Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1893 — GOLD ARRIVES IN NEW YORK. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GOLD ARRIVES IN NEW YORK.

84,000,000 from San Francisco and 86,000,000 from ICurope. A sight to inspire confidence in the ability of the Government to pay its

obligations was witnessed on the streets of New York recently. Three express wagons heavily loaded arrived at the United States sub-treasury. On each wagon sat men with loaded shot guns across their knees. In the three wagons were ltX) coarse wooden boxes, fastened with bands of iron and big screws. Each box weighed 1594 pounds and contained $40,000 in gold coin, making a total of $4,000,000. This consignment of gold had been sent from the San Francisco mint a week before. A large crowd watched the unloading of the gold at the sub-treasury building. There was also received at the different banks from Europe gold amounting to $6,000,000, which had been brought by the steamships Campania, La Bourgone and New York. Joel Barnhardt, in attempting to save the life of his 9-year-old daughter, at Peru, Ind., by jumping with her from a buggy when his horses were running away, was seriously injured and the child was instantly killed by striking against the iron girders of a bridge. Deputy’ Marshal Folsom shot and killed Henry Durant at Caddo, f. T. Folsom was attempting to confiscate some liquor in Durant’s possession, and Durant fired a weapon, in answer to which Folsom fired. The Hotel de Logorot, New York, is in the hands of an assignee. Liabili' ties, $147,000.

CONVEYING $4,000,000 IN GOLD TO THE SUBTREASURY, IN NEW YORK.