6966. Bank of Plainville (Plainville, KS)

Bank Information

Episode Type
Suspension → Closure
Bank Type
state
Start Date
June 22, 1893
Location
Plainville, Kansas (39.235, -99.298)

Metadata

Model
gpt-5-mini
Short Digest
a13ac362

Response Measures

None

Description

Articles report the Bank of Plainville (KS) suspended payments by order of the bank inspector in June 1893 and a receiver (Walker) was administering the bank and paying dividends as of March 1894. No explicit run is described; suspension appears to be by government order and the bank remained in receivership (closure).

Events (2)
1. June 22, 1893 Suspension
Cause
Government Action
Cause Details
Suspended by order of the bank inspector (regulatory action).
Newspaper Excerpt
Par ordre de l'inspecteur des banques la Bank of Plainville Kan,' a suspendu ses paiements.
Source
newspapers
2. March 9, 1894 Receivership
Newspaper Excerpt
Receiver Walker of the bank of Plainville. is paying dividend No. 3. of 10 per cent. This makes 50 per cent that has been paid to the creditors of the bank.
Source
newspapers

Newspaper Articles (3)
1. June 22, 1893 Echo De L'ouest Minneapolis, MN
Article from Echo De L'ouest, June 22, 1893

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La Shell Lake Savings Bank de Rice Lake a fermé sea portes. Fermée également la banque de New Hanover N. O. Passif 300,000 dollars. La Chicago Desk Manufacturing Co. a suependu ses parements. Tombée eat la City Savings Bank de Chattanoago, Tenn. Par ordre de l'inspecteur des banques la "Bank of Plainville Kan,' a suspendu ses paiements. La banque de Washburn Wisc., a fermé ses portes. La "First National Bank" d' Arkansas City a fait faillite. Passif 600,000 dollars. M. Harry F. Legg, le plus grand bijoutier de Minneapolis a déposé son bilan.

2. June 23, 1893 The Times Owosso, MI
Article from The Times, June 23, 1893

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LATER. CONTRACTOR DANT, Superintendent Covert, Engineer Sasse and Col. Ainsworth were held responsible by the coroner's jury for the death of the Ford theater victims in Washington and the government was censured for carelessness. THE village of Jeffersontown, Ky., was swept away by fire. THE Kanawaha Lumber company at Boston failed for $785,900, pulling down with it W. H. Leatherbee & Son with liabilities of $217,000 and A. F. Leatherbee & Co. with liabilities of $231,000. THE Missouri law permitting the sale of vagrants has been declared unconstitutional by the state supreme court. EXPONENTS of banking, finance, railway, commerce, board of trade, insurance, building and loan associations and mercantile credits met in Chicago and inaugurated the world's congresses of commerce and finance. THE George L. Squire Manufacturing company at Buffalo, N. Y. failed for $200,000. AN incendiary fire destroyed the business portion of Tillamook, Ore., leaving many parties destitute. Loss over $100,000. A PLAN of celebration has been conceived by the committee in Chicago in charge of the Columbian liberty bell whereby on July 4 all the bells in schoolhouses and churches of the land will ring simultaneously at noon. THE Capital national bank at Indianapolis, Ina., which suspended one month ago has resumed business. BECAUSE of Sunday opening of the world's fair Bishop Merrill says the general commission of the Methodist denomination will issue a manifesto withdrawing the Methodist exhibits from the fair within two weeks and asking the 5,000,000 members of the church to keep away from the exposition on week days as well as on Sun days. BANK failures were reported at Lebanon and Albany in Oregon, at New Hanover, N. C., at Chattanooga, Tenn., and at Plainville, Kan. THE forest fires in the Mesaba iron range in Wisconsin caused a damage of over $1,000,000 and left nearly 4,000 persons homeless and destitute. Reports from Ashland state that forest fires were sweeping over miles of country and hundreds of homesteaders were in danger. John Meagher perished near Moquah and two children were burned to death at Sanborn and the town wiped out. Similar forest fires were also burning over the whole upper Michigan peninsula.

