6503. State Bank (Brookville, KS)

Bank Information

Episode Type
Suspension → Closure
Bank Type
state
Start Date
March 3, 1894
Location
Brookville, Kansas (38.775, -97.868)

Metadata

Model
gpt-5-mini
Short Digest
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Description

Multiple newspapers in March 1894 report the State Bank of Brookville, Saline County, Kansas, closed/failed and a receiver was appointed. No article describes a depositor run — reporting indicates insolvency/failure and appointment of a receiver. Dates derived from newspaper dates (early March 1894); receiver appointment mentioned mid-March.

Events (2)
1. March 3, 1894 Suspension
Cause
Bank Specific Adverse Info
Cause Details
Bank failed/closed after capital was reduced by the business depression; liabilities reported about $50,000 and insolvency led to closure and failure; receiver later appointed (mid-March).
Newspaper Excerpt
The State Bank of Brookville, Saline County, Kan., has failed.
Source
newspapers
2. March 16, 1894 Other
Newspaper Excerpt
Frank Y. Locke of the Salina State bank has been appointed by the probate judge as receiver for the State Bank of Brookville, Salina county, which closed its doors a few days ago.
Source
newspapers

Newspaper Articles (4)
1. March 3, 1894 The Evening World New York, NY
Article from The Evening World, March 3, 1894

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Wire News in Brief. An unknown schooner is reported ashore off Hog's Island, Va., bar. Section Master Flynn was wounded and a Mr. Smith was killed at Scriven. Ga., Tuesday night by Calvin Carter, a negro. At Belle Centre, O., William Hall, aged sixtysix. was beaten to death with an Indian club by Charles Green. a negro. who was arrested. At Henrietta. Tenn., Arthur. the eight-year-old son of Mrs. Zach Jannett, was accidentally shot and killed by his fourteen-year-old brother. Green Warlock & Co.'s bank at Victoria. B. C., has assigned for the benefit of creditors. The assets are $600,000 and liabilities about $400,000. The fishing schooner Red Breast. of Dipper Harbor. N. B., struck on the ledges at Grand Manan Thursday evening and is a total wreck. The crew was saved. A band of Yaqui Indians has been robbing settlers in the Upper Yaqui River Valley, Mexico, and murdered one ranchman named Torres, because he offered resistance. The State Bank of Brookville. Saline County. Kan., has failed. The bank was organized with a capital stock of $60,000. but the business depression had reduced It to $20,000. A. D. Cory. the railroad agent at Suspension. Ala., was fatally injured by an unknown man yesterday. who assaulted him with a hatchet and then pushed his face and arms into the office fire.

2. March 3, 1894 New-York Tribune New York, NY
Article from New-York Tribune, March 3, 1894

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FAILURES IN THE WEST. Tacoma, Wash., March 2.-A Port Townsend dispatch announces the failure of Waterman & Katz, doing an extensive mercantile business in this State. Liabilities, $125,000; assets, $100,000. Topeka, Kan., March 2.-Notice was received today by State Bank Commissioner Breidenthal of the failure of the State Bank of Brookville, Saline County. The bank was originally capitalized for $50,000, but lately the capital was reduced to $20,000. The liabilities and assets have not been reported. Victoria, B. C., March 2.-The old-established private banking firm of Green, Worlock & Co. suspended payment to-day. The liabilities are $444,900; nominal assets, $610,010.

3. March 8, 1894 Warren Sheaf Warren, MN
Article from Warren Sheaf, March 8, 1894

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CHARLES DAWSON and Frank Rippy were killed by an explosion in a planing mill at Warsaw, Ind., and two other men were fatally injured. FIRE destroyed Colby Broa.' livery barn at Fort Dodge, Ia., and twentyeight head of horses were roasted alive. AT the age of 110 years Mrs. Sarah Galloway (colored) died near Alton, III. THE marriage of nine eloping Kentucky couples took place at Jeffersonville, Jnd. BUSINESS was resumed by the Commercial bank of Milwaukee after having been in the hands of an assignee for seven months. FROM the result of a fall Gen. Jubal A. Early died at Lynchburg, Va. He was born in Virginia November 13, 1816. IN an explosion in a coal mine near Leeds, Mo., two men were instantly killed, two fatally burned and five others dangerously hurt. AT Port Townsend, Wash., Waterman & Katz. bankers. failed for $120,000. a IN Ohio grape growers formed "combine," alleging as the business is now conducted there is no profit. THE legislature of Colorado adjourned sine die. IN a quarrel near Eugene, Ore., Albert Moss fatally shot David Coleman and his two daughters and then blew out his own brains. IT was reported that Lon Tye, a Harlan county (Ky.) negro, was skinned alive by a mob and then roasted for kidnaping a white girl. TROOPS were ordered to the mines near Charleston, W. Va. The miners threatened to burn the coal company property and martial law had been declared. MANSFIELD WASHINGTON and Dave Johnson (colored) were hanged at Batòn Rouge, La., for murdering Prof. Emile Van Hofe and Michael Kane. FARMERS in Kansas secured $47,000 damages at Emporia against Hezier Brothers for bringing Texas fever among their cattle. THE doors of the State bank at Brookville, Kan., were closed with liabilities of $50,000. FIRE swept away the business portion or Morgantown, Ind. WHILE attempting to drive across the Michigan Central tracks at Battle Creek, Mich., Mrs. Charles Richfield and Mrs. J. F. McCuen were killed by the cars. J. T. BENNIER was expelled from Louisville's city council for accepting a bribe. Four other aldermen are to be tried. IN Cincinnati the Jackson Brewing company failed for $150,000. IN Kansas farmers are turning their old enemy, the wind, to account by utilizing it through windmills for irrigating. THE death of Ed Williamson, of Chiciago, one of the most popular of ball players in his time, occurred at Mountain Valley Springs, Ark. JUDGE JENKINS, of Milwaukee, has declared solvent the Lehigh Coal & Iron company, which went into a receiver's hands in April, 1893, with liabilities of $1,250,000. By annexing the adjacent villages of Westwood. Clifton, Avondale, Linwood and Riverside 15,000 has been added to the population of Cincinnati. IN Chicago two babies, a boy and a girl, twins 2½ months old, were smothered to death in bed at the home of the parents, a family named Jacquer. REV. W. P. RATCLIFFE killed S. A. Jackson at Kosciusko, Miss, and fatally wounded two bystanders. A political feud was the cause.

