Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1898 — Gave Mortgages for $2,000,000. [ARTICLE]

Gave Mortgages for $2,000,000.

Chicago, July 25.—Seven mortgages, aggregating $2,000,000,* were filed for record Saturday by Levi Z. Leiter. They run to the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance company for ten years, with four per cent.' interest. The properties mortgaged are in the heart of the downtown district, among them being the Grand Pacific hotel. Revenue stamps to the amount of $996 were placed on the papers. This is to secure the heavy loan just consummated by Mr. Leiter in order to carry his son Joseph through his disastrous w’heat speculations.