The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-02-17

From the National Capital.


Senator Christiancy was married on the
morning Of Febi uary 5 to Miss Lille Luger-
beel, lately clerk in the Treasury Depart
ment. Senator Ferry, his colleague, Off
ciated as groomsmau. Senator Christiancy |
is, according to the Congressional Directory, |
nearly sixty-four years of age. The bride is |
represented to be nineteen.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has sent to |
the House of Representatives, in response TO
the resolution of January 81, a detailed !
statement showing the actual amount OF
cash on hand in the treasury and the sever |
nj repositories and minis on the 25th OF
January, 1875. The total amount Is $780, |
77S,043. The Secretary says that as the
legal tender notes received for redemption
of National bank notes, do not belong
to the United States, the amount
is not in any way embraced In
the monthly debt statement Of the depart
ment The amount Of five per cent. bonds
sold to October 2, 1875, in obedience to the
resumption act, is, interest included, Sl5,-
1856. The silver purchased by the Treas
ury Department has been paid Tor out of
the proceeds OF the five per cent. bonds sold,
and the balance OF the proceeds OF said
bonds, together with the revenues OF the
government, has been applied to the retire
ment of legal tenders, as provided by the
been confirmed by the Senate as United
States District Judge for Louisiana.
western Items.
A few weeks ago, Sap-Sucker, Cherokee
in the Sequoyah District, Indian Territory,
imbibed too much whisky, and under its in
huence called on a Cherokee maiden, and
asked favors she would not grant. Enraged
at her refusal, he drew a revolver and shot
I'LL To-. ,.at 10 xua
rested, tried, convicted and sentenced, and
was hanged on the 10th Of February.
Dispatches from various parts of Cali
fornia agree that heavy storms have occur
red in Los Angeles county. A stage from
San Diego, in crossing a creek, was swept out
to sea, but no lives we're lost. The brig koloa,
and the bark Nicholas Biddle, lying
at Wilmington were stranded, and were
total losses. The crews were saved. In
Colusa the levees were broken by the floods
in the Sacramento River. The whole coun-
try about San Francisco is under water.
Much loss of stock, but none or human life
is reported. At Port Oxford the schooner
Harriet Rowe is ashore, total loss.
Disasters by Fire.
Late at night fire broke out in Frank
Rhoney's furniture establishment, SO and "a
Bowery, New York City, and in a short
time the wall of "a fell on the roof of So
and 86&, crushing it in and setting fire to
the building, which, with so and 81, were
destroyed, and 80 was much damaged, caus.
ing loss estimated at $4,000. Insurance
about fifty per cent. Rhoney's loss is
$i5, 900; insurance $33, 900. Loss on build
ings $4,000. The remainder of the loss
is distributed among number Of occu-
pants.
A destructive fire occurred at No. 1875
Grand street. New York, on the Sth, burning
the entire block bounded by Grand, How
ard, and Crosby streets. The loss is esti-
mated at nearly five million dollars. Two
iremen were killed and several severely in.
jured.
A dispatch says a building at Holyoke
was fred simultaneously in the cellar and
attic early in the morning, recently, and
completely destroyed. Four stores on the
first floor were burned out Loss $4,000,
partly insured.
Casualties.
John O'Neil, at st. John, N. B., lately
killed his mother.in-law and fatherin.law,
they having persuaded his wife to leave
him. ...... Andreas Fuchs, who murdered
Simmons at Brooklyn by chopping him to
pieces, has been formally declared by the
Coroner's jury to be the murderer of VIM.
NJ. Simmons. The police recently found
in the cellar, in which Fuchs kept his
walls, beneath the flooring, the heart and
liver Of the murdered man, which it was sup.
posed had been destroyed by fire, after the
clothing had been burned. Thus, piece
by piece. the whole Of the discovered body
has been discovered. At the inquest the
Police Inspector, Mr.. Wood, said the child,
Ellen Kehoe, told him that simmons, Fuchs
al al L
til her mother fell on the floor, and
she and Fuchs put her to bed. Simmons
and Fuchs then drank more until the for
mer fell asleep in the chair. Fuchs did not
seem to be drunk. He took hold of the arm
OF Simmons and pulled him upon the floor.
He then got the Ratchet, spit on his hands,
rubbed them together, and with the Ratchet
struck Simmons on the neck. ..... During the
recent trial of Doyle at Mauch Chunk,
Pennsylvania, for murder, one of the pris.
oners now in Jail there for being concerned
in that murder made full confession of
the murder of Special Police Officer Yost,
who was shot and killed at Tamaqua the
nighto of January 8, 1875. A reward of sew
eral thousand dellars was offered for the
murderer by the town and county. The con-
fession having implicated five men, Carroll,
Duffy, Boyle, Roarty, and McGhen, these
men were arrested near Tamaqua. Much
excitement prevails at Tamagua.........
A railway postal clerk on the fast mail
train, by the name of j. f. Bliss,
has been arrested at Cleveland, by
special agent from Chicago, for robbing
the mails. The proof was conclusive and
he confessed the crime. Bliss lives in Chi.
cage, and hasa wife and one child. Tom
Bolton, charged with killing Jack StinsoD,
last December, at Randolph Landing, Tenn,
on suspicion of being the murderer of his
(Bolton's) uncle, was remanded to Jail to-
day without bail, a writ of habeas cor
pus being refused. Moses Bolton, West Har-
rison, A. Terrill, and Gouldsby, who were
his witnesses in the case, have been arrested
and committed, charged with being accesso-
ries to Stinsons murder.
Items In General.
A terrible tragedy occurred in Cincinnati,
at Robinson's Opera House Matinee on Sat-
urday, February 8. The House was crowded
to its fullest capacity, and the curtain was
about 10 rise, when some wanton wretch |
raised the cry of "fre!" A panic ensued |
"a rush was Immediately made for the stair
ways and door-ways, pell-mell. Men, women |
and children were Frustrated to the floor at
the foot of the stair.ways; four ladies and
five children were crushed and smothered
TO death, and many others severely injured.
...... Rudolph Heeman, a Cincinnati teamster, |
hung himself recently in an clubhouse of his |
residence in Cincinnati. Dependency on |
account of suddenly leaviag off drinking |
was thought to be the cause. He leaves a |
wife and four children. 1.-THE jury in the |
case of lands who killed Carruth in Vine
land, found the defendant "not guilty, on |
account of insanity. The Stratford Shoal |
light ship, at Bridgeport Conn, slipped her
cable during recent storm, and the vessel |
and five persons on board are supposed to be
lost. The Alabama Senate and House of |
Representatives adopted resolutions extend
ing the courtesies to Hon. George III. Pendle-
ton, who passed through Montgomery en-
upon by a committee, and received by the
presiding officers, and afterward introduced
to the members..... Chicago claims that her
wholesale grocers sold So, 500,0 900 worth OF
goods in 1S75......The grand jury of Sacra-
mento County, CAL, has found true bills
OF assault to murder against Assemblyman