Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1907 — BANKS VIOLATE LAW [ARTICLE]

BANKS VIOLATE LAW

HINTB OF SCANDAL IN RECEN* NEW YORK CRISIS. Comptroller of Currency Rldsely Said to Hold Evidence and to Be About to Pro,route—Heroic SnerlIce of • Me*icon Engineer. It is learned in Washington that Comptroller of the Currency Ridge ly has in preparation for transmission to the Department of Justice the results of his investigation of conditions disclosed in a bank in New York. The inquiry began with the bank in question getting into trouble, from which it was extricated by drastic measures. It is understood that the examiners have discovered violations of the national banking law in the reports snade to the Comptroller. For making false reports ttie inw prcscribcs irrrprTstmment for not more than ten years. Whether the offenses discovered are of this Character, the Comptroller would not indicate. The most that he would say was that the facts would be submitted in a very few days to the Department of Justice. It was said at the Department of Justice that the Comptroller had not yet ssade a report on the results of his investigation. It was said,that as a matter of course there would be vigorous prosecutions of the bank officials involved if the Comptroller submitted evidence of the violations of the banking law.

SHUT VP ALIVE IN HIS TO JIB. Miner Buried 800 Keel Vndersrround, with No Hope of Reacue. Alive and unhurt, but in darkness that wiH never be lifted, Michael-McCabe, a miner, is awaiting certain death by star vation 800 feet beiow the surface of the earth in the Draper colliery near Mahoney City, Pa. While McCabe was at work Saturday he fired a blast that blew away one of the mine pillars and fleeing in the wrong direction got into a blind shaft. A fellow workman managed tc get ouFof that tviug"oF the TvorkingTifr fore the room caved in. The mine breach extends to the surface, where it yawns sixty feet wide right in front of McCabe's home, where his wife and six children vainly hope for his rescue. Aline officials say it may be a year before it will be possible to reach the place where the man is shut up. There is no communication with him, but there is little doubt that he is alive. HIVES HIS LIFE TO SAVE TOWN. Engineer Haula Out Burnlns Train Curry in * Dynamite and In Killed. The business section of the town of Naeozari, in Mexico, owes its existence tt> the bravery of the Mexican eugiueer of a burning train, in which there wore two cars of dynamite for the I’ilares mine. While the train was standing at the depot In the center of the town a blaze was discovered in a box car adjoining one of the cars of dynamite. The engineer, Jesus Garcia, shouted to his crew to jump, and started out of town at full speed with the burning traiu. Less than a mile out it exploded and the engineer and one member of the train crew who had remained with, him were blown to atoms. Find New White Treasure*. Artistic treasures of great value have been brought to light in the search for the property of the late Stanford White in New York, and the supplementary sale of his effects, which will take place soon, it Is expected, will add more than SIIOO.OOO to the estate. He sometimes purchased such objects and put them away in storage until the time came when he could use them to advantage. Often they were unseen for years.

JfWfls Worth n Million Loat. Local detectives are searching for ?1,000,000 worth of jewels said to, have been stolen from the wife of a Pittsburg millionaire on a train between New York and Pittsburg Nov. 1. In her belt jewel bag were diamonds, emeralds, pearls and other costly jewelry. No questions will be •sked and thousands of dollars in reward paid for the return of the stolen ertyderma Kill ('nattier. Germs that lurk in the ordinary bank note caused the death*of Edward 11. llall, sot twenty years cashier of Arnold, Constable & Co. in New York. For ten years prior to his death he had been a sufferer from myxedema, a rare disease that baffled medical skill. Historic Church Burnt. The lioman Catholic church at Longue Pointe, probably the oldest church iu the Province of Quebec, built in the eighteenth century, was burned to the grouud. the loss being placed at $75,000. with $16,000 insurance. The origin of the fire „ Is not known. Robbers ('lean Out a Bunk. A telephone message to Sheriff Robert Myers in Guthrie from Marshall. Okla.. states that robbers dynamited the safe of the Farmers’ State bank, securing all the —■ttner and. valuable papers in the vault, Marrtea Spendthrift Prince. Anna Gould, divorced wife of Count Boni de Castelane, has been married secretly in London to Prince Helie de Bagan. Cholera Cheeked In Rnula. Cholera is on the decrease in Russia, •wing to the influence of the cold weather, and the danger this year is regarded •* being over. It is considered certain. however, that cholera will break out Increased intensity next spring. * Football Star la Coavirted. C. H. Schaefer, former member of the ! ’nivermity of Wisconsin football team, anil said to te a nephew of an official connected with the Auditorium hotel. Chicago, was convicted in Salt Lake City on • charge of forgery.