Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1874 — Important Capture. [ARTICLE]

Important Capture.

For several days the Chief of the Se cret Service Division of the United States Treasury has been registered at the Palmer House. In his apartments there was on exhibition last evening the fruits of some recent raids upon counterfeiters. Piled high upon a table was SIO,OOO in tens, fives and fifty-cent scrip. The different denominations were neatly tied up in packages, just as is the custom at the Sub-Treasuries. The ten-dollar bills were on a Poughkeepsie (N. Y.) national bank; the fives were on the Traders’ National, of Chicago; and the fifty-cent fractional currency was of the description bearing the vignette of Secretary Stanton upon one end. All this money was captured in Wisconsin, and was taken from a dealer in the spunous stuff. The operations of the gang have been extensive, and six of them have already. been captured, although there are several more at large who will doubtless soon be bagged. The plate of the Poughkeepsie tens has been secured and destroyed, but the plate of the dangerous fives on the Traders’ National is still being used. One of the men now under arrest says he will deliver the plate from which the bills are printed to' the Government if he can be allowed to go free, but t\is proposition is declined. The tens are poor imitations of the genuine, while the fives and the fifty-cent notes are well calculated to deceive. The country has been flooded with this money, and the Government officers are to be congratulated on their success in so far breaking up the “ queer” comhination.—Chicago Inter-Ocean, Dec. 10. The Denver New» records this incident for the benefit of those who doubt woman’s constancy: “ A man was about dying in this city, and an acquaintance sent the following telegram to his wife, who was in Chicago: ‘ Your husband is dying. Come quick.’ She coolly replied: ‘ Can’t go now. If he dies hand him over to the Masons; he’s one of them.’ The man died. The wife hasn’t been heard from since.”