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. CALAIS. Suspension. CALAIS, March 20. The trustees of the Calais Savings Bank made a voluntary suspension this day. The depositors will be paid in full.
8688. Calais Savings Bank (Calais, ME)
Bank Information
- Episode Type
- Suspension → Closure
- Bank Type
- savings bank
- Start Date
- March 20, 1878
- Location
- Calais, Maine (45.189, -67.279)
Metadata
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- gpt-5-mini
- Short Digest
ec9b095f
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Description
Multiple contemporary newspapers report that the trustees of the Calais Savings Bank made a voluntary suspension on March 20, 1878 to wind up its affairs; depositors were to be paid in full. This is a voluntary suspension leading to closure (winding up), with no run described.
Events (1)
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March 20, 1878
Suspension
- Cause
- Voluntary Liquidation
- Cause Details
- Trustees voluntarily suspended operations to wind up the bank's affairs; depositors to be paid in full.
- Newspaper Excerpt
- The trustees of the Calais Savings Bank made a voluntary suspension this day. The depositors will be paid in full.
- Source
- newspapers
Newspaper Articles (6)
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Mill at Kenduskeng Burned. BANGOR, March 20.-A two story building containing mill, planing mill, shingle mill, and heading machines at Kenduskeag was burned this forenoon. It was owned by Harvey Brothers. It is thought the fire caught from friction of the machinery. Loss about $2500; no insurance. Camp Fire. BIDDEFORD, March 20.-The eleventh annual camp-fire of Post Sheridan tonight was largely attended. Speeches were made by leading members of the order and a collation was served. Kicked by a Colt. FARMINGTON, March 20.-Frank Hayden, aged twenty years, was kicked in the face by a colt at the stable of D. Clark & Son today. His jaw bone was broken and face badly mutilated. He was taken up for dead and is now in a critical condition. Suspension of the Calais Savings Bank. CALAIS, March 20.-The trustees of the Calais Savings Bank made a voluntary suspension today. The depositors will be paid in full. Generous Public Bequests. BELFAST, March 20.-The will of the late Paul R. Hazeltine after liberal provision for a large circle of relatives, bequeaths $10,000 to the Unitarian Society of Belfast and $7000 to the Unitarian Society of his native town of Warwick, Mass., half the income annually forever to support Unitarian preaching, and the other half for the deserving poor; $1000 to the other religious societies here; $20,000 to this city for a public library; $5000 each to the Maine Unitarian Conference and American Unitarian Association; and $1000 each to the Home for Little Wanderers, Sailors' Snug Harbor, Home for Aged Men and Home for Aged Women. The estate is supposed to exceed a quarter of a million. Sentenced for Burgiary. AUGUSTA, March 20,-David Rowe, a French lad, was sentenced in the Supreme Judicial Court to one year in state prison for entering the freight depot at Waterville.
