Show NEWS miscellany A I tough tou b official confined in a fajo ming jail A 11 inc THE metropolis the worlds fair saddle no to letter 1 frink crank to shoot harrison arrison II I 1 cau case of holding special dispatch to toabe THE STANDARD wyo nov 17 isaac bergman who has for the past 12 years been county treasurer and probate judge of laramie county waa was committed to tho the county jail this evening by judge scott for contempt of court bergman was elected tiro two yeara years ego ago aa probate judge and cx officio county treasurer by the law under un der which hoewaa ho was elected hia his term 0 of I 1 office will expire in january next by one clause of the state constitution the office of probate judge is abolished and merged into tho the of the district court another blanse recites that all county officers elected under the territorial law shall hold their offices until the term for which they were elected expires an order was issued on saturday by the court directing bergman to turn over the records of bis his office to the district court T this his order he be did not obey claiming that under tinder the law be he was entitled to hold bold the office unil january for refusing to obey the order orde r of the court he was this evening declared to ba bo in ia contempt and was committed to jail berg bergman man proposes propose a to fight the matter to the end and will remain in jail where he will continue to act ai as county treasurer and collect taxes until his case can be taken to a higher court 0 I 1 COLD BLOODED be go soaks dis his firm to ibi the interesting tace of dm offer ut V STANDARD special ft q F chronicle service NEW YORK nov 17 albert 11 junior partner of the brokerage broke rago firm of mills mille robinson smith is sone charged with over seventy fc cr r gerles ague gating smith acknowledged bis his guilt and turned overall his property for the benefit of bis his creditors the discovery of the forgeries which cover a period of six years ar 8 was see accidentally mada saturday ae ay by a clerk in the employ of the firm during the years that the firm has been in existence the members have had perfect confidence in each other and the mistakes that were made in investments beany by any one of them were believed to be merely mis mistakes of judgment and there waa was never r the lightest t suspicion of dishonest dealin dealing the first cloud appeared above the horizon on saturday and b astore fore night ita its appearance haaf had become ominous and threatened destruction to te the firm mr smith was kept in ignorance of the investigation that was being made during the day and went in and out of the office with the air of a man men who could look the whole world in the face is C a with the conal ence that comes of honesty in the afternoon when it was seen that the wreck of the firm was complete mr smith was called into the private office the serious faces of his big partners and the presence of the firms lawyer made him restless and uneasy mr mills an old man with hair halt as white aa as snow said in a trembling voice 3 mr fr smith we are compe compelled lied ta close our doors we have learned today to day what we never suspected our books show bat that you i ro to an sin embezzler and a for forger get and are responsible for our r ruin uin 11 smith became greatly agitated and p press re a ing sing his bands hands to bis his forehead e exclaimed claimed pitifully my god it has come out at last lie burst into tears and it was several moments before be he could control his emotion he ile asked tor for a moment to think thia this was given him and then be he eaid said that he waa was ready to make a clean brea breast t orthe whole business lie he confessed that be bad tied bean been led into a commis e cion ion of the crimer by an unfortunate speculation soon alter after ha be became a of the finn firm he ilo had also introduced trod B customer mereto to the me firm V bo hor opened an account which in n atio 0 end reeni reunited ted in a lors lope to the firm lie ile felt that it was waa bin his duty to replace what had ben been lost and be he coal committed m bitted forgery to do it lie Ile hoped after making good the lom boses to be able to take care of bis his fraudulent stock mock but his plans h bad ad gone amiss and in order to cover up ono one crime he bad had been een compelled to commit others and many of them 8 smith mith is a prominent churchman and a member of all the clubs he is 13 4 45 years old and a childless w widower I 1 dower all the forgeries are not a total loss to the firm as about ono fourth can bo be recovered the firm has made au assignment to W A watson to whom smith has also made a personal assignment cf or the lie columbia fair air CHICAGO 0 nov 17 the congreso a dional ions I 1 committee commit tea to investigate tho the worlds fair management met nain again this morning director general dav davis 1 waa I in attendance and gave a tall fall and a u 11 comprehensive statement with reference r e to the question and contemplated burens lor for the various departments cf the fair the proposition to establish eat aDlish foreign bureaus at the eapen expense so of tha the government tobe to bo against the spirit of the I 1 law aw in his opinion there should be one recognized bead head of the fairno tho the exclusion of standing committees Pr president eident baker of tho the chicago board of trade and mem main bar of the local beai b bald d of directors of the Fair talked at some length leofi lh lie ile favored placing the fair in jackson park and anti agreed with ui director rector general gene ral davis that a multiplicity PI of executive heads to the fair was injurious baker wound up by saying so bo he believed the national corn com ding i had hindered rather than helped the work at the meeting ol 01 ilia executive committee of the commission tody to dy president Pren ident palmer pre prevented rented resolutions adopted saturday by tho the 11 illinoia state board of 0 agriculture protesting vigo vigorously agriculture against t tha th proposition of c the board boar to PIS ee anai ann aber niber I 1 of 0 buildings on the like front and calling on the national natio oal commission in its ila supervisory capacity to prevent il lc at the joint conference this a evening ve nl un local between of 0 tb abo 0 local directory national commission and the congressional committee commis aldiner Alar tindal suggested that the south part park commissioners bo be requested to permit the unrestricted I 1 uge use I 1 az kia e 1 0 ot I 1 washington park A representative of the he 1 local 1 b board how however at read i a report favoring jackson parl park and lake front as washington park for the main cite site there waa was considerable discussion but martin dales motion was adopted tonight to night nevertheless the local directory held hell a separate meeting and resolved to recommend the placing on lake front of all the buildings which they moved last week to place there excepting the government building this recommendation ommen dation will go before the national notional com commission tomorrow to morrow HOMES mav GUITE 19 I 1 crant crank who It Itte opted the I 1 life of r Frole ent 1 ata rm special 3 Z chronicle Service Se rylea 1 nov 17 A local paper prints a story to the effect that buffor but for the vigilance of the united states secret service officers president herison would undoubtedly have been shot down by a crank last jut bla may y this would be was w a a southern e 0 guern man name will n not 0 t b be e r revealed eue sled lie ile was first beard heard ain 0 I 1 in march when senator hoar received ed a very savage n letter which demanded that he push bia his reeo resolution luti 0 n to investigate the 8 bouthern 0 u thern courts to the tha bitter end rhe fhe letter was full fall of vile accusations against prominent and famous democrate democrats and republicans alike of virginia the letter wai was dated petersburg and was written by py an alleged old republican soldier eol dier he lie declare declared d unless some abuses were rectified he a would kill the president senator hoar paid little attention but bat when two weeks lot later er le received another letter of th the a same tenor he became alarmed a add d placed it in the bands of chief sell bell of the secret eer vice two eacret service men man finally succeeded in locating the writer ila ile was a small store storekeeper keeper in petersburg va the f fellow ellow went to washington may 23 being shadowed all the way and in washington by the detectives the crank stationed him belfon self on pennsylvania avenue earlyan the morning and about when the president passed for bis his morning drive t the defellow be fellow when the executive carriage was within twenty feet of him attempted to draw a revolver the two detectives were upon him in an instant and he was bustled to headquarters where a thirty eight calibre revolver was found in bis his pocket he boldly confessed t that bat he intended to kill the president later be he was quietly adjudged insane and he is now confined in an insane asylum near richmond va |