Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-11-01
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NEW VESSELS.
" WASHINGTON. Oct. 25.-The naval
advisory board recommend the con-
struction of seven new naval vessels.
AN OLD MULE.
Lieut. Kobbe stationed at Mount
Vernon barracks, Alabama, reported
to the war department that a white
mule which had been at that post 45
years is about to be sold and the Off
GERS asked permission to buy him and
keep him at their own expense. The
petition went through the regular
channels and Gen Sherman submit
ted the case to the secretrry of war
with the following report: Il have seen
that mule and whether true or false
the soldiers believe it was left az
Big Springs, where Mount Vernon
barracks now are, at the time Gen.
about 1880. Tradition says it was
once black, but now it is white from
age. The quarter master department
will be chargeable with ingratitud elf
that mule is sold or the care or ma in
tenance of it thrown on the charitable
officers of the post. [ advised it to
be kept in the department, fed and
maintained till death. | think the
mule was at TT. Morgan, Mobile
Point, when [ was there in 1912. The
secretary of war thereupon made the
following order: Let this mule be
kept and well cared for as long as he
lives
THE NAVY ADVISORY BOARD
in recommending that the eonstruc-
ton of several naval vessels, one of
the class "Chicago," now being con-
structed, one of the class Boston"
and five smaller grades, the whole to
cost 81, 2S3, 900. 1t recommends that
two of the smaller vessels be built on
the Pacific coast. The board also rec
ommends the completion of the
Monitor" Puritan" Terror"
''Amphitrite" and ''Monadnock," at a
total cost of SO, 599, 400.
THE CHINESE INCOMERS.
The secretary of the treasury says
that up to this time no official inform
alton has been received by the depart
ment respecting the arrival of China
men at San Francisco. cit would seem
from newspaper reports" he said,
that the Chinese government is issu-
ing an unusually large supply of
traders certificates, bat. of course,
as the statutes permit traders to
land, collectors parties are without
authority to prevent them from doing
so. And it would certainly be very
great and difficult undertaking to at
tempt to distinguish a Chinese trader
from laborer."
PENSION IRREGULARITIES.
The commissioner of pensions has
discovered irregularities in the prac-
tice of Belva A. Lockwood, a female
lawyer who has large number of
cases pending before the pension
bureau and it is understood that the
question of suspending her from
practice before the bureau is now
being considered by the commissioner
and secretary of the interior.
DISCONTINUED.
Postoffices discontinued: Iowa
Furay, Plymouth county. Mime
sOta-Livonia, Sherburne county.
THE UTAH COMMISSION.
The members of the Utah commits
sion, now in the city, called on the
secretary of the interior to-day. The
commission will hold sessions in this
city for the purpose of completing
their report.
ENORMOUS SALE OF STAMPS.
Since Sept. 1 the postoffice depart
ment furnished postmasters 200, 926,-
164 postage stamps, Sc, $50, 800 stamped
envelopes, and "A 985, $50 postal cards,
or a total of 152, 271, Ola pieces, of the
aggregate value of IS, $50, $40. This
enormous issue was made upon Ia,
651 acquisitions from postmasters.
THE KRAW CANAL.
Gen. Halderman, the American
minister in Siam, writes to the depart
ment of state that the French engin-
GERS sent out by De Lesseps and the
Suaz Canal company, to make a sur
vey of the Isthmus of Kraw in the
interest of a projected ship canal
across the Malay peninsula, uniting
the waters of the Bay of Bengal and
the Gulf of Siam, have completed
their work and gone home, and fur
Their, that they will report against the
practicability of the scheme,
A Big Sugar Monopoly.
SAN FRANCISCO, Ost. 26.-It is
stated this evening that Claus Spreck-