8929. Farmers State Bank (Brooklyn, MI)

Bank Information

Episode Type
Suspension → Closure
Bank Type
state
Start Date
June 1, 1893
Location
Brooklyn, Michigan (42.106, -84.248)

Metadata

Model
gpt-5-mini
Short Digest
29bf0ee2

Response Measures

None

Description

Multiple newspapers report that the Farmers' State Bank of Brooklyn, Michigan, doors ... were closed with liabilities about $20,000. Articles give no mention of a depositor run, reopening, or receivership details; closure appears permanent in these notices. Date taken from contemporaneous papers (June 1–3, 1893).

Events (1)
1. June 1, 1893 Suspension
Cause Details
Bank closed with reported liabilities of about $20,000; article gives no specific trigger (no run, no government action specified).
Newspaper Excerpt
THE doors of the Farmers' state bank of Brooklyn, Mich., were closed with liabilities amounting to about $20,000.
Source
newspapers

Newspaper Articles (3)
1. June 1, 1893 The Worthington Advance Worthington, MN
Article from The Worthington Advance, June 1, 1893

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unknown who fried through - e No motive was known for the crime. IN Denver the American Haptist Pub lication society held its. sixty-ninth annual session. The reports showed that more than 85,000,000 copies of books, tracte, pamphlete and periodicals-had been printed during the year. THE commissioners representing all the/European nations and Brazil have withdrawn their exhibitsat the world's fair from competition for awards under the single judgessystem SNUTZ and killed the cars a trestle near and on were Miss EVAN high MARY OWEN by Griff Bluefield, while James Harris, walking W. Brown em- Va. ployes of the steel Workseat Pueblo Col., during a drunken fight fell in front of an electric car and were instantly killed. AMONG Kansas farmers a new secret particial society has been formed. ON the Missouri Pacific an express train was held up and robbed of $1,600 by four unmasked men just beyond the suburbs of St. Louis. IN Chicago Hugh Etter, a colored man, shot and killed another colored man named DeWitt Sherrell in a quarrel over a woman, and Etter was fatally shot while resisting arrest. Because she was seeking a divorce John Marto, of Green Bay, Wis., killed his wife and then took his own life. AT Lamar, Mo., Amos Avery was hanged for the murder of James A. Miles on September 26, 1891. He made a speech on the gallows proclaiming his innocence. A VILLAGE in Cherokee county, Tex., was almost wiped out by fire and Dr. J. E. Roberts was burned to death in his office, AT Arcola, Ill., ex-Mayor Dimond was shot and killed by David E. Miller, his partner. AT the Carson (Nev.) mint coinage is to be suspended after the present month. IN the Arab camp in Chicago three camels and seven Arabian horses, one valued at $10,000, perished during fire. IN three days thirty convicts died in the Pratt mines hear Birmingham, Ala., from pneumonia. AN Indianapolis servant girl, Anna Wagner, is charged with the death by poison of five members of the Koesters family: where she was employed. THE doors of the Farmers' state bank of Brooklyn, Mich., were closed with liabilities amounting to about $20,000. THE death of Gen. Ralph W. Kirkham, a hero of the Mexican and civil wars and a millionaire, occurred at Oakland, Cal., aged 72 years, AT Moberly, Mo., Effie Polson, a 16year-old girl, poisoned herself with strychnine because her father told her to perform household duties while her sweetheart was in the parlor. A BILL passed the Michigan legislature giving women the right to vote at municipal and school elections. IN central Missouri a cyclone did immense The town of Ladonia, was and were stroyed with killed, At Sedalia, and Moberly, 1,200 damage. inhabitants, twenty persons Brookfield entirely deother places property was destroyed. TWO-THIRDS of the business portion of Rocklin, Cal., was destroyed by fire. Two MASKED men held up a westbound passenger train at Coleman, Tex., and robbed the express car of all its contents. AT the age of 73 Prof. Moses G. Farmer, of Boston, one of the pioneers of modern application of electricity to industrial uses, died in Chicago of pneumonia.

