Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1897 — BANK FAILURE BRINGS MISERY. [ARTICLE]

BANK FAILURE BRINGS MISERY.

Relatives of Indiana Financiers Bowed Down with Grief. Nothing has yet been heard from R. EL Willett, the defaulting cashier of the Leavenworth, Ind., bank, whose collapse carried down the banks at English and Marehgo, and it is now regarded likely that he has drowned himself in the Ohio river. He was under a terrible .mental strain for months before ihe crash came. Willett’s wife is hysterical and unconscious. His grandmother offers to give $50,000 to relieve him if he returns. The Holcrafts, the woman's relatives, recognizing his wife’s approach to death, propose to help him out. John Weathers has assigned all his property to Judge N. R. Peckinpaugh of Louisville and'the.Ouerbackers of Louisville, who are Peckinpaugh’s brothers-in-law. Peckinpaugh was Weathers’ law partner before the former’s appointment as Governor of Alaska. Steps have been taken to have the methods of Willett and Weathers investigated, and a numerously signed petition was addressed to Judge Cook asking him to call the grand jury in special session.

The bubonic plague is raging in the districts of Poona, Sholapjur and Surat, India. It has also appeared at Kotri, near Karachi, in Sinde, and at Jand-Kawai, in the Julundun district Near Hardwar a colony of monkeys has been attacked by the disease. The local authorities are trapping and isolating the diseased animals.