The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-02-01
LCCAL BkEYIIIES.

SIXTY prisoners In the county jail.
: FALSE alarm from box last night.
Hon. ID. W. VOORHEES, is at the Burnet.
TILL tappers relieved Gus Futz OF W
Saturday night.
MR.. VIM BRAGGE, of Sheffield, En-
Tland, is at the Grand.
Mr.. FIGHTER is walking about on
Tutcbes at the Grand.
THE German printers gave ball at
Turner Hall Saturday night.
The Sheriff offered seven pieces OF
real estate on Saturday and sold one.
THE costumers of the city are overrun
with orders for the Mardi Gras season.
Mr.. JOHN MARTIN was installed as
Turnkey AT Oliyer-street Station-house
Today.
THE stone-masons have resolved to
make wages W 30 per day after first OF
March.
HENRY UcHTMAN's pockets We're
picked $6 worth on Saturday night on
Main street.
SNEAKTHIEvEs carried off box of
soap from Stacy's grocery, on Main ST.,
Saturday evening.
MEMBERS of the Gymnasium are now
requested topr0duce their tickets on en-
tering the building.
A sNEAK-THIEF carried off new over
coat from the corner OF Pearl and Pike
streets Saturday evening.
AN entertainment of special and in
teresting nature Is promised at Y. NJ. T..
A. Hall tomorrow evening.
A SMALL fire from detective flue at
80 West Sixth street last night was put
Ous before the "Eourteens" arrived. Loss
twenty-five cents.
THIEVES broke the plate-glass window
in front OF Lipman ~ Prices cigar store,
161 Race street, last night, and carried
oil $75 worth OF cigars. No arrests.
EDWARD 4. KING. a driver of coal
wagon, was thrown from his vehicle and
killed, on Saturday evening, the horses
having taken fright from an engine.
Mr.. JOHN WILSON, Uncle John Robin
inson's principal Equestrian, was pre-
senled with $3.50 gold watch and chain
at Montgomery, Alabama, on the 9th of
January.
No. 6 Donnersberger street was bur-
glariZed yesterday to the extent of SIS
and silver watch. No arrests. Henry
Beckman and Henry Koch are the
losers.
The Friends of Inquiry held their Sec
ond meeting Saturday night. Mr.. Rothe,
ON account Of illness, was not able to be
present. Addresses were made by
Messrs. Pitman, Haller, Mooney, Ruther-
berry, Mrs. Longley, and others.
MRS. PHILEGA, who resides at So Peete
street, was seriously injured on Saturday
by being struck by boys sled. The boy
was "coasting" on Mainstreet, near Mul-
berry, and Mrs. Philega in attempting to
get out OF the way slipped and tell, and
the sled struck her head.
The proprietor of Schmit's bakery in
the Twenty-ttth-ward, yesterday MORN
Ing, on entering the bakery found col
ored thief named NJ On cal helping himself
to the property inside. He Immediately
bounced upon him, but was worsted in
the scutfle, and the thief escaped.
THE Coroner's verdict regarding the
death of Louisa Hemminghaus, which
was mentioned on Saturday was, that
she came to her death ''irom spasms, the
result OF an attempt to produce abortion;
but whether by herself or'other persons,
we, from the testimony, are unable to de-
termine."
f. d. s. WHETsToNE, of the firm of
MILESTONE Bros, died.a his residence,
Mt. Auburn, last evening. at 10 O'Clock
p. NJ, from heart disease, caused partly
rious illness of his little son Frankie,
who has been lying at deaths door for
many days.
LEONARD E. JOHNSON, a Third-street
lawyer, is in demand just now among q
large number OF persons who had en-
splOyed him as collector. He has not
been seen for some time, and, 1t is stated,
has failed to account for some thousands
OF money collected. He shipped his
trunks to Canada some time since and
1t supposed followed them afterward.
A PROPOSITION is ON foot among those
Interested in the Pike estate to make
some important changes both in the man.
agement and in the arrangement of the
Burnet House. The plan proposed will
thoroughly renoyate and rent the inside,
make q grand entrance on Vine street,
put in elevators, heighten the rooms in
the upper story and paint the outside a
handsome light brown. Mr.. A. q. JOS
ivn will retire. Mr.. VIM. Dunklee will
retain two-ffths and Mr.. Samuel Spears
will take two-flths. Who will take the
remaining one-ffth has not been fully
decided.
AT the meeting of the Wine Growers
Association, last Saturday, ID. X. Este,
ii. ii. Brenneman, Thos. &. Quinn, and
W. III. Ludlow were elected members.
elected President; r. NJ. Bartlett, First
Vice President; Dr.. Alfred Buckingham,
Second Vice President; Theo. Bumiller,
Third Vice President, and Colonel James
White, Fourth Vice President. Nat. G..
Mclean was elected Treasurer; VIM.
Muliord, Recording Secretary, and A. A.
Robertson, Corresponding Secretary. A
number of wines were tested, whereupon
the Society adjourned.
Mr.. Il. q. BALL, a well-known and re-
spected colored citizen and photo
grapher of considerable note, died at the
residence OF his brother-in-law, Mr.. A. S.
Thomas, on Saturday afternoon. He was
highly respected and active member OF
society, and prominent and useful
worker in the cause otintelligence OF among
his people. He was for more than ten
years an active member of the Board Of
Trustees governing the Colored Orphan
ASYLUM; also OF the Lincoln Memorial
Club, the members Of which last society
act as pall-bearers at his funeral.
Amusensenfs.
WOODS THEATER.--Miss Lotta WIN
remain with us another week, and this
evening she makes her first appearance
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