Florence National Bank (Florence, AL)

Episode Information

Episode UID
413501098
Episode Type
Run β†’ Suspension β†’ Closure
Bank Type
national
Bank ID
41350 national
Charter Number
4135
Start Date
June 22, 1891
Location
Florence, Alabama (34.800, -87.677)

Metadata

Model
gpt-5-mini (chosen from majority vote of a three-model LLM ensemble)
Short Digest
99af02971c3da44c

Response Measures

Full suspension

Receivership Details

Depositor recovery rate
58.0%
Date receivership started
1891-07-23
Date receivership terminated
1898-04-18
OCC cause of failure
Fraud
Share of assets assessed as good
22.2%
Share of assets assessed as doubtful
65.3%
Share of assets assessed as worthless
12.5%

Description

Receiver appointed by Comptroller in late July; closure followed run from false reports.

Events (5)

1. October 3, 1889 Chartered
Source
historical_nic
2. June 22, 1891 Run
Cause
Rumor Or Misinformation
Cause Details
Spread of false reports about the bank triggered depositor withdrawals.
Measures
Bank closed doors temporarily and announced it expected to resume in a few days.
Newspaper Excerpt
The immediate cause is attributed to the spread of false reports which caused a run on the bank.
Source
newspapers
3. June 22, 1891 Suspension
Cause
Rumor Or Misinformation
Cause Details
Closure/suspension followed a run caused by false reports.
Newspaper Excerpt
The Florence National Bank of Florence, Ala., closed its doors today.
Source
newspapers
4. July 23, 1891 Receivership
Source
historical_nic
5. July 23, 1891 Receivership
Newspaper Excerpt
Mr. Lacey, Comptroller of the Currency, says that the Florence National Bank ... will be placed in charge of a receiver as soon as a proper selection can be made.
Source
newspapers

Newspaper Articles (21)

Article from Daily Kennebec Journal, June 23, 1891

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Florence, Ala, Bank Goes Under. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., June 22.- The Florence National Bank of Florence, Ala., closed its doors today. The immediate cause is attributed to the spread of false reports which caused a run on the bank. The bank expects to resume again in a few days, as soon as things are straightened out.


Article from The Record-Union, June 23, 1891

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DEFUNCT BANKING HOUSES. MORE INSIDE HISTORY RELATING TO THE KEYSTONE BANK. Correspondence Which Passed Between Comptroller Lacey and Bank Examiner Drew. Special to the RECORD-UNION. PHILADELPHIA, June 22.-An official copy of all correspondence between Comptroller Lacey, Bank Examiner Drew and others, with reference to the affairs of the Keystone Bank, which was received from the Treasury Department last week, was made public to-night. It is very voluminous, and much of it has already been published in connection with the investigation. In a letter from Drew to Lacey, the former gives the result of his examination of January 9th, when he was informed of President Lucas' $600,000 deficit, and gives in detail the measures he took to recover from Lucas' estate. He says Marsh was ignorantly led into these transactions, while Cashier, by Lucas, and the latter, on his death-bed, exacted a promise from Marsh to continue the deception under representations that the money abstracted would soon return from Lucas' enterprises. Following this, at frequent intervals, were letters and telegrams in reference to the condition of the bank and the reorganization efforts. On February 16th Drew's mind was evidently changing in regard to Marsh, for he reported that developments made him suspicious of that gentleman. On February 28th Comptroller Lacey wrote Drew, urging prompt measures to rehabilitate the bank, and saying that unless some other way was found at once he would order the assessment of the stock. After the assessment had been made there were many other communications, and finally, on March 19th, the Comptroller telegraphed Drew to visit the bank in the morning. The next morning he received instructions to close it. On the same day Drew telegraphed the Comptroller urging the appointment of a receiver without delay. and suggested the name of Mr. Lynch. leadded that there were strong probabilities that the bank would be reorganized by wealthy men. The same day Comptroller Lacey sent Drew the following telegram. marked confidential: "Call at the southeast corner of Eighteenth and Spruce streets, at 8 o'clock this evening, and give Mr. W. a close estimate of the assets and liabilities. Encourage all efforts to reopen the bank, and-give out noinformation except such as will conduce to that end, and then with great care." On March 22d, Drew wrote a private letter to Lacey, advising that no action be taken against Marsh, as his services were indispensable toward the investigation. Previous to Marsh's arrest, numerous letters passed in regard to the reorganization. FAILURE OF AN ALABAMA BANK. BIRMINGHAM (Ala.), June 22. - The Florence National Bank, of Florence, Ala., closed its doors to-day. The immediate cause is said to be the spread of false reports, which caused a run on the bank. Some confusion seems to have resulted by reason of Mr. Flannigan, Cashier of the Alabama Banking and Fruit Company, having been for a time also President of the Florence National Bank. A NASHVILLE BANK SUSPENDS. NASHVILLE (Tenn.), June 22. - The Nashville Savings Bank, conducted by Julius and Max Sax, closed its doors this afternoon. Messrs. Sax claim that the suspension of business is due to the stringency of the money market, and their inability to get rediscounts in the East. They believe they will be able to reopen in a month and pay the depositors in full. The assets are $665,000 and the liabilities about the same.


