Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-08-28
WASHINGTON.

traint for taxes on spirits at the eXplra-
ton ef the warehousiag bond, shall take
| effect.
JUDGE JACOB A. Ella, auditor OF the
| treasury for the postuffice department,
| died Thursday of eryripelas. Ella served
| two terms in congress from New Hamp-
shire.
TEE United States commissioner of
agriculture has issued a circular request
ing a suspension of the shipment of
Jersey cattle until October 1, owing to
the fact that what is believed to be
pleuro- pncum0ni la has broken out among
Jersey cattle in several localities IN this
state.
AN interesting question IN regard TO
the construction OF public buildings was
! decided at the treasury department
Thursday, in effect, that the supervising
architect in preparing plans and speclti-
cations for such buildings shall be gov
erned entirely by the amount of money
appropriated by congress for the pur-
pose without regard to future expecta
| tions.
THE postmaster general Thursday an
nulled the contract with P. P. Kellogg,
Of Springfield, Mass, for furnishing
|
ages, envelopes and tags, This action is
based upon the recent investigation
made by the postmaster general himself,
who says he found the envelopes of in
ferior quality and not up to the stand
ard contracted for. The contract amount
ed to $685. Further examination of
the stationery of the postoffiCe is to be
made.
Il 10
| Commander SUhley, of the Greedy relief
expedition, to discharge all the enlisted
men under his command WHO are will
ing to leave the service. The vessels
conapo ing tn. fleet will remain in COM
mission at New York until further
orders. 1t is understood that Lieut.
Emory. commanding the Bear, will be
ordered to duty on the new dispatch
boat Dolphin as executive officer.
THE naval court of inquiry appointed
| to investigate the navy department
frauds, which adjourned recently upon
the recommendation of the district at
torney, will probably not reassemble
until some time in October. 1t will then
be necessary to appoint another presi-
| dent of the court, as Commodore JOuett
will assume command of the North
Atlantic squadron before that time. The
Investigations thus far have revealed
the fact 6hat there were frauds in the
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery before
Medical Director Wells became Surgeon
General.
UNITED STATES INDIAN INSPECTOR
| BENEDICT'S report on the troubles be-
tween whites and Indians on the South
ern Ute reservation says the reservation
is only about fifteen miles wide, and in
order to go to portions of it from the
agency Indians are compelled to leave
| the limits because streams are not brldg-
| ed. and at times not fOrdable Many
whites in that portion hold that Indians
| have no rights which white men Dug hit
to respect, and as soon as one of the In
dams goes off the reservation, no matter
on what GRAND, d hue and cry is raised
and he is often maltreated. The dis
patches representing the Indians to be
on the war-path were Intentionally
false and intended to prejudice the
| people. The whites want to get possess
sion of the reservation. He says the
whites Craze their cattle On the reserva-
ton without paying the Indians.
A CABLE dispatch from Paris says:
| There were lively times last night at
the Chinese embassy in the Place
FEY lau. The embass 4dor, Ii Fong Pao,
was busy experimenting the packing
up of his baggage, sealing the archives
etc, and he would receive nobody Col.
Tehen Ki Tong is the only member of
the embassy who speaks European
| language. d, zens Of the reporters
were disappointed, and could only ex-
change conversation with the concierge,
who is a stout. middle-aged French
women. Every ten or fifteen minutes
someone of the numerous Chinese at
taches would appear.in the corridor and
he was at once assailed with 'ParieZ-
vous Francais?" "Do you speak Fog
lish?" aud ''Sprechen Sic Deutsch?" The
attache would invariably smile most
affably, but with a polite nod Of the
| head Indicate that he understood moth
ing. The noise of hammers, packing
and general confusion contin1ed till ?
o'clock this morning. During the even
ing your correspondent received from a
member of the embassy the following
note:
Chinese embassy no go l1orrow
morning. Will go Berlin evening
train.
A GRAND NIECE of Count Pulaski, of
revolutionary fame, entered the Office of
a newspaper correspondent Saturday
evening in a very excited condition. and
in broken French loudly denounced the
Philadelphia papers for insinuating that
she was doing anything wrong in en-
deavoring to show that her brother
Casinir SHfftzyuska, who is now in that
city and who has a large claim against
the government, is insane, and that any
appropriation for the payment of the
Pulaski heirs should be given to her.
This claim grows out of the action of
the continental congress voting money
and estates to the Polish General Pulas-
XII. brigadier general at a salary of
$4,000 year. He earned this for four
years, but never drew it. In addition
to the money he was granted 500 acres
Of land, which he was allowed To select
from a region not then occupied. The
ground which he chose was in the CEN
ter of the site on which the city of Col