6177. Woodsdale State Bank (Stevens County, KS)

Bank Information

Episode Type
Suspension โ†’ Closure
Bank Type
state
Start Date
November 30, 1888
Location
Stevens County, Kansas (37.192, -101.312)

Metadata

Model
gpt-5-mini
Short Digest
e02f68b45927d195

Response Measures

None

Description

Multiple contemporaneous telegrams (Nov 28โ€“30, 1888) report the Woodsdale State Bank suspended due to poor management; an attachment was served by its principal depositor D. W. Walker. No run is mentioned. Closure appears permanent in these reports (no reopening reported), so classified as suspension_closure. The county (Stevens) inferred from provided bank info.

Events (1)

1. November 30, 1888 Suspension
Cause
Bank Specific Adverse Info
Cause Details
Persistent unjudicious management and unprofitable business; principal depositor D. W. Walker had an attachment served on the bank and its property.
Newspaper Excerpt
A telegram received in this city states the Woodsdale State Bank has suspended. Its finances had not been judiciously managed and the institution had not been doing a profitable business for several months. D. W. Walker, who is the principal depositor, had an attachment served on the bank and all its property.
Source
newspapers

Newspaper Articles (8)

Article from Evening Star, November 30, 1888

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A Kansas Bank Suspends. TOPEKA, KAN., Nov. 30.-A telegram received in this city states the Woodsdale state bank has suspended. Its finances had not been judiciously managed and the institution has not been doing a profitable business for several months. D. W. Walker, who is the principal depositor, had an attachment served on the bank and all its property.


Article from The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer, December 1, 1888

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A State Bank Suspends, TOPEKA, KAS., Nov. 30.-A telegram received in this city states that the Woodsdale State Bank has suspended. Its finances had not been judiciously managed and the institution had not been doing a profitable business for several months. D. W. Walker, who is the principal depositor, had an attachment served on the bank and all its property.


Article from The Morning News, December 1, 1888

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A Kansas Bank Assigns. TOPEKA, Kan., Nov. 30.-A telegram received in this city states that the Woods dale State Bank has suspended. Its finances had not been judiciously managed, and the institution had not been doing a profitable business for several months. D. W. Walker, who is the principal depositor, had an attachment served on the bank and all its property.


Article from Richmond Dispatch, December 1, 1888

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# Suspension of a Bank. (By telegraph to the Dispatch.) TOPEKA, KAN., November 30.- A telegram received in this city states that the Woods-dale State Bank has suspended. Its finances had not been judiciously managed, and the institution had not been doing a profitable business for several months. D. W. Walker, who is the principal depositor, had an attachment served on the bank and all its property.


Article from St. Paul Daily Globe, December 1, 1888

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A Bank Suspends Payment. TOPEKA, Kan., Nov. 30.-A telegram received in this city states that the Woodsdale State bank has suspended. Its finances had not been judiciously managed and the institution had not been doing a profitable business for several months. D. W. Walker, who is the principal depo. had an attachment served on the bank and all its property.


Article from St. Paul Daily Globe, December 1, 1888

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A Bank Suspends Payment. TOPEKA, Kan., Nov. 30.-A telegram received in this city states that the Woodsdale State bank has suspended. Its finances had not been judiciously managed and the institution had not been doing a profitable business for several months. D. W. Walker, who is had an attachthe principal depos ment served on the bank and all its property.


