Warren sheaf., 1891-12-31
FROM WASHINGTON.


from the mints during the week ended
on the 18th was s550,97s. The issue dur
ing the corresponding period of last
year was Ss02,s45. ,
IN the supreme court the hearing for
the release of Schwab and Fielden, the
Chicago anarchists, will take place on
January II, 1892.
THE visible supply of grain in the
United States ON the 21st was: Wheat,
43, 262, S44 bushels; corn, 3, 9l5, ,O22 bush
els; oats, S,S4S, 344 bushels.
The work of converting trade-dollar
bullion into standard dollars has been
completed and the coinage OF stan dard
silver dollars is therefore at an end.
A LETTER written by the Russian
charge d'affaires at Washington says
that any aid for the famine districts OF
Russia will be faithfully distributed.
1t further states that 20, 900, 900 of his
countrymen are suffering from lack of
food.
For the twelve months ended No
vember 80, 1891, the total value of ex-
ports from the United States was $949,-
O22, 1s5, against $3.50, ,952, 1876 the pre-
vious year. The value of imports dur
ing the year was $50, 372, 4S9. The
balance of trade in favor of the United
States for the twelve months ended
November 80, as shown by the state
ment of the bureau of statistics, was
S129, $40, ,696.
In the past year 4, 1853 miles of raj |.
way track have been laid in forty
three states and territories This in
crcases the railway system of the
United States to III ZOO miles.
The business failures in the United
the 22th numbered 292, against 335 the
previous week and 333 for the CORE
spending week last year.
The officials of the state and navy
departments were said to consider the
prospects of peaceful settlement OF
the Chilian affair more doubtful than
at any time since the Valparaiso out
break.
The oath of Office as secretary of war
was taken by Stephen B. Elkins
DURING November last the bureau of
statistics reports that 3S, SIS immigrants
arrived in the United States, against
40, 643 during November of last year.
THE director Of the mint has com
pleted arrangements for issuing the
new silver subsidiary coins, dimes,
quarters and half dollars early in 1892.
THE EAST.
The Massachusetts, executive coun
ell has advised the pardon of James
Dunlap, who was sentenced in 1878 tc
twenty years imprisonment for the rob
berry of the Northampton bank.
FLAMES in Cook & Hancock's crescen,
pottery in Trenton, n. j., caused loss
of 100000.
A JURY at White Plains, N Y, in.
vestigating the condition of Edward
NJ. Field, brought in verdict that he
was insane.
FIRE ruined the scale factory of John
Chatellon & Sons in New York, the
loss being $115,OOO.
In Pittsburgh beer wagon collided
with cable car, crushing in the side
of the car and fatally injuring two
persons and seriously wounding sever.
al others.
The grip caused the death of J. Law.
renee Getz at Reading. Pa, aged
70 years. Mr.. Getz was a member OF
the Fortieth, Forty-frst and Forty
second congresses.
On the New York Central an express
train ran into another train near Hast
ings, N. Y, and eleven persons were
killed, six fatally injured and four
badly hurt. A drunken brakeman
caused the disaster.
WHISKY caused the death of Martin
| Myers, one of the leading checke,
players of this country. at Reading, Pa.