The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-09-07

From tho Capital,

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nation has been called for by the President.
The Turkish Minister at Washington has
received the following dispatch from the
Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs at Con.
stantinople: The cruel disease of which the
Sultan, Murad Kahn, has been suffering
ever since the tenth day Of his Access
sion to the throne, and which agra
walton has been continually increasing,
having put him in q manifest impossibility |
TO take any more the reins OF empire, In vir-
tue of the fetva rendered by his Highness,
Cherkh Islam, and comformably to the laws
regulating the exercise of sovereignty In the |
Empire, his Majesty, the Sultan Hamid,
presumtive heir TO the imperial throne, was
proclaimed on August 81, Emperor oil
Turkey.
Advices from Hayes City, Kansas, say
that a waterspout burst in Kill Creek Valley,
Osborn County, lately, and flooded the en-.
tire bottom in about fifteen minutes. Horses
and cattle, crops, etc, were swept away, and
Mrs. Brighton, and her two children, and
Mrs. Green were drowned.
BY the explosion of a boiler attached to
threshing machine near Dover, Minnesota,
August 81, George Bennett, the engineer,
G. Arnold, and another man whose name is
not given, were instantly killed. Everett
Jones had leg and an arm broken, and re-
ceived internal injuries, and will probably
die. Several other persons were slightly
injured. The cause of the accident
was carelessness in permitting the
water to become low in the boiler.......
A private telegram from Sidney, Nebraska,
on the 31st of August, says Jones is in with
Clark's pony express, and brings the mail
from the North. Fifteen men were killed
on Sunday, the 9th. Four men are dead in
Buffalo Gap::.....John Wadsworth, an EN-
ployee of a Denver, Colorado, shoe store,
committed suicide by laudanum, caused by
mental disorder.
southern Items.
White, Langstaff & Co., wholesale hard
ware dealers on Front Row and Main street,
Memphis, have suspended. The firm has
been embarrassed for some time, but failing
to effect compromise with their creditors,
closed their doors. A. J.White, senior men,
Der of the firm, is one of the oldest hardware
merchants in the city, and has been for
years prominently connected with the bank
ing interest. The liabilities of the firm
are not reported, but are believed to be
heavy. !.
A late fire in New York destroyed the
Ockerhausen Brothers sugar refinery, No.
$50 South Stand, and damaged Libby, Bart
lett & Kimball's oil warehouse to the extent
of $4,000. Ockerhausen Brothers loss is
$275,000 on the building and stock insur-
ance unknown......A fire at Savannah. Ga,
destroyed Kelly's block, four six-story build.
ings, StOddard's upper range of three five.
story buildings, Kelly's shed and wharf, the
upper works of schooner, and twenty-five
bales of cotton. Loss, 100000.
A large and destructive fire occurred in
San Francisco on the night of August %.
Before two o'clock, a. M, the fire almost
completely swept the large block bounded
by Brandon, Townsend, Third, and Fourth
streets, the only buildings saved being the
fine large offices Of the Central Pacific
Railroad, and a few frames
of small value. The latter were mostly bad.
ly damaged. Over two hundred poor fam.
lilies were turned out of doors, and the loss
will probably aggregate over half a million
of dollars. A fireman named Steward fell
from ladder and was instantly killed, his
neck being broken. A number of minor
accidents are reported, but few of serious
nature......... Early on the morning of Au.
gust 80, the Dayton Short Line freight
depot at Cincinnati, with its contents
dred and fifty thousand dollars worth OF
merchandise was burned. The depot itself
was erected about two years ago at cost OF
about sixty thousand dollars, and is proba
bly, insured. 1t was a substantial structure
of brick, and one of the largest and best
freight depots in the city. The loss on thi,
building will probably reach fifty Thousand
dollars.
The steamer Gazelle, from Put.in.B Bay, re
ports that the cellars of the Kelley Islant
Wine Company, on Kelley's Island, bav,
been totally destroyed by fire.
Itoms In General.
The Pacific Mail steamship Colon, leavin,
New York City on the goth August, was in
jured after being three days out and com
PEELED to return to port. Two boilers ha,
burst. The explosion occurred at IL q
M, Sunday, during the religious service
The force of the conclusion threw man,
persons off their feet, and, for a time
scene of the widest confusion prevailed
John Bunting, the engineer, and Jane
Farrell, the fireman, were killed. TIL
bodies were buried at sea. The yes
sci was badly damaged by the explosion. -.
George Adams, who successfully PLAYED tn,
role of hero in the late averted railroa,
disaster at Fairport, N. Y, has been arrested
and confesses that he misplaced the switch
which threw the train from the track of tn,
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad
on the IL tn of August, whereby the enginee
and fireman were badly scalded, and the en-
CINE wrecked. On the 10th inst. he hat
drawn the spikes from the ties and the bolt
from the fsh-joints, throwing the trair
down an embankment, wrecking the en-
CINE, three passenger coaches, and the bag
gage and postal cars, killing w. f. Clemens
conductor on the Great Western Railway
Adams pleads in extenuation his intention
to notify the train in time to avert the acci
dent, hoping thereby to place the compan
under obligation to furnish him with situs
tion......The family of the jeweler, Millai
who recently absconded from Montreal, wa
arrested Saturday, the Goth of August, a
States, and $4,000 worth of jewelry, an,
other valuable stones, were found secrete
in their luggage.
The father Of James Murphy, who wa
lately hanged at Dayton, Ohio, desired a,
imposing funeral for his son, but was pre-
vented from making display by Fathe
Murphy, the priest who was in attendauc
on the criminal.....A fearful attempt a
murder was made in Cincinnati recently
Jacob Hummell, who had had many oual
rels with his wife, locked her in
close kitchen room, and with a hug
butcher knife, stabbed her in fifty place,
and then stabbed himself. Strange TO sa,
the wife was not injured in any vital poin
the wounds being fesh-cuts. The husband
injuries were considered fatal ..... The Moll
Mcguire prisoners-Munley, McGeeon, Cal
rel, Roarety, and Boyle--recently convicte
of the murder Of Policeman Yost, at Tan
aqua, Pa, have been sentenced to death.
AT New York, on the last days of Angus
forest fires along the Hudson River were S
numerous as to seriously endanger navig,
tion........John Patterson and Christia
Rinker were killed, the other day, Will
crossing the Canada Southern track at 81
Catharines, Ontario.
At Mansfield, Ohio, while several boy
were in the fields picking black berries, on
named Marks, having loaded pistol, wa
recklessly brandishing II around, and sho
IL is supposed Internationally, Willie Gun
MINIS through the neck. Drs. Patterson an
craig were Immediately called to dress tn
wound, but after living till next day in pres
agony, the boy died. Both boys were tn
sons OF poor widows.