effigy at Golden, Cola, Wednesday night, by silver onthusinets. The Caldwell county of bank, of Kingston, Mo., has suspended. The assets are.in excess of the liabilities. The water in the Arkensas river rose eight feet in an hour at Pueblo, Col., Tuesday night. A great deal of damage was done to bridges and railroads. Johnston, Buck & Co., of Ellensburg, Pa. with banksat Ellensburg, Carroliton and Hastings, have suspended. The assets are in excess of liabilities. The American National Bank of Nashville has failed. The Safe Deposit Trust and Banking Company has taken advantage of the sixtydays' notice clause. Tommy Hill, Henry Smalley and Gus Sanders were killed, and Joe Bright and Joe Wallman badly scalded by a boiler explosion at Marshall, Tex., on Wednesday. The Terre Haute car works at Terre Haute, Ind., covering several acres, were burned Thursday night. A statement of loss is not obtainable; insurance, $150,000. A crowd of 200 men at St. Joseph, Mo., are scouring the country looking for a tramp who attempted to outrage a Mrs. Mann and, failing in his attempt, brutally beat her. The Clingman injunction suit was before Judge Coggin, of Chicago, yesterday on a motion to dissolve made by the World's fair managers. The hearing is set for Friday. Miss Mary A. Black, while temporarily insane in Chicago, shot herself through the heart Monday night. She was visiting the fair with her brother-in-law, Capt. Black, of the United States army. Gov. Osborn. of Wyoming, has decided not to appoint at present anyone to succeed Senator Beckwith, resigned. He will wait and see if the senate will seat appointees; If it won't he will call a special meeting of the legislature. Fire on Thursday destroyed the large salt warehouse of L J. Pettit in the Menominee valley, near Milwaukee, also the works of the Northwestern Sleigh Company and the lumber yards and mill of H. J. Hilty, of Milwaukee; loss, $100,000. The stockholders of the wrecked Paci fie bank, San Francisco, have removed R. H. McDonald, jr., from his position as vice president. During the absence of his father, Dr. McDonald, the management of the bank was in charge of the vice president. Mrs. Edward Gorman, of New York, was burned to death Wednesday night. she was leaning over a folding bed and had a lamp in her hand when the bed closed up, making her a prisoner. The lamp set fire to the bedding. She left a husband and five children. After waiting five years for the repeal of the English law prohibiting marriage with a deceased wife's sister, Commander Gibbons, of the Royal Navai artillery and stationed at Kingston, Ontario, crossed to the United States and was married to his sister-in-law, Miss Helen M. Wharding, yesterday. Secretary Gresham needs $100,000 to pay the expenses of his office. A good part of this deficit is due to the expense incurred in the entertainment of foreign visitors, notably the Duke of Veragua. While the duke was in Chicago and being Inxuriently provided for, he wrote to the president expressing his regret that he would be delayed in reaching Washington City to pay respects to the chief executive. In reply he was informed that the president would release him from any obligation he might feel in that direction. He was further advised that asrangements had been made for his return to Spain. He finally took the hint. and the state department felt great relief when he was gone. He cost the state department $40,000, and private persons as much more.

10. August 11, 1893 The Sun New York, NY

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an unda JUN IIV - In Other Cities Forced to Close. LLE, Aug. 10. - Nashville passed a severe financial strain to-day. as a run on the two national banks. of them. the American National. temclosed its doors. The other. the National. its officers say. is able and pay every check upon presentation. e Deposit. Trust and Banking Com1 the City Savings Bank required deto give sixty days' notice before they - out their deposits. uble to-day was caused by the susof the First National Bank last even8:30 o'clock this morning there were 300 people on College street iin the te vicinity of the Fourth National merican National Bank. Merchants' nion Bank and Trust Company. City Bank. and Safe Deposit. Trust and Company. At 8:40 o'clock the Merank opened its doors. A few minutes other banks opened. Depositor after : entered the doors of the American and Fourth National and the run was Every check was paid as fast as the uld be handed over. After the run in progress half an hour the officers tors of the American National Bank to temporarily suspend payment in - all depositors and stockholders. This ounced. and the crowd quietly filed € e crowd at the Fourth National Bank. ss the street, was doubled. There bably two hundred persons in line at Most of them were paid in silver. ajority of the checks presented were sums. The bank kept its doors open o'clock. three hours after the usual I when the last depositor received his was estimated that only a little over had been paid out. Deposits were ring the day as usual. The bank is d safe. It is thought the run is over. A no excitement during the day. nerican National Bank had a large f money on hand. even more than is under the national banking laws. As he bank was closed Mr. Plumiee. the bank examiner. was notified. and he ge. It is believed that the bank will business in thirty days and perhaps Union Bank and Trust Company. a k. there was at no time anything like President Jones said that the bank he ntinue bank is open in H. and pay solvent all who condition. came. and all its obligations. There was no run erchants' Bank. a State institution.

