River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-01-07
The News Of the Week.
BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL.
FROM WASHINGTON.

fhOM NsA9FlNG ON.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 2sth was: Wheat,
~, 62O, 217 bushels; corn, 5.s64, 252 bush
els; oats. 8, go. 647 bushels
IT was said that it had been de-
cided that Chilli must express her re-
grets for the assault upon the sailors
of the baltimore and pay 20 the fam
lilies Of the murdered seanien a snug
indemnity, and that she must do this
within two weeks Her refusal would
mean war with the United States
The president has refused to pardon
Harper, the wrecker of the Fidelity
savings bank at Cincinnati, who has
been in the Ohio penitentiary since
1857 on ten years sentence.
Az arrangement for reciprocity has
been entered into betweea Secretary
Blaine and the British minister to EN-
brace the British West Indian colonies
of Jamaica. Barbados, the Leeward
and the Windward islands, Trinidad
and the colony of British Guiana.
SECRETARY BLAINE signed reciproc-
ity arrangements with the ministers of
Guatemala and Salvador for their re-
spectiye countries
STOCKS of wool unsold in the princi-
pal markets of the United States ag-
gregate total supply of LOG. ala. 233
pounds, against 92,SC1, $50 pounds a
year ago.
IL 1871 the number of persons who
committed suicide in the United States
I was ., 1881, as compared with 900 in
1890 and > pa in 1883.
Is this country the loss IF life by
railroad disasters during 1891 was s. 26l,
as compared with $500 in 1890. The
nun Der of seriously injured was ., 7O7,
/ against ,. 746 in 1899.
THE number of murders committed
/ in this country during 1891 was 5,9O6,
as compared with 4 300 in 1890 and 8, 567
in 1889. The number of legal execu-
/ tons in 1891 was 1913, against iO2 in
/ 1890 During the last year 1S9 men and
! 6 women were lynched, against total
/ of l27 in 1890.
THE total amount of embezzlements
I in the United States in 1891 was Si9,-
| go. 294, against $, 622, $50 in 1890.
TOTAL fire losses in the United States
/ in 1891 amounted to S166, o47, 900,
against Sos, 4l2 69f in 1890, SI43, 9O2. go
! in 1889, 500, GOO. coo in 1855, $3.50, 600, 900
/ ~ Iss7 and Sis, 900. 600 in 1856.
\ Is 1891 the deaths of ia centenarians
were reported.
The death of John NJ Finnerty, the
/ inventor of tine cotton picker, occurred
/ in Washington, aged "A years.
/ II the United States the total num-
Der of business failures during 1891
was 12.273, against 10. 9O7 in 1890. The
I total amount of liabilities was $751;
SOS. 6SS. against SIs9. Csc, 964 in 1890.
The statement of the public debt is
sued on the I'd showed the total debt TO
be 81. 55S .2O5. 900; cash in the treasury,
! Sl3i, 574. l2S; debt less cash in the treas
ury, sI.4Is. $50, ST2. Decrease during No
] vember. 81. 553.1S9.
The internal revenue receipts during
l the first five months of the present
/ fiscal year were S64. 352 429. an increase
/ of 81. $50. 959 over the receipts during
7 the corresponding period of the pre-
/ vious fiscal year
/ The mint director has begun the
coinage of the new silver coins, half
/ dollar. quarter-dollar and dime bear
| ing the new design.
Y THE president has issued a proclama-
ton promulgating a reciprocity treaty
with Salvador, to 60 into effect Feb
ruary / next