River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-11-28
The News Of the Week.
az TELEGRAPH AND MAIL
FRoM MAsHINGToN.

FROM WASHINGTON.
The commissioner Of internal revenUe
in his annual report shows the receipts
from different sources during the last
] fiscal year were Sl43.246.O77. decrease
of S3,922.3Ti over the previous wear.
The death OF Senior Augusta de
Saguira Thedim. Portuguese minister la
the United States, occurred at his resi-
dence in Washington, aged IS years.
The Knights of Labor IN session in
Washington ordered a boycott agains;
TIE establishment of Wanamaker q,
/ Brown. of Philadelphia. and against tie
I beer output of breWeries controlled by
/ the English syndic2tes in ST. Louis,
Pittsburgh. Omaha and Philadelphia
In the United States there were 800
business failures in the seven days end
cd on the god. against 279 the week
previous and I'D IN the corresponding
time of 1894.
In his annual report ID. y. Morgan.
the treasurer OF the United States, says
/ the net ordinary revenues Of the gov
ernment for the fiscal ear ended June
/ 30, 1895, were S3I3. 39O.O75, an increase
of SI5.6ss, 055 as compared with the year
/ before; net ordinary expenditures,
$3.50, .29S. a decrease of Sil, 32S, 9sl.
Including the public debt, the total
receipts on all accounts were S720, 5l6,-
I 62j and the expenditures $TlO.472,I 57.
Exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on the 22d aggregated ST.
/ l26. POO. SIS, against Sl,I7O.356, l64 the
previous week. The increase, cOEl-
rared with the corresponding week in
/ 1894. was iO.l.
The acknowledgement in his annual
report says the receipts OF the post
/ office department. for the year ended
! June 20. 1895. were S16.l!I $50 and the
/ expenditures ss6.1gO,l72. lie estimates
/ the revenue for the year ending June
/ so. 1897. al $50. 1913, i2O and ne eXpend-
| lures at S9I.sl:,90O.
/ James White, superintendent of the
railway mail service, shows in his an
+ nual report that during the past year
/ 49, accidents occurred to railway post
offices. In which seven clerks were killed
and rs injured. an increase over 1884,
of 137 accidents and - clerks killed
and injured OF the l0.377.s75, 900 pieces
/ distributed and redistributed, but l.
/ l66.6S2 errors occurred.
/ In his annual report the director OF
( the mint SAYS the value of the gold de
/ l,osits in the minis and assay Offices
: during the fiscal wear was So. 49,. Os2
/ value of silver. $l5.114.365. During the
year the gold product was valued AT
/ $50. 100000; silver. S3l. 422 600. The
coinage by the minis during the yea.
was: Gold, So. AS; silver dollars
| 3.9J6.OIl; subsidiary silver coins
! S5.ll3. 400; minor coins, ST., j94, a total
i coinage OF S53,715.5f9.
/ In ITS report on the income and eX-
I pcnditures of railways in the United
/ States for the year ending June 30, 1885,
/ t4e interstate commerce commission
/ includes the returns from ESQ roads. OF
! az Ter cent of the mileage Of the United
/ States. The gross earnings We're ST.
| COS. or, $50 and the operating expenses
were S617.65!.635. leaving net earnings
of S325. 355,2iS. against SEQ. 137,65O foI
the same roads in lS94. Dividends paid
were S53.135.545. leaving deficit from
/ the operations of the year of S3l .075.o
Fred Banker killed Miss Cora Har-
rison at Amsterdam, y. Y, and then
took his own life. jealousy was the
/ cause.
At the outset of winter investiga
/ ton among the miners in central Penn
syIvania shows starvation. The trouble
( Is that there are two men for every job
IN his annual report Commissioner
Stump. OF the immigration bureau,
/ recommends that congress enact rad
zeal legislation for the suppression of
/ the padrone system.