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

Disasters by Fire.
The cabinet shops of the Wheeler & VIII
son Sewing Machine Company, at Bridge
port, Conn.,, were destroyed by fire few
nights ago. The FIRE department was nearly
pow erless, on account of insufficient supply
Of water. Loss, $500, 900 insurance, $780,
OOO......The Pattee House, with adjoining
out-buildings, at Avon, N. Y, burned re-
Gently. Loss, $4,000
A fire broke out in the Wheeler & Wilson
Sewing Machine Cabinet Company's shops,
at Bridgeport, Conn.,, q few evenings since.
1t was confined to the building In which it
originated. Athalf-past eight the fire began
to diminish, and at nine o'clock the walls
fronting on Pembroke street fell, knocking
down at least dozen persons, two Of whom,
boys, were killed, and half dozen were
seriously injured, some of whom can not
survive. AL eleven o'clock the buildings
were heap of ruins. The loss of the
Wheeler q Wilson Company on buildings
and stock 10 estimated ut $500, 900, on which
there is an insurance of $4,000. The loss
will not probably be less than 800, The
buildings burned are those formerly occu-
pied by the Wheeler & Wilson Company.
The new buildings Of this company, erected
about seven years ago, were not burned.
About two hundred skilled mechanics are
thrown out Of employment by the conhagra-
ton, which is the most serious that has &C.
Cured in that city for years.
A FIRE at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, destroyed
the planing-mill of James P. Gould, aud the
Grant House. Loss on the pianing. mill,
$4,000; insured in Chicago companies
for about $4,000. Loss on the Grant House
$1,000; no fnsurance.....At Williamsport,
Pa, fire broke out in Hotchkiss 4 Barber's
planing.mill, which spread to the lumber.
yards of Hebard & 'Forsman, and White,
Lentz q White. Total loss about SOC, 900
insurance, $4,000.
western Items.
In view of the recent outrages on the
border by the Mexicans, the citizens of San
Diego have taken steps to form voluntees
force to preserve order. Antonio Sorso, of
Lower California, who has been prominent
IN his efforts to maintain order and punish
the brigands, was found dead on the road,
shot through the head. Vigilants are search.
ing for the murderers.
Items In General.
Col. James o. Brodhead, of the st. Louis
bar, has been appointed to fill the position
made vacant by the dismissal of General
Henderson. Mr.. Glover, a distinguished
member Of the st. Louis bar, had previously
been offered the appointment but declined
on account Of conflicting personal engage.
ments." ..... The jury in the whisky fraud
case OF Burback x Reynolds, at Milwaukee,
brought in verdict Of guilty ... The indict-
ment against Gen. Babcock charges that he
and Joyce conspired together, and with John
McDouald, Joseph NJ. Fitzroy, Alfred Bevis,
Edward Is. Frazer, Rudolph w. Ulrici, Louis
Teuscher, John Bussy, Gordon b. Bingham,
and with certain other persons to defraud
the United States Of the Internal Revenue
"a nfQ ntu IL
100000 proof gallons of distilled spirits
thereafter to be produced ut certain distl.
leries in st. Louis, and details instances in
which several lots Of whisky, of 10000 gal
Ions each, were removed from distilleries
without the payment of tax.
An underground dstillery has been dis.
covered on the Arkansas river, near Pueblo,
Colorado, by United States officers. 1t was
seized and confscated, and the principal
owners made their escape...... The bond of
Babc0ck, given in Chicago, was approved.
The District Attorney stated that another
Grand Jury would probably be summoned
to consider new matters, and there are hints
OF more revelations of q startling nature...
Sixteen prisoners escaped from the Hender-
son county jail, at Henderson, Kentucky,
the other night. The escape VAS eli.
fected by their saving through sew
eral iron rods placed before the windows.
The house of John Hopkins, leather dealer,
OF New York, has faied......A special dis
patch to the Louisville Courier Journal, from
Owensboro, KY, says shooting ARRAY oc-
Cured there at five o'clock December Is,
between George w. Murphy and butcher
named William McAlier. Four shots were
fired, three by McAlier and one by Murphy.
McAlier's last shot struck Murphy above
the eye, and killed him instantly. Murphy's
shot struck McAlier in the left breast near
the nipple, and caused death in about ten
minutes. The cause Of the difficulty was a
dispute about claim by McAlier OF debt
OF two dollars Murphy had caused the ar.
rest of McAlier about month since, and in
return McAlier published Murphy as dead
beat.
The Coroner's jury in the case of the re.
cent accident on the New York Central
Railroad, at East Buffalo, by which two men
were killed and q number of passengers
badly injured, rendered a verdict that al.
Wood and Joseph DAILY came to their deaths
through contemplate false economy prac.
tlced by the New York Central & Hudson
River Railroad Company in not having suf-
fcient employees on the road"
Deputy Collector Hill, of the First Dis
trict OF Indiana, recently on trial at In
dianoplis, indicted for conspiring with Cor.
don b. Bingham and John w. Bingham to
defraud the Government in whisky taxes,
has been found guilty.. The Babcoek
Court OF Inquiry adjourned on the 18Th to
await the result Of the prosecutions in st.
Louis.
In New York, while playing with re-
volver, Joseph Mccarthy, seven years of
ago, was shot by John Myers, aged six years,
and died in fifteen minutes. Nathan
Rubenstein, of No. SO Bayard street. New
York, has been arrested on the charge of be-
ing the murderer Of Sarah Alexander, the
young Jewess whose body was recently
found in the field on the outskirts of
Brooklyn.
Notes from Abroad.
A Bremen dispatch says that great ex.
plosion has occurred at Bremerhaven of a
case of dynamite on the quay, belonging to
passenger on the steamer Mosel. Sixty
eight persons are reported as killed and
thirty-hve wounded. Four of the Mosel pas
sengers were killed, among them Herman
Paris that the Duke DAumale, fourth son
OF Louis Philippe, and whose wife, daughter
OF Prince Leopold, of Salerno, died In 1869.
is to marry again, aud this time no less
parsonage than the Princess Thyra, daugh-
ter OF the King Of Denmark, sister to the
Princess OF Wales, and of the wife of the
coming Gar. This rumor naturally creates
great deal Of political as well as social
comment, for, in case the marriage is
consummated, it is believed that it will
augur Russian support of Orleanism
and an alliance in future of the com.
ing Car with France against Germany.
The following seven Legitimists have
been elected to the Senate De la Rochelle,
Deputy for Loire-Inferieure, Pajot for the
Nord; Thery for the same department;
Count de Treville, Deputy for Onde; Count
Of Cornuleir lie Luciniere, Deputy for Loire.
Inferieure; Dumon Marquis de Frauchin,
Deputy for Hautes-P yrenees. There were
elected Colonel de Chadois, Of the Left
Center, Deputy for Dordogne; Humbert of
the Left, Deputy for Hsute. Garonne, and
Kolb Bernard, Of the Right Deputy for the
Nord. The success of the Legitimists
is owing TO the support of the Left.........
Gen. Mogroyejo has been appointed Com