Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-12-15
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ANOTHER WHISKY SMASH.
CHICAGO RING THIS TIME,
STARTLING REVELATIONS THREATENED.
BIG FIRE At BRIDGEPORT.
Wheeler l. Wilson's Factories Burned.
Several Persons Killed and Wounded
THE VIRGINIA SENAroRSHlP.
CHICAGO RING THIS TIME.
STARTLING REVELATIONS THREATENED.
BIG FIRE At BRIDGEPOR1
Wheeler l. Wilson's Factories Burned
Several Persons Killed and Wounded
THE VIRGINIA sENAroRsHIP.
THE WHISKY FRAUDS.
Striking Developments Expected IN
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NEW YORK, Dec. 15.-To-day's 7S,aes has
the following: The following dispatch is
uhed from special correspondent detailed
70 investigate the whisky frauds in Chicago
CHICAGO, Dec 15.-TO-day, for the first
time, IL has become known with politicians
that there was gigantic whisky ring, with
It's headquarters in Chicago, similar In all
material respects TO the whisky rings OF
st. Louis, Milwaukee, Evansville, and
probably New Orleans. IL has been inn
possible heretofore TO make that statement
WIN any degree OF certainty. Owing TO
official complications
CALCULATED TO SUPPRESS DEVELOPMENTS
tnere has been nothing but surface indica-
lions lions since the nrst seizure. The grand jury
d1stiilers and rectifiers and guagers. IL
went no deeper, and there was nothing but
,ne present disposition OF every community
10 suspect all persons that justified the as-
ISOLATION OF higher official Personages with
the revenue frauds. There has also been a
persistent effort on the part OF interested
persons TO spread the impression that the
revenue frauds in this city were merely the
result OF individual and independent efforts
mat is that there was no combination out
SIDE or each Individual distiller with his
guager, and no central and systematic
ORGANIZATION FOR PLUMBER,
extending TO the higher revenue officials and
against exposure and punishment. This
theory has been generally accepted hereto
fore and received confirmation In the charac-
Ter OF the indictments returned. 1t is now
false and that the revenue frauds Lave been
WORKED out by the same means and through
the same machinery and with the same
SYSTEMATIC DIVISION OF sPoILS
as In st. Louis. The facts seem TO justify the
assertion that had il not been for the recent
change in the office OF United States District
attorney In this city, this phase OF the Chi
cagO whisky frauds would never have been
puoilciy developed. The prosecutions against
the Individual distillers and gaugers would
nave been on the same basis as the indict
nd oh
they might have led to some Individual con
victions, there would have been no general
exposure. Now, however, there will be an
Immediate movement for the empanneling
OF new United States grand Jury. And III
is probable that the evidence to be presented
to 1t will
RIP OPEN THE WHOLE CONSPIRACY,
and nix the nature and degree of the guilt of
every man implicated. There is abundant
reason TO say, however, that ample testimony
VIII be forthcoming to expose the Chicago
ring as thoroughly as the st. Louis ring has
been exposed, and that panic has already
set In. The Tines dispatch mentions the
names OF several persons alleged to be inn
plicated in the frauds.