Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-10-13
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Condensed for Convenient and
Ready Reading.
WASHINGTON

PRESIDENT ARTHUR has appointed o. P.
Clarke first deputy commissioner of pen
sions
IT is und'. .rstood that Secretary Win
dom will be candidate for reelection to
the senate from Minnesota, General Edg-
erton retiring in his favor.
/ HANNIBAL HAMLIN has accepted the
mission to Spain, TO which position he
was appointed by President Garfield on
the morning of the assassination.
| THE president of national bank in
South Carolina reports to Treasurer Gill
tillan that the people of that region refuse
to take silver certificates as current
money.
| A SENSATIONAL rumor was started in
! Washington Saturday stating that Guiteau
had taken poison and was dead. The only
foundation for it was in his being dosed
with quinine for malaria.
IT is charged that Guiteau's autobioo-
raphy was drawn from his lips dy District
Attorney Corkhill by the promise that it
| should be published for his benefit, and
that 1t was sold by the stenographer to an
eastern journal.
HE Treasury Department has decided
that mutilated silver coins are only worth
the price of the bullion they contain, and
that they shall be paid for at the mints at
| the rate prevailing for silver on the day
they are presented.
IHE extraordinary session of the senate
called by President Arthur. convened on
The 10th inst, and was called to order by
Secretary Burch. After some flibuster-
ing, Thomas T. Bayard, of Delaware was
elected president pro tenn. It is probable
the further organization Of the senate will
| be LETT till the December session.
COMMISSIONER RAUM, of the internal
revenue department, has rendered de-
cision relative to the taxation of banks
and bankers October 4th. He maintains
that every person, firm, or company hav-
ing place Of business where stock bonds.
bullion, bills of exchange or promiss0ry
hottest are received for a discount or for
sale, IS regarded in the law as a banker,
| and that the capital and deposits of such
banker are subject to taxation.
ABOUT one o'clock, the grand jury took
recess, and the foreman, Churchman,
proceeded to the Office of district attorney
and placed in Corkhills hands the indict-
ment against Charles J. Guiteau for the
murder Of james A. Garfield, president
OF the United States, by wounding him
with bullet fired from a pistol in the
hands of Chas. j. Guiteau, at the Balti-
more and Pennsylvania depot, on or about
the I'd day of July, A. D. 1881.
IT is stated on pretty. good authority
that DR.. Boynton, at the request of Mrs.
| Garfield, has consented to Withhold from
Tire public 1oatoInoI.e e.,souk,ey
which he had prepared. Mrs. Garfield
| says she is convinced that the Presidents
wound was mortal, and does not desire to
have the controversy about the treatment
continued. No good could come of such
a course.
| GUITEAU's counsel thinks that it will
take him three months to prepare for
trial. He will rely entirely on the plea
of insanity, and expects by procuring evil
dence of the assassin's peculiar conduct in
! years past to prove that he is and has been
| irresponsible, weak, and demented In
presenting the case to the jury he will make
an effort to fasten the responsibility for
! Guiteau's dreadful crime on the staIwarts,
and hopes IN this manner to arouse some
sympathy for his client
IN the criminal court at Washington,
on the 9th inst, Brady. French, Turner,
and Brown, charged with star route frauds,
made their appearance. Their counsel
entered motions to quash the informations
| filed last Friday. The district attorney
asked that the accused first enter bail for
their appearance. As they stepped for
ward to the desk Judge Cox informed
them that he would soon fix the amount
of bail, and discharged each on his per-
sonal recognizance. Prominent men in
the audience exhibited much sympathy
with the accused.