11. August 12, 1893 The Waco Evening News Waco, TX

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Due to Other Suspensions. By Associated Press to The News. NASHVILLE, Aug. 12.-The People's Bank at Lewisburg failed to open its doors this morning. The suspension is due to the suspension of the First National and American National Banks of Nashville; the constant drain by depositors and the failure to collect money. The president and cashier state that the bank is in first class condition, and they are confident that it will be able to resume in a few days, or as soon as a meeting of the stockhold. ers and depositors can be held. There is no excitement at Lewisburg on account of the suspension.

12. August 12, 1893 Passaic City Record Passaic, NJ

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South and West. DIRECTOR HOLDEN, of the Lick Observatory, California, telegraphed that photographs were taken showing objects like a comet on the sun's face. THE town of Snow Hill. Md., has been burned. Only two stores and a few dwellings were saved. The loss is about $300,000. CLOUDBURSTS and floods did much damage to railroads in the West; travel on some roads was interrupted for several days. SEVERE earthquake shocks were felt in San Francisco and other California cities. THE resignation of Theodore Thomas as musical director of the World's Fair, which was tendered the Board of Directors a few days ago, has been accepted. THE American National Bank of Nashville, Tenn., suspended payment. LAWRENCE T. NEAL was nominated for Governor by the Democrats of Ohio. SOLDIERS at Coal Creek, Tenn., lynched two men suspected of murdering one of their comrades.

13. August 15, 1893 The Atlanta Constitution Atlanta, GA

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Another One Closes. Nashville, Tenn., August 10.-The suspension of the First National bank last evening was followed today by the suspension of payment by the American National bank, one of the largest and strongest in the city. The bank has a capital stock of $1,000,000 and a surplus of $116,000. The run on the American National bank was stopped at 9:30 o'clock by the announcement of the board that they had decided to suspend payment. The Fourth National bank continued to pay depositors as fast as checks were presented and at this hour, 10 o'clock, is still doing 60. The directors of the Safe Deposit, Trust and Banking Company met at an early hour and decided in view of the excitement prevailing to take advantage of the clause in their charter requiring depositors to give sixty days' notice of withdrawal of deposits. The board posted a notice stating that the depositors are absolutely safe for every dollar they have in the bank. There was no run on this bank and but few depositors presented checks for payment.

14. August 17, 1893 The Comet Johnson City, TN

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CONDENSED NEWS THE Bank of England has raised its rate of discount from 3 to 4 per cent. Revised estimates place the total loss from the Menneapolis fires at $1,084,500, with a total insurance of $736,000 The Treasurer of Holt county, Nebrasky, has fled, presumably to Mexico, leaving a shortage in his accounts of about $60,000. Three women and a child were drowned in the Tennessee river near Chattanooga by a naphtha launch being sunk by a barge. Two fires started, it is thought, by incendiaries destroyes over a million dollars' worth of property at Minneapolis Tuesday. The EACNING Bazoo, of Sedalia, Mo., after a life of nearly twenty-five years, has been compelled to suspend on account of financial stringency. During the past seven days throughout the United States there were 394 business failures, rs compared with 434 the week before and 160 the corresponding week last year. Mrs. Dora Webber, a handsome young widow, is under arrest in Indian Territory for horse stealing. She was an associate of the notorious Belle Star, and was in command of a gang of horse thieves. The Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the World's Fair have accepted the resignation of Musical Director Theodore Thomas, and it was also decided to disband his orchestra of 114 pieces. A congress of the negroes of the Southern States is in session at Birmingham, Ala. "The Race Question," "The Negro and His Destiny," "Africa and Its Fuiure" are ome of the topics that will engage the attention of the congress. The American National Bank, one of the oldest and strongest institutions of Nashville, has been comnelled to suspend for want of ready cash. The Safe Dedosit, Trust and Banking Company of the same place, has suspended for sixty days. The steamship Normania, from Liverpool, landed at New York Tuesday with 906,967 pounds of goid aboard. Two hundred and twenty thousand pounds, were withdrawn from the Bank of England Monday for shipment to Am rica. The outlook in the iron and steel trade at Pittsburg, was brighter Tues day than at any time since the mills shut down Several mills resumed an over a the usand men were put to work. Within the next few days fifteen thousand more men will be given employment.

