Tonica Exchange Bank (Tonica, IL)

Episode Information

Episode UID
70162571367
Episode Type
Suspension → Closure
Bank Type
private
Bank ID
7016257 routing
Routing Number
70-1625
Start Date
November 18, 1913
Location
Tonica, Illinois (41.216, -89.067)

Metadata

Model
gpt-5-mini (chosen from majority vote of a three-model LLM ensemble)
Short Digest
58835d5d9c3f38a3

Response Measures

None

Description

Receiver appointed; later reporting describes the bank as failed and indictments against its president.

Events (4)
1. November 18, 1913 Other
Newspaper Excerpt
Bankruptcy proceedings begun against Tonica, Ill., Exchange Bank.
Source
newspapers
2. November 27, 1913 Receivership
Newspaper Excerpt
The Ottawa, Ill., Trust and Savings bank was appointed receiver for the Tonica, Ill., Exchange bank, a private concern.
Source
newspapers
3. November 27, 1913 Suspension
Cause
Government Action
Cause Details
Receiver (Ottawa Trust & Savings) appointed for Tonica Exchange Bank leading to suspension of operations
Newspaper Excerpt
The Ottawa, Ill., Trust and Savings bank was appointed receiver for the Tonica, Ill., Exchange bank, a private concern.
Source
newspapers
4. June 25, 1914 Other
Newspaper Excerpt
One hundred and twenty-one indictments were returned at Ottawa, Ill., against John E. Hartenbower, president of the failed Tonica Exchange Bank.
Source
newspapers

Newspaper Articles (3)
1. November 18, 1913 The Day Book Chicago, IL
Article from The Day Book, November 18, 1913

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BITS OF NEWS Bankruptcy proceedings begun against Tonica, III., Exchange Bank. Fifth bank in state to close doors within two months. Abel Michels sent to Bridewell for one year and fined $1,000 for pandering by Judge Hopkins. Emily Marshall, 18 N. Curtis st., fined $25 and costs for running disorderly house. Mrs. Ida Andres, 2925 E. 96th st., left six children at home while she took one to hospital for operation. While she was gone furniture installment company cleaned out house. Chief of Police Gleason will cooperate with Major Funkhouser in cleaning out dance halls. Marinette, Wis.-Richard Morenci, brakeman, in critical condition from gunshot wound inflicted when he accidentally discharged gun.

2. November 27, 1913 The Farmington Times Farmington, MO
Article from The Farmington Times, November 27, 1913

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Four troops of the twelfth United States cavalry, accompanied by a detachment of the hospital corps and a commissary wagon train, marched 100 miles overland to Ship Rock agency, on the Navajo reservation, to quell an incipient uprising among the Indians there. A message from Juarez says Gen. Villa, commander of the constitutionalist forces, returned to Juarez from the south with 50 men and reported that the federals, after a brief battle, fled from the constitutionalists below Terra Blanca. The total cost of the fusion campaign, resulting in the election of John Purroy Mitchel as mayor of New York City, was $129,510, according to the report of Charles L. Bernheimer, treasurer of the Citizens Municipal committee. A police raid on a suspected house in Calcutta led to the arrest of four men and the discovery of a bomb factory Correspondence found is believed to give a clew to the attempt to kill the viceroy with a bomb as Delhi last December After a splendid passage over the Trans-Andean railway. Col. Roosevelt and the members of his party arrived from Mendeza. Argentine The of ficials of Santiago and an enormous crowd of citizens awaited the coming of the former American president at Central Station and escorted him and his party to the Grand hotel. It is announced from the New York state suffrage headquarters that the $20,000 required before the campaign of a suffrage victory in 1915 could be begun has been raised. Mordecai Brown, the famous three fingered pitcher of the Chicago Nationals and the Cincinnati club, may take the managership of the Chicago Federal league team, it was said in Chicago. A silver service costing $1,500, to ba presented to Miss Jessie Wilson on the occasion of her marriage Tues day to Francis B. Sayre, was sent the bride-to-be as the gift of women voters of northern California. Justice Maddox in the supreme court, Brooklyn, ruled that a woman whose husband has been sent to prison for life is just as much a widow in the eyes of the law as if the man were dead. Gov. O. B. Colquitt of Texas headed the annual "turkey trot" parade at Cuero, participated in by 5,000 turkeys, which stalked through the streets in droves of a few hundred each behind trained leaders. Queen Victoria of Spain was stricken with a serious attack of influenza and now lies in the state suite of Hotel Meurice, Paris. tossing restlessly in bed, with a temperature of more than 100 degrees. Ida Von Claussen, who once sued ex-President Roosevelt for $1,000,000 damages for not having her introduced to the king of Sweden, was declared insane in a report submitted to a New York court. Vocal sounds, but not actual words, have been transmitted by wireless telephone across the Atlantic ocean from Clifden, Ireland, to Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, according to a statement made by William Marconi. Charter rights for the construction of a tunnel under the Delaware river from Philadelphia to Camden, N. J., were issued at Harrisburg to the Philadelphia Tunnel Railroad company. Sixteen miners are known to have been killed and at least a dozen others were missing as a result of an explosion in the Alabama Fuel and Iron company's mine No. 2. at Acton, Ga. With only five dissenting votes, the American Federation of Labor, in session at Seattle, adopted resolutions demanding the exclusion of all Asiatics and a literacy test for Caucasians Lord Lansdowne, leader of the opposition in the house of lords, in a speech at Brighton said the Unionists were ready to consider the government's proposal to exclude Ulster from the operation of the home-rule bill. The Ottawa, Ifl., Trust and Savings bank was appointed receiver for the Tonica, III., Exchange bank, a private concern. President Wilson promised to deliver an address to 600 persons over long-distance telephone to Rochester