2. June 1, 1893 River Falls Journal River Falls, WI
Article from River Falls Journal, June 1, 1893

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A VILLAGE in Cherokee county, Tex. was almost wiped out by fire and Dr. J. E. Roberts was burned to death in his office. AT Arcola Ill., ex-Mayor Dimond was shot and killed by David E. Miller, his partner. AT the Carson (Nev.) mint coinage is to be suspended after the present month. IN the Arab camp in Chicago three camels and seven Arabian horses, one valued at $10,000. perished during a fire. IN three days thirty convicts died in the Pratt mines near Birmingham, Ala., from pneumonia. AN Indianapolis servant girl, Anna Wagner, is charged with the death by poison of five members of the Koesters family, where she was employed. THE doors of the Farmers' state bank of Brooklyn, Mich., were closed with liabilities amounting to about $20,000. THE death of Gen. Ralph W. Kirkham, a hero of the Mexican and civil wars and a millionaire, occurred at Oakland, Cal., aged 72 years. AT Moberly, Mo., Effie Polson, a 16year-old girl, poisoned herself with strychnine because her father told her to perform household duties while her sweeth art was in the parlor. A BILL passed the Michigan legislature giving women the right to vote at municipal and school elections. IN central Missouri a cyclone did immense damage. The town of Ladonia, with 1,200 inhabitants, was entirely destroyed and twenty persons were killed. At Moberly, Sedalia, Brookfield and other places property was destroyed. TWO-THIRDS of the business portion of Rocklin, Cal., was destroyed by fire. Two MASKED men held up a westbound passenger train at Coleman. Tex., and robbed the express car of all its contents. AT the age of 73 Prof. Moses G. Farmer, of Boston, one of the pioneers of modern application of electricity to industrial uses, died in Chicago of pneumonia. THE failure was reported of the Brunswick state bank at Brunswick, Ga., where the state funds were deposited. THE execution of Robert Alexander and Louis and Howard Pugh, negro boys, took place at Tuskegee, Ala., for criminal assault on Mrs. Cox, a farmer's wife. This was the first legal hanging for this offense in the state. SIXTEEN foreign countries dissatisfied with the single judge plan of making awards at the world's fair have decided to enter into competition among themselves. THE legislature of Michigan adjourned sine die. The session was thirty-five days shorter than the preceding one-in fact, the shortest for the last ten years. A REWARD has been offered by the father of Lou Trenck, who was hanged by an Indiana mob in Jackson county, for the conviction of the ring leaders. IN northwest Louisiana thousands of people have been rendered homeless by the floods, and an appeal has been issued for aid. GEORGE BURGESS, Bert Corey and R. Corey were drowned while fishing in Wall lake near Marshalltown, Ia. IN Illinois a cyclone wrecked many houses, barns and trees at Rentchler, Olney and Lawrenceville and injured several persons. CHARLES FOSTER. one of the most prominent business men in Fostoria, O., and ex-secretary of the treasury, made an assignment with liabilities of $500,000 and assets about the same. Stringency in the money market was given as the cause. IN the library of the Woman's building on the world's fair grounds a marble bust of Harriet Beecher Stowe, the famous author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," was unveiled by Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker, her sister. The entire work is a gift of the women of Connecticut.

3. June 3, 1893 The Cape Girardeau Democrat Cape Girardeau, MO
Article from The Cape Girardeau Democrat, June 3, 1893

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THE commissioners representing an the European nations and Brazil have withdrawn their exhibitsat the world's fair from-competition for awards under the single judge system. MISS MARY SNUTZ and James Brown were killed by the cars while walking 1 on a high trestle near Bluefield, W. Va. EVAN OWEN and Griff Harris, em) ployes of the steel works at Pueblo, Col., during a drunken fight fell in , front of an electric car and were inI stantly killed. AMONG Kansas farmers a new secret political society has been formed. Ox the Missouri Pacific an express train was held up and robbed of $1,600 by four unmasked men just beyond the suburbs of St. Louis. IN Chicago Hugh Etter, a colored man, shot and killed another colored man named DeWitt Sherrell in a quar1 rel over a woman, and Etter was fatally shot while resisting arrest. Because she was seeking a divorce John Marto, of Green Bay, Wis., killed his wife and then took his own life. AT Lamar, Mo., Amos Avery was hanged for the murder of James A. Miles on September 23, 1891. He made a speech on the gallows proclaiming his innocence. A VILLAGE in Cherokee county, Tex., was almost wiped out by fire and Dr. J. E. Roberts was burned to death in his office. AT Arcola, Ill., ex-Mayor Dimond was shot and killed by David E. Miller, his partner. AT the Carson (Nev.) mint coinage is to be suspended after the present month. IN the Arab camp in Chicago three camels and seven Arabian horses. one valued at $10,000, perished during a fire. IN three days thirty convicts died in the Pratt mines near Birmingham, Ala., from pneumonia. AN Indianapolis servant girl, Anna Wagner, is charged with the death by poison of five members of the Koesters family. where she was employed. THE doors of the Farmers' state bank of Brooklyn, Mich., were closed with liabilities amounting to about $20,000. THE death of Gen. Ralph W. Kirkham, a hero of the Mexican and civil wars and a millionaire, occurred at Oakland, Cal., aged 72 years. AT Moberly, Mo., Effic Polson, a 16year-old girl, poisoned herself with strychnine because her father told her to perform household duties while her sweetheart was in the parlor. A BILL passed the Michigan legislature giving women the right to vote at municipal and school elections. IN central Missouri a cyclone did immense damage. The town of Ladonia, with 1,200 inhabitants, was entirely destroyed and twenty persons were killed. At Moberly, Sedalia, Brookfield and other places property was destroyed. TWO-THIRDS of the business portion of Rocklin, Cal., was destroyed by fire. Two MASKED men held up a westbound passenger train at Coleman, Tex., and robbed the express car of all its contents. AT the age of 73 Prof. Moses G. Farmer, of Boston, one of the pioneers of modern application of electricity to industrial uses, died in Chicago of pneumonia.