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Show trying to collect, for cooking ninis they sold to citizens of this town und county hist August and September. Sep-tember. JL is said they sold (iOl) ranges at .ft'.'.) each. The attempt to colled for one of these ranges, at Mrs. Kate Austin's place Unity caused the arrest of Harvey Clinginan, one of the agents, on a charge of forgery. Mrs. Austin chums she did not sign the note presented. The alleged scheme by which the agents; sold so many ranges is, something after the plan ol the celebrated cel-ebrated lioheiuian oats swindle. It is said they would go to a house and put in a range on six mouthy trial. If accepted they would take a note payable on the enstallment plan, and due in ten years. When the six months passed a note is presented for the full price of the range. The ten-year contract disappears, and instead a note due in six mouths takes its place. The citizens cannot account for this unless one of the duplicate contracts they signed was the note which was afterwards detached. The swindle amounts to $-10,000. Only one arrest has been made. The purchasers are holding an in- ilinattou meeting to protest fur-tlier fur-tlier payments. Sli.ldleloevn, 0., Marcli fi. Several montlis aro the St Louis Wrought Iron Range Company bad a force of agents here who did n lamloflice business, selling hundreds hun-dreds uf stoves to residents of the city and surrounding country. The purchasers were told that they could pay nt their leisure. The stoves were sold at $70 each, and, when delivered, the purchaser was reunited to sign what was represented repre-sented to bchiinply a paper setting foitb the facts that they had made the purchase and received the stove. i These "receipts,'' have now developed de-veloped into ironclad mortgages, which the company is clamoring to fnreelose. (.Jrcat indignation exii-ts among the purchasers, and they ,.yvjtl re.-i-t payment. Chief Anderson , i. ln i-n appealed appeal-ed to Un the aires; if the stove ; company's, agents. snivi; iii;.i,i:iis. ' lion I dry 111-1- Itlll.lnu llie (' try I'imi- I .e of Ohio. .Special to 1 he Cinei una t '1 Tribune. I'aylon, ()., March li. The agenlH of the St.. Louis Mo. Wroiioht Iron Stove Compnnv are' hnving a ntonny lime of it here in ! |