The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-05-27

From tho National capital.

NJ oh iuiorIuui mcctinS u the omcefs,
clerks, and other employees Of the Bureau Of
Internal Revenue, to give expression to
their feelings In regard to the severance of
official relation with Commissioner Doug
lass, his successor, Commissioners Pratt, was
called to the chair and complimentary reso-
lutions were unanimously adopted. Com
missioner Pratt declared his sympathy with
the feelings manifested In the resolutions,
which were so well expressed and so we'll
deserved. His own appointment, he said,
had been unexpected and unsolicited, and
he wished he might at the close of his own
term o. os service enjoy the same appreciation
General, under authority of an act of Con-
gress OF June 8, 1872, has ordered that the
rate OF United States postage on letters sent
to or received from foreign countries with
which different rates have been established,
by postal convention or other arrangement,
when forwarded by vessels regularly EN-
ployed in transporting the mail, be reduced
from ten TO five cents for each half ounce or
fraction thereof, to take effect July I, 1875.
western Items.
A Fort Randall dispatch announces that
Lieut.. Armstrong has brought in the An
drews-Mortsn party, en- route for the Black
Hills from Sioux City, with forty-two men,
six wagons, and twenty horses. Governor
Grover, of Oregon, will call special election
TO fill the vacancy occasioned by the death
of Congressman Lado.
Crimes.
Josh Frazer, colored, was hanged at Cam
den, South Carolina, May IA, for the murder
of BENJAMIN Cooper in December last. lie
confessed the crime after conviction. On
the scaffold he confessed that he had muir
dered his wife and child and negro woman,
and had burned many barns and ginhouses.
Alfred Spear, at Rock Island, Me-, while
drunk, shot his wife twice, and then killed
himself. The wife may recover...... PATROL
man Keck, of Cleveland, who was shot in
the breast, while attempting to arrest gang
of burglars, has died from the wound. In
the case of Terrell, who killed Myers in
Covington, the jury has returned verdict
of seven years in the penitentiary. The &C.
cused has been granted new trial.
An outrage and murder was committed
near Trappe, in Pennsylvania, the other
day. A young girl named Whitby was the
victim her body WAS found undera table !;
her ears were torn of, and her head terribly
beaten: "A tramp was seen in the vicinity,
and 1t is supposed the crime was committed
by him. The excitement is intense.
Late in the evening, last week, an old man
named George Lockwood, from Dalmas, Ills,
was assaulted by two highwaymen, in a
lonely spot in the outskirts of West st. Paul,
Minn., knocked down and robbed of four
hundred and thirty dollars, the proceeds of
apples sold. The robbers were not identified.
......A Nashville dispatch says: One of the
seyenty-hye Indians on their way to their
Florida prison, managed to get hold of a
knife, with which he stabbed two soldiers
and then himself, while The train was stand
ing at Madison Station, five mile from this
city. 1t is reported that the soldiers are not
seriously hurt. On arrival of the train in
this city, the Indian was taken off and laid
on the platform wrapped in his blanket,
supposed to be in dying condition.
Disasters by F'iro.
A fire at Rutland, Vermont, burned the
opera-house, the stores Of Dunn & Crompton,
Stanley q Co., and others. Loss, $75, 900,
partly insured..... Mitchell, Iowa, was visi-
ted by a disastrous conaagraticn, which de-
stroysd j. G. Tyson's elevator, two grain
warehouses and an adjoining office. Loss,
1000 bushels of grain, about 81 800 in
machinery and stock, and $4,000 on the
building. Insurance, nearly $4,000.
The sawmill of Wise & LOOMS, together
with large quantity of lumber, at LOOMS,
Michigan, was destroyed by fire. Loss on
the mill, $4,000; on the lumber, $4,000.
Early in the morning, fire broke out on
Center street. the principal business portion
of Mahoney City, Penn, destroying six bus
mess houses, comprised of shops and stores,
seven dwellings, and a number of stables.
Loss, $4,000; mostly insured. The fire OIL
the mountains in that vicinity is spreading
in all directions......Af FIRE at Lexington, Mo-,
lately, destroyed the livery stable of Russell
d Young, the lumber yard of T. F. Eek
hap If A Nnkx h..
insurance, $18, OOO..... .Ketchum's steam saw
mill, at Merillen, Jackson county, Wis, and
a large lot of lumber were recently destroyed
10y FIRE. Loss, $4,000; no insurance.
A destructive fire is reported as raging in
the woods near Port Jervis, N. Y, and the
entire population are endeavoring to stay
destroyed, together with large amount of
sawed and unsawed lumber. The damage
done is said TO be immense.
At Osceola, Pennsylvania, the fre-fend
has been performing terrible werk of dcs-
olation. Recently two hundred houses were
burned there, and twelve hundred people
were rendered homeless. Two million dol.
lars will not supply the loss of this terri
BILE conflagration, with little insurance.......
An attempt was made by incendiaries to
burn Shenandoah. At Rife's hotel it was
discovered that coal oil and lighted matches
had been thrown in the windows. A few
minutes after the above discovery was made,
second alarm was sounded in another di-
rection, and dwelling house and carpenter
shop were burned to the ground. While the
fremen were working on an adjoining build
ing third alarm was given up town. A
lumber yard had been fired and partially de-
stroyed. The citizens are very much alarmed.
A vigilance committee and committees of
safety have been organized. Charles
Hays has been arrested charged with
being connected with the incendiary fires,
and was held in $1,000 bail to answer
at the next term of Court. The fires on the
mountains continue, and heavy winds have
spread them rapidly in all directions. The
citizens of Middleport telegraphed to the
Pottsville Fire Department for assistance.
Before transportation could be had they
again telegraphed they had the fires under
control. The people of Gilberton tele-
graphed to the Mahoney City Fire Depart
was in great danger, but IL was finally saved.
At Donaldson 4 Tremont's Colliery whistles
and alarms were given during the day, sum-
moning men to protect the coal-breakers.
Casualties.
At Morley, Michigan, BERTHE Rockwell, a
lad aged six years, while with ssne CON-
panions playing around fire. in a field,
ventured too near the flames, which
caught his clothes, and burned him
in terrible manner before help could
reach him. He fingered until next morn
ing in great agony, when he died.
Itcms In General.
John M. Harlan has been nominated by
the Republicans of Kentucky for Governor.
1.-THE Cincinnati Musical Festival closed
May IA, in blaze Of glory. It was the most
successful musical festival of the sge......
The coal miners employed at mines between
Broaa o,r and 5"r Mount ,; Pleasant have been
days past have INDUCED in loud threats,
and in some cases, actual violence against
men employed to fill their places. The
Sheriff OF Westmoreland County arrested
forty Of the strikers. The pen are confined
in the Uniontown jail. National Sol
diers have been holding a reunion at
Chicago. The attendance was large Gen.