15. August 17, 1893 The Austin Weekly Statesman Austin, TX

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NASHVILLE BANKS. Directors of the American Close Before the Bank is Crippled. NASHVILLE, Aug. 10.-The suspension of the First National bank last evening was followed today by the suspension of the American National bank, one of the largest and strongest in the city, with a capital of $1,000,000, and a surplus of $100,000. When the bank opened a run was made. Another began on the Fourth National, capital stock of $1,000,000, and surplus of $200,000. The run on the American was stopped by the announcement of the board that they had decided to suspend payment. The Fourth National continued to pay depositors as fast as checks were presented. The directors of the Safe Deposit, Trust and Banking company met early and decided in view of the excitement to take advantage of the clause in its

16. August 19, 1893 Perrysburg Journal Perrysburg, OH

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DOMESTIC. THE business portion of South Wayne, Wis., was destroyed by fire. THE sealing schooner Helen Blum, of San Francisco, was reported lost with her crew of twenty-five men. THE August report of the statistician of the department of agriculture at Washington shows that crops throughout the country have suffered severely from the drought. LEE BUTLER, cashier of C. M. Wright & Co.'s bank vat Altamont, Ill., absconded with $41,000, the entire assets of the bank. DAN LEWIS, Jim Taylor and Jack Chambers, all colored, charged with an assault on Mrs. George Warren at Hoboken, Ga., last spring, were caught and lynched within 3 miles of Way Cross. Ga. TROUBLE at Coal Creek, Tenn., has broken out afresh. A soldier named William Laugherty was murdered by miners and his death was avenged by lynching Dick Drummond. AT Chester, Pa., the largest steamboat in the world was launched. She will ply in the Fall River line. FIRE among warehouses and factories in Milwaukee caused a loss of $150,000. THE Broadmoore Land & Investment company of Colorado Springs, Col., went into the hands of a receiver with liabilities of $260,000. PRESIDENT CLEVELAND was hanged in effigy at Golden, Col., by free silver enthusiasts. CHARLES J. EDDY, aged 53, one of the oldest railroad men in the west and until six months ago second vice president of the Reading system, committed suicide in Washington park, Chicago, by shooting himself. No cause was known. DURING the first seven months of the present fiscal year the losses by fire in the United States reached $98,101,300, against $76,967,250 in 1892 and $79,247,370 in 1891. VINCENZO CAGLIOSTRO. aged 23 years, died at Swinburne Island hospital in New York of Asiatic cholera. THE fo llowing bank failures were re ported: The American national at Nashville, Tenn., the Hamilton county state bank at Webster City, Ia., the Caldwell county exchange bank at Kingston, Mo., the Exchange bank at Polo, Mo., and Johnston, Buck & Co. of Ebensburg, Pa., conducting banks at Ebensburg, Carrolltown and Hastings. THE New York. Lake Erie & Western Railroad company suspended its unmarried employes on the Honeydale (Pa.) division. ToM RICKETTS and Robert Miller, residents of Parnell, Mo., were run over and killed by a Chicago & Great Western train. ARRIVING from England in search of her husband, Mrs. Edward Douglass found him a convict at the Joliet (111.) prison. WONG DEP KEN is the first Chinaman to be deported under the Geary law. He was shipped from San Francisco. AT the leading clearing houses in the United States the exchanges during the week ended on the 11th aggregated $799,905,224. against $978,880,758 the previous week. The decrease as compared with the corresponding week of 1892 was 20.2. HAIL ruined the tobacco crop in five counties in Kentucky. THERE were 394 business failures re. ported in the United States during the seven days ended on the 11th. In the week preceding there were 436, and during the corresponding time in 1892 the number was 160. THE National bank at Waxahachie, Tex., and Beatty's bank at Mansfield, Ill., closed their doors. FOREWARNED of a visit marshals laid in wait at Lehigh, I. T., for Jim Percy and Clem Jones, bandits, and killed them. IT was discovered that Henry Brown (colored), who was hanged for the mur der of a peddler in East St. Louis, Ill. in December, 1880, while an accessory was not the principal, the murderer being J. C. Jackson, another negro, who was acquitted of the charge. THIRTEEN of the Meachim gang were killed in a battle with citizens of Clark county, Ala. The affair is the outgrowth of a feud of some years' standing. BOSTON assessors estimate the population of the "Hub" at 580,000. The last census shows a population of 446,570. UNITED STATES MARSHAL WHITEMASTER was murdered in the Cherokee strip by Laura Maundas, a female horse thief. WILL MCCARTY dead and Bob Sparks and John Ritter mortally wounded is the result of a drunken row at Shelbyville, Ky. SEVEN cases of cholera have developed among the passengers on the Karamemania, recently arrived at New York

