The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-01-04
Public Debt Statement.

WAsHIN GTON, JAM 2-The monthly pub.
lie debt statement. issued from the Treas
ury Department to-day. shows an increase
in the aggregate OF the debt during the last
month amounting to 90. 794. 1896. There
was decrease of 81. 75S, 40 In non-interest-
bearing debt, an increase of 500 in the
bonded debt, and decrease of 81, 5S2, 7s9. 60
in the surplus cash in the treasury.
The total debt to-day, less S34 ,574 12S 80
net cash balance of surplus. and the $780,
100000 gold reserve is ssh. 407, S1S.31. Of
this amount 1856. 026, $40 is interest-beari
debt; made up Of e55S; 5s2. 600 ur-per-oent.
outstanding. The principal of the out
standing bonds has been reduced $685.
992, 40 during the calendar year just closed,
$3.50. 300 fours and $S3,s1S.OoO four:and-a-
twelve months. The net cash or surplus
in the treasury to-day, exclusive of the
hundred million gold reserve, is S34, 574, 00S.
against S57.571. Sl2 on Jan. /, 1891. OF the
surplus to-day national bank depositaries
hold $40. 254.O0s. against ga .s72 year
ago.
The treasury gold coin and bullion &C.
counts to-day aggregate S27S. $40. 749. about
$4,000, 600 less than month ago. and Sl4,-
ha sss senn CD . 5sn 1892 sss s
ing the last month, and about ISL 0OO. 600
they aggregate ssis. s7s. sss. Against gold
coin and bullion and silver assets. there
s4Oa O9s, 400 in silver certificates. outstand-
Ing.
Government receipts during December
aggregated e27, 9S2, 9s5. against S3l. $40 039 in
the last month were sl2, S36. $50. or two and
q quarter millions lsss than In December.
1890, and internal revenue re-
ceipts were s12. 427,046, or about
half q million less than year ago.
Receipts from all sources from July to
Dpa ri the first half nf tho
fiscal year, aggregated in round
numbers slI5. 745,2 7S, or $43, 1000 less than
for the corresponding SIX months of 1890.
This big loss of revenue was mainly
in the customs receiots, the revenue
from this source for the past six
months aggregatIng SS5, 22.841, again st
S124. $40. 100 from July l to Dec. 81, 1890.
Government expenditures during the last
than expenditures du:lng the correspond
ing six months of 1890. OF this decrease
&c, O00, 600 is due to prepayment of interest
on bonds redeemed. e1O,009. 600 for premium
pension payments. These three items of
expense for the past SIX months and for the
first half of the preceding fiscal year were
Is follows:
Interest. .s29, ss4.33s 1864. 1854
premium .-.-..-.--.-. 1851 ,639 Nothing.
Pensions e9,OOl,s7O 61.S4l.227
Caught Under Falling Walls
COLUMBUS. O.. Jan. 2.,shortly after
story sns Srioh building on Iaueis stTsst
occupied by the Joyce Carriage-repair
Company, the Paynter Manufacturing
the blaze was due to spontaneous combus-
ton. A high west wind famed the
flames so that an entire CITY block was en-
dangered. as was the Edison electric-light
was called ont. and. after a stubborn
bringing the blaze under control At 9
o'clock part3of the east wall fell! with o
%sn ana 'r. citizen 0u ndss tho sur as
Andrew Kerins, driver Of Assistant
Chief Webb's vehicle was buried under a
hot mass of brick and debris and lived only
an hour after being released. Michael
the head gwen BY lying de isHn0k ao oG
seriously injured. Philip Kirsch. truck.
man. received four terrible gashes on his
head and was internally injured. He
win die. Henry Wall, reel-driver
Internally in ursd. Assistant Chief welef
was slightly Injured abont tho legs. The
loss on the bnilding will be $4,000 partly
insured; loss on stock. Sl5 900. fully insured.
Herlin on New Years Eve.
Copyright 1891 by the Now York Associated Press
BERLIN. Jan. 2.-Reports have reached
hero by cable that the German minister tc
Chilli had offered the good office Of Ger.
many az mediator between Chill and the
United States. These reports have been
semi-oficially denied. The foreign depart
ment does not think il necessary to tele.
graph the minister asking how the rumoI
arose. as no instructions from his govern
ment warrsnting hisinterference have been
sent to him and the department relies i'm.
plicitly upon his discretion.
Bleak winds and drenching rains ushered
in the new year. Such miserable weather
of course, had some effect upon the cele-
bration of the day. The rowdy mobs which
had been privileged every New Years eve
to hold the leading thorouRhfares against
quiet folks. and TO indulge in such practi-
cal Jokes a. crushing the hats aud tearing
the coats of well-dressed passers-by. found
a practical check in special reinforcements
of police. but neither the Indictment night
nor the strong force of police in the stree C.
quite restrained the recurrence OF the old
time rioting Mounted constables rode
along the pavements dispensing tho unruly
groups. About one hundred of the brawl
ers were arrested for molesting sober per
sons of respeetability. They were await
ing fine OF imprisonment.
The court functions on New Years day
were the same as usual. The Emperor and
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