The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-01-18
WHAT THE WIRES WHISPER.


The female operatives in the mills OF
Fall River, Mass, will strike to-day.
At Fetterman the mercury is frozen up
at 40 degrees below zero, spirit thermom-
eter.
King Kalakaua went to st. Louis yes.
terday, and will remain there for day
or two.
The Deaf, Dumb and Blind Asylum at
Oakland, Cal, burned last evening. To-
tai loss.
Lewis Cox, an old and we'll known
resident oil GAINESVILLE, died at Chicago,
Friday.
The Prussian Diet was opened Satur-
day. Tue Kings speech was devoted to
local affairs.
The Commercial Block at Sparta, Wis,
was destroyed by ire Saturday morning.
LOSS, $2o,O00.
-Four men were killed near New York
on Saturday by the explosion Of nitro
giycerine factory.
The Utah Southern Railroad is com
pleted to Payson. Brigham Young is
one of the Directors.
terday was $316,00O, OF which amount
Boyer, the engineer of the yard engine
Whicn collided With the oyster train at
GAINESVILLE, died yesterday.
Dawes and Hoar are said to possess
about equal strength in the contest tor
the Massachusetts Senatorship.
Debate on the Louisiana usurpation
was shut OFT in the Senate on Saturday
night by order of the Radical caucus.
General Frank NJ. Cockerell has been
nominated as the Democratic candidate
Tor United States senator from Missouri.
The High Rock Hosiery Mill of Hardin
& Son, at fhiimont, Mass, was burned
yesterday morning; insured for $32,
0O0.
Four prisoners escaped from the Salt
Lake jail Friday night while The officials
were tripping the light fantastic over
head.
Major Walker has been expelled from
the Canadian Parliament, aud disquaii.
tied Tor holding Office tUr five years, i0i
bribery.
An order has been issued for the arrest
of A. Z. Edgerton and w: Worthlngton
prominent lawyers OF Richmond, Ind.
Tor contempt OF Court.
Michael Murphy and two children were
frozen to death Saturday morning in
their house at Niagara alls. Anothef
child will probably die.
Charles ii. Strickland, a prominent
citizen OF Richmond, Indiana, was at
tackled with heart disease Saturday
night, ana died instantly.
The Governor OF Florida recommends
the recognition OF Cuba by Congress,
and tue payment by the Governm ent o1
The Freedmems Bank depositors.
An old mill at Pawtuxet, occupied fol
manufacturing cotton goods 10y stafford
u Price, burned Saturday. Loss oI
stock and machinery about $S0,00O.
Mrs. Borden, OF Blufft0n, Ind, anothe
oil the victims OF the Fort w ayne, Mum
Gle Il Cincinnati railroad accident, dice
Friday night from the effects of the in
Ejuries received.
Tie residence Of Thomas W. Halliday
at cairo, HIS, was partly destroyed bj
fire, originating in defective tide. Losi
estimated at $1,000 10 " 800, luHy GOV
ered b. insurance.
A. rupture has occurred between th
| first and second Kings Of Siam, fathe
and son. Tie latter took refuge in thu
British Consulate at Bangkok, and dis
banded his forces.
| 1t is telegraphed from Hendaye thai
the German man.of-war Nautilusiandet
one hundred men at Fara1Z, on the
| Spanish coast, who occupied the place
alter short resistance by the Carlists.
Hans Margrum and John Clifford, tht
| two burglars who escaped from the Mem
phis jail in the recent Jail delivery, have
been reeaptured, but nothing has beeI
heard of Captain White, the leader III
the escape.
| A man by the name of Lee was shot al
| Xenia, Saturday night; the ball passed
| tnrOug his body and was extracted from
his back. He Will not recover. He claims
the shot was fired by e. Hayne. Bott
were drunk. -.
AtNewark, Ohio, Saturday, the grand
J Jury returned Indictments Tor gambling
against ames L. Upharn, j. r. Richard
tBelton Charles, HeOyer and joan Lucas
/ Nimrod Bowie. was, indicted tor murder
in the second degree.
| John Flynn, convicted of murder in
the second degree, escaped Friday night
| from the Jail in SuRbury, Penn, with an.
other convict, whom he forced to burn q
hole through his cell.door and then pick
the lock, Flynn keeping guard with re.
voiver.
1t is by no means certain that Ramsay,
| the Radical caucus nominee tor the Uni.
| ted States Senate from Minnesota, will
| be elected. The caucus was not FULL,
and it is asserted that Democrat was
smuggled into the caucus TO make up the
number necessary to, a choice. 1t is said
| that iriends OF Davis, who threatened to
bolt, are negotiating.
+ A boy about sixteen years old, of New
Brighton, by the name 0f Anthony Sni.
der, while out cunning Yesterday morn.
ing, and while III the act Of shooting at
something, slipped and fell, The gun
few outof his hands. in such q manner
that he received the, contents, Of both
barrels in his body. He lived about an
hour and a half after the accident.
Hosea O. Bararbee, an old citizen oi
Mendon, Michigan, dropped dead upon
the floor Of his bedroom Saturday morn.
ling, after getting ul. II is supposed he
took some kind Of poison the night be-
fore, with the intention OF committing
suicide, as he bade farewell 10 several
friends before going TO bed. He was an
habitual dfunkard for several years. He
leaves large family.
Bill Rodefer, the noted desperate, es-
capped from the Jetfersonyiile Peniten-
tiary by climbing two-inch iron water
pipe, perpendicular fifty feet to the wa
ter tapk Oh the top Of the building; pass