Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-07-29
FROM THE CAPITAL.

THE president and Gen. Sherman are
making arrangements to attend the sol
diers' reunion at Columbus, O., on Aug.
II and y. The war department is to fur
nish tents, cannon and flags.
THE president has appointed the follow
ing postmasters: Ole Selwig, at Wilman
| Mimi. H. J. Northrup, at Saginaw, Mich.
Oscar Cation, at Bryan, Ohio
AT the cabinet meeting, on the DIST in ST. =,
Secretary Ramsey was the only cabinet
on duty as subs were entertained by the
president about twenty minutes.
One H. c. Nicholson, of Kentucky,
claims that he is the inventor of the vital
principle in the construction of the qua
druplex, and asks the Patent Office to SET
aside Edison's patent. The petition is
under consideration.
THE secretary of war, Ramsey says no
action will be taken in the case of Whit
taker for ten days or two weeks. The
question of granting Whitaker court
martial trial is under consideration.
THE national board of health has receiv-
ed a telegram announcing that for the
week ending July Is there were seventy
four deaths from yellow fever in the city
of Havana. There were probably two hun
dred cases of yellow fever in the city and
suburbs.
THE officials of the treasury department
are watching with great interest the course
of sterling exchange From the develop
ments of the past few weeks in the financi-
| al relations between the United States and
the money centers of Europe they express
the opinion that there will continue to be
large importations of gold.
ONE of the American Consuls in Cuba is
| in Washington. having left the island two
weeks ago. He says that the Spaniards at
| first denied the charge of having fired up
on American vessels, and then justified it.
They declare that they will make short
work of all tillibusters caught, and will
have no more Virginia imbroglios.
IT is intimated that the government will
consent to the Egyptian debt litigation
commission since the changes IN its organi-
zation and plan of work was recently
made. This commission was first organized
after the abdication of the khedive. Unit
ed States citizens have considerable interest
in Egyptian financial management. this
government withheld its approval of the
commission until such changes were made
as would insure ample protection to those
| interests
COLONEL HATCH sends the following dis
patch from Santa Fe, n. NJ: ''The latest
news is that the hostiles have taken many
horses from the ranches near chihuahua.
swinging around that city in circuit OF
about thirty miles. Arrada, an old Indian
| fighter, who has fifty men with him, SAYS
most of the hostiles are forty miles south
west of Galjos, the same distance north OF
{ Nj ibnoI HTho.- i,,+o fNoJ, i
They are not killing people. | think they
will cross below Quitmann. Five Indians
| crossed July t. Captain Brinkerhoff is
| looking for them from Ell Paso.
LOUIS ScHADE, a German citizen. has
| had an interview with Assistant Secretary
of State Hay, to lay before him the pecu-
liar action of the Prussian government in
| publishing two German-American citizens
as fugitives from an evaded military law
The case as reported at the state depart
ment is as follows: A naturalized Amer
lean citizen, A. c. Bosseller, of St. Louis,
returned some years ago, with his two ma
tive American sons, to Germany, and there
became again Prussian subject. His sons.
native Americans, before they became
Of age returned to the land of their birth.
and are now living in st. Louis, were they
exercise all the rights of American citi-
zens. In November, 1873, both were pub
IIs3ed u by the provincial government OF
i1ckeneforde. in Schleswig, as fugitives
from military duty. The provincial gov
ernment afterward requested the royal cir
cult court of Schleswig to proceed, under
paragraph 40 of the penal code, against
| the alleged fugitives THAT paragraph
contiscates the property coming to them as
heirs of the elder Bosselier) The circuit
court, however, decided that the American
Bosseliers were not Prussian subjects, but
American citizens, and that ended the diff
tculty.