Article Text
Creditors Are Suspicious. LANCASTER, Pa., Aug. 31.-At a meeting of creditors of the suspended bank of E. K. Smith & Co. of Columhia, it was decided to begin proceedings against members of the firm, E K. Smith and Christian Graybill.
E. K. Smith & Company (Columbia, PA)
Episode Information
- Episode UID
2461682591124- Episode Type
- Suspension → Closure
- Bank Type
- trust
- Bank ID
-
246168259hash - Start Date
- August 1, 1893*
- Location
- Columbia, Pennsylvania (40.034, -76.504)
Metadata
- Model
- gpt-5-mini (chosen from majority vote of a three-model LLM ensemble)
- Short Digest
3618938736b78b83
Response Measures
None
Description
OCR in articles spells Columbia as Columhia. Creditors meeting and criminal proceedings indicate insolvency and likely permanent closure.
Events (1)
1.
August 1, 1893*
Suspension
- Cause
- Bank Specific Adverse Info
- Cause Details
- Creditors suspicious; firm insolvent/subject to creditor actions and planned criminal proceedings against partners.
- Newspaper Excerpt
- At a meeting of creditors of the suspended bank of E. K. Smith & Co. of Columhia, it was decided to begin proceedings against members of the firm, E K. Smith and Christian Graybill.
- Source
- newspapers
Newspaper Articles (2)
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Article Text
THE EAST. Dr. EDSON, of New York, has made an examination of the remains of the persons who died of supposed cholera at Jersey City, and says that at least one case was genuine Asiatic cholera. THE Hotel de Logerot, Fifth avenue, New York, has assigned. AT a meeting of the creditors of the suspended bank of E. K. Smith & Co., of Columbia, Pa., it was decided to bring criminal proceedings against the members of the firm. THE New York Herald correspondent in Costa Rica telegraphs that the country has established several quarantines -one against New York on account of cholera, another against Honduras and Nicaragua for smallpox and a third against Bocadeltoro for yellow fever. THE duties received at the New York custom house during the month of August are $5,000,000 less than those received in the same month of 1892. THE Thornton worsted mill, in Johnstown, R. I., was burned. It was a fourset mill and had 250 employes. Loss, $225,000; insurance, $200,000. JEROME BONAPARTE died at his summer home, Prides Crossing, Mass. Hon. DANIEL T. PIKE died at Augusta, Me., of apoplexy. He was 79 years old and one of the best known newspaper men in Maine. MRS. FILLMORE, probably the oldest resident of New York state, died recently aged 106 years. Her husband was a relative of President Fillmore. THE report that William H. Smythe, who suicided in Lincoln park, Denver, was a son of Recorder Smythe, of New York, was an error. The dead man was a son of John F. Smythe, the head of one of the aristocratic families of Albany, N. Y.