The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-11-21
NEWS OF The WEEK
BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL.
FROM WASHINGrnM

:, DURING the year 1885 the charters of 721
National banks, with an aggregate capital
OF over s1s9, 100000, viii expire. From in
formation received by the Comptroller of
the Currency it is expected large ma
Jority Of these banks will continue their
existence.
DESPITE the advice Of physicians, Lieu
tenant Greedy left his homo recently for
Washington to prepare his report. He
walks slowly, but claims to have fully re-
covered his memory.
IE/the past ten'months this country ex-
pIrted $37, TAG of gold. Great Britain
fook SIG, 474,S $40, France 81 ,352, 1924, the West
Indies S3,SS9,014, Germany 81 ,660, APO, South
America'$7S2,0 S0, and other places $795, 419.
Our imports of gold aggregated $13,55S,O4S.
Difference between exports and imports,
S24,3S1 sos in favor of the former.
DURING October 36,441 immigrants ar
rived i'll this country, and 1899 citizens of
the United States returned from abroad.
For the ten months ended October 81 the
total number of immigrants coming to this
country was 414,324, against sol ,O37 during
the same period of last year.
DURING the past year one hundred and
ninety-one new National banks were char
tered in the United States, adding net
aggregate of about $15,O00,0OO to the Ma
tional banking capital Of the country. Dur
ing the period named eleven National
banks have failed.
A CIRCULAR was issued on the 14th by
the National Board of Health to the Gov
ernors of the various States advising
them that the presence of Asiatic cholera
In epidemic form in Europe is a constant
menace to the people of this country, and
urging them In view of the imminent dam
ger which threatens the people of the Unit
ed States to advise their respective Legis-
latures to provide thorough sanitary meas
gres
! THERE were 200 business failures in the
United States and Canada during the seven
days ended ON the 18th, against 1913 the
previous seven days. The distribution
was as follows Middle States, 81; New
England States, 20; Western, 81; Southern,
40; Pacific States and Territories, 16; Can
ada, 23.
THE Department of State, with view
of preventing the introduction of cholera
into the country, has directed the United
States Consuls-General at London and
Paris to appoint medical examiners to in
spect all vessels leaving English and
French ports for the United States.
OTIS Z. q. CLARKE has been appointed
by the President as Commissioner of PEN
sions, vice Colonel W. w. Dudley, of In
diana, who resigned several months ago.
AN order has been issued by Postmaster
Qlannra1 l,o+ I.AA
envelopes upon which are hotel cards
should not be returned to the mailing office
unless there are the words ''return tor in
addition to the hotel card.
The exchanges at twenty six leading
clearing houses in the United States during
the week ended ON the 10Th aggregated
$757 ,S62,80A against $719,057, 766 the pre-
vious week. As compared with the corre-
spending period of 1888, the clearings indi-
Gated decrease of 1915 per cent.
In his annual report Commissioner But
terworth, of the Patent Department, gives
the following data; Applications for pat
emit, 35,204; patents granted, including re-
issues and designs, 22,S22; patents with
held for non-payment of final dues, a.
Ol5; receipts, $,145,43 expenditures,
1901, ALB; surplus, S244,O19.
@JuDGE LAWRENCE, First Comptroller of
the Treasury, submitted his annual report
TO the Secretary of the Treasury on the
18th. The number of vouchers examined
and certified during the year was $685.
500, and involved the sum of $2,24S,O59 1902.
DURING the week ended on the 10Th the
issue of standard silver dollars amounted
to $4SS,991, against ,99S for the CORE
spending week in 1888.