Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-14
A RARE DOLLAR.
A Big Lawsuit Over It's Ownership
 S1,5O0 Offered For It.

A Big Lawsuit Over It's Ownership
 S1,5O0 Offered For It.
 The New York Evening Post res ports curiously complex situation at Racine, Wis, over the ownership of & silver dollar of the coinage date of 1894. It is said that only one of four of tbese dollars ever left the mint, and they are consequently very valuable The dollar in question was given sew eral months ago by woman whose name, if known, is kept secret, to Lad islar Altmann, clerk in the dry goods store of L. T. Hartnett in payment for goods bought. The woman did not know that the dollar was worth more than it's face value; in fact, she hesi- tated about using it at all for fear that it was not genuine. The clerk, with out knowing how rare the coin was, recognized it as an odd piece and put It into his pocket, handing over to the cashier dollar of his own. For sev- eral months thereafter he carried the 1S04 dollar about as pocket piece. One day he showed it to a friend at a
 
 worth not less than $500. In order to verify this estimate he sent it to a coin buyer in Chicago, who promptly offered S1,500 for it. The clerk still! did not sell having heard that a sim liar coin had sold for a still larger sum in New York. But, though he did not sell, he talked, and the story reached the ears of MT. Hartnett, his employer. Mr. Harnett promptly claimed that the dollar either belonged to the funds of the store or to the woman who had rendered it without knowing it's value. He demanded that it be returned and held for the wom- an. If she could not be found he claimed that the coin belonged to him. The clerk claims that he was justified in substituting his dollar for the one paid in. and pertinently calls attention to the fact that had the coin proved a bad one he would have been held re- sponsible. Both sides have employed attorneys and a lawsuit seems in- eyitabIe.
 Yield of Gold in the Transvaal
 The latest published returns show ing the yield of gold in the Transvaal are said in London to be eminently satisfactory to those persons financial ly interested in the Rand. The entire Transvaal yield in June was 467,271 ounces, or S19 ounces better than in the preceding month, the latter return be- ing the previous best on record. So far this year each monthly return since February has been oyer 100,00 ounces better than the corresponding yield iii 1898. In fact, up to date, the 1889 yield is some 625.000 ounces above the showing the corresponding period iu 1888. Here are the total yields of the Transvaal since 1894, when tbe records showed 2.024,159 ounces: In 1895, 2277,635 ounces: 1896, 2,280,SS5 ounces: 1897, 3,034. .474 ounces. and 1898, 4,o55,- coo ounces. London fnanciers do not deem it possible that this extraordin- ary showing can be maintained throughout the year owing to the dis turbed political situation and particu- larly to the fact that the exodus of labor from the Rand seems to De az suming serious proportions
 In the Sums.
 Mrs. Dothetown-''Poor, dear childl Are your parents dead?" Tenement l Tommy t'ink pap is. Him an mar WIZ fghtin' when I left, an gee, she wuzn't doin' ting t him."-Ohio | State Journal
 
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