The Lake County star., 1876-07-27

From the Capital.

The President has signed the act to appro-
priate one thousand dollars to remove the
remains of the Hon. E. Rumsey Wing, late
Minister to Ecuador, from Quito to the
cemetery at Owensboro, KY; also, the act |
10 continue the public printing.
The Naval Committee, by a majority Of |
seven to four, have presented Secretary |
Robson to the Judiciary Committee for i'm.
peackment.........The evidence in the Belk-
nap impeachment case was all In on the
10th Of July, and the arguments OF counsel
and managers began on the goth.
Western Itoms.
The Chicago Tribune's special from Fort
Lincoln gives further details Of the Little
Horn fight, In which, 1t says, Sitting Bull
was killed; also a white man named Mil
burn, Sitting Bulls chief adviser. -Four
companies of the I'D Infantry, consisting Oh
men have left for Terry's command. The
wounded are recovering and there will be
no further deaths. 1t is thought that Sit
ting Bulls band obtained nearly twenty
thousand dollars, the soldiers having just
been paid.
The following, dated Crooks Camp, Cloud
Peak, July II, via Fort Fetterman, has been
received at Cheyenne: Three soldiers, couri-
ers from General Terry, at the mouth of Big
Horn, have Just arrived. General Terry's
dispatch to Crook confirms Clusters fate, and
implies very plainly that had Custer waited
one day longer Gibbon would have joined
him. Terry is anxious for Crook to join
forces, make plans and execute them regard
less of rank. The Indians are still lowering
about Little Big Horn, one days hard march
from here. They have fred into the camp
every night of late, and tried to burn us out
by setting the grass on fire all around. On
AZ 0Al Fl
=, Second Cavalry, with twenty-five men,
Frank Gruard and Baptiste Powerier as
scouts, went on reconnaissance. They
were discovered, surrounded, and followed
into the timber of the Big Horn Mountain,
where, by hitching the horses to the trees
and abandoning them, the men were enabled
to escape on foot by way of a ravine IN the
rear. They all got back alive, and probably
this diversion saved the camp from grand
attempt at a stampede or capture. The
Snake Indians, two hundred strong, joined
us here, but unless the Utes also come soon
no offensive operation will be likely to take
place until the arrival of the Fifth Cav.
wagon train and additional infantry are
due from Fetterman to-day. The health of
the command is good. General Gibbons
reserve force were met by the victorious
Sioux, dressed in Clusters mems clothes,
and mounted on their horses, firing into the
soldiers. The Indian village presented evi.
dence of white mems presence, kegs of
posed to be in reference to the incoming
wagon train, are visible to the east of
Crooks camp, on the extreme south waters
of Tongue River.
The following has been received at the
military headquarters at Chicago:
FORT LARAMIE, July Is.
COL X: G. Drum, Aduiant- General, Division Of Me
A courier, Just arrived from Red Cloud, reports
that on the 10th inst. Colonel Merritt intercepted
the eight hundred Cheyennes and Sioux who had
left the agency to join the hostile bands against
Crook and Terry and drove them back to the
agency. +. F. TOWNSEND, Commanding.
The following additional particulars were
sent by Colonel Merritt:
The Cheyennes whom we drove in yesterday took
refuge on the reservation toward Spotted Tail. II
they leave again think 1t will be to 60 SOUTH to
the agencies as they seem to be thoroughly fright
the Indian and Hot Creeks was a complete surprise
to the Indians In that vicinity, but those farther In
were informed by runners, 50 that they get out Of
the way. have just received your dispatches Of
the 18th. will move without delay to Fort Lara
mie, and as soon as possible, move to join Crook.
My men and horses are very tired but a few days
reasonable marching with full forage, will make
them all right.
Disasters by Fire.
A terrible fire has been raging in the
woods on Cape Cod, in the neighborhood of
Yarmouth. 1t was started by some boys
near Weir Village. 1t rapidly spread to the
town of Dennis, and crossed to Middletown,
destroying several buildings. At last &C.
counts the fire was still raging and rapidly
nearing Harwich, the track of fire being ten
miles long and two or three miles wide.
Some thirty miles of territory has been
burnt over, and the loss is roughly estimated
at half a million. A force of three hundred
snI ,Anoxy yn~sp t< ota
gress of the fire.
Items In General.
At Freedom, Pa, a small town on the
Ohio River, twenty.four miles below Pitts.
burg, rain storm occurred recently which
did great damage, and was destructive OF
human life. Crews Run, which empties
into the Ohio at that point, was swollen to a
a river in size. Houses along its banks were
flooded, and one owned and occupied by
Thomas Lighthill was swept away. Mrs.
Lighthill and four children, who were in
the house at the time, were all drowned.
None of the bodies at last accounts had been
recovered, and it is supposed they wsrs
swept into the Ohio River. The damage to
property is not known.
General Custer had a life insurance policy
for $1,000, Captain Yates $1,000, Keogh 10
600, Lieutenant Calhoun $1,000, Crittenden
$4,000, Porter Sc, 5,0O0.... Three companies OF
the Third Artillery, from the forts in the
country, under the command of Colonel
Wildrick......Duringa recent heavy storm, a
culvert was washed out six miles west of OF
tumwa, Iowa, into which heavily loaded
freight train ran at high speed, completely
demolishing it, killing Nelson Burt, engineer
and Kerfman, fireman, and seriously injur
ing a brakeman. The passenger train, due
a0ma MON m Ia later at IN at nlace caned al
injury.
Tilden and Hendricks held a consultation
recently. 1t is supposed that the platform
and letters of acceptance were the occasion
of the consultation. ...... General b. +. Butler
contradicts in the Boston Herald the report
that he has withdrawn from the Con.
gressional canvass......A few mornings since,
at Columbus, Ohio, a barrel of human flesh
was found buried just below the surface, in
the East Graveyard, and an examination
showed that it contained the flesh of about
thirteen different persons. Nobody can tell
how the thing got there, and the least hor
rible suppos ton is that the flesh s the debris
of bodies cut up in the dissecting room, the
bones having been kept out to be set up as
skeletons.
Adeline, wife of Henry Flambert of Bos.
ton, was instantly killed at San Francisco
by the accidental discharge of her husbands
pistol. The parties were making tour OF
the State for health and pleasure. The Cor.
oner's jury found verdict in accordance
with the facts.........A special to Rieman's
News Agency, dated San Francisco, 18th
says: Advices from Los Angeles state that
daylight was let through the San Fernando
Tunnel on the 10Th. This is the longest tun.
nelin the United States, except the Hoosac,
and the last completed of the eighteen on
the line of the Southern Pacific Railroad,
between San Francisco and Los Angeles. BY
the connection of the now separated lines
through this big tunnel, there will be con.
tinuous railroad from this city nearly to
Fort Yuma, distance Of over six hundred
miles.
Samuel Lawton, at Dubuque, Iowa, lately
shot his father four times with navy re-