Article from The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer, June 23, 1891

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A. Bank Suspends. BIRMINGHAM, ALA., June 22.-The Florence National Bank, of Florence, Ala., closed its doors. The immediate cause is attributed to the spread of false reports which caused a run on the bank.


Article from The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, June 23, 1891

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MARSH FOOLED DREW More Correspondence in the Keystone Bank Matter. LOUISVILLE BANKERS COLLAPSE Rumors Cause a Birmingham, Ala., Institution to Close-Investigation of an Insurance Company. PHILADELPHIA, June 22-An official copy of all the correspondence between Comptroller Lacey, Bank Examiner Drew and others with reference to the affairs of the Keystone bank, which was received from the treasury department last week, was made public tonight. It is very voluminous, and much of It has already been published in connection with the investigation. In a letter from Drew to Lacey he gives the result of his examination of July 9. when be was informed of President Lucas' $600,000 deficit, and gives in detail the measures he took to recover from the Lucas estate. He says that Marsh was ignorantly led into these transactions while cashier by Lucas, and the latter on his deathbed exacted a promise from Marsh to continue the deception under representations that the money abstracted would BOOD return from Lucas' enterprises. Following this, at frequent intervals, were letters and telegrams in reference to the condition of the bank and organization efforts. On February 16 Drew's mind was evidently changing in regard to Marsh, for he reported that the developments made him suspicious of that gentleman. On February 28 Comptroller Lacey wrote to Drew, urging prompt measures to rehabilitate the bank, and saying that unless some other way was found at once be would order an assessment of the stock. After the assessment had been made there were many other communications, and finally, March 19, the comptroller telegraphed Drew to visit the bank in the morning. The next morning he received word to close it. On the same day Drew telegraphed Lacey, urging the appointment of & receiver without delay, and suggested the name of William Lynch. He added that there were strong probabilities that the bank would be reorganized by wealthy men. The same day Lacey sent Drew the following telegram, marked confidential. Call at the southeast corner of Eighteenth and Spruce streets at so'elock this evening and give Mr. W. a close estimate of the assets and liabili. ties. Encourage all efforts to reopen the bank, and give out no information except such as will conduce to that end and then with great care. On March 22 Drew wrote a private letter to Lacey advising that no action be taken against March as his services were indispensable toward the investigation. Previous to Marsh's arrest a number of letters passed in regard to the reorganization. NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 22-The Nashville Eavings bank, conducted by Judas and Max Sax, closed its doors this afternoon. The Messrs. Sex claim that the suspension of business was due to the stringency of the money market and their inability to get re-discounts in the East. They believe that they will be able to reopen in a mosth and pay the depositors in full. Their morets are $065,000 and their liabilities about the same. BISMINGHAM, Ala, June 22.-The Florence National bank, of Florence, Ala, closed its doors today. The immediate cause is said to be the spread of false reports, which caused & run on the bank. Home confusion seems to have resulted by reason of Mr. Flannigan, cashier of the Alabama Banking and Trust Company, having been for a time also president of the Florence National bank. New YORK, June 22.--Representatives of the State Insurance department began an examination of the affairs of the New York Life Insurance Company today. It was learned that Bell Kan, & lawyer of Hungary, has brought suit against the company in the courts of that country for the return of premiums he has paid, plus 6 per cent. interest. This action, it is said, is based upon a law prohibiting mutual companies from doing busines as joint stock eencerns. The New York Life is reported to have tried to do this and registered in 1886 as a share company, which it is not, and induced Kan to insure his life on such representation. Vice President Tack said that the difficulty in relation to the company not being a joint stock company had been settled. It arose through & mistake in the translation of the concession from the Hungarian government. New papers, however, had been filed and there was no longer any difficulty of the nature indicated. Ramuel Barth & Co., wholesale liquor dealers of this city and Baltimore, assigned today without preferences. HOLBROOK, Mass., June 22-Whitcomb & Paint, manufacturers of calf boots, close their factory this week indefinitels This caused