17. August 19, 1893 Baxter Springs News Baxter Springs, KS

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THE SOUTH. IT is understood that the two companies of the United States troops at Fort Barancas, near Pensacola, Fla., will be removed to some other post on account of the yellow fever in that vicinity. The government is taking active measures to prevent the spread of the disease. THE widow of Senator Kenna, of West Virginia, who died a poor man, has been appointed postmistress at Charleston, W. Va., and her son, Arthur, has been made a page in the senate. REVENUE officers seized an extensive illicit whisky still in Rockcastle county, Ky., and destroyed the apparatus and a considerable quantity of moonshine whisky. ON the Lockhart branch of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas road, near Smithville, Tex., ambushed assassins fired upon a section gang, dangerously wounding Robert Hamilton and three others. Hamilton will die. THE Missouri, Kansas & Texas refused to comply with the Texas scalper law and a passenger rate war is expected. Six young men of Shelbyville, Ala., became involved in a drunken fight and three of them were fatally wounded. E. J. FULLER shot and killed B. C. Parker, a clothing merchant at Fayettesville, N. C. Fuller claims to have shot in self defense. THE yellow fever scare at Pensacola, Fla., seems to have been unfounded. An investigation made it probable that the supposed cases were not yellow fever. THE trouble at Meachambeat, Ala., was reported about over. Three of the gang were killed, but several of the leaders made their escape. FRANK CARR shot and killed James Taylor, near the Four Seasons hotel, at Middleborough, Ky. Carr escaped to the mountains. THE secretary of the Commercial club of Nashwille, Tenn., after an investigation into the bank situation, has issued a statement to the effect that the First and American national and the state banks which suspended payment would, in the near future, reopen and that they are entirely solvent. AT a meeting of the associated banks of Little Rock, Ark., it was decided to place certified checks in circulation and limit the amount which any depositor can withdraw in one day to $20. KENTUCKY distillers have appealed to the courts for relief in the matter of forced payment of taxes on whisky soon to be taken out of bond. THE roads out of Memphis have begun rate cutting to the world's fair.

18. August 24, 1893 Grant County Herald Lancaster, WI

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OUT OF CASH. Many Banks in Various Localities Forced to Close Their Doors. WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.-The following bank failures were reported yesterday: The American national at Nashville, Tenn., the Hamilton county state bank at Webster City, la., the Caldwell county exchange bank at Kingston, Mo., the Exchange bank at Polo, Mo., and Johnston, Buck & Co., of Ebensburg, Pa., conducting banks at Ebensburg, Carrollton and Hastings. WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.-Only two banks suspended yesterday, viz.: The National bank at Waxahachie, Tex., and Beatty's bank at Mansfield, III. WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.-The bank failures reported yesterday were: The Prairie City bank at Terre Haute, Ind., and Josiah Morris & Co., the leading private banking. house in Alabama, at Montgomery with liabilities of $1,100,000 and assets of $2.000,000, the People's at Lewisburg, Tenn., the Bank of Plaquemine, La., and the Firstnational at Gadsden, Ala. WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.-The comptroller received notice yesterday of the following failures: Citizens' national at Attica, Ind., Bank of Springfield at Springfield, Mo., and the People's, Citizens' and Commercial banks at Pulaski, Tenn.

19. September 2, 1893 The Van Buren Press Van Buren, AR

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The following National banks which recently suspended, was on the 30th permitted to reopen their doors to business: The First National Bank, of Dubuque, Ia. ; the First National Bank, of Grand Junction, Colo. The Comptrolle r of the Currency authorized the following National Banks to reopen on September 1: The American National Bank, of Omaha, and the American National, of Nashville. The following National banks in Minnesota have been authorized to reopen on September 7: The First National, of Mankato, the National Citizens, of Mankato, the Mankato National.

