The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-12-10
The News Of the Week.
ny TELEGRAPH AND NAIL.
FROM WASHINGTON.

bHOM HASt1tN0J OsSs
The statement OF the public debt 10
sued ON the LIST showed the total debt TO
be 81, SO, 96l ,695; cash in the treasury,
s74s, $50, 10; debt less cash in the treas
ury, s7es 6o4,o45. Decrease during No
vember. $s,57o. 1s9. ..e~
PROF. T. MENDENHALI., chief Of the
United States geodetic and coast sur
vey. in his report concerning the In
diana Ohio airy line, shows that it
Is one mile east Of its proper place,
thus giving Ohio nearly 100 square
miles of Indiana territory. ..-...,-....
The Window two-dollar certificates
were issued. No 1 was allotted to Mrs.
Window.
The first assistant postmaster gener-
nj in his annual report shows that at
the close of the last fiscal year there
were 2.9s4 presidential post offices in
the United States. The gross receipts
amounted to $50. sos. 027, being an in.
crease of $4,s72, sos over the previous
year The aggregate expenditure for
compensation to postmasters amounted
to $l4, $4,000.
AN order by the postmaster general
directs that all promotions of clerks
in the fifty post Offices now under the
civil service law and rules he made only
after q competitive examination.
TREASURER NEBEKER in his annual
report to Secretary Foster on the opera
lions and condition of the treasury
says the net ordinary revenues Of the
government for the past fiscal year
were $780,, 6l:, 447.3l, or $40, 48s, $685. 80
less than those of the year before.
The net ordinary expenditures, ex-
elusive of the amounts paid in premium
on tonds purchased, were $751;, s73,-
G84.7 "a. The postal revenues amounted
to sG5, 762, 90s IS and the expenditures
to S73.067. 5S9.65. The reduction eff.
fected during the year in the principal
of the bonded debt was $l16, 500, 27S.
The amount of money in circulation
was 81, $40, 07S, 102. The disbursements
during the year were 1871, l26. s76. g.,
leaving a balance Of s7a6, s3s, $1,000.
COMPTROLLER LACY in his annual re-
port shows that during the year ended
October 81 last 1913 new banks were or.
ganized, with an aggregate capital Of
$40. 700. 900. The number. of banks in
operation was 1904, having in capita
stock 1854, 75S, sos. The affairs of 10:
insolvent banks were finally closed.
In his annual report Commodore Fol
ger, chief of the bureau of ordnance
estimates the expense of the bureau
for the next fiscal year at 81. 7so. 291, Of
which total the sum of 81, 1S6,:50 is t<
be applied toward armament of new
vessels authorized to be built.
POSTMASTER GENERAL WANAMAKE1
in his annual report shows that, il
spite of the fact that over $1,000. 90,
worth of lottery revenue has beer
lost during the last year, the postal de
felt of 100000 is surely disappear
ing. Mr.. Wapamaker favors posta
telegraph, telephones and posta
savings system, and thinks penny post
age will be demanded in the nea1
future, and shows how newspaper!
may be transported free from July /
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THE business failures in the United
States during the seven days ended OF
the 4th mum bered $50. against 20;
the preceding week and Sl2 for the cor
responding week last y:cer.
In his annual report 4 the secretar,
of the navy Paymaster General Stew
art says that the growth of the nav,
has called for expenditures of S., 500,
900 at shore stations during the fisca
year.