The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-02-20

JUDGE SWING has left the city for q
! few days.
TwFNTy.EIGHT cases at the Smallpox
Hospital.
ONEnUNDRED deaths in the city DUR
ing the week past.
WORK on the approaches to the Timan-
us bridge will be commenced when
spring opens.
SECURITY LODGE, Ancient Order Of
| United w Workingmen, has become an in-
corporated body.
THE Independent Daughters OF Israel
| have become an Incorporated body for
their mutual benefit and advantage.
JAMES A. MORRIS has sued John c..
| Bruckman for $4,000 damages for false
arrest and imprisonment on the charge
Of petit larceny.
EMPIRE LODGE No. Is, A. o. U. W.,
give a grand ball ut Geyer's Assembly
Rooms on the night OF March 80.
SLoKUM and Hughes, the men charged
with the robbery of Mr.. Chas. Pepper on
the Montgomery pipe. are on trial in the
Criminal Court to-day.
REV. H. I'll. BUGBEE, d. D., President OF
the Wesleyan College, of this city, was,
on Monday, the 10th inst, unanimously
elected President of Alleg ghany College,
Meadyille, Pennsylvania.
THE Board of Health last night fumi.
gated Pickett's, the Blazing Stump and
"Yallohammers," on the Landing, by
burning quantities Of sulphur in each
place to deodorize those places.
SOME specimens of ancient manu-.
scripts on vellum are attracting attcn.
tion in the window Of stevens bookstore
on Fourth street. The work is supposed
to have been done before a. ID. 1000.
TIE Ewing Literary Circle elected the
following officers for the ensuing year
President, Will ii. Goldenburg; Vice
President, ALI Fl. Bryant, secretary; b.
+. Clark, and Treasurer, VIM. Paw.
AT the meeting of the Board Of Trade
Directors to-day, MI. Herman Cooper
was on motion of Mir. John j. Hender
commissioner in place of Mr.. Clements
Olhaber.
a w ATER MAIN bul sted this morning
| OH WainuJ street, betW cen Seventh anC
Eighth, while the plumbers were ell
: gagged in tapping it, thereby necessitat
ing each Of the passing cars to be draw
over by hand power.
THE Mayor has received Il letter from
German inmate of the Iniirmary, nam
ed August Schimler, aged 20 years, WHIT
complains OF the rude treatment received
/, at the hands oil one OF The Wara-keepers
!, The matter was referred to the Directors
ADAM DIG, who was employed abou
, the Courthouse for twelve years previ
| GUS to his dismissal by Hutfanu Baum
| gardner, a few days ago, died at 81,
O'Clock this morning of pulmonary con
sumption. lie. was sixty.iiye years o
. age.
In the Police Court this morning Jo
seph Dennison and George Vessel were
each sentenced TO the Work-house fo
thirty days and fined $25 for stealing
!, comfort and four wash tubs, valued a
about $3 so, from Adam B. Wilson, q gro
Ger on Sixth street.
, ii. W. EVEREST, Professor in Bible
: College, "Kentucky University" vii
. preach at Central Christian church
t Ninth street, Sunday morning and even
J ing during the week. Prof. Everest il
, one of the most eminent preachers of th'
Christian Church, man Of great ability
and a finished speaker. His meetings
therefore will be iull of interest to all.
AT Miamitown, in this county, littlt
son of Joseph Geringer. aged about
years, was terribly burned by its clothes
catching fire, on Thursday last. 1t dice
the same evening. An eye witness says
= that it's little body was literally burnet
} to a crisp.
The mother was also severely burned
in her eiferts to save the life of her little
one, and would have been fatally injured
7 had she not received assistance.
Mr.. Geringer is one Of the Trustees o
Whitewater township, and was absen
ir m home OH official business at the tim,
of The terrible calamity.