Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1887 — Page 2

tlje JlcmocraticScntinei RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J W McEWEN. - - - Publishes.

NEWS BUDGET.

Fresh Intelligence from Every Part of the Civilized World. Foreign and Domestic News, Political Events, Personal Points, Labor Notes, Etc. THE VERY LATEST BY TELEGRAPH. SCORES ROASTED ALIVE. An Appalling Disaster Results from a Theater Fire at Exeter, England—Dozens Burned, Suffocated, or Crushed to Death in the Fearful Struggle to Escape. Oveb one hundred lives were sacrificed by the burning of a theater at Exeter, England. A dispatch from London gives the following particulars of the disaster: The “Romany Rye" was under performance, and the pit and gallery were packed. The piece proceeded all right until near the end of the third act, about 10:30 o'clock, when, as one of the characters was finishing his lines, the drop-scene suddenly fell In front of him. There was some laughter in the house at this, as it was thought to be a stage blunder. In a moment, however, the scene bulged out in the center and a mass of fire shot out, and it was seen that the whole stage was on fire. There was a wild panic instantly. Occupants of stalls in the pit and dress circle got away, after a deal of crushing and fighting, many, especially women, being severely braised and carried away in a fainting condition. The actors and actresses were nearly all in the dressing-rooms. The fire spread with marvelous rapidity, and filled the house with suffocating smoke. The occnpants of the ui>per circle and gallery rushed in numbers to the windows and screamed for ladders. As soon as possible these were brought, but several persons had jumped into the street before they arrived, and were taken away more or less hurt. Others got up on a veranda over the door, and some jumped and others were taken off. The theater by this time was blazing fiercely, lighting up all the city, and people were running up in thousands inquiring for friends or relatives. The fire-escape soon came on the scene and took off some more people. One hundred and thirty dead bodies were taken from the ruins. They were all frightfully burned, chiefly about the head and hands. The majority of them were men and boys, although thirty women were counted as the stretchers passed, and they were apparently for the most part occupants of the gallery.

LABOR DAY IN CHICAGO. Fifteen Thousand Men Parade —No Red Flags Visible. A Chicago dispatch of Tuesday says: “The big labor parade yesterday was one of the most successful ever hold in the city. It was about as successful as plenty of people, plenty of brass bauds, plenty of flags and banners and regalia, and plenty of enthusiasm could make it Every sidewalk along the line of march was completely jammed with spectators, and in the business district every window and housetop was .crowded. The applause along the line was frequent and generous. There were over 15,000 men in line, and the parade was witnessed by a quarter of a million people. There were no red flags displayed, lhe anarchists had been notified that their absence from the procession would be acceptable.” International Medical Congress. The President of the United States at Washington City, on Monday, the sth inst, congratulated the country upon the presence at the capital of “so many of our own citizens, and those representing foreign countries, who have distinguished themselves in the science of medicine. ” He was referring in these complimentary terms to the five or six thousand doctors gathered in Washington to attend the Ninth International Medical Congress, which boly President Cleveland, after the brief remark quoted, proceeded to declare “open for organization and the transaction of business. ” The Congress elected Dr. Nathan Smith Davis, of Chicago, as President In his speech Dr. Davis paid an eloquent tribute of respect to Dr. Austin Elint, of Now York, •who died early last year. A hundred vicepresidents were elected, including all the foreign delegates sent by their respective governments. The only Americans on the list were ex-Presidents of the American Medical Association, and the Surgeons General of the army and navy. Started the Fire with Oil. Mrs. Mary Dunlap and her 6-months-old babe were burned to death near McKeesport, Pa. The woman tried to start ths fire in the kitchen stove with carbon oil and an explosion followed, which set fire to the woman’s clothing and the house. Before assistance arrived the house, with its two occupants, was entirely consumed. Telegraphic Brevities. Charles Coleman, a negro, was lynched at Flemingsburg, Ky. The Consolidated Cattle-Growers’ Convention will meet at Kansas City Oct. 31. A naturalization wave has struck the English, Scotch, and Canadian residents of Chicago. The German Crown Prince has gone from England to the Tyrol, accompanied by Dr. Mackenzie. They have a gas well, just struck, in Alcona County, Michigan, which shoots flames a hundred feet above the derrick. Toledo is to be lighted with natural gas. The Republican State Convention of Massachusetts is called to meet at Tremont Temple, Boston, Sept 28. Master Workman Powderly is going to Ireland very shortly to make speeches on behalf of the oppressed tenants. A controlling interest in the American ■Sugar Refinery Company, at San Francisco, has been secured by the old minority stockholders, including men extensively engaged in sugar-planting in the Sandwich Islands. The parties are said to be the same who led the recent revolution at Honolulu. The Kentucky Furniture Company, of Louisville, made an assignment with liabilities to the amount of $70,000.

