The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-06-03
WHAT THE WIREs WHISPER.

WHAT THE WIRES WHISPER.
The Texas crop of wheat this season
is estimated at soc, 900 bushels.
The banner awarded the Myers Cadets,
of Toledo, will be presented at the Opera
house Friday evening.
The St. Louis Merchants Exchange Is
endeayoring to revive the project OF di-
rect trade with Brazil.
The Minnesota Anti-Monopoly Con-
vention, for the nomination OF State off,
GERS, will be held July 7.
James Hamon, of Cincinnati, was ar
rested in attempting to get into store
at Sandusky, last evening.
wheat crop this year in the country trib-
utary to Memphis as the largest since
1860.
The races at Prospect Park yesterday
were won by Arthur Dustin and Thomas
Jefferson. There was no fast time
made.
Fourteen thousand three hundred and
| twenty pieces of baggage were handled
| at the Toledo Union Depot in the month
of May.
| G. Won Hornet was stopped by high
waymen, last night, on First street, san
dusky, but fought them off and escaped,
but was considerably injured.
| The body Of Minnie Schroeder, VIC
tim of the shipwrecked steamer Con-
suelo, near Sandusky, was found yester-
day. Two others are yet unrecovered.
The General. Synod Of the Reformed
Church of America organized in Jersey
City yesterday by electing Professor
Charles Scott, OF Michigan, President.
Mrs. Paul Pyles, who resided near
Bulger, Pa, while trying to start fire
yesterday noon by pouring carbon oil in
u stove, was 80 severely burned she died
in few hours after.
A dispatch from London states that
the specie on board the wrecked steamer
Schiller remains undiscovered. The mu
tilated bodies of the victims of the disas
ter continue to come ashore.
Charles H. Lands, the founder o
Vineland, whe shot and seriously
wounded Uri Oarruth, editor Of the Jour
nal there, on the 10Th OF March last, was
released yesterday on $4,000 bail.
| Carl Vogt, the alleged murderer o
Chevalier Dubois De Bianco, near Brus
sells, Belgium, about two years ago, hal
been extradited at last. Tuesday ht
sailed for Europe in charge Of officers.
The Union Pacific Railroad will pay 6
dividend of IN per cent. on the capita
stock OF the Company out of the net earn
! ings for the quarter ending June Both
to the holders OF stock OF record OF JUNE
! 10th, dividend to be payable OH an(
after July lst. ".
: Judge Bradley, of New Orleans, ha!
granted writ OF error to the Supreme
Court Of the United States, from the Su
preme Court of Louisiana, in the man
damus case of Macauley VS.. Clinton. 1
will take up the question OF the consti
: tutionality of the Louisiana Funding
Acts of 1874. .,.,v,..,,,'.,, ~,
The following Is received from g Cafh
Stambaugh, Wyoming, and is official
1.-TWO half-breed, Sioux and one whit
man arrived here to-day from Fort Fet
terman, report that large body of Sioux
Cheyenne and Arrapahoe warriors ar
, on their way up the SweetWater for thu
purpose OF attacking the Shoshon,
Agency, and doing damage to the set
tiers of this locality" - ... ..'..l
The Philadelphia Grand Jury returned
forty-nine bills of indictments agains
Robert ii. Wishard, alias j. E. Batch
eior, George Myers, alias George Nc
Mullen; Joshua b. Moreau, alias Rober
G. johnson, alias Charles Pennington
charging them with uttering fraudulen
ana forged coupons pufportlng 10 De al
tached to bonds of the Chicago & North
, western railway company. George 3
Hit and Lindley Smith are the witnesse
indorsed upon the backs OF the bills.
The jury rendered a verdict yesterda,
in the great libel suit of Downing vs.
Henry Q. Brown, proprietor ofthe Dali.
Tribune, of Denver, Col. Downing wal
!. formerly Probate Judge. The Tribune
charged him with forgery in deciding
of land given to the School Fund by Con
: gressional grant, and with stufing bal
fot-boxes to control the judiciary, ant
compared him to Boss Tweed. The yer
dict was in favor OF the defendant, plain
: tiff paying costs. The trial excited mucl
interest, and the result gives genera
satisfaction.