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20
Month
November
Year
1890
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WOOX INDUSTltr. Washington, Nov. i. - Consul Connolly in a report on ihe wool-growing industry of Xcw Zcaland s. ys tuut the number of shnpp exportoj last year with and without viool amoiinted to 1,904,281, valui-d at $553, 000. The value of imports fi om the United S tutes during 18SS) w:is 1,712,18 . n l tb exporta were valned at $1,7UW.8Ü . vk.ssi:ls Kyl'M"rri:u. Washington, Nov. is. -Commodore George Dewe.', cbicf of the naval bureau of equipment, in h is annual report says that durmp the year sixty-five vessels were either wholly or partially equipped at an expenditure of 8593,986. WANTS A I.ABOK.K FOHCK. Washington, Nov. 15. - Major-General Schofieid, eommanding the army, in hi9 report to the Secretary of War reoommends thu increase of the military force of the country to 30,000 men. AHHT EXPENSES. Washington, Nov. 15. - Commissary General Du Harry states in bis annual report that S'2.öU6,ül6 was expended for the needs of thn subsistenco department of the army durin? thr, fiscal year. TUK NEW FLUÍ. Washington. Nov. 16. - Secretary Tracy has issued an order inereasing the number of slars on the National ensign and L'nion Jack to forty-three. Five new stars are addcel, one each for North Uakota, South Dakota, Montana, Washington and Idaho. The stars are arranged in six rows. the top row containing eighb stars and the other five rows containinj seven stars each. THOOPS OKDEKRD OUT. Washington", Nov. 15. - Upon the rocommendation of General Miles orders were issuod F.iday by the War Department directing the troops stationed at Foria Mcade, Niobrara, Robinson, Liramie and other points in ttie vicinity of the threatened Indian outbrealc to take the flVld at once. LieutenantColonel Summi-r, of the Eilitb Cavalry, has been ordered to report to General Miles at Chicago, the purposo being to place the former in command of the column orderei into the field. There will doubtlesa be a repetition of the scène enactcl several years ago, when the late General Sherman massed a large force of United States troops near Fort Reno, Indian Territory, and thus prevented a threatened outbreak. The War Department now proposes to raake a similar demonstraron againsl the Northern Iudians and spend no time in parleying with them. COST OR PltlN'TING MONEY. Washijíuton, Nov. 17. -The annual : report of W. M. Meredith, chief of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, shows tbat during the year the expense of printing money and other items for the Government was $1,012.870. COST OF THE AH.MY. Wasuinoiox, Nov. 17.- The annual report of tho Sacretp.ry of War shows that there were 2,08(5 desertions from the army during the past year, agalnst 2,751 the previous year. The expenditures were 847,857,756. About sixty officers were awaiting retirement. THK NEXT CONUKESS. Washington, Nov. 17. - The second and last session of the Fifty-first Congress convenes at 12 o'clock noon on Monday, December 1. The session closes with the expirationof the terms of membersbip in that Congress at noon on March 4 next. DKATH OF AN OLD SOI.DIKR. Washington, Nov. 17. - General John C. Starkweather, the well-known brigade and división commander in the Union army, died here Saturday morning. General Starkweather was wellknown in Illinois and Wisconsin. He was a Colonel in the First Wisconsin Regiment and afterward Hrigadier General, serving throughout the entire war. He has been for the past fourteen years a resident of Washington. The remains will be taken to Milwaukee for interment. BANISHKD. Washington, Nov. 18.- The Departmentment of State has recelved information that Moussa Bey, wno.had been persecuting American missionaries in Turkey, had been banisheil to the interior of Arabia.

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