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Failure of a Florida Bank. LEESBURG, FLA., Feb. 11.-The Bank of Leesburg assigned to-day to President Stapylton, of the Leesburg State Bank. It is believed the bank will pay dollar for dollar.
2405. Bank of Leesburg (Leesburg, FL)
Bank Information
- Episode Type
- Suspension → Closure
- Bank Type
- state
- Start Date
- February 11, 1895
- Location
- Leesburg, Florida (28.811, -81.878)
Metadata
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- gpt-5-mini
- Short Digest
28ec210d
Response Measures
None
Description
Multiple contemporaneous newspaper dispatches (Feb 11–12, 1895) report the Bank of Leesburg assigned to President Stapylton of the Leesburg State Bank — an assignment for benefit of creditors (i.e., failure/receivership). No run or temporary suspension/reopening is mentioned. Classified as suspension_closure (closure with assignee/receiver).
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February 11, 1895
Receivership
- Newspaper Excerpt
- The Bank of Leesburg assigned to-day to President Stapylton, of the Leesburg State Bank. It is believed the bank will pay dollar for dollar.
- Source
- newspapers
Newspaper Articles (8)
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A Leesburg Bank Assigns. Leesburg, Fla, Feb. 11.-The Bank of Leesburg assigned to-day to President Stapylton of the Leesburg State Bank. It is believed the bank will pay dollar for dollar.
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The Leesburg, Florida, Bank Assigns. LEESBURG. Fla., February 12.-The bank of Leesburg has assigned to president Stapylton of the Leesburg state bank. It is believed the bank will pay dollar for dollar.
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WILL PAY IN H ULL. JACKEONVILLE, Fla., Feb. 11.-A special to the Times- Union from Leesburg, Fla., says: The Bank of Leesburg assigned today to President Stapylton of the Leesburg State bank. It is believed the bank will Day dollar for dollar.
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NEWS CONDENSED. Terse Dispatches From All Over the Country. The bank of Leesburg, Fla., has assigned. It is believed the bank will pay dollar for dollar. Nine prisoners escaped from the county jail at Athens, O., by boring out a panel of the inside door of the jail. Six of the nine are under indictment for felonies. L. B. Smith is under arrest at Helena, Mont., charged with defrauding the G. N R. R. out of $17,000 while acting as claim agent for stock killed and personal damages. The bodies of two men one of whom is thought to be F. P. Hart of Denver, were found in a barn near Beyan. The men ha evidently Leen Irozen to death while asleep. The court of common pleas at Pittsburg, Pa., has appointed a receiver of the Linden Steel Company. The company's statements show assets of $685,000 and liabilities of $485,000. Central tobacco warehouse of Louis. Ky., owned by Ray & Co., and the ho and woodware establishment of ridges & Co., adjoining, were burned Losiz2110,000 covered by insurmy. d. en. Cyrus Bussey of Missouri, who was rst assistant secretary of the interior under Pres. Harrison, was knocked down by a run. away team in 11 ashington. D. C., attached a eigh, He received several severe scalp wounds and suffered from concussion of the brain. J. L. Dickson, formerly cashier of the MeIlroy Banking Company of Fa etteville, Ark., committed suicide by taking poison. Dickson had recently been discharged from the bank and an investigation showed that he was a defaulter to the amount of $21,000, Fear of prosecution drove him to suicide.
