McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-07-31
The Commissioner of Internal
Revenue Presents Some Sta
tistics of His Office.
A Conference Regarding the Dispo.
sition of the Remains of the
Arctic Explorers.
Affairs Of q Political Character as
Developed From Many
Sections.
CAPITAL TOPICS.
INTERNAL REVENUE REPORT.

| INTERNAL REVENUE REPORT.
The commissioner of internal revenue
| furnishes statements relating to the transact
| lions of his bureau for the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1894, and comparisons with those
Of the preceding fiscal year. From these it
appears the aggregate receipts for the fiscal
| year are $l21, $50, t39, q decrease compared
with the preceding year Of SD 1853, 05. The
receipts come from the following sources:
Receipts from spirits (fruits and other ma
teriais), including also special taxes, &c.,
9OJ. 3Sj; increase. 50, $50, go. Tobacco In
all forms, $76, 81, 800; decrease. SIG, 04l $40.
Fermented liquors, SIS, 0S4 1854; increase,
81, 1S4, 1913. Taxes under laws not re-
pealed, S24S. 1856; decrease, $lC625, 744.
Penalties, $3.50, IA; decrease, 1868.
during the year l, 1877, 056 gallons OF spirits
distilled from fruit; decrease, 1, 1856, 222 gall
Ions; compared with the preceding fiscal
year, 70, 479, $40 gallons of spirits distilled
from grain, molasses and other material;
increase, 2,971,0 gallons; 34,, 561, 9Oi
cigars, increase, 227. 73O, O25; 9OS, 123, $40
cigarettes; increase. 26S, lG1 1857; 5, 602. 645
pounds of snuff; increase, o18, 273; 1853, $685.
419 pounds OF tobacco; increase, 3, SIC, 213
and Is, 1913, $40 barrels of fermented liquor;
increase, 1,240, 727.
AMERICAN MANUFACTURES.
The statistical bureau of the state de-
months hence which will contain infOrma-
ton Of great interest and value to American
manufacturers of agricultural machinery.
The large number of requests for informa-
ton which the department received from
this class OF manufacturers led Assistant
Secretary of State Davis to prepare a circu-
lar TO consular officers of the United States,
instructing them to obtain end forward such
information as would enable American man.
ufacturers OF agricultural implements and
machinery, steam. horse and hand power,
to enter into competition with manufac-
worlds trade to which the superiority of
their manufactures entitle them.
SANITARY MATTERS.
The meeting of the national sanitary
conference, to be held in Washington, Au-
gust 18th, will be composed of representa-
tives of the state boards of health. Its OBJ
ject will be to secure a concert Of action by
all the health authorities against the spread
OF epidemic diseases. Quarantine officers
at all principal ports of this country and the
Canadian frontier are invited to send repre-
se',tatives. TIE conference will endeavor
to learn how state and local authorities can
prevent the introduction of cholera into the
United States and to prevent It's spread.
REMAINS OF THE EXPLORERS.
Secretary Lincoln had a conference
with General Hazen as to the disposition of
Cne BEARS 81 dead OF the Greedy eXped1- |
ton. 1t is probable that they will be taken
to Governors Island, New York harbor,
and placed in charge of Major General |
Hancock until decision shall be reached as |
to their final disposition.
THE sQUATTERS MUST GO.
The officer commanding the United
States troops charged with the duty OF ex.
peliing the squatters from the Cherokee
lands, in the Indian Territory, has request
ed the interior department to send repre-
sentative to point out the persons to be
elected. Il is probable that an attache Of
the land Office will be directed to discharge
that duty.
PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTMENTS.
The president has appointed John
E. Bryant United States marshal for the
district of Georgia, vice Gen. Longstreet;
John G.. Grady, Of Alaska; George E.
rhrie, Of Pennsylvania, and Charles Dee
Der, Of California, as commissioners for the
district of Alaska. to reside respectively at
Silka, WraDgel and Ouralaska.