Article from Evening Journal, June 23, 1891

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THE NEWS IN BRIEF. Items of Interest Carefully Edited and Condensed. Fire destroyed the house and barnowned by Charles Smith, of Pittsfield, Mass., with their contents, including one horse. Loss, $3,500; insurance, $2,600. The jury to try the indicted New York Central directors has been completed. The taking of testimony will begin today. Peter McLaughlin was killed and John Polker severely injured by a premature explosion of dynamite at Leiper's quarries, Chester, Pa. The trial of Meyer & Dickinson's second suit against the government for the recovery of duties on articles used as hat trimmings has been resumed in the United States circuit court at Philadelphia. Acting Secretary Spaulding sold to Harvey Fisk & Sons, of New York, the entire issue of District of Columbia 31/4 per cent. bonds ($2,400,000) at $100.531 for each $100 bond. J. H. Moreys, of Ogdensburg, S. Y2 aged twenty-two, a clerk in Lamb & Ca's dry goods store at Northampton, Maes., was drowned in the Connectiont river by the upsetting of his canoe. The Florence National bank of Florence, Ala., has closed its doors. The immediate cause is attributed to the spread of false reports, which caused a run on the bank. At the meeting of the trustΓ©es of WIIliams' college, Williamstown, Mass., Bernard C. Steiner, of Johns Hopkins, was appointed to fill the chair of American history during the absence of Professor Rice in Europe. Philip Corner, of Wellsbury, N. Y., was struck and killed by lightning as be was looking out of a window of a tanpery at that place. The building was not damaged. Pennsylvania's World's fair bill has been approved by the governor and the commission appointed. The funeral of ex-Senator McDonald will take place in Indianapolis next Wednesday afternoon. Captain Lawler, of Marblehend, Mass, has sailed on his trip across the Atlantic in a dory.


Article from Evening Star, June 23, 1891

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Two Southern Banks Closed. The Florence National Bank of Florence, Ala., closed its' doors yesterday. The immediate cause is attributed to the false reports which caused a run on the bank. The bank expects to resume again in a few days, as soon as things are straightened out. The Nashville Savings Bank closed its doors yesterday afternoon. Liabilities and assets variously estimated atfrom $250,000 to $600,000.


Article from The Madison Daily Leader, June 24, 1891

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Failure Caused by False Reports. BIRMINGHAM, Ala.. June 24.-The Florence National bank, of Florence, Ala., has closed its doors. The immediate cause is attributed to the spread of false reports which caused a run on the bank.


