The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-02-26
wHAr THE WynEs WHISPER.


March 9th.
Hiram r.. Bridge, prominent ST..
Louisian, died yesterday.
Specie in the Bank of France increased
10,O49, 900 francs the past week.
Philip Shatfer will swing at Salt Lake
June rs, tor the murder Of Van Valken-
burg.
The Standing Committee of the Dio-
cese of Illinois yesterday voted against
DR.. De Koven.
A Harrisburg dispatch states that the
bill repeating the Local Option law pass
ed the House Wednesday night.
John Smith and Charles Williams 60
to the penitentiary for seven years, Tor
stealing q note from dead man.
The steamship W. A. Shottel, from
Rotterdam tor New YorK, has returned
to Plymouth with her propeller disabled.
Hon. VIM. s. Hall, Judge of the Court
OF Common Pleas, in 81. Paul, Mimi,
died yesterday on q railroad train, near
Baltimore.
Bullion in the Bank of England has in
creased f202000 the past week. The
proportion OF Bank reserve to liability is
43H per cent.
BY the accidental discharge Of q pistol,
Joseph Mossman, of WesteryilIe, Ohio, a
boy sixteen years old, was killed Thurs
day morning.
Anxiety is felt at Cleveland about the
breaking up Of ice i'll the mouth of the
river, which is piled twenty ieet high.
| Unsuccessful Efforts have been made to
remove 1T by blasting.
The funeral of Madison Sweetzer, at
Lima, Ohio, took place yesterday alter
noon, and was largely attended. The
service was conducted by Rev. Tate, of
Trinity Church.
| Edward Bush,. oolOred youth OF
Zanesville, was convicted by the jury,
alter being out eight hours, OF seouction
under promise of marriage. His pros.
poets Tor the Ohio Penitentiary seem to
De tiaUtering.
Heller, who shot the man Sharp, Oh
| Tuesday, at Akron, was tried before the
Mayor, and being unable to give the re
4 quired bail was placed in Jail to wait the
action of the grand jury, which sits in g
lew days. Sharp was just alive at last
accounts.
A prize-fight took place at daylight
yesterday morning between Tom Gala
CHER. OF brooklyn, and Jim Donovan, O
New York. Iley fought near Port n OF
ris, about ten miles from the city, $20l
side. Donovan won the fight. Eleyer
rounds were ought in tifty-tOur minutes
| At. Wooster, Ohio, on Wednesday
night, about s O'clock, Edwin Bowers
twenty-five years old, dropped dead OF
the street. Heart disease is supposed
10 be the cause of his death. He was 6
|young man of steady habits, and was
mighty esteemed by those who knew him
| At gainesville, o., last night, cider
mill owned by Garfield & Warner, 10
Gated at the foot Of Main street, was de
stroyed by fire. 1t was stored with eide
brandy. A neighboring brewery ownet
by them was also much. damaged. Esti
mated loss, $4,000; insured foT abou
hall the loss.
l. At Grand Rapids, yesterday, lat
named Paul Wendell, 10 years OF age
attempted to jump OFF passenger traiI
going north ON the Grand Rapids and In
diana Railroad, slipped and tell under
the train. mangling his body terribly
and caused instant death. His parentl
reside i'll that city.
II A switch-tender named William Bas
set, formerly of Lima, Ohio, while
switching in the Pittsburg yard last
evening, caught his foot in frog anC
before lie could eXtricate it the traiI
passed over his legs, cutting one leg OF
and crushing his other foot badly. LII
is a married man, with three children.
A gang of Chicago Communists yester
lday made riotOus demonstrations ant
threatened an open outbreak. They
made demand on the Relief and Ai(
Society for assistance, declaring that il
case such aid was not afforded they
would use other means OF obtaining it
They were finally prevailed upon to dis
perse without bloodshed, but in very
ugly humor.
A dispatch from Florence, Arizona
states that the man recently arrested as
Bender, the Kansas murderer, escaped
the guards on the 17th, and wandered il
the mountains tour days. He was driv
: en- by starvation to come in, and was
captured near there. He gives his name
as Henry Derschmlller. He is very reti
cent, and answers exactly the descrip
ton of Bender.
The grand jury at Middleport, Ohio
Wednesday, examined witnesses lin re
gard to the incendiary fires which hav,
occurred there during the last year. Th'
testimony elected the astonishing fac
that four boys, aged from eighteen tt
| ttWenty-one, and Of most respectable pa
rentage, are guilty of the crime. They
were members of the fire company
Thursday morning the guilty parties
were non est.
The deputy freight agents of the three
trunk lines running west from New 1Orl
have been notified of the reduction O.
rates made on sugar and coffee only, as
follows: Chicago, 80 cents per one nun
dred pounds; Dayton, 26 cents; Indian
apolis, % cents; st. Louis, 43 cents; Co
lumbus. accents; Cincinnati, % cents
Louisville, 80 cents; Quincy, 43 cents
all other points on the basis OF 35 cents
to Chicago. This order is for car loads
of $4,000 pounds and upward for one con
.signee, same date, and will be SO way
billed.