The Lake County star., 1876-06-01

bucket second before the shock. He was
flung high in the air, and then descended
four hundred feet in the mine, where he was
dashed to pieces. The gas caught from
miners lamp....... Henry l.. Bull, President
of Bulls Patent Arms Manufacturing Com
pany, Brooklyn, cut the throat OF William
Hersey, a workman in his employ, who died
in few minutes. Bull states that he killed
Hersey in self-defense.
Supervisor Meyer and Revenue Agent
Colony, assisted by two Deputy Marshals,
seized four illicit stills on the White River,
Cape Girardeau county, No., on May 21.
Next day an armed mob appeared on the
banks of the river, near Bollinger, and i'm
peded the progress of the officers. There are
from seventy-fve to one hundred more stills
in operation in that section of the country,
and Col. Meyer has asked Commissioner
Pratt for force sufficient to enable him to
break them up.
Alvan @. Foster, collector for the Geneva,
New York, Nursery, was murdered and
robbed at Keene, N. H., the other night.
Nine cadet midshipmen, of the second
and third classes of the Naval Academy,
have been required to resign and suffer ex-
pulsion from the academy for theft. Samples
of gentlemen's furnishing goods were de-
posted in the room of first class man by
Baltimore drummer, and during his alb
sence were taken. Mr.. Joseph Newman,
of San Francisco, passed through Omaha
the other day, with some 10000 silk. worms,
which he is taking to Philadelphia to ex-
hibit. This is the first instance in which
silk worms have been carried such dis
tance, from China to Philadelphia, some
| 1000 miles. They are in fine condition, and
have grown double size, and will be ready
| to spin on their arrival.
Notes from Abroad.
The reception and entertainment OF the
Prince of Wales on his arrival in London,
May 10, was most magnificent and princely
affair. At the ball in Guild Hall at night
| five thousand persons were present.
The London Times dispatch from Madrid
says that thirty thousand troops, including
three crack cavalry regiments, are under
orders to sail for Cuba on September 1.
There is great possibility of rising in the
Basque Provinces Oh account of the abOli-
tiOn of the Fheros. The troops in garrison
there number fifty thousand, and the force
| is by no means excessive under the circum-
| stances. The Navrrese deputies will pr0ba-
bly, accept the governments conditions.
In the House of Commons, lately, Dis
raeli, in reply to question of Maurice
Brooks, Liberal and Home Ruler, whether
he intended to advise the Queen to extend
mercy to person imprisoned for breach of
allegiance to het Majesty, stated that only
fifteen persons remain in custody within
the category of the question. After long
explanation, showing that two OF these are
| convicted of murder, that six are in English
prisons, and the remainder in West Australia
under military surveillance, Disraeli said |:
Considering the circumstances he can not
| now recommend the granting of amnesty"
John O'Connor Powers, Liberal and Home
Ruler, under motion to adjourn, strongly
| protested.
A Belgrade Telegram TO the London Daily
Neaps says that it is reported that thirty
thousand Bulgarians raised an insurrection,
on May 90, from Slivno to 'Ihtiman, on the
occasion OF the feast of their patron saint,
| Cyril. Twelve thousand Turks were sent
against them from Missa and Widdin. ...... An
engagement is reported near Los Cruces,
Cuba, May "a, lasting all day, between the
Spanish forces and the Insurgents, the latter
being victorious. The Spanish loss is said
to be between one thousand and fifteen
hundred.
Two thousand insurgents have attempted
to occupy the heights of Bagnani in the
District of Gotschko. An official Turkish
telegram reporting the affair asserts that the
insurgents were repulsed with loss of one
hundred and fifty killed. According to the
Sclavonic accounts the insurgents, although
at first repulsed, received one thousand re
Inducements, and drove the Turkish troops
which consisted of eight battalions under
Makhtar Pasha, to Sternitzko, and five hun
dred Turks and one hundred and fifty in
surgents were killed.