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Show An Army Scttniim. Chicago, 23. Times' Washington: If a report received at the department depart-ment of justice, to-day, from official : sources, is to be-credited, ttie aroiyi could endure a reduction in tbo person per-son of one oftioer without much less It seema that Lieutenant Cwluuel Buell, 11 th infantry, commanding at Fort Custer, in M'jniaua, has for a long time encouraged one Strigfniu-r, who kept a restaurant at the post, to eeli wines, liquors and tob.icco without with-out payiug the special tax established by the internal revenue 1 iwa prom isiog that he would protect him. Collector Fuller-, warned Seiunuer three times that ' he must comply with the law, but the man, .it the in-BtigatfoB- of Buell, refused. At length a warrant Was sworn out against Seigeouer land placed in the bands. of a deputy sheriff Wnen the deputy went to the post to makn the arrest hrf -was ordered orj by Buell Nevertheless" the officer, arre-tal Seigenuer and -took him before a commissioner, -who bound him over, and the grand jury found two in-i in-i diclmenta against him. Subifquently j the officer went to the pojt again, : with' tho same prisoner in custody. Bueii put the deputy acrnsa the river at trn? point of the h.ijonet, without a blanket 'to protect bim against the weattier -or a weapon to protect bim against hostile Indiana, at the same limo permuting the prisoner to remain at the headquarters headquar-ters and would not allow him to return. re-turn. It is presumed tbo attorney-general attorney-general will in-is'. upon exemplary punishment being visited on Buell for iiis outrageous conduct, by calling the attention of the war department Jo this lawless officer. I |