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# Some Pennsylvanians Pay Dearly for Their Faith in Limerick. From the New York World. WESTCHESTER, PA., Dec. 20. -It just transpires that Westchester citizens are victims to the extent of $50,000 by the failure of the Alma State Bank of Kansas, a few weeks ago, and last night they held a meeting at the residence of Miss Harriet Chamberlain for the purpose of devising, if possible, seme plan to recover a part, if not the whole, of their investments. An interesting story is connected with this western enterprise. J. F. Limerick was president of the bank, his wife was the cashier and their son was the teller. They sent an agent east, and he labored so assiduously in Westchester that he disposed of $50,000 worth of paper. The heirs of the estate of Robert Miller seem to have suffered most, as they had $16,000 in it. Jonathan Pravil, a prominent member of the Society of Friends, suffers to the extent of $6,000, and Mrs. Dr. Worrall, Miss Chamberlain and others are in for greater or less amounts. The story told to-day by a gentleman who claims to be informed, because he came near to being a victim himself, is that Mr. Limerick is a spirituulist who follows the directions of the spirits with blind and implicit confidence. The spirits told him to dig for coal near the bank, and he did so. He found evidence of the presence of coal, and at once issued bonds in immense numbers. The money of the purchasers was soon nearly exhausted in vainly digging for the coal, and finally affairs got into such shape that the bank was compelled to suspend. Charles Miller, a Philadelphia lawyer, has been here for several days working on the case, and the investors have some hope of getting 5 or 10 cents on the dollar, They do not regard spirits as guides in worldly affairs, nor do they consider Kansas any great shakes as a coal-producing state.