North Carolina News From A Mixed State Ledger
A sprawling set of notes reports a Fayetteville bank declaring a 15 percent dividend, Governor Carr naming a special term in Bertie County Superior Court for October six, and high interest in a Vance County term. It notes typhoid deaths estimated at one thousand yearly, a $200 reward for Dock Nicholson, and various weather and crop impacts from storms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Bank
Fayetteville
Carr
Bertie County
Henderson
Carry
Dock Nicholson
Jackson County
Bulletin
State Board of Health
North Carolina
Oscar Entloe
Smith's Bridge
Franklin Press
Bill Brooks
Pineville
P. L. Groome
Western Advocate
Asheville
Charlotte
Din River
Danbury
Bingham Spirit of
South
Summit House
Dana
Hendersonville
Henderson Amunce Gleaner
J. D. Kernodle
J. A. Long
J. L. Scott
Woody
Carthage Blade
Peter R. Harden
Alamance
Miller
Stanly
W. S. Ingram
Business troubles loom as farmers seed market fades
The Moffett Hodgens Clarke Company of Jersey City is in receivership with liabilities around 900000. August 31 reports list twelve business troubles in New York City. Marquis Logerot of Hotel de Logerot in New York signs liabilities of 147000. In Milwaukee cashier John B Koetting of the defunct South Side Savings Bank arrives from Denver and is held on embezzlement charges in Municipal Court with 10000 bond. In Austin Minnesota the Exchange Bank of Lyle closes. owned privately by A H Anderson, assets expected to cover liabilities.
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Moffett, Hodgens & Clarke Company
Jersey City
New York City
Marquis Logerot
Hotel de Logerot
New York
Milwaukee
Wis
John B. Koetting
South Side Savings Bank
Denver
McManus
Austin, Minn
The
Exchange Bank
Lyle
A. H. Anderson
Receivers Named For Nicaragua Canal Company
In New York yesterday Judge Benedict appointed Thomas B Atkins of New York as receiver for the Nicaragua Canal and Construction Company at the request of stockholder Louis Choble. Warner Miller, the president, says the firm cannot meet its obligations. offices are at 44 and 46 Wall Street, with principal offices in Denver Colorado. The company was incorporated under Colorado law on August 31. There is indication the 50 million dollar federal treasury deficit will persist past June 30, 1894, unless action is taken. Memphis notes Arkansas sheriff A Z Reinhardt is short nearly 40 thousand dollars in Prairie county accounts, the third Arkansas sheriff short in three weeks, while E G Rigney of Johnson Grave firm is 11 thousand dollars short and a fugitive from justice.
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D. W. W. Moore
Hampden Sidney College
Virginia
First Presbyterian Church
Baltimore
New Presbyterian Theological Aa
Louisville
Windsor Ledger
Johnnie
J. A. Bowen
Powellsville
Newton Enterprise
Frank Jarrett
Quince Yount
Washington Gazette
Warrenton
Eaton Williams
Eaton
New York
United States
Benedict
Thomas B Atkins
Nicaragua Canal and Construction Company
Louis Choble
Ac Oe
Warner Miller
Presient
Wallstreet
Denver
Col
Colorado
Washington, D.C
Memphis
Tenn
Little Rock
Ark
A. Z. Reinhardt
Prairie County
Arkansas
E. G. Rigney
Johnson & Grave
Mariana, Ark
South
Ten Thousand Idle Negroes in Georgia Turpentine Belt
Savannah Ga September 1 During the next seven or eight weeks ten thousand negroes employed in the turpentine belt of Georgia will be thrown out of work Southeastern Georgia will then face a serious situation This vast army of idle negroes many of whom are of the most depraved and vicious character must live and will live largely by plunder The naval stores producers are all forced to close down in self protection and their employees must largely become a burden and a menace to the section in which they have been engaged The result of this enforced idleness will be an alarming increase in crime of every grade The entire country is alarmed at the trouble confronting it in this respect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Savannah
Turpentine
Georgia
Debt statement shows rise in public debt and cash drop
Washington reports a $10.44 million net rise in public debt for August with cash in the Treasury down $10.6 million. Non interest bearing debt fell $160,908 while certificates and notes dropped $11.7 million to $565.6 million. Total Treasury cash stood at $712.9 million and gold reserve at $96.0 million. In city reports, New York records “business troubles” Sept 1 and Louisville and Nashville shops at Decatur, Alabama, quit with deserted plants. no trainmen left posts.
