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

western Items.

The Kansas City Times special from
Wichita, KS, gives the particulars of the
of James w. Phillips, alias
James Harrington, charged with having
robbed a County Treasurer's safe in Cresco,
Iowa, in March, 1868. Pending the action
of writ of habeas corpus, Davies and
Sherman, detectives of Iowa, kidnapped
Phillips and hurried him off TO Iowa. Al
though pursued, the kidnappers succeeded
in getting into Missouri with their man, and
now announce that Phillips had escaped
from the train somewhere in Iowa,
and is at large. 1t is also stated
on the authority of kilograms from Clinton,
Iowa, that Charles Woodbury., who was ar
rested in Wichita two years ago as one of the |
parties who committed burglary in Cresco, |
and who is alleged to be Charles Harrington,
is now in jail in Clinton, Iowa, and that he
was fully identified as Charles Harrington.
1t is stated that aman by the name Of Hills
has exposed the robbery, and named the en-
tire party concerned in it.
Southern Items.
James Brooks, colered, an escaped peni-
Tertiary convict, was shot and killed by
Deputy Sheriff John Powell, recently, at
Memphis, Tenn, while attempting to escape.
1.-THE residence of General Gideon Pillow
was sold at bankrupt sale, at Memphis,
Tenn, few days since. There was no COM
petition in the bidding, and the residence,
worth probably eight thousand dollars, was
bought by gentleman for twentysix dol.
lars, and the valuable library by another for
eleven dollars, and both presented to Mrs.
PlllOw.....A shooting atiray occurred at
Austin, Miss, between w. " Sullivan, an
attorney, and Sheriff Manning, of Tunica
county. The former fired at the latter and
missed him, whereupon Manning fired twice
will
,yerely. The origin of the difficulty is not
known.
Disasters by Fro.
About two o'clock in the morning, during
thunder storm, the ship Majestic, Captain
Gibbons, owned by Thayer & Lincoln, of
Boston, and her commander, loading for
Liverpool, with thirty-ive thousand bales Of
cotton on board, was struck by lightning at
New Orleans. The cargo was set on fire,
all OF which was more or less damaged by
fire and water. The damage to the vessel
was estimated at $500. The damage to the
cargo will probably exceed $4,000.
Items In General.
The Committee of Arrangements for the
Inauguration of the Freedmen's monument
TO President Lincoln in Washington, on the
18th of April, have issued an address invit-
ing all the friends of impartial freedom,
equal rights and the free institutions of our
country, to join in the interesting and ap-
propriate exercises. The orator of the occa-
sion is Frederick Douglass. ........Specials re-
port that Il most terrific wind, rain and
thunderstorm visited the Northwest, late
On the afternoon of March 10 and evening.
1t appears to have extended from Quincy,
Illinois, to the northern portion OF Iowa,
and to have been specially severe near the
Mississippi river. At some places it
amounted to a tornado, and considerable
damage was inflicted upon the town of
Hazel Green, in the southwest corner of
Grant county, Wis.,, which is near the Hi
nOis State line. The place has about one
thousand inhabitants, mostly lead miners.
1t was struck by the tornado about four
o'clock, and messengers were dispatched
to Galena and Dubuque for doctors to
care for the injured. These messengers told
story of the most extraordinary destruc-
ton of property and life. One of them
affirmed that forty-one people had been
killed outright and many more injured, and
that the town was almost entirely destroyed.
....Captain j. NJ. Bent, u retired lawyer OF
Mount Stirling, Kentucky, and a gentleman
of reliability, arrived in Louisville with a
specimen of the flesh which fell on Friday,
March 4, in Bath county, Kentucky. The
flesh covered two acres OF ground, resembled
mutton, and left traces of blood on the fences
and trees which were touched by the falling
flakes. Quantities OF the flesh have been pre-
served. That brought to Louisville was given
to Professor Lawrence Smith, a well-known
scientist, who says that there is no doubt
that it is animal flesh Hundreds of persons
are willing to attest with their atiidavits the
truthfulness of the entire matter.
The Quincy Ill.) Wing has the following
report of the effects of u storm in Missouri
on the afternoon of March 10: The hurri
cane came from the southwest, and struck
Elizabethtown, on the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas railroad, about four o'clock
Some seventeen houses were Frustrated, five
persons killed, and several severely in.
jured, some of them fatally. At Hasson, on
the same road, three dwellings and the rail.
road depot were blown down, and three
persons killed. Withers' mills, near Han.
nibal, Missouri, were blown down, but no
one was injured. The damage to timber
and fences is very great, and it is
thought that further reports will show
much greater loss of life in the
neghborhoods not yet heard from......
The damage to property in the Hazel Green
disaster was from 100000 .to $4,000. The
tornado leveled everything in the town,
from the southwest to the northeast, for a
space OF about eight rods in width. Houses
were taken up by the gale and borne, in
some cases, one hundred feet from their
foundation, and the most extraordinary feats
were performed by the wind. Professor
j. Lawrence Smith, of Louisville, who has
analysed the specimens of flesh that fell in
Bath county, KY, is of the opinion that
they are the spawn of frogs, transported
from ponds by currents of air. He SAYS
similar shower occurred in Ireland, in
1876.
A New York paper says that Daniel Drew
has filed petition of bankruptcy. Mr.
Drew states his liabilities would probably
amount to 100000. The endowment of the
Drew Theological Seminary, at Madison
New Jersey, and that of the Wesleyan Uni
versity, at Middleton, Connecticut, foi
100000, are secured by mortgages on his
farms. This was done soon alter his first
trouble, when he felt the need of protecting
them. AS the executor of the estate of his
grandchildren, he is liable for $500, 900 adj
ditional, but this, he says, is secured by
mortgage. He has been in Wall street for
thirty years past. He dates the beginning
of his financial misfortunes to the loss of a
million on a corner in Northwestern two or
three years ago.........The Mississippi Sen
ate, by vote of thirty-two to four, has
found Lieutenant Governor Davis guilty,
as charged in the articles of impeachment,
one colOred and five white Republican
Senators voting in the affirmative,
and four colored in the negative........
Election items from Maine inform us that
w. b. IIayford, Republican, was elected
Mayor of Bangor by 315 majority. Last
year the Democrats had 164 plurality. In
Biddeford, Burnham, Democrat, was elected
Mayor by 40 majority. Last year the Dem.
ocfatic majority was 100. Augusta elects a
Republican Mayor by $50 majority; Belfast
Republican by majority...... Five masked
men entered the house of James Crosby, a
wealthy farmer, near Farmer Station, New
York, recently, and took off $4,000 worth
OF United States bonds and $4,000 worth
OF silverware and jewelry. No arrests.......
Dr. Storrs' church adopted resolution that
they will not accede to, and will not be
bound by, the principles declared in the
result OF the Advisory Council; that it re-
CARDS those principles as novel, false and
revolutionary, and subversive Of the plat
forms and the poiity of Congregational com
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