Show U S MAIL ROBBED in the neighborhood of taken money was extracted from registered letters in the railway mall service two packages contained new york dec 10 it was learned today that one of the biggest robberies in the history of the new york poet office occurred on november jtb the amount involved is eaid to be in the neighborhood of and waa taken from registered letters in the railway neail that bention of he central railway of abw jersey known as the new york somerville and eastern branch on november jtb it is stated that two packages containing were taken how long the defalcation had gone on bufore had not been ascertained major charlea F lewis of the philadelphia branch of the government secret service was in this cily today investigating vesti gating the robbery which haa been kept secret until now by the pontal authorities mr bromwell republican ohio said he concurred with hie colleague mr brown but he insisted that true civil bervice reform was a cardinal principle 0 republicanism it ie believed hn said that grover cleveland had done to discredit the true spirit of civil service reform than all the others combined and be thought mr mckinley McKin lcy could be relied upon to bring it back into its proper channel in the house today dingley declared hat but for anticipatory importations here would be a scrolls this year of instead of a deficit and the republicans loudly cheered when he asserted that by may next receipts would again outrun expenses monthly |