Wichita eagle., 1889-05-16
WHISKY DEALERS DIPPED.

CHICAGO, May ia scheme rivalling
in some respects the famous electric sugar
refinery swindle was exposed here today.
| The perpetrator is a smooth-mannered
young fellow named John Archibald
| Comp, whose papers indicate he has been
| operating not only in Chicago, but also in
Kansas City, st. Louis and Cincinnati.
Comp is now missing, and it is said good
many thousand dollars belonging to
various distilleries and liquor dealers haye
disappeared with him. Comp stopped at
the Metropolitan hotel, and according to
the report today Of the detectives who
have been investigating the matter he was
visited by scores Of dupes. The fellow pre-
tended to possess a compound which would
change poor whisky into the finest of high
wines. A gallon sample OF the vllest
forty rod" after being medicated, would
be placed in refrigerator and In ten min
utes could be taken out transferred into
the finest Bourbon. If objection was
made to the refrigerator Comp would ac-
company the doubter 20 any place desired
and then retiring to a private room accom-
Plush the same feat without any retrlgera-
tor. 1t now turns out, however, that the
refrigerator was really as suspected, a
clever device by which bottle containing
good whisky was substituted for bad
The trick when per ormed elsewhere than
at the refrigerator was done by the means
OF tin breast plate or armor worn under
Comps clothing. The armor was double
and in reality a reservoir, which by means
of a concealed tube, could be emptied or
filled at will. Comp was inveigled into
taking detective into partnership with
him, but when an arrest was contemplated
smeiled mouse and left, leaving behind
the refrigerator. He carried off the armor.
NERVOUS DYSPEPSIA.
Senator James F. Pierce, Of New York,
writes:
For the past two years have suffered
very much from an aggravated form OF
nervous dyspepsia. | have resorted TO va
rious remedial agents. deriving but little
benefit. 4 few months since friend of
mine suggested the trial Of ALLCOCK's
Porous PLAsTERS. Following the sugges-
ton, have been using the same with the
happiest effects. To those similarly at
fiicted let me suggest the manner Of their
use / place one over my stomach, one
over the hepatic region, and one on my
back. The effect was excellent, and from
the day / commenced their use have been
slowly but surely improving, and l am
Qulte CODuueuC UuaC Uy Juelf COutIuu duCe,
with careful regimen, l shall again be
restored to my accustomed health"
IMPORTANT RAILROAD DECISION.
DIES MONIES. May 15.-The United States
circuit court rendered an important de-
cision here today in the case of the former
bond holders against the Burlington,
Cedar Rapids & Northern railway. When
the mortgage was foreclosed by which the
present owners of the road came into pos
sion of it, there were holders of some 1900
bonds who claimed the right to redeem the
property. The case has been in litigation
for several years and was once practically
decided in their favor but the circuit court
today on a supplemental hearing. decided
that all but fifty-nine of the 1000 bonds
were fraudulent; that the holders of the
fifty-nine could redeem, but that figures at
which they must redeem the property were
placed at 81, 600, 600, high enough, it would
seem, to make redemption practically inn
possible. Two opinions were rendered,
the majority opinion being by Judges
Brewer and Love, the dissenting opinion
being by Judge Shiras.