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SUMMARY OF NEWS. Eastern and Middle States. Students of the Princeton (N. Theological Seminary were attacked by Princeton College students and two of them severely beaten. Six of the college boys were arrested. Mrs. Ann Eliza Leggett, & wealthy widow residing in Tuckahoe, N. Y., was shot and instantly killed in the presence of her daughter by neighbor named Thomas Merritt, who then hurried to his own house and shot himself through the heart. The parties to the tragedy were related by marriage, and Merritt had been drinking at the time of the shooting. but the cause of the double crime remains & mystery. The verdict of the coroner's jury was that Merritt was suffering from temporary aberrati of mind. The Newburyport (Mass.) Five-Cent Savings Bank has been enjoined by the State bank commissioner fron doing further business. Joseph La Page, alias Joseph Parish, was executed at the State prison in Concord N. H. for the murder of Josie A. Langmaid, at Pembroke, N. H., on the 4th of October, 1875. Miss Langmaid, a girl of seventeen. and daughter of one of the most prominent citizens of Pembroke, started for school on the day of the murder. She was waylaid, and in the evening her body was discovered in & dense swamp. a few rods from the road. Her head was out off and missing, and the body was otherwise mutilated, evidently for the purpose of concealing the evidence of brutal crime, The head was found & third of mile distant from the scene of the murder. La Page was arrested and convicted on circumstantial evidence and sentenced on January 19, 1877, to be executed. He was granted a new trial, which resulted in similar verdict and sentence of execution. La Page, it was believed during his trial, murdered Miss Ball & school teacher at St. Albans, Vt., in 1874. but 08caped through lack of evidence. Previous to his execut on he confessed the murder of both Miss Ball and Miss Langmaid. His whole history is characterized by acts of excessive brutality. He was accompanied to the scaffold by his spiritual advisers. He made no remarks before the death trap was sprung, and his death seemed an almost painless one. Calvin Stewart, who killed Ira Cole, the railroad engineer, at Dover, N. J., last June, and was sentenced to be hanged on April 8, has had prisonment. his sentence commuted to twenty years' imThere has been a run on several of the Boston savings banks by frightened depositors. Alexander Bartow, treasurer of the Fishkill (N. Y.) Savings Bank, has been indicted on four charges- for embezzling $61 000 and two for grand larceny in taking $8,000. A demonstration in opposition to the tariff bill pending in Congress was held at Allentown, Pa., over fifteen thousand persons taking part in the procession. Commod re John Hodges Graham, of the United States navy, died suddenly on the 17th, at Newburgh, N. Y., aged eighty-four. He lost a leg in the war of 1812. The other day, while the Lechmere National of Bank, of East Cambridge, Mass., was in charge the president, he was called to the door by & lady, who engaged his attention while two men entered the building and stole over $40, 000. with their The woman booty. and her accomplices escaped St. Patrick's day was celebrated in New York with the usual procession of Irish societies and annual dinner of the Knights of St. Patrick. Wages of operatives in the Pacific mills at Lawrence Mass., have been reduced ten to fifteen per cent. A. S. Boyer and C. Sellors, late officers of the Dime Savings Bank, of Reading, Pa., have been held in $5,000 bail each on a charge of conspiracy to defraud, The list of failures in New York has been swelled recently by several heavy suspensions, notably those of S. H. Mills & Co., prominent Wall street brokers and speculators in stocks, whose liabilities will reach nearly $800,000, and Henry S. Wells, & large contractor. who has been adjudicated a bankrupt"upon his own petition, with liabilities amounting to $225,000. The Democratic State executive committee of Pennsylvania met in Harrieburg and decided to hold the next convention in Pittsburgh, May 22. A number of students belonging to Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, have been arrested for hazing. The faculty expelled or suspended several. The Bhode Island State convention of the new National party was held at Providence. A was ticket nominated. headed by William Foster for governor pended. The Calais (Me.) Savings Bank has susElection returns from all the towns in New Hampshire for governor give Prescott, Republican, 39,377. and McKeau, Democrat, 37.863. The House will stand Republicans, 205; Democrats, 165. Western and Southern States. The new Virginia funding bill has passed in the State Senate-ayes, 29, nays, 5. The amble opposes increase of taxation, recognizes prethe necessity of preserving and insuring the continued existence of the institutions of the State, including the public school system, and expressing willingness and anxiety to the former equality