Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-03-23
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WASHINGTON.

! COLONEL Cook. special attorney in the
prosecution of the star route cases has
resigned.
IT is said that Colonel Webster, Grants
former chief of staff, will be appointed to
an army paYmastership.
THE president has authorized the use of
troops to aid the governor of Nebraska to
suppress disturbances at Omaha.
The subcommittee of the ways and
means committee at Washington will rec
| ommend reductions in taxes on liz uors,
! tobacco, banking and proprietary stamps,
revenue annually.
! THE tobacco manufacturers. in session
at Washington. adopted memorial to
congress protesting against the passage of
| the leaf-tobacco bill, and asking that no
| change be made unless the entire tax be
abolished.
The counsel for Sergeant Mason declares
his determination to investigate the hasty
shipment of the prisoner to the Albany
penitentlary while petition for writ Of
habeas corpus was pending. Secretary
Lincoln has promised to give the case due
consideration.
JOHN RUSSELL Young haa been nomi-
mated envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiarY of the United States TO
China. and 6. Watts q. s. marshal for
the western district of Virginia, and
Judge Blatchford, OF New 7 York, for as-
sociate justice of the supreme court.
THE president has nominated Samuel
Blatchford, of New York, to be an asso-
ciate ustice of the supreme court, Senator
Edmunds having at last decided to decline
the position. At the request Of General
Grant, John Russell Young was appointed
minister to China.
GUITEAU is said to receive $40 per day
from the sale of autographs and photo
graphs. Most of the money goes to his
publisher, but he recently forwarded small
sums to the ScoviIles and to his brother
He has one cell to sleep in and another
for az Office. He expressed pleasure at
the publication of the letters in the Rose
Grams matter.
THE six months of mourning which the
president fixed for observance Of Garfelds
death has nearly expired, and in few
days the heavy black bordered paper upon
which all official communications have
been written at the white house, and the
other public tokens OF the mourning, will
disappear from public view.
THE government steamer Anity left St.
Louis, loaded with rations for the sufferers
near Friar's Point, Miss. A passenger
from New Orleans, desiring to give inter
viewers something worth while, says the
Mississippi is one hundred miles wide at
Terrene; that back of Riverton there is
an acre of unfooded land literally covered
with snakes; that starving cattle are feed
ing on each other, and that FIVE mules are
given for skiff.
THE attorney for Sergeant NJ ason is
moving for writ OF habeas corpus, on
the ground that the court-martial h ad no
jurisdiction in time of peace, and that it
imposed an excessive punishment. Over
0,0G0 signatures have been attached to
petitions circulating in Chicago for the
pardon of the accused, and similar efforts
are being made in every town of impor-
tance. The beneficiary is not likely TO
inspire respect by such letters as he is
sending 10 the Washington papers, saying
he will not be pardoned by Guiteau
president. Mason was sent to the Albany
penitentiary yesterday under guard of
four soldiers