2689. Citizens Bank (Atlanta, GA)

Bank Information

Episode Type
Suspension → Closure
Bank Type
state
Start Date
June 16, 1889
Location
Atlanta, Georgia (33.749, -84.388)

Metadata

Model
gpt-5-mini
Short Digest
47f80694

Response Measures

None

Description

The articles refer to the Citizens' Bank (Citizens' Bank of Atlanta) as being defunct and in the hands of receivers; suits by the receivers against other banks and the railroad are described. No contemporaneous run or temporary suspension/reopening is mentioned — the bank had failed and been placed in receivership (permanent closure). OCR occasionally omits apostrophes; corrected bank name to Citizens' Bank.

Events (3)
1. June 16, 1889 Receivership
Newspaper Excerpt
The suit of the receivers of the Citizens' Bank of Atlanta against the Atlanta National Bank has resulted in a victory for the defendant. ... the plaintiffs recovered, the state would have been the beneficiary, Georgia never having gotten her money from the Citizens' Bank.
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newspapers
2. April 25, 1890 Other
Newspaper Excerpt
In the case of W. S. Thompson and L. J. Hill, receivers of the old Citizens' Bank, VS. the Gate City National Bank, ... a non-suit was granted in the superior court this morning.
Source
newspapers
3. June 14, 1890 Other
Newspaper Excerpt
The case of the receivers of the Citizen's Bank of Atlanta VS. the Western and Atlantic Railroad Company was taken up today before Judge Marshal Clarke and flung out of court on demurrer.
Source
newspapers

Newspaper Articles (3)
1. June 16, 1889 The Morning News Savannah, GA
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# Home-A Building Boom at Athens-A Girl Held by the Heels Head Down in a Well-A Cast of Thomas A. Hendricks' Hand-A Scandal in Lowndes County. GEORGIA. Not less than 100 new homes are now in course of erection in Athens, several of them being buildings that would do credit to any metropolis. This is certainly a wonderful showing for a city of 15,000 inhabitants. The Woman's Industrial Home at Athens has turned out its first lot of pants, consisting of some 1,091 pairs. The material used is the best jeans, and all of the cutting and making was done in the home. On an average of eighteen hands have been employed daily, and sometimes as many as forty-five pairs would be turned out as the result of twelve hours' work. Dr. James G. Armstrong of Atlanta, it is said, will shortly present upon the stage some dramatic readings, with scenic effect, His selections will be made from "Hamlet," "Faust" and Poe's "Raven." The idea of Dr. Armstrong is to have appropriate music interspersed during the reading, as, for instance, in the soliloquy of "Faust," when he contemplates suicide and hears the angels singing. Dr. Armstrong wishes to have some weird, strange music, which will be prepared for the occasion, and introduced just at the moment when "Faust" is about to yield to temptation and take his own life. The suit of the receivers of the Citizens' Bank of Atlanta against the Atlanta National Bank has resulted in a victory for the defendant. The suit was for $8,000. The court held in effect that the receiver was appointed to control the assets covered by the assignment and that no assets disposed of prior to the assignment could be recovered by the receivers. Suits involving practically the same points of law have been entered by the receivers of the Citizens' Bank for $15,000 against the Gate City National Bank and for $20,000 against the state road. The decision in this case will control the other cases. So the judgment practically involves about $45,000. The case is of general interest because, had the plaintiffs recovered, the state would have been the beneficiary, Georgia never having gotten her money from the Citizens' Bank. Jefferson Herald: Last Thursday a young white man by the name of Robert Preston, who has been working on the farm of D. J. Pentecost, was passing the house of some colored people on Mr. Pentecost's farm, and suddenly concluded to have some fun. He saw three negro children in the yard and told them he was going to give them a whipping. They ran into the house and closed the door. Robert followed them and pushed the door open, when the eldest, a girl of 12 years, ran out of the back door, Preston following in close pursuit. Having captured her in the back yard, he carried her to the well, and taking her by the heels, held her head first down the well, telling her he was going to let her fall and break her neck. He desisted from his purpose, however, and turned her loose and decamped. On Friday the girl swore out a warrant and had him arrested. He was carried before Justice McDaniel for preliminary trial, and placed under a $50 bond. Valdosta Times: The Times has always shut out scandal from its columns when it could be done, preferring to leave the task of feeding those appetites which demand such reading to others, but occasionally it cannot be escaped. For several weeks there has been a great deal of excitement in Berrien and Lowndes counties about a trouble of this kind at Adel. Three men have been shot, but not seriously, one bruised up badly, and a wife's name tarnished. A committee of disinterested parties, chosen from the friends of either side, took the matter in hand, and, after three days and nights of arduous labor, they found the lady in the case not guilty, but the victim of "many indiscretions," the result of circumstances not easily explained to the public, but satisfactory to the committee, as we are informed by one of their number. The committee say: "With the most thorough examination of all the witnesses that we could possibly reach, we have come to the following conclusion: That Mrs. Mollie Parrish is not guilty of criminal intimacy with the negro H. R. King, but that she is guilty of many indiscretions."

