Bank of Cheney (Cheney, WA)

Episode Information

Episode UID
6767574191158
Episode Type
Suspension β†’ Closure
Bank Type
private
Bank ID
676757419 hash
Start Date
June 15, 1896
Location
Cheney, Washington (47.487, -117.576)

Metadata

Model
gpt-5-mini (chosen from majority vote of a three-model LLM ensemble)
Short Digest
c97f63e4b9314f68

Response Measures

None

Description

Contemporary reports show suspension but no follow-up on reopening or receivership in provided articles.

Events (1)

1. June 15, 1896 Suspension
Cause Details
Hard collections and inability to place securities; liquidity problems.
Newspaper Excerpt
The First National Bank and the Bank of Cheney suspended payment today and did not open for business.
Source
newspapers

Newspaper Articles (10)

Article from The Daily Morning Astorian, June 16, 1896

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TWO BANKS FAIL. Cheney, Wn., June 15.-The First National Bank and the Bank of Cheney suspended payment today and did not open for business. Hard collections and inability to place securities are the principal causes of the failures.


Article from The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, June 16, 1896

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Two Banks at Cheney Fail. Cheney, Wash., June 15.-The First National bank and the Bank of Cheney have suspended payment, and today did not open their doors. The directors of the First National bank held a meeting last evening and concluded to take this step. Hard collection and inability to place securities are the principal reasons of the suspension. The First National deposits are small and will probably be paid in full. The affairs of the Bank of Cheney are a matter of speculation, as President Percival is absent and nothing definite can be ascertained. D. F. Percival is president of both banks.


Article from The Providence News, June 16, 1896

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NUGGETS OF NEWS. The First National Bank and the Bank of Cheney of Cheney, Wash.. have suspended payment. The Beltimore News, an influential Democratic newspaper, practically gives notice in an editorial today of its intention to support the Republican ticket in case the St. Louis convention declares for the gold standard. H. J. Smith, the general superintendent of the Edison General Electric & Illuminating Company of New York, died at his home in Washingtonville, this morning, as A result of injuries rereived Sunday morning. With the view of preventing a duel between Marshal Martinez de Campos and General Borrero the Spanish government has decided to employ the former in active arvice. The Marshal, however. declare, that he will not accept a command except in Cubs. Judge Carpenter of the Circuit Court of Detroit, Mich., today refused to grant :An injunction to restrain the Improved Order of Knights of Pythias from using that designation, as the name of their order. He held that it is not sufficiently similar to that of the Supreme Lodge, Knights of Pythias to mislead any person. Thomas H. Boardman, the special partner of the shoe firm of Adams & Pettengill, who recently failed at Amesbury, Mass., with liabilities of $130.000 has withdrawn his appeal to the Massachusetts Supreme Court and will go into insolvency with the firm. Mr. Boardman was adjudged equally liable with the other meinhers of the firm by the lower court. Negotiations are pending for financial assistance by which, it is claimed by the members of the firm, all creditors will be paid in full and business resumen there very soon. Daniel Burns, an old soldier, fell on the sidewalk, corner of Broad and Winter street at 9:30 this morning and was assisted by a stranger, who took him to the office of the overseer of the poor, wio un sted the man to Dr. Palmer's office. The doctor not being in, the Door dd fellow was taken from one dector's office to another until 12:30, when the good samaratan and his charge found Dr. Ray at his office, 246 Broad street. The doctor, finding the man suffering, did what he could for him, and sent Dim to toe Rhode Island Hospital, where the old velefan was taken in the am vulance.


Article from Deseret Evening News, June 16, 1896

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Manks Suspend. CHENEY, Washn., June 16,-The First National Bank and the Bank of Cheney have suspended payment. Hard collections and inability to place securities are the principal reasons of suspension. The First National deposits are small and will probably be paid to full. The affairs of the Bank of Cheney are a matter of speculation, 88 Presi. dent Percival is absent and nothing definite can be ascertained.