WEEKLY BUDGET.

THE EASTERN STATES. Robebt Hare, Powel A Co. and Robert Hare, Powel, Sons A Co., coal and iron operators at Philadelphia, have failed, with liabilities placed at <1,530,000 and aesete at <4,000,000. Fbank C. McNeilly, a nineteen-year-old employe of the Saoo and Biddeford Savings Bank, of Saco, Me., has disappeared with 53,500 in cash, United States registered bonds to the amount of <185,000, and other bonds valued at 591,000. The Government bonds are valueless to the young man, who failed to leave his address when he departed. Bishop William Logan Habeis, one of the most highly esteemed members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, died at his residence in New York. For a number of years past he had been in ill-health and subject at intervals to severe attacks of heart disease. The illness which caused his death appeared Aug. 20 last while he was at Liverpool, England.

THE WESTERN STATES.

A Washington dispatch states that Indian Commissioner Atkins has sent a dispatch to Indian Agent Stollsteiner, at the Southern Ute Agency in Southwestern Colorado, directing him to forthwith remove from the reservation all persons found thereon whose presence in any way tends to disturb the peace and quiet of the Indians, and if found necessary to carry out the order to call upon the military for assistance. This action of the Commissioner is based upon information that certain interested parties are trying to incite the Indians to hostilities. A special from Princeton, Mo., says: “At the Mercer County fair on Thursday afternoon Randall Blakeslee, a half-breed Indian, made a balloon ascension, hanging to a trapeze bar. In the ascent the balloon shot up suddenly, giving Blakeslee a severe wrench, and he was unable to pull himself on the bar, but managed to hold himself up by a loop which he had drawn around his wrist After traveling about a mile and a half, reaching an altitude of 2,000 feet, the balloon began to descend, but the poor fellow’s strength gave out. and when within 500 feet of the earth his grip relaxed, and ho fell to the earth, lighting on his ieet in a corn-field, his thighs being broken and driven into the trunk of his body. Death was instantaneous. ” Flagstaff (Arizona) telegram: “A feud of long standing between Tewksbury and Graham was resumed two weeks ago in an encounter at Pleasant Valley, in which three men were killed. Several engagements have occurred since, in which eleven men have been killed. The factions are cattle and sheep men, and the fight is the outgrowth of conflicting interests of the two branches stock-growing on the range.” Columbus (Ohio) special: ‘‘Josiah Terrell, of Meigs County, couvictad of killing Charles Phelps, an old miser who lived near Pomeroy, was executed in the Ohio Penitentiary annex just after midnight Friday by Warden Coffin. Terrell was convicted on purely circumstantial evidence, but stoutly protested his innocence to the last He maintained a firm demeanor on the scaffold and said the blood of an innocent man was upon the officers.”

A Denver dispatch reports that at the conference between Governor Adams and Gen. Crook the latter agreed to ulace two companies of Government troops on the line to protect settlers, and the. Utes are to have their horses back. Warrants for the arrest of Indians are to be given into the hands of United States officials. The war is practically at an end. The “ White-Caps,” a lawless mob in Harrison County, Indiana, took John Hildobrant, a Justice of the Peace, from his bed and beat him unmercifully, because they disapproved his decisions. They have also signified to a widow named Dougherty their disapproval of her choice of a prospective husband. Eau Claire (Wis.) telegram: “The Land Office here has received instructions regarding the opening of the Wisconsin Central and Chicago, St Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha indemnity lands by homestead and pre-emption only. The lands restored are those within the twenty-five milo limit of the Central and Omaha lines not previously selected and approved, and comprise about 325,000 acres, much of which is valuable pino lands. Thirty days’ notice will be necessary before the lands can be entered by settlers. ”

THE SOUTHERN STATES.

