Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1898 — TREASURY IS AHEAD. [ARTICLE]

TREASURY IS AHEAD.

DECEMBER STATEMENT WILL. SHOW $1,500,000 SURPLUS. Union Pacific Payments Not Included in Figures—Heavy Interest Payr meats May Produce Another Deficit in January. Heavy Gain in Receipts. A Washington correspondent writes: The Government’s revenues have at last overtaken its expenditures. The treasury statement for the complete month of December will show a surplus in current receipts over current payments of about sl,500,000. This is, of coufise, exclusive of the receipts on account of the Union Pacific Railroad. The statement a few days ago showed a surplus of $667,000, receipts for the month having been .$25, 706,000, against expenditures amounting to $25,029,000. Aside from the Union Pacific transaction the deficit for the first six mouths of the current fiscal year, ending with December, will approximate $44,500,000. On account of the heavy interest payments the January statement may show a deficit which will carry the total shortage close to $50,000,000. The proceeds of the sale of the Union Pacific, including the item of $8,551,000, swell the total receipts for the six months to* a little over $200,000,000. The statement for the full month will show total receipts and disbursements for the six months to be about equal in amount. j Her Joke Cost Her Life. It develops that the shootiilg of Katie Dosenbach by Marcus Nassauer at Clayton, near St. Louis, and his own suicide was the result of a practical joke. It is said Nassauer’s friends constantly told him the girl loved him deeply, and she herself entered into the spirit of the fun by telling him she was about to leave for Oregon to be married. Driven to desperation by the thought of losing her, Nassauer called at her home and shot her and then blew out his brains.