The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-05-01
WHAT THE WIRES WHISPER.

Navigation in the Red River of the
North is now openl
Richmond, Ind, is to have two new
German weekly papers.
The leighton Iron Works, at East
Rochester, were blown down Thursday.
Loss, $4,000.
sioner, and President of the Long Island
Railroad, died yesterday.
Alliance, o., wants more manufacture
ing establishments, In order to furnish
employment for it's idle men.
The onetthousand guineas stakes at
Newmarket yesterday were won easily
by Spinaway-Per Be, tayorite, second;
Chaplet, third.
At Bucyrus, Ohio, yesterday was OBJ
served by the temperance people as a
day OF fasting and payer for the cause of
temperance,
Vice-President Wilson is now in Ken
lucky. He spent yesterday in Louisville,
and goes to day TO visit Hon. John G.
breckenridge at Lexington.
The Cor0ner's jury brought in ver-
dict yesterday afternoon in the Davidson
case, at Leetonia: "Cause of death, in
juries inflicted by Samuel Mead."
A meeting of citizens of Bucyrus is
called for Tuesday evening, to make ar
rangements to dispose OF bonds to finish
the Atlantic and Lake Erie railroad
At Valparaiso, Ind, yesterday, a con-
tract was let for the erection OF a second
boarding hall for the accommodation Of
students attending the Normal School.
Judges Brooks and Dick in their charges
to the Grand Juries in North Carolina,
declared the criminal features Of the
Civil Rights Act unconstitutional, as no
law could say men are socially equal.
At Leetonis, Ohio, yesterday, William
Calroil ian old man, ielI from trestle in
the stock-house OF the Cherry Valley
Iron Company, and suffered severe in
juries. He is yet unconscious, and will
probably die.
The jury in the case Of Isaac Brandt,
former State Treasurer of Iowa, VINO has
been on trial for embezzlement of the
State funds, have brought in a verdict OF
guilty in the second count, which fixes
the amount embezzled at $1,000. There
are seven more indictments against
Brandt.
At Portsmouth, Ohio, yesterday, in
Isaminger, charged with obtaining
money under false pretenses from b. q.
Gibbons, resulted in the full acquittal OF
lsamlnger. Public sentiment was large
~ with the accused.
Henry Overstolz, who ran as the Inde-
pendent candidate Ior Mayor OF st. Louis
IN the late election, has accepted the call
issued by prominent citlzens, and has
announced himself as an independent
candidate to I'LL the vacancy caused by
the death OF Mayor Barret. The election
will be held some time in May.
M. B. Johns, County Commissioner of
Mcleod county, Mimi, was attacked
yesterday by Chris. Lampka while en-
gagged in surveying. Lanpka attacked
Jonns with q pitchf0fk, running one OF
the tines the whole length of his arm.
Johns, in self-defense, killed his assail-
ant by crushing his skull with stone.
The gale yesterday was very severe.
At st. Joseph, Mich, three fishing boats
with eleven men on board, are supposed
to have been lost. The schooner Clara
Bell, of Sandusky, was wrecked off
bennington, Ontario. Capt. VIM. Rob-
lnson, OF kelly's Island, was drowned,
places.
Robt. Frazier, policeman in Nash
vile, was shot yesterday afternoon by a
arrested and lodged in jail. A mob took
him out and made an attempt to hang
him at the bridge, but the rope broke,
allowing him to fall TO the rocks below. a
distance Of 80 feet. The body has not
been recovered.
The owners of the cargo of poisoned
salt which recently arrived in New York
hope to save at least 10 per cent. of the
cargo. They claim that very little, if
any, Of the poisonous stuff has actually
entered INTO consumption. The presence
in the city OF the poisono GUS salt was made
known through warm discussion in the
Custom-house between officials and in
terested importers.
Captain Campbolps Company of Cav
airy struck an Indian trail yesterday
between Forts Dodge and Hayes, lead
ing Northwest. Couriers were sent to
the detachment of troops on the Walnut
and Pawnee creeks to push out in vari-
GUS directions to intercept the Indians.
They are supposed to be Cheyennes, and
number perhaps two or three hundred.
In Estill county, KY, last Wednes-
day, the wife of Albert Long went to a
neighbor's to borrow meal for breakfast.
While she was gone her house took fire
and burned to the ground, consuming
tWo Attio poyst oHc Afe anu tHe Other
three years old. From the tact that
some clothing had been carried out the
nelghbors believe that the older child
had gone out of the house and returned
for his little brother, when both were
burned.
9. L. Dubois, just arrived at st. Louis
from Fort Sill, Indian Territory, says
the Indians now en- route to Fort Leaven-
worth, will be tried there by Court
martial. He also states General Nc
Kensie c0ntemplates another scout in
search of Cheyennes VINO revolted and
escaped from the Cheyenne Agency on
the 9Th of April and will bring in band
OF QuadadUes who, some time since,
offered terms OF peace, which were not
accepted.
PROF. MURDOCH gives another reading
at the Fifth Presby terrain Church. on
WaflnaadaV ayeninF fnr the hanafit of