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Jones thirteen years' imprisonment. Two COLORED women, Sarah Jackson and Bettie Fishback were convicted of vagrancy at Georgetown, Ky., and sold into slavery for the period of six months. LIFE savers succeeded in rescuing two of the crew of the schooner Louis V. Place, ashore at Point of Woods, N. Y. The other seven were drowned or frozen to death. THE Crescent tobacco warehouse and a woodenware factory were burned at Louisville, Ky., the loss being $175,000. W. J. EDWARDS rode a mile on a bicycle at Livermore, Cal, in 1:3436, a new world's record. Ex-POLICE OFFICERS MORAN AND HEALY were convicted in Chicago of the murder of Swan Nelson and their punishment fixed at fourteen years' imprisonment. THE schooner Clara F. Friend, of Gloucester, Mass., was wrecked near Liverpool, N. S., and her crew of fifteen men were drowned. FIFTEEN firms were burned out by a fire in Ottawa, Kan., the losses aggregating $100,000. TWELVE oyster sloops were wrecked and from twenty to thirty lives lost in the Chesapeake during a blizzard. AT Dinsmore, Fla., John Thomas (colored) with his wife and two children, were instantly killed by the falling of a log shack in which they were sleeping. JOSEPH COURTER fatally shot his wife while she lay asleep in bed at Newark, N. J., and then committed suicide. Jealousy caused the act. THE doors of the Bank of Superior, Neb., were closed by the state bank examiner. CYRUS BUSSEY, ex-assistant secretary of the interior, was run over by a sleigh in Washington and badly hurt. THE report of the bureau of statistics on the foreign trade of the United States for the calendar year 1894 shows that during that year our commerce with foreign countries fell below the low-water mark. MRS. WILLIAM SIEFERT, while temporarily insane, drowned her two children and herself in the Ohio river at Coraopolis, Pa. FOUR MILLION acres of Sionx Indian reservation land in South Dakota were thrown open for settlement by purchase at fifty cents an acre. GEORGE W. STOUT'S wholesale grocery establishment at Indianapolis was destroyed by fire, the loss being $115,000. AN unsuccessful attempt was made to hold up a Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe passenger train near Overbrook, I.T. BUILDINGS occupied by the Campbell Paint company, the Creamery Supply company and Reeves & Co., at Kansas City, were burned, causing a loss of $150,000. THE Bank of Leesburg, Fla., assigned for the benefit of creditors. THE French line steamer La Gascogne, from Havre, nine days overdue, arrived in New York. Accidents to the machinery caused the delay. A PETITION containing 6,000,000 names, and which had taken twelve years to complete, in opposition to the liquor and opium habit. left Chicago for Washington in care of Mrs. Carse, of the Woman's Christian Temperance union. It is the largest petition in history and will be presented to the court of every ruler in the world. THIRTY inches of snow fell at Rifle, Col. J. L. DICKSON. a bank cashier at Fayetteville, Ark., discovered to be $21,000 short, committed suicide by taking strychnine. A SECRET society, whose object is the mating and marrying of young people, has been formed at Lexington, Ky. SINCE the Fifty-third congress was elected there has been a total of twenty-nine changes in the membership of the house, eleven of them caused by death, three by removal as the result of election contests and sixteen by resignations. THE visible supply of grain in the United States on the 12th was: Wheat, 82,322,000 bushels; corn, 12,883,000 bushels; oats, 7,163,000 bushels; rye, 364,000 bushels; barley, 173,000 bushels. IN an address at the Auditorium in Chicago Henry Watterson reiterated his belief that Lincoln was inspired by God. LINCOLN'S birthday was generally celebrated throughout the country. A LARGE section of the business portion of McComb, O., was swept away by fire. THE supreme court at Jefferson City, Mo., sentenced five murderers to be hanged March 21. FRANK STORY and wife were fatally injured by the collision of an electric car with their wagon at Louisville, Ky. THE summer hotel at Brown's Mills, N. J., was totally destroyed by fire, the loss being $150,000. The building was vacant. A FREE silver resclution présented in
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DOMESTIC. MRS. WILLIAM SIEFERT, while temporarily insane, drowned her two children and herself in the Ohio river at Coraopolis, Pa. FOUR MILLION acres of Sionx Indian reservation land in South Dakota were thrown open for settlement by purchase at fifty cents an acre. BUILDINGS occupied by the Campbell Paint company, the Creamery Supply company and Reeves & Co., at Kansas City, were burned, causing a loss of $150,000. THE Bank of Leesburg, Fla., assigned for the benefit of creditors. THE French line steamer La Gascogne, from Havre, nine days overdue, arrived in New York. Accidents to the machinery caused the delay. A PETITION containing 6,000,000 names, and which had taken twelve years to complete, in opposition to the liquor and opium habit, left Chicago for Washington in care of Mrs. Carse, of the Woman's Christian Temperance union. It is the largest petition in history and will be presented to the court of every ruler in the world. THIRTY inches of snow fell at Rifle, Col. SINCE the Fifty-third congress was elected there has been a total of