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Show ONE M1I.UOX 1IDI.UKS, The Amount the Government Has Lost, Through Custom House Vraml,. New York, April 3. Tho startling information that the government lias been robbed of 1 ,000.000 through importation im-portation of goods upon which uo dutv was paid has caused vast excitement among the custom house officials today. The details are unknown. The information informa-tion came in by cablegram from the United States consul at Deverick Leipsic. The frauuds are said to le an enormous importation of gloves from Germany, which the merchants of New York and other cities managed to smuggle smug-gle through without the payment of duties. du-ties. The cablegram was sent dirucl to Washington. The custom house officials offi-cials in New York only got wind of it through a 'report which is well authenticated. It is well known that the cablegram is now in the possession of the treasury officials, offic-ials, who await more definite information informa-tion with the greatest interest. They are inclined tothink that the most enormous enor-mous scheme to defraud the government govern-ment that has ever been known will be disclosed in the near future. |