Article from San Antonio Daily Light, June 17, 1896

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VRENCHED FROM THE WIRES. the formal opening of the St. convention committees were ounced and body adjourned. contests were disposed of last in the St. Louis convention,exthat of Texas. Committee on lentials accepted report of nationommitte and took up case of Deland Texas only. Deleware settled in favor of Higgins. ommittee on resolutions have pracdecided matters of tariff, relations, reciprocity. It for the recognition of Cuba and waii. ommittee on permanent organizapropose the name of Thurston, Nebraska, make the temporary and his assistants permanent accept the vice-president's subby the states. uboise of Idaho had only four for chairman of the committee resolutions. committee on resolutions aits financial plank. It leaves currency as it is, but urges action international bimetalism. rocedings of the opening of the vention were sober, dignified and of a business kind. ternational agreement for the free of silver is the conclusion at Louis. everal of the New York delegates opposed to Morton's nomination vice-president. leKinley league of New York representing 147,000 oppose the ination of Morton as McKinley's mate. orton wires Depew that he has nged nothing. He is before the vention for president. he trouble in the New York delover Morton's vice-presidenmovement troubles Hanna. Whites shut out and the Texcontest taken up at an early hour morning. leveland publishes an open letter ressing disbelief in free silver acat Chicago. rkansas holds the largest demostate convention ever convened her bounds. issues for meeting of the natdemocratic negro clubs, at ChiAugust 11. 5-year-old son of Anton Kritz his face kicked open by a mule Taylor. eneral Mabry announces the regugoverning the Tyler drill, exthe time of the reports to the Vie Dutchate shot with an unloadin " e bands of John Jones at oro. witchman CrΓ©llender run over by no killed in the yard: at Bonoudmaster Wa'sos of the Midland, from cars and is killed near Tercounty Democrats declare for money and against disfranchisMexicans. upreme Lodge A. O. U. W. opens in Buffalo, N Y. IcKinley was pall-bearer at the funof his old friend Julius Wheling terday. emporary Chairman Fairbanks prea short and harmonious session Louis. enator Turpie, of Indiana, is not for nomination to the presidency. 'irst National bank and bank of suspends at Cheney, Wash. loar writes from Paris that interional bimetalist agreement is poswith England during the next years if St. Louis does not go for monometalism. altimore News, Democratic, will McKinley if the Chicago platadopts free silver.


Article from River Falls Journal, June 18, 1896

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LATER NEWS. The party of oarsmen from Yale university who are to compete at the Henley regatta in the contest for the grand challenge cup arrived the 16th from Southampton. They were under the guidance of Robert Cook, business manager of the Commercial Advertiser, of New York, who has coached many Yale crews. The oarsmen were welcomed on the platform by the mayor and corporation of Henley, and crowds of people were assembled about the station anxious to take the measure of the young Americans. Judge Carpenter, of the circuit court, at Detroit, Mich., the 16th, refused to grant an injunction to restrain the improved Order of Knights of Pythias from using that designation. A son of John Nix, of Nix Corners, Wis., with a team of horses, was killed by lightning during a fierce storm the 16th. The first National bank and the Bank of Cheney, Wash., have suspended payment. Hard collections and inability to place securities are the reasons for the suspension. It is reported that three hundred Turkish troops were killed in a recent encounter with the Cretan insurgents at Comonert. The Louisiana democratic state convention has adopted free silver resolutions, and elected the following delegates-at-large to Chicago: John Fitzpatrick, S. D. McEnery, N. C. Blanchard, S. M. Roberts. The governor of Oregon has ordered the First regiment, national guard, to proceed to Astoria to preserve order among the striking fishermen. No bloodshed has been reported from Astoria or vicinity, but the authorities say they are no longer able to protect the lives of the non-union fishermen and property of the cannery men, so that the governor was called on for assistance. Twenty-three people at Elma, Io., were poisoned by eating ice cream.


