The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-08-26

,r,.om the National capital.

The following is the oficial statement from |
the Treasury Department Of the Govern
ment receipts and expenditures by warrants
for the wear ending June 80, 1876: Net re-
GENTS. $i57, 167, 722; internal revenue, $l10,-
COZ. 400: sales public lands, 81 ,4l3,640 mis-
cellane ousc sources, $l9,4ll, ls5-total, $22S,'
O0O,O5i. Net expenditures-Ciyl and ms
cellaneous, $7i,07o702i War Deps .n1 sas
Indians and Pensions, $37, S40,S 1878 interest
on public debt, sos, 093, 544-total ordinary
expenditures, 274,623,3s2.
southern Items.
There has been great turbulence and ex-
element in Washington county, Georgia, on
account of reported rising Of the negroes
against the whites. A great many arrests
were made, and quiet restored.
Crimes.
A man named Kendle was killed at French
mans Bayou, Arkansas, forty miles north OF
Memphis, by person named Summers.
Kendle leaves wife and two children. He
had threatened Summers life, and, while
riding with four others in wagon, was met
by Summers, who fred upon and instantly
killed him. Summers gave himself up at
once.
Mrs. Charles NJ. Oglesby, living near Wal
pole, Illinois, was found in her house re-
Gently with her. throstcu from ear TO ear,
and the razor with which the act was done
was living on the floor. Her husband, a
young man twenty-three years old, formerly
from Posey county, Indiana, was arrested on
suspicion of having committed the deed.
Casualties.
A bad smash.up occurred on the Flint &
Pere Marquette Railway, near Flint, Mich,
recently. An engineer and conductor and
three other men left East Saginaw on a
special engine TO 60 to Flint, intending to
get there before the five o'clock train going
north went out. They missed their calcula-
tions, however, and collided with the passen-
ger train about half mile north of the city.
Joseph Hurd, conductor on the engine, was
terribly mangled and died in the afternoon.
John Hennessy, brakeman, was instantly
killed. Smith Randall, Joseph Metz, and
George Barst were more or less injured.
The PASSENGERS escaped with few bruises.
Both engines were completely wrecked......
News comes by telegraph that the steamer
Hugh Martin, running on the tennessee
river, had exploded her boilers, and that all
on board, about twenty, persisted.
A frightful accident occurred recently on
the st. Louis and st. Joseph branch of the
st. Louis, Kansas City and Northern Rail
road. As train was passing over trestle
work over dry branch, six miles south of
Cover Station, in Clinton county, Missouri,
the structure gave away, precipitating mail
and express car and two passengers cars down
a distance of twenty feet. Feeling the trestle
giving away, the engineer put on all steam,
and succeeded in running his engine safely
over, breaking loose from the train. There
were fifty or sixty passengers on the train,
and over forty were injured, but only one
was killed. He was man supposed to be
+. j. Angler, a salesman for j. We'll
&c Bro, of st. Louis. Several others are
likely to die from their injuries.
Disasters by Fire.
The three-story brick building on Water
street, near Adams, Toledo, occupied by
Woodruff & Son, founders; J. Matthias, iron
ratings and mouldings, and j. Fogler, cigar
box manufacturer, has been destroyed by
fire. Loss about $4,000, partially insured.
Six citizens of Niagara Falls, few days
ago, visited the Cave Of the Winds without
guide, as they had frequently done before.
After passing through the cave, two of the
party, Mr. Ethelbert Parsons, aged twenty
nine, and Miss Lottie G. Philpott, aged
twenty-five, descended to an eddy which is
never visited by guides The lady lost her
foothold and was caught by the gentleman,
but the current carried both into the river
below, where they were drowned. They
were soon to be married.
A special from Staunton, Va, says: As
freight train was passing through the Big
Bend Tunnel, on the Chesapeake and Ohio
road, thirty feet of the roof fell, crushing
the engine, killing the fireman, and badly
wounding the engineer. The accident was
caused by rock several tons in weight
being loosened and hanging, and when the
locomotive struck it the whole mass fell.
A fire at Sacramento California, destroyed
the wood and coal sheds of the railroad COM
pany. Fifteen cars loaded with wheat were
damaged, and the Pioneer Flour Mills and
Gas-works. Loss $4,000.
Items In General.
Wright w. Wheatley, one of the murder
ers of France Warl, was hanged on the 18th
inst.,. at Helena, Montana. On the same
day, in Tennessee, John c. Webb was hanged
in Knoxville, Annanias Hunnicutt in Taze-
well, Clayborne county, and VIM. Barry, in
Rogersville, Hawkins county.
A number of postmasters of small Offices
throughout the country have been removed
for unlawful disposition Of postage stamps,
unjustly increasing their salaries thereby.
Charles G. Finney, for many years Presi-
dent of Oberlin College, died suddenly on
the morning of August 16, at A o'clock of
heart disease, at his residence in Oberlin.
He was in the enjoyment of his usual health
up to the time of his death.......
The following entry was made in the
Clerks office of the Common Pleas Court at
New York: In the matter Of an Assignment
dated the 9th of July, 1875, VIM. Butler
Duncan, VIM. Watts Sherman and Francis
TT Sherman IN Vim n Shipmau Au0,rat 1e
1875, received schedule of debts and inven-
tory of assets, and the debts and liabilities
are $4,910,138; assets nominally amounted
to $2,119,36S, assets actually amounted to
$685., 853......The st. Louis Globe Democrat
has special from Chester, Illinois, which
says vigilance committee has been organ
lied in Jackson county and two men, named
Montgomery Stevens and VIM. Flood, were
arrested. Much excitement is said to prevail
there, and outlaws are to be given no quar-
ter. Jackson county adjoins Williams county,
and like the latter, is infested with gang
of desperadoes who defy the law.
Kansas is rejoicing over the largest and
finest crops that ever were produced in the
State. All the small grain is secured, and
is threshing out a larger average yield than
was estimated. The corn crop will be enor-
nous, and is now mostmatured; the stalks
average from twelve to seventeen feet in
height, with from two to three large and
well-flled ears to every stalk ......The body of
Ethelbert Parsons, who wss drowned st the
Cave of the Winds, Niagara Falls, on the 9th
inst, has been recovered from the Whirl-
pool......The body of N. 8. Grimwood, who
assembled with Donaldson, has been found
near Stony Point, on Lake Michigan.
James 7. Giles, Postmaster at Prescott,
Arizona, has absconded, leaving money
orders to the amount of $500 unaccounted
for...... Calumet River Distillery, at Chicago,
taxes due the government. II was bought
in by the company. Mrs. Frost was struck
dead by lightning at Frost Station, Tonnes
see, the electricity burning every shred Of
clothing and leaving the body in a state Of
nature..... Ex-senator Joseph 8. Fowler, Of
Tennessee, has been selected to deliver an
Grafton on the life and times of ex-President