The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-03-16

by the Senate. The following were also
confirmed: James T. Mason, United States
Consul at Dresden; Thomas b. Catron,
United States Attorney at New Mexico.
Postmasters-N ID. Meachem, Berea, Ohio; ;
N. X. Mackenzie, Wellsville, Ohio......A re-
markable story comes from Mt. Sterling,
Kentucky. On March s, it is said, during
sunshine and clear sky, there fell from the
devoured by hogs and chickens. Specimens
were sent to Louisville for scientific exam
nation. VIM. Mitchell, OF Troy, New
York, was drowned in the Owasco river re-
Gently, together with John Savage and
BERTHE Dixon, boys whom he was trying 20
rescue...... VIM. A. Darling, Appraiser of the
Port OF New York, and formerly Secretary
of the Third Avenue Savings Bank, and
Spencer X. Green, late President of that
bank, have been held by Judge Duffy, at
Yorkville, to answer for willful perjury, in
having, as officers of said bank, sworn to a
false statement as to its affairs to the Super
intendont OF the Banking Department at
Albany ..... Mabel Hall, an English ballet
girl at the Theater Cemique, st. Louis, was
shot at one o'clock in the morning, March z,
| in one of the refreshment rooms Of the the
| alter, by Edgar Moore, who then put bullet
in his own head. The girl was shot in the
left temple and died next day. Moore, at
last accounts, was in very critical
condition, and not expected to live.
Unrequited love was the cause of the affair.".
Ga the night of March 8, between eleven
and twelve o'clock, while the way freight
train, with a passenger car attached, was
crossing the bridge over the narrow passage
on the Harper's Ferry Valley Branch OF the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, sixty.three
miles from Harper's Ferry, the middle span
gave way, and the engine, tender and train
fell through and were wrecked. The follow
ing are the names of the killed: w. A.
Wightman, Edinburg, Virginia; c. l.. Noel,
Mount Jackson, Virginia; X. L. Hammond,
Mount Jackson, Virginia; X. L.. Wood, Rich
mond; G. III. Hodgson, Berkeley Springs,
j. A. Baldwin, Baltimore; Mr.. Gano, Win
chester; A. 9. Bowers, commercial traveller,
Baltimore; +. Donavan, engineman, Sandy
Hook, New Jersey; ID. Chapman and +.
Jefferson, brakemen, Winchester, Virginia.
Six persons were wounded, including Ber-
nard Hughes, of Wisconsin. The bodies
of the killed were Immediately sent to Win
chester, placed in charge of an undertaken,
aud will be sent to their relatives and
friends.
John Lanken, Treasurer of Midland
County, Mich, has been arrested because
his accounts were $4,000 short.......T The
people of New York have obtained a
verdict of six millions against Tweed.
But where's Tweed ?.....Twenty men fully
armed and equipped, have left Louis
The wife of Senator Burnside died at Prov
idence, Rhode Island, on the 9th of March.
..... 1t has been ascertained through the all.
davits of numerous persons, III Chicago,
that there is an organized company which
has its headquarters in Buffalo, New York,
gotten up expressly for furnishing witnesses
and professional jurymen in any part OF the
country, to run cases and give such testi'
| mony as is desired to bring about certain
ends. 1t is said, also, that the associa-
ton has its qualifications through Chi.
cago, New York, Philadelphia, Bos-
ton, Cincinnati and other cities
where there are regular agencies, and
that there is a certain class OF lawyers and
private and public detectives connected with
them. The matter has been presented to
the Grand jury at Chicago...... The Utah
Territorial Republican Convention which
has elected ex-Chief Justice Mexican
and Secretary Black as delegates
to the Cincinnati Convention, gave
them no instructions as to casting their
| votes. Resolutions were adopted indorsing
the administration of General Grant as re-
CARDS Utah, and calling upon the Republic.
can party to make good its promise at
its birth to. extinguish slavery and
polygamy.
Notes from Abroad.
Winslow, the Boston forger, was taken be-
fore the Bow Street Police Court, London,
and formally committed for extradition..-..
1t is stated that the Liverpool Cotton
Brokers' Association have commenced an
| investigation into the nature and extent oil
the transactions which members OF the ass0-
citation may have had with VIM. Peers d
Sons, brokers, charged with fraud. IL has
transpired that Robert Mum, one of the
members Of the delinquent firm, is Lieuten-
ante Colonel and Justice of the Peace Tor
Southport, Cheshire.....A telegram has been
received by the Japanese Legation at Lon
don, from their government, stating that the
treaty between Japan and COrea was signed
Oh the 9th ult.....The report Of Belknap's
fall caused a sensation in London.
Intelligence has been received at Lisbon,
from Buenos Ayres. by steamer, to February
4. by the treaty between Brazil, the Ar.
gentine Republic and Paraguay, signed Feb.
ruary 3, The government at Buenos Ayres
agrees TO refer the question affecting the ter
ritory between PilcOmago and Rio Verde to
the arbitration OF the President OF the
United States. The treaty gives CerritO to
| IT, Argentine Republic, but that territory
must not be fortified. The evacuation OF
the Argentine territory by Brazil was to be.
gin forthwith, and will probably be COM
pleted before the expiration of the term of
hve months, specified by the treaty ....SenOr
Machain has been nominated Envoy of Para
quay to the United States and will represent
Paraguay at the Centennial Exposition.
lie will probably be also charged with the
request to President Grant to arbitrate be-
tween Paraguay and the Argentine States.
.....A London dispatch OF March an
nounces the arrival Of Don Carlos at Folke-
stone. He was received with cheers and
| misses.
The last mail from Iceland reports that
| five hundred inhabitants of the Westmanna
Islands, a group lying to the south of Ice.
| land, and belonging to Denmark, are prob
| ably dying of starvation. The fisheries
| there, last year, were unsuccessful.......T The
| Vienna Tempo publishes a dispatch from
| Zagabria, dated March 7, stating that a re.
| public has been proclaimed in Seryia. The
Obenvitch dynasty has been deposed and
Prince Milan escorted to the frontier.
A special dispatch to the Vienna Tempo,
stating that Republic had been proclaimed
in Servia, the Obreonvitich dynasty deposed,
and Prince Milan himself escorted to the
frontier, is entirely unfounded. Perfect
order and tranquility prevail throughout
Seryia. There have been no disturbances
since the insignificant rising at Kregycwatz
during the Communal elections few days
ago. Even these were Immediately sup
pressed.
CONGRESSIONAL.