20. September 2, 1893 The Morning News Savannah, GA

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Three Banks to Reopen. Washington, Sept. 1.-The following national banks which recently suspended payment have to-day been permitted to reopen their doors for business: American National of Nashville, Tenn., First National Bank of Grundy Center, Ia., and First National Bank of Harrisonville, Mo.

21. September 7, 1893 The Middleburgh Post Middleburg, PA

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FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. The following national banks, which recently suspended payment, have been permitted to resume business: American of Nashville; First, of Grundy Center, Ia ; and the First, of Harrisonville, Mo.

22. September 8, 1893 The Weekly Union Times Union, SC

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Banks Resuming Business. WASHINGTON, D. C.-The following national banks which recently suspended payment have been permi ted to open their doors for business: The American National Bank, of Nashville, Tenn., the First National Bank, of Grundy Centre, Iowa, and the First National Bank, of Harrisonville, Missouri. DENVER, COL -The State National Bank, the last but one of the city's six national banks to suspend, opened its doors Thursday. The Commercial National will resume in a few days. Of the scores of national banks in Colorado which were compelled to close their doors a few weeks ago all have resumed save three, and it is said that they will again be doing business before the middle of the mouth. ECKELS IS HOPEFUL. CHICAGO, ILL.-Jamcs H. Eckels, Comptroller of the Currency, passed through Chicago on his way to Ottawa, III., where he will enjoy a two week's rest at his home. Mr. Eckels spoke very hopefully. He would not predict how long it would be before matters had resumed their normal condition, but the bottom had been reached, so far as, the banks were concerned, and financial af. fair were on the up grade. They are proposing to pension teachers in England.

23. September 9, 1893 The Cape Girardeau Democrat Cape Girardeau, MO

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LATER advices say that since the recent storm in the south 390 dead bodies have been found on the islands about Beautort and Port Royal, S.C., and that the total number of dead would reach 1.000. Over $2,000,000 worth of property was wrecked near the same points. Near Jacksonville. Fla. fourteen dead bodies were found, and the damage to fruit trees and orange groves was enormous AT the session in St. Louis of the seventh international Sunday school convention the report of Secretary Porter $ showed the number of Sunday schools of the United States and British Americá to be 130,197; teachers and officers, 1,372,558; scholars, 10,870,104; total, 11,242,663. WHILE carelessly handling a revolver supposed to be unloaded Leo Stafford shot and killed his bride of six weeks at East Liverpool, O. THE total paid admissions during the first four months of the world's fair numbered 9,990,699. By months the attendance was: May, 1,050,037; June, 2,675,113; July, 2,760,263; Angust, 3,514,286. IN Chicago Judge Goggin declared the world's fair Sunday opening injunction should stand, overriding rddes Dunne and Brentano and surprising court attendants. FIVE tramps and Jack Swanson, the engineer, were killed in a freight train wreck near Brenham, Tex., and Fireman Cameron and Brakeman Ford were fatally injured. H. S. BUNDY, of Jackson county, was nominated for congress in the Tenth Ohio district on the 1,793d ballot. Mr. Bundy has served two terms in congress. AT Rockford, III., the Royal Sewing Machine company made an assignment with liabilities of $119,000 and assets of $40,000. WHILE Insane Samuel Deeters, of Waterloo, Ind., shot and killed Amos Bactel and fatally shot Mrs. Lowe, neighbors, and wounded his mother. FIRE destroyed the business part of De Pauw. Ind. THE following executions took place: George S. Turner (a wealthy man) at Spartenburg, S. C., for killing Ed Finger: Wade Cannon and George Bowers (colored) at Laurens, 8. C., for arson and John Ferguson for wife murder: Oscar Johnson and Henry Ewing at Berkely, S. C., for murdering Henry Weltman; and Ah Lo Doon, a Chinaman. at San Rafael, Cal., for the murder of William Shentor. RECEIVERS were named for the Equitable Mortgage company of Missouri, with headquarters in New York, the liabilities being $19,000,000. THE American national bank of Nashville, Tenn., and the American national bank of Omaha, Neb., have reopened their doors. AT the annual meeting in Milwaukee Judge Thomas Cooley, of Michigan, was elected president of the American Bar association. THE Denver savings bank failed with liabilities of $670,000. Depositors would be paid in full.

24. September 14, 1893 The Comet Johnson City, TN

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Nashville Banks Open Again. The American National bank reopened its doors after being closed nearly four weeks. Only $7,000 was withdrawn, while the deposits amounted to $360,000. The First National has also resumed, and has promises of support. Both of these banks were absolutely sound, but closed b cause of a threatened run.