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Show CHARGE AGAINST M'CREERY Our Do MS O it Valparaiso At cuseil of a Omvi llreach nf Trust in His uflieial Capacity. New York, Feb. t!4. The fttmWt Valpa-raiso Valpa-raiso cable says: A sensation was caused by a story that United Slab s Consul Me. Creery has been engaged in exchange transactions trans-actions for some time past. It is asserted that bills show that there was bought aud sold by him in November, January and February over a million of dollars. It is also alleged that he used In his dealings Information Infor-mation gained from olllcial sources. The story leaked out, it is said, through a letter from McC'reery to Broker Neckleman, demanding de-manding a certain sum he said was due him. Neckleman. avers that Mc-Creery Mc-Creery owes him money. It is rumored, says the dispatch, that Lieutenant Harlow, the World's fair commissioner, is seriously mixed up lu the scandal. The dispatch further says: Lieutenant Harlow's letters to certain New York newspapers, lu view of the present circumstances, seem, to Chilean minds, to furnish good reasons for the spread of the siartlim; rumors in the United States, viz., for the purpose of mutually pro-lltlng pro-lltlng those engaged iu the affair. |