Citizens Savings Bank - Wilmington, DE

Bank Information

Episode Type: Suspension → Closure
Bank Type: savings bank
Start Date: June 6, 1893
Location: Wilmington, Delaware (39.746, -75.547)

Metadata

Model: gpt-5-mini
Short Digest: 3905a368

Response Measures

None

Description

Article (The Helena Independent, 1893-06-06) reports the 'failure of the Citizens' bank at Wilmington, Del.' and notes a $70,000 loss to an organization; no run is mentioned. I classify this as a suspension/closure due to bank-specific insolvency. Bank type inferred as 'state' (name lacks 'National'/'Trust'); could also be private but insufficient info.

Events (1)

1. June 6, 1893 Suspension

Cause: Bank Specific Adverse Info
Cause Details: Bank failure/insolvency leading to loss of $70,000 deposited by the Supreme Lodge; article states the bank failed (no run described).
Newspaper Excerpt: the failure of the Citizens' bank at Wilmington, Del., in which $70,000 belonging to the supreme lodge had been deposited.
Source: newspapers

Newspaper Articles (1)

1. June 6, 1893 The Helena Independent Helena, MT

Article from The Helena Independent, June 6, 1893

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Article Text

JOTTINGS ABOUT TOWN. J. S. Clark has sold to E. R. Clark lots and 2, block 13, East Helena, for $300. L. C. Brown has appropriated all of the waters of the right fork of Sawmill gulch in this county. The state Sunday school convention meets at Deer Lodge to-day. Quite a number of Helena people will attend. H.E. Bureh has sold to A. T. Kennedy a half interest in lots and 10, block 94, Northern Pacific second addition for $300. Chick Rogers. who occasionally engages in prize fights. was fined 810 yesterday by Judge Crutcher for carrying a concealed weapon, a Bowie knife. The suit of Whalen & Grant against the school trustaes of district No. 1. Lewis and Clarke county, has been set for trial Thurs. day in Judge Hunt's court. The Linden Terrace Investment company, of Great Fails, has been incorporated with a capital stock of $40,000. The fires train to arrive in Helena under the new Northern Pacific schedule will get in this evening at 10 o'olook, having left St. Paul yesterday at nine a. m. The county commissioners met yesterday in regular quarterly session, Bonds of road supervisors were approved and some billa allowed. They will meet again at 10 a. m. to-day. Postoffice Inspectors Fosnes and Way. land telegraphed that they have arrested James H. Wallace. editor of the Montrelie, Ida., Post, for violation of the antilottery law. He gave bail, so the paper has not suspended and the editor is not in jail. Two fine vases filled with flowers were placed by Mr. W. D. Weir at the grave of Henry Yergy. in the old cometory. Sunday they were stolen. Those interested are on the track of the thieves. and unless the vases are returned BOOR they will get into trouble. Supreme Viee Chancellor Walter B. Richie. of the Knights of Pythias, has been investigating the failure of the Citizens' bank at Wilmington, Del., in which $70,000 belonging to the supreme lodge had been deposited. He says the order will loss nothing by the bank failure. The funeral services of Hon. Thos. Joyes. who died at Boulder Sundav evening. will be held as that city this afternoon. Helena friends who desire to attend the funeral can leave here on the Montana Central or Northern Pacific this morning, re. turning in the afternoon. The body will lie in state from 11 a. m. to three p. A man giving the name of Herman Harris was admitted to the county poor farm yesterday. He went to Dr. W. M. Bul. la:d's office with his right hand tied up. Part of the middle finger had been shattered by a pistol ball. Dr. Bullard amputated the injured member. The man refused to tell how he was hurt, but admitted that he was a tramp. The commencement exercises of the Collogo of Montana will be held one week earlier this year than usual. The annual concert will be held in Cottonwood hall on Thursday evening, June 8, nt eight o'clock. The undergraduate and commencement exercises will be held in Cottonwood ball on Friday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. The college art room will be open on Thursday and Friday afternoons, and the public are cordially invited to visit the exhibit. Prof. J. Bruce Simpson has received notice from the dean of Yale college permitting J. Louis Davis to take his entrance examinations in Helena under Prof. Simp. son's charge. It is probable that Helena will be made # center for Yale entrance examinations in the future and all applicants near by will be governed accordingly. This is a fine recognition of Prof. Simpson's work in preparing students for college, for but few cities in the country are selected as examination points. Judge Cratcher yesterday fined H. O. Brigge $10 for striking Nellie Brigge, his wife. Later Mrs. Briggs swore out a warrant for her husband on the charge of threatening her life. The hearing will take place to-day. Her affidavit alleges that they were married Sept. 1. 1892; and that he has since made repeated threats to kill her. and had drawn a knife and a revolver on her: also that on Saturday last he th eatened to kill her unless she lived with him. Briggs has A suit for divorce pending in the district court. Mrs. Baggs is suing also to compel her husband to deliver 10 her some mining stock which he had promised, but the transfer of which bad been stopped since she left him. Go to The Bee Hive for hosiery and underwear