The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-06-01
WHAT THE WIRES WHISPER.

WHAT THE WIRES HdlSPkA
Hail-storss two and three inches in
diameter { !, fell at Omaha yesterday.
Mrs. Samuel Coil, of Louisville, died
suddenly yesterday from heart disease.
Luther 9. Hewlett has been appointed
Appraiser Of Merchandise at Louis
vile.
The rem aims of eighteen victims Of the
Holyoke holocaust have arrived at Mon
treal.
Jas. Schriber, prominent tobacco
manufacturer OF Cleveland, died Sunday
afternoon.
A satisfactory test Of the Toledo water
works took place yesterday afternoon,
witnessed by large crowd.
The store Of Chase g. Vanakin, Mount
Vernon, was broken into, and 5000 worth
OF gold pens taken. No clue to the
| thieves.
Mrs. Daniel Smoke fell from an express
wagon at Lancaster yesterday, and dis.
located her c0llar.bone and broke two of
her ribs.
Aggie Merrill, Of Cambridge, Ohio,
charged with destroying her child by
throwing 1t into a cistern, was arIested
last night.
| VIM. Pollock, Of North Vernon, Ind,
was accidentally shot, with derringeI
pistol, by his brother, and now lies in q
critical condition.
Detroit Commandery, Knights Tenn.
plar, one hundred strong, left yesterday
for New York on special train, accom-.
panied BY many friends.
A little son Of Edward Bell, of Cam
bridge, O., had one Of his feet badly
crushed by being run over by truck
car on the M, P. and G. Railroad.
Attorney-General Pierrepont has is
sued a circular, saying he finds the ap
preparation Tor the Office Is nearly ex
lhausted, and commanding general econ
0my and retrenchment.
George Bronson, who was recently ar
rested and held to bail for alleged per
Jury, at st. Louis, but who escaped from
that city, was yesterday rearrested II
Chicago, and will be remanded to St
Louis. -.
Edward Edwards, colored man o
Tecumseh, Mich, in street fight a
Adrian, cut man named Chas. Chap
man, with razor, infiicting eight fearfu
wounds. The latter will not live, ant
the former is under arrest.
The funeral of the late Sol. D. Bayless
of Fort Wayne, Ind, takes place mex
Sunday, and will prob0bly be one of tn,
grandest demonstrations ever witnessed
in the State. Masons from all parts o
the West will be In attendance.
Two miles east OF Lansing, ILL.,, Satur
day evening, tle only daughter OF Mr.
Goodspar, eight years old, in attempting
TO cross a ditch ON log, fell off and va.
drowned. Although diligent search hal
been made the body is not yet recovered
A young lady named Mary Anderson
aged twenty-five, while fishing at Morris
town, Ind, Saturday, was accidentl,
drowned by Shipping off log on whicl
sne WAS standlng. Inc funeral, Sunday
was the largest ever known in Shelb
county.
The appropriation made by the las
Congress, for pay, &C., of the army fo
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1875, ii
$780, 900 short of the sum estimated fol
the War Department., and present indi
cations are that appropriations will
prove deficient.
A little daughter Of James Greer, s
I farmer living TWO miles west of Oxford
o., was terribly burned by the explosion
Of can of coal Oil while kindling fire
with coal oil yesterday morning. The
girl was terribly burned about the body
ans. limbs. Her recovery is doubtful.
| Fletcher Ellis, boy l6 years Of age, 6
student from Oberlin, was drowned, al
noon Monday, while swimming In the
rlverat. Elyria, Onio. He undertook tc
SWIM from the shore to All island In the
middle OF the stream, but being a pool
kswmmer, he went down about fifteen
feet from the island. His parents live In
Graytown, Ohio.
Three brothers, named Thomas, Elisha
and Hood Cravens, living near Liberty,
Missouri, had quarrel over division
OF land, when Thomas struck Elisha
with hoe, upon which Elisha drew a
revolver and shot both OF them. Thomas
received ball through the heart, killing
him instantly; Hood d shot in the breast,
but was only slightly wounded. Elisha
is under arrest. Alhhave large families
and are i'll moderate circumstances.
| From one of the narrowest and darkest