3. March 9, 1894 People's Voice Wellington, KS
Article from People's Voice, March 9, 1894

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Parsons will hold a poultry show next Saturday. The SumnrCo untry Poultry association has decided to hold a show next fall. Nearly 3,000 pupils are registered as attending the Leavenworth public schools. It is proposed to consolidate the two college papers published at the state university. About 800 conversions have been made in Dickinson county in the past six months. Two Kansas City, Kan., men were fined $10 each on Monday for selling addled eggs. The Nemaha County Fair Association has offered its Fair grounds for sale at $100 per acre. Mrs. Dr. Carman. of Horton, has received notice that she has fallen hear to $100,000 in England. Among the manifold blessings Beloit enjoys is a jeweler whose patronymic is Manifold. A Salina minister gave whist players a great raking over the coals last Sunday. He announces that such are "followers in the way of Cain." Fred Haugawout, who has been running the Goffs Advocate, proposes to quit the newspaper business and go on the road for a Kansas City firm. A tree planting campaign is urged upon the citizens of the South side at Hutchinson by the News, which says the trees will add 25 per cent to the value of the property of that section in three years. During the spring rains of last year water from Abilene streets flooded the fields of John Landis and damaged his crops. He sued the city for $1,500 and didn't get a cent. The case has just been decided. Judge Smith of Minneapolis has handed down a decision declaring that the law passed by the last Minnesota egislature requiring all oleomargarine to be tinted pink IS unconstitutional. Lee Doty of Garden City has contracted to grow seed this year for D. M. Ferry & Co., Detroit seedmen. Seed growing is coming to be quite an important factor in Southwest Kansas farming operations. A movement ison foot in Atchison to establish a free lunch house where two meals a day will be furnished to all who may apply. The same plan was tried in Denver last July and proved a blooming success. There was a small wreck in the Salina railroad yards Sunday morning. A Union Pacific switch engine tried to make use of a Santa Fe crossing that was blocked by Santa Fe cars. The engine was damaged some, and two cars badly demolished. L. L. Diesem, member of the state board of agriculture from Finney county, is trying a novel experiment in alfalfa seeding. He sowed five acres three weeks ago, hoping that it will prove more satisfactory than April or May seeding. The city marshal of Coldwater, Com anche county, and a fellow named Galloway had a lively scrap the other day and the marshal came out second best. The trouble was over a horse belonging to Galloway which the marshal had impounded. Loyd Lang, whose preliminary examination for the murder of William Slaughter has been in progress at Abilene, has been bound over to the district court in the sum of $4,000. He promptly gave bail and was released. The prospect for his ultimate conviction is not good. Receiver Walker of the bank of Plainville. is paying dividend No. 3. of 10 per cent. This makes 50 per cent that has been paid to the creditors of the bank. and will probably be the last one until after harvest, when it is thought sufficient funds will be collected to pay all claims nearly in full. James Bruce was sent to the penitentiary three years ago from Kansas City, Kan., for horse stealing. His term expired one day last week and a deputy sheriff was on hand when he was released for the purpose of re-ar, resting him on another charge of the same nature. Bruce is 60 years old and is said to have a mania for horsestealing. Ed Tandy, a boy who ran away from the Soldiers Orphans' home in Atchison over a year ago returned Saturday footsore and weary. He has been knocking about from one place to another, coming last from Newton. He applied at the police station for something to eat, informing the officers that he had run away from the home. Supt. Faulkner was informed of the boy's presence in Atchison and ent for him. Tandy was glad to get back. A man named Barton in Washington township, Jeweil county, advertised for a wife and succeeded in getting a young vidow from Erie, Pa., to go to Burr Oak to meet and marry him. When she gazed upon her intended for the first time, her heart failed her and she insisted on going home to her ma. She further insisted that Barton should pay her railroad fare both ways Barton had to ante up and now announces it as his positive conviction that advertising does not pay. This office is in receipt of a sack of seeds from the agricultural department sent out by Honorable William Baker to be distributed among our