Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1897-07-21
EXPORTS AND IMPORTS.
Exports of Merchandise the Highest in
the History of the Country.
Exports of Gold for 1897 Amounted to
$40. 359 7So-The Imports Were $751;
O13.5 Minister Angel sails Sat-
urday-June Inn ports OF sugar.

WASHINGTON. July 10 The monthly
state ment of the exports and imports
OF the United States, issued Thursday
by the bureau of statistics, MAKE the
remarkabls showing that never before
ia the history of the country has the
exports of merchandise, which includes
practically all the exports except gold
and silver, reached so high a figure as
during the fiscal year ended June 30
1897 nor has the excess of exports over
imports ever been SO large. The only
time these figures were approached
was in 1892, when the United States
was making heavy shipments of grain
to feed Europe's suffering from a series
of deficient harvests
The statement for 1897, with com
Parsons, is as follows:
Exports of domestic merchandise,
Sl.O3!,9 9S, $50; increase over 1896, about
$4,000, 900.
Total exports of domestic and for
eign merchandise, 81 ,Ojl, 9S7, O9l, as
compared with sss2, coo. 9Ss for 1896
The total imports of merchandise
during the fiscal year just closed
amounted to S764. 373, 9O5, OF which
SSsl, 49,, GO5 was free of duty. The to-
tai imports were about Sl5, $50. 600 less
than last year, and the excess of ex-
ports over imports for the year was
S2S7, 0l3, ls6. This is an excess of about
Sls5, 900, 900 over last year, and an ex-
cess of about S23 600, 900 over any pre-
vious year.
The figures for June also shows an
important gain. The domestic ex-
ports of merchandise during that
month amounted TO s72, 766, $50, a gain
over June, 1896, of s., 600, 600. The i'm
ports OF June amount to SSi. S25, ITO. as
compared with $50, 1853, 74O for June.
1896 The exports of gold, including
ores, for the fiscal year 1897, amounted
20 $40, 359, 1S), as compared with
SIP, 4O9,947 for 1896. The imports
OF gold amounted to SSJ, OI3. 575. an in
crease of about Sjl, 800, 600 over 1896.
The exports of silver during 1897
amounted to SCI, $40 G3s and the i'm
ports O,533 227 The excess of gold
import over exports therefore was S44-
N1".f95 and the excess of silver EXPORT
Ell over imports Sd, 4l3, III. Never be-
fore has the silver move ment. both ex-
port and import. reached so high a Fl =
ure
NAsmNGroN, July 1e DIR. Angel.
United States minister to Turkey, has
teIegraped the state department from
ms home at Ann Arbor. Mich. that ne
viii sail from New York Saturday
next without coming TO Washington.
He probably will meet Mr.. Terrell.
the retiring minister to Turkey, in
Paris, for consultation.
the records of the treasury DEPART
ment show the imports of sugar dur
ing June, 1897, at the principal sugar
ports, Baltimore, Boston. Galveston.
New Orleans, New York. Philadelphia
and San Francisco at which a bout 90
per cent of the whole importation is
made, amount to G96 9O4. lO3 pounds,
for all kinds, valued in the foreign
markets at SIS, 800, 1928.
WASHINGTON, July le.-Little cred
ence is placed in official circles here
in the statement that the Spanish and
the Japanese governments have enter
ed into an offensive alliance against
the United States for the mutual pro-
lection o: Cuba and Hawaii. Indeed,
so far as could be learned Thursday
night no intimation OF such an agree
ment has even reached the
state department. Secretary Sherman
was indisposed when reporter
called at his house in regard to the
matter but MIR. Day, the first assist
ant secretary, discredited the report
and regarded it as too improbable TO
! discuss. The state department has
no information concerning the prob
able alliance he said, and | don't
believe there is any foundation for
the statement that one has been en-.
tered into"
Both the Spanish and the japanese
ministers are away from the city.
WAsHiNGroN. July IO-Chief Hazen
OF the secret service has given notice
of the discovery of new counter
felt ten dollar silver certificate. IL is
of the series of 1891, check letter ID
with the small carmen seal. the nor
trait of Hendricks and the names Of
Messrs. Iillman aud Morgan as regi, O.
ter aud treasurer respectively. The
counterfeit is desert bed as apparently
a woodcut production very poorly ex-
ecutei, the seal being light pink in
stead of carmine, tho NUN boring irrep-
nlar and the printing and engraving
/ bad.