Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1882 — FINANCIAL. [ARTICLE]
FINANCIAL.
Montbeal dispatches announce the failure of the dry-goods firm of Chaput & Mosse, with liabilities of $30,000, who offer 60 per cent, in compromise. Wholesale houses throughout the Dominion have been victimized by the collapse of Wurtte & Co., of Winnipeg. The public debt was reduced $16,128,251, during the month of August... .In case of the retirement of Sec’y. Folger from the Treasury Department, it is expected that he will be succeeded by Ass’t-Secretary New, of Indiana.
