Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1906 — HALF MILLION SHORTAGE. [ARTICLE]

HALF MILLION SHORTAGE.

Peoria School Board Robbed of $75,000 Annually. Peoria, 111., Jan. 2—The Everett Auditing Company of Chicago will make its report on the last seven years as to tho finances of the Peoria School Board to-night. It will show an apparent shortage of $542,000 for that period. This will be scaled down 120,000 or $25,000 on account of some personal checks of former Superintendent Dougherty, now in the Joliet prison. This leaves an actual shortage of about $625,000, or an average of $75,000 a year, whioh Dougherty filched from the sohool funds.