The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-06-10

From the National Capitol.

War Department announces that the appro-
priation made by the last Congress, for pay,
etc, of the army for the fiscal year ending
June 80 1875, is 5000 900 short of the sum est.
mated for the War Department, and present
indications are that appropriations will
prove defcient......T Commissioner of
Pensions has written a letter to the Secretary
of the Interior, saying on account of the
limited appropriation at his disposal he has
selected the names of nearly fifty male and
female clerks whose services will be dis
pensed with on the 30th of June.
The Commissioner of Indian Affairs held
a short council with the Indians at their
hotel, at which he presented to them reasons
why they should sign the agreement for ac-
cepting their right to hunt in Nebraska.
The Indians declined to sign the agreement
here at all, and said they would take it home
and have it explained to their people. Red
Cloud urged that the six Commissioners be
appointed at once, to 60 out with them If
possible, and on his part he nominated Todd
Randall and Mr.. Collins for two of the six.
The Commissioner agreed that the stakes of
the Nebraska line, which troubled the
Indians so much, should be removed, and he
said the President would take into consider
alton the appointment of Commissioners
......Secretary Delano has concluded to sus-
pend the sale of Indian lands in Kansas till
recommendations of Gen. ingalls,, Commits
sioner Smith, and other prominent persons,
in consequence of the suffering of settlers by
drought and grasshOppers.
Eastern Items.
On June 2, the Legislature of New Hamp.
shire met amid the greatest excitement. In
the Senate the twelve Senators elected pre-
scented themselves, and in the presence of
all
formal protest against the right of Senators
Priest and Proctor to seats was presented by
Senator Whitney and ordered filed. The
ballot for President resulted in the election
of John w. Sanborn, of Wakefield, who re-
ceived the seven Democratic votes, the Re-
publicans not voting. The five Republican
Senators then withdrew from the chamber
and the other officers were chosen. The
seeding Senators met in another room and
organized temporarily by electing G. III.
Stowell President, and Tyler Westgate clerk,
after which they adjourned. Chas p. San
born, Republican, was elected Speaker,
receiving 100 votes, against 179 for Albert
r. Hatch, Democrat. A message from the
Senate was received, announcing that they
had organized. The protest Of the five
Republican Senators was also received,
to act with the body as long as Messrs.
Priest and Proctor, of Districts Nos. 2 4,
were allowed seats in the body. The pro-
test was placed on file. A resolution was
introduced directing the Speaker to obtain
the opinion of the Supreme Court on the
constitutionality of the action of the Gov.
ernor and Council in the matter of Senators
Priest and Proctor.
Western Items.
A Sioux City journal of a late date says
On last Friday morning soldiers under Capt.
Walker entered a camp at Gordon City,
Neb., and burned fourteen wagons rations,
supplies and arms, and destroyed everything
belonging to the Black Hills Transportation
Company, except some baggage which they
loaded into some remaining wagons, and
started for Fort Randall, making the men
go on foot, some of them being barefooted,
their clothing having been destroyed. The
mules gave out on the way, and much of the
baggage was thrown out. After the capture
the officers ransacked the camp, helping
themselves to anything they could use, and
then turned the soldiers loose on the remain
der without hindrance.
James Colonel and Jesse Johnson, mem.
bers of the Creek Indian police of light
horsemen, while attempting to arrest Jim
Dickery, of a noted gang of desperadoes,
with headquarters between the Arkansas and
Verdigris rivers, under the leadership of the
notorious Robert Johnson, were fred on and
both badly wounded. The officers return ed
the fire without effect. At the fifth shot
from Dickery both officers were brought
down, Colonel with broken arm and five
shots in the body, and Johnson with one
slug through his hand, a shot through his
nose, his jaw broken, a shot in his abdo-
men, and another in his groin. This is part
OF the gang that sheltered Mccartney, the
counterfeiter, and aided in showing large
amount of counterfeit 5s of the Traders
National Bank of Chicago Throughout Indian
Territory last winter.
The house OF j. II. Cowman, 242 Eutaw
street, Baltimore, was robbed recently of a
tin box containing bonds, bank stocks, GER
tifcates, etc., of the value of $4,000, be-
longing to COwman's mother-in.l law ......
Albert u. Clarke, a clerk in Chandler &
Jenkins, in Baltimore, has been arrested,
charged with forging the firms name to a
check for $4,000, Which was presented to
the Farmers & Merchants Bank and GER
tilted, and the money drawn by Clarke.
Nearly the whole amount was recovered. ....
While the Ristori troupe were going from
indianapolis to st. Louis, they were robbed
OF $1,000 worth of diamonds. Detectives
O'Neil and Sites arrested the colored porter
OF the sleeping-car in which the troupe
travelled, and found the missing gems in his
possession.
The Pinkerton Agency have arrested a
Philadelphia, James II. Cav, j. II. Steven
son, and Peter Burns, charged in connection
with Robert II. Wishart, who is reported to
be in custody in New York, with having been
implicated in forged bonds of the Chicago
and Northwestern Railroad, which were
traced to George F. Hit, whose arrest in
connection with the Safeguard Insurance
trouble took place in November last. The
parties were placed in 1875, 900 bail. A wo.
man is also under arrest for dealing in
forged and stolen bonds, three one thousand
bonds OF the name Of Uler Ostlinger, of
Raleigh, North Carolina, being in her pos
session......Thomas Derr, at Covington,
Kentucky, while drunk, stabbed Charles
Albecht in his saloon, in the presence of his
wife. Albesht lived only few moments.
At Huntsville, Alabama, Deputy Collector
H. o. feathers was shot and killed by an
Illicit distiller.
Disasters by Fire.
The latest revised figures concerning the
losses by the Holyoke disaster give: Dead,
II; fatally burned, %; otherwise burned
anu Wounueu, ~. vi the ~ ueau, % are
females and 16 males.
disastrous confagration recently &C.
CURED in Cincinnati, involving the de-
struction Of Greenlees & Ransom's sash and
moulding factory, corner Baymiller and Pop
Tor streets, and the burning and drowning
out of q number of families in the neigh
borhood. The loss is estimated at $50, 900,
with an insurance OF $25, ........A ter
rible confagration recently took place in
Portland, N. B. The flames extended over
more than twenty acres, and destroying all
of the houses on the south side of the Strait
shore from Allegheny street to Smond
street, a distance Of 1900 feet, and all on the
north side of the Strait shore from Allegheny
to within four or five houses of Simond
street, all the houses on both sides of Har.
rison street, all on the east side Of the
Douglas road, from that of v. Roberts to
Main street, distance of 400 feet, and all
houses on both sides of Main street east.