of the public creditors restore distributing rateable among them the entire ex by cess of public revenues derived from the sent rate of taxation, after a most economical preadministration of the State government. A party of men who were lynching a colored man at Pensacola, Fla., for assaulting a little girl, were fired upon by a sheriff's posse; man wounded. was killed and five were dangerously one It is reported that Sitting Bull is preparing for another Indan war. Gus Johnson, a white man, was hung in Rome, Ga., for the murder of Daniel Alford, a colored man. The cause of the crime was Alford's refusal to hurry in taking a flatboat across the Coosa river to Johnson, who there Johnson upon shot him dead. Before he was hung confessed that he had murdered two men and helped to kill two more. The hard money league of the West met at Chicago and issued an address to the ple of the United States, opposing all peoinflation and consequent depression in paper favor of coin and paper of equal value and equal 8 purchasing power. and convertible into each other at the will of the holder. Governor Holliday, of Virginia, has issued a proclamation of offering $100 for thearrestof each the parties concerned in the lynching of colored woman, named Harris, in East Rocking- a d ham county. The woman was taken from jail and put to death by unknown persons, on picion barn. of having instigated the burning of sus- a Chess, Carley & Co.'s oil refinery in LouisO ville, Ky,, the largest of the kind in the South, was partially burned, causing a loss of about $100,000. 11 The verdict of the jury who found General ar Thomas C. Anderson, of the Louisiana returne ing board, guilty of forging election returns, has been set aside by the Louisiana y court and the prisoner ordered to be discharged supreme from custody. The decision states that the e cord of crime offered in evidence did not reform with that mentioned in the information: conis that the consolidated election returns, in regard to which forgery was charged, are not legal instruments by which frauds may be e mitted, and thier alteration cannot be construed cominto crime. of to A house occupied by a farmer named Harley living a few miles north of Adrian, Mich., was destroyed by fire, and his wife and two children were burned to death. A building in Oleveland, Ohio. occupied
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State News. -Searsport bas voted to establish a free high school. -Clothes line thieves are plying their vocation In Portland. -There are said to be 700,000 tons of Ice stored on the banks of the Kennebec. -There have been over 100.000 lobsters caught and sold by the disherment of Friendship. Maine, since the 1st of February, averaging about four cents each -About $60,000 worth of cotton twine is used yearly in the metihaden Eshery of Maine for the manufacture and repair of seines. -A large eagle, with a bell on its neck, sailed over Bath Wednesday morning. The jingle of the bell was distinctly heard. -The Democratic City Government of Lewiston have turned out all the Republican officials except Superintendent of Burials. -In the Savage murder trial at Augusta of verdict Tuesday, the jury returned guilty of manslaughter. -There was great excitement at the Government sale of smuggled liquors at the Custom House in Eastport. The liquor was bought by temperance people. and spilled in the presence of a large crowd. -Orders were received at the Kittery navy yard on Tuesday, fixing the hours of labors on and after to-day at ten hours a day. -The amount of cash paid Into the State Treasury during the year is $15 304 74 $8,000 of which was on account of permanent school fund. -The Calais Savings Bank voluntarily suspended, Wednesday, for the purpose of winding up its affairs. The depositors will be paid in full. -The important libel suit of Gen. Davis Tillson against Levi M. Robbins and Oliver Otis, the publishers and editors of the Rockland Opinlon, was begun in: the Supreme Judicial Court at Rockland. yesterday. The damages were laid at $15,000 and the writ contains six counts. Thirty or more witnesses have been summoned on each side, and the case will probably occupy at least two weeks. -The shipments of shoes from Auburn Station. the past week. have been 1361 cases, nearly 800 cases less than for the corresponding week of last year. Manufactures have never had a poorer Spring business, and attribute the increased depression largely to the uncertainty of financlal legislation. The general verdict of the manufacturers is, that they and their workmen are being seriously injured by the mischievous currency agitations that destroy confidence and unsettle business. -Detectives Wiggin & Heald arrived in Dexter, Thursday evening. having in oustody Jimmie Hope, alias Jas. Watson, the notorious bank robber. Hope is charged with breaking and entering the Dexter Savings Bank on the night of July 20th. 1875. He was examined Friday morning before Trial Justice Crosby, at the town hall, a large crowd being in