The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-02-03
WHAT THE WIRES Whisper.

memphis ID making eAtenSlVe prepalu-
tlons Tor Mardi Gras.
The peach buds of Southern Indiana
are said to be severely injured.
Bullion withdrawn on balance from
the Bank of England yesterday, 96lS,-
600.
The case of Nimrod Bowie, indicted for
murder at Newark, o., is set Ior Thurs
day next.
The West Virginia Legislature spent
yesterday discussing the capitol remoy-
ing project.
Frank Field & Co.'s bakery and con-
dictionary, at Peoria, ILL.,, burned yes
terday. Loss, $4,000.
Specie engagements for Europe to-day
cover $500, 900 in gold coin. Yesterdays
shipments, $4,000 to Havana.
Mrs. Robert Lowry, an old and well
known resident of Chillicothe, tell dead
last evening from an attack OF apOpleXy.
Republicans of the Third Connecticut
Congress ional District Yesterday renom-
mated Ii. Ill. Starkweather by acclama-
ton.
George d. Gillespie, Bishop of the new
Episcopal Diocese of Western Michigan,
will take up his residence i'll Grand
Rapids.
A large delegation of Athenians pro-
| pose going to Marietta to hear the Boston
| Quintette Club performance Thursday
evening next.
The large saw-mill of Tressel & Son,
six miles north of Sidney, was totally
destroyed by fire last night. Loss, $4,000;
no insurance.
A heavy wind-storm, accompanied by
| light snow, prevailed at Omaha, last
evening. Mercury below zero and rap
ialy falling lower.
White, the horsethief who recently es-
capped from the Memphis Jail, was killed
yesterday at Henderson, Kentucky,
while resisting arrest.
| Victoria Woodruff passed through St.
Joseph last night, EN- route East, to be
on hand in case OF expected develop
ments in the Tilton-Beecher trial.
King Kalakaua and suite, and the Uni
| ted States Minister at Hawaii, Mr..
| Pierce, sailed yesterday IN the United
States steamer Pensacola, from San
Francisco for Honolulu.
At Athens, Ohio, Monday night, Geo.
Clements attempted to commit suicide.
He was found yesterday morning with a
razor and several bottles of poison by his
side, but half failed in his purpose.
In the Cleveland billiard tournament
Honing beat Coleman, score 200 to 30;
Choate beat Mullen, score 200 to 1879;
Casper forfeited games to Coleman, and
| Thatcher and Blum one to Gallagher.
Arthur Bissell and George Bachtel,
who recently killed Carney, Town Mar
shall OF Bedford, Indiana, were yesterday
captured at Olney, Illinois. 1t is said
| they will be lynched When brought to
| Bedford.
| An assignment of the suspended Peo-
ple's Savings Bank of st. Louis was
made yesterday to John III. Fisse. The
missing cashier, who leaves behind him
a wife and six children, has not been
heard from.
| Fifteen hundred miners of the Brazil
| Indiana District are out of the mines on
a strike to-day, because the operators
| proposed to reduce the pay from S5 to u
cents ton. The operators say that they
will not yield.
| The contest over the Sherif's Office oil
Guernsey county was tried yesterday.
There was quite a lively interest mani
tested. The decision in the case is not
yet rendered. Over one hundred witnes.
ses were present.
| General Sheridan and party left New
Orleans yesterday by the steamer r. e,
i Lee for Vicksburg. 1t is understood that
4 they will not return to New Orleans, but
that the headquarters OF the Department
of the Missouri will be re-established at
Chicago.
At Ada, O., yesterday, as J. B. Reyn-
olds, a farmer residing about six miles
out, was on his way homo his team took
fright, ran off. throwing him out of the
wagon, cutting large cash on the top OF
his head, also breaking his right arm and
mangling it feartully. Amputation is
thought necessary.
At Bucyrus, o., yesterday, Kirk War;
ner, wealthy farmer, was bound over
| in the sum Of $500 for threatening the
life of his sOn-in-law, Albert Yarker. The
trouble grew out Of Yarkers clipping
with Warmers iughter, some two years
since. Last week the daughter died in
child-bed, and the father renewed his
threats.
Mrs. Ranny, of Ft. Wayne, died yester-
day from the effects OF the injury sus'
tanned while trying TO prevent an insane
sister from jumping from an express
train ON the Grand Rapids and Indiana
train. The insane sister was uninjured.
The body was taken to Three Rivers for
interment.
A farmer living on the line of the
two counties has offered give his farm,
valued at ten thousand dollars, in con.
sideration only OF small yearly interest
curing his life, if Portage and Summit
counties, Ohio, will unite in establishing
a Home for lriendless children. The pro-
posal has been referred to the County
Commissioners.
Last November man named j. d. Nc.
Auliffe was arrested in Grand Rapids,
Michigan, charged with raping a young
lady at Kelloggsyille. He was put under
bonds. Shortly after the girl disappear.
ed, and has not been heard from since,
Ali efforts to find het have proved unsuc.
cessful. The same man Is now under
arrest in Chicago for assault with intent
to killia relative OF the young lady, whom
he had attempted to marry, creating the
impression that he was wealthy.
/ No novelist ever imagined marriage
concluded under more eccentric circum'
stances than that of Comte de D
to Miss de v. The future Com.
tesse, who is one of the best sportsmen