Article from Grant County Herald, June 25, 1891

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NUMBER 18. BANKS CLOSED UP. Sax Brothers' Savings Institution at Nashville, Tenn., Fails. Liabilities and Assets Are About $600,000 Each - - Business Troubles in Other Cities. FORCED TO ASSIGN. NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 24.-The banking firm of Sax Bros., generally known as Sax's bank, made an assignment Monday afternoon. Liabilities, $600,000; assets about the same. The Messrs. Sax say that they have put every dollar of their assets, both of the bank and their personal property, into the assignment. Not only were expressions of regret general at the unexpected event, but proffers of substantial aid were made immediately from all sides. The institution has been in existence something over a quarter of a century, and has been throughout this period one of the most highly esteemed banking houses in Nashville. It is hoped that within a few weeks the business may be resumed. It appears that a run on the bank began at 11:30 o'clock Monday and continued until 1 o'clock, when it was plainly seen that unless assistance could be had from the other banks suspension must result. The assistance was not forthcoming and the bank suspended. The depositors who called at the bank were told that they would all be paid in full, but that some time would be required for the bank to realize on its assets. This being the first bank suspension in the city for twenty-five or thirty years it occasioned no little excitement. The impression prevails that the depositors will lose little if anything. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., June 24.-The Florence national bank of Florence, Ala., closed its doors Monday. The immediate cause is attributed to the spread of false reports which caused a run on the bank. Some confusion seems to have resulted by reason of Mr. Flannigan, cashier of the Alabama Banking & Trust Company, having been for a time also president of the Florence national bank. Its books "showed $10,000 deposited in the Traders' national bank of Boston, but a draft on that bank for $6,000 went to protest. It developed that the $10,000 had been appropriated to paying certificates of deposit of the Alabama Banking & Trust Company on the order of Mr. Flannigan. LOUISVILLE, Ky., June 24.-W. Bensinger & Sons, dealers in furniture, assigned Monday morning. Liabilities, $40,000; assets, $45,000. BOSTON, June 24.-Alley Bros. & Place, leather dealers at 54 South street, have assigned to W. A. Rust and W. A. Knowlton. The liabilities are estimated at $500,000.


Article from Staunton Vindicator, June 26, 1891

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census report owned by Negroes in Virginia cities is valued at $3,019,950 and their personal property $454,799. In the counties the real estate owned by Negroes is valued at $8,555,964 and their personal property $2,996,089. Total in State $15,026,802. George Hutchins of New Jersey, a few years ago, left Henry George $12,000 to be used in printing and distributing his book "Progress and Poverty." The widow contested the will and after two years litigation there is $584 left out of the $12,000, in the division of which the court awards Mr. George two-thirds. On the farm of Geo. Vandevander in Highland Co., Va., was blown down, last week, an apple tree planted about one hundred years ago, and which, up to three years ago, bore eighty bushels of apples a year. It measured 10Β½ feet around the trunk. Benj. J. Brooks, a school teacher near Americus, Ga., has just been sentenced to $500 fine or eight months in the chain gang for cruelly beating a pupil. Brooks has money to pay the fine, but preferred working it out in the chain gang, to paying it. Why do people wait until a man is sick and can't eat, to send him good things? When he is well, and would like something good, no neighbor comes in with fancy jellies, old wines, and things like that. Things are very unfair.-Atchison Globe. The bronze statue of the late Gen. Wm. C. Wiekham has been completed and is ready for delivery to the city of Richmond. It is thought that it will be placed in Monroe Park. At a circus side-show in Chicago, while Miss Uno, the snake charmer, was performing with a fourteen-foot python, it tightened Its folds on her and seized her arm with its teeth. It took three men to release her. Mrs. Ellen Moore of Williamsport, Pa., who is a member of the Funeral Directors' Association of Pennsylvania, has been in the business forty years and buried 5,338 persons. Robert Garnett of Va., a near relative of the late Senator R. M. T. Hunter, has been appointed keeper of the morgue at Washington. A London tradesman recently received an order for sixty-four pairs of shoes for the daughter of the Grand Duke Paul of Russia, a child less than a year old. Gov. McKinney says he will recommend in his message to the next Virginia legislature, a law requiring separate cars for whites and negroes on the railroads. The Florence National Bank of Florence, Ala., suspended Monday, after a run on it, caused by a false report. It expects to resume in a few days. John D. Rockefeller, the Standard Oil man, is the richest man in America and much ahead of Gould or the Vanderbilts. His wealth is estimated at $129,000,000. The second lot of new Virginia wheat received in Baltimore, this time $280 bushels, from Lancaster county, sold at $1,50 a bushel. General Grant's sister Mw. Mary Crant.


