The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-02-22
WHAT THE WIRES WHISPER.

WHAT THE WIRES WHISPER.
William Rullege was accdently shot
and badly wounded while hunting neal
Monroeyille, o., on Saturday.
William Ii. Tilton has been appointed
Internal Revenue Store-keeper Tor the
Eighth District Of Kentucky.
| Mrs. Esther f. Linck, mother of the
editor of the Madison Ind. Spirit Of the
Age, died Saturday, aged II years.
Senator Carpenter occupied his seat In
the Senate Saturday. He was heartily
welcomed by the Senators of all parties
The Germania newspaper, of Berlin,
having published the recent Encyclica
of the Pope to the Prussian Bishops, has
been conflscated, and the proprietors
prosecuted.
At Logan, Ohio, the smallpox excite
ment is augmentng, More cases were
reported Saturday. The disease has
now reached different parts OF the city
There have been but TWO deaths.
| Patrick Hassett is in jail at Chicago,
charged by his son, Daniel Hassett, with
numbering a man Three years ago, put
ting the mangled remains in barrel
and throwing them INTO Lhe Chicago river
Ice has accumulated to such an extent
III the BeHuharnais Canal, Canada, that
considerable damage has been done to
surrounding property, and the mills
and factories are stopped for want ol
water.
| At Ironton, Ohio, Geo. Newberger,
merchant tailor, has failed. Liabilities
about 700; assets estimated at $50, 900
1t is claimed by some knowing ones that
not more than forty per cent. will he
realized il the matter is closed out.
|
noon in the Erie Railroad tunnel, at Ber.
gen, N. D., between several coal cars and
u passenger train, by which a brake
man on coal car, named Patrick Say
age, was killed, and some cars demol
iShed.
Tuesday last hunter found in the
woods near Grenada, Miss, the body o
an Irish peddler named Pat. Klaferty
with a bullet-hole through the skull
| His pocket-book was missing, and hi
body almost entirely eaten up by hog
and dogs.
| Various States of the German Empire
are investigating the causes OF emigra
| tion to remove them. 1t Is proposed tt
facilitate The requirement OF small es
tates, and TO oppose the action OF Emf
grafton Agents paid by Transatlantic
Governments.
| The Subcommittee of the House Com
mittee on the Judiciary began, Saturday
an investigation to ascertain il the West
ern Union declined to send the messages
of the American Press Association Oh
the ground OF their criticism of the West.
ern Union Company.
In New York Court a verdict has
| been given against the New York and
| New Haven railroad company for about
SIG, QUO in favor OF man who was robbed
of that amount in one of the company's
cars. 1t was held that the company
| must protect its patrons.
During railroad election on Saturday
in Troy, Mo-, several rows occurred, one
of which resulted in the killing Of j. M
| French, prominent citizen, negro
| named Carter, and the wounding of Ed
Porter, colored. John Crouch, who did
the mischief, was arrested.
Two burglars were shot and killed q
few nights since while robbing the house
Of Abram Mohr, near Mooresville, in
Hooking county. One of the burglars
proved TO be MIR. Mohr's brOther-in-law.
They were killed by Mr.. Mohr aud ped.
dler, who was staying all night at his
house.
An accident occurred early Saturday
morning near Plattsburg, on lhe Spring
field d Columbus railroad. the engine
and eight freight cars were thrown of
the track, ana the regular trains were
delayed some hours. Nobody injured,
but the damage done Is said TO be con-
siderable.
The Polltica (Madrid newspaper) as
serts that the indemnity to he paid by
Spain TO the relatives Of American vic
tins OF the Yirginus affair has been
fixed at $S4, 900, and that the convention
will be signed Immediately upon Cushing
presenting his credentials 10 the new
Government.
At Orryille, Ohio, the mutilated body
OF an unknown woman was found III a
grave which had been left empty. The
throat was cut, skull crushed and sever
al severe gashes inflicted appeared IN va
rious parts of the body. Every effort has
but without effect.
The ladies' "Yankee supper" at
Washington, Pennsylvania, Saturday
night, for the benefit OF the Western SUI
ierers, yielded about two hundred and
thirty dollars. This is another of the
numerous occasions upon which WASH
ington has contributed TO the same cause
this winter in various ways.
An old-fashloned spelling-school was
held at Bloomingburg, near Washington
G. H., Ohio, Saturday evening, for the
benefit OF the Kansas sufferers, realizing
the sum of twenty-three dollars. The
prize, Webster's Unabridged Diction-
ary, was won by Miss Mary RollstOn.
The lecture delivered at Washington,
Ohio, by Professor Douglass, was large
ly attended.
A butcher named Elster, of Veeders-
burg, Indiana, in company with his wife,
left his house at half past O'Clock to go
to his slaughter-house In the east end Of
town, leaving their three children, two
girls and boy. aged nine, five and two
years, at home. Soon alter the parents
left, the house took fire and the three
children perished in the flames. The
house is entirely destroyed and there is
no means OF knowing how it took fire.
Legislature. .