The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-10-14

From the N.tion.l Capital,

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A delegation of three Pueblo Indians
from New Mexico has arrived at Washing
ION, unaccompanied by any agent or inter-
prefer. They can only speak mixed Span
Ish. They were sent to the Washington
House, and q gentleman speaking Spanish
took them to the Indian Bureau. They
brought letter of instruction from the In
dian Agent at New Mexico; also petition
In Spanish, setting forth their grievances and
the object Of their visit...... The following Is
the value Of official stamps and stamped en-
yelopes issued to the several departments
for the first quarter Of this fiscal year, ending
September 50: Executive Department, $2Oi
Treasury Department, $50, 0OC; War Depart
ment, $i5,su7; Navy Department. $3.50;
Post-office, $l39, 431 Interior, So, $50; JUS
tice, f540; Agricultural, $1,000. Total
$246,357.
southern Items.
In the city of Galveston scarcely any traces |
of the late gale are to be seen, and business
is going on as usual. The harbor was greatly
benefited by the storm, 1t having deepened
the channels over the bars several feet.
Disasters by Fire.
especial from Winterset, Iowa, to the Io'od
State Register says: The Courthouse OF this
place, comparatively new, and costing one
hundred and ten thousand dollars, was
burned to-day. The fire broke out in the
upper story Of the east wing at haif'past
eleven o'clock q. M, and In thirty minutes
the great dome, reaching one hundred and
eighty feet in the air, went with a'crash into
the court room, and in one hour the fire had
finished it's work, and nothing was left but
the gloomy ruins. The prisoners in Jail in
the basement of the Courthouse were all
rescued, and the county records were
Dill ....s.. rsAh n
lost, and the fire extended no farther ........
A few evenings ago fire broke out in the
building known as the "Baby Ward" which
is situated about one hundred feet from the
Alms-house, at Flatbush, l.. L. The build
ing was destroyed. 1t was three story
brick, one hundred and twenty five by forty
feet. At the time of the fire there were
i'm the building, with eleven female paupers,
but all escaped unhurt. The loss is esti.
mated at about $50, 0OO.. 1.-THE beautiful
steamers jamestown and Griffith were total
ly destroyed by fire recently at the dock at
jamestown, New York, Chautauqua Lake
The boats were valued at about $4,000, on
which there is an insurance of $22 900. Sup
posed to be incendiarism.
The bobbin factory of the Van Riter Man
ufacturing Company, at Passaic, NJ, the
largest of the kind in the country, was
totally burned recently. Loss, $4,000.
Crimes.
Another terrible murder has occurred at
Suncook, N. II. Miss Longmade, daughter
of James T. Longmade, highly respectable
citizen of Suncook, left home in the morn
ing for school, having half mile to walk
part of the way through some woods. Not
returning at the usual hour, search was made
and the woods secured. At eight o'clock in
the evening her body was found in the
woods half mile from the road, with the
head nearly severed from the body. She
had been outraged and murdered. She wa.
eighteen years old, pretty, and general
fav0rite.
Robert Miller, an old and very respectable
man, residing five miles northwest Of Paxton
ILL.,, was murdered the other morning b,
Willis Conn, a resident OF Champaign county
The news was rapidly brought to Paxton
when the Sheriff fastened to pursue tn
murderer, and met him coming to surrende
himself to the authorities. He admitte
having killed the man, and said he had goo
cause, and refused further to explain. ii
gave up the new revolver with which he ha
shot Miller through the head. The prisone
was safely lodged in Jail.
Casualties.
by q collision recently, on the railway Q
Fair Haven, Vermont, two men, named Car
well and Shay, were killed, and two engine
and several freight cars completely demo
ished.
At Fairbault, Mimi, Peter Stage foun
in the pocket of his sons coat revOlve
He stepped to the door and snapped it tw
or three times. No discharge resulting,
then playfu)ly pointed it at his wife's hea
and snapped it again. This time he wa
more successful, aud the poor woman wa
laid corpse at his feet.
Itcms In General.
Firth & Hinchmap, dealers in buildin
materials, New York City, have failed. Lii
bilities, $4,000; assets, Al ,0O0......It is no
said that the peculation of Penney, defaul
ing clerk Of the Navy Department, Sa
Francisco California, will amount to Ov
100000.
The Trustees of Washington's Headqua
tiers, at Newburg, New York, have adopt,
a resolution ordering that the property
closed to the public and remain closed UNI
the city Of Ncwburg or the State of Ne
York is willing to reopen and provide T
sistaDt Treasurer at New York has be-
directed by the Secretary Of the Treasury
sell $4,OO0,OOO in gold during the prese
month, as follows: One million dollars ea
Thursday.
The Hon. II. III. Duell has entered up,
his duties as Commissioner OF Patents.
George Miller and VIM. Smith, convicted
murder on board the steamer Jefferson b
den, have been sentenced, by the Unit
States Circuit Court in Boston, to be hang
on January IA. They received their sc
tence without emotion.
A bill OF foreclosure on the Chesapeake
Ohio Railroad Company's first mortgage h
been fled in the United States Circuit Cot
for the district Of Richmond, Va. An ide
teal bill has also been fled ut Parkersbu
w. Va. An order preliminary to receiv
ship, together with an Injunction restraint
any interference with mortgage proper
pending proceedings, has been issued
Judge Bond.
About thirty delegates held Labor l
form Convention at Worcester, Mass, on I
9th. Wendell Phillips was nominated
Governor, VIM. +. Bartlett for Lieutena
Governor, Israel w. Andrews for Secrets
OF State, s. b. Coffin for Treasurer; John
Fitzgerald for Auditor, and III. b. McLaul
lin for Attorney General. Resolutions W.
adopted declaring that the power a
strength of the labor movement be conc,
trated upon legislation to try to reduce I
hours of labor, system of factory
spection, the introduction of fire oscar
and protection from dangerous machine
condemning the action of manufacturers
Fall River, declaring in favor of greenba
currency, the retirement OF national ba
currency, and declaring the banking syst
fraud......In the recent Prohibition G,
vention held in Boston, Mass, John
Baker, OF Beverly, was unanimously no
mated for Governor. No other candida
was nominated. The Rev. ID. c. Eddy,
Boston, chairman of the Committee on II
olutions, reported three, the most import,
of which are in effect that the safety of [
Republic aud the cause Of prohibition
pend upon making the party unit
right, which can best be secured by defe
ing Alexander III. Rice...... At the Tcnncs
Conference of the Methodist Episco
Chnxch held In NaahuiIla Tho ANIMAL