Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1886 — The Ladder Broke. [ARTICLE]

The Ladder Broke.

A private bank, having a capital of $20,000, closed itadoors ip an Indiana town the other day, and when the people asked for information as to the collapse the banker replied: “Several Causes operated to bring about this failure, but the reason was the breaking of a ladder in Cincinnati. ” “How could that have affected you?” “My brother was on the ladder. He fell twenty-eight feet and broke his back. He was to have lent me SB,OOO to tide me over.” i The public should understand that it doesn’t take much to burst a Ixmk when all conditions are favorable. Wall Street Neics.