People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1893 — The Debt Increased. [ARTICLE]

The Debt Increased.

ASHiNGTON, Aug. 2. —The treasury department’s monthly debt statement shows an increase in the public debt during July of $4,263,973. The other notable features of last mo-nth’s fiscal operations shown by the statement are an increase of nearly $4,000,000 in the gold reserve, which now aggregates $99,202,93320r nearly upto the $100,000,000 mark/and a decrease of $4,500,000 in the treasury surplus. The total debt, less the surplus in the treasury, is $843,233,449. Of this amount $585,037,440 is interest-bearing debt, mainly 4 per cent, bonds.