Article from Mineral Point Tribune, June 25, 1896

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attempted to cut his throat, has been declared insane. The First National bank and the Bank of Cheney, Washington, have suspended payment. Chili will probably enact legislation imposing a heavy tax upon foreign insurance companies. Thieves entered a New York house, bound the servant and carried off $1,000 worth of property. Col. W. P. Hepburn has been renominated for congress for the eighth Iowa district without opposition. Mrs. Levi McKnight of Shelbyville, Ind., was dragged to her death by a horse which took fright at a bicyclist. Ramon O. Williams, late consul general at Havana, has returned. He says Americans are well treated there. Dr. Jose Delgado has filed at the state department a claim against the Spanish government for $200,000 damages. President Cleveland urges the friends of sound money to fight to the end for a sound currency at the Chicago convention. In New York the Civil Service Reform association thanked Governor Morton for his extension of the merit system. Mrs. Burr Winston of Aurora, III., is dead at an advanced age. Her husband was the first postmaster of the place. A. W. Coats, a resident of Sloux City, Iowa, since 1871, blew out his brains. He had been sick and despondent for months. The bond investigation authorized by congress began and Secretary Carlisle explained the contracts with the syndicate. I E. B. Parsons, a brakeman on_ the Wabash railway, was knocked from his train at Mexico, Mo., by a low bridge and killed. The democratic state convention of Minnesota declared for the gold standard and sent a sound-money delegation to Chicago. James Fones, aged thirty-six years, recently of Newark, N. J., was instantly killed in a runaway accident nt Saratoga, N. Y. Warren Jewell, aged 35, who died at Kaukauna, was buried at Greenville, his old home. He was a well known papermaker. The assailant of President Wyckoff, of the New Amsterdam Bank, died. He was identified as George H. Semple. There is no hope of Mr. Wyckoff's recovery. The Democratic national league, which is composed of colored voters of the democratic ticket, will meet at Chicago August 11. Fourth-class postmasters were appointed for Wisconsin as follows: Sylvester Burchneler, reserve; Benjamin Hurt, Spring Bluff. Henry Habenstein, a young farmer of Kendall, III., was found dying in his pig pen. It is thought he took poison with suicidal intent, although no reason is assigned. The engagement is announced of R. R. Skinner and Miss F. B. Stevick, musicians of Bloomington, III., who are to be married in August. Edward Dolan, whose supposed dead body was identified by his brother and friends in Philadelphia, is alive and well in Harrington. Del. John Jacob Actor has bought the Waldorf hotel in New York city and will connect it with another equally large which is building. The annual convention of the International Printing Pressman's union has begun at Chicago. About seventy-five delegates were present. Jerry Smith, the first man married in Sullivan county and for thirty years justice of the peace at Milan, Mo., is dead. He was 90 years of age, George Wyckoff, president of the Bank of New Amsterdam, N. Y., was shot and dangerously wounded by Clarence Clark, who committed suicide. H. M Herbert, late manager of the La Grange Butter Tub company at La Grange, Ind., was arrested on an in. dictment consisting of three counts. The navy department within the next ten days. will advertise for proposals for building the battle-ships and torpedo-boats provided for by congress. Thomas Freeman of Aurora, III. a conductor on the Chicago, Burlington


Article from The Worthington Advance, June 25, 1896

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The News Condensed. : Important Intelligence From All Parts DOMESTIC. By a fall of lumber in the Knapp Stout lumber yard in St. Louis Philip Slushman and William Stoll were killed and four other persons were badly injured. Carl H. Siver, aged 7 years; Thomas L. Melville, aged 12 years, and Eugene Reynolds, aged about 26, were drowned at Kenosha, Wis. The First national bank and the Bank of Cheney suspended payment at Cheney, Wash. Mra.,Levi McKnight, of Shelbyville, Ind., was dragged to her death by a horse which took fright at a bicyclist. A reservoir near Baker City, Ore., collapsed and the home of R. French was swept away and the entire family, consisting of the parents and five children, was drowned. Great destitution was reported among the striking miners in the bituminous coal districts in Indiana. Two daughters of Frank P. Hipp, a farmer living near Grinnell, Ia., committed suicide by taking strychnine. No cause was known. During a thunderstorm at Brownsville, O., lightning struck and killed nine steers owned by Joseph Phillips. Milton R. Wells, a widower about 50 years old, shot Miss Jennie Walters, aged 23 years. at Elkhart, Ind., and then set her clothing on fire and she was burned to death. No cause for the crime was known. A movement was started in Boston by the colored churches for the pur pose of erecting a $100,000 monument at Harper's Ferry to John Brown. Seven companies of state troops left Portland, Ore., for Astoria to suppress lawless acts of fishermen on the Columbia river. John Conners shot and killed Mamie Mulligan at Peoria, III., because she refused to marry him and then shot himself fatally. Theodore Ascher & Co., one of the oldest wholesale millinery firms in Chicago, failed for $100,000. Charles Emmler, a Chicago gasoline peddler, fatally shot his wife while he was drunk and then killed himself. The Middlesex woolen mill at Lowell, Mass., employing 1,000 hands, closed indefinitely. Henry Rosenthal and Miss Stella Pitkin were killed by the cars at Ball's Crossing, O. At the seventh annual convention in Boston of the Medal of Honor Legion Gen. Nelson A. Miles was elected president. A destructive windstorm swept over southern Kansas, wrecking buildings at Kingman, Penalosa, Anthony and Attica. Wilson T. Slayback was killed by lightning at Dayton, Ind., and his death so affected his father, aged 78, that the old man dropped dead from heart dis. ease. The two sons of Thomas Holderfield. aged 15 and 18 years, were killed by lightning at Marion, III. The international missionary convention at Clifton Springs, N. Y., adopted resolutions asking the United States government to protect the lives and property of American citizens in the Turkish empire. In Newport. Ky., the trial of Alonzo M. Walling, jointly indicted with Scott Jackson for the murder of Pearl Bryan, ended with conviction and penalty fixed at death. The final payment on account of the 4 per cent. loan of February last was made at the treasury department in Washington. A hurricane at Guthrie, O. wrecked the Central high school building and rtate capitol grounds and badly damaged many private residences. The boiler of the steamer Titus Sheard exploded on the canal at Little Falls, N. Y., while an excursion party was on board and 11 persons were killed and three were fatally and six seriously injured. Cornell university at Ithaca, N. Y. graduated a class of 400. The printers' strike in Minneapolis and St Paul was settled by an agreement between the typographical union and the publishers' association to arbitrate all differences as to wages and hours. Fire destroyed a block of business buildings in Bradford, Pa., the loss being $100,000. At New Haven. Conn, the boat race between the freshman crew of Yale and the University of Wisconsin crew resulted in a victory for the latter crew. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 19th aggregated $1,038,570,808, against $937,886,593 the previous week. The decrease compared with the corresponding week in 1895 was 3.5. There were 276 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 19th, against 234 the week previous and 228 in the corresponding period of 1895. David D. O'Brien, one of the foremost Lawyers in Cook county, committed suicide by asphyxiation in his office in Chi-


