Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1884 — WASHINGTON [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON

H. D. Cooke & Co., private bankers of Washington, D. C., have suspended. The liabilities ore about $170,000. It is expected that the assets will equal this amount. W. H. Armstrong, the Federal Railroad Commissioner, reports that on June 30 the Pacific lines owed to the Government $102,034,793. The sinking fund held by the Treasurer of the United States-is composed of $3,435,576 to the credit of the Union Pacific, and to that of the Central Pacific. [