Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1890 — THE OLD YEAR’S STEALINGS. [ARTICLE]

THE OLD YEAR’S STEALINGS.

A Grand Total of Money Misappropriated The grand total of money embezzled from corporations, private firms and the United States Government during the year 1889 was 180,562,753. The annual ap propriations for the United States Navy Department are less than double the amount stolen, while it would meet the expenses of the War Department for three months. It is about equal to the total value of either the living animals, fresh and salt beef, lard, leather, petroleum, woods or cheese exported from this country to Great Britain in a year. The names of some of the defaulters to the extent of SBOO,OOO or more are as follows: H. W. Davis, Cincinnati, $100,000; Treasurer Benson, of Barnes City, N. Dak. $140,000; Joseph A. Moore, agent of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Com pany, Indianapolis, $500,000; John E. Sullivan, Clerk of Marion County, Indiana, $100,000; Henry Deickmann, Secretary of the St. Louis Board of Trade, $200,000; James M. Lane, County Treasurer, Circleville, 0., $100,000; A. B. Cleveland, Presi dent of the A. B. Cleveland Company,New York, $150,000; P. F. Pratt, Cashier First National Bank, Anoka, Kan., $100,000; William O. Collender, of tho Callender Insulating Company, New York, $400,000; J. C. Bradley, cashier, and Charles W. Palmer, assistant cashier Merchants’ National Bank, New Haven, Conn., $100,000; George Jessup, cashier Scranton Bank, Scrauton, Pa., $135,000; W. A. Sherman, manager grain elevator, Buffalo, $299,000; Al Graham, county Auditor, Lebanon, €>., $250,000, J. Frank Cullom,.Lawer, Minneapolis, $277,000; Eben S. Allen, President of Green Line Street Raildroad, New York, $130,. 000; Consul General Tsalng, San Francis co, Cal., $200,00; Alphonso Phillips, lawyer, New Orleans $i00,00; T. V. Roadh, cashier Citizens Bank, Prairie City, lowa. $100,000; W. B. Higginbotham, President Blue Valley Bank, Marshalltown, Kan., $100,000; Major E. A. Burke, ex-State Treasurer Louisiana, $500,000; August Culmage, agent, Rat Portage, Ont., sls, 000, Emil Van Gelder, of H. E. Van Gelder & Son, 10 JMaidon Lane, New York, $400,000; E. H. Van Hoesen, cashier Toledo National Bank, Toledo, $125,000; W. H. Fursman, real estate, Pontiac. 111., $200,000. | The New York electric light companies . intend to sue the city for damages sua- : tained by the cutting of their wires. The j total amount demanded will be about $3, <X»,000. - Tn jyr