Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1902 — LOST CENSUS OFFICE FUNDS [ARTICLE]

LOST CENSUS OFFICE FUNDS

Olabunlni; Clark Dismissed for Speculating with Government Money. Washington dispatch: H. A. Barrows, disbursing clerk of the United States census office, has been summarily removed a sthe result of the discovery of a shortage in the accounts of his office. He gives tlie amount of his discrepancy as $7,400 and laid the trouble to speculation. The government is amply secured from loss by bonds aggregating almost $300,000. Barrows lives at Berwyn, Md., and has a wife and seven children.