The famous Glenn bill was shelved in the Georgia Legislature, but a resolution was passed against the coeducation of the races, and calling on the Governor to refuse to draw his warrant for the Atlanta University until he is assured that it will be used exclusively for the education of colored children. In the South the corn crop will exceed that of 1886 by over fifty million bushels, and that section of the country will be nearly self-sup-porting in the matter of corn. Bentonville (Ark.) special: “About 3,000 survivors of the battle of Pea Ridge, or Elkhorn, as it is called by the Confederates, assembled on the battlefield Thursday. The ex-Confederates were largely in the majority, but the Union forces were fairly represented, The most fraternal greetings were exchanged, and hearty good-fellowship prevailed. Monuments and statues were unveiled to the prominent dead, among them a statue to General McCulloch.”

THE RAILROADS.

A New York dispatch says that after a long conference of capitalists at the office of Drexel, Morgan & Co., the following was issued by the firm named: “A preliminary contract has been executed between the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, Baring Bros. &Co. and Brown, Shipley & Co., London, and their allied houses on this side. This contract provides for the negotiation of $5,000,000 Baltimore and Ohio consolidated 5s and $5,000,000 Baltimore and Ohio preferred stock, for the purpose of paying off the entire floating debt ot the company and placing it on a sound financial basis. The conditions are as follows: L The verification of statements, etc., as made. 2, That the man-

agement of the company shall be placed in competent hands, satisfactory to the syndicate. 3. That satisfactory contracts shall be made between the Baltimore A Ohio and the other roads for the New York business, which shall remove all antagonisms between them on the subject, and insure the permanent working of the Baltimore A Ohio in entire harmony with the other trunk lines; also avoid the construction of expensive parallel lines north and east of Philadelphia. The houses interested on this side are Drexel, Morgan A Co., Drexel A Co., Brown Bros. A Kidder, Peabody A Co.”

THE POLITICAL FIELD.

In the Democratic State convention at Allentown, Pa, J. Ross Thompson was nominated for Judge of the Supreme Court, and Bernard J. McGrann for Treasurer. The platform was reported by Congressman Scott It demands that the surplus in the National Treasury be used to pay the public debt, favors a “wise and prudent reduction of internal taxation and of duties on imports,” indorses the administration of President Cleveland, favors “liberal pensions to deserving Union soldiers and sailors,” expresses sympathy for the people of Ireland in their struggle for Home Rule, and concludes as follows: We still hold to the ancient doctrine of the party that the preservation of the rights of the people demand that we should look with jealousy upon mononolies and restrict corporate power within its proper sphere, and we heartily approve the action of the national administration in reclaiming and throwing open to the people f«r settlement 100,000,000 acres of land which, through artifice and fraud, were wrongfully held by corporations, having been forfeited to the people by failure to comply with the conditions of the grant. A Des Moines dispatch of Thursday says: The Greenback party in lowa finally passed out of existence here yesterday. After the organization of the Union Labor party at Cincinnati the Greenback leaders in lowa fell smoothly in with the new movement until the State convention was held at Marshalltown. There are two factions in the party here—one led by General Weaver and the other by exCongressman Weller. Both plotted to capture the convention, and Weller succeeded. Then the Weaver faction bolted, and called this convention. There were about forty delegates present. Serious differences at once arose, one element wanting to indorse the Marshalltown ticket and another insisting on straight nominations. A compromise was finally effected by which the Greenback party becomes a thing of the past in lowa. No ticket was named, but resolutions were adopted indorsing the Marshalltown platform, and calling on the farmers to immediately call a nonpartisan State convention to place an inde pendent ticket in the field. The lowa Democracy assembled in State convention at Des Moines on Thursday, the lstinst, and made the following nominations: For Governor, Maj. T. J. Anderson; Lieutenant Governor, J. M. Elder; Supreme Court Judge, Charles S. Fogg; Superintendent of Public Instruction, H. W. Sawyer. Following is a synopsis of the platform: It “commends the fidelity of President Cleveland to the obligations of his high trust, and congratulates the country upon the economy, courage, honesty and patriotism of his administration;" approves the civil-service policy; commends the “efficiency of the Pension Department;" demands of Congress a remission of tariff laws in the interest of equal taxation, and favors retaining its internal revenue taxes; welcomes to our shores the liberty-loving people of all lands; approves the efforts of Gladstone and Parnell in behalf of the cause of Ireland; declares “the vigorous prosecution of faithless officials and those who have corrupted them now being conducted by Democratic prosecuting officers in New York and Chicago a hopeful sign of reform of public morals, ” and demands that the same measure of justice visited upon bribery of local boards should be visited upon the defense when committed in State and national legislatures ; favors the repeal of the present prohibitory liquor law and the substitution in its stead of a local option and carefully guarded license law, with a minimum license fee of SSOO, for the better control of the liquor traffic.

