The Lake County star., 1875-10-28

Ex-senator Chandler has been appointed
to the Office of Secretary OF the Interior, vice
Delano. October 10 he was sworn in by
Chief Justice Carter of the Supreme Court.
Information of great success in the prose-
cution of the st. Louis whisky frauds has
reached the Treasury Department. -Four
out of five distillers, and four out of five
Tectifers, surrendered at discretion, plead
ing guilty TO criminal indictments and In the
suits for forfeitures. The following are
these distillers: @. b. Bingham and J. w.
Bingham, forming the firm of Bingham
Bros; Lewis Teuscher, r. w. Ulrici, Alfred
Bevis and c. b. Frazier, OF the firm Of Bevis
d Frazier. The rectifers were +. c. Fos.
terer, G. Bensbaugh, Il. l.. Beresker, b. ii.
Engelke, l.. G. QuinlaD, b. A. Quinlan, and
VIM. II. Wadsworth. All these parties, at
the time Of pleading, also withdrew all
claims to property seized by the government.
This amounts in value to over five hundred
thousand dollars. The civil suits on the
bonds of distillers will be pushed to judg-
ment for the collection of unpaid taxes due.
western Itcms.
Mr.. Hoag, Central Indian Superintendent
states that his report for 1875 TO the depart
ment will show greater advance in civiliza.
tion and wealth by the Indians of the In
dian Territory than in any previous year !;
better crops than ever before, and nearly
double the acreage, which is more than ten
fold greater than in 1869. A general state
of good feeling prevails among all the
tribes, and satisfaction is felt by all that
they are now progressing finely, and desire
to continue the experiment toward becom-
ing self-sustaining without molestation. zee.
Major Knox, of the Interior Department, is
at present in the Pottawattomie Nation al
lotting their lands to individuals, they having
decided to take them in severalty. The
tribe is more largely mixed with the white
element than any other tribe in the Terri
tory many Of them have good farms, farm.
ing implements and stock, and they are
building five thousand nd.dollar school-house
out of their tribalsfund......It 1t is reported
that the Indians at Lower Brute Agency and
at Fort Thompson are much excited because
the Government has ordered a survey of
land in the neighborhood Of those posts.
Crimes.
A party of boys playing ball near the st.
Joseph Orphan Asylum, on Clark avenue
near Fifteenth street, st. Louis, the other
afternoon, got into trouble with the boys of
the asylum, and there was a general battle
between them, in which stones and other
missiles were freely used during the melee.
James Duly, boy about seventeen years
old, was hit on the head with chunk of
coal, thrown by Michael Henlehan, one of
the orphans and his skull badly fractured,
from the effects of which he died in few
moments. Henlehan was arrested At
Hackettstown, N. j., recently, James Kicker
shot and killed his two sons, aged six and
ten, and shot at his wife but missed her.
lie then shot himself in the head, but the
wound is not serious. Kicker was arrested.
Domestic troubles led to the crime.
John A. Wilson, James Davidson and two
Italians named Carlo Cavino and Giovanni
Petroni, were arrested in Philadelphia re-
Gently on a charge of counterfeiting the
postage stamps of Greece, Guiana, Bavaria,
hanover, and Nicaragua, aud were examined
before the United States Commissioner.
most atrocious murder was unearthed
in Denver, COL, recently. A small tenement
house in the eastern portion of the city,
which had recently been vacated by some
Italian musicians, was visited by police
man to detect the cause of a stencil that ap-
peared to issue from it. He discovered In
the cellar OF the building the dead and
putrid bodies of an old man and three bows.
all ltalians......In the civil suit brought in
New York by Samuel c. Archer against
Theodore Davis, the receiver of the Ocean
Bank, for the recovery Of ten thousand
United States bonds in the bank when
robbed in 1860, Mr.. Morris, council for
Archer, said that they would prove that
Stevenson, who was then cashier, and sub
sequently President of the bank, planned the
robbery and shared in the proceeds. 1t will
be remembered that the burglars obtained
about $4500OO.
Disasters by Fire.
In Charleston, w. Va, few nights ago, q
fire broke out in Dangridge's restaurant on
Capitol street, which swept from the Cotton
stroying seven store-houses, including Gates
photograph gallery, the Hale House livery
stables, and the Kanawha Valley marble
works on Virginia street..........A fire
at Anderson, Texas, destroyed fourteen
stores and dwellings, Odd Fellows Hall and
furniture, Wilson & HowelPs store, two
warehouses, the Post.ofiice and valuable
mail matters. The losses are estimated at
forty thousand dollars; partly insured.
Wagner's lager beer brewery, at Stapleton,
Staten Island, was recently burned. Loss
$4,000. Insured.
Items In General.
In the Ohio election, returns have been
received from all the counties of the State,
which are considered as correct as can be
obtained until the official returns are re-
ceived by the Secretary of State. These
show Hayes majority in the State to be 1853.
The official returns may vary this count by
three hundred either way. The Republicans
have majority of seventeen in the House
of Representatives, and three majority Ger.
tainly, and possibly four majority in the
Senate...... Writs in civil suits were issued
In the United States Court at st. Louis, re-
Gently, against the various dstillers and
gaugers lately charged with violation of the
revenue laws, and their securities. The dis
ullers' bonds amount to $615,O00, and those
OF the gaugers to 100000. Many of these se-
curities are said to be irresponsible, but
from others the Government expects to real.
lze a large proportion OF the revenue of
which it is claimed the principals have de.
frauded it,. The Comptroller Of the Cur.
rency has declared a dividend of fifteen per
cent. in favor of the creditors of the First
National Bank of Topeka, Kansas also, a
dividend of forty per cent. in favor of the
Gibson County National Bank, of Prince
ton, Ind, payable the Goth inst. Moses s.
Herman d Co., Of No. % Walker street, New
York City, the principal member of which
is brother OF A. 5. Herman, who recently
went into bankruptcy, have also failed
The firms liabilities are stated as 5000, 900.
and the assets as sos, ,000-$5O, 900 being stock
and $4,000 bills receivable.
United States District Attorney Dyer has
entered suit at st. Louis, in the United
States District Court, against the Ohio and
Mississippi Railroad Company to recover
r. sixty thousand dollars, alleged to be due as
unpaid revenue tax on the net earnings of
the road from January, 1868, to January,
1S72.....A special telegram to the Chicago
Times says that Secretary Bristow is of the
opinion that he can now, at an early day,
make an arrangement for the successful
placing Of the three hundred million dollars
four and one-half per cent bonds......A fve-
mile scull race, for one thousand dollars and
the championship of America, between
Evan Morris and Henry Coulter, was rowed
over the Hutton course at Pittsburg, Pa,
Saturday afternoon, the 10th, and won by
Morris, coming in one length ahead. Time,
thirty-fve minutes and twenty seconds
claimed to be the best on record.
Attendance was fair and betting lively.....
The Louisville Exposition closed its very
successful season OF seven weeks Saturday
evening, the 10th, with an attendance of not
less than EIGHT fhousand A feafura Of Tho