Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-11-15
CRIMINAL.

OOiA hLtltAoil- lhhisNelN SAif1o. L.
Smith. night telegraph operator for the
Santa Fe road was shot and fatally wound
ed by two masked robbers who came TO
the station evidently for the purpose of
robbery. After the shooting however
they left without securing any valuables.
A posse is In pursuit.
LOUISVILLE. Kentucky. - The court of
appeals has affirmed the decision of the
Pike county court in the Hatfeld-MeCoy
cases. Valentine Hatfield. Plyant, May
horn and DR.. Mayhorn go to the peniten-
tiary for life for the murder of Talbert
Mccoy, and f lison Mounts viii hang for
the murder of the girl Aleaf Mccoy,
sister of the murdered man.
PoRT WASHINGTON. Wisconsin. A
man named Brobender, of the town of
Belgium, was arrested for creating ii dis
turbance at Holy Cross Church and fined
$50 and costs. He is well to do but pre-
ferred to be stubborn and take the alterna-
tive of his sentence-twenty days in Jail
When Brobender's wife. who has been an
invalid for long time, heard of her hus-
band S incarceration she fell dead on the
floor.
The COMM, Ocean Steamship Rou'e.
New YORK Great interest has been
excited among the shipping circles both in
this country an1 in England by the call
recently made at Melford Haven by the
steamship City of Rome on her last pas
sage out from New York when she dis
charged her passengers there instead of
at Liverpool Milford Haven is port in
Wales. on the extreme western point of
England. London is 230 miles from Mil
ford Haven on direct line east, and Liv-
erpool to the northwest of London, is much
further from the big city. For a whole
generation the advantages of Milford
Haven IA stopping place for the trans
Atlantic steamships have been pointed
ont, but this is the first time that the port
has really been utilized for passenger
traffic by a big steamship line.
1t is believed that the MelfOrd route can
be made in from eighteen to twenty-four
hours less than by way of Liverpool from
New York Many of the steamship men
say that nothing can prevent Milford
Haven from becoming the great point of
landing and departure in the trathc be-
tween Europe and the United States.
TREASURER HUSTON'S REPORT.
He Snys the Last Fiscal Year Was Remark
able in Many Ways.
WAsHINGTON.-Th Hon. J n. Huston.
treasurer of the United States. has made
an extended report to Secretary Window
upon the operations of his Office during the
last fiscal year and the condition of the
treasury June 30. The yearis is characteriz-
ed as a remarkable one III the history of
public finances bOtE the revenues and the
expenditures having been exceeded but
few times since the foundation of the gov
fTbn a,,,l,,,,+nl 4p -1SE
050. .05S and the latter to s299, 2SS. .07S. in
elusive of Sl7 ,292, ,;}62 paid in premium on
bonds purchased. The surplus revenues
June 80 were S87, ,76l ,O60. decrease of
80, $50, 1913, as compared with the year be-
fore. counting premium on bonds as an Or
dinary expenditure.
June 30. 1888, there was in the trcasrr-
er's custody. in cash and effective bonds,
the sum of S764. 729, ,225 and year later
S760, 1881. The current liabilities de-
creased in the interval from Sl4S. 292. BAT
to Sl27. .93l $50 and the reserve from S229.-
sos. 800 to 1892 097 .O47. The gold in the
treasury in excess of certificates outstand-
ing was Sl93. 6l0, ,l72i in 1888 and 1886. 257.-
400 in 1889.
Notwithstanding the loss of gold. both
In the aggregate and III the amount not
covered by certificates, the position of the
treasury was strengthened in every respect
save the amount of reserve The total as
sets. the liabilities. and the reserve all fell
off about IA per cent. At the beginning
of the year the free gold was S45, GOO, 900
and at the close $5S, 900, ,0O0in excess of the
demand liabilities The changes that
took place in the currency were an increase
Of about S34 900 600 in the stock of silver.
a contraction of 54l ,OGO. .OO0in the national
bank circulation. and loss Of S25. 100. OOO
Of gold.
During the year the national banks with
drew sec. .34O, 900 of their bonds held 10y the
treasury as security for circulating notes
of public moneys The deposits amounted
to S25. .243, 1000 There remained at the
close of the year 5l4S.12l .45O belonging to
3.262 banks as security for circulation and
81. .222. 900 belonging to 270 banks as
security for deposits.