The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-04-08
WHAT THE WIRES WHISPER.

Silver bars to the value Of $22,00 were
shipped from New York yesterday.
Grading was resumed yesterday ON the
Atlantic and Lake Erie railroad, near
Rushville.
Mrs. g. W. Glaspill, an old and es-
teemed citizen of Lavender, died yester-
day morning.
Charles Fayrrel. of Crestline, commit
ted suicide at the Weber House this
morning by taking opium.
Hubbard Colby, of Mansfield, is under
arrest for embezzling funds of the Gas
Company, of which he was Treasurer.
Considerable damage was done to rail-
roads and telegraphs in the vicinity of
Omaha by severe storm Tuesday night.
John Kirk, a brakeman ON the Short
line road, had his left hand crushed
while coupling cars at Middleton yesLer-
day.
Mrs. John Mccarthy, an aged resident
of fCrestline, fell dead at her residence,
this evening, from the effects of heart
disease.
The United States steamer Dispatch
has arrived at Pensacola. The Senate
rial excursion party will leave for the
North overland.
1t is rumored here this evening that j.
@. Harper, of this city, has received the
appointment to the State Reform School
Of Acting Commissioner.
frankie Snyder, son of Policeman Sny-
der, OF Mansfield, died yesterday after
intense suffering, caused from the effects
OF bean lodging in his windpipe.
At Brownsville, Tennessee, last even
ing, Robert Medlin, County Court Clerk,
was snot and killed in his office by two
brothers named Henry and Eli Bond.
A Conference of the Y. M. c. Asso-
Citations at which Indiana, Ohio, Illinois,
Michigan and Kentucky are represented,
is in SESSION at Fort Wayne, Indiana.
A man named Foy, charged with mur-
der in Monroe county, Ind, three years
ago, was arrested az Atkin Station, A II
kansas, on the Fort Smith Railroad, yes
tefday.
The Atlantic and Lake Erie Coal Com
pauy met at Bucyrus, o., and elected
Hon. q. Foster, President, and w. @.
Lement Secretary and Treasurer, for the
ensuing year.
A man named j. u. Kilburn, while
taking u gun cut OF wagon at Wana-
tab, Ind, last evening, accidentally shot
himself through the abdomen, it is
thought fatally.
A dispatch from Corinth, Miss, states
that Judge James II. Stewart, promi-
nent lawyer and eX-Mayor of that city,
and formerly United States Marshal Tor
that District, committed suicide last
evening.
The residence of William Frost, Mid
dletown, Ohio, was partially consumed
by fire at O'Clock yesterday. Most OF
the furniture was saved. Loss on house
and furniture about 500; covered by in
Surance.
The Superintendent of Earlham Col
lege, Richmond, Ind, was fined $40 in The
Mayors Court, yesterday, for horse.
whipping young lad upon the street,
whom he suspected of throwing circus
bill into his wagon.
Mrs. Benjamin Stroll, of Crestline, last
night Shot and probably fatally Wound-
ed d woman with whom she suspected
her husband with being intimate. She
was arrested and held to await the re-
suit OF the injuries.
The suit of z. G. Holt, Receiver of the
Washington Woolen Mills, on Maumee
river, for $1,000 on an insurance policy
issued by the Flremen's Insurance Com
pany of Dayton, was begun yesterday in
the Toledo District Court.
A special committee of the Lucas
County Agricultural Society meets in
Toleao To-Day, TO consider the purchase
of grounds near the city for holding a
district lair. The County Commission
ers and other officials will attend.
Rev. l.. f. Drake, Minister of the M.
E. Church, of the Ohio Conference, who
died very suddenly of appopleXy last
Sunday, at Bluomingburg, was buried at
Logan, o., yesterday, by the Masonic
order. Quite number of Masons from
the New Straitsyllle Lodge were pres
ent.
A fire broke out, accidentally, in one
of the mines at Stockton, Pa, yesterday
afternoon, and the miners, at meeting
especially called to consider the ques-
tion, absolutely refused to assist in put
ting it out, although such action on their
part Is in direct opposition TO their inter-
eSJS.
A very disastrous explosion Of giant
gunpowder occurred at San Francisco
last evening. A NUMBER of frame build
ings occupied as saloons and dwellings
we're blown to fragments. The wall of
the warehouses was crushed, and the
whole in a few moments was mass Of
IhGh, WOhC uuo wei q
crushed i'll. the falling ruins, OF perished
in the flames.
H. Roth, a young man residing in
Toledo, went to the Dwight House, in
that city, and took room. In the morn
ing he was discovered in a state OF un-
consciousness, and, though a physician
was summoned, he died at noon. The
indications showed that Roth had taken
morphine for the purpose OF self-destruc-
ton. A letter assigned as cause recent
trouble with relatives living there. His
parents reside in Germany.
The body of man named Sullivan,
who disappeared 80 mysterjously from
the laster mills at Grand Rapids, Mich
igan, December 8, and supposed to have
been robbed and murdered, was found
yesterday in Grand river, near Grand
Haven. Tine supposition is that he iell
into the river and drowned and was car.
red away by the current, and that the
body has lain all winter in the river.
The checks and money OF which he was
supposed to have been robbed were ali
found upon his person.
General Spinner, in the course.of re-
cent interview, said in answer to ques-
tion as to whether there has not been
stealing in the Treasury: eyes. Re-
Gently there has been money stolen in
tue National Bank Redemption Agency.
When Graves VINO is In charge) found
out he had thief with him, he carefully