The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-02-24

From tho National Capital.

FROM tho National Capital.
Information has been received that Bear
Wolf, the Crow chief, had been at Foit
Pease, near the mouth Of the Big Horn, that
he had battle with the Sioux, killing six
and that forty or fifty Sioux are around Fort
Pease, killing the Inhabitants at every op-
portunity, five persons having already been
wounded.
The House Committee on Coinage and
Weights discussed the subject of the new
mint, and agreed, without taking a vote,
that 1t was unnecessary at the present time
to erect another, and the matter was dropped
as disposed OF for the session...... The Presi.
dent, February 16, signed the Centennial
bill with quill pen made from the wing OF
an American eagle.
Western Items.
One hundred and fifty men left Cheyenne
on February IA for the Black Hills. A
party also came in the same night from the
Hills and reported that during the eight
days trip from Custer they counted one
hundred and eighty.fve wagons en- route for
the Hills.
The Colorado Constitutional Convention,
after two days of earnest discussion, has
adopted chapter on the elective franchise,
which requires the first State Legislature to
sion OF the woman suffrage question to vote
OF the people. This is regarded as favora-
bic by the advocates of the measure, who
claim powerful constituency in Colorado,
and that the experiment in Wyoming, on
the north, has justified the privilege. In
Kansas woman suffrage exists as to all school
Offices.
Reliable official authority is given for the
statement that the Sioux, Cheyennes and
Arrapahoe Indians have been and are yet,
making the most extensive preparations pos
sible for an outbreak in very few weeks.
They have been purchasing large quantities
OF ammunition and arm wherever they could
get them, going as far south as the Indian
Territory for this purpose.
southern Items.
United States Commissioner Shannon, r
s. Dennee aud others whose names have not
been made public, were indicted by the
Grand Jury at New Orleans, charged with
conspiracy to defraud the government
through the Court of Claims in the cotton
claims cases. Shannon and Dennee were
arraigned, pleading being waived, gave bail
in $4,000 each. The cotton cases in which
these parties figured were the Cleveland
Mills case, and that of Bellocq, Noblom &
Co.
Committee on alleged outrages in Pike and
Amite counties report that, after diligentin
guiry, they find no obstruction in the per-
Torrance of the Collectors duties. No re.
sistance was offered to the authority of Fed
eral officials. United States Collector Red
mond was advised on the eve of the election
to leave the county, but the hostility to him
was personal, and not by reason of his office,
and there was no pursuit. The committee
further report that the Mayor of Summit
was drunk when he signed the dispatch for
troops, and concludes that the charge was
false, and that there was no occasion for
troops.
The report Of the Louisiana House Commit
tee recommends the impeachment Of Gov
ernor Kellogg, and other State officials, for
diverting interest funds of the State to the
amount of $19S,00O.
The Memphis Appeaps jackson, Missis.
sippi. special says that on the 10th, in the
House, in secret session, was read the evil
dence in the impeachment investigation of
the Superintendent of Education, CORDOBA,
and resolution was adopted that he be i'm.
peached, by vote of 1G4 to 3, nearly all
the Republicans voting for impeach-
ment. The managers are Messrs. Hud-
son, Stands, McNair, Hall and Leigh
The managers in Davis impeachment
are Messrs. White, Clifton, Powell, Burks
dale and Lesser. The Senate adopted the
rules for their governance during the i'm
parchment trials. In the House, on the 18th,
formal articles of impeachment of Lieuten-
ant Governor Davis, colored, were adopted
with only seven dissenting votes. The Ames
Investigating Committee have concluded
taking testimony, and will report soon.
The testimony, it is said, will develop sew
eral serious charges not heretofore current
Disasters by Fire.
At Omaha, Neb., two boys, sons of A. c.
Thomas, conductor on the Union Pacific
railroad, while playing in the hay loft of
barn, set fire to the hay. The youngest,
three years of age, was burned to death.
The body was found in the ruins The old.
est escaped unhurt......The box factory
and planning mill known as Manning's Mills,
ut Marlboro, Mass, were burned few
mornings since, together with valuable ma
chlnery, 10000 feet of lumber, and valuable
sets of tools. The building and machinery
were owned by Alfred Page, of Aver. No
insurance. Loss not known, but heavy.
By fire at Rutland, Vermont, on the 18th
February, the entire loss is estimated ut
100000. The following are the assurances
as far as obtained Bates House, $40, 900,
and $4,000 on furniture Geo. Fl. Killers,
$4,000; Charles s. Mason, So, 500; A. o. Cum
bingham, $4,000; A. G. Bates & Son, ST, 900;
A.W. Higgins, $i1 800; futile IL Co., $40, 900.
Items In General.
The second trial of Piper, who murdered
the little girl, Mabel Young, in the Boston
church tower, has ended with verdict of
guilty OF murder in the first degree......T The
Bank OF Commerce at New London, Conn.,.
was robbed the other night. Next day the
bank officers were unable to open the vault.
An expert accomplished it at night, when
loss of $2l 500 was discovered This
gave the burglars over twenty.four hours
the start of the officers....Mrs. Andrew
Bates, of New Haven, and two chill
dren broke through the ice on Lake
Whitney, recently, and the children were
drowned.....Mr. Abbott, of the Erie Railroad,
announces that a model American railway
ticket Office will be established on the Cen
tennial grounds, at Philadelphia, by the
trunk lines. Every railway and transporta-
ton line in America will be represented at
this Office, and tickets to all parts of the
wcrld will be sold at special rates......
The burglar who entered the National Bank
OF Commerce, at New London, Conn.,, has
been discovered in. the person Of George C.
Packer, one OF the telers of that institution,
who has madea confession. All the missing
thousand five hundred dollars have been re.
covered.
Pesarch N. Rubenstein has been found
guilty of the murder Of Sarah Alexander,
on the outskirts Of Brooklyn, December IL,
last When asked if he had anything to say
why sentence of death should not be pro-
nounced, he answered through an inter.
prefer: al know nothing about it; did
not commit the crime, and l do not want to
give up my blood. They may yet discover
! am innocent" He pulled down lock of
his hair, which had been rolled over his ear,
and said, "That is my witness that ] never
had my hand on a woman to injure her.
never touched woman and IL will be found
out. l am innocent, and the jury have made
mistake" Rubenstein, amid the sobs of
his relatives, was then sentenced to be
hanged March 24......A fre-damp explosion
sreported at the Pittston, Pa, mines. Four
men were killed, and several seriously in
lured:.....rhe Rev. Father Adams, a Brook
Ign clergyman, recently jumped from the