Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-11-14
SHOT FOR SILVER COIN.
Uncle Sam's Money Stolen
 While in Transit.
DETECTIVES DEEPLY PUZZLED.

Nh Spite of Great Precaution and Double
 Guard the Coin Is Extracted and Re
 placed with Lead-Inaugural Prepara-
 tIons and Other Washington Gossip.
 WASHINGTON, Nov. If - The treasury officials have discovered that they have been robbed of new silver dollars. To what ex- tent o1 by whom they do not yet know. The secret service detectives are making an ln- vestigation The mint at New Orleans has been overloaded with new silver coin, and to relieve it the department is shipping millions of dollars to Washington to be stored in the new silver vault in the treasury courtyard. The money is shipped i'll sealed wooden boxes, each containing two bags of Sl,OOO each. When one of these bags was opened at the department, day or two ago, it was found to contain nothing but shot. A second box was opened and one of the bags in it was found to contain nothing more valuable than lead.
 The matter was at once reported to the secretary of the treasury and by him referred to the secret service officers, who are making a careful and active investigation
 The boxes are carefully sealed before they leave the mint, and guarded on the train. They are taken from the depot at Washing ton to the treasury i'll large express wagon, caged in on all sides with heavy steel wire and guarded by representatives of the express company and of the treasury, who are heaY- lily armed and sit on the boxes within the cage. Every care that can be thought of is taken to guard against loss, and the detect ives are puzzled to know how 1t was possible to substitute the shot for silver dollars
 It is impossible at this time to tell how ex- tensive the robbery has been. The loss was first brought to the attention of Acting Sec retary Thompson on "Wednesday morning, the day after the election, and he put the de- teCtlves at work on the case.
 Investigation showed that small amounts had been taken from each of a number of boxes The department will probably hold the express company responsible, but it will take some time to learn the extent of the loss The robbery was discovered when the seals of the boxes were examined. It was found thSt instead of the government seal put on at Kew Orleans the wax bore the impression of a silver quarter The original seal had been broken, the money abstracted and this method Of hiding the fraud had been resorted to- MT. Bell chief of the secret service, be lieves that the thieying was done after the boxes left the mint and before they were de hvered at the treasury department. He says that the express company Is responsible: that
 
 had done the stealing they would certainly have used the government seal to fasten the boxes again.
 INAUGURAL PREPARATORY
 Mir. 4, T. Britton has appointed MT. George E. Lemon chairman of the committee ob finance to receive subscriptions for defraying the expenses of the inauguration ceremonies Mir. Lemon at once prepared a subscription book. and before noon had S5,000 Mir Britton also appointed MT. B. H. Warner president of the Columbia National bank, as treasurer of the inauguration committee
 Postmaster Ross arrived home yesterday afternoon from Pittsburg, where he was called by his stepdaughter's illness. Among the first persons he saw upon his arrival here was a committee of citizens, composed of MesS1>s. RooSe. Parker and others, who called on him for the purpose of securing his CO., operation in the plans looking to postpone ment of the removal of the city postoffice to the pension building, 50 that the inaugural ball can be held there. Mir Ross expressed his desire to further the wishes of the public in the matter, and said he would at once have an interview with the postmaster gen eral on the subject
 sACKvILLE-WESr FAMILY PLANS.
 The Star says: Lord Sackyille and the Misses Sackville-West will be unable to ar- cept lord Stanley's invitation to visit him at government house in Ottawa They will sail direct for Paris when they reach New York from here. There they will visit Mr and Mrs. Gabriel Salonsop for few days. Then they will go to London to be the guests of Lady Derby, and Lord Sackvtlle will com plete some arrangements about the possession Of knole. It has not been decided whether they will spend the winter at Cannes. in the South Of France, or accept an invitation from Lord and Lady Lansdowne to visit then, in India.
 THE WEDDING TAKES PLACEIHURSDAY
 It is officially announced that the marriage of Miss Endicott and Mir. Joseph Chamber lain will take place at ? o'clock on Thursday afternoon at St. Johns church, the little church across Lafayette park from the White House. Everything about the we'd ding will be sedulously quiet. Invitations have been sent only to the president and Mrs. Cleveland, the members of the cabinet and their families and to the immediate family of the Endicotts Miss Endicott will be married in travelling costume.
 ANOTHER POSTMASTER RESIGNS
 Dr. A D. Markley, postmaster of Hatboro, Montgomery county, Pa, came to Washing ton with his resignation in his pocket Heis an old time Democrat, and thinks it time for him to go when the Republicans are vested with power. In conversation with reporter he said that he wanted to go out at the head of his party, and he believed his was the first Democratic resignation to follow the defeat. He took his resignation to the post office department, and then called at the White House.
 CANE FOR THE PRESIDENT.
 A delegation from the Church of the Most Holy Redeemer of New York presented Mr. Cleveland with 8 cane voted to him at re- cent church fair.
 President Cleveland FuIo-iza,5