The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-02-03

FROM tho National Capital.

From tho National Capital.
News was received mt the Treasury from
Milwaukee representing the whole whisky
ring as having suddenly collapsed. This
insures the procurement OF sufhcient EVIL.
dence 10 convict all the chief politicians OF
the ring.
Senator Sherman has written a letter to
State Senator Burns, Of Ohio, strongly urg-
ing Governor Hayes for the Presidency, and
advising that Ohio send delegation pledged
to his support to the National Conven.
tion.. 1.-THE House Library Committee will
probably report a bill giving to newspaper
send manuscript for publication through the
mails that authors now enjoy...... Pinchback
is very earnest tn have his case settled. He
says that no Is obliged to spend large sum
of money pending the consideration Of the
case, that this is running him financially.
The Pacific Railroad Committee Of the
Senate Is understood to be favorably i'm
pressed by the contents of the bill intro
duced by Senator West, to recover from the
Union aud Central Pacific Railroad Com
psnies, bonds and coupons issued to them in
excess of the limitations presented by law.
,.....The Senate Committee on Railroads
have agreed to recommend the passage of a
bill 10 extend The time for completing the
Northern Pacific Railroad, with an amend
ment limiting the extension of time TO the
main lines to the period of eight years in
stead OF ten.
The Senate Finance Committee have
agreed to recommend the confirmation OF j..
N. McGrew to be Auditor for the Post-office
The President has replied
20 the resolution OF the House of Repre-
sentatives, adopted recently, saying no cor.
respondence has taken place with any Eu-
ropean government, except Spain, with rela.
ton to intervention in Spain .....m. David A.
Jerome, OF Michigan, has been appointed
member of the Board of Indian COMMITS
siOners.
The eighth annual Convention of the Ma.
tioDal Women Suffrage Association con-
vened at Washington, January 81, Mrs. Gage
presiding. The proceedings were opened
with prayer by the Rev. Olympia Brown.
Frederick Douglass made speech in favor
Of woman suffrage.... The Secretary OF the
Treasury has directed the destruction of
eighty per cent. of the National Bank cur
rency issued during the month of January.
This will leave the outstanding greenback
circulation, 1871, 273, lao.
Eastern Items.
The Brentwood Coal Company, of New
York, has gone into bankruptcy. One claim
against the company is for $3.50, 0O0.......A
building is to be erected on the Centennial
grounds for the exhibition of Rles of newspa.
Pers. 1t is to have capacity for displaying
s,VO hles OF newspapers, and serve as the
headquarters Of journalists, and have all the
requisites for gigatic reading-room .. The
Merc~ry announces tina body of represent
alive CongregatiOnalists is being organized
for the investigation of the Beecher scandal
The body will be composed of the most EN-
m Of "A mil
inquire into the fitness of Mr.. Beecher To
remain recognized as q Congregational min
lister. The movers arc said To be the Rev
DR.. Leonard Bduon, of New Haven; The
Rev. DIR. 3: {. Bartlett, of the Chicago Con
gregatonal Seminary, and the Rev. DIR
Henry Al. Dexter, of Boston.
Southern Items.
The jackson (Tenn.) Wing and Tribune, O
the 22d, says: Dock Mangum, noted guer
rilla on the Federal side during the war
was assassinated while at work in his field
about twelve miles above Savannah. on tn,
Tennessee river. Mangum was a desperat,
and determined man, and performed numer
GUS acts of daring and cruelty. Two masked
men rode up to the fence, near where h,
was blowing, both being armed with shot
guns, and literally riddled him with balls
They then placed his corpse gu horse an,
carried it away, and perhaps threw it in tn
river.
Particulars OF the shooting of the Demo
cratic ex-senator Offutt, of st. Landry Par
ssh, are rs follows: Offutt, while making
visit to relatives in Washington, Louisiana
was shot through the rear of the buggy il
the head. A negro Lanied Augustan, armc,
with shotgun, shortly afterward informe,
some colored women that Ohutt had beer
hurt Augustan was suspected, and tn
crowd went to his cabin. He ran out from
under the cabin about two hundred yards il
advance OF his pursuers. Two hundre,
armed men surrounded the swamp in whicI
he took refuge.
western Itcms.
1t is expected that the complete exposur
oil the Milwaukee whisky ring will be mad
by contession......One million one hundre,
ana thirty-seveD thousand centals of whea
were shipped from Oregon the past wear.
The Chamber of Commerce, at Los Angeles
has passed resolution favoring a donation
OF pubic lands, set apart for railroad pun
poses, on the ihirty.second parallel. to tina
railroad which will first complete roa
across the continent on that route.
Discoveries of lead and zinc in larp
quantities are reported near Baxter Spring,
kas......A severe storm of snow and wind i
Eastern Nevada, blocking roads and raj
ways. is also reported.
Disasters by Fire.
A fire at Canarsie, Long Island destroye,
he hotel and railroad depot. Loss $40, 600
insurance $4,000.
The large hotel at Amherst, N. H., owne,
by Shaw, Of Boston, has been burned. Loss
$4,000; insurance, $4,000. .....A large fir
is reported in Suncook, N. RI. Main stree
is said to be in ashes. The buildings de
stroyed were frame, and the loss will no
exceed $500 o; partly insured.
Itcms In General.
The Ohio Republican State Executive
Committee have decided to issue their cal
for the meeting of a State Convention i,
Columbus, March 29......A rather notabl,
criminal trial has just concluded in jackson
county, Tenn. In 1866 Federal solJie
named Mcmillan was killed by a rebel namet
Johnson. Years afterward Johnson was ar
rested, and after two or three delays wa
convicteu and sentenced to the penitentiar,
for ten years. The Judge, PROSECUTING Al
torncy and jury are all ex-rebels.
News has been received fror, WASHING
ton, st. Landry parish, La, of the assassina
ton OF ex-senator w. j. Ofutt, of tina
parish.
In Brownlee's case, indicted for dealing
In crooked whisky, the jury has brought il
averdict Of "not guilty.. II. ID. Winslow
a Boston politician, and known as one O
the principal owners Of the Daily .Ntws ant
Boston Post, has turned forger to che amount
1t is thought, of $500, 900, and fed. lie wa,
formerly publisher OF Zion's Zeraid. ant
was formerly member of Che Legislator,
In 1885. IL is stated that before his dis
appearance he made several efforts to nepo
tiate paper, but the Endorsements were de
tected as forgeries, and he was threatened
with exposure..... Dawson and Estep, ant
also the murderer Hines, it is reported BY
telegraph, were taken from the Jail a.
Charleston, w Va, and hung by a.mob.
In the United States Court at Milwaukee,
the following persons have pleaded guilty
on indictments for conspiracy to defraud
the revenue: II. p. Ellis, ID. III. Griffiths
and II. A. Valentine, storekeepers; Leopold
Wirth, Robert Kiewert, Charles Hentze