The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-10-05

western Items. m,
The Indian Commissioners contaminated cl'
treaty with the Indians at Red Cloud pr
gency on September 20, the Indians agree sn
mo- 10 give up the Black Hills and 20 into in
,ew reservation. To the surprise OF the 10
commissioners, after they had offered their r,
ignatures to the treaty, the Indians hung w
Jack, and speeches were made BY, a number Va
# them before they would touch the pen
md make their marks. =,
southern Items. n
Two men named Rose and Perkins, living p
near fernando, forty miles south OF Mem 70 ~
phis, Tennessee, met a negro seven miles out a,
from that city, raised quarrel over politics, b
shot him to death, and then made their es. II
cane. A posse pursued the murderers and a
ran them SO close that they left their wagon O
and plumber and took to the woods. The O
killing was wanton and unprovoked.. {
Taylor and Manning, rival candidates Tor c
Congress in North Mississippi, 'quarreled 9
the code. They were both arrested early in
the morning to checkmate their intentions {
..... ON September 20 six hundred cases of I
yellow fever were reported at Brunswick,
George. The people are in most destitute .
condition, without good physicians or [
nurses. A dispatch states that 1t is impossi.
BILE to exaggerate the frightful condition OF
affairs, and that some of the people will die
of starvation unless speedy aid is rendered.
Items In aoneraI.
A Newport dispatch says the recent sui.
eide on the boat from New York has been
identified as that of Frank b. Smith, Private
Secretary of the Secretary of the Navy.
Smith assumed the name of Wheeler few
weeks before his death, companion of his
bearing that name, and request to publish
a card was found for the purpose of notify
ing his friends of his death in as quiet u
manner as possible. The death of a sister,
and the refusal of young lady to become
his wife, are accepted as the moving causes
to self-destruction. Smith was under orders |
to go to China with confidential dispatches
from the Secretary of the Navy .........A most
frightful accident occurred at an early hour
on the morning of September % at Black
Lick Station, on the Panhandle Railroad,
about twelve miles from Columbus, Ohio.
The train was running at the rate OF per-
haps forty miles an hour, when from some
cause or other four cars of the train jumped
the track, and rolled down the embank-
ment, which is some twenty-five or thirty
feet at that place. The engine, baggage car
and mail car remained on the track, while
those in the rear went off. This leads some
broken rail, while others are of the opinion
that it was caused by jumping the track
while making the curve. 1t is reported that
six persons were killed and about thirty
more or less injured.
Great preparations having been made dur.
ing the last seven years for the blowing up OF
the rock in Hellgate, New York Harbor, that
event was successfully accomplished on the
Oath of September. A correspondent oil
the Cincinnati Commercial who witnessed it,
writes: At 2:50X o'clock the signal fred fol-
the last time. Then when the echoes thus
awakened had just died away, white foamy
veil rose from the water at the point toward
which every one was gazing, so high in the
tail, green trees upon the sloping Astoris
Hill behind it. From the center of this wide
long veil pillar of dark cloud shot up, in the
lighter portions of which could be deserted
rude forms and angular outlines of huge
masses of rock and portion of the Golfer
dam. A second more and the foaming mass
of upheaved water had sunk back into the
river, and a murky cloud was lost in the blue
above. The noise was little more than 9
muffied roar of far-distant thunder. Atmos
pheric shock there was barely any, even a
that short distance from the explosion
and not sufficient agitation of the wate
to rock paper racing shells.......
Mountain streams in Forrest County, Penn
sylvania, not long since, flooded vale.
partly settled with lumbermen. Two cabins
occupied by George Parks and DAME
Cooper. wood choppers, were washed dow
the mountain side and into the stream at al
early hour in the morning. The Park
family consisted of seven persons-fathel
mother and five children. There were min
members of Cooper's family-Cooper, hi
wife, six children, and Mrs. Adams, mothe
of Mrs. Cooper. The sixteen persons wer
all drowned. Two persons were browne
near Smithport, in Tioga County. Thre
lives are known to have been lost, and for
persons were drowned at Willsport......Bo!
Tweed is on his way, and will arrive in til
country about the goth of October. A
Evansville Ind.) dispatch to the Cincnna
Commercial dated September "a, says: Tw
distinct shocks of an earthquake were fe
here at midnight. The last was very heav
shaking buildings and terrifying the poop
vibratory, and lasted about two second
No damage was done.
At Hallett's Point, next day after the e
plosion, the only traces to be seen of Il
great cofier-dam and the shaft were fe
fragments of the former nhoat in the waite
General Newton arrived in company vii
and inspected the scene of the late expl
sion with evident satisfaction. In answ
to a question of reporter of the New Yor
Evening Post, as to the success of the bias
he declared emphatically that it was
thorough explosion. There are 1928, 0'
now available for the prose cution of furth
work at He'll Gate. A large part of tn
sum will be required this year for the I
moval of the rocks blown up, and it
probable several years will pass before Il
beginning of operations at Flood Rock.
Quite sensible shocks of earthquake we
felt between twelve and two o'clock on Il
morning of September % at Bellevill
Mount Carmel, and other points in Southe
Illinois.....A Louisville newspaper sa
that at midnight on Sunday, September
houses were shaken and glass rattle
throughout the city, no damage, howeve
being occasioned. People there do n
think the dynamite at He'll Gate affect,
their city, but firmly believe the shock W
caused by an earthquake. 1t produced
sensation throughout the city, and form,
the subject of much conversation and spe
ulation. In some cases crockery W
broken and pictures thrown from the wal
Dispatches from the interior of Kentucl
report shocks felt in sveral places.
Yellow fever is reported as severe
Ss annah, and Brunswick, Georgia, and
New Orleans. Memphis, st. Louis, Chicas
and many of the large cities have been su
scribing aid for the sufferers. The few
spreading, Galveston, Texas, has establish
aquarantine.
Terence Walsh and Patrick Donohl
laborers, were killed, and two others
riously injured, by a fall of rock in tn
mel at Baltimore.......A slight shock Of
earthquake was felt at Vincennes, Ind,
five o'clock on the morning of the "a
September...........Gene Braxton Bra
dropped dead while crossing Twentie
street. in front of the post-office, at Galv,
ton, Texas, on the morning of Septemb
9th. He was aged sixty-one. Genel
Bragg was in his usual health up to 7
moment of the attack. The cause OF
death was fatal syncope, induced by
ganic disease of the heart. He was
captain of artillery in the Mexican War
whom lack Taylor addressed the wor,