Philadelphia special to Chicago Tribune: “When the name of ex-Gov. Robert E. Pattison was presented to the Allentown convention as a candidate for the judicial nomination it was heard by but few delegates on account of the confusion. A little later on, when it was withdrawn, because, as was learned from an intimate friend, he expects to receive higher honors, there was a buzz of inquiry all over the Opera House as to what was meant To-day it was announced that the exGovornor is to be appointed Secretary of the Interior to succeed Secretary Lamar, who is to be appointed United States Supreme Judga Gov. Pattison is understood to be the President’s personal selection for the office, and his probable appointment is favorably received in Democratic circles.” The New York State Democratic Convention has been called to meet at Saratoga Sept 27. ■

THE FOREIGN BUDGET.

It is reported that the British Cabinet has decided to modify the proclamation in reference to the Irish National League so that it shall apply to certain districts only. The Porte has accepted Russia’s proposal to send General Ernroth as Provisional Governor of Bulgaria and Eastern Roumelia until a new sobranje shall elect a prince for the Bulgarian throne. Pranzini, the murderer of Mme. Regnault, her maid, and her maid’s child, was guillotined at Paris in the presence of 20,000 people. A dispatch from Pans says: Vast crowds waited about the place of execution during the whole of the previous night and kept up a constant howling and yelling. The din was horrible. The doomed man marched from his cell to the scaffold with a firm step and defiant air. When the executioners seized him the murderer resisted and fought desperately, demanding that they let him alone. The executioners overpowered him and threw him upon the machine, and in an instant had him securely bound. Immediately the terrible knife was started. It descended with horrible slowness at first, but then its movements quickened and the head of the murderer rolled into the basket. The head was at once placed in a wagon and carried at a gallop to the Ivry Cemetery, where it was buried after the regular funeral ceremony had been performed over it. The faculty of medicine claimed the body and it was surrendered to them. A Winnipeg dispatch says that “a picnic under the auspices of the Canadian Pacific Railroad was held Sunday at Morris, on the Red River Valley Railway line, to try and work up feeling against the allowance agitation. The provincial rights’ champions were out in full force with rot en eggs, and Messrs. White, Thomson, and McLellan, of the Dominion Min stry, and Messrs. Royal, Daly, and Scarth, Provincial members of the House of Commons, who were to be present, funked, being afraid to appear, 'lhe result was that the. anti-disallowance men took hold of the gathering, sweeping everything before them,denouncing Sir John A. Macdonald, the Canadian Pacific and the Dominion Government, and vowing that until their rights were conceded

the fight would be continued, even if the confederation bad to be buret They swore they would no longer submit to the manacles of monopoly, but as free men would contend for their rights until conceded. A few hirelings engaged for the occasion leaped upon the platform and assaulted R. J. Whitla, who was speaking The crowd immediately interfered and drove the intruders fioip the ground. Groans were given for Sir John and his government Great chagrin is felt by the Canad ian Pacific people and their friends.” Numebous tenant farmers in County Limerick, Ireland, have instructed their solicitors to apply for a revision of their rente under the new land act

THE WORLD AT LARGE.

New Yobe dispatches report that the property and business of the Baltimore and Ohio Express, heretofore operated by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, have been sold or leased to the United States Express Company for a term of thirty years. The lines thus added to the territory of the United States Company are about 10,000 miles in extent Wall street rumor states the price paid for the transfer at <1,000,000 cash and <1,500,000 in United States Express Company stock. It has been decided that the hulls and boilers of all steam yachts, no matter how small, must undergo inspection, and that their pilots and engineers must be licensed. Pbince de Ytuebide, who has just arrived at New York from the City of Mexico, says that the time is not yet ripe for the raising of the imperial standard in Mexico, but denounces Diaz as the Caesar of the republic, ambitious to perpetuate his lease of office and power. In their Weekly review of the condition of trade, Dun & Co., of New York, say: Crop reports are unchanged as to wheat, still conflicting as to corn, and decidedly more unfavorable as to cotton. In some parts of the Northwest corn was materially helped by the rains ;in others scarcely at all. Trade reports are uniformly encouraging, with fair collections at all points heard from and a generally improving outlook for trade. Money is strong or in brisk demand at some points, but generally in fair supply The boot and shoe trade is better, with more satisfactory orders from regions of drouth than were expected. Dry goods reports show improvement, with fair movement in light woolens, though the demand does not yet start much of the idle machinery. Wool remains dull, the unloading of Western speculators having come sooner than was expected. Failures in the iron and coal trade have a discouraging tendency. Large offers of Southern iron are reported without bidders, but prices for the best grades are not changed. The business failures throughout the country during the week numbered for the United States 175, for Canada 24, total 199, compared with 185 last week and 190 for the corresponding week of last year.

