The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-06-10
WHAT THE WIRES WHISPER.

co, died yesterday.
The stove manufacturers are holding
Convention in st. Louis.
Specie shipments yesterday, 1854, 900,
of which 1920, 900 was In gold coin.
Red Cloud, Spotted Tail and their gang
passed through Omaha yesterday, home-
ward bound.
Three men were drowned yesterday at
Cambridge, Mass, by the sinking of o
scow on Broad Canal.
Some Cleveland trap-shooters yester-
day succeeded in shooting out the eye OF
son of John Huntington.
The question Of borrowing money to
pay the July interest on the State debt
is attracting much attention in Tennes-
see.
A new Commission has been appointed
to settle the dispute between China and
Japan in reference to the L00-ChoO al
fair.
| The American Methodist Church in
Kin-Kiang, China, was attacked by the
natives on the 1st OF May-damages not
reported.
| James F. JOY has withdrawn his resig-
nation as President Of the Michigan
Central Railroad, and is candidate for
reelection.
| The troubles between the Chinese and
the natives OF Formosa continue, and
are extending to the north and east OF
the island.
The clerical bigamist, Merrill, yester-
day pleaded guilty, at Kalamazoo, to
bigamy, and was sentenced to the State
Prison for four and half years.
II. T. Page wass nominated for Con-
gress by the Second, and G. b. Denis. OF
Vallejo, by the Third Congressional Dis
trict Republican Conventions Of Cali
fornia.
The Anti-seoret Society Convention,
in session at Pittsburg, yesterday nomi-
mated Hon. j. B. Walton, of Illinois, for
President, and Donald Kirkpatrick, of
New York, for Vice President.
A child about two years old, son of
VIM. johnson, OF Green Camp, o., was
poisoned yesterday, and died within
half an hour, by taking some medicine
that had been left on the window.
Lon. Burdge, Of North Vernon, Ind.
shattered his left arm terribly yesterday
by the accidental discharge Of shot
gun, which slipped while standing on a
fence. He is 10 critical condition.
Mrs. Elizabeth Quick committed sui
eide at Kalamazoo, by cutting her throat
with razor, severing an artery, causing
She was the mother of three children.
Judge Morrill,, of the United States
District Court, on the demurrer made
by the attorney for the proprietors Of
the Galveston News, yesterday dis
John siekworth, while trying to couple
sleeping car to a passenger train near
Clam Lake, Mich, was caught and
In Chicago, where his remains will be
sent.
| Z Professor q. D. Burr was found guilty,
at Coidwater. Mioh., yesterday, Of forg-
ing q one-thousand-dolfa note, when he
was Dean OF the Homeopathic Institute
at Lansing, and was sentenced to eigh-
teen months in the State Prison.
John j. Carey, OF Chntonyille, Frank
lin county, o., while on his way from
Wheeling, W. Va, to Columbus, was
noticed to be unconscious. He was re-
moved from the train at Cambridge and
taken to the Empire House. Medical as.
sistance was procured at once. In spite
Of all medical aid he did yesterday after
noon.
The Michigan State Medical Society
held its annual Session yesterday. The
only important business transacted was
an amendment to the Constitution, pro-
viding for judicial Council of Nine to
settle ethical and judicial questions, and.
the election as such council OF Messrs
Foster Bratt, ofKalamazoo; E. W. .Jenks,
Of Detroit; A.. B. Sager, OF Ann Arbor;
Dwight Minis, OF jackson; j. H. Beach,
OF Coldwater; q. K. johnson, Of Grand
Rapids; VIM. Brodie, of Detroit; VIM.
Parmenter, Of Nermontville, and j. r.
Thomas, OF Bay City.