The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-10
FROM WASHINGTON.


For the first four months of the present
fiscal year the internal revenue receipts
were $3S, 4S5, All, a decrease of 81, 468, 243
compared with the same period last year.
On the I'd the President issued a procla-
nation promulgating the extradition treaty
with Japan. The treaty provides for the
surrender of persons accused or convicted
OF murder, counterfeiting, forgery, embez-
element, burglary, perjury, rape, arson, or
malicious destruction OF property of every
kind,
THE fire losses in the United States ana
Canada during November were on the I'd
estimated at $4,000, 000-one-third greater
than the November average since the great
Boston fire in 1872.
An appropriation of $25 1878 for next
year is asked for by the Secretary of the
Navy.
THERE were 23S business failures in the
United States during the seven days ended
on the Sd, against 204 the previous seven
days, and 247 in the corresponding week of
1855 The total from January to date is
9,400, against 1928 in 1885. decline of S53.
SECRETARY LAMAR in his annual report
on the 4th says that the expenses of the
indian Bureau for the fiscal year were So
190,751, and that general Improvement in
the moral and industrial condition Of the
Indians was apparent The total area of
public lands disposed of during the year
was A,614,41 acres for which S9,031, 1884
was received.
THE United States Treasurer's annual re-
port, issued on the 4th, says that the net
receipts of the Government during the year
ended June 80 were $336, 439, 727, and the
net expenditures $242, 4S3, 1873. The receipts
of the Post-office Department, not included
in the above statement, amounted to $52,-
997, 135.
THE exchanges at twenty-six leading
clearinghouse in the United States during
the week ended on the 4th aggregated
S129S SIS, 317, against 81, 021, 1893 845 the pre-
vious week. AS compared with the CORE
spending week of 1885, the decrease amounts
to 1872 per cent.
THE Clerk Of the House of Representa-
tives on the 4th completed and caused to be
printed an unofficial list of members of the
House for the Fiftieth Congress. He CLASH
fes them as 1853 Democrats, 1872 Republicans
and four Independents.
THE annual report on the 4th of the Sec
rotary of War shows that the expenditures
of the department for the fiscal year ended
June 30, 1886, were $36,99O,903 The army
consists of 2, 103 officers and 23,94S enlisted
men.
On the 18th the total amount of United
States notes outstanding was $316,6S1 ,O16;
silver certificates, $105,519,8l7. There was
81, 761 AS silver dollars in circulation.
A FIRE on the 9Th totally destroyed Her
zog's Opera-House buildingin Washington.
Loss, $1l5,000.
SECRETARY LAMAR il his annual report
says the Territories are growing rap
idly In population and wealth. Dakota, he
says, has population of $4,000, and is
increasing at the rate of $1,000 year; Mon
tana has 10000; Washington Territory
100000 and idaho $1,000
THE President has appointed George
Allen to be United States Attorney for the
Western district of Pennsylvania, vice
William A. Stone, suspended for offensive
partisanship,
DURING the week ended on the 4th the
issue of standard silver dollars from the
mints was 5S1,011. The issue during the
corresponding period last year was sos, 1893.