3. June 25, 1914 Norwich Bulletin Norwich, CT
Article from Norwich Bulletin, June 25, 1914

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time, committed suicide by lananing gas. Capt. J. W. Haas, who was arrested in mistake for J. Wilkes Booth, slayer of President Lincoln, died at Shamokin, Pa. There were 1,222 deaths in New last week York deaths City during against 1,370 the corresponding week last year. The annaul convention of the South Carolina Cotton Manufacturers' Associ. ation will be held at Chick Springs on July 1. Sir Edward French arrived at San Francisco on his way from the Orient. He is returning to England by way of Canada. Edward Wilson foreman of the Peekskill Hat Manufacturing Co., of Peekskill N.Y., was killed by an explosion of a boiler. John Zrasky six years old, was struck and probably fatally hurt by an auto mobile as he was running across the street in New Haven. Harrison Johnson, of Columbus, Miss., celebrated his 101st birthday by taking a plunge in the breakers at Atlantic City. D. Edward Tanjore Corwin one of the oldest ministers of the Reformed Church of America, died at New Bruswick, N. J. The Messanabie, the Candaian Pacific's new steamer for Atlantic service, was launched at Glasgow. The boat is 13,000 tons gross. Mrs. Marguerite W. Westinghouse, widow of George Westing house, the noted inventor, died at her country home in Lenox, Mass. Benjamin F. W. Russel, of Jamaica Plains, L. 1. reported to the police the disappearance of $10,000 worth of jewels from his home. Official announcement was made in the House of Commons that the British Government had decided to reduce the income tax 2 per cent. Yesterday was Commencement Day at Amherst College. Former President William H. Taft was one of the speakers at the commencement dinner. Thieves cut a hole in the window of A. Bergman's jewelery store at Cleveland, and using a pole, line and hook fished out $2,500 worth of jewelry. One hundred and twenty-one indict. ments were returned at Ottawa, III., against John E. Hartenbower, president of the failed Tonica Exchange Bank. Mrs. Edgar McCauley, of West Arl. ington, Md., shot and killed her husband as he entered her home. She claimed her husband threatened to attack her. Bottle openers, shoe horns, cork screws and fans, distributed by liquor dealers to their patrons, have come under the ban of the licensing board at Boston. The Mississippi Supreme Court declared constitutional the clause of the May-Mott-Lewis liquor law limiting shipments to individuals to one gallon at a time. Richard J. Hartman, 46 years old of Tenafly, N.J., former president of Tyson & Co., ticket agents of New York, was held in $2,500 bail on a charge of perjury. United States District Attorney French filed a suit at Boston against the Boston and Maine Railroad to recover $500 for alleged cruelty to animals in transit. Miss Mary A. Stevens, a public school teacher in Lewiston Me., for 25 years and for 19 years head of the department of English in the High school commited suicide. Three persons were killed and a fourth seriously injured when an automobile was struck by a Pere Marquette passenger train at Hales Crossing near Greenville, Mich. Samuel J. Graham, assistant attorney-general of the United States, left Washington for Flint, Mich. to address the annual meeting of the Michigan Bar Association. Captain Mark L. Ingraham, the last of the six brothers who became famous as commanders of coasting vessels and steamboat, died at Rockland, ,Me., at the age of 90. W. c. Gorgas surgeon-general of the United States Army, was decorated with a gold medal by the American Medical Association in recognition of his work in the Panama Canal Zone. A demonstration of the uses of dynamite in modern farming was one of the features planned for the summer field meeting of the state board of agriculture, held a Lowell Mass., yeserday, The overturned hull of a steamer which foundered in the storm on Lake Huron last November was found bottem up near Geerich, Ontario, The steamer is believed to be the Regina of the Wexford. Governor Baldwin today reappointed Grace Hills of New Haven and be Mary Lauder. Sutherland of Hartford to members of the Board of Examination and Registration of Nurses for three years from July 1. Errico Guidice of Winsted, pleaded guilty to keeping a house of assignation and to other stautatory offsenses in the superior court today and was sentenced to state prison for from one to five years. He was also fined $109,