The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-04-10
LATEST LoCAL.

FIVE new prisoners at the County
Jail.
THE 'TEN's" engine broke down while
on the way to the fire to-day.
OWING to the absence of Judge Mar.
chant this morning, Judge Lindeman
presided in the Police Court.
THE case of Geo. Fisher against Eph.
Holland for assault on the night before
the election has been continued until
Tuesday next.
THE contract for building the Southern
Railroad bridge oyer the Kentucky river
will be awarded at the meeting of the
Trustees on Tuesday next.
THE County Commissioners opened
about sixty bids and passed several mis-.
| ceilaneous bills in their meeting. Be-
| SIDES this no business of special import
ance was transacted.
| The alarm from box 16, about O'Clock
| this afternoon, was caused by small
nre In the roof of a three-story building,
| corner Of Broadway and Front streets,
caused by a defective fue. Loss trifling.
THOMAS WARD and William Gray were
arraigned in the Police Court for steal
ing pair of pants from August Epland,
worth about ~, and had their cases con.
tinued to the 18th inst. under $500 bonds.
The Young Mems Christian AssocIa-
tion propose on Monday business
mans prayer meeting, to commence at 8
O'Clock In the morning and last forty five
minutes. They will be held every day
until further notice.
SAMUEL OFFENHEIMER, an aged Ger
man, was arrested to-day charged with
stealing u lot of seed from s. S. Cooper
u Co.'s agricultural warehouse, on Main
street. He claims that the seed was
sold to him by the porter of the estab-
iishment, who has sold him many SINH
lar articles for some time past. The
porter has not yet been arrested.
ANOTHER collection of street. walkers
were taken in last night, and arraigned
in the Police Court this morning on q
charge OF vagrancy. or these, Alice
Steele, Kate Wilson, Hattie Lots, Lizzie
days in the Work.house. Emma Snyder,
another Of the same sort, was dismissed
on payment of the costs.
The inquest on the body of Eliza
OConner, the woman who died suddenly
at No. AZ West Ninth street, last Friday
night, was held this morning, and the
jury returned a verdict or death from
apoplexy. The deceased was a widow
about iorty-eight years Of age and a
native of Ireland. She was employed as
domestic at the house where she died.
ABOUT - O'Clock to-day an unknown
man jumped from the middle of the New
port bridge into the river. He paid his
fare on the Ohio side and was not noticed
again until he was seen in the act of fall
ing. 1t is said that he struck the water
on the side of his body and rebounded
some distance. The body then sank and
has not since been recovered. The fall,
and striking the water with such force,
must have killed him before he sank.
THE Committee on Police and Prison
opened bids for the work on the new
Central Station-house. j. G. Murdoch
presented the lowest bid for plumbing
and gas-fitting, $l,974; for the iron work,
NJ. Clements presented the lowest bid,
$l1,S7T 80; Thomas B. Knaggs, the
lowest for painting and glazing, $3.50;
Tor carpenter work, II. Hunterman,
50, 900; for excavating and masonry, VIM.
Mclaughlin, $4,523; for cut stone work,
W. L. Dobeling, $3.50; for brick work,
L. G. Megrue, $3.50; for roofing, Jas.
Hunter q Co., $1,550; for plastering, JAS.
Dale, $1,7OS 20. ..
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