The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-11-11

rom shs Nssaonsl OspissS'

The Secretary Of the Treasury has ISIS
q call for the redemption OF five million
coupon and five million registered bonds;
total, ten millions Of the fvetwenty bonds
of 1864. The bonds included in this call are
of the act Of June 80, 1864, as follows:
Coupon bonds Of $50, from No. 3,70l,to No.
4,3O0, both inclusive; 500, from No. ~ ,00l
TO No. 1920, both inclusivej $500, from No.
1901 TO No. %, ZOO. both inclusive; 900,
Total, $5,0OO,000. Registered bonds OF 500,
from No. Isl 10 No. $40, both inclusive !;
500, from No. 1901 TO No. 2, 400, both inclu,
sive; $500, from No. 75l to No. 1000, both
inclusive; $1,000, from No. 1901 to No.
$3.50, both inclusive; 5000, from No. 8, 10l
to No. 3,l65, both inclusive; $4,000, from
No. COL to No. $500, both inclusive. To-
tai, $5,000,O0O. ND slusa1sI -
The Secretary of the Treasury has ad-
dressed q circular to Collectors Of Customs
announcing no importation Of neat cattle or
hides be allowed from England from this
date, in consequence of prevalence of hoof
and mouth disease in that country. N ~
Annual figures at the Office of the Super
vising Inspector of Steamboats, show good
success throughout the year in preventing
accidents and guarding life. Last year the
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this year it is two hundred and one, though
this does not include Cinnamon lost on the
steamer Japan, but is the number lost on
the rivers, lakes and seacoasts of the United
States.....A fire occurred in an alley between
Seventeenth and l. and NJ streets few
mornings since at one o'clock, destroying
two frame shanties and burning up three
children, aged ten, twelve and fifteen years,
all cOlored.
western Items.
A special from Virginia City says building
is going on rapidly. The burnt district is
dotted with shanties, and work is plenty and
wages high. The people are recovering
their spirits. Relief is coming in freely.
As soon as provisions and money become
plenty, no more aid will be needed. The
town will be all right in a week or two. The
Home Mutual Insurance Company, of San
Francisco, says its losses are estimated at
$105,040 It has cash available to pay in
full. The Commercial, of San Francisco,
figures its losses at $65, 900; assets, $47S, 900.
The relief movements are going on there
actively. r.-.. ~ ~
The National Gold Bank and Trust Com.
pany, San Francisco, has closed, on account
of heavy run on its Golfers. The officers
claim that the bank can pay everything in
full, and will resume as soon as possible, in
timating no date, but they have been consid.
cred weak since the failure of the bank of
California, paying small deposits only in
full, and obtaining an extension on larger
ones. No excitement apparent at the other
banks.
A petition is being circulated in San Der.
nardino, San Diego and Los Angeles coun-
ties, California, addressed to Senator Sar-
gent, asking an adjustment of the Temecuela
Indian question, and the purchase of res
ervation. ID. A. Dryden, Indian Agent, has
returned to Los Angeles from the Indian
country. He reports no eligible govern
ment lands on which the Indians can be
placed, and recommends the purchase of a
rancho for them. On his return he found a
dispatch from Smith, Commissioner of In.
dian Affairs, granting the request for author
ity to expend five hundred dollars for the
immediate necessities OF the Indians, and
expressing hope to shortly make arrange
ments for leasing a rancho, subject to pur.
chase, when funds are appropriated.
Southern Items.
The Governors Message was delivered
November 2, to both Houses of the General
Assembly in convention assembled at Little
Rock, Arkansas. He commends some legis
lation to make the workings of the finance
board more effective; such legislation as will
prevent the working Of penitentiary con
victs outside the prison walls; the passage
OF bills in reference to the landed interest.
OF the State; an appropriation for the Cen
tennial; the creation of bureau of immi
grafton, mining, and agriculture, and tina
no general legislation be entered upon il
the Senate.
In the Arkansas Senate, November 4, bill
int foil
the State Board of Finance to borrow none,
by pledging the bonds of the State as sc
curity to provide for the liquidation of tn,
obligations of the State; to provide fo
funding Auditors warrants and Treasurer
certificates issued since December "a, 1874
to change the time of holding the genera
State election to the Tuesday after the frs
Monday in November.
Casualties.
The boiler of the locomotive attached I,
gravel train on the Lehigh Valley Railwa,
exploded recently, three miles west o
Bound Brook, N. Y, killing Thomas Caper
engineer; Abraham King, brakeman; Viii
liam Thompson, brakeman; besides injur
ing about twenty others, many fatally. al
the cars were thrown from the track by tn,
force OF the explosion......A later dispatcl
from Bound Brook about the railroad disas
ter near there says, besides the three killed
outright, two have since died, and of tn,
twenty or more wounded, it is thought sew
eral will die.
A duel occurred lately in New York city
on the top floor of No. LOG Delaney street
between two Polish Jews named JOSEPH
Goldman and Moses Piskalt. Goldman wa
shot over the right temple and right cheek
and instantly killed. Piskalt was shot owe
the right eye and MORALLY wounded. TIL,
men were partners as jewellers at No. SO Eas
broadway, and the tragedy is supposed t,
have arisen out of business quarrel.
Grimes.
Recently Charles Patterson shot an,
killed K. W. Porter, chief herder of Bosler'
cattle, on the North Platte, thirty mile
north OF Sidney, Nebraska, where Patterson
was taken under arrest. The Jail was broker
into by a mob OF masked men, and Patterson
strung up TO telegraph pole. The Sheriff
overpowered the crowd and cut Patterso,
down in time to save his life. Two day
aiter, was again taken out and hung til
dead.
Disasters by Fire.
The acid factory of Duff, Waltz & Co., a
Carson, Nevada, was burned Oct. 80. Los
$45, OOO.....Nearly half of the village O
Queens, Long Island, vas burned early O,
the morning of October 80. Loss $4,000
Sherman, Texas, has been visited by a de
structive fire. Over three blocks of build
ings were destroyed......A fire in Cambridge
New York, caused loss of $4,000; insu
rance, $4,000 'Nv-ftf vi II ~
y The Mattapoisett mill, FAN River, Mass
with machinery efocL atc xva. ~n.u-.,
consumed by fire. Insurance, one hundre
and forty-seven thousand FIVE hundred dol
lars.
Items In General.
The Brooklyn Trust Company has jus
compromised suit growing out Of the do
falcation Of its former President, the lat
Ethelbert 8. Mills, by paying bonds to tn
value OF $4,000 and costs amounting 4
$i5,000.....T Twenty imported wagons, belong
ing to merchants at Russelville, on the Littl
Rnak md To go o. N