The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-07-27
NEWS OF TIE WEEK.
BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL.


1T was reported on the 18th by Surgeon
General Hamilton that no case of yellow
fever had yet appeared this season on
shore in the United States, and that he had
no fear that it would get inside the quar-
antine limits. The disease was still raging
at Vera Cruz, the total number of deaths
up to date being 495.
A CIRCULAR has been issued by the Post
Office Department to postmasters, notify
ing them that the reduction in postage
rates would take effect October l, and di-
recting them to make preparations for it.
The head Of Washington has been adopted
for the new two-cent stamp, and the head of
Jackson, similar to that on the presenttwo-
cent stamp, has been adopted for the new
four-cent stamp.
In June, 1883, THE total values of exports
of breadstuffs was $11,545, 1856; in June,
1882, 1920, 1876: for the six months ended
June 80, 1888, $s5, 14S,935; for the same
period in 1882, $64,S56,930; for the twelve
months ended June 80, 1883, $202 971, 491;
for the same time in 1882, $l77, 001, 1886.
On the 10Th the Treasury Department
purchased 100000 ounces Of, silver for de-
livery at the San Francisco, New Orleans
and Philadelphia minis.
GENERAL SHERIDAN was formally mott
fled on the 10Th by friends in Chicago of
their purchase for him of handsome resi-
dence in Washington, d. G.
The value of exports of provisions, tai
low and dairy products for the six months
ended June 80, 1888, was $50, 515, 437, against
S50,7OS, 100 for the same time in 1882
THROUGHOUT the United States and
Canada the business failures during the
seven days ended on the goth numbered
l6S, against 150 the previous week, dis
tributed as follows: New England States,
10; Middle, %; Southern, IL; Western, 80;
Pacific States and Territories, %; Canada
and the provinces, %, and New York City,
10.
THE United States Consul at Vera Cruz
was instructed by she Department of
State ON the 20th to advise all vessels
bound to Southern ports of the United
States to stop at Ship Island for inspec-
tion, in order to avoid being sent there
from by the health authorities.
INFORMATION was received on the ODD by
the Surgeon General of the Marine Hos
pital Service that cholera existed at Cam
peache and Oaxaca, Mexico.
j. b. CHURCH, Examiner of Interferences
In the Patent Office, after an examination
extending over period of two years and
nine months, rendered a decision on the
DIST that A. G.. Bell was the original in
ventor of the telephone.
A CIRCULAR was issued on the 23d by the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue to the
effect that persons engaged in the manu-
facture of cordials, bitters and tonics be
regarded as rectifiers, if the articles men,
toned are usually sold or used as alcohol
&c beverages, and persons selling them as
such would be regarded as liquor dealers.
The order takes effect from July /.
SECRETARY FoLGER on the 23d ordered
Consular officers at London and Liverpool
to appoint sanitary inspectors to examine
all vessels leaving for the United States
and cable information of the discovery of
any disease on board.
THE sum of 81, 400, "conscience money"
was received by the Secretary of the Treas
ury on the 23d from an unknown debtor"
1T was decided by the Secretary of the
Treasury on the 23d that the Department
had no authority to order ub-Treasury
officers to receive the trade dollar the same
as standard dollars.
For the week ended on the DIST the issue
of standard silver dollars from the minis
amounted to S324,000; the corresponding
period last year, $1S6,000.