The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-07-22

From tho National Capital.

Inc secretary OF the Interior mas tele
graphed to Ouray, one of the powerful chief
in Southern Colorado, requesting him to al
low Prof. Hayden's exploring expedition Il
pass through that section without molesta
ton.
Eastern Items.
On account Of dull times, several Massa
chusetts mills are closing for q time. TIL,
Atlantic Cotton Mills, at Lawrence, which
give employment to one thousand two hun
dred and fifty operatives, shut down for ar
eight weeks suspension, and may be for
longer time, IL the present stock of manu-
featured goods is not marketed. The opera
tives will lose eighty thousand dollars OF
more in wages by this shut down. The Sal
mon Falls Manufacturing Company also
closed their mill No. 2 for two months.
Southern Itcms.
The Gotten States Congress at Raleigh,
North Carolina, adjourned July 10, after a
harmonious and interesting session of three
days. A resolution, adopted, asking Con.
gress to make greenbacks a legal-tender for
all dues to the Government and on all i'm
portatons, was discussed, and further con-
sideration postponed until the next session
of Congress.
At Brownsville, Tenn, Capt. j. b. Phillips,
of the firm of Phillips, Leake & Co., whole
sale grocers, was assaulted by Il. Kautro-
witt, an ex-sewing machine agent, and cut
in the thigh and wrist with razor, severing
an artery. Phillips then drew pistol and
fired four shots at Kautrowitz, the last taking
effect in the body, passing through his liver,
from the effects of which he died......A few
days ago, a blacksmith named John Henley,
Isxtss II 1. '
with woman named Martha Morgan, EN-.
plOyed by him as a cook. That night, while
Henley was asleep, Mrs. Morgan approached
the bed and cut terrible cash in his throat
with razor. Henley, awakening, attempted
to catch her arm, but caught the razor,
which was drawn through his hand, inflict-
ing an ugly wound. Mrs. Morgan then seized
her child and fed to the woods. Henley lies
in precariOus condition.
turbulent negro named Burnside, was
shot and killed OIL Randolph road, five miles
from Memphis, by VIM. Mitchell, colored,
whose life Burnside had threatened to take
on sight. Mitchell went to the city and gave
himself up......Mrs. Morgan, who severely
cut blacksmith named John Bellamy,
few days ago, near Horn Lake, Miss, as re-
ported at the time, was afterward arrested,
and, at an examination before Squire Far
poison him, and afterward attempted to cut
his throat. This was denied by Mrs. Morgan,
who stated that Bellamy had come to her
bed and attempted to outrage her person,
and she had seized q razor lying on a table
and defended herself, and in so doing had
inflicted the wounds, and then fled from the
house. She was discharged by the Magis-
trate.
Mrs. Dunn, wife of laborer in Lowell,
Mass, was recently kicked to death by her
husband who wanted money from her but
was refused. Dunn is under arrest.
negro convict, while attempting to escape
from prison at Little Rock, Ark, was shot
and killed by guard.
A number of thieves entered the house of
Mr.. Matthias Douser, of New York City, a
lew days ago, during his absence, between
the hours of eleven and twelve i'm the morn.
ing, bound, gagged, and blindfolded his wife,
who was there alone, and, ransacking the
house, robbed it of forty thousand dollars in
bonds. They escaped without detection or
arrest. The New York World regards the
police of New York as inefficient, and favors
a vigilance committee. Mrs. A. X. Dim.
mock, at Northampton, Miss, attempted to
take the life of DR.. A. w. Thompson, with
revolver, because he failed to keen his
promise to marry her. The doctor has taken
steps Tor her confinement as a lunatic.
Disasters by Fire.
A fire in st. Stephens, Maine, burned the
Methodist church and some store property.
Loss, $4,000; insurance, slight.
disastrous fire at Monongahela City, Pa,
destroyed Kulbertson's saw.mll and boat.
yard, Foster, Blythe & Co.'s planing-mill,
undergrad, and dry.hsuse, and three dwell.
ling-houses. The estimated loss is $4,000;
insurance, ST., 200, principally in Pittsburg
companies. The fire is supposed to have
been the work of an incendiary.
At Cincinnati, the sawmills of Robert
Creighton, on the river bank in East Colum.
bia, were recently burned down. The loss
is estimated at 10000; insurance, $4,000.
A fire in Dunlellen, N. j., destroyed five
OF the largest buildings in the place. Loss,
100000.
Casualties.
A dispatch from Iuka, Ill.,, says: There
was heavy storm of rain in this part of
Illinois, few nights ago, which did consid-
cradle damage: The rain fell in torrents
large tracts of land were submerged and
crops were considerably damaged. The
track of the Ohio & Mississippi railroad was
at places under water. The flood i'm a small
creek near this place undermined the rail.
road bridge, and when the train which left |
Cincinnati for st. Louis at 7:25 Friday night
came along at o'clock in the morning the |
structure gave away. The engine went over |
safely, but the baggage and two passenger
cars were thrown off the track and into the |
culvert, and completely wrecked. These
cars were full Of passengers, the first being
an emigrant car but strange to say only one |
person was seriously injured. This gentle
man, Mr.. Marvin, of Mt. Gilead, o., was
on the platform, and had the lower
pat OF one OF his legs crushed to Jelly. A
surgeon from Olney amputated 1t above the
knee. The two sleepers remained on the
track. During heavy storm at Portland,
Me-, the Cathedral was fired by lightning,
but the flames were soon extinguished.
The First Baptist, Payson Memorial, and
Chestnut Street Methodist Churches, all suf-
fered more or less.
William Drennen and Charles HALEY. two
young men of Van Buren,, Ark, went boat
riding, short time since, on the Mississippi
river. The boat capsized, drowning Dren.
nen and two ladies with him. HALEY barely
escaped.
Items I'm General.
The Executive Committee of the National
orange, at Washington, after considerable
discussion, by vote of three to two, agreed
% remove the headquarters of the National
orange from Washington to Louisville, Ky.
They also resolved TO hold the next meeting
u the National Grange at Louisville, on the
bird Wednesday in November of next wear.
1.-THE wives and children of sixty Kiowa
md COmanche Indians, who surrendered at
he Staked Plains, are to be transported to
y. Augustine, Fla, at government expense,
where the captives are now confined
A Milford, Penn, dispatch says that a bill
n equity has been fled in the County Clerks
'fiice by the Farmers Loan and Trust Com.
'any, against the Erie Railway Company,
lpon consolidated mortgages for thirty mil.
ions OF dollars, and the Court of Common
Pleas Of Pike county appointed President
|ewett as receiver. The proceedings were
auxiliary TO like proceedings in New York
lpon the same mortgages. General Frank
?. Blair, jr., died at half past eleven o'clock
N the night of July Sth. Although the
General had been sick a long time, without