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Show CHICAGO BANK SHY A MILLION. President and Cashier Missing and Poor People Lose Heavily. Chicago. With n deficit in its accounts ac-counts estimated at close to a million dollars, and with thu whorenbouts ot two ot its highest olllcluls unknown to tho authorities, tho Milwaukee Avenue Ave-nue State bank, ono ot tho largest outlying banks In tho city, was closed on Monday by Stuto Bank Examiner C. C. Jones. Tho fnlluro wns responsible for tho death of ono of tho depositors and led to tho sulcldo of another man, who n month ago had placed his oarnlngs ot a lifetime In tho Institution for safe keeping. In tho excitement following tho announcement of tho fnlluro J. G. Vlsser, an olllclal of tho Royal lenguo, who had on deposit In tho bank funds of thnt organization, fell dend of heart failure. Henry Koopko, a small grocer, gro-cer, on hearing that tho bank had suspended payment, went to tho rear of his Btoro and shot hlmsolf. Ho died a few minutes later, whllo being taken to n hospital. |