The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-06-03


worked like heroes to save the coal chutes
md improvements connected Herewith, none |
" which have been damaged.
The cotton mill of ID. b. Smith, at Pine
Meadows, Conn.,, was burned recently.
Loss, 100000; insured for $4,000. Two
hundred hands are thrown out OF employ
FIRE broke out in Libbey's ele-
vator ut Brooklyn, Iowa, few days ago,
which consumed that building, together
with a warehouse, corn cribs, large elevator
of M. Il. Small, Conkling's undergrad, and
a number of small buildings. The loss is
estimated at $4,000.
One of the most terrible disasters in the
history of Massachusetts, occurred on the
night of May 81, in the burning of the
Mass, during evening services, involving
the death OF sixty-six men, women, and
children. The exercises had nearly closed
and vesper service was being sung when
the draperies on the altar caught fire from
a candle, and the flames streaming up
the building was set on fire. The audience
numbered about seven hundred. The peo-
pie in the body of the church escaped, but
on the stairway leading from the gallery
human beings were packed in dense mass,
struggling to reach the floor. AS the flames
beneath and were tramped to death. The
gallery skirted both sides of the building,
with only one entrance to the front. The
scene was fearful while it lasted, for the
whole was over in twenty minutes.....
A destructive fire occurred at Covington,
Tenn, destroying about dozen store-houses
on the east side Of the square. The princi-
pal sufferers are l.. Lippman, grocer, $4,000;
Halls furniture warehouse, amount UNI
al N
Larike's saloon, $1,000; John 5. Douglass,
druggist, $4,000; j. J.. Stel, druggist, 81 900;
Winbumer's tailor shop, $1,000. Total loss
between $4,000 and 100000, on which there
is no insurance. The Origin of the fire is un-
known.......A fire in HOLSTER, Mass, de-
stroyed large hotel in the center of tho
town, Shippers livery stable, and from ten
to fourteen houses clustered shout the hotel.
The fire broke out about eleven o'clock, Z.
morning. The loss, in all probability, will
exceed 100000.
Casualties.
At Pittsburg, the steamboats, Juniata and
Molle Ebert, with three empty barges, lying
at the Monongahela wharf, were burned to
the waters edge. The fire was discovered
in the kitchen of the Ebert about half-past
twelve, and, spreading very rapidly, soon
communicated to the other boats......A ter
rible explosion occurred few evenings
since in Boston drugstore. A building
containing twenty-five people was burst
asunder, and fell complete wreck, killing
some and injuring many. The force OF the
explosion was almost beyond description.
The flooring and other inflammable material
at once took fire. The 6remen went hero
ically to work to subdue the flames and
rescue the imperiled lives in the ruins. The
building in which the explosion occurred is
a four-story building with front OF thirty
feet on Washington street, and depth of
seventy feet on Lagrange street The ground
floor was occupied by j. ID. Dow, apothecary
and manufacturer of soda-water. Various
theories are advanced as to the nature OF
the explosion, but nothing as yet is def
nitely known. The most plausible idea, and
that most generally accepted, is that it was
gas generation in the cellar that exploded.
A dispatch from Arlington, Mass, states
that the yacht Edith was capsized OH the
lake by gust of wind, and S. p. Prentiss
and frye young ladies, named Maria Hill,
Laura Sands, Mary Bacon, and Alice and
Minnie Wellington, were thrown into the
water. Alice and Minnie Wellington were
drowned. Prentiss kept the other ladies
afoat until rescued.
Items In General.
Daniel O'Leary, at Chicago has finished
fve-hundred mile walk, making the distance
in two hours twenty.eight minutes and ten
seconds less than the time calculated-one
hundred and ffty-six hours. During the
evening fully five thousand people visited
the West Side Rink, where the feat was done,
and various presents were given him by en-
thusastic friends, including a purse of one
thousand dollars. During the walk he has
made one mile in seven minutes and twenty
eight seconds; fifty miles in nine consecu-
tive hours, and two hundred miles in less
than fifty hours. lie showed signs of
fatigue, but was by no means exhausted at
the close, and walked the last hour at the
rate of mile in twelve minutes and thirty
two seconds.
May 20, Decoration Day." was generally
observed. In Memphis ex.Federal soldiers,
almost to man, turned out, and in the ranks
were seen the tattercd battlc-Hags of both
Federal and Confederate armies. AT no
time since the close of the war has there
been such genuine intermingling of blue
and gray.
j. C. Rankin, late superintendent of the
Custom.house buildings in Chicago, having
been accused of doing "botch job" comes
out in public card, saying that he secured
none but the best workmen, and rigidly ey
cluded all personal friends; that the con
| crete foundation is most perfect, having
withstood the severest tests. He denie,
| that the stone used was or is rotten, and af
| firms that every piece that was accepted
fully conforms to the contract. The cracks
and Irregularities are, he alleges, of thu
most trivial character and were caused by
| frost and the cracks are now rapidly clos
| Of
town, N. j., died Sunday evening, May %
aged seventy-two. lie was twice in Con
gress, and afterward Consul at Glasgow, un
der President Buchanan. He was concerned
with his father and his brother, Alfred, ant
Professor Morse in perfecting the tele
graph.
The telegraph announces the death, a
West Point, New York, of Stephen S. DHom
medieu, of Cincinnati. The deceased wa
nearly seventy years of age, one of the pi
| oneers of Cincinnati, and was for years tn
| President of the Cincinnati, Hamilton ant
Dayton railroad. In early life he was on
Of the proprietors of the Cincinnati Gazette
and married n daughter of Charles Ham
mond, one of its earliest editors......L. ID
Sine, the Cincinnati lottery man, through
his attorneys, has sent a letter to the Post
Office Department, demurripg to the actor
of the Department in refusing to allow tn
use of the mails for his lottery schemes. Hi
attorneys ask for the law under which sucl
actien is taken, that they may bring the sub
ject before the courts and thoroughly ties
the constitutionality of the law. They CLAIM
that the action Of the Department virtual.
confiscates private property of individuals
which is directly in conflict with the const.
tutional rights of persons..... The Pennsyl
! vania Republican State Convention have re
nominated Hartranft for Governor, by &C
clamation, and passed resolution agains
the third term.
Notes from Abroad.
Judge Keogh, before whom Moore'e elet
ton petition was tried, has decided that tn
late John Mitchell was disqualified fror
holding q seat in Parliament because he wa
felon and an alien. A motion for an al
peal to the Court of Common Pleas wa
granted, and the case will come up again /
a short time 49,. A special correspondent Q
the London Telegraph reports that the Gel
man Ambassador ut Brussels has been In
| otructod a. renuest the Relpiau GOyprnmeu