Year: 1870




Re.organizaGIOn OF the Cuban
League. .,.-..


NEw YORK, Sept. 1.-The CubaI
League met last night and framed new
rules for the government of the league;
adopted resolutions of sympathy with
the Cuban cause and its Representatives;
various questions relative to the cause
its furtherance, were discussed by Mendo,
La Hastan, Cespedes, Dr., Sobais ant
others. t--


Great Robbery at the Methods


Book 600 stolen.


NEW YORK, Sept. Yesterday morn
ing it was discovered that the two greai
safes in the rooms of the Board of Mis-
sions of the Methodist Book Concern,
No. 605 Broadway, had been robbed,
and property to the amount of $3.50, ,00C
carried away. Onentering the room in the
morning a scene of the utmost confusion
presented itself The floor,>was thickly
strewn with papers-large leather wallets
and bill books and here and there a tiI
box forced open and emptied of its con
tents. Among many papers thrown about
the room were found to be q large number
of registered United States bonds.


No clue to the perpetrator of the rob-
berry seemed to present itself to any of
the reverend secretaries. On examination
the safes were found to be emptied OF
everything of negotiable value, including
a service of silver plate belonging to Mr..
Depew and other articles of silverware,
the property of a clergyman who had
used the facilities offered by the two large
safes as q sort of safe deposit Some
small wallets contained the savings of q
life time of frugality and economy of
humble parish preachers; and others and
lerger ones were well filed with the sur
plus accumulations of fortunate and
fashionable preates. Such of the bonds
as were registered were quietly thrown on
the floor and those which were payable
to bearer were invariably removed.


The largest single loser is one of the
secretaries of the Missionary Board, who
was robbed of $4,000. 1t seems very
strange to q casual observer that the rob-
berry should have been successfully per-
formed by any one not well acquainted
with the arrangem, n and familiar with
the place. There are two night watch,
men on the outside of the building and
one on the inside, and the only persons
having rooms on the floor with the excep-
ton of an artist and one other person are
churchmen connected with some of the
many Methodist concerns. The money OF
the society was deposited in a different
place, and that of the Book Concern was
in safe in another part of the building.
1t is, therefore, only individuals who lose.
1t is now thought that the loss may be al
most irreparable to many of them, and
sweeps away the savings of the best part
of their lives.


The officials of the Book concern are
very reticent and stated to the reporter
yesterday that they did not choose to dis
close anything in regard to the affair for
publication at the present time, and that
they had been advised by the detectives
to withhold all information for some days;
they also declined the suppression of the
above statement There is some reason
to suspect that if the robbery was per-
petrated by parties not in the employ OF
the Book concern, it was perpetrated by
expert burglars, as they were shrewd
enough not to appropriate any of the re-
gistered bonds. Rather strange circum-
stance of the depreciation is that the safes
were in no wise injured, but were opened
by keys, and as they were fitted with COM
binstion locks, to open them the thieves
must have obtained combination numbers
or characters. The safes were of Mar
wins make and were considered first class
of their kind.