People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1895 — LACK OF CONFIDENCE. [ARTICLE]

LACK OF CONFIDENCE.

Some Specimen* or the Fellows Who Talk About Restoring Conscience. Returning confidence and departing cash! They yelled the loudest bsfore election for confidence, and their confidence game caught the voters, and they are all republicans. A New York bank bookkeeper embezzled $354,000. The county treasurer at Spring Valley, 111., defaulted in $12,000. A man named Beatty at Monticello, 111., is SBO,OOO in arrears. Barret Scott of Holt county, Neb., was convicted of stealing $70,000. A republican defaulter surrendered at Mobile, Ala., short $204,000. Albert Gall, state treasurer of Indiana, was short $66,000 in bis accounts. J. H. Davidson, city collector of Lexington, Ky., was found to be short $14,735. Abbot, cashier of the Dover (N. H.) national bank and city treasurer, is short over $90,000. W. F. Rossman, of the Hundson River national bank, of Hudson, N. Y., embezzled $14,000. The Kendall Banking company, of Howard, S. D., failed, having d spostts of $10,009 and S2OO to pay it with. E. H. Carter, clerk in the National Bank of New York, appropriates $30,000 of the bank’s funds. The state treasurer of South Dakota failed to turn over $275,000 to his cuscessor and has gone to the “mighty where.” * - Another financier of Yanto, J 5. D., and London, England, relieved the fortunes of people having confidence several hundred thousands of dollars. — Seneca News.