2. April 26, 1890 The Morning News Savannah, GA
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CAPITAL OF THE STATE. CONLEY MUST PAY $6,000 OR GO TO JAIL FOR A YEAR. A Circular to the School Commissioners-A Non-Suit Granted in 8 Bank Case-The Celebration of Memorial Day-Decisions Handed Down by the Supreme Court. ATLANTA, GA., April 25.-John L. Conley, son of ex-Gov. Conley, has been twice convicted of disposing of mortgaged property, and will be required to take his choice between paying a fine of over $6,000 or serving one year in the chain-gang. The supreme court reversed the judgment of the lower court in the first instance on technical grounds, but the accusation was preferred afresh in better form, and Conley's second conviction was to-day affirmed. He is represented as having stated this morning that he believed he would prefer serving the sentence to paying the money. Mike Mayer, who was Conley's bondsman in the old Post-Appeal case, and whose pocket suffered when Marcellus Thornton gained a verdict, was the prosecutor who appeared against Conley. The litigation has had numerous branches in both the civil and criminal courts, and from it sprung the quarrel which induced Conley to try and get Col. Reuben Arnold, Meyer's attorney, turned out of the bar association, which provoked the attack on Conley by the Arnold's last summer, for which they have just been found guilty of assault and battery. A SCHOOL CIRCULAR. Judge Hook has issued a circular to the school commissioneas of the different counties. He charges them to give notice to teachers that the next public examination will take place on May 30 and 31, lasting two days instead of three as heretofore. He broaches the idea of holding three examinations of one day each annually in the future and asks the commissioners to report their sentiment, and that of the teachers in their counties on the subject. A NON-SUIT GRANTED. In the case of W. S. Thompson and L. J. Hill, receivers of the old Citizens' Bank, VS. the Gate City National Bank, in which the state is the real plaintiff, a non-suit was granted in the superior court this morning. The receivers sue for about $16,000 in notes and cash transferred to the Gate City Bank by the Citizens' Bank to secure a debt after the failure of the latter institution, which was a state depository. L. J. Hill, who is president of the Gate City Bank, occupies ambiguous position of both plaintiff and defendant in the case. An appeal will be made to the supreme court. MEMORIAL DAY. Confederate veterans arrive by every train to take past in the Memorial day exercises to-morrow. Gen. Joe Johnston, who arrived unexpectedly last night, was taken in charge by his host, Maj. Livingston Minis, at an early hour this morning and to-morrow night a reception will be given in his honor. Gen. T. T. Munford reached here to-day from Lynchburg, Gen. A. R. Lawton of Savannah, and Hon. J. C. Black and J. S. Davidson, the orators of the day, are also in the city. Veterans of less note are here already by the hundreds. Every provision is being made for entertaining the visitors. Gen. J. T. Holtzclaw, Gen. Barringer, and Gen. Lane of Alabama arrived tonight. WINDS UP ATLANTA. A telegram from New York announces the failure of the Doran Wright Company, which had an office in this city managed by John M. Harwell. This failure winds up the bucket-shop business in Atlanta. SUPREME COURT DECISIONS. The following supreme court decisions were handed down to-day. Georgia railroad vs. Murray; from the city court of Clarke. Affirmed. Covington and Macon railroad vs. the mayor of Athens; from Clarke. Affirmed. Murray VS. the state; from Clarke. Affirmed. VERDICTS OF CORONER'S JURIES. The coroner's jury this evening rendered two verdicts in cases which had been allowed to go over from April 22. They decided that John Odom came to his death through an unavoidable accident, and that Mrs. John Nichols died from poison administered either by her own hand, or that of some person unknown to the jury. BATTLES WITH BALL AND BAT.

