The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-03-20
WHAT THE FIRES WHISPER.


the finest for years.
Jesse Fouks, colored, was hanged In
Prince William county, Virginia, yes.
tel day.
Fred. Sullivan, the defauIting Adams
Express clerk, OF Fort Wayne, was ar.
rested ON Wednesday at Springfield, Mo.
The Pickaway county committee en-.
gagged in soliciting subscriptions for the
Scloto Valley railroad are meeting with
success.
A shooting affair occurred at Hanging
ROCK yesterday, wherein d. Stapleton
shot John Kinkaid through the arm. No
particulars.
1t is officially announced that the Pitts.
burg and Fort Wayne Railroad Company
have restored the old rates from st. Louis
to New York.
At Point Pleasant, West Virginia, yes.
terday, four men crossing the Ohio river
ran their skiff upon a cake of ice, upset
ting 1t, and all were drowned.
Jacob Smith, of Liberty, Ind, who was
recently bound over on u charge OF
grand larceny in the sum of $3.50, antici-
pating dn indictment being found against
him by the Grand Jury, lett town yester.
day, forfeiting his bail.
Thursday evening, while little daugh.
ter OF Reuben Starbuck, living near Will
mington, Ohio, was standing near the
fire, her clothes caught, and before the
hames could be eXtinguished, she was
so badly burned that she died yesterday
morning.
AT Akron, Ohio, young man by the
name OF Goldsmith, employed in a candy
manufactory, attempted suicide by
shooting himself with a revolver, OH
Wednesday night. He was prevented
from making second attempt by the ar
rival OF friends.
Mr.. Carruth, editor of a paper published
at Vlneland, Nd, was fatally shot this
morning by Charles X. Lands, who is
known as the "Father of Vineland." The
affair grew out of an article in the paper
which Lands thought referred to him,
but i'll which no names were mentioned.
Petitions signed by women have lately
been presented TO the Governor of Mas
sachusetts asking the pardon Of Jesse
Pomeroy, the boy murderer. Yesterday
a delegation of about twenty-five women
waited upon the Governor and urged the
execution of the boy as a measure OF
safety to society.
The Memphis Common Council, last
liclt aid tor sufferers OF the tornado at
Rienza. The latest accounts represent
that g1eat distress prevails there among
those left homeless. The damage is estI-
mated at $15O,OO0.
At Ironton, Ohio, Thursday night,
Charley Hall, being intoxicated, Went to
klelsIs saloon and demanded some
thing to drink. Kleist refused him and
ordered him to leave, whereupon Hall
attacked Kleist with "a knife, inflicting
several serious wounds in the neck anu
head.
At Alliance, Ohio, about O'Clock yes
terday morning, log house ON Grant
street, owned by John Creighton, was
totally destroyed by lire. The furniture
and articles were saved, with the excep-
tion of few things up stairs. The cause
OF the fire was defective fue. Loss
about $5O0; no Insurance.
The bondholders of the Chicago, Dan
vile d Vincennes Railroad Company
have held a meeting, and appointed.
5. Constant, Chandler Robbins,
W. b. Stevens, A. A. Sumner, L. w.
of Meadville, Penn; John
M. Denniston, of Baltimore, and John
M. Wheelock, of Worcester, u committee
to investigate the condition of the tinan-
ces OF the company and report within u
short time.
Speaker Elliott, of the South Carolina
House of Representatives, rules that
Gov. Chamberlain's veto of the bill to
settle the floating debt of the State is
void, the bill having become law
through the Governors failure to return
it within the specified time. This view
being opposed by the Governors sup
porters, the matter was referred to the
judiciary Committee, who report that
ihey are unable to agree upon the status
If the bill.