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Banker Leaves With $10,000. DES MOINES, Ia., July 12.-C. G. Davis, a banker of East Peru, Ia., has disappeared with $10,000 of the bank's funds. He has been missing since July 5. The bank is in the hands of a receiver.
Bank of East Peru (East Peru, IA)
Episode Information
- Episode UID
2850463691147- Episode Type
- Suspension → Closure
- Bank Type
- private
- Bank ID
-
285046369hash - Start Date
- July 5, 1895
- Location
- East Peru, Iowa (41.227, -93.926)
Metadata
- Model
- gpt-5-mini (chosen from majority vote of a three-model LLM ensemble)
- Short Digest
7343927444aa512d
Response Measures
None
Description
Articles report an apparent embezzlement by the banker and the bank being placed in receivership; OCR shows variant initials (C. G./C. O./C. D. Davis/Davies).
Events (2)
1.
July 5, 1895
Other
- Newspaper Excerpt
- C. G. Davis, a banker of East Peru, Ia., has disappeared with $10,000 of the bank's funds.
- Source
- newspapers
2.
July 12, 1895
Receivership
- Newspaper Excerpt
- The bank is in the hands of a receiver.
- Source
- newspapers
Newspaper Articles (4)
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AFTERMATH. The Wauwatosa fire was of Incendiary origin. By the state census Kenosha has 8,085 inhabitants. A jury has been secured in the Luscombe murder case at Milwaukee. Illinois Farmers are pestered by a new bug that spoils timothy hay. A number of mail boxes in Marion, Ind., were robbed of valuable letters. Chicago claims a population of 1,695,000 based on the new directory. Louis Oborn, aged 20 years, of Neenah, was drowned in Lake Winnebago. Five cases of smallpox have developed in one family in Aetnaville, Ohio. The next session of the young people's christian union will be held at Jersey City. The fifth annual convention of the Loyal Temperance legion is in session at Berlin, Wis. A. H. Revell, of Chicago, has been elected president of the national furnIture association. Washburn saloonkeepers have given up the fight against the city and paid $500 license fees. A spirited horse reared back too far and fell over, nearly crushing Gov. Altgeld, of Illinois. Harry Hayward, the murderer of Miss Ging, at Minneapolis, has been granted a stay pending an appeal. The Cloverdale (Ind.) bank has closed its doors. It is regarded as solvent and that depositors are secured. In Boston 1.500 Orangemen celebrated the anniversary of the battle of Boyne, parading under police escort. C. O, Davis, a banker of East Peru, Iowa, has disappeared with $10,000 of the funds. The bank has gone into a receiver's hands. Seven hundred Chinese attacked Hisinchu, Formosa: 200 Chinese were killed and many captured; the Japanese lost 11 men. A fight occurred in Jackson Hole, south of Yellowstone park, between settlers and Bannock Indinans. The Indians were unlawfully killing game. The Orangemen's demonstration in Winnepeg was the largest ever held in the west. Rsolutions condemning the government's course on separate schools was adopted. Harry Hayward, who was convicted of the murder of Miss Ging at Minneapolis. and sentenced to be hanged, improves his time while in jail awaiting the end. He has just closed a real estate deal, the sheriff acting as go-between for Hayward and the buyers.
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Cuba. AFTERMATH. The Wauwatosa fire was of incendiary origin. By the state census Kenosha has 8,085 inhabitants. A jury has been secured in the Luscombe murder case at Milwaukee. Illinois Farmers are pestered by a new bug that spoils timothy hay. A number of mail boxes in Marion, Ind., were robbed of valuable letters. Chicago claims a population of 1,695,000 based on the new directory. Louis Oborn, aged 20 years, of Neenah, was drowned in Lake Winnebago. Five cases of smallpox have developed in one family in Aetnaville, Ohio. The next session of the young people's christian union will be held at Jersey City. The fifth annual convention of the Loyal Temperance legion is in session at Berlin, Wis. A. H. Revell, of Chicago, has been elected president of the national furniture association. Washburn saloonkeepers have given up the fight against the city and paid $500 license fees. A spirited horse reared back too far and fell over, nearly crushing Gov. Altgeld, of Illinois. Harry Hayward, the murderer of Miss Ging, at Minneapolis, has been granted a stay pending an appeal. The Cloverdale (Ind.) bank has closed its doors. It is regarded as solvent and that depositors are secured. In Boston 1,500 Orangemen celebrated the anniversary of the battle of Boyne, parading under police escort. C. O. Davis, a banker of East Peru, Iowa, has disappeared with $10,000 of the funds. The bank has gone into a receiver's hands. Seven hundred Chinese attacked Hisinchu, Formosa: 200 Chinese were killed and many captured; the Japanese lost 11 men. A fight occurred in Jackson Hole, south of Yellowstone park, between settlers and Bannock Indinans. The Indians were unlawfully killing game. The Orangemen's demonstration in Winnepeg was the largest ever held in the west. Rsolutions condemning the government's course on separate schools was adopted. Harry Hayward, who was convicted of the murder of Miss Ging at Minneapolis, and sentenced to be hanged, improves his time while in jail awaiting the end. He has just closed a real estate deal, the sheriff acting as go-between for Hayward and the buyers.
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UN-"SOUND MONEY" MEN. I These Are the Men Who Have Been Clamoring for "Sound, Honest Money" The bank at Norborne, Ohio, and the Carrolton county bank, are both in the hands of receivers. Depositors have begun criminal pro. ceedings against the Merchants National bank, unsound, at Seattle, Washington. L T. Parrish, cashier of the bankst Orrick, Mo, has gone, and $20,000 cold, hard, clammy dollars left the same day. C. D. Davies, manager, of the bank at East Peru, Iowa, has escaped with $28,000 belonging to depositors. The bank du People, at Montreal. Canada, has closed its doors. On July 5th it reported $6,520,869 deposits, and it is believed that this has all been stolen. An Ioway banker escaped with $28,000 a few days ago. He carried the money in a valise. This amount in silver would weigh something like 1,600 pounds, hence you can readily see that such money don't suit bankers No wonder they claim it is not good abroad. But it is good at home. S B Andrews, cashier of the defunct First National bank, Texarkana, Texas, is under a bond of $10,000 for making false returns to the comptroller of the Treasury of the United States.