twenty-nine changes in the membership of the house, eleven of them caused by death, three by removal as the result of election contests and sixteen by resignations. THE visible supply of grain in the United States on the 12th was: Wheat, 82,322,000 bushels; corn, 12,883,000 bushels; oats, 7,163,000 bushels; rye, 364,000 bushels; barley, 173,000 bushels. A SECRET society, whose object is the mating and marrying of young people, has been formedat Lexington. Ky. A LARGE section of the business portion of McComb, O., was swept away by fire. THE supreme court at Jefferson City, Mo., sentenced five murderers to be hanged March 21. J. L. DICKSON. a bank cashier at Fayetteville, Ark., discovered to be $21,000 short, committed suicide by taking strychnine. IN an address at the Auditorium in Chicago Henry Watterson reiterated his belief that Lincoln was inspired by God. LINCOLN'S birthday was generally celebrated throughout the country. FRANK STORY and wife were fatally injured by the collision of an electric car with their wagon at Louisville, Ky. THE summer hotel at Brown's Mills, N. J., was totally destroyed by fire, the loss being $150,000. The building was vacant. A FREE silver resclution presented in the Michigan senate was laid on the table by a vote of 12 to 10. A FEW hours before her death from consumption Jennie Brown, of Vandalia, Ill., was united in marriage to E. A. Jones, of Centralia. THE trolley strike in Brooklyn, N.Y., was declared off, the companies having agreed to gradually take back the men. BONDSMEN of the late State Treasurer Ramsey, of Illinois, filed a claim against his estate for $363,539, the amount of a shortage which they made good. JUDGE GROSSCUP discharged the jury and continued the Debs case in Chicago to the first Monday in May. The sickness of a juror was the cause. THE Lincoln avenue barns of the North Chicago Railway company, containing 110 cars, were burned, the loss being $130,000. ROWLAND ATER, a wealthy farmer of Woodlyn, O., was found frozen to death on the road near his home. A COMPANY was organized to build and operate a line of canal boats between Cleveland and New York.
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DOMESTIC. MRS. WILLIAM SIEFERT, while temporarily insane, drowned her two children and herself in the Ohio river at Coraopolis, Pa. FOUR MILLION acres of Sionx Indian reservation land in South Dakota were thrown open for settlement by purchase at fifty cents an acre. BUILDINGS occupied by the Campbell Paint company, the Creamery Supply company and Reeves & Co., at Kansas City, were burned, causing a loss of $150,000. THE Bank of Leesburg, Fla., assigned for the benefit of creditors. THE French line steamer La Gascogne, from Havre, nine days overdue, arrived in New York. Accidents to the machinery caused the delay. A PETITION containing 6,000,000 names, and which had taken twelve years to complete, in opposition to the liquor and opium habit, left Chicago for Washington in care of Mrs. Carse, of the Woman's Christian Temperance union. It is the largest petition in history and will be presented to the court of every ruler in the world. THIRTY inches of snow fell at Rifle, Col. SINCE the Fifty-third congress was elected there has been a total of twenty-nine changes in the membership of the house, eleven of them caused by death, three by removal as the result of election contests and sixteen by resignations. THE visible supply of grain in the United States on the 12th was: Wheat, 82,322,000 bushels; corn, 12,883,000 bushels; oats, 7,163,000 bushels; rye, 364,000 bushels: barley, 173,000 bushels. A SECRET society, whose object is the mating and marrying of young people, has been formed at Lexington. Ky. A LARGE section of the business portion of McComb, 0., was swept away by fire. THE supreme court at Jefferson City, Mo., sentenced five murderers to be hanged March 21. J. L. DICKSON. a bank cashier at Fayetteville, Ark., discovered to be $21,000 short, committed suicide by taking strychnine. IN an address at the Auditorium in Chicago Henry Watterson reiterated his belief that Lincoln was inspired by God. LINCOLN'S birthday was generally celebrated throughout the country. FRANK STORY and wife were fatally injured by the collision of an electric car with their wagon at Louisville, Ky. THE summer hotel at Brown's Mills, N. J., was totally destroyed by fire, the loss being $150,000. The building was vacant. A FREE silver resclution presented in the Michigan senate was laid on the table by a vote of 12 to 10. A FEW hours before her death from consumption Jennie Brown, of Vandalia, Ill., was united in marriage to E. A. Jones, of Centralia. THE trolley strike in Brooklyn, N.Y., was declared off. the companies having agreed to gradually take back the men. BONDSMEN of the late State Treasurer Ramsey, of Illinois, filed a claim against his estate for $363,539, the amount of a shortage which they made good. JUDGE GROSSCUP discharged the jury and continued the Debs case in Chicago to the first Monday in May. The sickLess of a juror was the cause. THE Lincoln avenue barns of the North Chicago Railway company. containing 110 cars, were burned, the loss being $130,000. ROWLAND ATER, a wealthy farmer of Woodlyn, O., was found frozen to death on the road near his home. A COMPANY was organized to build and operate a line of canal boats betweer Cleveland and New York.