attendance. President Bradbury of the Savings Bank testified to the breaking and entering at that time, and Mrs. Stevens, who then had a millinery store In the rooms occupied by the bank, testified to the breaking of the doors, lock and other things at that time, and also that two strangers Came into her store one evening before the breaking was done, and made some trivial errand which attracted her notice. One of these strangers she positively identifies as this Jimmie Hope. A Mrs. Berry of St. Albans testifies that on the morning of July 21st. 1875, three men came to her house, which is not far from Ripley village, and desired a breakfast of bread and milk. Two of them carried small valises, of which they seemed particularly careful. She noticed them closely, as she thought their actions very strange. They kept a lookout up the road while there, and when they came in the house to sit down and eat. they took the precaution to see that there was a way out through the rear by which they could go. Her husband came in while they were eating, causing them considerable alarm until they found who it was. One of the men she positively declares is the prisoner at the bar. She heard first of the attempt to rob the bank after the men had left her house, A young man named Buker, of St. Albans. testified that on the morning of the 21st day of July A. D., 1875. a peddler came to his father's from Dexter, and told them of the attempt to rob the Dexter Savings Bank. He also said he had passed three men on the read whom he suspected of being the parties. Shortly after the three men arrived at his father's hotel and ordered dinner for three. While they awaited the preparation of the meal, the peddler, in the presence of these commenced to tell of the attempt to rob the Dex ter bank. Hearing this,ope of the mea hastBy made arrangements with his father to carry them to Hartland, and would not wait for dinner. He drove the team to Hartland, where they hired him to go on with them to Athens, ten miles further west, saying they expected to meet a friend there. He noticed the valises, of which the men were very careful, always putting them down very easily. When they arrived at Athens. at the hotel, he tried to get hold of one of the valises, to take it from the wagon, but quick. one of the men snatched it from him very
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surance Company, in connection with the transfor of assets of the New Jersey Mutual Life Insurance Company, and whose bail at that time was declared forfeited because he did not appear when wanted, was rearrested in Washington and taken to Newark, N. J. The Pennsylvania Senate has passed a bill creating a bank department. whose duty it shall be to annually examine into the soundbanks. ness and stability of the State's incorporated Students of the Princeton (N. J.) Theological Seminary were attacked by Princeton College students and two of them severely beaten. Six of the college boys were arrested. Mrs. Ann Eliza Leggett, & wealthy widow residing in Tuckahoe, N. Y., was shot and instantyl killed in the presence of her daughter by a neighbor named Theron Merritt, who then hurried to his own house and shot himself through the heart. The parties to the tragedy were related by marriage, and Merritt had been drinking at the time of the shooting, but the cause of the double crime remains a mystery. The verdict of the coroner's jury was that Merritt was suffering from temporary aberration of mind. The Newburyport (Mass.) Five-Cent Savings Bank has been enjoined by the State bank commissioner from doing further business. Joseph La Page, ahas Joseph Parish, was executed at the State Prison in Concord, N. H., for the murder of Josie A. Langmaid, of Pembroke, N. H., on the fourth of October, 1875. Miss Langmaid, & girl of seventeen, and daughter of one of the most prominent citizens of Pembroke, started for school on the day of the murder. She was waylaid, and in the evening her body was discovered in a dense swamp, & few rods from the road. Her head was cut off, and missing, and the body was otherwise mutilated, evidently for the purpose of concealing a brutal crime. The head was found a third of & mile distant from the scene of the murder. La Page was arrested and convicted on circumstantial evidence and sentenced on January 19, 1877, to be executed. He was granted a new trial, which resulted in a similar verdict and a sentence of execution. La Page, it was believed during his trial, murdered Miss Ball, a school teacher, at St. Albans, Vt., in 1874, but escaped through lack of evidence. Previous to his execution he confessed the murder of both Miss Ball and Miss Langmaid. His whole history is characterized by acts of excessive brutality. He was accompanied to the scaffold by his spiritual advisers. He made no remarks before the death trap was sprung, and his death seemed an almost painless one. Calvin Stewart, who killed Ira Cole, the railroad engineer, at Dover, N. J., last June, and was sentenced to