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Show 1 ILKVEll FORGKRY. A Jh'casro Conimissiou House Finds Itself Short to tte Tune o;" Eluven Car of Oattlu. A SFDEI0U3 B1L OF LADING. Tl y Paid tha Draft, but Waou They Came to Look for Their btock, it Could Not be Found. ' x. Lons, March ifl. A Vindsor itch says: A clever forgery has J' been revealed here, which cost lids Uros.' Commission company of CI (cago heavily, but the exact amount s mihnown. )n the liith Thomas Sibley preseuted itil of lading for a lot of live stock, J Bed by the agent of the Missouri, ' k ssas & Texas at WiniUor, of MV h h Woods lirns.' ordered the ' t National Hank of Scdalia o pay the amount advanced 'eleven cars of .stock. The bank la 4 the draft and immediately drew 0" Woods Bros., tho draft being P' itnptly met. j'sterday Woods Bros, telegraphed th' Missouri, Kalians & Texas agent th they held his bill of lading for ' Ben cars of stock and asked where th h were. The agent knew nothing i of ft nnd wired that tho bill of lading W a forgery. Sibley is at large. The ra Jviad people uro iuvestigatiug tho a'ljr. . -a . |