Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1891-12-10
The News Of the Week.
BY TELEGRAPH AND NAIL.
FROM WASHINGTON.

The statement Of the public debt is
sued on the 1st showed the total de bt to
be 81, $40, 96l 1896; cash in the treasury,
S74S, 1856, 80; debt less cash in the treas
ury, $79S 604,9 45. Decrease during No
vember, Ss,57O. 139.
PROF. T. MENDENHALL, chief of the
United States geodetic and coast sur
vey, in his report concerning the In
diana Ohio bounds 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. was allotted to Mrs
Window.
The first assistant postmaster gener-
al 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, 305. O27, being an in
crease of s4,s72, 696 over the previous
year. The aggregate expenditure for
compensation to postmasters amounted
to STA, $50, $3.50.
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 competitive examination.
TREASURER NEBEKER in his annual
report to Secretary Foster on the opera
tions and condition of the treasury
says the net ordinary revenues of the
government for the past fiscal year
were $780,, 612, 1881, or $40, 46S, 5S5. SO
1oSS gfhop fhnSA IF ho hofD
The net ordinary expenditures, ex-
elusive of the amounts paid in premium
on bonds purchased, were 1856, 372,-
BS474. The postal revenues amounted
to $65. 1872, 9OS. IS and the expenditures
to ST.. C67, 5so.65. The reduction eff
fected during the year in the principal
of the bonded debt was Sl16,59O,2 7s.
The amount of money in circulation
was 81, SIC, O7S, 1O2. The disbursements
during the year we're 1871. 126, 376. %,
leaving balance of S726, 222. $3.50.
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
$50, 100000 The number of banks in
operation was 1864, having in capital
stock 1854, 753, 1865. The affairs of 1O2
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, $50, a91, of
which total the sum of 4,1s6,250 is to
be applied toward armament Of new
vessels authorized to be built.
POSTMASTER GENERAL WANAMAKER
in his annual report shows that, in
spite of the fact that over 1000. 900
worth of lottery revenue has been
lost during the last year, the postal de-
felt of 100000 is surely disappear
ing. Mr.. Wapamaker favors postal
telegraph, telephones and postal
savings system, and thinks penny post
age will be demanded in the near
future, and shows how newspapers
may be transported free from July /,
1893.
THE business failures in the United
States during the seven days ended on
the 4th mum bered $50. against 295
the preceding week and 3ls for the cor
responding week last year.
In his annual report 4 the secretary
of the navy Paymaster General Stew
art says that the growth of the navy
has called for expenditures of s., 500, :
900 at shore stations during the fiscal
wear