The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1883-03-08
GIGANTIC swISDLE.
Poor Female Will Operatives the Victim. of
Fathcriy Solicitation Robbery TO be sup
plensentcd BY sunday Decentralization
itor. Informed that no Money Was LED to
Pay Them.

LAWRENCE, Mass, February 2i-Srvcn suits have
been instituted against the Ausustinran Sncictv a
Roman Catholic organization formed here in lS7O
to receive deposits of parshiOners OF the church
Attachments have been issued for 81 600 and more
will likely follow. The society was f0suled by
priests and subsequently chartered by the Ie.isla-
ture, with authority to hold property not exceeding
Sah.OOO. Large amounts Of real estate. including.
church property, have been conveyed Ia the sorrtv
since 1881. When Father Regain took charge Of thr
affairs, depositOrs had difficulty in securing ,lros-
its, and several claims have been entered a-auS,
them. They have been selling real estate for SOM.
time Pa=t, and have been large borrowers of money
from banks. At a meeting OF the drpoStOrS, the
latter notified that money was LIFT hut
that the society would cndeavOr paw them at the
rate of $4,000 yearly. The Indebtedness is placed
at sJO0OOO 10 depositors, and SNoOOO 10 the mort
gage holders The depOsitors number 200. maiori-
" being poor female mill operatives. 10 general
ly believed that thi. is the elimination OF several
years of gradual depreciation of the sOciety Faith
er ODOnnell, one of liz trst controllers invested
largely, resulting in heavy losses. In addition To
the poorer dcpositors; there are several heavy de
pOsits from sl6,OOO down to 5000. Much excite
ment exists. statement of the sOcietys condition
will probably he made at a meeting Of prominent
time to pour in attachments.
DETAILS or TIE ISFAHY.
BosToS, Feb. 2i.-The Herald saws Of the Angus
tinean Society, that its actual debt in round mum
beers is $40 900; deduetins mortgages amounting to
$4,000, there remains due depositors Si3O.O0O.
When the society first formed. Catholics began
depositing their savings with Father ODonneiI.
His death occurred in 1881 and a deficit of SIJOG;O
is said to have existed. Then the interest has al
ways been large cquanG exceeding per cent.
and as the deposits have not been well invested the
result has been that considerable portion of the
deposits have been paid out in interest but by far
the greatest cause is found in the fact that in 1872
the society then having debt of Slj0.00O began
new church, adding to the debt $500. 600 and using
the money OF depositors TO meet this amount, with
the exception Of 80 900, which was raised by sub
serpfioB. In addition to the burdens enumerated,
there is another of large magnitude. For twenty
~ hua ft.aI Il
schools at an estsaied expense of sl7J,OOO nclud
ing so 600 expended in remodellins an old church
for school rooms To aid TO their load the society
i've or six years ago, accepted charge of the ST. ]
Lawrence church and the Church of the Immaculate /
Conception. yheb had been considerably in debt. /
The deposition. sud the public generally are con-
viBced that this rcsllt has about through bad
and is in sense tie result Of 1
roguery. The elergymen row in charge have made
full exhibit of the condition of the institution and
idmit that the money Of depOsitors i gone They
claim that by reducing the expenses aud strength
ming the revenues of the church. they eyentu-
lily pay on the debt in full; but the question Of in-
errst must foe some years Ia he held in abcy-