The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-05-24
WHAT THE WIRES WHISPER.


Whittle and Bliss continue their en-
gagement at the Memphis Opera-house.
Count Corti. Ittss.iian Minister at Wash
lngtone, :, mas been transferred to Constan-
tinople. '''
The new epizoot is spreading exten.
siyely in st. Louis, and is peculiarly ta-
tai in its effects,
All the bodies swept over the Zanes-
vile dam, except that Of one child, have
been recovered.
Six prisoners escaped from the Jail at
Lancaster, o., on Saturday, but three
We're recuptured. 80
Mr.. G. II. Kilgour has obtained an in
Junction prohibiting the sale OF the Men,
phis Water-works.
Gen. Alfred Redington, a prominent
California business man, died yesterday
at San Francisco.
Samuel X. Slanker, a pioneer of ifiin,
o., died at his residence on Perry street
yesterday afternoon.
Gov. Hendricks arrived in Washington
Saturday, on his return from the Neck
lenburg Centennial.
Toledo still has $4,000 to raise of her
quota OF subscription for the Columbus
~ Toledo railroad.
Ex-Federals and Confederates will
unite at Memphis tomorrow in the cele-
bration OF Memorial Day.
The Merchants National Bank of Wi
mona, Minn., with capital OF $100.000, Is
authorized to commence BUSINESS.
The ordination of Rev. r. G. White,
the newly called pastor of the Christian
Church Of Toledo, took place last even
ing.
A gentleman has offered silver chal-
lenge cup, to be competed for by the
Junior four-oared crews of Toledo on
saturday next.
Five men and boy were killed on
Saturday in the mines In Wilkesbarre,
Penn, by the iall Oh cages in which they
were ascending the shafts.
Arrangements were completed at To.
,ledo, ON Saturday, by the management
Of the Toledo q Wabash railroad Tor ex-
tending their Decatur and Pekin line to
Peoria over the Pekin and Peoria road.
William Shipley a. Co., contractors and
builders, who came to Titfin from Mans
teld last spring, have made an assign
ment. Their affairs are reported in a
bad shape.
Several Ohio counties on Saturday
elected delegates to the Republican State
Convention, those from Dayton, Akron
and Lancaster being instructed against
a third term.
The decision of the Iowa District Court,
liking the terminus OF the Union PACING
Railway at Council Bluffs, will be ap.
pealed to the supreme Court Of the
United States.
The Village Greek Woolen Mills, near
Lansing, Iowa, owned by Howell, Car
'roA u katclih, were destroyed by an in.
cepdlary fire Friday night. Loss $39, 900
insurance. $4,000.
The first meeting on the Louisville
Jockey Club Course closed Saturday
with SIX races. The winners We're Main.
sail, Searcher, Whisper, V0ltigeur, Big
fellow and Astral.
One Sam Strong offers in the Washing
ton Republican to bet $500 that Grant
will be the next nominee. oil the Republi.
can party, and $1,000 that if nominated
he will be elected.
Ferdinand Dudenhetfer, Receiving
Teller OF the Germanla National Bank OF
New Orleans, was arrested yesterday,
and committed to prison, charged with
embezzling $4,000.
Twoyoung men, named Hoffman and
Engleman, have been arrested at PORT
Jeryis for pistol practice on the passen.
ger cars Of the Erie Road, their last tar.
get being the Directors car.
Andrew Jackso son, the lea der OF the ex-
press robbery at Corning, about q month
since, who was atterward captured but
escaped from the guards, has been recap.
tured and taken to Little Rock Jail.
The Supreme Lodge Knights of Pythias
has decided to hold its next session in
Philadelphia the fourth Tuesday in Au.
gust, 1876, and appointed Committee to
make arrangements for a Centennial Gel
ebration there. g
A drenching rain yesterday complete
ly eXlingnished, the forest fires ON Moose
Highlands and in the woods around Mos.
COW, Daleville, Tobyhanna, and other
towns along the Delaware, Lackawanna
u Western railroad.
tits reported that General Meigs will
be granted three years. leave of alb
sence, with permission to 60 to Europe
and that General RUFUS Ingalls, will be
assigned to duty in charge OF the Quar-.
termaster's Department.
James MoBurney, of Hannibal, Mis-.
souri,, came to st. Louis to lind place to
put his insane wife, but being unsuccess-
tnl he BECAME very despondent and much
depressed in spirits; Went into the cellar
of his brothers. house, where he was
stopping, and hanged himself.
The steamship Crescent City arrived at
New York Saturday from Havana, hay.
ing ON board Detective Davis, but Shar-
key is still confined in the common
prison at Havana, the principal cause oi
Incarceration being his threat to kill the
Captain OF the Crescent City.
The censecration of Rev. J. j. Kahn as
Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese
of Wheeling took place yesterday morn
ing in st. .Iames' Cathedral, which was
filled to its utmost capacity, large dele
cations from West Virginia ana adjoin-
ing States being in attendance.
A man named John Gallagher, while
drunk last evening, craWled under one
of the cars In the yard Of the p, C. & st.
l.. r. II. at Logansport, Ind, to get out
of the rain. He went to sleep, and, the
car being moved, was run over, his left
hand and right loot both being crushed
off.
Miles Styler, owner Of a saw-mill at
Sycamore Corners, near KOkom0, Ind,
was killed by one of his hands named
Arthur Jones, last night. Jones struck
for higher wages. and upon Styler re-