Article from Mower County Transcript, December 5, 1888

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Epitome of the Week. INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION, DOMESTIC. ADVICES of the 26th say that the recent storm in the East had resulted in great loss of life. The fishing schooner Edward Newton went to pieces on the Massachusetts coast and fifteen of her crew were drowned. At various points snow fell to a considerable depth, seriously interfer with railroad travel. Thirteen coal-barges were sunk in New York bay. but no lives were lost as far as known. Five seamen were drowned off Nantasket Beach, Mass. At Long Branch, N. J., many cottages were carr ed out to sea IN a drunken affray on the 26th at Vian, Ind. T., four Cherokee Indians were killed and another was shot through hand. Two MEN were killed and three injured in a collision on the 26th between passenger trains near Husted, Col., and three cars were burned. THE bootblacks of Indianapolis inaugurated a strike on the 26th to put the price of shine up to ten cents. "Dock' HAGGERTY was unloading glycer ine at Pleasantv lle, Pa., on the 26th when it exploded by some means and Haggerty was blown to atoms. Parts of his two horses were found in neighboring trees, and a piece of the wagon was found half a mile away. AT Centerville. Pa., on the 26th three men were killed and one badly injured by a boiler explosion. NEAR Brazil. Ind., on the 26th Tom Warren and John R. Berry, miners, were killed by falling slate. A KEG of powder exploded in George Palmer's store at Scrufftown. Pa., on the 26th, fatally injuring him. killing a ten year-old daughter and wounding three other persons. A COTTON mill with a capacity of ten thousand yards a day. and employing two hundred men, was started at Des Moines. Ia., on the 26th, and as it was the first in the State the event was celebrated by speeches and other ceremonies. REPORTS on the 26th from Rochester and Albany, N. Y., and St. John, N. B., say that vessels had been frozen in and navigation was closed up. THE St. Louis, Quincy, Omaha & Sioux City railroad was incorporated on the 26th, with a capital stock of $12,000,000. TWENTY miles west of Chattanooga, Tenn. a deposit of rich lubricating oil was found on the 26th at a depth of one thousand feet. THE store of the Canton (O.) Co operative Clothing Company was closed on the 26th on executions aggregating $26,000. The liabilities were $50,000, THE corner stone of the new court-house at Evansville, Ind., to cost $500,000, was laid on the 27th with masonic ceremonies, THE true source of the Mississippi river has, it was alleged on the 27th, been discovered by persons living at Sauk Center, Minn. who say the Father of Waters flows from two small creek-fed lakes whose waters are emptied into Lake Glazier, recently discovered by Captain Willard Glazier. JOHN WOODS, aged sixty-fl years, and his bed-ridden sister M ry, age. sixty-one years, were burned to death in Brooklyn, N. Y., on the 27th by the destruction of their house by fire. A STATEMENT prepared at the Pension Bureau in Washington on the 27th showed that of the 15 000 estimated cases under the act of June 7. 1888, allowing widows arrears of pension from the date of their husbands' death, 14,502 had been allowed and settled. THE new church of the First Congregational Society at Northampton, Mass. was ruined by fire on the 27th. It 175,000. ADVICES of the 27th say that the steamer Allentown went to pieces in the recent storm on the coast near Cohassetts, Mass. and eighteen lives were lost. The losses caused by the storm at Atlantic City, N. J., were greater than had been experienced since the incorporation of that city. FRANK TRAVIS, a bar tender, committed suicide on the 27th at Shelbyille, Ind, because he had been discharged for drunkenness. AT Morrelton, Ark., on the 27th City Marshal Bentley was accidentally shot and cilled by his brother, Sheriff Bentley, who was examining pistol THE City Council of Reading, Pa., on the 27th passed an ordinance making it unlawful for contractors to employ any but citizens of the United States on municipal work. FOR the first time in one hundred and twelve days there were no new cases of yellow fever reported at Jacksonville, Fla., on the 27th. Towns all around were raising the quarantiue and trains were again running. a JEWET DARGENTON, proprietor of boarding house at Amesbury, Miss., shot his wife on the 27th and then killed himself. Jealousy prompted the act. IN the trial in Chicago on the 27th of Hronek, the Anarchist, informer Chleboun testified that Hronek confe sed to him that he tried to throw a b mb under President Cleveland's carriage in the procession last year and that he threw the Haymarket bomb. CHARLES E. STANLEY. treasurer of the Cleveland Gas C mpany, was on the 27th charged with defalcations amounting to over 20,000. BANKERS at Milwaukee on the 27th reported counterfeit five-dollar silvercertificates in circulation. They are of the series of 1886, and bear a blurred picture of Grant, which is the principal defect of the bill, aside from the paper not having a silk fiber. A BOILER explosion on the 27th at Ralston's saw-mill at Adams Corners, Pa., killed three men. THE canning house of McGaw Bros., near Spesutra Island, Md., was destroyed by fire on the 27th. Loss, $100.000 THE sale to a New England synd cate of thirty-six thousand acres of mining land in Alabama was announced on the 27th. The price obtained was nearly $1,000,000. ALBERT L. WALLACE, of Sandusky, O. acc.dentally dropped two sticks of dynamite in his office on the 29th ult. demolishing the building and causing his own death. FIFTEEN business houses at Durant, Mi-s., were burned on the 29th ult THE Woodsdale (Kan.) State Bank suspended payment on the 28th AT Spikerville Ind., Elias Jackson on the 29th ult. mortally shot Curtis Jellison,


Article from The Worthington Advance, December 6, 1888

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WEST AND SOUTH. MILWAUKEE bankers on the 27th reported counterfeit five-doliar silver certificates in circulation. They are of the series of 1886, and bear a blurred picture of Grant, which is the principal defect of the bill, aside from the paper not having a silk fiber. THE official returns on the 27th of the vote for Governor in Illinois at the recent election show that Fifer (Rep.) received 367,860 votes, Palmer (Dem.) 855,603, and Hart (Pro.) 18,913. Fifer's plurality, 12,247. ON the 27th the corner stone of the new court-house at Evansville, Ind., to cost $500,000, was laid with masonic ceremonies. IT was said on the 27th that the true source of the Mississippi river has been discovered by persons living at Sauk Center, Minn., who say the Father of Waters flows from two small creek-fed lakes whose waters are emptied into Lake Glazier, recently discovered by Captain William Glazier. THERE were no new cases of yellow fever reported at Jacksonville, Fla., on the 27th for the first time in one hundred and twelve days. Towns all around were raising the quarantine and trains were again running. OFFICIAL returns on the 28th from every county in Wisconsin showed as follows: For President-Harrison, 176,553; Cleveland, 155,282; Fisk, 14,277; Streeter, 8,552. Harrison's plurality, 21,271. For Governor -Hoard, 175,696; Morgan, 155,425; Durant, 14.353; Powell, 9,196. Hoard's plurality, 20,271. OFFICIAL returns on the 28th of Iowa's vote for electors were as follows: Harrison, 211,598; Cleveland, 179,877; Streeter, 9,105; Fisk, 3,550; total vote, 404,130; Harrison's plurality, 31,721. A BAND of armed men early on the morning of the 29th ult. stormed and broke into the jail at Wytheville, Va., and rescued Wayman Sutton, sentenced to be hanged the next day for murder. FIRE destroyed fifteen houses at Durant, Miss., on the 29th ult. THE doors of the Woodsdale (Kan.) State Bank were closed on the 28th. IN the negro quarter of Savannah, Ga., a drunken riot on the 29th ult. caused the killing of one man and injuries to some other persons, black and white. THE Governor gave Maryland's new Congressional delegation their certificates on the 28th. It is made up of two Republicans and four Democrats. SEVERAL Democratic Grand Army of the Republic veterans met in Indianapolis on the 28th and effected an organization to be known as the Democratic Soldiers and Sailors' Veteran Association of Indiana. This organization is the result of what has been termed the revolt against the G. R.