The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-05-04
NEWS OF TIE WEEK.
BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL.
From WASHINGTON.

The Interior Department, since fixing
the date Of the sale of the Otoe and Mis-
souri, lands in Kansas and Nebraska, has
dissolved that they had chosen Decoration
Day. The date Of the sale has accordingly
been changed to May 81.
HE President has appointed DR.. B. r.
Keim, of Pennsylvania, Chief Examiner
OF the Civil Service Commission.
SECRETARY CHANDLER has ordered Rear
Admiral Baldwin, commanding the Euro
pean station, to proceed, with his personal
staff, to Moscow, TO attend the approaching
coronation of the Car.
The Treasury Depa rtment received from
Commissioner Dudley on the 26th warrants
for pensions amounting to $S,525,0O0. This
made little over S1O,OOO,OO0 paid out dur
ing the month.
DURING the sevsn days ended on the 9th
the business fail ures in the United States
numbered 1856, icing 26 more than for the
previous week, and an increase of 81 over
the correspond ling period in 1882.
The colore d men will hold National
convention in Washington, September "a,
70 discuss the best method of securing to
the race che full enjoyment of their social
ana POI itical rights.
YIN ,he 9th Mr.. Ker concluded his argu-
ment in the Star-route trial at Washing
Ton having spoken six days. The defense
OF -ered to submit the case to the jury with
Jut argument, but no action was taken
upon the offer.
The Treasury Department a few days
ago received Photographic counterfeit Of
the new fve-dollar National Bank note for
redemption. 1t was sent to the Treasury
by the Broadway National Bank of New
York City, and is a counterfeit on the
First National Bank Of Milwaukee, Wis.
1t was the first counterfeit of the kind that
had been discovered.
For the week ended on the 2Sth ult the
balance in the Treasury was 500, 1881 ,216.
The announcement was made on the 29th
ult. that the British Government had made
request upon the United States for the
extradition Of about dozen persons ac-
cused of murders in Ireland.
THE resignation of General Green B.
Raum, United States Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue for the past six years, was
rendered to the President on the 28th ult,
and it was accepted.
THE Treasury Department has decided
that customs officers ON the Rio Grande
may arrest smugglers as we'll as seize
struggled goods. The Government, it is
estimated, loses 100000 annually by SNUG
Cling on the Southern border.
IT was shown by statement issued on
the 18th ult. from the office of the Com
missioner of Internal Revenue that the
aggregate receipts for March, 1883, were
vi ,425,l2l greater than for March, 1882.
DURING the week ended on the 2Sth
ult. the exchanges at twenty-five clear
Lighthouses in this country amounted to
%O4,llS,492, against $1,1Ol, 72S,4O4 for the
previous week, decrease of 17.9 per cent.
when compared with the corresponding
period in 1882.
THERE were twenty-nine new National
banks organized during last month.
THERE were 10000 standard silver dol
lars issued from the mints for the seven
days ended on the 2Sth ult., and 161 900 dur
ing the same time last year.
The counsel for the Government in the
Star-route trial on the 30th ult. declined to
submit the case to the jury without further
argument, as was proposed by the defense,
and Mr.. Bliss, for the defense, began his
address to the jury.