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Washington, D. C
Treasury
New York City
St. Louis
Louisville
Nashville
Decatur
Ala
Denver Savings Bank Liquidated by International Trust
Denver Colorado September 1 The Denver Savings Bank late tonight assigned to the International Trust Company of Denver to liquidate and close the bank. The statement shows about 670000 due to depositors with 120000 cash on hand and notes amply secured totaling 800000. The discharge proceeds and details follow in the liquidation process.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Col
Denver Savings Bank
International Trust Company of Denver
Denver Savings Bank Faced With Runs and Liquidation
Runs on the Denver Savings Bank began three months ago after deposits of 1,300,000. Capitalized at 250,000, stockholders and directors worth about double that. D. H. Ferguson is President, 8. N. Wood Vice-President, C. E. Smith Second Vice President. Deposits in excess of July 15 are kept separate and will be returned in full. other accounts will be adjusted by the assignee and paid in full. Attachments totaling 163,714 15 placed on Green Smith Watch and Diamond Company. Creditors represented are Denver men. Bank of Bernhard Weinsberger Company, New York, closed on the 3rd inst.
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Denver Savings Bank
D. H. Ferguson
8. N. Wood
First National Bank
C. E. Smith
Bernhard Weinsberger Company
New York
Farmer curses God after ruined crop in Cuartotts area
Joseph Garrison a North Carolina farmer near the Carolina line is said to be delirious after cursing God when his corn crop was nearly ruined by a late storm. He remains confined to bed under medical care as doctors seek explanations for his mental state. Separately Mills Nos 5 and 6 at Swift Manufacturing Chicopee halted operations leaving 650 workers unemployed. In Ansonia Connecticut about fifty moulders struck over a 15 percent wage cut at Birmingham Iron Foundry and Farrell Foundry and Machine Works.
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Cuartotts
N. C
Joseph Garrison
North
South Carolina
Garrison
God
Springfield
Mass
Dwift Manufacturing
Chicopee
Birs MineHam
Conn
Birmingham Iron Foundry
Farrell Foundry and Machine Works
Ansonia
Multiple Labor Actions and Market Updates Across the United States
The report details wage cuts and factory reductions in New York Belting and Packing Company and related firms, slate quarry shutdowns in Granville Vermont, rail labor strikes in Memphis and Charleston, wage declines at Rio Grande Railroad, tension in Louisville with torn union badges, and Wall Street activity with slight stock dip. It also notes Phillip M. Scheig, a Bank of Minneapolis teller, absconding with about 15000 dollars.
Cyclone tolls on Beaufort and St Helena Islands
Dr J W Babcock reports on Beaufort and St Helena cyclone damage. At Eustace on Lady Island only ten of thirty-one buildings stand, with fifty-one lives lost and forty four buried in one grave. Graves shallow due to waterlogged soil. fumes from decaying bodies feared. On St Helena Island at least one hundred fifty lives lost. In Indiana, Judge Briggs appoints Geo J Grammer as receiver for Evansville and Terre Haute Railroad amid complaints against several lines linked to D J Mackaye.
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Cuarneston
D. C
J. W. Babcock
Columbia
Beaufort
Bt. Helena Islands
Eustace
St. Helena Island
Ohio ex-Governor Foster assets and liabilities revealed
The assignee filed the personal affairs of Hon. Charles Foster ex Governor of Ohio and ex Secretary of the Treasury. The report lists total assets 22848 dollars total appraisements 314 59 dollars and liabilities 75800 dollars in bills payable and 135000 dollars overdrafts. The Evansville Terre Haute railroad debts include 36000 dollars past due and Sullivan Bank owes near 75000 dollars in Sullivan county.
