The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-06-17

dent Of Cleveland, and q boy, whose name
Ia unknown. A fisherman Is also very seri
ously injured. The cause of the explosion
IL unknown. The boat was blown to atoms
and the wreck sunk. The force OF the ex
plosion was SO great that the body OF Capt
Hand was thrown over four story building
one hundred and fifty feet across the street
The body Of Engineer Day sank in the
harbor.
Items I'm General.
The New Hampshire House, on the 4th
unanimously adopted resolutions instructini
the Speaker to request the Superior Court Il
herring Of the Senatorial question also II
allow both sides TO be represented by coun
sci, with briefs and arguments.
Last August, the United States Distric
Court entered decree Of foreclosure for tn,
sale of the Southern Minnesota Railroad
and, on petition of mortgage bondholders
II was at once advertised to be sold by Mas
ter in Chancery, which sale has been eleven
times postponed. The now advertised date
of sale Is the 25th of June, and IL Is expected
that the road will be bought by the Milwau
kee and st. Paul Railroad Company. The
road has scarcely ever paid running ex
penses, and Is Immensely in debt for the
principal of bonds and back interest,". Miss
Mary Telfair, deceased, aged eighty-six, OF
Savannah, Ca, has made several munifcent
requests to societies: To the Georgia His
torical Society, about $4,000; Independ.
ent Presbyterian Church, OF Savannah, $780,.
600; Presbyterian Church, of Augusta, $780,
600; and to the Hodgson Institution, of Tel.
fairville, Christian church, endowment OF
Telfair Hospital for Females, endowment of
Telfair Academy of Arts and Scier ces, and
other societies and numerous personal lega-
cies are made, including handsome requests
to colored family of servants. The estate
is valued at over 81 100000.
The members of the deputation of Chey-
enne River Sioux who had been in Washing
ton, consulting with the Government authori-
ties in regard to the sale of part of their re-
home, and were taken to the Grand Central
Hotel. Mr.. Fielder, their interpreter, says |:
This party from the Black Hills, has never
before been within the bounds of civiliza-
ton, and it is the desire of the Government
to show them as much OF the country as posi-
BILE before their return, and the visit to New
York will be devoted entirely to sight-see-
ing"-which was begun that evening,
when a number of them, in company with
Mr.. Fielder and Buffalo Bill, visited Gil
more's Garden, or the transformed hippo
AhO AoeSce SAoy oShconOh Wao SlSoeOd
by White Swan, who wore at his belt, during
the day, long string of scalps, taken in his
various excursions......The loss to Schuylkill
county, Pennsylvania, from the five months
suspension of all mining operations, is esti.
mated at $40, 00O, 900, of which sum the men
lose 100000 in wages. If they should
carry their point they could not make up
this loss by the difference between the old
and proposed new wages in four years; but
~ xy.l a;rlx E,I afo ,Lola
of this vast sum will be total loss to them.
Judge r. r. Nelson, of the United States
District Court in session at Winona, Mimi,
has rendered an opinion affirming the Con-
of the supplementary Civil
Rights law......The Supreme Court has re-
fused to pass judgment on the legality of the
action of the Governor and Council of New
Hampshire in the contested election cases.
The seeding Republican Senators returned
to their seats, and the Senate concurred with
both branches were organized and ready for
business
The International Typographical Union,
recently in session in Boston, named Phila-
dclphia, and July 1, 1876, as the place and
date of holding the next annual meeting.
The Greeley Monument Committee reported
that a fund of $5,052 was sufficient to guar
antee the erection of a suitable memorial
within year. A resolution was adopted
requiring subordinate unions to refuse full
membership to young men under twenty
years of age, and instructing unions to admit
none who have not served four years at the
business. 1.-THE New Hampshire Legisla-
ture, in joint convention, has elected Parson
c. Cheney, Republican, Governor.
In the English House of Lords, recently,
the Earl of Carnarvon, Secretary of State
for the Colonial Department, announced
that the Government had received dispatches
confirming the reports If frightful mortality
among the natives of the Fiji Islands from
epidemic measles. He also said that the
authorities of the islands had been tele-
graphed to spare neither expense nor exer.
ton to stop the progress of the disease.
They have also been instructed to take pre-
cautions for the preservation of peace, dis
turbances being apprehended in conse-
quence of the belief of the natives that the
pestilence has been purpOsely imported into
the islands.
Notes from Abroad.
The corporation of London has resolved to
invite the Mayor of New York to the inter.
national municipal banquet next month ....
Charles d. Remusat, the eminent author and
politician, is dead...... Australian advices
say that the gold exported this year amounts
to 16S, 278 ounces, against 316,557 last year.
..... Madame Rastoul, wife of the French
Communist, writes to the Victoria Argus that
her husband and companions escaped from
New Caledonia to show the world the
manner in which Communist prisoners were
doomed to death by starvation in New Gale
dOnia. ....... Carrall, member of Parliament
FOO, A hoo haar taA nm,
several charges Of forgery as agent of
Goldsborough & Co., wool brokers. The
forgery will aggregate many thousand
pounds......In Queensland the Governor
opened Parliament on the 9th of April......
A test of coal from the Clifton mine shows
il to be superior to New Castle coal. During
the present year the mine will be connected
by rail with deep water at Brisbane......The
government is about to take measures to
check Chinese immigration, but the means
are not yet decided upon......In South Aus
tralia, in face of an important deficit in the
revenue, increased taxation is rendered
necessary. The expenditures of the last
quarters were f83, 900 in excess of the rev.
enue, and about $4,000 in excess for the
year.......A tidal wave at Port Prize damaged
the town to serious extent.
ADublin dispatch says: In the interna-
tional match competition the following nine
rifemen made the best scores, and the first
six will compose the team: Wilson, Miner,
Rigby, Fulton, Hamilton, Pollock, johnson,
McKinna, and Young. The three last hav.
ing used English rifles, will have to compete
again. Reports have been received from
the Feejee Islands that sc, 600 natives have
died of epidemic measles. ...... In Australia,
panicky rumors are prevalent in commercial
circles ewing to the mining speculations of
1873 and 1874. A crash is expected in many
mercantile houses in short time.
Carl Schurz has been banqueted in Berlin.
Many distinguished persons were present,
and Schurz made impressive speeches in Ger
man and English.
Dispatches from Vienna say the Princess
Windischgratz has sent three hundred thou
sand forms to Don Carlos......The Carlist
Committee states that Gen. Seballs defeated
the Alfonsist troops at Blanco after two days
Of fighting, capturing their guns and stores
and one hundred and forty prisoners.......
Gen. Jovellar has gone to Valencia to assume
command of the Army of the Center. Lieu