The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-01-13

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From the National Capital.
The President and Mrs. Grant gave a stat
dinner on the night Of January 4. Thei
guests were the Secretary of State and Mrl
Fish, Secretary of the Treasury and Mr.
Bristow, Mrs. Belknap, Secretary Of tn
Navy and Mrs. Robson, Mrs. jewell, Secrs
tary of the Interior and Mrs. Chandler, III
Attorney. General and Mrs. Pierrepont, Vice
President Ferry, Senator Morton and wife
Senator Allison and wife, General md Mr.
Hunter, Admiral Porter, Montgomery Blair
Colonel and Mrs. +. ID. Grant, Mr.. and Mr.
.Lowery, Mr.. Creswell, Mr.. and Mrs. Bout
well, Mr.. Bancroft, Mr.. Williams, and ex
Secretary Delano and Mrs. Delano.
DIR. Linderman, the Director of the MINIS
has recommended Indianapolis as the mos
feasible place to establish United State
Mint, as there is a Government buildin,
: there not required for other purposes. Other
wise he regards st. Louis as the most al
vantageous point geographically.
western Items.
r A dispatch from San Diego says Colone
MINI with Sonora State troops, attacked th,
main body Of Ysqus Indians, at Pittohalla
on the Sd of December, and routed them
with q loss Of about two hundred killed ant
wounded. The Mexican loss was twenty
wounded.
Major Upham, commandant at Fort Glib
son, Indian Territory, acting under orders
from the Secretary of the Interior, has taker
possession of the Office books and voucher,
belonging to the Union Agency. The agency
has been in charge of Major q. w. Ingalls,
The necessity for such summary proceedings
has not transpired, but IL is estimated thai
the misapplication of public funds intrusted
TO his care for the selection of the location
and erection Of new agency buildings is the
cause. The loss, IL any, cannot now be as
certaiDed, as Ingalls, Is absent from the Ter
ritory. ~ 9sld-
IL. Mitchell, Receiver Of the Land Office
for Pueblo district, colorado, attempted sui
eide few days ago, by shooting himself in
the head. The ball did not, however, pene.
trate his skull, AID he will recover. lie is
under Indictment for defalcation, and has
been required to give bail for his appearance
at the next term of the Federal Court.
Disasters by Fire. az
A fire at Piedmont, West Virginia con.
sumed some twenty buildings, ten of which
were occupied as stores. I've Court House
, and Post Office were destroyed.
George II. Biddles carriage factory at
Amesbury, Mass, was burned down few
nights ago; the work of an incendiary. A
workman who endeavored to save his tools
lest his life in the flames.
~ Pts Items I'm GeneraI.
On the evening of December 30, shortly
after dark, mob of from three hundred to
FIVE hundred miners and laborers marched
into Charlestown, w. Va, to avenge the
murder Of miner named Lee, near Kan
awhs Salines, Christmas night, by two other
miners, named Rufus Eaststep and John
. Dawson. They put out the gas and sur
jailer's assistant, which were delivered. On
the Jail being searched 1t was found the
Sheriff had had intimation of the coming of
the mob, and had made off with Eaststep
and Dawson with another murderer, Helcher,
whom they also intended to hang. ....: -.
Joseph Bork, City Treasurer of Buffalo, N.
Y, has abscOnded. Examination shows his
defalcation to foot up between three hun
dred thousand dollars and four hundred
thousand dollars. 1t Is learned that he has
fled TO Canada. He has confessed to several
that the system of defalcation has been car
ried on during his two terms of Office as City
Treasurer, using as "cash on hand" his
individual checks only on Bork q Co., bank.
ers. The city will not suffer, as his bonds
men are considered ample security for any
deficiency.
An explosion took place at lannon's steam
mill, eighteen miles from Lexington, near
the village of Leesburg, by which Andrew
and Charles Hamon and man named
Dushill were killed. lannon's father
had his leg broken. The mill is said to be
totally destroyed. Hamon resided in Greens.
burg, Ind, and Dushill In Hazleton, Ind .....
The boiler Of the Ashland Wooden Mills at
Steubenville, o., exploded with terrible
force about four o'clock on the afternoon of
January 8, instantly killing VIM. Suthet land,
engineer, and damaging the buildings to the
former confidential clerk of Rabbit, the
soap manufacturer, has been committed to
prison without bail to answer the charge of
embezzlement. The amount Of defalcation
now known is 100000, aud it may reach
$4,000.
The captains gig Of the ship Izelandia
capsized near the mouth of the Mississippi,
January 1, while en- route from East Bay to
Pilot Town. 1t contained Captain Allen
the second mate, Pilot u. Gersderf and sew.
eral seamen. They were all washed ashore.
with the exception of the second mate, who
was drowned......The Louisville Log for the
year 1875 exhibits an increase of half mill
lion dollars in real estate transactions over
cost than in 1871 are shown. The amount of
direct importations is far short of last year.
The internal revenue collections are two
million eighty-nine thousand nine hun
dred and sixty-six dollars. The loss by fire
during the year was little over lightweight
thousand dollars. Seventy-two cases in
bankruptcy are reported. One hundred and
twenty-seven inquests were held....Two
Italian bankers, employed in the same shop
IN New York City, quarreled at their board.
iDg-house, on New Years day, when one.
named Armand Linz, getting the worst Of
the quarrel, drew a clasp-knie and stabbed
his antagonist, who Is named Ludwig Wir-
Detz, In the breast and abdomen, resulting
fatally. Linz was arrested. F
At the regular session of the Boating As.
sociation of American Colleges, January A,
in New York city, a letter was read from
Yale College, notifying the association of
It's retirement; also, communication from
Harvard, saying win or lose next race it
will retire upon its conclusion. .... In the
United States Circuit Court at St Louis
January 4, the whisky cases which were.
some time ago, certified up from the District
Court were set as follows: Two cases against
William Mckee and joint case against
Mckee and j. N. Fitzroy, January 20; one
case against Constantine Mcguire, and one
jointly against Mcguire and Mckee, January
20 one case against General Babcock, JAN
uary 81. General Babcock having made no
formal plea TO the Indictment against him.
District Attorney Dyer said he did not know
what plea the General would make, when
Judge j. NJ. Krum, Babcock' counsel, stated
that the gentleman would be present when
called, and enter aplea Of not guilty.
Lands, for killing Carruth, the Vim Gland
editor, who lived SO long with a bullet in
his brain, has been indicted for murder.
Capt. Sawyer, of the ship Orpheus. which
collided with the Pacific, has been placed on
trial before the Uniled States Commissioner
at San Francisco, for willfully wreckine
his ship, as charged in the affidavit of seven
members Of the crew.......The Republican
State Convention of New Hampshire, has
nominated Pc. Cheney, OF Manchester, for