The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-08-12

From tho National Cap,tal.

honored the memory OF Andrw j ohnson by
draping the building with mourning and sus
pending business until the close of the day
designated for his funeral....... The Assistant
Treasurer at New York has been directed by
the SECRETARY OF the Treasury to sell gold
$lj5OO,0OO on the first and third Thursday
each, and $1,000,000 on the second and
fourth Thursdays each. Total, So, 1000, 900.
Western Items.
AT Parsons, Kansas, nearly whole block
has been burned, with loss of $4,000 less
than 500 insurance .... The building and
stock of the Sterling Organ Company, at
birmingham, New York, received damages
by fire to the extent of $4,000; insurance,
$4,000.
Omaha has been damaged by a terrible
storm of hail which struck the place few
days ago. Plate glass five-eighths of an inch
thick was shivered to atoms. The hail was
OF large size; some stones weighed pound
and half.
Southern Items.
The Louisiana Democratic Conservative
State Convention, which met at the Capital
on the Sd, unanimously nominated the Hon.
w. l.. Hemingway for State Treasurer. The
platform reported by the committee and
adopted is mainly confined to State matters,
recognizes in the fullest extent the civil and
political equality of all men, and asks the
aid and assistance of voters of all parties
oil both races, in the establishment of good
government. The color line was wholly
lgnored...... Election returns from fifty-one
voting precincts in Texas show small ma.
Jority i'll favor of the Constitutional Cor
vention. A very light vote was polled.
Crimes.
A special disnatch from Carbonville, ILL.,.
says another assassination growing out of
the Ballinger-Russell feud in Williamson
county, ILL.,, was committed recently at
Granville. VIM. Spence, a merchant of
that place, had retired Tor the night in a
room over his store. About ten o'clock he
was aroused by two unknown men, who said
they desired to make some purchases.
Spence got up, went down stairs, and, while
putting on his shoes previous to opening the
store door, was fired on twice, beth shots
taking effect in his abdomen, killing him.
John Phillips (colored), one of the muir.
derers of Frank Williams, near Shawnee
Village, Ark, and who escaped from the
mob which lynched his confederate, has
been arrested. He was found mortally
Dwight +. Steere, Of Putnam,
Conn.,, young man twenty-seven years of
age, was arrested in Worcester, Mass, lately,
Tor the murder of Frederick White. of
Spencer, Conn. He admits he stabbed his
victim live times with a jackknife and
robbed the body of $3l.
Ex-Treasurer Parker, of South Carolina,
against whom q verdict of $4,000 was re.
Gently rendered in a suit growing out of his
official frauds and embezzlement, and who
was in prison awaiting criminal prosecution
for similar offenses, has escaped from
Columbia jail..... The banking house of the
East Albany Banking Company, in the vii.
lage OF Greenbush, N. Y, was recently en-
tered by burglars and nearly $20,O 900 in cur.
rency obtained from the vault.
Disasters by F'irc.
Lincoln advices state that the heavy rains
in that section of the country and in the
southeast have damaged pr operty along the
line of the Atkinson and Nebraska Rail-
road exceeding one hundred thousand dol
lars.
destructive fire occurred at Kennebunk
Port Me-, burning the steam mill and shops
ut Wards shipyard; alse bark nearly
ready to launch, belonging to Perkins &
Crawford. Loss, $35, 900; insurance. S25. 600
:.....A fire in Long Island City destroyed l..
ID. Hibberd's lard oil mandatory. Loss,
$4,000; insurance, $4,000.
A fire in the slope of Bear Ridge Collery,
at Mahonoy Plains, Pa, was extinguished
after burning thirty-two hours. Loss on
breaker, $4,000; insured for 100000.
Several million feet of lumber was DESTROYED
by fire at the Georgian Bay Lumber Com.
pany's mills, Port Severn, Ont, caused by
sparks of a passinp staamar Loss c10 00n,
fully insured.
The loss by fire in Arbuckle & Brothers.
spice mill, Sc, 5S and 60 Front street, New
York, was $4,000. Fully insured.
Items In General.
Ex-President Johnson died July 81.
at the residence of his daughter, in Carter
county, Tennessee, of severe stroke of |
paralysis......G General George E. Pocket, of |
Norfolk, Va, is dead. 1.-The liabilities of |
Messrs. Mason, of Philadelphia, who re-
Gently failed, are now reported at $1,000
O0O... William Henderson, a lumber mer-
chant of Montreal, has made an assignment.
Liabilities, Sl60000 assets, 100000.
Arms d Bardwell Manufacturing Com.
pany, manufacturers of pocketbooks,
etc, at Northampton, Massachusetts,, have
failed. Liabilities $4,000 to 5000, GOO. ....
The Democratic State Convention of Oregon,
Lafayette Lane for Congress- The
platform Of the Democratic Convention of
oregon covers State rights, payment of the
public debt, resumption of specie payments,
Legislative control of fares and freights, de-
mands reform in all departments, bids for
support of Patrons of Husbandry, opposes
protective. tariff, paper money, national
banks, Chinese emigration, fraud and cor
ruption in office. The nominee for Congress
is son OF General Joe Lane, is young
lawyer of some ability, and Democratic
politician of the most radical stripe.
August opened with great storms, and
great damage in consequence to crops, farms,
and railroads, especially in Ohio
and Indiana, though other States have suf-
Tered. The loss can not be computed, and
the farmers are very despondent.... Bill Ro-
dlfer made another unsuccessful attempt to
escape from the Jacksonville prison on the
I'd of August, with two other convicts. They
Knocked down guard, and took his revol-
YER from him, but he recovered in time to
give the alarm. In q scuf1le to obtain Rodi-
ler's pistol, Guard Kennedy shot Rodifer
three times, but not fatally. They were all
secured, Judge Morris, counsel for Theo-
lore TiltOn, has served notice on Messrs.
ohearman and Sterling, attorneys of record
Tor Henry Ward Beecher, to be prepared to
answer in new trial on the first Monday in
Kentucky election
passed of quietly, and large vote was cast
McCreary (Dem.) was elected Governor by
handsome majority. The telegraph reports
gains by Harlan, and Republican gains in
ne Legislature. Both parties made brave
light.
The loss in slaves, dressed headings, logs
md barrels carried away by the floods from
he vicinity of New Martinsville, West vir-
mil |
thousand dollars......The recent storms in
Central Illinois have done immense das,apa
% crops, bridges, and railroads. The loss is
estimated to amount to million dollars.
mat oil Morgan county alone is nearly a
quarter of amillion -. The floods in the vi.
Unity of Chicago, ILL.,, have done damage TO
he amount of about one hundred thousand
dollars. The chief injury is from the over.
low OF Calumet river, which has inundated
neadow-lands and destroyed large crops of
iay.
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