The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-10-21

southern Items.

Alc0rn and other officials OF the county.
Blackwell was abusing Alcorn and other
Republican leaders, and was arrested by
Deputy Sheriff Stewart. After being arrested
Blackwell shot George Wall, white man,
dead, and was then pursued by the Sheriff
and others and hemmed up in the back room
of grocery store, and shot by the Sheriff
and his assistants some fifteen or twenty times
and MORALLY wounded. All the parties
were Republicans.
On the morning of the 18th, New Orleans
was shocked to learn that three colored men
were attacked late the night before, one
killed outright, another MORALLY wounded,
and the third receiving slight injuries. Two
OF the white men charged with the crime
were arrested, and are in Jail. The citizens
assembled on the streets to denounce the
great wrong perpetrated, and in the after
noon an immense mass meeting was held at
the Courthouse, when the stores were closed
that all might participate. The Rev. c. X.
Marshall presided, and resolutions were
adopted condemning all violence, disclaim.
ing responsibility of the deeds, and pledging
the support of the law of the land, which is
strong and powerful enough for all. The
city is perfectly quiet, with a firmer deter
minasion than ever to check violence in the
future.
A committee composed equally of white
and colored citizens of Coahoma county,
Mississippi, have issued circular invoking
the efforts of all good citizens Of the county
in behalf of peace, and to protect the private
property of people from the incendiaries'
torch. The negro who killed Sam Garner,
in Murray county, Louisiana, was taken
from the guard at Spring Place by a party
of disguised men, and hung.
Disasters by Fire.
A fire in Williamsburg, Long Island,
caused damage aggregating fifty thousand
dollars to the building owned and occupied
in part by Charles Murrel & Sons, and partly
occupied by number of small manufac-
turers. Insurance about one-half.
Casualties.
A few mornings since, long freight train
coming west on the New York Central Rail-
road, and running forty miles an hour, left
the track near the depot in Rochester, N. Y,
and dashed into the freight depot building,
demOlishing portion of the walls and caus-
ing a general smash-up of the locomotive,
tender, and good part of the train.
The engineer and fireman were instantly
crushed to death. No other person on the
train was hurt, as it had broken apart few
miles west, leaving the conductor and brake
man on the rear portion. The damage to
property is considerable, as the depot is
partly in ruins, and the engine, etc., total
wreck.
The tug Miller exploded her boiler and
sunk in Thunder Bay, near Detroit, few
mornings since. Captain Miller and the
clerk were killed, and the fireman seriously
injured.....A working train, engine, and
four cars, on the New Brunswick Railway,
near West Andover, New Brunswick, broke
through temporary bridge, killing John
Mcdonald, contractor, and injuring Con.
ductor Babbitt seriously, and four others
slightly......The old brewery of Kuhns &
Hoffmeister, at st. Louis, lately used as
malthouse by man named Gaeger, stu
ated on the corner of Sixteenth and Single
ton streets, fell down, recently, and two
men, named Conard and Haas, were carried
down into the cellar with the ruins and
killed. The building was very old, and fell
from the weight of malt and barley stored
therein.
Items In General.
Moody and Sankey will begin their revival
work October 81 in Brooklyn Rink, which
has capacity of seven thousand to eight
thousand. Services will be on the same gen
eral plan as pursued in Great Britain. ..
The Memphis Cotton Exchange has offered
the best bale of cotton of the present
crop, grown in the country tributary t.
Memphis, for exhibition at the Philadelphia
Centennial.
Judge Bond, of the United States Circuit
Court, at Richmond, Va, has appointed
Henry Tyson, of Baltimore, receiver of th'
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, under the ap
plication of a creditor for the foreclosure o
the first mortgage. Gen. w. G. Wykham
Vice President, has issued an order to al
agents of the roads in conformity with tn
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES miners who lately re
turned to Green River Station, on the Uniol
Pacific Railroad, report good places for dig
giDgs in the streams of Wind river and Bi
Horn mountains, about one hundred mile
north of Camp Stambaugb, and all Sweet
water gold mines. Some of the men hav
come out for the winter, and will return il
the spring. Others remain there during tn
winter.....The three leading members Of tn
firm OF Duncan, Sherman & Co., of New York
were recently arrested on warrants sworn on
before Judge Lawrence by the firm of ohm A
Koebling d Sons, charging them with usin
reputation for wealth and reliability TO
at the time they were insolvent. The d.
PENDANTS were brought before the Sheriff an
gave bail in the sum of $1,000 each.
The body of Winnie Cobb Leadbettel
aged ten years, who disappeared from he
home in Detroit, Michigan, on the afternoo
Of September 20, was found floating in DE-
trcit river. It is supposed she committe
suicide......A. l.. Hopkins, Receiver of tn
Toledo, Peoria and Warsaw Railroad, ha
filed his report in the United States Cour
for the months of August and September
The report shows the balance on August
to be 500, 402.44. The receipts for Angus
were STAG, 1888, and for September $l36
5H.79, making total of straightforward
w. Mead, formerly General 81 Superintendent
OF the Northern Railroad, has entered sui
in the Circuit Court at st. Louis agains
VIM. j. Kountz, of Pittsburg, for allege,
libel In publishing, or causing to be pub
lished, in the St. Louis Times, last July,
communication charging Mead, while con
nected with the above road, with embezzlin
funds OF the company, aiding defaultin
agents to escape, making contracts with cor
meeting roads to his personal advantage
company. Damages are claimed in the sur
OF one hundred thousand dollars. TIL
Hon. Samuel G. Dimmick, Attorney Genera
OF Pennsylvania, died on the 18th, of pner
monia.
At the recent elections in Nebraska tn
Republicans elected their State ticket by
handsome majority. Iowa went Republ
can, according to telegraph, by about thirty
five thousand majority. The Hayes an
Young ticket succeeded in Ohio by a r,
spectacle majority. In the city election Q
Newark, New Jersey, Henry j. Yates, r,
publican, was elected Mayor by 8, 800 major
ity, large Republican gain.
On the LIST of November the Erie Railwa
Company will open a new line from Ne,
York to Chicago by way of Salamanca, Clev,
land lover the Atlantic and Great Wester
Railroad), thence to Shelby Station, Ohio
over the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinna
and indianapolis Railroad, and thence I
Chicago over the Chicago division of tn
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
Notes from Abroad.
The recent rains in England have swolle
the rivers and streams, and caused disastrou
foundations in Leicestershire and Warwick
shire. The destruction of property is yer