Article from The Kinsley Graphic, June 26, 1891

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THE SOUTH. THE Pan-American Steamship Co. has been organized at Mobile, Ala. OAK CLIFF, Tex., lost seven brick buildings by fire. MEETINGS have been held in many southern cities to take action upon the proposed monument to Jefferson Davis. From Chattanooga, Tenn.; Savannah, Ga.; Richmond, Va.; Charleston and many towns and villages in South Carolina come tenders of funds, etc. SAM JOHNSON, colored, was hanged at Charleston, W. Va., for assaulting Alice Bailey, a white girl, on April 4. EASTERN Arkansas has been visited by a disastrous storm. Two or three lives were lost. AN Illinois Central fast express was ditched at Kenner, La, on the night of the 19th. Six persons were said to be killed and fifteen or twenty injured. AT the county infirmary at Memphis, Tenn., Eli Burns, a colored lunatic, attacked Warden Frank Gregory with a shovel, striking him a violent blow on the head, killing him instantly. A PARTY of colored picnickers were upset while returning in & boat at Curtis creek, Baltimore, Md., on the 20th. Seven of them were drowned. THE Florence (Ala.) national bank has suspended. THE principal business block of Jefferson, Tex., was destroyed by fire the other night. Loss, $75,000. Two convicts at camp twenty miles from Chattanooga, Tenn, who attempted to escape were shot dead by the guards. A DESPERATE attempt of convicts to escape occurred at Cole City, Ga., during which two officers and one convict were killed and three other convicts were desperately wounded. Three escaped, one of whom was recaptured.


Article from The Columbian, June 26, 1891

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BRIEF MENTIONOF NEWS Happenings of the World from Pole to Pole. TOLD IN A FEW SECONDS OF TIME The Developments of Each Day During the Week Caught Fresh from the Bus Wires and Carefully Edited and Con densed for Our Readers. redestroyed the house and barn owned by Charles Smith, of Pittsfield, Mass., with their contents, including one horse. Loss $3,500; insurance, $2,600. The jury to try the indicted New Yorl Central directors has been completed. Th taking of testimony will begin today. Peter McLaughlin was killed and John Polker severely injured by a prematur explosion of dynamite Leiper's quarries Chester, Pa. The trial of Meyer & Dickinson's secon suit against the government for the recov ery of duties on articles used as hat trim mings has been resumed in the Unite States circuit court at Philadelphia. Acting Secretary Spaulding sold to Har vey Fisk & Sons, of New York, the entir issue of District of Columbia 3Β½ per cent bonds ($2,400,000) at $100.531 for each $10 bond. J. H. Moreys, of Ogdensburg. N. Y. aged twenty-two, a clerk in Lamb & Co.' dry goods store at Northampton, Mass was drowned in the Connecticut river b the upsetting of his canoe. The Florence National bank of Florence Ala., has closed its doors. The immediat cause is attributed to the spread of fals reports, which caused a run on the bank At the meeting of the trustees of Will liams' college, Williamstown, Mass., Ber nard C. Steiner, of Johns Hopkins, wa appointed to fill the chair of America history during the absence of Professo Rice in Europe. Philip Corner, of Wellsbury, N. Y., wa struck and killed by lightning as he wa looking out of a window of a tannery a that place. The building was not dam aged. Pennsylvania's World's fair bill has bee approved by the governor and the commis sion appointed. Captain Lawler, of Marblehead, Mass has sailed on his trip across the Atlanti in a dory. An engine on the Nablette narrow guag road, about ten miles west of Willo Springs, Mo., ran into a push car contain ing eleven employes. James Kamtzer an Fred Eberles were instantly killed and W W. Richman severely injured. The othe eight men escaped by jumping. Frederick Molock, of Newark, N. J., wh has spent fifty of his eighty years in prisor was sent to jail for ninety days by Justic Preisel. Joseph Barton, a farmer, was drowne in the Hackensack river at New Bridge N. J., while bathing. The slaughterhouse of Jacob Schlemme on the turnpike road, Harrison, N. J., wa destroyed by fire, involving a loss of $10,00 Charles Woodruff, a farmer at Giffords S. I., has been missing from his home th past three weeks. He is a man of about forty-three years, medium build, has gra hair and brown mustache. Pasqualo Delto, an Italian saloon keepe at 153 South Canal street, Newark, wa arrested for assaulting the thirteen-yea old daughter of Abraham Guenstone wit a stick and breaking her leg. Fourth class postmasters have been a] pointed in New York state as follows: 1 M. Ingelow at South Limaand A. Wemple at Waupenville. The secretary of the interior has awarde the contract for repairing the great Cas Grande prehistoric ruin near Gila river i Arizona. The sum of $2,000 was appropr ated by the last congress. At a special meeting of the New Yor Life Insurance company resolutions wer adopted calling for a thorough investiga tion of its affairs, especially with regard t the Spanish-American department, and ex pressing confidence in the solidity of th institution. The census office has in press and wi shortly publish for distribution an elabo ate report on lumber production and allie industries for the states of Michigan, Wi consin and Minnesota. Henry C. Fanning, convicted of the mu der of Mrs. Emily Taylor on April 18 i


Article from The Morning News, June 28, 1891

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Florence's Broken Bank. W ASHINGTON, June 27.-Mr. Lacey, controller of the currency, says that the Florence National Bank of Florence, Ala., will be placed in charge of a receiver as soon as the proper selection can be made.


