The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-04-02
WHAT THE WIRES WHISPER.

cided last night.
The residence of W. Gibson, OF Upper
Sundusky, burned last night.
Hon. Gende Marx is the Republican
candidate for Mayorof Toledo.
Specie in the Bank OF France decreased
1910, 900 francs the past week.
Horse thieves are numerous in. the
neighborhoOd of Richmond, Ind.
The Northern Central Railroad Com.
pany will shortly issue 81, ,0o0, 900 in bonds.
1t is expected that the trial of George
@. Cannon for polygamy will commence
tomorrow.
The extensive o. X. FIGURING Mills ol
Pekin, ILL.,, burned yesterday. LOSS,
$35, 600; insurance, $4,000.
Three men were killed yesterday by
the explosion of the boiler in the Tunnel
Mills, at Elllottsyille, o.
The New York Chamber of Commerce
approves the course Of Governor Tilden
in his exposure of the canal frauds.
AspeciaI from Eureka, Nevada, re-
ports aheavy shock Of earthquake. Some
damage to buildings, but no one injured.
Mike Haney, of Pittsburg. a boy fifteen
years old, had his leg crushed by the
cars, at Upper sandusky, last evening.
The Overlook Mountain House, in the
Catskills, famous summer resort,
burned yesterday. Loss, 100000; insur-
ance, 100000.
The iron-works of Glass, Neely & Co.,
OF Pittsburg, resumed work yesterday,
according to the demand Of six dollars a
ton for bailing.
Pete Mccartney, the noted counter
feiter, and his companions, who escaped
from the St. Louis Jail, have all been
captured in Texas.
The trial of the Gibson County Ku-
Klux will commence in the United States
District Court at Memphis to-day, before
Judge Bland Ballard.
Samuel Piles, aged sixty years, was
killed last night near Pioneer Switch, on
The Marietta and Cincinnati branch, by
the pay train running south.
The Irish Associations of New York
have resolved on public parade in Jer-
sey City, Sunday, the 1lth inst, as a
tribute to the memory of Mitchell. y
q. w. Noble had 81, 100 snatched from
him in Cleveland yesterday, by Joseph
Dubuque, who passed the money TO Mike
Allen and Papes, and it was not recov.
cred.
The fine new residence of Charles Big
Glow, st. Paul, Minn., was burned yes.
terday. Loss, $4,000; insurance, $S,000
mostly in st. Paul fire and marine com
panies.
Micah W. Hogdon, a Boston dry-goods
commission merchant, has suddenly lett
for parts unknown, taking with him
900 worth Of bonds belonging to his
mother-in-law.
The Senatorial excursion party for the
conquest of Mexico has reached New
Orleans, where it has paused to consider
whether 1t will encounter the risk o
meeting Yellow Jack by going further.
Surveys Of the South Pass, for the i'm
provement of the Mississippi river, will
begin next week. Captain Eads has ap
pointed &. w. r. Bailey, OF New Orleans
his First Assistant Engineer, and ex
poets to sink his first raft about the frs
OF October.
The German bankers Of New Yorl
state that the impending panic in Berlin
is caused by the large advance in prices
and that reported failures were caused
by the parties being short at Frankfort
Three and one-eighth per cent. for money
is the price.
Miss Nellie Williams, Of Richmond
Ind, who has been at the point of deatl
from having the glass pendant OF an cal
ring lodged in her throat, is temporarily
relieved, the pendant having been thrown
out yesterday while she was coughing
Hopes OF recovery are now entertained
A bill has been introduced in the New
York Assembly providing that in cases
where trial is protracted beyond sixty
days the Supervisors may grant SUCH ex
ira compensation as they see fit. The
cause of Theodore Tilton against Henry
Ward Beecher is already on the third
continuous week.
The Uruguayan Chamber has passed a
decree suspending the payment of inter.
est on the public debt, and providing fol
the redemption Of the debt by the issue
of new paper at forced price. 1t il
added that foreign representatives have
protested against the decree, and the
situation is critical.
The election of officers of the Cincin.
natl, Richmond & Ft. Wayne Railroad
resulted as follows: President, William
Parry; Vice-P President, A. f. Scott; Sec.
retary and Treasurer, G. U. Binkley
Directors, VIM. Parry, A. f. Scott, j. II.
Moormann, e. Patterson, G. f. Coffin,
Gen. A. Stone, A. McKew, Judge Stude-
baker, P. Hoagland, j. N. Mccullough
and f. ii. Short.