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Show LAST VESTIGE OF THE HARPER WHEAT FAILURE Cincinnati, May 4. The last vestige ves-tige of the once famous Cincinnati case the collapse of the Fidelity National Na-tional 'bank and the fall of E. L. Harper Har-per and his efforts to coiner the wheat market will be cleaned tip here on May 17, when the $5,000,000 Judgment aga'inst E L. Harper will be offered for ale by Geo. C. Rankin, receiver of the bank. ' . Harper speculated on the Chicago "board of trade twenty years ago and failed In running a wheat corner. Ho served years In the penitentiary at Columbus, O., for using funds of his bank to bolster up his wheat corner. Thousands of persons were plunged ; Into despair here when his bank failed. fail-ed. ' j |