The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-08-24

From tho Capital.

in the way of retrenchment effected by the
present Congress.
On inquiry at the army headquarters, it
was ascertained that nothing whatever had
been received coAfirmatory Of the report oil
the Sioux squaw that terrible battle had
taken place between General Crook and the
Sioux, and that the latter had been almost
annihilated. While hopes were expressed
that the report may prove to be true, the
story was considered doubtful.
The President has approved the bill au'
thorizing the cavalry forces to be increased,
the bill to carry into effect the Hawaiian
treaty, and the bill TO encourage and pro-
mote Geographic communication between
America and Asia. Among the bills which
failed to become laws is enc appropriating
$500, 900 to pay the judgments Of the Court
of Claims. .........T The Senate confirmed the
following nominations before adjournment:
Almon M. Clapp, Public Printer; III. +.
Finley, United States Attorney for Ken
lucky, vice G. G. Wharton, removed; Will
ford l.. Wilson, Appraiser of Merchandise,
st. Paul, Minnesota, and w. w. Standefer,
United States Marshal for Arizona.
western Items.
r. Williams, Assistant Adjutant General
at Omaha, telegraphs to General Sheridan's
headquarters at Chicago that the following
has Just been received by him:
FORT LARAMIE, wy, August "A.
The report that General Terry's fight with Sitting
Bull is confirmed through lnoians coming into the
men The defeat Of the Indians with great loss, and
Sitting Bull wounded.
ISignedl TOWNSEND.
1t is proper to say that the accuracy OF
the information contained in this dispatch,
coming, as it does, from questionable
source, is Overwhelmingly Lawrence
(Ks.) Journal publishes an account OF the
Custer battle, as reported by Agent Miles to
Superintendent Nicholson. 1t is strictly
the Indian version of the story, and agrees
in important particulars with that OF the
military. The Indians are said to have had
forty men to Clusters one.
General Sherman states that he has re-
ceived report stating that battle had
taken place between General Crook and the
Sioux, and that the latter had about been
annihilated. 1t was brought to the Red
Cloud Agency, and sent to him from Laramie.
......A special from Bismarck says: The
rumor of the Indian battle is con-
frmed by Indian rumors from Fort
Peck, brought by the steamer Western,
which left there Sunday, 18th inst. They
reported that three hundred soldiers and
seven hundred Indians were killed. Kitter-
edge and others, who came on from the
Black Hills, had fight with the Indians near
the Black Hills, and Phelps, of Montana,
and Frank Fig, of Bismarck, were
wounded. The steamer Josephine has
left st. Paul, Mimi, for the Rosebud, with
two companies of the 22nd Infantry......
On the morning of August Is, as the Col.
oradO Central train reached point about
six miles north of Ralston, an obstruction
was discovered on the track, in the shape Of
cross-ties, which brought the train to stop.
1t was Immediately boarded by twenty.four
masked and armed men, who demanded at
the point of the pistol that the passengers
so forward to the baggage-car. All did so,
except Judge Stone, who was fOrcibly taken
off towards the mountain. 1t is supposed
that it was done to retard the qualification Of
Receiver Moffat, jr., which was to have taken
place on the 10Th.
Judge Stone, of Colorado, who was forci-
bly, taken from the train near Boulder, was
sent over the mountains to Golden City, and
from thence to Denver, reaching there at two
o'clock in the morning. He was uninjured,
as the men only wanted to keep the court
from converting. Judge Brace, with Gov
ernor Bout and posse of military, went to
journed it till next day.
southern Items.
A special to the Memphis appeal from
Bells Station, on the line of the Memphis
and Louisville Railroad, gives an account of
terrible shooting affray at Alamo, in which
one man was killed and nine wounded. The
origin of the conflict was an assault made up
on Deputy Sheriff Harris, q few days since,
by some political enemies of his fathers,
Roll Harris, the Sheriff, and that the parties
were at Alamo for trial, the case having been
removed there on account of the excitement,
nnA nd
removed to Bells for like reasons. The
bonds were written and ready to sign, when
pistol shot was fred from the Justices
Office at son of Sheriff Harris wounding
him in the hip. The firing then commenced
in earnest, and Mack Weller was killed, and
two of the Sheriff's sons were wounded, as
were also RObt. Smith, A. b. Trimble, VIM.
Overton Ray, and Robert Austin two Others
were slightly wounded, the rest seriously.
Disasters by Firc.
The stables and car-house of the Citizens
Street Railroad Company, at Indianapolis,
Ind, were totally destroyed by fire early on
the morning of August Is. OF one hundred
and seventy-five horses in the stables at the
time of the breaking out of the fire fifty
persisted before they could be rescued.
Twenty-Five cars and large amount of
other property was destroyed. One of the
employees, named Thomas Hall, was fatally
injured, and died that evening. Loss esti-
mated at $4,000; partly covered by insur-
ance.
The New Jersey Rubber Factory and four
or five adjacent dwellings, at New Bruins.
wick, were burned August 10. Loss, $780,
600; insured. The factory employed three
hundred and fifty men.
Political.
The Missouri Republicans have nomi-
mated George III. Finkelnberg for Governor.
1.-THE Arkansas Republicans have selec-
ted as their candidate for Governor, Joseph
Brooks.
Finkelnburg has declined the nomination
Of the Republicans as Governor OF Illinois.
He gives no reasons..... The Democrats of
South Carolina have unanimously nomi.
mated Wade Hampton for Governor.
Hon. Samuel Cary has accepted his nomina-
ton for the Vice-Presidency on the Green
back ticket.
The Independent Greenback party, of In.
diana, held Convention at Indianapolis on
August IL, for the purpose of filling vacan.
cies on the ticket caused by resignation and
expulsion. Strong greenback resolutions
were adopted, and speeches were made by
Jahes Duchanan ana samuel L. Gary.
Items In aeneraI.
The ship N. w. Blethen, Captain Cox,
grain laden, when three days out from Bath,
England, capsized in hurricane and sunk.
The captain, his wife, two children, and all
the crew but four were lost. The survivors,
after ffty.six hours on pieces of the wreck,
were rescued. ......... Berry Wolfskill & Co.,
prominent members of the San Francisco
Stock Exchange, have suspended. Many
other brokers are rumored to be in a shaky
condition.
The st. Louis Times Kansas City special
says the detectives, with a strong guard,
Drought car to that place August IL, in
which .s were three men in irsns, and chained
10 the bottom Of the car The car was at.
tached TO the Missouri Pacific train. and
sent TO sedalia, to be taken thence to Boone.
vile. All attempts to ascertain who the