The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-09-30


September 20, escorted bytwo companies of
cavalry, waited several hours for Red Cloud
70 come in order 70 open the Council, but the
latter refused TO attend. At one %. m. the
Council opened with a speech by Senator
Allison. There were present Spotted Tail.
Chief OF the Brules; Man-afraid-of.His
Horses, and his son OF the same name; Red
Chief Of the Yanktonites, and number OF
9nder Chiefs, about two hundred In ell.
Louis Richards was chosen interpreter for
the commission, and also for the Ogallallahs |:
Jonn bruher for the Yanktonites, William
Suigiey for the Upper Brules, and Alex.
oeephreys Tor the Lower Brules.
Southern Items.
A terrible storm is reported from Calves.
ton, Texas--the heaviest since 1867. The
city is reported partly under water, several
ieet deep in the principal streets. Several
wrecks nave been reported. The Ocean
House Is entirely surrounded with water,
and and the outhouses are gone. Thirty work.
men on the breakwater being built by the
Government were cut off and lost. The
santa Fe Railroad bridge across the bar has
been swept away, and the Houston Railroad
Dridge Is under water twenty feet.
In the great storm and freshet at Calves.
ton, Texas, three lives are reported lost, and
TWO hundred thousand dollars worth of prop.
9 erty was destroyed. On Buffalo Bayou, not a
house was left standing. Below Galveston,
on the island, for ten or twelvemiles scarce.
" house remainss Every house at San
bernardino was washed away. Great dam
age was done all along the river to railroads
and crops. -
The town Of Indianola, Texas, was almost
entirely destroyed by the storm which re-
Gently swept over the Gulf. Over a hun.
dred lives are reported as being lost, and
me bodies OF the dead Were strewn along,
sue Deach .formiles. - 49, sf-~---
DISASTERS by Fire.,
IA large fire IN Little Rock, Arkansas, de.
stroyed the entire block, from Pollock &
Co.'s, adjoining the Stoddard Bank build.
ing, on Swain street, to the intersection of
scott street, on the east side, with the ex.
ception OF small brick. There was no in
surance on any of the buildings.
Recently, fire broke out in the silver.
ware, manufactory of the With a MAJ uiac.
turing Company North AttleBdro,s Mass,
and it was entirely destroyed. Fhe loss isesti
mated at one hundred thousand dollars. The
building was also occupied by F. s. Draper
q Co., and Smith Ginnoda, jewelry manu-.
iacturers, who lose about fifteen thousand
dollars each. All is pretty we'll insured.
over three hundred men were thrown out
of employment.
AT East Brunswick, New Jersey, James
Garland, music dealer and teacher, shot bis
vile three times. Then Believing her to be
dead, ne locked himself in his room and shot
himseii three times. opening the main artery
OF his arm; and failing to die quickly
enough, crushed his own skull with heavy
hammer He was breathing when found.
Ills vile is seriously but not fatally wounded.
Casualties.
An old gentleman named Houghton was
run over the other morning in Chicago. at
Thirty-hrst street crossing, by train on the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
and instantly killed. 1t is stated by MANY
witnesses that the train was running at the
rate OF twenty miles per hour. The c0nduc-
tor and engineer were, therefore, arrested
and held for examination on the charge of
manslaughter.
Items In GcneraI.
The New York Democratic State Conven-
ton, which recently. met at Syracuse, nomi.
mated q State ticket, Secretary of State and
other officers, and adopted a platform in fla.
vor OF state reform, opposed third term,
currency, no currency convertible with coin,
steady steps toward specie payment, honest
payment OF the public debt in coin, sacred
preservation of the public faith federal tax
alton Tor revenue only, and no government
partnership with protected monopolies"
Tremendous storms have prevailed all
through New Mexico, and the town of Las
Cruces was nearly destroyed by the bursting
of what is called water.spout Much dam.
age was done to the wheat crop by the con.
tinued wet weather.. body of the Rev.
Ed. Toby, Methodist minister for Cimaron
and Ellzabethtown, New Mexico, was found
between Cimaron and Elizabethtown. He
had been shot through the heart. His horse
body. INV
Full returns of the vote for Governor of
California give Irwin (Dem. 81 ,525; Phelps
(Rep.) 3O,922, and Bidwell Qnd.) 10000.
The banking house Of O. NJ. Tyler & Co. i'm
Waukesha, Wis, closed its doors few DAYS
ago, and subsequently made an assignment.
The immediate cause was the abscondipg of
one Z. K. Hendri, who was largely indebted
to the bank.
contributions are pouring into Galveston
from all quarters for the relief of sufferers
by the Hood. -. .Foley's statue of Stonewsll
jackson, presented to Virginia by the Hon. |
beresford Hope, M. p, and another English |
gentleman, has arrived at Richmond. The |
statue will be unveiled in October.
Notes from Abroad.
dispatch from Paris states that formal |
conference OF the Bonapartist party at |
Aremberg has been abandoned The cause |
assigned is that the popular excitement is SO |
threatening 1t was considered more prudent |
to remain nuipt for tho /
partist organs and leaders preserve the |
strictest silence in regard to the affair.
The government is closely watching the |
movements Of the Bonapartists, and Is pre-
pared to act with vigor should circumstances
require.
A Vienna dispatch says the instruction
has broken out at Tuskarrow. The insurgents
burned the Turkish guard-house. the garri.
son OF which fled. The instruction is said
to be spreading in Western Bosnia. and IL
is Iumored that preparations have been
made ror q general rising in Bosnia.........
from Constantinople we learn that the Min.
lister 81 War has received dispatch from
All Pasha, dated Mostar, September 10,
stating that the insurgents were attacked
September 8, near Vishegrad, Bosnia. de.
ieated nd'put to flight On the battlefield
were found passports and other documents
Thlch leave no longer any doubt that the
Servians intend to declare against Turkey.
The Sublime Porte publishes the foregoing
and calls attention to the fact that insurgents
who take refuge in Austria are n OF disarmed.
notwithstanding Turke representationS1
y ~. w Hilton, furniture dealer at Mon. Y
treal, Canada, has suspended. .....A force of
hve hundred and sixty-eight cavalry was re.
cently embarked from Santander for Cuba.
.;....Four boys out sailing at Toronto were
drowned by the upsetting of their boat.
The sessions of the States General were
opened at the Hague September 90, by the
King. In his speech he said the Acheen
war had not been brought to satisfactory
result, but he had everything to hope touch
ing speedy and favorable end. lie said
the constantly disturbed condition of Vene-1
zuela had exercised an unfayorable influence