The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-02-10


James X. Hill, deputy collector. The SEN
tence OF the court was that each OF the
above named be imprisoned at hard labor, in
either of the penitentiaries, for period OF
two years, and each pay fine Of one thou
sand dollars, except James X. Hill, who
should be imprisoned at hard labor for
three years and pay fine OF one thousand
dollars. Several employees were sentenced
to six months imprisonment and line OF
five hundred dollars......Col. Mcclure, at
st. Louis, pleaded guilty TO charges oil
officer in regard to distilling irregularities.
He will act as a witness.
February was the first day Of winter,
and il opened with unusual storms and cold.
In Washington, ID. c., about one hundred
buildings were unroofed. The only gov
eminent building injured was the Coast
Survey, its tin roof and rafters being carried
off. The spire of DIR. Newman's church was
thrown some distance out OF perpendicular,
and danger of its falling was so great that
the streets about the church were closed to
travel.....An unknown man was found
frozen to death near Madison Furnace, in
Jackson county, Ohio. When found he &C.
cupied a sitting position, and was frozen
stih. He is supposed to be a tramp...."...
In Philadelphia much damage was done to
the Centennial grounds. The towers OF
Agricultural Hall and of the New York
State building were considerably injured.
A three-story frame structure at Forty-hrst
street and Eden avenue, and one-story
brick building at Forty-third and Lancaster,
were blown down. The tin roof OF the
TRANSIT Continental Hotel, near the Centen-
NAL grounds, was partly carried away, rs was
also the roof of the Farmers Market in Cam
den. The roofs of six houses on Sixth street
were blown distance Of seventy feet......
In New York the gale swept from the
bay and river every description of sailing
craft. At the Office of the United States
Signal service the rate of wind was reported
at sixty-six miles IN hour. In Brooklyn
row of private residences was unroofed....,,
The damage at Baltimore is estimated at
forty thousand dollars aud at Albany thirty
thousand dollars......Th storm caused great
destruction in the low lands below Evans
vile. Ten farms were swept nearly bare iive
miles above Mt. Vernon. The tate
of the occupants is unknown.
One family was rescued from the second
story windows by the Florence Lee..."....
The Philadelphia papers say OF the alleged
discovery of Charley Ross, near Thin, ONO
that MIR. Ross, learning OF the child, sent toi
his photograph, but upon receiving 1t sent
| it back with note saying 1t was not Ms
Charley. This is believed by Mr.. Ross to be
the same boy in regard to whom ne had some
correspondence with Mr.. Fred Schley, OF
| Upper Sandusky.
Six more crooked whisky indictments at
Milwaukee have been returned by the grand
| Jury. Among the parties indicted are Il. X.
Adams, ex-gauger; Jacob Minnemacker,
Louis Heller aud Gerhart Winner. The
other two are reported to be Chicago bur
glars, who entered into negotiations with
the distillers last summer, proposing, il
they were paid certain sum, to
break into the Collectors Office and
destroy all papers that were to be
used as evidence against the ring..."...
Rubenstein, the alleged murderer Of his
| cousin, Sarah Alexander, in New York, is
endeavoring to starve himself to death.....
Jas. NJ. Hardin, who has gained considerable
notoriety at Carthage, Mo-, by reason OF
misconduct of various kinds, was shot from
an ambush and killed lately while on his
way home in the southern part of the city.
The assassins are unknown.
Notes from Abroad.
A revolutlon has broken out in Hayti. The
revolutionists are in possession of IOemel.
The President has ordered the Foreign Club
| at Port-au.Prince to be closed, but Mr.. Bas-
satt, the United States Minister, who is Presi-
dent of the club, has refused to accede to the
demand.
The Cologne Ga,ette's Madrid CORE.
spondent writes that, by order Of the Span.
ish Bishops, bodies of all persons dead prior
to the 9th of February, 1875, who were only
civilly married, will be exhumed and re-
moved from cOnsecrated ground. One de-
cision of the Spiritual Court, relating to a
case of this kind, has already been approved
by the Minister of Public Worship. The
regular annual University boat race between
the Cambridge and Oxford crews has been
fixed for Saturday, the Sth OF April.....The
Carlists have suspended bOmbardment of
San Sebastian, and are Withdrawing their
siege artillery.
The Madrid OGciaL Gazette announces that
Gen. Rivera has captured three Whitworth
cannon at Santa Barbara, and Gen. Quesada
has taken the fort OF San Antonio ut Ur-
guiola......I 1t is officially confirmed that Gen.
Iona, having captured Valmaseda, is ad-
vancing on Durango, compelling the Car
lists to abandon the siege Of Bilbao and
evacuate their fortified position there, while
the mining districts are now free of Carlists.
...... The trial at Florence OF the case OF
Pierce Francisco Connolly, sculptor, against
rhe responsible editor OF the Touriste, and
Stephen Weston HeaJy, a newspaper cor
respondent, for libel, was concluded in the
Court of Appeals OH the last day of January.
The Court acquitted both defendants OH the
charge of libel, but sentenced them for the
use of the word "charlatan" in their re-
ports. Healy appealed to the Court Of
CassatiOn...... Chinese Government has
decided to take its place at the approaching
industrial exhibition at Philadel phia........
The Scottish National Rife Association has
accepted the American challenge for the
championship Of the world.
The Minister Of Commerce at Berlin will
send several officers Of Mining Department
to the Centennial Exhibition. They will be
instructed also to study the mining industries
OF America.....The Cambridge University
Boat Club has decided to decline the chal.
lenge of the Rowing Association of Ameri.
can Colleges. Consideration of the invita-
ton from Philadelphia to take part in the
Centennial regatta was postponed until af-
ter the Oxford and Cambridge race, when an
effort will be made to get six oarsmen to visit
the United States, but under their own re.
sponsibility, and not as representatives of
the University ..... 1t is said Ali Pasha has Of
fered to cede to the Prince of Montenegro
the districts of Satorina, Zubzi, and Bagogni,
in Herzegovina, and Albamun, the Port of
Spitza, il the Montenegrins withdraw aid
from the insurgents, and military operations
are suspended.