Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1893 — FREE GOLD EXHAUSTED. [ARTICLE]

FREE GOLD EXHAUSTED.

The gold reservo fund of $100,000,000 in (ho United States Treasury was invaded Friday, to tho extent of $3,000,000. When the day opened there was in the treasury $185,000 es free gold. The amount was increased by offers from Wall street to aboat $1,7 10,000. But the large foreign demand soon exhausted this, and tho reserve was invadod to the extent of nearly $3,000,000. A Cabinet meeting was held to discuss the situation, but there was no evidenoo of a panic on Wall street or elsewhere. This is the first time In many years that the reserve fund has bees leeched-