The Lake County star., 1876-07-06

From tho national Capital.


From tho National Capital.
Judge Burnham, Assistant Secretary Of
the Treasury, on June 23 rendered his resig-
nation, 10 take effect on the first of July.....
The substitute reported from the Senate
Finance Committee for the so-called RAN
dali Silver Bill" passed by the House on
the 18th inst, consists Of the first two sec
tions of the Finance Committees pending
brief, 1t provides for the coinage OF silver
dollars, 400 $40 grains Of silver, and for
issuing them and subsidiary coins in ex-
change for an equal amount of United States
notes, to be permanently retired. The silver
bullion needed for this purpose Is to be pur-
chased in amounts not exceeding one mil
lion dollars ut time, at market rates, and,
finally, the legal-tender power oil the trade
dollar is abolished.
western Items.
The following has been received at the
q department headquarters at Omaha from
Captain Nicheson, Aid to General Crook,
dated Camp, South Fork Tongue River,
June 10, via Fetterman, June %: "We had
sharp tight on Rosebud Creek on the morn.
ing Of the 18th inst, lasting several hours.
wounded. Captain Henry, OF the Third
Cavalry, was the only officer hurt. He is
severely wounded in the face. We won the
fight and camped on the field. The Indians
made the attack, and had force they no
doubt believed sufficient to whip this COM
mand." A private dispatch states that Gen
eral Crook had horse shot from under him
during the engagement.
Albert Curtis, son of Judge Curtis, oi
Ashland, Ohio, was shot and instantly
killed, a few days ago, on a rancho near
Laramie City, by man named Chandler
The shooting grew out OF difficulty about
Curtis settling on hay land. Chandler is
still at large..."...In accordance with orders
received from General Crook, four compa-
nies of the Fourteenth Infantry left Camp
Douglas, Salt Lake City, Utah, on June "a,
en- route for the Black Hills.
Political.
The Vermont Republicans have nomi-
mated Hon. Horace Fairbanks for Gov.
ernor, and adopted the Cincinnati platform,
and confirmed the nominations there made.
1.-THE Louisiana Republican State Nomi.
mating Convention met in New Orleans, June
~, at Mechanics Institute. Hon. p. ID. s..
Pinchback, was elected Temporary Chair
man. There was spirited contest for this
position, and Pinchback's election is re-
garded q defeat of the kellogg. Packard wing
by the Yarmouth wing of the Republican
u
and the Convention adjourned until next
day.
Mrs. Larry McCarty and four children were
badly burned by kerosene lamp explosion
at Ogdensburg, New Jersey. The mother and
daughter died..... Otis Rich, aged sixty.eight
years, an old and prominent citizen of South
Boston, Mass, committed suicide recently
by cutting his throat with a razor. .........
At Robinson, Crawford County, Illinois,
Saturday night, June "a, at eight o'clock,
Dick Henderson, the Sheriff. entered the
Jail to lock up the prisoners, when he was
for murder, with small billy made OF
wood, by the latter. The Sheriff grasped
the prisoner, and the two struggled to the
outside of the Jail, another prisoner
confined for horse stealing escaping in the
meantime. The Sheriff received very
severe injuries from the murderer, but
held on to him until the screams of the wife
of the Sheriff brought q crowd of citizens to
his assistance. These citizens cut a cotton
rope from an awning, and Immediately hung
the prisoner TO q locust tree near by until
he was dead. He begged for a respite and
for priest, but they told him there was no
time. The murderer was very desper
ate man.....A negro by the name of Smith
Williams was taken from the Jail at Burling
and hanged by mob. His crime was tn,
murder of white man the year before......
Mr.. Pierrepont, the new Minister to England
sailed for bis post from New York on Satur
day, June "a.
A few mornings since at Boggs' Run, OF
the outskirts of Wheeling, w. Va, Johr
Gaughan was killed and another man
name unknown, dangerously injured, by
premature explosion while blasting in
stone quarry.
The Right Rev. George N. Cummins
senior Bishop of the Reformed Episcopa
Church, died at his residence in Lutherville
Baltimore County, Nd, June II, of infam
nation of the bowels......A freight train OF
the Logansport, Charlottesville and South
western Railw was wrecked about half
mile from Clymer's Station, six miles from
Logansport, a few days ago. The accident
was caused by a rail which seme fendisl
creature had placed across the track. The
locomotive and eight box cars were ditched
all being piled up in broken mass. Tht
tender OF the locomotive was thrown
clear forward of it. David Row
engineer; Warren j. Bennett, fireman
and j. w. Gibbs, conductor, wer,
on the locomotive at the time of the catas
trophe, and were buried beneath the wreck
The fireman, Bennett, was killed outright
ductor, was badly bruised about the head
and terribly scalded. Engineer Roe dis
played wonderful nerve. Although jammet
in the wreck with the back of his necl
against the boiler-head, and the hot steam
blisteriDg his flesh, he calmly directed tn,
movements Of the brakemen, Darrock ant
Rogers, in their efforts to extricate him. ii,
was terribly scalded on the back, head, ant
arms, but it was thought that he woult
recover.
Notes from Abroad.
The British bark Great Republic arrive,
at San Francisco, June %, from Liverpool
and reports that on the 2sth of May, in lati
tude 10 Al north, longitude 114o 2r west
the British bark Clarendon was boarded
She had been abandoned, and was on fire
there being nothing left but mere iroI
shell and some of the still burning cargo
She appeared to have been coal laden. Nc
signs OF life were visible in the vicinity ol
the wreck......A special to the London Stand
ard, dated Constantinople, June "a, says
Great uneasiness prevails, and is increasing q
The palace of Sultan Murad is surrounded
day and night, by pickets of cavalry. Rus
sian residents are sending their families
away. Ibrahim Pasha has been placed under
arrest. There are various rumOrs that he il
implicated in Russian intrigues, and that ht
assisted Abdul AZiz in disposing of his trea
sure. The censorship of the press is ex
tremely severe. Three Turkish and three
French journals are now suspended, and
the government is fast becoming unpopular
and will speedily fall If it does not abandon
its undecided attitude.
The Gibraltar Guardian states that, owing
to instructions from England, the fortres,
Of Gibraltar is being placed in complete
condition Of defense. Artillery men are
everywhere mounting guns; two ship load,
OF powder, q day, are expected to arrive
aud all furloughed officers have been re-
called..... The Ragusa correspondent Of the
Moscow Gazette says that Muator Pasha has
concentrated thirty-fve thousand men al
ready to attack Montenegro. Both Monte
negro and Servia are now convinced that IL
would be suicidal TO delay war longer.
The servian Committee, in Paris, 10 occu.
pied in purchasing arms and enrolling vol.
unteers. DUnion saws that the German and