The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-02-25
WHAT THE WIRES WHISPER.

Minnesota railroads were partially
snow-blocked yesterday.
Geo. p. Plant, prominent st. Louis
merchant, died yesterday.
Wintermute, who murdered General
MoCook in Dakota, Is out on $W,0OC
bail.
The monthly auction sales of Scranton
coal in Now York have been discontin.
ued.
The steamship Weser, from Southamp.
ton for New York, is bringing S11S,0O0 in
specie.
Harris, the so-oalled South Boston wife
murderer, was convicted of murder in the
second degree.
The Conservative caucus agreed to &C.
cept the Wheeler compromise by a vote
OF thirty-three.
The Coroner's jury at Orryille have
been able to arrive at no solution OF the
murder mystery of Sunday.
A bill to repeal the local option law
passed Its first reading in the PennsyI-
yania House yesterday-l2S to b6.
The Treasury Department will com
mence the payment of the interest on
the l0-4Vs due March /, without rebate.
The ice men OF Toledo are making con.
tracts for next summer at two dollars
and half per month to private families
General Joseph Il. Hawley has been
renominated for Congress by the Re-
publieans of the First Connecticut Dis.
trict.
The President has approved the act fol
the relief OF actual settlers on land claim
ed to be swamp and oyerfowed lands in
Missouri.
A resolution to amend the Constitution
so as to give the right of suffrage tc
women was yesterday voted down III
the Massachusetts House-12D to 70.
A storm passed south of Connersyille
Indiana, Tuesday night about II O'Clock
accompanied by thunder and lightning
Streams are running rapidly, with pros
poets OF flood.
At Toledo, Ohio, the second public re
hearsal OF the Arion Musical Society was
held last evening in the music par!ors 0
Whitney u Currler, and was attended by
select audience OF invited guests.
The Executive Committee of the Ma
tional Sunday-school Union met in y .,.
more Tuesday, and completed arrange
ments for the next meeting OF lhe bouN
in that city on the 11th, l-tu and l3tn U
May.
Professor Watson was successful il
his observations Of the transit Ga Venus
securing ninety-nine photographs. 4
letter IRON the Professor at ShaDghae
January 13, announces the arrival Oi tht
party at that place.
At Warsaw, Indiana, the knights Of
Pythias gave q grand ball on Tuesday
night for the benefit Of the Lodge. The
attendance was large. Representatives
from Fort Wayne, Goshen, Logansport,
and other adjoining cities, were present
AT Oxford, Ohio, David Harter, propri
etQr of The Girard House, was accident
ally shot i'll the left cheek by William
Tucker, while handling pistol. DIR
Saunders found the ball lodged unde
the lett warSeter muscle. The wound il
not necessarily dangerous.
At Fort Wayne, Indiana, John MOhl
and wife were discovered in an uncon
scious state, yesterday morning, caused
by gas from a coal stove escaping into 6
close room where they were sleeping
For while Lille was despaired of, but
after working with them Tor some time
they were restored.
Hart, Caughey g. Co., well-known bro
kers, of Pittsburg, suspended payment
yesterday. No statement of assets OF
liabilities as yet, but it is claimed the
former will almost, ii not entirely, cover
the latter. 1t is said that the relations
of the firm of Jay Cooke & Co. helped tt
bring about the suspension.
The stockholders of the Chicago, Bur.
lington and Quincy railroad yesterday
elected new Directors, as follows: James
NJ. Walker, of Chicago: g. S. Cotton, Of
Galesburg; Erastus Corning, of Albany
John G. Green, Of New York; John G
Dennison, j. w. Brooks, Boston; N
Thayer, Boston; Sidney Bartlett, Boston
j. I'll. Clifford, Boston; VIM. j. Rotch
New Bedford; j. M. Forbes and John n
A. Griswold, Boston.
Mrs. A. Baker, an aged widow lady Of
Connersville, Ind, is one of the Chilcotte
heirs to an immense estate, expected by
that family from England and Baltimore
heirs numbering about three hundred re-
side in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana
Iowa and Oregon. The first John Chill
cote came to America in the sixteenth
century, his brother following some
years afterward. The posterity of these
two only Chilcottes in the United States
inherit seventy millions in Baltimore
and eighty millions in England.
At Chillicothe, Ohio, yesterday, par.
ty of railroaders, while on the rivel
skating, found tin box, which had been
forcibiy opened, and which still CON
tanned mortgages and other papers OF
value, it proving to be the property Of
N. G. Cooper, a conductor of the Mariet.
ia and Cincinnati railroad. The box
was stolen some time ago from Cooper's
trunk, at his boarding house, ON Second
street, and contained at the time it was
taken not less than twelve hundred dol
lars in notes and bonds. These, oil
course, had all been distracted. The pa
pers that remained, however, were Of
cons iderable value.
There is quarrel between the two
soyereigns of Siam, and the second King
has fed for shelter to the British Consul