Ten thousand persons assembled at Ennis on Saturday to attend the meeting of the Irish National League, says a Dublin dispatch. The police took possession of the hill of Ballycoree, where it was intended to hold the meeting. The procession, enlivened by twelve bands of music, and including Messrs. Timothy Sullivan, Dillon, Cox, Sheehy, William O’Brien, and Philip Stanhope, all members of the House of Commons, and several priests, moved toward Ballycoree Hill, the approaches to which were guarded by soldiers and police. The procession, finding its further progress barred, halted in a field, and Messrs. Sullivan, Stanhope, and O’Brien made speeches from their carriages. A troop of hussars, headed by Colonel Turner, Divisional Magistrate, rode up to where the procession had halted and Colonel Turner ordered the meeting to disperse within five minutes. Mr. Stanhope handed Colonel Turner a copy of the resolutions adopted by the meeting, claiming home rule, declaring adherence to Mr. Parnell, thanking the Liberal party, pledging resistance to the proclamation of the league, and denouncing land-grabbing. Mr. Stanhope declared that the proceedings of the meeting were legal, and that if a collision occurred between the p?ople and troops he would hold Col. Turner responsible. Turner replied that he was bound to execute his orders. After a parley the procession returned to Ennis and O’Brien addressed the crowd in O’Connell’s square. The soldiers and police again appearing, the procession passed on to a hotel, which the leaders entered. The crowd then dispersed quietly.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Cattle $4.50 & 5.25 Hogs 5.00 ft 6.00 Wheat—No. 1 Whiteß4 ft .85 No. 2 Red .80>$@ .81 Corn—No. 2 50)$ft -51J£ Oats- White3s ft .40 Pork—New Mess. .• 15.50 (q 16.00 CHICAGO. Cattle—Choice to Prime Steers 5.00 @ 5.25 Good 4.00 ft 4.50 Common 3.00 & 3.50 Hogs—Shipping Grades 5.00 & 5.50 Flour—Winter Wheat 3.75 ft 4.25 Wheat—No. 2 Red Winter.7l & .72 Corn--No. 2.41 (ft .42 Oats—No. 224 & .25 Butter—Choice Creamery2l @ .22 Fine Dairyl7 (ft .20 Cheese—lull Cream, Cheddars. .10-%ft .HJ£ Full Cream, newll ft .111$ Eggs—Freshl3 (ft .14 Potatoes—Choice, per bu7s (ft .85 Pork—Mess 15.50 ® 16.25 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—Cash69’s@ .70 Corn—No. 342 @ .43 Oats—No. 2 White.. 25%ft .27*4 Rye--No. 144 ft .46 Pork—Mess 14.75 15.25 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red69ls ft .701$ Corn—Mixed37 ft .38 Oats —Mixed .24 ft .25 Pork —New Mess 14.75 ft 15.25 TOLEDO. Wheat—Cash74Js@ .75 Corn—No. 2 43}$ft .44)$ Oats 26 @ .261$ DETROIT. Beef Cattle 3.50 (ft 4.50 Hogs 3.75 ft 4.50 Sheep 4.00 <( 4.75 'Wheat--No. 2 White7B's <- .79 Corn—No. 2 44($@ .451$ Oats—No. 2 White 29 ft .29'$ CINCINNATI. Wheat—No. 2 Red 71)$@ .72)$ Corn—No. 2 44)$® .45}$ Oats -No. 227 ft .28 Pork—Mess 14.25 ' 14.75 Live Hogs 4.75 ft 5.50 BUFFALO. Wheat—No. 2 Whiteß2}s@ .83}$ Corn —Cash47)s® .48 Cattle 4.00 ft 5.00 INDIANAPOLIS. Beef Cattle.... 3.50 (ft, 4.50 Hogs 5.00 (ft 5.50 Sheep k 3.00 ft 4.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red 70 ® .70}$ i Corn4l ;ft .42 Oats—No. 2 Mixed 25)$ ft .261$ EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Prime 4.25 ft 4.50 Fair i 3.50 ft 4.00 Common 3.00 ft 3.50 Hogs 5.25 @ 5.75 Sheep, 4.03 & 4.75

A NAPOLEONIC SWINDLE.