behanged on April 8, has had prisonment. his sentence commuted to twenty years' imAlexander Bartow, treasurer of the Fishkill (N. Y.) Savings Bank, has been indicted on four charges-two for embezzling $61,000 and two for grand larceny in taking $8,000. A demonstration in opposition to the tariff bill pending in Congress was held at Allentown, Pa., over fifteen thousand persons taking part[in the procession. Commodore John Hodges Graham, of the United States navy, died suddenly on the 17th, at Newburgh, N. Y., aged eighty-four. He lost a leg in the war of 1812. The other day, while the Lechmere National Bank, of East Cambridge, Mass.. was in charge of the president, he was called to the door by a lady, who engaged his attention while two men entered the building and stole over $40,000. The woman and her accomplices escaped with their booty. St. Patrick's day was celebrated in New York with the usual procession of Irish societies and annual dinner of the Knights of St. Patrick. Wages of operatives in the Pacific mills at Lawrence, Mass., have been reduced ten to fifteen per cent. A. S. Boyer and C. Sellers, late officers of the Dime Savings Bank, of Reading, Pa., have been held in $5 000 bail each on a charge of conspiracy to defraud. The list of failures in New York has beer swelled recently by several heavy suspensions notably those of S. H. Mills & Co., prominent Wall street brokers and speculators in stocks whose liabilities will reach nearly $300,000 h and Henry S. Wells, a large contractor, who has been adjudicated a bankrupt upon his OWI d petition, with liabilities amounting to $225,000 The Democratic State executive committe e of Pennsylvania met in Harrisburg and de cided to hold the next convention in Pitts burgh, May 22. a A number of students belonging to Dart e mouth College, New Hampshire, have beer arrested for hazing. The faculty expelled o suspended several. The Rhode Island State convention of th new National party was held at Providence A ticket headed by William Foster for governo ? was nominated. e The Calais (Me.) Savings Bank has sus of pended. Election returns from all the towns in New Hampshire for governor give Prescott, Re publican, 39,377, and McKean Democra 37,863. The House will stand Republican 205 Democrats, 165.
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United States DRVY, died suddenly on the 17th, Newburgh N.Y. aged eighty four. He is leg in the war of 1812. The other day, while the Lechmere National Bank of East Cambridge Mass. was in charge of the president he was called to the door by a lady, who engaged his attention while two men entered the building and stole $40,000 The woman and her accomplices escaped with their booty St. Patrick's day was celebrated in New York with the usual procession of Irish societion and annual dinner of the Knights of St. Patrick Wages of operatives in the Pacific mills at Lawrence, Mass. have been reduced ten to fifteen per cent. A., S. Boyer and C. Sellers, late officers of the Dime Savings Bank, of Reading, Pa., have been held in $5,000 bail each on A charge comspiracy to defraud. The list of failures in New York has been swelled recently by several heavy suspensions, notably those of 8. H. Mills & Co., prominent street brokers and speculators in stocks, whose liabilities will reach nearly $300,000, and Henry B. Wells, large contractor, who been adjudicated bankrupt upon his OWN petition, with liabilities amounting to $225,000. The Democratic State executive committee Pennsylvania met in Harrisburg and docided to hold the next convention in Pittsburgh, May 22. A number of students belonging to Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, have been arrested for having. The faculty expelled or suspended several The Rhode Island State convention of the National party was held at Providence ticket headed by William Foster for governor nominated The Calais (Me.) Savings Bank has sus. pended. Election returns from all the towns in New Hampshire for governor give Prescott, Republican, 39,877 and McKean, Democrat, 863, The House will stand Republicans, Democrats, 165. A bill to grant female suffrage has been defeated in the lower house of the Massachusetts Legislature by 127 to 93. James E. Golf, well-known in New York nsurance circles, committed suicide by shoothimself in the head. He was at one time realthy but met with reverses, had family roubles and became dissipated. The Rh de Island Republicans met in convention at Providence and renominated the resent State officers by acclamation Followthe usual custom, no political resolutions vere passed The Tarrytown (N. Y. First National Bank failed. The liabilities are estimated at 122,000 and assets $80,000. The Bank of homung at Elmira, N. Y. . private instituhas also suspended. The Rhode Island Democratic State convenention, held in Providence resulted in the omination of ticket headed by Isanc Lawonce for governor. Western and Southern States. Governor Holliday, of Virginia, has instied roclamation offering 8100 for the arrest of of the parties concerned m the lynching & colored woman named Harris, in East lockingham county The woman was taken rom jail and put to death by unknown persons suspicion of having instigated the burning barn. Chess, Carley & Co. 