Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-08-26
THE NEWS BUDGET.
A Summary OF Events During the
Past Week.
Latest Events.

The white house is going to have tile
floor, imported from Stoke-on-Trent, En-
gland.
afOat, on the way to New York gold to
the value of $4,000,000.
THE brothers Collinson, of London want
to bet 900 that DIR. Tanner can not fast.
Political notes
JACK ADAMS, alias ''Brockie George" a
notorious burglar. has died in the Penn
sylvania penitentiary.
THE Indian agent at Poplar river. who
has abandoned his post, reports that the
country is full of Indians, and that Sit
ting Bull is only twenty miles away
BOYToN AND FEARN had their interna-
tional swim at Atlantic city, on the 23rd
inst, Boyton led at first, but Fearn came in
winnerby six and a half minutes The victor
had half a mile odds of his opponent
Mr.. d. SKILLMAN ALLEN, one of the
oldest and most popular citizens of De
catur, Ill, died near that city, at the resi-
dence of his son-in-law, DIR. Gregory, on
Saturday night.
THE Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
company has concluded arrangements
with the Sioux Indians for running its
line through their reservation, and work
on the Black Hills extension will now be
vigorously pushed.
THE Flint and Pere Marquette railroad
was sold at auction at East Saginaw, on
Goth inst, pursuant to the decree of the
| United States court The road was bid in
| by the purchasing committee of the hold
ers of the consolidated bonds for 81 000,-
| 600.
4 BOAT containing seven men and five
bags of mail matter from the steamer
American, of the Southampton line, which
fOundered near the equator on April 2S,
was picked up by a Portuguese vessel and
the crew and mails landed at Londa,
Africa, on July Il.
BESIDES reducing Peru TO desperate
straights at the point Of the bayonet, the
Chilians have during the past year, ex-
ported more goods than they have i'm
ported. They have an army of forty-fve
thousand men at and near Lima, where
important movements are in progress.
CADET WHITAKER has been given an
unlimited furlough by the secretary of
war, for the purpose of comforting with
counsel relative to the cOurt-martial which
it is expected he will some time demand.
Action on the recommendation of the ex-
amining board at West Point that he be
dismissed for incompetency is thus post
pOned.
THE engineer of one of the excursion
trains which collided with such fatal eff
fects at Mays Landing, n j., last week,
confessed the cause of the accident to the
coroner's jury. He said that on the day
of the catastrophe he undertook, for the
first time, to use the automatic brakes.
He had never had any experience with
them, and as a result the brakes would not
work at the critical moment. The engi-
neer appeared to be prostrated with grief,
and gave his testimony between sobs, the
jury listening in impressive silence.
THE hitherto unsubdued Sioux Indians
who went into Canada under Sitting Bull,
are surrendering by the wholesale at Fort
keOgh, Montana and creating some alarm
among the more timid white settlers. Their
surrender was not unexpected, and the
policy of the government in reference
thereto, was decided upon long before the
Indians began to make their appearance.
Orders were sent by the department com
mander to permit the return of all Indians
willing to surrender uncOndItionaily and
submit themselves and their property to
the disposition of the government. Sioux
and other Indians coming into Fort Keogh
came virtually as prisoners ofwar they will
be promptly disarmed and dismounted,
their arms and ponies will be sold and the
proceeds turned into provisions for their
temporary substance. Eventually they
will be turned over to the interior depart
ment and transported to some point on the
west side of the Missouri river, and as far
south as practible, where they will be
placed on the reservation and kept there
by such means of restraint as may be
found necessary. The general of the
army does not think Sitting Bull has ex-
ercised any important influence over In
dians coming back. No danger whatever
is anticipated from their appearance in
such large numbers at the agency. The
troops in the vicinity are fully able to
check any hostile movement which might
take place, and disorderly conduct report
ed is regarded by the war department as
natural lawlessness and turbulence OF
savages coming in such large numbers but
without hostile intention.