The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-01-25

were destroyed at Pittsburg. The loss Is
estimated at no less than million dollars.
At Cincinnati also q number of coal.
were destroyed, entailing q loss OF over
three hundred thousand dollars. The scene
on the Ohio all along the river, from Pitts
burg to Louisville, was the most exciting
ever witnessed. Coal-barges and steamers
broke from their moorings and hoated with
the rising current, many OF them crushed
and broken to atoms by the ice. The
general losses can not be estimated.
Hon. I. w. Ferry has been reelected to
the United States Senate, receiving the
unanimous Republican vote of the
Michigan Legislature. Senator Window
has been returned to the United States
Senate for six years by the
Minnesota Legislature. In Maine, on the
10th the vote for United States Senator, both
for the short and long terms, was taken in
the legislature, and was precisely the same
in both cases. In the Senate Mr.. Blaine had
70 and Haines 2; in the House Mr.. Blaine
had lib and Haines 81, strict party vote
in both branches. There were ten absentees,
detained by the snow storm, which
blocked the roads and trains........
The St. Louis Globe Democrat special from
Kansas City says that three small children
belonging to negro woman living In Lib.
erty, Clay County. Missouri, were burned to
death recently. Itappears that their mother
went out to spend the day and locked them
in the house, which took fire during the af-
ternoon and before the flames could be ex.
tinguished they persisted. Their remains
were nearly consumed.
The Democrats in State Convention in
New Hampshire, on the 7lh, nominated
Daniel Marcy for Governor, and Thomas
j. Dinsmore for Railroad Commissioner.
After adopting the usual resolutions the
Convention adjourned. The Republicans
tricts have nominated Gilman Marston and
James Briggs......The Arkansas Legislature
has elected Governor A. Fl. Garland to the
United States Senate for the ensuing six
years.
A few days ago while balan cling the bank
accounts of the Union Trust Company, the
Cashier discovered two checks bearing the
same number, one for $4,000, and the
Life Insurance Company on the Union
Trust Company. Upon examining the
check for $4,000, it was pronounced a
clever forgery. The officers of the Union
Trust Company were notified of the forgery
immediately, and the cashier stated that it
was presented to him on the Sd of the month,
and he, supposingit to be perfectly regular,
certified it. After the stranger had accom-.
plished his object, he presented himself at
Street, and purchased SAC, 1000 in gold, and
after obtaining the treasure and the
difference, less the commission
of the broker, disappeared .........
Horace +. Brown, broker, of No. 50 Broad
Street, has been arrested on suspicion of
having been implicated in the forgery of
the check for $62, 400, which was .purport ed
to have been drawn by the New York
Life Insurance Company, and which was
of 4 the Union Trust Company. ........
An " eyewitness" mas told the New York
Tribune that May fred before the word.
Then Bennett raised his pistol and said,
scornfully: 81 could kill you now, il |
wished to-" and then fred in the air. Then
May turned and hurried away, unable to
face his disgrace. As soon as he was out of
sight, the rest of the party returned to the
railway station .....Alvin Sanders, the last
elected United States Senator by the Legis.
lature of that State.
Nores from Abroad.
News has been received by the friends of
j. III. ClaxOtn, resident agent of an Ameri.
can house in Italy, that thai gentleman has
participated as principal in a duel, which
was fought at Tivoli, near Rome, on the 18th
of last month. His antagonist was Bernard
Suscipi, portrait painter of considerable
note IN Rome. Suscipi spoke disparagingly
of an American woman, was knocked down,
and the challenged followed. Suscipi WAS
wounded.....A London Times special from
Calcutta gives later summary of the situa.
ton. In one of the Bombay districts of
Shoiapore the crops have totally failed.
Thin s are nearly as bad in two other dis.
tricts. Already two hundred and eighty.
seven thousand persons are on the relief
works. In Madras the famine prevails in
twelve districts, and now Il million persons
are on the relief works. The cost to the
State is estimated at over two millions sterl-
ing in Bombay, and four millions in Madras.
The Galveston Neacs' Brownsville special
says that General Diaz attacked the forces
of Iglesias on Guiana Justo commanded by
General AntillOn, on the Sd inst, and An.
tillon was defeated and surrendered his
whole army, and all of his materials of war
to General IgnaciO Martinez. Iglesias has
aske to be allowed to retire to private life.
General Quiroga, according to promise, sup.
ported Lerdo until November 80. lie then
surrendered over FIVE thousand men and a
large amount of war material to General
Trevino, and retired to his rancho. Under
the pretext tnat ne was l0mentlng trouble,
he was arrested, tried and condemned, and
according to telegram, he was shot on the
18th inst.
1t is said that Gortschakoff has Issued a
circular to the Russian representatives
abroad, expressing his belief that Turkey
will reject the Conference proposals, and
declaring that Russia can not undertake a
warlike policy, because Europe would not
support her, and might form a coalition
against her.