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Show A 'oln-Silittr Caught. FoitT Dow.k. la., June 9. A. Peeler, of Lehigh, has been arrested by the United States authoring charged with a queer kind of counterfeiting or coin-splitting. coin-splitting. Peeler invented a machine by which he could extract $15 worth of gold from a$'J0 gold piece, ami was becoming be-coming rapidly rich, "when discovered. After scooping out the interior of the coin he filled the space from which tho gold hnd been received with metal of correct ring aud weight, nnd had little trouble in passing thein. He scooped too much gold out of one coin and Ms scheme was discovered. |