The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-04-06


Arnold, post traders, were examined before
the Investigating Committee, and the state.
ments elected that General Hendricks re-
ceived large sums for obtaining one of the
appointments; that $500 q month was paid
TO Orvil Grant, and 800 contributed for
electioneering purposes.....M Marsh APP
pesred before the Congressional Investi.
eating Committee, but nothing was adduced
showing that Mrs. Belknap had received any
money on the Kentucky Central claim.
The Senate confirmed the following nom-
nations: John A. Bentley, of Wisconsin,
Commissioner of Pensions, vice Charles II.
Gill resigned; Albert T.. Farnum, of New
York, Agent and Consul General at Cairo,
and Charles III. Miller as United States Mar.
shall for Kansas.
f. Barrow recently testified before the
Investigating Committee that he was ap.
pointed post trader at Fort Union, New
Mexico, in 1868, through the influence of w.
ID. w. Barnard, brother-in.law of Gen. j. C.
Dent. After trying other parties, he went to
Barnard and promised to give him one.third
OF the profits OF the post. Barnard wrote a
long letter to Gen. Grant, who was then
General OF the army, telling him Of the pro.
position made, and detailing the converse.
ton had between the witness and Barnard.
The witness saw the letter. He inclosed an
application for the apppointm ent, and got il
direct from Gen. Grant through Gen. Smith.
Barnard, after inclosing the witness appli.
cation to Gen. Grant, wrote to Mrs. Grant,
telling her OF the witness proposition, and
asking her influence. The witness says he
read the letter, and that Barnard Familiarity
addressed her as Julia. Barnard is now a
bank examiner at st. Louis.
southern Items.
Governor Kellogg has addressed an order
to the District Attorney at Baton Rouge to
take prompt proceedings in the courts in re.
lation to the recent troubles there.
Governor Ames of Mississippi, resigned
his Office of Governor on March 20. Col.
j. NJ. Stone, President pro tenn. of the Mis-
sissippi Senate, was at once installed as
Governor.
Disasters by Fire.
fire in a large block at Pittsburg on
Penn avenue, midway between Tenth and
Eleventh streets, despite the efforts of
the Fire Department, consumed the entire
block, The building was owned by James
Thornberger, and valued at $4,000 No i'm.
surance. 1t was occupied by j. B. Floyd,
commission merchant, whose loss is $4,000
Henry Rea, commission merchant, $500; r.
+. Weddel, wholesale flour merchant,
$4,000; II. II. McClelland, broom manufac.
turer, $1,000; the Pittsburg Forge and Iron
Cos. office, Payne, Abblett & Trip, Ma.
tional Oil Works, 10000; Abdiel Mcclure,
paper warehouse, $4,000; office of the Pitts
burg and Connellsville Coal and Coke Com.
pany, James Graham, commission merchant,
$1,000, and Alex. Moore, 50, 400. The north
wall Of the building fell in on the Office of
w. u. Lupton Co., burying in the ruins
two fremen. Charles Rice was seriously, and
Robert Miller probably fatally injured......
A fire ar .IOliat VIlipnic Z, H.:
ings. Loss, $4,000; insurance, $l2, OOO......
The business portion OF Fernandina, Ca,
burned on March "a. Loss, $4,000.
Items In General.
Efforts are being made by Frederick
Douglass and others to have the proposed
ColOred National Convention held at Gin.
cinnati in the latter part of April, instead of
at Nashville on the h......The case of Adler
Finst, distillers and rectifers, of st.
Joseph, Mo-, for the violation of the revenue
laws, which has been before the United
States District Court in that city for some
days, has closed, and the Jury found YER
dict of guilty on fifty-fye counts of the in.
dictment. The minimum penalty under
this verdict is fifty-tive years imprisonment
and $4,000 fine. The defendants are put
under an additional bond of $4,000, max.
ing in all $4,000. Another Indictment has
been found against the same parties. The
Grand Jury also returned indictments
against seventeen other persons for defraud-
ing the government.
An evening paper at Manchester, N. H.,
publishes the statement that j. @. A. Sar-
geant of that place, paid Secretary Belknap
$1,000 for contract to furnish heating ap.
paratus in the government buildings at Fort
Leavenworth......Cl Clinton s. Blake, son of
Colonel John w. Blake, of indianapolis,
was found dead on the track of the Indian.
apolis, Cincinnati and Lafayette railroad,
near the North street depot, about four
O'Clock Sunday morning, March 26. He
had evidently been run over by a train...
Charles III. Barth, transportation clerk in
the Quartermaster Department u. s. A., in
san francisco, was arrested few DAYS ago.
He has defrauded the government to
the amount of $60,000 most of which he re-
stored after being arrested. Saturday he was
ordered to confinement at Alcatraz, but
while taking bath, before starting, he es-
capped and has not yet been recaptured .....
Is. L. Rogers, receiving teller of the Fulton
Bank, Brooklyn, N. Y, has absconded, being
detaulter to the extent of $4,000. The
ofhcers Of the bank publish a card saying
tnat, on opening the vault on the morning
oil the 18th inst, il was ascertained the re.
oeving teller had stolen between $4,000
ana $4,000 in currency, intended for the
days business, but had not disturbed the
securities OF the bank. Rogers was many
troit.
Thomas w. Piper, formerly sexton of the |
Warren Street Church, Boston, and con.
victed of the murder of Mabel Young, in
that building on the 23d of May last, has
been sentenced to be hanged ...... Michael
Edwards, SEN, died at Moundsville, w. Va,
March "a, in his one hundred and ninth |
year. UP to very recent period he re.
tanned all his faculties perfectly and ex. |
hbited but few Of the indications, and none |
OF the infirmites, of this ripe old age.... Out |
oil the forty collieries owned and operated BY |
the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron |
Company, twenty-five have resumed work. |
In the vicinity of Shenandoah all have gone
to work, except at the Kohinoor and Turkey
Run mines, where, because Of the reduction
Oh contract work, some of the miners struck.
......News reaches us from Massachusetts, of
great losses by the storm on March 20.
Dams continued breaking for two or three
days. The loss in the neighborhood of Gin.
ton, Mass, aggregate $350000, and about
Norwich, Connecticut, the same amount.
Az Taftsville, Ct, to-day, five men were
bankment they were strengthening. The
aggregate loss in New England is enor-
nous.
Secretary Bristow has demanded an in.
vestigation in regard to charges in the Gin.
cinnati Enquirer of man named Reeves.
who accused him OF taking hogs ms a bribe
in acrooked whisky case before a Kentucky
court. The grand jury will investigate the
case.
Three Republican Conventions met in
session on March 29-Ohio, Pennsylvania
and Vermont. In Ohio, delegates and
electors at large were elected to the National
Convention Milton NJ. Barnes, of Guernsey.
was nominated for Secretary of State, and
w. w. Boynton, OF Lorain, for Supreme
Judge. The platform recognizes gold as the
only true standard Of value; and presents
the name Of Rutherfurd B. Hayes for nom-
nation to the Presidency......The Pennsyl-
vania Convention platform opposes free
trade tariff, and nresenfs Tho mama az Gnu |