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Show CHICAGO BANK SHY A MILLION. 'President and Cashier Missing and ' Poor People Lose Heavily. Chlcogo. With n deficit, in its no AountH estimated ut closo to n million j'dollars, and with the whereabouts ot jtwo of Its highest officials unknown 'to tho authorities, tho Milwaukee Avo-nuo Avo-nuo Stato bank, ono of tho largest utlylng banks In tho city, was closed on Monday by Stato Bank 13xamlner C. C. Jones. Tho failure was responsible for the death of ono of tho depositors nnd led to tho fiiilcldo of another mnn, who a month ago had placed his earnings of a lifetime In thu Institution for safo keeping, in tho excitement following JAo announcement of tho falluro J. U. Rssor, nn official of tho Iloyal league, Bp hnd on deposit In tho bank fuuds Bhnt organization, foil dend or heart ire. Henry Knepkc, a small gro- H on hearing that tho bank had Pfpended payment, went to tho rear f Ills store nnd shot himself. He died kw minutes later, whllo being taken liospltal. |