Show WEALTH TOOK ViNGS Speculation Results in Financial Fi-nancial Ruin 1 BIG SHORTAGE IN ACCOUNTS President W B Given Tenders < His Resignation 1 Columbia Trust Company of Lancaster Lancas-ter Pa Will Not Be Affected by Discrepancies Il LancnFter Pn Oct Rumors which Imvc been current for somu time affecting the relations oC William B Given president l presi-dent of tho Lancaster County Hallway f intl Light company with thut company I culminated today in the announcement that Mr Given had tendered his resignation resigna-tion aa president and that serious discrepancies dis-crepancies amounting it In alleged to i i 00000 or n ore have been discovered In JilH accounts air Given has In recent years been regarded as a man of large wealth nnd has been noted as cm operator opera-tor on a very extensive scale of the stock market The unprecedented slump during the past year and particularly In recent months IL Is mild carried with It such heavy IUMI that he was unable to meet the fiitther demand from his brokers for margins and his accounts were closed S out Ills operations were reported to be large In Stool Consolidated lukr Superior Copper Union Pacific and Southern Railway Rail-way The company of which Mr 1 Given IB president controls all the electric railroads rail-roads of this county now In operation as well as the electric light nnd pas companies com-panies of LjMicistor and Columbia Ycpterdny Mr Glvun resigned the presl < lone of the Columbia Trust company and withdrew from Its board ot directors Tho vIceprcHidcnt of tho trust company stated tonight that Mr Given Is not Indebted In-debted to that Institution and that it will not ho affected In the least by his financial finan-cial trouble |