Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-12-08
The News Of the Week.
BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL.
FROM WASHINGTON.

FROM WASHINGTON.
| THE visible supply of grain in the
| United States on the 2Sth was: Wheat,
| 7O,765, 900 bushels; corn, IL, OS2, 900 bush.
els; oats, s,O27,ooo bushels; rye, 1885,.
900 bushels; barley, 2,743, 900 bushels
lNhis annual report to the secretary
| of the interior Census Superintendent
Porter strongly urges that the census
| office be made q permanent bureau Of
| the interior department.. The cost OF
taking the eleventh census amounted
to So, 2O3, 693.
For the first four months of the pres.
ent fiscal year the total collections OF
internal revenue were $50, 25S, O2O, an
increase of S4,S32, 753 over the CORE
spending period Of the last fiscal year.
The returns from the recent elections
in the various states indicated that the
next United States senate would be q
tie politically.
JOHN w. SCOTT, father of the late
Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, died at the
white house, aged SO years.
COMMISSIONERS RAUM, of the pension
office, in his annual report shows that
on June 80, 1892, there were s7s, COS
pensioners, an increase of 199, 90s in the
last fiscal year Of the number twenty
are widows and two are daughters of
revolutionary veterans. The survivors
of the war of 1912 number only 1s5,
against PSI year before. The total
amount expended for pensions during
the fiscal year was $13e, O35, 01S. For
the present fiscal year S144. 95G, 600 is
appropriated.
In his report of the operations of the
division of special agents of the treas
,,ry department during the last fiscal
year, Agent Tingle says that smug-
gling-of dutiable merchandise across
the Canadian and Mexican frontiers
has largely increased during the past
year.
The postmaster generals assistants
show in their annual reports that dur
ing the past year the inland mail serv-
ice cost Sal, S35,372 and the foreign
mail service $500, 145. The net increase
of post offices over the year was 2,79o,
and the total number in the United
States is 67,119. There were $500, 7ss
domestic mailable letters received at
the dead letter Office and 557, 643 domes-
tic unavailable letters.
GOVERNMENT receipts last month ag-
gregated SIS, $50, 900, against S27, 900, 900
in November, 1891, and in the five
months of the current fiscal year
amounted to s1G3, Gao, 979 The expendi-
lures in the past five months were
S161, 900, 900.
THE statement Of the public debt is
sued on the 1st showed that the inter-
est and non-interest bearing debt de.
creased s597,453 during the month of
November. The cash in the treasury
was SIG, III. The national debt,
less the cash balance in the treasury,
amounts to 1884, 1913, sS1.
SUPERINTENDENT KIABALL, of the
life-saving service, shows in his annual
report that there were 243 lives saved
last year, ISL on the Atlantic and forty
eight on the lakes, and twenty were
drowned. The total wrecks mbered
sixty, the loss being s5,673,5l
The total internal revenue collec-
tions of the United States during the
last fiscal year were SIS, s57, 54435.
FUNERAL services over the remains
of DR.. Scott, the presidents father-in-
law, took place in Washington, after
which the remains were taken to
Washington, Pa, for burial.
The leading clearing houses in the
United States reported exchanges of
s., 3s2, 966, 3s6, during the seven days
ended on the I'd, against 81, los, 600, o4s,
the previous seven days. AS compared
with the corresponding week Of 1891
the increase was 3.3.
THE business failures in the United
States during the seven days ended on
the I'd numbered 800, against 200 the
preceding week and $50 for the COR
time last year.