The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-12-23

on board the Mosel; that 1t was provided
with clock-work apparatus which was timed
to explode in eight days, when the Mosel
would be In mid-ocean; that he intended to
land at South Hampton. His object was to
destroy the steamer so that he could claim
large insurance which he had effected, but
later dispatch from Bremen pronounces the
horrible story untrue. The case spoken Of
has been opened by the police and found
TO contain nothing explosive or dangerous.
The man Thomas, who is supposed to have
owned the case Of dynamite which exploded
at Bremerhaven, is an American. He has
been residing for some months at Strohlen,
Saxony. The police made domiciliary
visit to the abode Of Thomas in Strohlen
but failed to discover anything throwing
any light upon the terrible crime in which
the man Is implicated. His wife has gone to
Bremerhaven......The jury that held an in
quest ON the bodies from the wreck OF the
Deutschland have returned verdict. The
captain Of the vessel was pronounced inno-
cent, and the fatality attributed to the state
of the weather.
!, Thomassen, not Thomas, is the name Of
the passenger who owned the case of dynam-
lite which exploded at Bremerhaven. He
has confessed to the authorities that he con-
structed chest which exploded, and ar
ranged clock-work attachment to cause
the explosion at certain time. He was
occupied for fortnight in filling the chest,
and worked in the coach-hOuse in one OF the
most frequented parts of Bremen. The
police have examined the house alluded to,
and found some of the packing material,
but no explosive Of any kind......S Sir William
Jervis, Governor of the Straits Settlements,
telegraphs from Penang, the 14th November,
that on the 7th eighty men OF the Tenth
Regiment, and one hundred and twenty.sx
auxiliaries, consisting of irregular troops
and police, attacked from four hundred to
eight hundred Malays, who were fortified
behind the stockade, within five miles of the
Perak residency. After a sharp fight, the
attacking party charged the Malays and
routed them. From sixty to eighty of the
enemy were killed and wounded, while
only two of the British and six of the auxil-
iaries were killed, and twenty-five wounded.
Troops are meeting with no resistance, and
re-enforcements are not required at present.
Thomassen, the owner of the dynamite in
the Deutschland case, has died from the
effects o. the injnries inflicted by himself.
His age 10 believed to be about thirty five
years. He confessed that he was once cap
tain of the vessel Old Dominion, and that
he changed his name to avoid being prose-
cuted for running the blockade during the
civil war in America; that he bought the
explosive material in the United States, and
had it forwarded to his address, and that the
clock-work attachment was manufactured
in Germany, aud was set to explode the
charge in eight days........Jean Baptiste
Dumas, Professor of Chemistry, and Jules
Simon, Statesman, have been elected men,
bers of the French Academy to fill the chairs
made vacant by the deaths of NJ. Guizot and
Count Charles de Remuset...., From Brussels
we receive the news of terrible explosion
of coal mine, near Mons, in which one
damp.