Warren sheaf., 1891-03-19
The News Of the Week.
BY TELEGRAPH AND NAIL,
FROM WASHINGTON.

The war department issued an order
making the punishment for desertion
from the army from two to three years,
instead of five years. as at present.
IN the United States the visible sup
ply of grain on the 9th was: Wheat,
%, 191, 571 bushels; corn, 2,639, $50 bush
els; oats, 2.s74, 1854 bushels.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing-houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 18th aggregated
81, ,O7s, 1O3. .7O5, against $665,O36.734 the
previous week. AS compared with the
CORE spending week of 1890 the increase
amounted to 1.3.
y JOHN g. MAcGREGoR, chief Of the
customs division in the treasury depart
ment, was said to have resigned. He
had held the position since 1885.
ID CLAIM agents and others interested in
claims under the direct tax act have
been notified that all payments under
that act will be made to the states in
trusts for citizens thereof from whom
they were collected or their legal rep
resentatives, and that claim agents and
others will not be allowed to examine
the direct tax records unless they are
authorized by the states to do SO.
q The department. of state was in
formed that the president Of Brazil had
declared the ports of that country free
and open to the imports from the
United States that were included in the
recent reciprocity agreement.
The breadstuff exports from this
country during February amounted to
SIS, 84S,901.
SECRETARY PROCTOR in preparing
retired list for privates and non-com-
missioned officers of the United States
army has decided that the war Of the
rebellion began April IS, 1851, and
ended August 20, 1866.
The business failures in the United
States during the seven days ended on
the 18th numbered 273, against .2G5
the preceding week and 252 the CORE
spending week last year
THE EAST.
THE summer residence at Saratoga.
! N. Y, of Spencer Trask, Of New York.
valued at 500, 900, was destroyed by fire
+ THREE fishermen, Davis Searbury
and two brothers named Vanwormer.
were drowned near Albany, N. Y
THIRrY-FIvE sacks Of newspapers and
eighteen sacks of letters, bound west in
baggage car on the New Y ork Central
road, were burned near GAINESVILLE,
/ N. Y.
FLAMES ruined the Burt building and
Quilted the Dental manufacturing build
ing at Buffalo, N. Y, causing a total
! loss Of 1925, ,o00
| THE Rhode Island prohibitionists in
convention at Providence nominated
Rev. John H. Larry, of that city, for
| governor.
| The Rhode Island republicans nomi-
mated state ticket at Providence with
II. w. Ladd for governor.
DUDLEY HALL & Co., an extensive
tea-importing firm at Boston, assigned
with liabilities Of 100000.
+ AT Pittsburgh, Pa, the Weldon build.
ing and the building occupied by the
Germania bank and cham Der of com
merce were destroyed by fire, causing
a loss Of $500, 900.
AN unusually high tide flooded all the
| great damage.
| a Al Albany, N. L., TeUer decker, Oi
years old, killed his wife with a razor
and then committed suicide.
IN New York Charles J. Fletche7
| (colored), known as Gen Wood,' ;
| museum freak, was suffocated by gas
He was 4s inches in height and 60 year:
of age.
The Rhode Island democrats have
nominated a state ticket. headed b7
John w. Davis for governor
TIE death of Mrs Hannah Cleveland
King occurred at her home at Inotisco
! N. Y. at the age of l02 years.
IN Syracuse, n. Y, three mall O,
thieves when arrested had keys wh.l
+. opened mail boxes, and had in thei
possession thousands of dollars wortl
OF drafts and checks.
AT New Salem, Pa, Wilson Scot
died in the SD year ofhis age. For the
last thirtyseven days of his life he ha'
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