Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1898 — A Banker Killed. [ARTICLE]

A Banker Killed.

Lancaster, Pa., April 8. —David B. Landis, president of the Conestoga national bank and one of the leading citizens of this city, was shot and killed Thursdaj’ morning by Ralph W. Wireback, who is extensively known throughout the country as the maker of a patent medicine bearing his name. The tragedy resulted from an effort of Landis to dispossess Wireback, who rented a house from niin last year, with the privilege of renewing the lease if the was not sold.