The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-02-05
WHAT THE WIRES WHISPER.

March 10Th.
The Ohio Reform School Investigation
will commence ON Monday.
Andy johnson will be rendered the
freedom OF Memphis tomorrow.
The Territory of Pembina will be made
out OF the northern half OF Dakota.
The English and Americans in Rome
gave banquet TO Garibaldi last night.
The specie in the Bank of France in
creased 81, 500, 900 francs the past week.
Charles Clement shot and dangerously
wounded j. Filkins in Cleveland yester-
day.
Specie shipments to Europe Yesterday,
$739,0OQ, of which $4,000 was in gold
coin.
Work along the whole line of the
Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad is sus-
pended.
The weather in Utah is pleasant, and
large quantities OF ore are coming In from
the can0ns.
Snow on the lines of the Grand Rapids
Railroad is i've feet deep, and all trains
detained.
Ex-Governor and Senator VIM, A.
Buckingham died at his home, Norwich,
Conn.,, yesterday.
Dr.De Koven for sixteen years War
den OF kacine College, was yesterday
elected Bishop of Illinois.
The Controller of the Currency has ap-
pointed Alexander IL. Builey receiver OF
the Cook County National Bank Of Chi
cago.
The National Convention of Changers
is in session ut Charleston, S. q. Moth
ing Of Importance has yet been made
public.
A saw and shingle mill belonging to
Shoemaker & Handy, at Newaygo. Mich
igan; was destroyed by fire this morning.
Loss $1,000; insurance $1,000.
The intercollegiate Association of
OHIO holds an oratorical contest at the
Akrsn Academy of Music tonight.
Nine colleges are represented.
The pork men are grumbling because
Cincinnati is shipping bulk meats to Bal
timore at twenty cents, while Indianap-
oils is requii ed TO pay twenty-six.
Visitors to the approaching Carnival
at Memphis are. already arriving, and
the applications for rooms indicate tnat
an immense crowd Will be present.
The stsre of l.. w. Mauck & Co., at
Cheshire, Ohio, was entered last night,
and the safe broken open and robbed Of
$1,000 in currency and TWO revolyers.
Joseph Hayes, one of the first settlers
of Dearborn county, Indiana, died at his
residence, near Lawrenceburg, Wednes-
day morning, aged lightweight years.
The Nevada Legislature talks of ap-
propriating $20,0OO Tor collecting miner
ais and erecting mill to illustrate the
value OF Nevada ores at the Centennial.
The firm OF Fair & Strome, Bloomfield,
Ohio, was burned out last night. Loss,
$4,000; insul ed for $7,000-$3, 800 in the
North American, and $1,000 in the Phoe-
nix.
Last night, the saw-mill owned by d.
Schisier, at Lawrence, o., tooh fire and
was burned to the ground. The loss is
estimated at ", 900; no insurance. Ori-
gin OF the tire unknown.
Extensive preparations are being
made for the celebration of Mardi Gras
in Madison, Indiana. The Indiana GEN
eral Assembly have been invited TO wit
ness and participate i'll the festivities.
The brig Hattie jackson, OF San Fran
cisco, On trading cruise among the
South Pacific Islands, went ashore and
became a total loss on the Island Santo
Prior, November 18th. The crew were
saved.
Judge Hopkins has appointed James
a.. Roosevelt and Wm. X. Fosdick Re-
ceivers Of the Columbus, Chicago anu In
diana Central railway company. togeth-
er with all the appurtenances belonging
to the same.
An attempt was made Tuesday flight
to throw train from the track of the Los
Angeles and San Fernando railroad. A
log was placed on the track and the
switch wedged open with rocks. Owing
to the slow motion of the train the at
tempt failed.
The Supreme Court has refused new
trial in the case of James McCulloch,
of the murder of VIM. G. Nor
gan, in Benton county, and sentenced
to Imprisonment for life. The murder
was committed in 1866, but McCulloch
was not brought to trial until eight years
later.
The case of Taylor againstthe Atlantic
and Great Western Railway was before
Judge Mcclure ofthe Akron Common
Pleas Court to-day. A motion was filed to
vacate the injunction which the Atlantic
the Cleveland and Mahoning Valley
road, and also one amending The order
a receiver.
1u6 OlCtSldHu
closed last night with game between
Carter and HOning. which was won by |
The former. Score 200 to 173. This gives
The first prize and the State champion
ship to Eugene Carter, OF Toledo. The |
second prize to Thomas Gallagher, of
the third prize to Tony Hon.
ng, of Cleveland; the fourth prize to
John Thatcher, of Cleveland.
Mrs. Dr.. j. D. Cowle, Of Fort Wayne,
has been. missing from her home since
Wednesday morning. She went, as. she
stated, to visit neighbor, and that is the
asst seen of her. Her husband is nearly
and can not account for her
strange absence. Fears are felt that she
las committed suicide under tempo
.ary alteration OF mind, although the
loctor and wife haye always lived hap
lily. Search is being made everywhere
Il the city.
California Silk Husbandry.
The attempt to make silk husbandry a