The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-05-06

themselves are In doubt. All insurance
agencies but one were burned out. Gary d
estimate the losses in their agencies
ut $500, 900. The assessed valuation OF prop.
erty in the burnt district is 81 600, 600, and 1t
is supposed that the actual value OF prop
erty destroyed will reach $2,5O0OO0. 1t Is
thought that the insurance is 90 per cent,
and the movable stock saved 80 per cent.
About 800 families, some OF them poor, are
burned out, and immediate relief is much
needed. The Common Council has appro-
priateJ 81, 900 for their immediate wants.
NAT Detroit, Michiyan, large fire,
originating in the factory of the Weber
Furniture Company, on High and Montcalm
streets, consumed the factory, together with
ten or twelve dwelling-houses adjoining on
Montcalm and John II. streets. The fire.
men were promptly on the spot, but the fur
niture factory, being filed with dry mate
rial, burned like Undertook. Loss on the
factory building, 100000; machinery,
stock, and outbuildings, 100000; estima-
ted loss on dwellings and their contents,
$50, 900 to 5000. The amount Of insurance
is not known at this writing. The loss to
insurance companies is total one.
Casualties.
In the burning of the steamboats, at New
Orleans about sixty persons are reported
missing and are supposed to have been
drowned or burned in this terrible disas-
ter.
A collision occurred recently on the Bal
timore and Potomac Railroad, near the
Eastern Branch, between two passenger
trains, in which from eight to ten persons
were severely injured. Both engines and
four cars were completely demolished.
Items in General
Information from nearly all sections of
the State of Missouri regarding the crops, is
to the effect that about three-quarters of fall
wheat is destroyed. One-half of it will be
plowed up and corn planted. There is only
about one-half of the usual acreage of oats,
and the peach crop in Missouri and Arkansas
is nearly destroyed, but apples and pears are
not injured.
The recently elected Mayor of ST. Louis
Arthur b. Barrett, is dead.......The Odd Eel
lows of Ohio celebrated their fifty-sixth an
niversary on the Goth of April, in many
towns and cities throughout the State.........
On application of the members of the Citi-
zens' Association, of Chicago, Judge Will
liams, of the Circuit Court, issued writ of
injunction restraining the City Clerk and
Common Council, for the time being, from
canvassing the votes cast at recent election
on the question of recognizing the city gov
eminent Of Chicago, under the general i'm
corporation act of 1872, or in any way pro-
ceeding under that act. The ground upon
which the injunction was asksd for was that
the election was illegal in method and fraud.
ulent in the voting.
Tennessee planters are complaining greatly
of the unprecedented destruction of mules
and horses and cattle by the buffalo gnats.
1t is estimated that within the past ten days
one hundred thousand dollars worth of stock
have been killed by them, within radius of
one hundred miles from Memphis, and the
consequence has been heavy advance in
the price of mules and horses. The cere-
mony of comforting the beretta on Cardinal
McCloskey took place at st. Patrick's Cathe-
dral, New York, April 81. 1t was an impos-
ing spectacle, witnessed by thousands.
Complaints are pouring into Memphis from
all the surrounding counties of the fearful
destruction of horses and mules by buffalo
gnats. Many small planters, especially the
colored ones, are ruined by having their
only horses or mules killed, and being un.
able to replace them at a time when so badly
needed.
Notes from Abroad.
Kenealy recently brought motion before
the English House of Commons, impugning
the verdict Of the jury in the Tichbornc case.
Disraeli, John Bright, Kenealy and others
took part in lengthy discussion of the ques.
ton, and the motion was finally voted down
by vote of 433 to 1.
A proclamation has been issued in Canada
granting pardon to all persons engaged in
the Northwest rebellion, except Riel, lie
pine, and O'Donaghue. The two former are
banished for five years......A dispatch from
Athens says considerable excitement pre-
walls over the approaching elections, and a
stage of siege is impending. Government
is concentrating 5000 soldiers in Athens,
and it is supposed intends raising the army
to war footing.
Paul Boyton will make second attempt
to swim across the channel. This time he
will enter the water at Cape Grisnez, on the
French coast, and push for Dover. The
day appointed for the trial is May 27th.....
The last act in the settlement Of the Gustav
affair will be saluting, by the Spanish fortif
cation at Guetaria, Of the German flag
The German squadron has gone to Guetaria
the scene of the outrage, to receive the sa
lutte agreed upon.
Kidderminster, the Secretary of the English
Carpet Manufacturers Association stated
that the carpet manufacturers generally
throughout the Kingdom had decided not tc
send any of their products to the Philadel
phia Exhibition because of the prohibitory
tariff, and that memorial to this effec
would be forwarded to the British Minister
at Washington.......Vio Violent demonstration
were made against Don Alphonso, who il
residing at Gratz. The mob attempted :,
enter the villa. The police we're called upor
to protect him, and several rioters wer,
arrested. ..As final act of reparation TO
the Gustav outrage, the Spanish commando
at Guetaria, on the arrival of the German
fleet at that point, fred a salute of twenty
one guns. Legal proceedings have beer
commenced by the Prussian Government
for the removal of the Prince Bishop of Bres
lau for violation of the ecclesiastical laws.....
A Government notification has been issue,
authorizing Japanese subjects to send con
tributions to the Australian exposition mex
October. .....B Baron Won Hollenben, German
Charge, has arrived in Yeddo......The Japan
csc connected with the recent mission +
Picking, emphatically repudiate the recen
assertion in the British House of Lords tina
Mr.. Wade, the British Minister to China
took an active part in the settlement of tn
dispute between China and Japan. Early il
the negotiations Wade made advances to tn
Japanese Commissioner, which were prompt
ly declined. Later the Chinese proposed
submit the question to arbitration, which wa
again formally refused. Wards friendl
offices toward the Chinese are admitted I
be possible, but he was never admitted I
the japanese confidence, nor did he attemp
to offer them counsel at any period.
IA dispatch to the Daily Telegraph fror
Berlin says the Prussian Government intend
to ignore the letter of sympathy addresse,
by Roman Catholic Bishops of Great Britai
to those of Germany......The London Time,
dispatch from Berlin reports that the Be
gian Minister of Justice has made an eS
plicit statement that the Belgian courts ar
incompetent to take up proceedings agains
Duchesne, and that this statement has bee
transmitted to the Berlin government......l
committee of the Prussian Diet has pre-
pared bill declaring the Old Catholics en-
titled to a share of Roman Catholic churches
cemeteries, and revenues, proportionate :
their numbers as compared with othe
Catholics