4. March 16, 1894 People's Voice Wellington, KS
Article from People's Voice, March 16, 1894

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Nikewashetonget is chief of the Osages. He was chopping wood the other day and cut off the rest of his name by accident, Five hundred and fifty men and boys engaged in a circle hunt in Cheyenne county one day last week. The catch was a solitary wolf. The Guthrie correspondent of the Associated Press has been so busy on other matters that nobody has been frozen in the strip this week. The reicstag committee, which has been considering the Russo-German commercial treaty, passed that measure Thursday by a vote of 16 to 2. M, Timirjaseph, the Russian plenipotentiary, in his recent negotiations for a Russo-German commercial treaty left St. Petersburg Saturday en route for Berlin. An anti-missionary riot has taken place at Huchow, China, in the province of Che-Kiang. The missionaries stood firm and the rioters finally withdrew. There was no blood shed. Frank Y. Locke of the Salina State bank has been appointed by the probate judge as receiver for the State Bank of Brookville, Salina county, which closed its doors a few days ago. The Anglo-American Telegraph company was advised by the Eastern Telegraph company Saturday afternoon that Bahia was again open for the exterior messages written in plain language. Rev. Dr. Henry Veshiage, for thirty years pastor of the Reformed church at Irvington, N. Y., died at his home late Sunday night. Dr. Veshiage had been grand master of the Free Masons in New Jersey. The reichstag committee having the Russo-German commercial treaty under consideration adopted Thursday the clause reserving to either government the right of fixing transportation charges on its own railroads. The new cruiser Montgomery came into the hands of the government Tuesday. She will be sent to Norfolk in a few days to be fitted out, and it is hoped she will be ready for commission about the middle of the Laonth. The earl of Elgin. viceroy of India, has sent an official dispatch to the India office confiming the news exclus-ively cabled to the Associated Press of the disaster to the British forces operating against the Abors on the borders of Assam. 1 While driving on Unterden Linden Saturday afternoon a carriage containing Emperor William, three of his sons and a lady of the court, collided with a cart. The side of the imperial carriage was completely smashed, but its occupants were uninjured and returned to the palace in a cab. 1 The balloting by congress for the election of a president of the republic continues at Montevideo without result. Provisional President Stewart Saturday sent a message to the assembly urging the members to promptly terminate the deadlock, which he fears is having a harmful effect on the country. At Paola, Kan. the judge overruled the motion for a new trial for Jap Rainey, convicted of the murder of his sweetheart, and when Rainey asked for mercy replied that even if such were meted there was but one sentence possible under the jury's verdict. He then sentenced the prisoner to one year in the penitentiary, then whenever the govenor should so will it, to be hanged. The house committee on Indian affairs has agreed on a bill for the ratification of the treaty with the Yankton, S. D., tribe of Sioux Indians, for the cession to the United States of all the unallotted lands in their reservation. The amount to be paid is $600,000, of which $400,000 is to be divided among the Indians per capita and the remainder is to be converted into fund for the benefit of the Indians. Speaker Crisp, in the house Tuesday, presented by request a petition from the governor and legislative assembly of Utah protesting against the removal of the Southern Ute Indians from Colorado to Utah, and a memorial from the same source for allotment of the Indian lands in severalty. The New York Herald's Paris special says: "Mrs. Theodore Conkling, the mother of Edward Webster, the missing American school boy, said to me tonight: 'My boy has been found where I cannot tell you; but not in America. He is well, and there is nothing in his disappearance which reflects on him, I shall see him in a few days.'" The news of the discovery of the whereabouts of young Webster has also been announced by the consul to the American embassy. Alderman Joseph B. Lomasney, of Boston, was shot Thursday at the city hall by James Doonan, a young man living in the alderman's district. Doonan fired five shots, only one of which was effective, and struck the alderman in the leg, inflicting a painful but not serious wound. Doonan was arrested and locked up. He said he had good reasons for his act, but would say nothing more. The police say that he was arrested not long ago for an attempt to murder a woman and that he is a crank. He has been