The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-02-16
LOCAL BkEVITIES.

ID nearly ready lor the foois
MRS. RoBINsoN's temperance lecture
last night Was well attended.
The X. of p. entertainment at Castle
Hail last night was success.
The University Board failed to get O
quorum yesterday afternoon.
BATTALION drill of the police to-mor.
row AT Z. NJ, at Exposition Hall.
JESSE G GARRITTsoN is at the Grand Ma
tohal Hotel, jacksonville, FLORIDA.
port at the next meeting OF the Board OF
Health.
$3,9s3 SO WAS collected as fees in the
Police Court during the quarter ending
Feb. SLh.
SUPERINTENDENT BRAsHEARs says
nearly half the water pipes i'll the CITY
are frozen.
THE contract for the stone work on the
building at Filth and Walnut streets,
was let yesterday at 81, 1918.
Mr.. JOHN Ell. CONWAY and wife of this
city are registered ut the Grand National
Hotel, Jacksonville, Florida.
The remains OF Mr.. j. y. Eaton have
been brought to the city and deposited
In the Spring Grove Cemetery.
REV. c. l.. THOMPSON, formerly pastor
OF the First Presbyterian Church, lett ior
his home in Chicago last night.
MEETING of the Sunday y-school A ssoci-
alton of the Presbytery oI Cincinnati al
Mt. Auburn Presbyterian Church to-
night.
THE docket of the Police Court showed
only eighteen names this morning, but
the cases were as usual very interesting
throughout.
JOHANNES and William Kirkpatrick
have sued the city tor $25,O0O damages
done by change OF graae at Sixth and
Culvert streets.
THE Martha Washington Tea Party,
under the direction of the ladies OF Mt.
Auburn and vicinity. bids fair 10 be the
great event of the season.
MARTIN RILEY, charged with commit
ting rape On the person of Elvira
Scbaefer, at No. 249 Sixth street, was
dismissed in the Police Court this morn
ing.
FEMALE pickpocksts relieved Mrs. .Por-
ter Howard of $50 at the Seventh Street
Congregational Church yesterday, while
listening to Miss Smiley's instructive re-
marks.
Mr.. BENIN PITMAN has presented the
School of Design Of the Cincinnati Uni
versity, with 62 volumes of works on art
as nucleus for library. Many of them
being very rare and valuable.
A SMALL fire in the butcher shop of j.
Bolan, on the corner OF Vine and Cal
hOun street, was eXtinguished this morn
ing by the Corryville regulars with but O
trifling loss. No alarm was sounded.
THE City has CONNER ced suit against
II Stall for x1 DnR "a fpr rocctn.,nto
due on improvement of Mcmillan street,
between Church and Cline, and also
against Theodore Krumberg for $1,04S SO
for the same improvements.
JAMES GURRAN bid on the addition to
the Sycamore Street Engine-house, but
mis- bid was so ridiculously high that he
has become ashamed OF IL and he rises to |
explain by saying that he didn't under |
Nand the specifications and iacts in the
ease.
PETER DOUGHERTY, the old man who
has been missing from his home at the
corner Of Plum and Water streets, was
found frozen to death on the river
landing at the foot of Elm street. The
Coroner was notified and will hold an
Inquest.
JAMES KEENAN,, who resides with his
father at the ioot OF Sixth street, from
some unknown cause, yesterday even-
Ing attempted to commit suicide by
shooting himself in the side with pis-
lol. At latest accounts he Is still alive
but with slight hopes of recovery.
WE regret to be compelled to announce
the death OF Mr.. Peter Outcalt, who died
st his residence No. 2Dl Longworth
street about 10 yesterday. Mr.. Out
ealt was formerly one of the chiet bank
ers OF Cincinnati, and identified with.
many Of her prominent interests. He
was brother-in-laW. OF the Hon. Stanley
Matthews.
ISAAC WHITE, a gent Of color, accused
.Gi appropraIing a vallse and contents,
last Friday at the Little Miami depot,
valued at not less than $50, belonging to
Solomon Rankin, pleaded "notguilty" in
the Police Court this morning. The
Court, however, thought otherwise, and
sentenced his to thirty days IN the work
house, and imposed fine of $500.
EDGAR M. POWERS, ayoung son of Mr..
Morris Powers, uf 524 West Seventh
street, was badly burned on Saturday by
his clothes taking fire from grale in his
fathers house, ana died yesterday from
the effects of the burn. A physician
was Immediately called and everything
done to alleviate his suffering, but with
out avail. The parents have the utmost
sympathy Of their friends in their affilc-
ton.
JOHN HOLLAND, constable from the
Sixth Ward, was arraigned in the Police
Court this morning charged with con-
yerting to his own use some thirty five
odd dollars of 500 judgment which he
had collected for one J. L. Martin. After
the evidence in the case had been heard,
the court maintained the charge, but sus.
pended the execution Of the sentence
until Friday, in order to let him pay
over the $35 in that time.
THE Work house Board held meeting
Yesterday and dismissed Hiram Green,
Geo. Egnel, John Sturgent and Michael
Kegalis, on the ground of good behavior
and unnecessarily long sentence. The
annual report was read, showing the re-
ceipts Of the year to have beer $S1,057;
expenditures, $77,s27. The receipts Tor
the labor of the prisoners were about
$4,000. Number Of prisoners receiy ed
during the year, A, i76; OF which LAG
were American born; 1893 Irish, go
German; 1904 were white, and l,Osl were
black.
OFFIcERs M4HoNEY and Hilberger
yesterday, with the usual success OF