The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-03-23

of twelve Senators, and the Council stands
four Republicans and one Democrat. In the
House there are two hundred and seven Re-
publicans and one hundred and seventy
eight Democrats. The Republican majority,
1t is thought, will be twenty-five or thirty in
the House. The vote is increased about one
thousand two hundred over last year, being
nearly eighty-one thousand, and is the larg-
est ever cast in the State.
The Chicago Times Peoria special says
that John Ward, Waterman in Zell & Fran
els distillery in that city, shot through the |
heart and instantly killed Max Smith, a no
torious tramp and desperate, who was Or
dered off the premises, but who refused to |
go and made motion to draw revolver. |
Ward gave himself up instantly and was re-
leased on his own recognizance..... The Mas |
sachusetts Senate has passed the women's
suffrage amendment to the Constitution by
eighteen to ten......The New York Demo-
cratic State Convention will be held in Utica
on April 26. Governor Tilden's friends
wanted it in Albany few weeks earlier .....
The Democratic State Convention Of Rhode
Island, at Providence, nominated Gen. Geo.
Lewis Cook for Governor; Biba ..
| Slocum, Lieutenant Governor; John s.
Price, Secretary of State; Oscar s.
Lapham, Attorney General; William p.
Congdon, General Treasurer. 1.-The firm
of Woods, Yeatman & Co., owners OF the
Cumberland Iron Works, Stewart county,
Tenn, have suspended. Their liabilities
are about $250,0O0, their supposed assets
probably cover their liabilities. The larger
portion OF the debt is owed at home. The
other principal creditors are in Louisville,
Cincinnati, and st. Louis.
Notes from Abroad.
In the House Of Commons Geo. Anderson,
one of the members for Glasgow, asked the
Government if it were true Gen. Schenck,
the American Minister, had withdrawn at
the demand of Great Britain. Robert Burke,
one of the Under-Secretaries for the Foreign
Department, replied there was not the
slightest foundation for the report that the
British Government had demanded the recall
of Schenck. The declaration was greeted
with loud cheers.... War has broken out
between Corea and Japan. The Corean ports
are blockaded......Great excitement prevails
in Brussels over the discovery of an extern
sive defalcation in the National bank there.
1t appears that 100000 francs have been
embezzled by one of the clerks of the bank.
A man suspected to be guilty party was
arrested on the steamer City of Paris, at
Queenstown, as she was about leaving for
New York.
A man suspected of being connected with
the embezzlement of six million francs of
the Banque de Belgique's funds, and ar
rested at Queenstown when leaving for New
York, is NJ. Kind, Secretary-General of the
above-named institution. The Pail Nall Ga
sette correspondent writes that bank shares
deprecated twelve million francs since the
frauds became known. This bank should
not be COMPOUNDED with the Banque Ma
tional, which does the governments bust
ness, occupying position analogous to the
Bank of England in London.....A Buda
Pesth dispatch says that in five townships
along the Danube five hundred and twenty
one houses collapsed from the 9TH to the 9th
OF March, in consequence OF their founda-
tons being damaged by the floods. In
Pesth and its suburbs il is impossible to
count the houses ruined. Four hundred
square miles of winter corn has been lost in
Hungary. The foundations of houses in
Buda Pesth are being undermined. Ii the
inundation lasts, huge blocks of splendid
houses must fail. The large Island OF
Czepel below Pesth, containing five villages,
} was submerged, all the houses except ten
being swept away.
A postscript edition of the London Dali,
Netcs contains the following, dated Alexan
dria, Egypt, Sunday, March II, 9:45 p. M.
Wednesday night last the Abyssinian army
crossed the river Decassa Deppa and at
tackled the intrenched camp of the Egyptian
army, when severe fighting took place. On
, Thursday the Abyssinians were repulsed
, and retreated to Adowa. King Lassa, the
Grand Vizier, six chiefs and five thousand
Abyssinians are reported killed in the
: trenches. Raschid Pasha was wounded
The Egyptian losses were heavy, but the
l victory was complete.....A London dispatch
says Lord Ailstord's wife has eloped with
t the Marquis of Blandford, eldest son of tn,
$ Duke OF Marlborough. The Marquis o
Dln., fxsI -. 81 70. l. 70 Aunn
pades, and the Marlborough gems have beer
|, sold, it is said, to pay his debts. lie is 6
|; brother of Lord Randolph Churchill. Lore
Ashford, the unfortunate husband, wa!
: called home from Inaia on urgent affairs
( some time ago. The elopement is the alb
S sorbing topic in the clubs.
!. The ship Ermenicles, Capt. Beard, from
Port Royal, South Carolina, for Greenock
capsized on the 18th OF March. The secont
mate and seven of the crew have arrived a
q Queenstown. The remainder of the crew
and the Captain, thirteen in all, wer,
drowned. The ship Greta, Capt. Marcedy
from San Francisco, November %, arrive.
at Liverpool, March 10. She brought
= portion of the crew of the ship Grea
> Britain, Captain Chilcote, from Dab0y
January %, from Liverpool, which wa.
abandoned at sea in sinking condition
> Eleven of the crew of the Great Britain
were drowned, and four died from exposure
, The Great Britain encountered terrible
weather, and became water-logged. On the
, Sd OF March the captains two sons died Of
: privation, and the captain and thirteen mer
! took to the boat, and soon suffered terribly
; from hunger. Three of the men died, ant
their survivors were forced to eat portions
|, of the remains of their comrades to keey
! them from starving. On the 18th of Marcel
! they were rescued, in the last stage of ema
citation.