Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1890 — $40,000 IN SILVER LOST. [ARTICLE]

$40,000 IN SILVER LOST.

j Two silver bars, worth *40,000, were lost off a truck at New York, Saturday, while in transit from the American Exchange National Bank to the Cunard steamship dock. A load of *400,000 worth of silver was being sent to the steamship Umbria, for shipment to England, when two of the bars were missed. At their intrinsic value, the bars should each weigh more | than half a ton. >