's, oil rednery in LouisKy the largest of the kind in the south, partially burned, causing loss of about 100,000. The verdict of the jury who found General Thomas C. Anderson, of the Louisiana returnboard, guilty of forging election returns, been set aside by the Louisiana supreme ourt and the prisoner ordered to be discharged rom custody. The decision states that thereord of crime offered in evidence did not conorm with that mentioned in the information the consolidated election returns, in reand to which forgery was charged. are not instruments by which frauds may be coinnitted and their alteration cannot be construed crime. A house occupled by & farmer named Harley lving few miles north of Adrisn, Mich. was lestroyed by fire, and his wife and two children burned to death. A building in Cleveland, Ohio, occupied by on-explosive Ismp company, was destroyed fire, together with its contents, and a total insurred of $165,000. A band of four expert counterfeiters, who been operating extensively in the Northrest, were unearthed and arrested in Chicago special government detective. The whole their apparatus and some of the spurious were captured. Four men and a boy were drowned near Iowardsville, Albermarle county (Va recently. while attempting to cross river in frail anoe after dark. Two families, consisting of hirteen women and children. were left withsingle full-grown male to support them. An appalling disaster occurred in the sawmill Hall Alvis, about seven miles from Richsond, Va. Without moment's warning an xplomion took place which burled the building umber, sheds and persons standing around in very direction. The boiler had burst and five were killed, and one was fatally and five langerously wounded. Among the killed were sons of the manager of the sawmill, Mr. who was also injured. Reports from Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and Vest Virginia give flattering prospects of the theat crop. The average increase over last crop is estimated at twenty five per cent. A large tobacco warehouse, several factories, colored church and SIX tenement houses were estroyed by fire in Danville, Va., entailing of $80,000, on which the insurance is $50,From Washington. A bill has been presented in the House to a new mint at Indianapolis, Ind. The bill to pay $375,000 for mail contracts iade in the South previous to the war has defeated in the House. The nomination of Mr. Beard to be collector the port of Boston has been confirmed by Senate without opposition. Senatorial ourtesy prohibits opposition to A nomination apported by both Senators from the State in hich the appointment in made, as in Mr. case. The House judiciary committee has, by & majority vote, decided to report a bill repealthe bankrupt law. Secretary Sherman was sent for by the enate of finance, the other day, to his views in regard to the bill repealing the esumption law and he informed the comlittee that specie resumption upon the day xed was practicable and that the silver bill ould be an aid rathe rthan an obstacle to reumption. The national council of the Sovereigns of adustry met in convention at Washington and ffected an organization. Delegates from a number of States were present. A majority report of the House committee civil service reform says that Doorkeeper who was charged with making more apointments to office than was allowed by law hould be removed. minority report, signed four of the committee, dissents from the iows of the majority. The number of bills introduced in the House to the 21st is 3,990, and of joint resolutions The House Committee on Invalid Pensions agreed to report bill allowing pensions 872 per month to soldiers who have lost ither both eyes, both hands, or both feet, and 824 to those having lost one eye, one hand one foot. The National Council of Sovereigns of Indus. in session at Washington, elected the folowing officers of the National Council for John Sheddin, Pennsy Ivania, president; S. Davis, Massachusetts, vice president M. Morton, Rhode Island, secretary; Clark Vethersby New York, treasurer: W. H. Earl, Iasachusetts, lecturer. The commissioner of agriculture has made elaborate report upon the diseases of doestic animals According to tabular state. compiled from information received 100 counties. the annual value of losses all classes of domestic animals is nearly 000 000. As this statement is based on rereceived from only one half of the counthe annual loss from this cause may be laced at $30,000,000. Leading New York bankers had conference that city with the House committee on bankand currency regarding the resumption of pecie payments. General Ewing, of the comittee, made inquiries to draw out the viewsof bankers, who expressed the opinion that esumption was practicable. After the meeting