The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-02-18
WHAT THE WIRES wHiSPER.

The Anti Secret Society Convention is
still in session at MaDsield.
The Louisiana Conservative caucus
was In secret session again yesterday.
The straw goods house of Vyse II Co.,
New York, suspended yesterday. The
Indebtedness is placed at l,OUO,000.
The letter OF DR.. DeKoyen, accepting
| the Office of Bishop OF the Di, cese Of llli-
nois, was sent to DR.. Chase yesterday.
Eden township, in Seneca county,
shipped to-day over one thousand dollars
worth Of grain, TODD and clothing to
Western sufferers.
A son of FL, p. Morrison, near Cam
bridge, OHIO, was kicked by u horse,
tracluring his upper jaw and was other
wise inj ured by DeiIg trampled ny the
horse.
The grist and saw-mills owned by
McClinJock & ketter, at North Robinson,
Crawford county, o., were destroyed ny
| fire last evening. Loss $l2,O00; no H.
surance.
Joseph McMullen who escaped from
| the Western Pennsylvania Penitentiary
on Monday, was recaptured yesterday
near Piltsburg. He resisted, ana was
shot in. the arm.
The proposition under consideration
| by the Board of Education to make OBJ
| ligatory the study Of German in the pub
lie schools OF New York meets with ill.,
tiuen .ial opposition.
A petition is in circulation at Cam
bridge, Oaio, ior the pardon of Fenton
Williams, Tor the murder Of David
Frame, who was sentenced to the peli-
tentIury lor two years.
| A fire broke out in g. Aultman q Co.'s
manufacturing establishments, at Cam
ton, ONO, last nignt, but the hre COM
paiies succeeded III eXtinguishing IL be-
lore any serious damage was done. The
fire originated in the blacksmith shop.
Allen L. Caperton was elected United
| States Senator for the ensuing SIX years
from West Virginia. On the second bal
Tot the vote $1,000: Caperton, "; Moore,
1. The vote. was subsequently made
unanimous.
| The main provision Of the new Wis.,
consn Railroad Bib is that all railroads
Shall be entitled to earn u net proht Of IL
per cent. OH the value Of their property
| before theIe shall be- any interference
| with rates. Tue bill viii undoubtedly
pass.
There have been heavy rains earLake
| Charles, La, Ior the past lew days. The
! Calcasieu river Is very high and sun
rising. Several large boOms oil timber
broke away and 1000 logs have gone
adrift, The overland mail is water
| bound.
| Governor Jacob, of West Virginia, will
neither veto nor sign The Capital Re
4 moval Bill, but will allow it to become u
1 law without his signature. The Cover
| nor will 20 to Wheeling as soon AS the
Legislature adjourns, to arrange for
moving the Capital within the ninety
ldays, as required by the bill.
A Havana dispatch says: On the 16tt
inst. a Spanish column numbering 10,
i was attacked by 4OO Insurgents, com
manded by Gonzales, near Manarcas
The Spaniards retreated alter loss OF
100 killed, wounded and missing.
| At Ada, Ohio, yesterday, as Isaac
| Charles, an old and highly respected
citizen of Hancock county, was hitch
ing his horses to carriage, one of them
kicked him ON his right temple. iractur-
ing mis- skull. He has since been uncon.
scious, and will likely die. His aged
vile is also lying at,the point OF death.
i At Connersville, Indiana, from 10000
to 10000 hogs have heretofore been annu'
ally slaughtered. This season none have
been killed. The pork-house has been
sold to u manufacturing company. There
is u prevailing disposition TO make this
a manufacturing place, it being one OF
the best points in the West for that pur'
pose.
| Att 12:45 last night the large gasometel
of the Des Moines Gas.works exploded
In a few minutes the whole works were
on fire, and burned iiercely. One man IL
missing, and it is feared that he was
| .,il,h ND noyornd Inv the lnhriS. The
Fire Department worked with all posi-
}, bic energy, but the works were almost
totally destroyed.
Il At West Jefferson, o., yesterday even
ing, II horrible death, by coal oil, occur
: red. AS the wife of William Strattol
was. attending to her domestic duties, l
small cnild upset the coal-oil lamp. She
picked it up and it exploded in her hand
throwing fame OF nre over her, Whici
consumed her clothes and caused alpos
instant death. She was found shortl.
after her death by her husband.
At Warren, Ohio, yesterday morning
Mrs, Eleanor Gilbert, aged about seven
ty. was iound dead in bed. Her grand
daughter, young lady, sleeping Ill th'
\ same bed, awoke and spoke TO her; re
/ celyipr no answer. she placed her hant
! on the face and finding it cold, realizin;
the terrible truth, uttered a terrlh
! scream. swooned and was found In al
} unconscious state soon after.
: An adjourned meeting Of bondholder
i, of the Chicago, Dubuque and Minnesota
! and Chicago, Clinton and Dubuque Rail
:. roads, was held yesterday to receive ant
: act on the report OF the lnvestsgatln
! Committee. The report alleges gros
! ! mismanagement Of the roads by ofilcials
: and an alarming lack OF responsibility !
: the expenditure OF funds. Resolution
= were adopted requesting the Committe
I % persist in gathering further informi
: lion to be submitted to another meetln
/, ! of bondholders when completed.
Public interest in the James boys sci
>. satjon has been aroused again by an al
q rest made yesterday, near independence
e Missouri, vi enc Hines, supposed TO I
] concerned in the robbery Of the Wei
I, Fargo Express car, where 100000 ws
70 secured. The Deputy Marshal went
~ Mrs. Buyns', and arresting Hines, ws
is suddenly confronted by three. arme
il hOrsemen. the notorious Jesse Jam'
ID leading them. BY the aid OF a superit
10 force and leveled revolvers Hamptc
Is. Was forced to deliver up his prisone
le All disappeared, leaving Hampton u
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