First State Bank - Jetmore, KS

Bank Information

Episode Type: Suspension → Closure
Bank Type: state
Start Date: January 3, 1895
Location: Jetmore, Kansas (38.084, -99.893)

Metadata

Model: gpt-5-mini
Short Digest: 40afa1ad

Response Measures

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Description

The article (Abilene Weekly Reflector, 1895-01-03) states the First State Bank of Jetmore has closed its doors with unknown liabilities and assets. There is no mention of a prior run or reopening; this is best classified as a suspension that appears to be permanent (closure). No receivership is explicitly mentioned in the text.

Events (1)

1. January 3, 1895 Suspension

Cause Details: Article reports the bank has closed its doors but gives no reason or trigger; liabilities and assets unknown.
Newspaper Excerpt: The First state bank of Jetmore, Kan., has closed its doors with unknown liabilities and assets.
Source: newspapers

Newspaper Articles (1)

1. January 3, 1895 Abilene Weekly Reflector Abilene, KS

Article from Abilene Weekly Reflector, January 3, 1895

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Article Text

NEWS NOTES. Navigation in the Ohio river is completely blocked by ice. The Kansas Federation of labor met in state convention at Topeka on the 2d. It will cost New York city $39,976,960 to run her municipal government this year. The Miller hotel at Lancaster, Ky., burned on the 1st and four people were cremated. The First state bank of Jetmore, Kan., has closed its doors with unknown liabilities and assets. The Catholic monastery at Osage Mission, Kan., was destroyed by fire. Loss, $8,000; insurance, $3,000. Clarence Rodkey, 4 years old, was run over by a load of shelled corn near Blue Rapids, Kan., and died in ten minutes. Sixteen freight cars in the Memphis yards at Cherokee, Kan., were broken into by thieves and large quantities of goods stolen. At Pittsburgh, Pa., William Muller, a laborer, cut his wife's head off with a hatchet and then cut his own throat with a razor. C. N. Beale, of St. Joseph, Mo., committed suicide at Breckinridge, Mo., by taking morphine. A love trouble was the cause. The 2-year-old child of Fred Ludwig, living near West Plains, Mo., was burned to death. An open fire place was the cause. J. S. West, judge of the Sixth judicial district of Kansas, has written a letter declining to be a candidate for renomination. By the explosion of sewer gas in the basement of Edward Keeley's saloon in Chicago, the saloon was wrecked and eight men seriously injured. At Ellsworth, Wis., Mrs. Michael O'Connell and her five children were burned to death and Mr. O'Connell was probably fatally burned trying to save them. Six masked robbers held up a Cotton Belt train near Camden, Ark., but they uncoupled the baggage car instead of the express car and got nothing of value. William L. Strong was inducted into office as mayor of New York on the 1st, being the first man not a democrat who has held the office in twenty-two years. Many citizens of St. Joseph, Mo., propose to refuse to pay the school tax because the school board did not file its estimate of its necessities according to the law. Osa Crasa, a Mexican, is under arrest at Kansas City, Kan., charged with being the man who assailed M iss Nesbitt, the station agent at Bonner Springs, on December 21.