The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-05-28
WHAT THE WIRES WHISPER.

WHAT TILE WlhES WA1SFEA.
The President leaves Washington for
Long Branch with his family on Tuesday
next.
Crist, of Grand Rapids, on charge Of
murder, could not give acceptable bail
and 10 in Jail.
Clarence Smith was shot by drunken
man at Sandborn, Ind, Tuesday night.
The wound is not fatal.
The Illinois Press Association arrived
in st. Louis yesterday, and are now
sightseeing in that city. r..
William Allen. an engineer on the
Union Pacific Railway, was drowned
in lake near Cheyenne yesterday after
noon.
The Secretary of the Treasury decides
that imported sheepskins dressed with
woolen must pay duty Of % per cent,
ad yalorem.
By the upsetting of an omnibus at
Monroe Station, o., yesterday, DR.. Ev.
ans, OF Franklin, and two ladies were
seriously injured.
Three carloads Of passengers from
Aus stralia, brought to San Francisco by
the last Pacific Mail steamer, arrived at
Omaha yesterday.
A son of George Van Gorder, of War;
rem, o., accidentally shothimself through
the leg last night, and it is thought am.
putation will BIZ necessary.
VIM. Brown, of Clyde, was run over
by the Cincinnati, Sandusky and Cleve.
land freight train at Tiffin, Ohio. His
right leg was badly injured.
A report made to the Missouri State
Sunday-school Convention says there
are in the State 1900 Sabbath-s schoois,
11,O69 teachers, and 101, 7Z9 scholars.
Chancellor Walker, of Memphis, has
decided the new charter OF that city,
creating the Board of Police and Fire
Commissioners, to be constitutional.
Henry Brown was arrested in st.
Louis yesterday on suspicion of having
murdered Philip Pfarr Tuesday night
but the evidence against him is not
strong.
Bids for Government gold in New
York yesterday aggregated 5,315, 900, at
from 1l5.16 to I16.03H. The Government
awarded million at from 116.03L to
l16.05H.
Gerard Bensburg and Louis Keller.
man, rectifiers OF st. Louis, were arrest.
ed yesterday under indictments, and the
former bonded in ten thousand dollars,
The latter in five thousand.
A oricklayer, named John Woolsifer,
fell from the top Of building sixty-iour
feet high, in indianapolis yesterday, re.
ceiving probably fatal injuries. Both
arms and one leg are broken.
1t is said at the Treasury Department
that there is evidence showing that the
Whisky Ring extended its operations
into Kentucky. A number of seizures
and arrests will be made within a few
days.
Members of the st. Louis Council, who
heretofore opposed the inauguration ol
Col. Britton AS Mayor, SAID last night
| they would no longer interpose objec.
| tions, and it is probable that the even
will take place i'll very few days. -
The rumor circulating in San Fran.
cisco thai w. Z. Ralston is about to re-
tire from the Presidency of the Bank Of
California is denied by Ralston. who
stated personally yesterday morning
that there Is no truth whatever in the
report.
Evidence in the Hade embezzlement
case at Bucyrus, Ohio, closed yesterday
afternoon, and the Court adjourned un.
til the first OF July, when the argument
will be heard. 1t is the general Impres.
sion that the prosecution tailed to make
very strong case.
The suit of Hugh Madden against the
PitJsburg, Cincinnati and st. Louis Rail
way tor $3, ,00O damages, for obstructing
the water course ON IA farm nine miles
north OF GAINESVILLE has been on trial iu
the Common Pleas Court for the last four
days, resulting in verdict for the
plaintiff III $500.
The Grand Imperial Council ol
Knights of the Red Cross of Constantine,
of Indiana, deriving it's authority from
the Grand Imperial Council OF England,
and being its subordinate, was duly
formed yesterday In New Orleans, and
officers elected and installed, with Rev
j. GierloW as Grand Sovereign.
Daniel L. Hayden. a dishonest postal
clerk in the Hartford Office, who was de.
tected in rifllng letters, a few weeks
ago, appeared in the United States
Court, in that city, yesterday, and
pleaded guilty. Judge Shipman sent
enced him TO three years. Imprisonment
in the Connecticut State Prison.
The General Term of the st. Louis
Circuit Court yesterday morning over.
ruled the motion to dissolve the injunc.
tion in the contested Mayoralty case,
the effect of which is that the City Reg
lister, Walsh, is enjoined from permit
ting the City Council or any of its Com
lnlttees to get possession Of the ballot
boxes.