Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-05-18
TELEGRAPH TICKS.
Important and Interesting Items
from the Wires During the Week.
WASHINGTON,

THE President has signed the Chinese
emigration bill.
The house committee on elections has
decided to report in favor of seating Lowe,
the Alabama greenbacker, and Ousting
Wheeler, democrat.
THE legislative, executive, and judicial
appropriations bill appropriates about two
and a half millions for clerical work,
heretofore Faid out OF appropriations not
specified for that puIpose. Ii makes spe-
cifc appropriations for all the clerical
force.
In the petition for writ of habeas cor
pHs in the case of Sergeant Mason, the
United States supreme court decided that
the court-martial had full jurisdiction,
and that the sentence pronounced was not
in excess of its power.
GUITEAU will be hanged on the 30th of
June. The court in banc," after very
careful consideration of Mr.. Reeds ex-
| ceptiOns, overraled them, and sustained
| the sentence of the criminal court.
| SECRETARY TELLER proposes to disarm
the Indians on all the reservations, and
then use troops to take the weapons from
| rowing bands. He insists that the wards
of the nation shall be treated pretty nearly
the same as the whites, and be punlshed
in the civil courts for misdeeds.
THE congressional j oint committee on
the library has purchased Mr.. Il. +.
Andrews full-length portrait of President
Garfield for the white house. 1t IS the
same picture which was in the h all of rep
resentatives, over the speakers desk, on
the cav of the Garfield memorial services,
February 27.
BEFoRE Senor Zamaccua, the late Mex
lean minister to the United States, was
relieved, treaty between the Ualted
States and Mexico was signed providing
for the readjudication by p new commits
sion of the notorious We'll and La Arbra
| claims. So far as known this treaty has
not yet been submitted to the senate.
A VESSEL will leave San Francisco
next month in charge of Lieut.. oseph S.
! Powell, for the relief of the Point Barrow
expedition. Persons desiring to send
supplies will forward the same to Lieut..
Powell at San Francisco not later than
June 80. They should be marked Point
Barrow expedition, care of United States
signal Office"
New postofices have been established at
Bogota, Jasper Co., ILL.,, Gillum, Mclean
Co., ILL.,. Hartsville, Pope Co., Ill, and
Keystone. Benton Co., Iowa. Posto flee
sites have been changed as 1OllOWs. NNke-
ham, Todd Co., MInp., one mile north ;
Battle Greek. Lake Co., d. T., one quar-
ter of a mile northeast; Union Hill, Kan
kakee Co., H., to railroad, one-quarter of
a mile south.
THE army appropriation bill remains
in the senate committee on appropria-
tions, and has only once been briefly dis
cussed. There is reason to believe that
the provision making retirement com
pulsory after forty years OF service will be
stricken out. Two or three members of
the committee have expressed opinions
adverse 10 this provision, and it is not
known that it meets with favor from any
of them. There is also a disposition to
make the age at which retirement is COM
pulsory IS instead of 80 years, as in the
house bill, but it is not yet safe to predict
either that this will or will not be done.
THE senate has confirmed the following
, nominations: Indian Commissioners =
Jackson Orr, James F. Gardner, and Hen
ry Page, Colorado, to be commissioners to
by the Ute Indians. Indian Agents-
Jonathan F. Minnis, of Colorado, for o u.
ray Agency, q tab; John S. Mayhugh, Of
: cy, Nevada; Charles Willoughby, for the
Neenah Bay Agency, Washington Terri
tory. Postmasters-James ii. Douglass
at Freeport, Pa; John c. Sullivan, Stark
3 vile, Miss; James S. Wood, Catlettsburg
KY; Joseph S. Lenney, Danville, Ky.
Joseph B. Harris, Franklin, KY. The
9 nomination of Temple G. Byrn, to b.
! postmaster at Terrell, Texas, was rejected