Article from Richmond Dispatch, June 28, 1891

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The Florence National Bank. [By telegraph to the Dispatch.] WASHINGTON. D. C., June 27.-Mr. Lacey, Comptroller of the Currency, says that the Florence National Bank, of Florence, Ala., will be placed in charge of a receiver as soon as a proper selection can be made.


Article from San Antonio Daily Light, June 29, 1891

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LATE TELEGRAMS BCILED DOWN FROM PRIVATE, SPECIAL AND OTHER SOURCES. Victoria baseballers lay the Beeville Picayunes out cold. State encampment meets in Austin July 18, to continue one week. Wilson county needs more rain and is suffering for want of it. Bones of a mastadon discovered near Luling. Fishing is the favorite pastime about Luling and sport is good. Fort Worth saloons are pulled for keeping open from 9 a. m. to 4. m. Dr. Shrod's handsome dwelling, Marshall, is destroyed by fire. Sheriff Bob Williams shoots Sam Cullock at Conowav, Ark. Iowa was visited with a disasterous storm on Saturday. Hogs, cattle and horses are floating in the Iowa streams. Rains, heavy and light, have fallen in the vicinity of Lockhart. Lockhart is extending and improving street car service. Chairman Finley authorises the competing roads to meet the Alton rates. Florence National bank, Ala., goes into hands of receivers as soon as appointment can be made. Western traffic association lines are clamoring for a division of freights. Prince Victor must break his leason or Eugenie will not grant him annuity or fortune. Mr. Moreau endeavors to secure abrogation of deeree by chambers, in France, against American pork. A Pittsburg kid, nine years old, swims'one and a half milesand finishes, strong. Henry Martin. drunk and disorderlyfkilled by a policeman at Pine Bluff, Ark. Three 16-year old boy S arrested for attempted passenger train wrecking near Ada, Minn. Honduras appoints commissioners for the World's fair, and will be on hand with a large exhibit. The report is untrue that the Dalton gang has raided Guthrie City I. T. Not a single life was lost in Cherokee, Io., by the flood, but the damage to property is beyond estimate. Thursday's rain in Kansas carried away wheat, barns and agricultural implements. Lone Star Brewing company have established cold storage at Floresville. Rosser and Carroll have put 1,000 young horses on their Wilson county range. Havana sugar seliers are holding for higher prices and business is light. Mrs. Wood tells in the Topeka papers how her husband was murdered at Hugoton, Kan. News comes from Holstein, Ia., of three school houses swept away and two children drowned in the late storms. Illinois Central road has 600 men at work in the storm-swept Iowa district. The record of the bicyclists in the Buffalo races will be disputed, as the track has been measured and found short. Minnesota and Dakota have been greatly benefitted by the late rains which were not as severe as in Iowa and Kansas. The Sturm matter is being investigated in Mexico, but does not show that any promises were made to him, as alleged. The Goldings, San Francisco, fight the police, mistaking them for burglars: three officers hurt and two of the Goldings, one fatally. Cherokee. Iowa,, has 50 houses gone and 100 more wrecked. In two hours from the time the alarm was given the entire valley was flooded. As the result of the last state teachers' association Texas may possibly have a chair of pedagoguey in the university. In the 25 miles cycling race, July 17, between Detroit and Pontiac,an observation train will accompany the races, the road running parallel with the railroad all the way. Riverside Concert.


Article from San Antonio Daily Light, July 20, 1891

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# Wagon Company Fails. FLORENCE, July 20.-The Florence Wagon Manufacturing company failed; assets, $180,000; liabilities, $78,000. The failure is attributable to the assignment of the Florence National bank some days ago. Business will be continued by the receivers and creditors will be paid in full.