Article from The L'anse Sentinel, June 27, 1896

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The News Condensed. Important Intelligence From All Parts. DOMESTIC. A terrific rain and electric storm did much damage at Danville, Ind. The 28th annual meeting of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics began in Denver, Col. The visible supply of grain in the United States on the 15th was: Wheat, 49,486,000 bushels; corn, 9,406,000 bushels; onts, 8,430,000 bushels; rye, 1,590,000 bushels: barley, 878,000 bushels. William Swarte while playing ball at Pataskala. O., was struck on the head by a pitched ball and died in a few minutes. The fruit crop in the vicinity of Niles, Mich., prom'sed to break all previous records. The treasury department at Washington has nearly completed the payments of beet and maple sugar claims under the bounty appropriation of $2338289 George H. Wyckeff, president of the Bank of New Amsterdam in New York, was probably fatally sho'. by a crank because he refused to hand over to him $6,000. E. H. Master, of Orange N.J., and the business masager of the New York Tribune, died on the steamer City of Rome while en route to Lordon. Chauncey M. Depew addressed 3,500 merchanis of St. Louis on the financial question and every reference to the maintenance of the gold standard was beartity Fire at Clinton Junction, Wis., destroyed the Taylor house, Chicago & Northwestern depot, Chicago, MilwanExc. Americant puu todap Paul 7S 28 I press office. -ues 78 "N 'N fee Santa 1V itarium, conducted by sisters of charity. was burred, the loss being $100,000. A hailstorm near Montford, Wis., did great damage to growing crops and many bridges were washed away. Cardinal Satolli has been relieved and Mons. Falconio, arcbbishop of Acerenja, will succeed him as apostolic delegate to the United States. William M. Boyst, the well-known six-day roller-skater, runner and bicyclist, died at Port Jervis, N. Y. George Card broke the world's bicycle record at Denver for an amateur paced mile, making the distance in 1:48. While trying to rob the store of Joseph Garlott at Mongo, Ind., an unknown man was shot and instantly killed. By a fall of lumber in the Knapp Stout lumber yard in St. Louis Philip Slushman and William Stoll were killed and four other persons were badly injured. Carl H. Siver, aged 7 years; Thomas L. Melville, aged 12 years, and Eugene Reynolds, aged about 26, were drowned at Kenosha, Wis. The First national bank and the Bank of Cheney suspended payment at Cheney, Wash. Mrs. Levi McKnight, of Shelbyville, Ind., was dragged to her death by a horse which took fright at a bicyclist. A reservoir near Baker City, Ore., collapsed and the home of R. French was swept away and the entire family, consisting of the parents and five children, was drowned. Great destitution was reported among the striking miners in the bituminous coal districts in Indiana. Two daughters of Frank P. Hipp, a farmer living near Grinnell, Ia., committed suicide by taking strychnine. No cause was known. During a thunderstorm at Brownsville, O., lightning struck and killed nine steers owned by Joseph Phillips. A cloudburst in the vicinity of Watkins, N. Y., greatly damaged property. Milton R. Wells, a widower about 50 years old, shot Miss Jennie Walters, aged 23 years, at Elkhart, Ind., and then set her clothing on fire and she was burned to death. No cause for the crime was known. A movement was started in Boston by the colored churches for the purpose of erecting a $100,000 monument at Harper's Ferry to John Brown. Seven companies of state troops left Portland, Ore., for Astoria to suppress lawless acts of fishermen on the Columbia river. John Conners shot and killed Mamie Mulligan at Peoria, III., because she refused to marry him and then shot him-


Article from The Oasis, June 27, 1896

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CASHORTHORSESOON CURRIED." The States furnish many articles similar to the following: "Cheney, Wash-The first national bank and the bank of Cheney have suspended payment." How many notices of bank failures do you see in this free silver republic? [Chihuahua Enterprise. How many banks are there in the republic? Very few. So few that a single failure would present an apalling per centage.