Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-07-21
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WASHINGTON.

THE fund for Mrs. Garfield has reached
S147,475.
THE fund for the wife and children of
the President has swollen to $122, ,755.
Roscoe CoNKLING called at the door of
white house the other evening and left his
card
THE people of Arkansas and Kentucky
quite generally observed the 4th as day
of thanksgiving for the recovery of the
president.
ROSCOE CoNKLING's presence in Wash
ington is said to be due to legal business
connected with the Hudson river tunnel,
in which Senator Jones, of Nevada, is
largely interested.
PRESIDENT GARFIELD has begun to de-
mand solid food, and on Yesterday ate
part Of beef sandwich Some electrical
experiments are to be made to ascertain
the location of the bullet.
PENSION Commissioner Dudley urges
that Guiteau be tried for high treason, as
no court would oyerrule his conviction
therefor, and healthy precedent would
be established.
HARRY FoxwRLL, a saloon-keeper of
knightstown, Ind, who is serving a life
eSt11 lOA SCCnS d pdTuOH lnrOuRH
the efforts of prominent citizens of Wash
ington and Baltimore, but Gov. Porter
turns deaf ear.
GUITEAU passes his time, at present, in
debating an account of his life to a short
hand writer, furnished by the district at
torney. He still expresses regret that his
bullet did not kill the president. The
district attorney says the prisoner does
Y1tN &c .,coxi1.
SECRETARY WINDOW has instructed
Steamboat Inspector Carr. of Louisville,
and Inspector Tower, of New York, to
send daily reports of the number of steam
boats inspected, also of other services per-
formed, to the treasury department that
each days work may be recorded and
better service thus secured.
PRESIDENT GARFIELD is believed to be
steadily improving in physical condition,
but IS greatly wearied by confinement, and
at times shows decided dependency. A
Pennsylvania has shipped to the sufferer
an lnvalld's bcd, from which much relief
is expected. Written applications for
office are tossed into the waste-basket.
THE assassin at Washington continues
to demand newspapers and cigars. A
sympathetic female called at the Jail with
fruit and delicacies for the vicious brute.
but the auti- 0rities administered a rebuke.
Guiteau admits that he slipped into the
presidents room two days before the
shooting, but the officials thrust him out.
UNDER orders of the secretary of the
treasury, $4,000 in continued per cents
belonging 10 the Indian trust fund were
privately sold to New York savings
bank at the rate of 102. The proceeding
excites some comment in Wall street, the
practice of late having been to solicit pro-
posals from the public
A SCANDAL affecting an Arctic explorer
Is creating great excitement at Washing
ton. The lady involved was discharged
from the treasury department on his ac-
count, whereupon he installed her in a
furnished house. His wife learned the
true state of affairs and made an unan-
nouced call at the residence, her indigna-
tion leading her to tear up some costly at
tire and pull down some portraits,
NICHOLAS JACKSON, of Annapolis, Md,
writes to Washington journal that the
first bullet fred by Guiteau passed through
the presidents coat sleeve and struck a
large silver medal suspended from Jack
sons neck, and was found in his shirt
bosom, and is now in his keeping. But a
Baltimore dispatch declares that Jackson
is a negro peddler, of weak mind. and
that the letter is hoax.