The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-04-27

close with tribute to 7. A. Hendricks
as a suitable Presidential candidate..""....
Returns from the Chicago election on the
18th show victory for the Municipal Reform
ticket. Clinton Briggs was elected over
Clarke Lipse for City Treasurer by major
ity of 5,018; Tuthill over Adams for City At
torney by a majority OF Ats; Autz over
Haerting for City Clerk by majority OF
$500; Best over Banfeld for Clerk of the
Police Court by majority OF 6,O6S. or the
above mentioned, Briggs is the only name
which appeared on the Democratic ticket.
Hoyne had no opponent for Mayor; his vote
was about $4,000. But few of the new Com
mon Council are elected from what is COM
monty known as the hummer crowd.........
A few nights ago, at Oneida, ILL.,, John Burge-
son and Eric Linde, in fit OF drunken rage,
drove Mrs. Burgeson, the wife of the former,
from the house, and in the most cruel man
ncr murdered her son, boy about five
years old, bruising the body horribly, and
fracturing The skull in seven places. Both
parties have been committed, and there is
much excitement over the deed.....The La
Dor Convention at Pittsburg passed a re soiu.
| ton urging upon Congress the necessity OF
repeating the Burlingame treaty, admitting
Chinese labor into the country.
Governor Hayes, of Ohio, has issued the
following proclamation:
| EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
| COLUMBUS, o., April ~, 1876.
The civil authorities of the counties of Stark and
Wayne having represented to that bands OF riot
eIs in said counties have, by force and intimida-
| ton, prevented laborers from working where they
| have been hired, and were DESTROYS TO labor, and
that their employers have been expelled by violence
| from their property;
And 1t having been also represented that mobs,
| tumults, and riots Of dangerous character are
| threatened In said counties, and that the civil
authorities thereof are unable TO protect said labor
sns ey %
to the Chief Magistrate Of the State for aid TO keep
the peace and to protect persons and property In said
| counties.
| Now, this proclamation Is TO warn all persons who
| have bsen engaged in said violations of law that
their acts are crimes, punishable with heavy penal
ties and that the Governor OF the State will to the
extent of the powers vested in him, aid said civil
authorities to protect laborers in their right TO work
and property-owners in the use and possession Of
their property and will employ all lawful means to
bring to justice whoever violates these sacred rights
OF citizens. H. Is. HAYES, Governor.
At the Democratic State Convention in
Nebraska resolutions in favor Of hard money
ans reform were adopted with great unan-
unity. Two.thirds Of the Convention
favored the nomination of Governor Tilden
for the Presidency, but no formal express
sion was given to this preference......It is
announced that the Ballou Manufacturing
Company, of Providence, II. l., a large cor
porati0n whose mills are at Woonsocket,
has made an assignment. The cOmpany's
Indebtedness exceeds $1,0O0,000. It's la
bilities probably exceed the assets by from
$4,000 to 100000.
Notcs from Abroad.
Accounts of Steinbergers troubles in
| Samoa are very conflicting. Other private
letters and statements of passengers by the
Ada May are to the effect that the people
and the Legislature, after Steipberger's
arrest, deposed the King, baDished him to
the neighboring island, and demanded
Steinberger's release. This was refused,
and the Barracuda brought the King back,
but the people declined to acknowledge him.
An earnest desire is reported on the part Of
the people for the arrival of the Tuscarora
and the release of the Premier. His per-
sonal effects have been seld, the principal
| purchasers being officers of the Barracuda.
Included in the sale was steam launch
presented to the Samoan Government by the
United States Government. 1t is also stated
the English residents desired the annexation
of Samoa to the British colonies, which will
be accomplished If the United States doesn't
interfere that Foster, the American Consul,
backs them up against his own countrymen,
and that the whole trouble arises from the
| interference OF Steinberger with their de-
signs; that the natives have great faith in
the Americans, and desire their protection.
Advices from China speak of an epidemic
that is depopulating villages near Soochow.
The plague, in its most virulent form, has
also broken out along the Lower Euphrates
and in Bagdad. London papers speak with
apprehension of the appearance of the
disease, which has not visited Europe for
one hundred and fifty years. They regard
the commercial communication with the in
fected districts as grounds for just.and gen.
eral alarm...... Limerick witnessed a genuine
eld-fashioned row, OH the 18th of April, be-
tween two political parties, the Nationals
and Home Rulers. 1t is thought that over
one hundred persons were wounded in the
riot Of whom forty were seriously and six,
in Yeddo, March 10, destroyed two hundred
houses. Two fremen were killed and sew
eral wounded. ......A violent hurricane oc-
Cured March II in Yokohama and Yeddo.
Houses were blown down, and ships in the
harbor were capsized and sunk. Only one
foreign vessel was lost.