3. June 14, 1890 The Morning News Savannah, GA
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GEORGIA AND FLORIDA. SELVIS OML HHL OF SMIN HHL TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS. Relics of Gen. Lee That a Maconite Prizes Highly-A Negro Preacher of Houston County Arrested for ArsonA Bank Receiver's Suit Thrown Out of Court at Atlanta. GEORGIA. WIMS IIIM oun usm SunoA 8 has Albany against anybody in Georgia for from $25 to 'OOTS Owing to an accident to the machinery at the factory Brunswick is suffering from in ice famine. The state convention of northern-born citizens of Georgia will make Douglasville lively next Wednesday. Redden Garrel, a deaf white man, who was walking on the track, was killed by a train near Bremen Tuesday. Rev. Mr. Abraham of Arkansas has been eqq JO eqf 01 eleeted Ajsnomjuvun Presbyterian church at Lawrenceville. The masons of Statesboro will hold a festival July 4 for the purpose of raising eSpor Meu B Suppling up pie 04 Aenour room. The Peabody institute for white teachers will be held at Salt Springs this summer, beginning July 1 and continuing for three weeks, It is only a little more than a month till the annual reunion of the confederate veterans of Randolph county, which will take place in Cuthbert. Henry Connell, who lives in the Ocean Pond neighborhood, had the misfortune to have his dwelling and smokehouse consumed by fire last Sunday night. A man named Reynolds, who was charged with attempting to ravish a negro girl named Anna Daniel at Woodsville, in Pike county, has been acquitted. John Wilson, who lives at Buckhead district, Fulton county, has a hen's egg on which is a clearly defined snake embossed on the shell. The snake is an inch and a half in length. Mrs. T. A. English, who lives near Warrenton, found a negro asleep under her daughter's bed at 4 o'clock Tuesday morning. He was awakened by Mrs. English, who mistook him in the darkness for a blanket. and fled. It is supposed that he entered the house early in the night, but fell asleep and failed to wake up. The case of the receivers of the Citizen's Bank of Atlanta V8. the Western and Atlantic Railroad Company was taken up today before Judge Marshal Clarke and flung out of court on demurrer. The receivers claimed about $24,000 of the railroad company, which, it was claimed, the latter drew from the defunct bank just before it went to the wall, knowing that it was on its last legs. The board of directors of the Stephens Monumental Association have decided upon eqq 18 Suppling for monument to A. H. Stephens. The -ep 108 pus eouo 18 peecod IIIM association signs and prices for the monument, which uodn deseast sustent B JO consist ITEM states eqf JO states B peoved eq IIIM which man as he appeared in the halls of the legislature and the halls of congress. During a thunder storm at Adairsville Monday an electric current struck the eabin of George Sellers (colored). Passing down the chimney to the fireplace. where the old man sat, it knocked him down and scorched him. It also set the house on fire, sq uoos 0.10AM dames eq1 anq and secued eut uodn oqn siq in time to save her husband, house and contents from total destruction. Rev. Henry Felder (colored) is held for JO obarge B no Periy 18 this crib in New Hope, a suburb of Perry, inhabited by negroes. Felder is a wellknown negro in Perry and Houston county, and has always borne a -word AJOA B SI eH character. pood inent colored Baptist preacher. The sensational part of the arrest and trial is that he deacons his JO euo 4q Streq st '0.1.Seu queutmord B OSIR In the superior court at Americus Wednesday Philip Johnson (colored) was convicted of the crime of arson and was sentenced to the penitentiary for fifteen years. Johnson burned the depot at Cobb's station, on the Savannah, Americus and Montgomery railroad, last fall. The jury in the case of the state VS. Munroe Adams, 8 uodn 01 Failed 'uose 41141 charged B pus 'Xup whole B ano Sujeq Jeffs Perdict mistrial in the case was declared. On last Sunday, at Thompson's mills, just over the line of Gwinnett county, in Hall county, there was a shooting affray between Nathan JO uos B SI oqm you'h B Clark, and two negroes. One of the negroes and the white boy were engaged in a fight, when the other negro approached them and made an effort to separate them. The other negro tore loose from the boy and drew a pistol, with which he shot the negro who was trying to quell the difficulty. Charles Sharpnack, a young mineralogist, JOJ Supeedsord IIVI Tast JO poitron B queds minerals in Murray county, remaining some time at the house of John Brackett and wife, the famous moonshiners. Recently SUM there while pus Athate 01 went eu arrested by United States officers, charged with illicit distilling, and tried before Commissioner Haight It took some hustling work for Sharpnack to prove that he was not a moonshiner but a mineralogist. Adams, the young man sentenced at Americus Monday to the chain gang by Judge Pilsbury, was set at liberty ednesday Adams was convicted on the charge of taking money from a companion on Sat. urday night last, and was sentenced to servea term of nine months or pay a fine of $100 and costs, the whole amounting to about $150. His father, who is a prominent business man of Middle Georgia, paid the fine and released his son from custody. At Rome, Wednesday, while a horse belonging to Messrs. Simmons & Doss was loose in the stable, one of his hind feet got caught in his mouth. It is supposed that the animal was rubbing the flies from his nose with his hind foot, when by accident the foot passed into the mouth. The hoof was shod with a heavy iron shoe, and the sharp corners of the shoe and hoof cut very painful wounds in the mouth. The animal fell to the ground and continued tostruggle without relief. hen he was discovered he was covered with foam and showed every sign of a fearful struggle. His master came and succeeded in extricating the foot. The Royal Arch Masons of Hawkinsville had an unusually pleasant time last week. 20 No. chanker Plansing Jo held on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, and ten candidates were exalted to the royal arch degree. A. W. Wolihin, grand secretary of the grand lodge F. and A. M. of Georgia, and grand secretary of the grand chapter of Georgia, and W. A. Davis of Macon, Maj. C. R. Armstrong of Eastman, Messrs. Shank and Duncan of Dublin, and Messrs. Woodard, W ynne and Hendricks of Cochran were present as visiting companions. Those receiving the capitular or chapter degrees were Mallis John Anderson S B