The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-10-25
NetUs from Chicago and the NOrthtcest.

CHICAGO, Oct. 25.-Late last evening
the Goodhue Touring mill at Belair,
Wis.,, was burned. Loss on building and
machinery $4,000; on grain and other
contents $4,000; no insurance.
Francis Hossenstaf, Treasurer Of Car
yer county, Minnesota, for seven years,
disappeared from his home at Choska on
the 16th. He was last seen in St. Paul
the next day, when about to take the
train for Choska. Fears were enter
tanned as-to his fate until an eXamina-
tion discSeed deficit in the county
funds OF about $4,000.
j. r. Stevenson has been arrested at
Springfield, H., as the supposed as
sassin OF +. X. Taylor, of Barclay. 1t
is proven that he purchased a quantity
of chloroform in this city on the Monday
before the attempt, and of this he gives
no satisfactory account.
n fire at ten O'Clock last night in the
printing office of Blakely & Brown, Fifth
avenue, destroyed much material and
printed matter, and damaged the ma
chinery to considerable extent. The
Advance, Mercantile Daily, and Monthly
Crusader, published in the building,
met with slight loss. The edition OF the
latter, ready for issue, was burned, and
a large number of electrotype plates
and type destroyed. The Chicago Le-
gal News, published ON the first floor,
suffered slight damage. The total loss
is variously estimated at from fifteen to
twenty-five thousand dollars, nearly all
of which is covered by insurance. The
fire was occasiOned by careless and
drunken printers who were working at
night.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany, having exhausted every other
measure to prevent the wires of the At
|lantic and Pacific Company from reach
ling St. Louis, have consplred with the
st. Louis Bridge Company to keep the
A. & p. from stringjng it's wires across
the bridge under guise OF law. The
wires already put up have been cut
down across the bridge, and every eff
fort made to cripple the line. The very
idea Of competition seems to give the
Western Union the horrors.
James McDermott, associate editor Of
the Chicago Morning Courier, formerly
pof Brooklyn, and the defendant In one Of
the Henry e.. Bowen libel suits which
arose out OF the Tilton-Reecher affair,
lies very seriously Ill at his residence in
this city.
DAVENPORT, Ia, Oct. 25.-Intelligence
has been received in this city OF shock.
ing murder that occurred ON Thursday
night near Upton, Cedar county, about
sixteen miles from Davenport. The
home OF farmer named Little was en-
tered by two men, who robbed the house
of 81, 100, theresults OF the sale of his
farm the day before, and murdered Lit
tie by cutting his threat from ear to ear.
His wife's life was threatened, but she
was not harmed.
MILWAUKEE,, WIS, Oct. 25-J. N. Nor
ton, a well.known druggist has failed.
Liabilities. $4,000; assets 100000. The
circumstances are said TO be somewhat
suspicious.
LINCOLN, NEB,, Oct. 25.-Returns are
still not all in from the different parts OF
the State, but enough has been received
to.indicate that the new Constitution is
carried by $4,000. The capital loca-
tion, at Lincoln, carried by almost TO-
600 and the coupon. giving people at
large an opportunity to express their
preference for U. 5. Senator, was carried
by $4,000.