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Evansville & Tre Haute
Mackaye
Evansville & Terre Haute
Sullivan Bank
Sullivan County
Bucyres
Resignation and finances shake Asheville officials
Asheville Sept. 6 Tax Collector D L Reynolds handed in his resignation citing a $15 000 arrears backlog and financial stringency. the board accepted and will grant time to collect. Bondsmen may be called to cover the shortfall. Four candidates for his vacancy include John H Weaver Gen R B Vance and J N Vance. Gear Vance assignment signals creditor relief amid assets around 30000 and liabilities about 20000. Also Asheville Street Railway property was sold for 125000 to bondholder representatives led by A D White of New York, despite objections.
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Asheville
N. C
D. L. Reynolds
Board of County Commissioners
Reynolds
John H. Weaver
R. B. Vance
Z. B. Vance
Congress
J. N. Vance
Alexander
Gen. Vance
North Carolina
Asheville Street Railway Company
A. D. White
New York
Lords Reject Home Rule Bill in UK Parliament
A parliamentary vote in London shows the House of Lords rejecting the home rule bill by 428 to 42. The selection of unrest across regions is marked by a series of violent and tragic events including murders, lynchings, fires, and industrial accidents reported from Alabama Maine Indiana Texas West Virginia and other locales.
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House of Lords
MopiLe
Ala
William McNeil
Portland
Dumas
Westbrook
Montgomery
Sarah Scott
Centreville
Aurora
Ind
Indianapolis Express
Bates Hill
Indiana
Rockpour
Texas
Dan Woodruff
Cornelius Wells
Wells
Woodruff
Hustington
W. Va
al Brunfield
Hart’s Creek
Lincoln County
John H. Boyd
Brunfield
Panic in Ostend Theatre Tramples Dozens in Stampede
In Ostend at the Eden theatre a gas jet ignited drapery before the curtain rose. Panic forced a chaotic exit as the audience rushed for doors, trampling thirty to forty people. Fire on stage was put out as most escaped to hospitals or homes.
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Ostend
Belgium
Bressels
Eden Theatre
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W. B. Rogers
Boone Democrat
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Robeson
J. Teague
Albright
Sam Record
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Traphill
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Edger
W. J. Wescott
Nye
England
Scotland
Ireland
Fs. Nye
Mr. Nye
Fet Crisp
Hon. B. F
Interior Department
Parrott
Kinston Free Press
Sanford Express
Aew
Wilmington Messenger
E. A. Drake
Wm. Drake
Grantville
Buncombe County
Buncombe
Winston Sentinel
Hubbard Hayes
Blumstown
Hays
Reguery
Weldon Phillips
Marion Free Lance
Charlotte News
Gastonia
Gallagher
Bessemer City
Durham
High Point
Charlotte Observer
Wilkesboro
W. A. Foster
Weldon
John Burwell
Fair Grounds
Statesville
D. E Troutman
Bostian’s Bridge
Kemp Mill
Richland Creek
Wm. T. Cox
Squirrell Creek
Richland
Spoon
Asheboro
Yadkin
Lexington Dispatch
Lenoir
P. P. Claxton
Boone
New Berne
Isays
Nag’s
Jan Beattie
J H. Beatles
Paw Creek
Scotland Neck
G W. Ryan
J. J. Loughlin
Merritt Parham
Creed Black
Parham
Black
Sol Cohen
Cohen
New Berne Journal
Pfohl
Radford
James Graham
Jim Greer
George Broadnax
Roper
Leaksville
Jonesboro
Egypt
Hennessey
Mecklenburg
Catawba
Gaston County
Thomas Ik
Atkins
Nicaragua Canal Co
Unger Bros
Norton Brothers
Mrmphis
Memphis and Charleston Railroad
Poe
Ezmer
Rio Grande Railroad
Wall Street
Minnneapolis
Phillip M. Seheig
Bank of
Minneapolis
Sree
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