The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-06-10

Ureat nres are stlii raging IN many Paits
If Pennsylvania. In the northern part OF
Monroe county many lives were lost. The
inhabitants of Locust Ridge, Evergreen,
Gouldsboro, and many lum-
bering settlements, were all driven from
their homes, scores Of which were laid in
ashes. Hundreds Of people saved only what
clothing they wore. Families were driven
for miles before the advancing confagration,
through the forests, and several old and
feeble persons were burned to death. Re-
ports from Upper Ottawa, Canada, state that
Forest fires are doing immense damage to the
timber limits, and that already more pine
has been destroyed than lumbermen would
cut in three years......A fire at Union Island,
Ga, destroyed Hilton & Fosters mill, 1OO, 900
feet of lumber, and the wharves and two
schooners. Loss, 100000. No insurance.
Casualties.
A dispatch received from Halifax says
boat containing a pleasure party of three
young women and two men, on the Hallway
River, Cumberland County, was capsixed,
and three of the party drowned. G..
Cameron, Of the University Crew of Trinity
College, Hartford, was drowned while prac-
ticing in she'll in company with s. D..
Hooker, captain of the crew, and II. NJ.
CuCInlun uisO VI tHC CECWs Inv ohCi was
capsized by the wash of a steamer.....Adam
String and wife, aged respectively about
eighty years, were recently burned to death
in their house at East Hamburg, New York.
BY fire the other morning, in stable
at No. S77 Seventh avenue, New York, two
men were burned to death.
Charles Graham, q resident of South Chi.
cago, was struck by lightning and instantly
L llaI xub,Ia OBJ IN, tha .vaar Of 10
house, talking to his father. Another gen.
knocked from his chair. subsequently he
was seized with spasms, which nearly proved
fatal.
Itcms In General.
At Nashville, on Decoration Day, the
graves of Confederate dead buried at Mount
Olivet and Mount Calvary cemeteries were
decorated with flowers, and large number
of Federal and ex-Federal soldiers were
present, snd participated in the ceremonies.
Decoration Day" May 20, was generally
observed by many of the cities in the North
and Southwest. Federals and confederates
joined in speeches and in strewing flowers
upon the graves of the dead victims of the
recent war......A gang of counterfeiters, five
Italians and one woman, were recently cap
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counterfeit nickels, dies, plates, etc......
The Republican publishes an article on the
recent seizures of distilleries and rectifying
establishments in st. Louis, in which is Civ
en- the amout of property seized, as follows !:
r. w. Ulrici, distiller, $42, 800; Bevis & Fra.
ger, distillers, $685. Bingham Bros, dis.
tillers, $21 300; Louis Teuscher, distiller,
$4,000; John Busby, distiller, $4,000; Bevis,
Frazer Il Co, rectifers, 1913, 200; G. Bensberg,
rectifier, $500; Quinlan Bros, rectifers,
So, 400; Besnbecker & Co., rectifiers, $40, 700
F. c., Ferderer, rcctifer, $1,000. Besides
these the vinegar works of Kecner, Sizemann
& Zott, and Kendrick & Davis were seized,
and 81 200 worth of property taken posses.
sion of. These amounts do not include real
estate. In addition to this 1881 barrels of
rectified spirits belonging to r. w. Ulrici,
Bevis, Frazer & Co. G. Bensberg, and
Quinlan Bros, valued at $l44, 1000,
were seized, making total of $685., Oss......
Mrs. Rohm, the fat woman of Barnum's
show, died at her residence, in East Balti-
more, few days ago, aged twenty-nine
years. Her weight was $50 pounds; height
six feet, four inches; and span around the
waist seventy-two inches. She was born in
Licking county, Ohio. Her maiden name
was Hannah Jane Duck......J. Halls Sypher
ex-member of Congress-, and A. J. Sypher
planters, of st. Mary Parish, La, have gone
into bankruptcy. Their partnership
liabilities are over $4,000; assets
less than $4,000. j. Hale Sypher's
personal liabilities are $4,000. His
personal assets amount to 1892.
The steamer Germania brought to New
York the embalmed bodies of Henry Friend
and wife, of Milwaukee, who persisted by
the Schiller dsaster......Joh ii. WISE, as.
signee of the Peoples Savings Institution OF
st. Louis, which failed last winter for $780,
600, has brought suit against the Board of
Directors of the institution to recover, il
possible, the money securities, ETC., of the
corporation, lost, wasted, or squandered
through their maladministration of business.
1.-THE Trustees of the University of Penn
sylvania have received from the executors
of the late John Henry Towne formal an.
nouncement that he had devised the residue
of his estate to the Department of Science
of that institution. This residue amounts
to about 81, 100000. The trustees have de.
termined that the Department of Science
shall be called the Towne Scientific School
of the University of Pennsylvania. .... Judge
Bellamy Storer, of Cincinnati, distin.
guished lawyer, orator, and at one time an
active politician, died at his home in Gin.
cinnati, June LIST.
The Ohio Republican State Convention,
at its late session at Columbus, nominated
Rutherford B. Hayes, for Governor, and, in
resolution on the third term said that "the
observance of Washington's example in re.
firing at the close of a second Presidential
term will be in the future, as it has been in
the past, regarded as q fundamental rule in
the unwritten law Of the Republic. ....At
the recent N RATIONAL Temperance Convention,
at Chicago, a resolution was passed request.
ing the next Congress to appoint a commit.
tee to inquire into the effects of alcoholic
drinks in America. Session resolutions
were offered and, after considerable discus.
sion, adopted. They urged the medical pro-
fession to Danish from their practice the
use of liquors, and urge the friends of tenn
perance and Christians generally to sustain
them in this reform, and to labor and pray
that the medical profession may in time en-.
tirely abolish them.
The marriage of Lieutenant General P. II.
Sheridan and Miss Orene Rucker, was cele.
brated in Chicago on the evening of June g.
Notes from Abroad.
A correspondent telegraphs that Carlist
battery at Mount Rico had fred on the
Spanish squadron, and that the Admiral
commanding was killed, and four of his off.
GERS wounded. The Levant Herald says q
series of terrible earthquake shocks occurred
at the be GINNING of May in the Province OF
Borussa, Asia Minor. Six hundred houses
were destroyed. Accounts already received
show that one hundred and sixty lives were
lost, and one hundred and eighty-seven per.
sons were injured. The total number of in.
iured is still Observation-Disclosures has
been received at the Department Of State OF
the passage, by reclamation, on the 22d OF
March last, Of an act by the Cortes of the
Kingdom Of Portugal, granting uncondi
tional freedom to remaining Portuguese
slaves, known as apprentices or freedmen
The act provides that one year after the pro-
mitigation the system of apr nticeship un
der the decree Of Feb. IS, 1869, shall cease
and all apprenticed by its provisions are de
clared free.
The Prince of Wales, Marquis of Tweed
dale, and General John Fitzgerald are
gazetted as Field Marshals......T The Project Of
the Seine will shortly visit London, return
ing the recent visit Of the Lord Mayor Of
London. The chief municipal dignitaries o.
Europe will be invited to Lonoon on the
occasion "A dispatch from London says