Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1856-11-06
FtSascrAL FRAups.-The public

FINANCIAL FRAuDS.--lne puOuc
mind is SO much occupied with politics,
that little attention has been given to a
series of remarkable financial frauds that
have been brought to light in Europe,
and the United States. The forgeries
of Huntington, the broker, are estima-
ted to amount to 100000, and the for
ger himself states with much honest
candor and naicete, that he does not sup
pose his operations will exceed half anil
lion of dollars.
A number of French gentlemen have
recently arrived here from their native
country, the cause of their departure
being that they had robbed the North
ern Railroad Company Of France of
some 100000 of francs. They have
been arrested and deposited in the
Toombs.
The plunde obtained by the Presi-
dent, Secretary, and Directors of the
Royal British Bank is reported Mt the
moderate sum of el3o,O0O. equal to
$4,000. This was the most artist
caily executed of all the schmes of fraud
and breaches of trust which stain the
record of the present season. Some of
the directors and officers were members
of Parliament. They lent the funds of
the bank to themselves, which thew
were not by law prohibited from doing.
One gentleman took $3.50, 900, another
$3.50, 900, and one mean spirited villain
was entered for loan of only 1925, 900
which he failed to return. Such trans
actions only being violations of trust,
and not felonies, the operators had no
fear of the fate of the Messrs. Strahan
IL Paul, who were last year convicted
of embezzling the deposits and selling
the securities of their friends. The
stockholders of the bank are stripped of
the value of their shares, but there seems
to be no mode of Furnishing the depre-
dators. A special act of Parliament is
asked to meet such cases, and it is pre-
sumed that one will be passed.
The proclivity to frauds of this char
acter develops itself in an epidemical
form. 1t has its periods of virulence,
abatement and subsistence. Its course,
too, like other pestilences, seems to be
from east to west. Making its appear
ance in France this year, it breaks out
in England with unusual rancor, and
prevails with attenuated rigor in the
United States. Prompt and severe sur
gerry is probably the best corrective, and
we. know of no more suitable remedies
than the prescriptions set down in the
law books.-N Y Courier and En-
quirer.
FIRE AT JANEsvILLE.-About 2 o clock
last evening, a fire broke out in the bull
ding owned by J. Bodwell Doe, Esq,
west Milwaukee street, the lower story
of which was occupied by Messrs Mosher
d Pellet, as a Boot and Shoe Store.
and the upperby Messrs Pufler & Church
for the storing and finishing of Cabinet
Ware. Our engine companies were
speedily on the spot, and succeeded in
extinguishing the flames, though not
until the roof was entirely destroyed,
and the whole inside of the building al |
so. The building being of wood, the
flames spread with rapidity, but thanks
to the gallant and noble tiremen-and |
no city boasts of better-the confiagra- |
ton was strayed. The damages as near
=.
Mosher Il Pellet, Boots and Shoes; stock
removed; loss $500 or 1900 |
Insured
Putier & Church, Cabinet Ware; loss
about $500. No Insurance.
Davis & Barton, Dry Goods in the
Partisan Fashion House; stock removed;
damages about $1,000. Insured
Madame Andrews, Partisan Millinery;
Goods removed; damages trifling.
j. Bodwell Doe, damages to building |
about $500. Insared. Standard
ANNEXATION OF CANADA TO THE !
UNITED STATEs.-A warm discussion is |
going on between the Herald and the
Commercial Adcertiser, of Montreal,
the annexation to the United |
States. One of the objections urged by
the ADVERTISER, which opposes the move
ment, is that the power of the Federal