Article from Warren Sheaf, July 23, 1891

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# Southern Wagonmakers Suspend. FLORENCE, Ala., July 20. - The Florence Wagon Manufacturing Co. failed Saturday, with assets of $180,000, and liabilities of $78,000. The cause of the failure was the collapse of the Florence national bank some days ago.


Article from Evening Star, July 24, 1891

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A RECEIVER APPOINTED.-The controller of the currency has appointed Col. John C. Goodloe, sr., of Barton, Ala., receiver of the Florence National Bank of Florence, Ala. -


Article from The Morning News, July 24, 1891

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Made Receiver of a Bank. WASHINGTON, July 23.-The - controller of the currency to-day appointed Col. John C. Goodloe, Sr., of Barton, Ala., receiver of the Florence National Bank of Florence, Ala.


Article from Fisherman & Farmer, July 24, 1891

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South and West. SIM JOHNSON, colored, was hanged at Charlestown, W. Va, for assaulting a white gir!. OPPOSITE Golconda, III., William H. Hockwisher and William Kreipke, both under thirty, and two colored men were drowned by the overturning of their skiff in a sudden windstorm. ALICE JONES and May Davis, of Union Springs, Ala., tried to cross a high trestle and were overtaken by a train and killed. THE jury at Walla Walla, Washington, which has been trying a number of Uncle Sam's soldiers for the lynching of Gambler Hunt, who killed one of their number in a brawl, brought in a verdict of "not guilty." A CYCLONE in Cairo, III., did much damage, unroofing many houses, and blowing cars from the railroad track. THE Nashville (Tenn.) banking firm of Sax Brothers, generally known as Sax's bank, made an assignment. The liabilities are $600,000. SECRETARY RUSK inaugurated the first official miscroscopic inspection of pork at the Union Stock Yards, Chicago, III. MRS. JOHN LARSON, of Hudson, Wis., in a fit of insanity, drowned her three children in a lake. THE Florence National Bank of Florence, Ala., closed its doors. The immediate cause is attr buted to the spread of false reports, which caused a run on the bank PRINCE GEORGE, of Greece, who accompanied the Czarewitch of Russia on his tour, arrived at San Francisco, Cal., from Yokohama. Japan. He was to proceed direct to New York, sail for London, and go thence to St. Petersburg. FOUR men were killed by the wrecking of a construction train near Richmond, Ky. Six others were injured.


Article from Delaware Gazette and State Journal, July 30, 1891

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IN A FINANCIAL WAY. Investment Company Assigns--Big Montreal Failure--A New York Contractor Goes Broke. The Kimball-Champ Investment Company of Council Bluffs, Ia., with a capital stock of $300,000, has made an assignment. It is said the liabilities are about $100,000 and the assets $400,000. W. H. Halliburton, wholesale druggist in Little Rock, Ark., has made an assignment, with preferences amounting to $46,000. The comptroller of the currency last Thursday appointed Col. J. C. Goodloe receiver of the Florence National Bank of Florence, Ala. The wholesale millinery and dry goods firm of John McLean & Co., of Montreal, has made an assignment on demand of the Merchants' Bank. The total liabilities are $281,000 An execution was placed in the hands of the sheriff in New York Thursday against Contractor Herman Clarke, for $108,987, upon a judgment in favor of David E. Donovan, in an accounting of I partnership. The firm of H. Clarke & Co., was formed March 20th, 1884, and built the Staten Island Rapid Transit Company's railroad.


