The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-04-14
WHAT THE WIRES WHISPER.


B. Barrett, was inaugurated yesterday.
Nicholson's book store at Richmond,
Ind, was robbed yesterday OF about
seventy dollars.
The municipal election in Trenton, N.
j., resulted in Democratic victory ex-
cept for Recorder of Taxes.
The Merchants and Manufacturing
Company's building in London, Ont,
was destroyed by fire yesterday.
The ship Airy Force, from Sydney for
San Francisco, was wrecked at Gambia
Island. Officers and crew saved.
In the Chicago billiard tournament,
yesterday, the winners were Honing and
Gallagher, of Ohio, and McAiee, OF
Iowa.
Robert Forris, aged q, was shot and
instantly killed near Somerville, Ten
nessee, yesterday, by John Jones, aged
seventeen.
Commander Leroy Fitch, Of the United
States Navy, died at his residence in
Logansport, Ind.s yesterday, after a
lingering illness.
1t is understood that troops have been
dispatched from Fort Bandall to cut off
an expedition about to start from Sioux
City for the Black Hills.
Seventeen bids for furnishing station
cry for the Treasury Department were
opened at Washington yesterday. The
amount estimated Is over $10O, 900.
The workmen at the Akron Chair
works, about one hundred in number,
struck Saturday for an advance'0f 10 per
cent. in wages. The demand is firmly
refused, and the men are still out.
Fred. Brandenburg, OF Philadelphia,
crawled under pile OF lumber in San
Francisco nine days ago; other lumber
was piled SO as to prevent his egress,
and yesterday he was found, dying soon
after.
At Lancaster, Ohio, the right OF the
County Commissioners to bring suit
against Ex-Treasurer Jacob Baker to re.
cover money stolen during Bakers term
OF office has been denied by the Court,
and the case dismissed.
The miners who are on strike at the
Cambridge Coal and Coke Companys
mines, at Cambridge, have been turned
out of the houses in. which they live
The Company intend putting in colored
miners in place of the strikers.
James f. Aicklen, formerly a citizen
OF New Orleans, was shot and killed at
Lake Providence, Louisiana, on the 9Th
inst, by one Therrell. The murderer
attempted to escape into Mississippi,
but was captured aud lodged in Jail.
Samuel Tate, M. j. Wicks and others
have brought suit in the First Circuit
Court of Memphis against the Louisville
u Nashville Railroad Company, to re-
cover $500, 700 alleged to be due them IN
connection with the transfer of the N North
and South Railroad OF Alabama to that
company.
Mrs. Sarah Files died at Washington,
o., on the ninth inst, and was buried al
Sugar Grove Cemetery, on SABBATH last.
Shewas one hundred years, five months
and twenty days old; born i'll Virginia
and went to Clinton county over fifty
years ago. She was The Oldest person in
the county.
Chief Justice Shannon, of Dakota Ter
ritory, at Yankton, yesterday charged
the Grand jury OF the United States
Court in regard to invaders OF the Black
Hills Indian Reservation, holding that
1t was their duty in conjuction with the
military to see that the laws and treaty
stlpulations were enforced.
Pete Mccartney, the noted counter
teiter, having been rearrested, the law
officers Of the Government are sanguine
o; securing his conviction and sentence
to the Penitentiary tor life. Govern
ment officials claim that one hundred OF
mis- pupils are now serving out terms OF
Imprisonment for counterfeiting or at
tempting to pass counterfeit money.
At New Paris, Ohio, on Saturday night,
a col0red boy named Lafayette Wilson
had a, quarrel with Colonel Austin in
regard u the collection Of a rent bill.
q al
from the rented property, when Austin
interiered and shot Wilson in the bowels
SO seriously that he died Monday. Austin
left New Paris and is not yet found.
Special Agent John B. MINIS yester-
day arrested Henry Parks, Frank and
Lewis Moore, Dick Dancy and Henry
Goodwyn, all colored employees of the
StonewalL Hotel, Grand junction, Miss,
charged with robbing the Post-office of
the place, as the guilty parties. Good
wyn turned States evidence, and told
where greater part of the money was
buried in tin can, which was recov-
cred.
A report to the first mortgage bond
holders of the Chicago, Danville Il Vim
cennes railroad charges gross misman-
agement on the part Of the chief officers
of the road, VIM. Il. Judson, Amos
Tenny and John e. Young, and tnat
they have directed the earnings of the
road from their proper use to their per-
sonal benefit and speculation. The re-
port recommends foreclosure under the
first mortgage.
The pleasure yacht Ella Anna, con-
tanning a party of eight excursionists,
was capsized yesterday in Charlesto ton
harbor by squall. Four Of the. persons
we're saved and tour are missing. 1t is
supposed they were drowned. The
names OF the missing are George Il. Kent,
of New York; Adolph Davis, of Louis
vile, KY; John KensloW and Gilman
Burke, Of Charleston.
The meeting of miners and mine-own-
ers, at Akron, adjourned yesterday
without coming to any satisfactory con-
clusion in regard to the price to be paid
for mining. A resolution was unani-
mously adopted that in case the opera
tives resume work a meeting shall be
held in Cleveland on April 10, at which
time all claims for damages and differ
ences to the 1st inst. shall be submitted
in writing, and all miners having trouble
OF that kind shall notify their Superin-
tendent OF the same.
Three murders in three days is con-
sidered about the correct thing for
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