The Lake County star., 1877-11-08


GENERAL NEWS.
The sailors at New York struck Mon
day for an advance from $l4 TO t20 o
month. They marched through the
streets TO the number OF 400, and wrecked
one Objectionable boarding-house, but
were finally dispered by the police.
The President has appointed Thursday
the 10Th day OF November as day OF
general Thanksgiving.
President Hayes was welcomed at
Fredericksburg and Richmond, Va,
with great enthusiasm, and speeches were
made by Mayors, the President, and
members of the Cabinet, a. on the New
England trip.
President Raymond, Superintendent
Folsom. of the Passumpsic Railroad, with
a gang of men, proceeded from Newport,
VT, Tuesday a. IN. with train. Arriving
at North Troy they tore up the track be-
tween that station and Mansonvilie, Que
bee, the starting point from which Coi.
Foster runs his trains. They then took
a short cut by the break and proceeded
to Richford, Vt. The men are now tear
ing up the track between that station and
Abercorn, Quebec. There Is prospect OF
warm work ahead In the next AZ hours.
Gov. williams, of Indiana, Is In Wash.
ington, and says that Dan. Voorhees, will
succeed Morton IL the latter dies.
Reddy Waxter, Pittsburgh rough,
convicted of train-robbing and shooting
at officers during the riots, was sentenced
To seven years in State prison. On the
way to the train with him his friends at
tackled the officers and Waxter got away,
with his handouts on.
A train on the Utah Central railroad
was lifted from the track by the wind on
Tuesday, and several cars turned upside
down. Several persons were injured,
but none fatally.
VIM. III. Vanderbilt publishes card
denvinp that he speeulates in railroad
stocks. His purchases are all for invest
ment.
Great preparations are being made by
the ex-Confederates at Memphis, Tenn.,
for the funeral of Gen. N. Is. Forrest, OF
Fort Pillow Fame.
One hundred and thirty-seven new
Mormon converts arrived at new YORK
Monday, together with the IL missionar-
les who made the 1,500 converts landed
there from Europe In the past year.
The amount of legal tender now in cir
culation is $354, ,49O, 1892, an increase OF
$34, 1886, 1886 since January IA, 1873.
There has been stealing in the Phila-
delphia mint, by one OF tho workmen.
| 100 ounces of silver were found in his
house.
The Deadwood stage TO Cheyenne was
robbed near the latter city Tuesday, and
Thursday freight wagon train was
robbed. Lieut.. Reid, of the Third Cav
alry. went with detachment after the
thieves, and caught them Thursday
night with the property In their posses
sion.
| Gen. Grant visited Madame Theirs at
| Paris Thursday, and presented her with
a crown of flowers to place on her hus-
bands grave.
The public debt statement shows de.
crease-during the month OF October OF
"a, ,236.554 80; and the following balances
| in the Treasury: Currency, $l5, ,95O, ,632
special fund for the redemption OF irac-
tional currency, 80, ,444 500; special depos-
its of legal tenders for redemption of GER
tificates of deposit, $37 $40, 900 coin, $685.
O22, 2,S43; including coin certificates ol
xs3 3,543, 200; outstanding legal tenders,
$354, ,490, ,S92.
Senator Morton died Nov. 1st, at five
o'clock, p. m, at his nome In inuiahaPo-
lis, aged "a years.
Ex-Mayor Oakley A. Hall, one Of the
Tweed wing, has returned to New YORK
The New York Chamber of Commerce
unanimously passed the following reso-
luton:
| Resolved, That Congress be requested
to refrain from any legislation for issuing
silver coin as legal money on private ac-
count and i'm unlimited amounts, but
rather to issue it only on Government
account, at it's fair market value, In mod
crate and limited amounts in the discre-
ton of the Treasury, as proper auxiliary
OF gold coin for the purposes OF com
merce. 80
The funeral Of Henry Adams, the
actor, took place Thursday.
| Hammond's extensive Touring mill a
l Fostoria, Ohio, was almost totally wreck
ed at noon Thursday by the explosion o
a boiler. Henry Wilson, fireman, ano
Johnny Brown, lad Is years Of age, were
instantly killed. Loss, $2O, 900.
A fire at Louisville, on Saturday, de-
stroyed Herr IL Taylor's tobacco factory
Value OF the stock, $l0,400; insurance
5000. The whisky establishment or y
B. McIlvan g. Son, adjoining, serious
Iy damaged. Five thousand barrels o
bourb On belonging 10 the firm were de-
8, rOyed. eptailiug loss OF x3l 600. Three
hundred barrels belonging 10 j. A. Gun
bingham IL Co., and 2l6 barrels belong
ing to o. A. Knapp were also consumed
The remains OF Senator Moron laid II
state Sunday and Monday moroing, ant
were buried Monday afternoon.
The pew combination of Western ratl
roads, suggested not long since by tb'
Eastern pool, and governed by the same
rules, .seeu,s to have been fully coosum
mated at the Chicago Convention o
Freight Agents.
The farmers warehousing elevator ant
: IS, 900 bushels of grain we're burned
Belleville, Ont, Saturday. Loss, $3c, 600
Richard Dewsbury, engineer, was burn
ed to death.
The receut killing of fifteen Indjaos
Cape Prince Of Wales was by the crew
a Honolulu whaling brig. The native
boarded the vessel and dem anded liquor
} On refusal they attacked the crew wh'
: obtained arms from the cabin aud bea
off the assailants.
! Over 100000 bushels OF wbeat. wer
shipped from New York last week, tb
greater pat going to Great Briiain MOI
wjthstaudiLg this enormous shipment tn
price of wheat has declined.
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