Henry S. Ives Said to Have. Fraudulently Issued Railroad Stock. Nine Million Dollars’ Worth of Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Preferred Put Afloat. [New York special.] Nine million dollars is in jeopardy, and Ives <fc Co. are again before the courts. But this time Wall street’s latest “Napoleon of Finance” must answer a more seriouscharge than making away with cash-books and ledgers. It is that of deliberately swindling the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton stockholders out of $9,000,000. Ives’ Career. We present herewith a faithful portrait of the young “Napoleon of Finance” who has created such a flurry in Eastern financial circles. The story of his wonderful career reads like a romance. Nothing like it has ever appeared in the history of finance, and a generation later it will be one of the greatest reminiscences of the Wall Btreet of the past. Bom in Litchfield, Ct.,.

the son of an internal revenue officer, he went to New York eight years ago, then, only 20 years of age, and acted as a bellboy for Harper Brothers. He ran errands, took visitors over the building, and deemed himself happy, no doubt, when he became assistant advertising solicitor and when he got a salary of $lO a week. He stayed with Harpers three years, and left them to take a clerkship in a broker’s office in Wall street. He left this broker for another, became mixed up in one or two sharp speculations, and three years ago established a banking house of his own. His ideas were big. He dealt in millions and came within an aca of rivaling Jay Gould. The $lO a week bellboy of eight years ago, still under 30, now fails for from $15,000,000 to $20,000,1.00. Stephen Girard left only $7,500,000 as the accumulations of his lifelime. George Peabody, charities and all, did not reach $20,000,000, and the men. who are worth that amount to-day can be counted upon your fingers and toes. Still Ives failed for this much when only 28 years old. The beardless boy clerk deals with giay-headed millionaires and outwits them.

THE NATIONAL LEDGER.

Official Debt; Statement for August—A Decrease of $5,000,000 for the Month, [Washington telegram,] The following is a recapitulation of thedebt statement, cents omitted: INTEREST-BEARING DEBT. Bonds at 4) 2 per cent.B 244,251,690 Bonds at 4 per cent 737,812,800 Refunding certificates at 4 per cent. 165,800' Navy pension fund at 3 per cent.... 14,000,000 Pacific Railroad bonds at 6 per cent. 64,623,512 Principalsl,o6o,Bs3,7l2 Interest..... 10,114,336T0ta151,070,968,047 DEBT ON WHICH INTEREST HAS CEASED SINCE MATURITY. Principal $4,397,715 Interest. 186,931 Total $4,584,647 DEBT BEARING NO INTEBEST. Old demand and legal-tender notes $346,738,120 Certificates of deposit 7,130,000 Silver certificates 83,765,340 Fractional currency (less $8,375,934 estimated as lost or destroyed)... 6,943,894 Principal $597,453,840 Interest prepaid, not accrued 1,075,280 TOTAL DEBT, Principa151,662,705,267 Interest 11,376,548Total $1,674,081,815 Less cash items available for reduction the debts 259,546,540 Less reserve held for redemption of United States notes 100,000,000 Totals 359,546,540 Total debt less available cash item 551,314,535,275 Net cash in the Treasury 44,760,908. Debt less cash in Treasury Sept. 1. 188751,269,774,366 Debt less cash in Treasury Aug. 1, 1887 1,274,583,842. Decrease of debt during tne months 4,809,475 Decrease of debt since June 30, 1887 9,654,376 CASH IN THE TREASURY AVAILABLE FOR REDUCTION OF PUBLIC DEBT. Gold held for gold certificates actually outstanding $38,765,346Silver held for silver certificates actually outstanding 147,876,385 U. S. notes held for certificates of deposit actually outstanding 7,130,000Cash hel ( far matured debt and interest unpaid 14,698,983 Interest prepaid not accrued per department circular 1,075,280 Fractional currency 551 Total available.. $259,546,540RESERVE FUND. Held for redemption of U.‘ S. notes, acts January 14, 1875, and July 12, 1882.’: 3 100,000,090 Unavailable for red uction of debt: Fractional silver coin. $ 26,148,531 Minor coin 110,799 Total...s 26,259,331 Certificates held as cash... 29,424,950 Net cash balance on hand 44,760,980 Total cash in Treasury as shown by the Treasurer’s general account. .8 459,991,729