The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-05-04
WHAT THE WIRES WHISPER.

4 WHAT 1AA W1hAo WAlSFEh.
i Three stores in Bayou Sara, La, were
burned Sunday night.
Rushville, Ind, yesterday elected a
straight temperance ticket.
| Vice President Wilson is in Louisville
and will remain several days.
j. s. Coulter, Leayenworth, Kansas,
printer, committed suicide yesterday.
Stillman Witt, of Cleveland, largely
interestedin in Western railroads, died re-
Gently al sea.
In st. Paul a juryman in the late Kel-
ly murder case was fined $40 for passing
whisky into the jury-rO0m.
| The lace store of Madame Robert, De-
troit, was robbed last night, of a large
amount of valuable lace, by burglars.
| Subscriptions to conside cradle amount
have been raised in Dublin to defray the
expenses Of the American Rifle Team.
A general system of improvement and
enlargement OF the Canadian canals has
been resolved upon by the Government.
The twenty-sixth annual meeting of
the American Medical Association is in
session in Louisville, and will continue
till Friday.
Mrs. Ortlip, German woman of Car
YER village, Minn., aged about seventy
years, jumped into well this morning
and Was drowned.
I Two ships have been aground at the
mouth of the Mississippi for q week. One
vessel is outside and nearly u dozen in
side. unable to pass.
Mrs. Silas Andrews, who lives four
miles north of Mt. Carmel, ILL.,, gave
birth to four children Sunday night,
three of whom have since died.
John Crawford, a prominent citizen of
Oakland, was strangled to death at the
Astor House, Pontiac, Michigan, by a
piece Of beef, while eating his dinner.
at a meeting of the Odd-fellows' Ben
eficial Association of the Muskingum
Valley, W.R. Hazett was elected Pres
ident, W. S. Harlan, Treasurer, and Geo.
w. Griffee, Secretary.
At Dunkirk, Indiana, yesterday, a
boiler burst in a saw-mill owned by
Bishop Garland, and two men were seri-
ously hurt, one slightly, none killed.
Mill and fixtures are a total wreck. Loss
$4,000.
The Prairie City, one of the best
isteamers ON the Wabash, was burned
last night at the wharf at Terre Haute,
with part OF a cargo of grain. Total loss
$4,000. Captain William Barrick is the
owner.
At Canton, Ohio, yesterday, Peter
Stortz, an employe in Diebold, Norris e.
Co.'s safe works, was struck on the heau
with a piece of machinery, and sustained
injuries which render his recovery very
doubtful.
At Gaines, Michigan, child Of Chas.
Blaine, two years old, while playing near
large kettle filled with boiling maple
Lex, Inn ifu h,t nd nj i,,fn hn
kettle, scalding it i'll a horrible manner,
and causing death.
j At Grand Rapids, Michigan, Martin
Harrigan was>seriously stabbed, on Sat.
urday night, at Gustaye q. Christ's sa.
loon,. by the proprietor. The quarrel
arose about glass OF beer. Christ was
ARRESTED and released on bail of $4,000.
VIM. Taylor, while under the influence
lof liquor, in a saloon at Van Vert, Ohio,
ON Saturday night, had three hundred
dollars and morse stolen from him.
The horse was found yesterday four
miles east Of town. No clew of the thief
|yet.
The Alabama & Chattanooga Railroad
was sold by Master Commissioners to
the Trustees of the first mortgage bond
holders for 81 zoo, 900 over and above the
lien created by the Receivers certificate,
COurC coSIS, eLc.
John r. Tracy, leading Wall street
operator, President OF the Chicago, Rock
Island and Pacific Railroad Company,
and identified as Director with many
other Western roads, notably the Chica-
60 and Northwestern, is dying in New
York, Of paralysis.
The steamer Alhambra, from Boston,
went ashore at Cape Sable, Sunday
afternoon, during thick tog. The pas
sengers and mails were landed safely on
the island, where the passengers re-
manned yesterday. The vessel is prob
ably total loss.
| The programme for the entertainment
of the Catholic prelates who participated
in the conservation ceremonies was fully
and most pleasantly carried out in Bos-
ton yesterday, as prearranged, closing
with reception by the Catholic Union
at the Boston College last evening. The
| Papal Embassay leave at ONCE tor NJ il
waukee, to attend the conservation GER
emonies to be held in that city.
The man Underwood, who stabbed his
| sweetheart, Charlotte Pridgeon, last
year, and was then acquitted ON the
ground of temporary insanity, but COM
mitted to the Michigan State Prison
Asylum under the law providing for
confinement as lunatics. of homicides,
acquitted on such grounds, was yesteS-
day discharged at Jackson, the Supreme
Court having pronounced that law I'M
constitutional. He' started directly for
the Atlantic Coast, and will sail tor
Europe without delay.