Article from Perrysburg Journal, January 9, 1892

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BUSINESS FAILURES. Jan. 13-E. H. Amidon, dry goods dealer, New York: $697,766. Jan. 16-Stoneboro savings bank and Sandy Lake savings bank, both of Pennsylvania. Jan. 19-American national bank, Kansas City. Mo.: $2,000,000. Jan. 20- State bank of Cawker City, Bank of Downs and Glen Elder bank of Glen Eider, all of Kansas, suspended. Jan. 21-Kawaka City (Kan.) state bank. Jan. 26-Savings bank of Wichita, Kan.; $81,000. Feb. 5-First Arkansas Valley bank, Wichits, Kan.; $120,000. Feb. 12-First national and North Middlesex savings bank, Ayer, Mass. Feb. 19-John D. Knox & Co., private bankers, Topeka, Kan.: $340,000 Union Investment Company, Kansas City; $1,000,000. Feb. 25-Windsor national bank, Windsor, Vt. Mar. 19-J. & A. Simpkinson, boot and shoe manufacturers, Cincinnati; $400.000. United States savings bank, Topeka, Kan., $330,000. Mar. 20-Theodore Schwartz & Co., private bankers, Louisville, Ky.; $500,000. Mar. 24-Washingt n national bank, New York Schall & Downer, bankers. York, Pa. Apr. 2-The John McNabb bank, Eufaula, Ala. Apr. 4-Columbia Iron & Steel Company and Pennsylvania Construction Company, Uniontown, Pa; $1,000,000. May 7-Bank of Allen county at Scottsville, Ky. May 9-Spring Garden national bank. Philadelphia. May 15-People's bank at Knoxville, Tenn. May 22-Hills Shot Company at Memphis, Tenn., $600,000. May 26-Potter, White & Bailey, shoe manufacturers at Boston: $1,000,000. May 27-John Ryan's Sons, wholesale dry g oods, Atlanta, Ga.: $1,000,000. June 4-The City national bank at Marshall, Mich. June 5 - Connell, Hall, McLaster & Co., wholesale dry goods, Nashville, Tenn.; $500,000 The Huntington (Ind.) bank. June 13-Central national bank, Broken Bow, Neb. June 10-Sevill Scofield, woolen manufacturer at Manayunk, Pa.: $800,000. June23-The Florence national bank, Florence, Ala., and Sax Brothers' savings bank, Nashville, Tenn. July 7-Moses Bros., bankers, Montgomery, Ala; $500,000. July 8-Bank of Commerce, Sheffield, Ala. July 14-E. C. Stark, banker at Oneida, N. Y.; $220,000. July 16-Spooner R. Howell & Co., lumber dealers, Chicago, and other cities; $2,000,000. July 17-First national bank, Wyandotte, Kan. $1,000,000. July 18-First national bank, Palatka, Fla.; $200,000 Bonneil & Co., printer's ink manufacturers, New York, $100,000. July 21-Central bank of Kansas at Kansas City, Kan.: $100,000 Merchants' national bank, Fort Worth, Tex.: $500,000. July 23-Citizens' bank of Jefferson, Tex.; $100,000. Aug. 4-Abraham Backer, dry goods commission, New York; $4,000,000 Samuel Hano, real estate dealer, Allston, Mass.; $500,000. Aug. 8-Masonic savings bank, Louisville, Ky.; $1,000,000. Aug. 19-Johnston, Tallman & Co., flreworks importers, New York city: $600,000. Sep. 23-S. V. White & Co., New York, commission merchants. $2,000,000. Sep. 30-F. B. Wallace & Co., New York, brokers; $390.000. Oct. 1-First national bank at Clearfield Pa... Chrisman (111.) bank: $100,000. Oct. 3-Turner & Bro., Boston bankers; $300,000. Oct. 5-Ulster county savings' institution, Kingston, N. Y., robbed by officials of $463,000. Oct. 16-State bank at Gritna, Neb. Oct. 17-The Columbia bank and the Bank of Columbia, at Nashville, Tenn. Oct. 23-Bank of Lewisburg, Tenn. $80,000. Nov. 2-Maverick national bank of Boston, suspended; liabilities, $10,000,000. Nov. 7-The Cochrane-Fulton Company, distillers, at Louisvil.e, Ky.; liabilities, $500,000 Bank of Fiorence, Aia.; $100,000. Nov. 7-The Corry (Pa.) national bank closed its doors: $700,000. Nov. 13-California national bank at Santiago, Cal. Nov. 14-Bonner & Bonner, bankers at Tyler, Tex.; $500,000. Nov. 25-Farmers' and Miners' Deposit bank, Irwin, Pa First national bank, Wilmington, N. C. Nov. 28-Field, Lindley, Wicchers & Co., bankers and brokers of New York, $1,000,000. Dec. 22-Private banks at Waynesboro, Warrentown and New Market, Va., closed their doors Thomas H. Allen & Co., cotton dealera, Memphis, Tenn.; $544,932. Dec. 23-Bank of Greenville, Greenville, Miss : $1,000,000.