The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-03-30
NEWS OF The WEEK.
BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL
From Washinoton.

The Interior Department received adj
vices on the 21st that complete anarchy
prevailed throughout the Creek reservation
IN consequence of the animosities existing
between the two factions of the tribe. A
demand was made for Governmental inter
ference.
GENERAL BRADY concluded his testimony
in his own behalf in the Star-route trial on
the 21st, and General Sherman was called
as a witness for the defense, and spoke in
general terms in favor of the establishment
of mail-routes in the Territories.
DIR. SOLOMON, disciple of Pasteur, has
been invited by the Commissioner of Agri-
culture to conduct his experiments relat-
ing to the germ theory of disease under the
auspices of the Agricultural Bureau. The
Commissioner is hopeful that farmers in
the United States will find incubation eff
fectual in preserving their live stock from
disease.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has directed the sus-
pension of Judge L. j. Conger, Associate
Justice of the Territory Of Montana, against
whom charges of drunkenness and gambling
have been preferred.
THE United States Treasury contained on
the Dist a total of $3GO,69O,37O, of which
$lSO,S96,637 was gold, $lO7 1888, TAI silver, and
the remainder United States notes.
THE receipts from Internal Revenue from
July 1, 1882, to March q, 1883, were $780,
100000, an excess of 3d. 900 over the re-
ceipts for the corresponding period the pre-
ceding year.
AN opinion has been rendered by Judge
Lawrence, of the Treasury Department,
that the provision in the new Tax and
Tariff bill for a rebate upon manufactured
tobacco and snuff does not extend to
dealers.
AN order has been issued by the Commits
sioner of the General Land Office opening
to settlement and entry under the Home
stead laws the lands withdrawn for, but
not needed in the final adjustment of, the
grant made to the State of Arkansas in aid
of the Little Rock 81 Fort Smith Railway.
1T was recently discovered that no effort
has ever been made by the Bureau of Agri-
culture to gather statistics relative to
trichin9 in pork
DURING the seven days ended on the ODD
there were 1875 business failures in the
United States and Canada, decrease of
thirty as compared with those of the pre-
ceding seven days.
THE income of the United States Govern
ment under the new Tax and Tariff bill the
next fiscal year will, tits estimated, amount
to $4O5,OO0,0O0, against $40, 100000 this year.
The vignette of Washington will, it is
said, Ice placed on the new two-cent postage
stamp, with neat border, instead of
picture of General Grant. The latter had
objected to his likeness being used, not
only on this but previous occasion, when
the late Marshall Jewell desired to use his
vignette on the five-cent stamp.
AN Improvement in Secretary Folger's
condition was announced on the 25th, but
his recovery was rendered difficult by rea-
son of his impaired vitality. His trouble
was erysipelas of the face,
STEPHEN w. DORSEY testified in his own
behalf in the Star-route trial on the 10Th,
and, like Brady, began by asserting that all
the witnesses whe had sworn against him
had testified falsely.
DURING the week ended ON the oath the
exchanges at twenty-five clearinghouse
In the United States aggregated $S43, 742,-
457 For the previous week twenty-six
houses showed ~ total of $1,050, 2O9,392.
GENERAL DIAz, on the Goth, reached
Washington, and was presented to the
President.
On the 26th Secretary Lincoln left Wash
ington to attend the funeral of the late
Postmaster-Genwa Howe.
THERE were SlS,495 standard silver dol
lars issued from the minis during the week
ended on the 9TH. During the correspond
ing period of last year the number was
1SS,500.
j. G. BIGELcw, the attorney for Sergeant
Mason, who attempted to shoot the assas-
sin Guiteau, has brought suit for $500 for
his services. 1t is said the "Betty -and-the-
baby" fund amounted to $4,000, of which
$1,000 is on deposit in Washington.