The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-02-01
WHAT THE WIRES WHIsPER.

The st. Louis Cotton Exchange BAN
quoted the city press last night.
Tine Spanish Government is moving
against the Carlists.
Louisville will celebrate the Mardi-
gras iooiishness Oh a grand scale.
The New York robbery of the Adams
Express Company will not exceed
$4,000.
The German Reichstag closed its ses-
sion Saturday. The Bank Bill was
passed.
Jos. Fisher, for many years promi-
nent man OF Urbana, o., was buried yes
terday.
Bernard Boucher, of Cleveland, Ohio,
charged with arson, has been held in
S6, 00O bail.
Beemer Chapman, of Portage county,
was killed by the cars near Warren, o.,
on Saturday.
A courtesan named Alice Taylor, alias
Fanny Rogers, OF Rochelle, ILL.,, suicided
yesterday at Omaha.
The Louisiana investigation was con-
tinued Saturday without elicitlng any |
startling information.
Jos. Homer, of Sandusky, o., is said !
to have received the appointment OF U.
S. Consul to Baden Baden.
The wife of Col. ohm Fellows, Presi-
dent Of the Chelsa Mass. ).Savings Bank,
was burned TO death Saturday night.
Senator Ramsey, of Minnesota, returns
to Washington to-day, leaving his sena-
torial fight in the hands Ut his friends.
The Missouri House proposes to inves-
tigate the recent attack upon the house
of Mrs. Samuels, mother Of the James
boys.
+. Il. Fox, q Louisville lawyer, has
possession of the English book Tor which
thousand pounds are offered as re-
ward.
The Maine Constitutional Convention
have, by u vote of six to ten, refused to
report an amendment enfranchlslng
women.
Wintermute, who killed General Nc
Cook at Dakota, has been granted new
trial. and will probably escape all pun
ishment..
John Il. Brazee, an old resident of Lam
caster, o., and at one time prominent
member OF the bar, died at his home Sat
urday evening.
The clothing house Of H. j. Gladke and
the hardware store Of u. A. Reeley S
Son, Water street, Elmira, N. L, burned
yesterday. Lost, $4,000.
Mrs. Hodge, long resident of Logan,
! o., has been adjudged insane by the Pro-
| bate Court, and will be taken TO the asy-
lum for the insane at Athens.
John McMullin, while digging in well,
at Urbana, Saturday, was badly injured
by a large iron bar falling some twenty
five OF thirty feet on his head.
John Haugh, an old and highly esteem
| ed citizen Of Fort Wayne, died at his
residence ON Saturday evening, of ty-
phoid pneumonia, after o protracted i'll
ness.
| A colored man calling himself J. A. l..
Hunt is swindiing churches in Northern
Ohio. He lectures on Africa, and col
lects money for the heather, and then
goes on drunk.
| appeal has been issued for assist
Southern Dakota and Northwestern
Iowa, whose lands have been desolated
by grasshoppers.
The House Commerce Committee have
arranged for a meeting to-day to hear
further arguments in support of the ap.
preparation tor. constructing adjustable
dams across the Ohio.
J.F. Wallick, of Indianapolis, W. U.
|
| the bridge while getting off the cars at
Cambridge City, and was badly injured
He fell thirty feet on the ice.
At Morristown, Indiana, the house of
Mr.. James Smiley was burglariZed Sat-
urday night, and one hundred and five
dollars taken from young man named
Fitzpatrick, of Franklin, Indiana, stop
ping with the family.
The House spent Saturday in reading
1.-the journal OF the long session, the yeas
and nays being read upon demand OF the
| Democrats. An adjournment was had at
4:30, up to which time II of the rOll-calls
had been read throughout OF the II
taken.
| A hack going from Richmond, Ind, to
Union City, was overturned upon the
tpike. One of the lady passengers had a
shoulder dislocated, another an arm bro
ken, and the other was injured. The dri-
yer was severely injured, and the hack
entirely demolished.
A package was received, at the Dead
letter Office Saturday containing half a
dozen snakes, two dead and the remain
der alive. One is acopperhead, five feet
long. The reptiles were in a tin box,
addressed to Germany, but had been
stopped atLiverpool on account Of insuf-
ucltHt postaScs
At a meeting of the Catholic temper
ance societies, steps were taken toward
building Central Hall in Boston for the
use of the Catholic Total-Abstinence So
cteties of Massachusetts. This Is the
first move in the general plan for tho
erection of similar buildings in each
State OF the Union.
The Minnesota House has passed a
resolution demanding of King, Congress
man elect, that he Immediately appear
before the Ways and Means Committee
and clear up his record, or failing there.
in, to place his resignation as a Reple e.
sentative of the Commonwealth in the
hands of the Governor.
7 In New Orleans on Saturday mob OF
striking steyedores attacked the men
engaged in loading the steamer Natchez
A squad of Metropolitans endeavored to
quiet and disperse the rioters, buL were
assailed with stones. The police then
opened fire with revolvers, when the ne.
groes retreated in confusion, one or two
being slightly wounded. The ring lea
ders were arrested.
A fire broke out in the rear of Regent
4 Hall, Stratford, Conn.,, which caused the
destruction of large amount OF proper
; ty. The principal losers are Mckay 4