The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-08-14
DIRT GATHERS, WASTE RULES.~
GREAT SAVING RESULTS FROM THE USE OF
SA POL 10
GARY FAVORS THEM.
POST Office Department Wants Postal
Savings Banks Inaugurated.
Cuba Will Win, Says Secretary Sherman
Pension Roll Has Reached Nearly a
Iion-B Increase in the
Production of Gold.

WAsHINGTGN, Aug. 10.-Posmaster-
General Gary is in favor of postal saw
ings banks and proposes to recommend
to congress at the next session the es-
t~ablishment of such banks in this
country. at is very likely" he said,
in discussing the subject a few days
ago, that some sort of legislation will
be enacted at the approaching session,
and that we will make a practical test
of postal savings banks within n year.
At this time | have no definite plans
in view, but propose to thoroughly in
vestigate the subject during the sum
mer SO that l will De prepared to make
In intelligent recommendation to c0n-
gress in December. l have sent for
the blank forms and other matters
used in this service in Canada and
other countries, and am collecting all
the information it is possible to find"
Says Cuba Is Lost to Spain.
New YORK, Aug. 9.-The World pub
fishes an interview said to nave been
obtained with John Sherman, secretary
of state, just previous to his return to
Washington from Amagansett, L. L.
In this he is represented as saying:
Spain will lose Cuba That seems to me to
be certain. She cannot continue the struggle.
Already the conflict has cost her more than
5000, 900, 900. Her money is gone and she can
get no more. She has reached the limit of her
borrowing capacity. She cannot pay back
what she has already borrowed. The only
thing left for her to do is to repudiate
her debts. We had to do that after the
revolution. Having repudiated them, she can
begin anew, but she will have to begin without
Cuba. That country is devastated. The in
s~urgents have been fighting with only the hope
of ultimate success as their reward. The Span
ish soldiers have been battling for pay. The
pay will stop and then the conflict will stop.
Spain Is in no condition to wage war anywhere.
BY stopping the struggle. by Withdrawing her
troops from Cuba and by repudiating her debts
is her only way to recover. Sooner or later
she must do this
Pension Roll Reaches Nearly n Million.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.-The pension
roll of the United States has almost
reached the million mark. AT the be-
ginning of the fiscal year the pension
ers numbered just s3,52s, an increase
of 10, $50 for the past year. During the
year so, 1O1 new pensions were granted
and 3,971 persons were restored to the
rolls. Old age and disease, however, are
making great inroads into the lists, for
therewere 81, $50 deaths during the year.
Other. sources of loss were 1,074 from
remarriages of widows. 1,S45 orphans
attained majority, 2,6s3 failures to
claim pensions and $500 losses from
~unrecorded causes.
Increased Production of Gold.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.-Mr. Preston
the director of the mint, estimates the
gold production of the world for 1896
to have been sos, 900, 900. of which the
United States contributed over $53, 000,-
900. For 1897, it is believed the worlds
gold product will reach at least $780,
900, 900, an increase of S35, OOO, 900 over
1896.