The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-03-31
WHAT TIE WIRES WHISPER.

ent candidate for Mayor of st. Louis.
The Presidents family will leave
Washington tomorrow morning for New
| York.
| Samuel L. Houghton has been appoint
| ed Internal Revenue StOre-keepe for the
Fifth Kentucky District.
Four fine bridges have been swept
away by ice and high water on the Elk
horn river. Further damage Is appre-
hended.
| One hundred and twenty-eight thou
sand dollars in specie was shipped from
Southampton to the United States yes
terday.
At New Richmond, Wis.,, the present
actual terminus of the North Wisconsin
Railroad, grain elevator was burned
yesterday.
| At Ft. Wayne, Indiana, Mr.. Benigan,
affected with insanity, attempted to mur-
der his wife and children, and was taken
into custody.
In Pittsburg, yesterday, Tildie Leon
ard, domestic, was burned to death,
and Thomas A. Blue was kicked to death
by span of horses.
! Gen. Spinners retirement will neces-
state the counting Of every dollar in the
Treasury vaults, amounting to more
than one hundred millions.
| Rufus Greathouse, about 20 years OF
age, of Mount Carmel, Illinois, was
kicked in the head by horse yesterday,
and so badly injured that his life is de-
SPARED Of.
| AT Cory, Pa, a boy named Arnold,
aged fourteen, while climbing on an At
lantic 81 Great Western switch-engine,
1 Monday evening, was run over and in
'stantly killed.
4 J.J. Gregory, Cleveland fancy goods
dealer, and Mrs. Fuchs, mllljuer, are un.
der arrest for receiving stolen goods, a
large quantity of which were found on
their premises.
The trustees of the Lick Fund held g
meeting on Monday to discuss Llck's
| revocation. They will take no active
steps at present, but assert their deter
mination not 10 resign their trust.
Col. Fred. Grant contemplates resign
ing his army commission next tall, to en-
ter the banking firm of Sherman & Co..
at present composed OF the nephew Of
Senator Sherman and Fl. d. Cooke, jr.
/ At Mount Carmel, Illinois, Geo. Copp,
aged 57 years, committed suicide yester-
day, by cutting his throat with razor
He has been insane for a few weeks
and has attempted suicide once or twice
before.
The managers Of Wisconsin railroads
| have had a number of conferences here
recently, and have adopted a scale OF
prices in compliance with the require.
ments of the Qulmby law. The new rates
will go into enect April 1st.
A fire at Fairburg, Ill.,, last night, de-
stroyed one Of the best blocks in the
town, containing a number of stores and
offices, including the halls OF the Ma
sonic and Odd-fellow fraternities. Loss
900; insurance $4,000.
Monday, while Thos. Candy, OF Hay.
i denvflle, Ohio, was at work, and his wife
absent also, some masked parties, three
i'll number, entered his house and bound
his son, aged fifteen, and took eighty
dollars and a revolver, and made theil
escape.
At a late hour last night the Shields
Woolen Mills of Davenport, Iowa, ig.
nited and were almost wholly consumed,
| together with large amount OF material
and machinery. Loss $4,000; insurance
$4,000. Sixty men are thrown out oi
| employment.
John A. Thomas, an early settler Of
Crawford county, and one OF the original
projectors of the land on which Crest.
line is built, died yesterday morning
He was the senior member OF the well.
known banking firm OF John A. Thomas
q Co., of Crestline.
| Judge Davis, an old and highly es-
| teemed citizen of Anderson, Ind, died
at the residence OF DR.. Burr yesterday
morning from the effects of paralytic
stroke received some time ago, while
travelling in Europe. He will be buried
by the Masonic Order.
| A man named Thos. Murphy shot him
self through the head at Valparaiso, In.
diana, causing death in about an hour.
| lie was man of sober and industrious
habits. He leaves wife and two chill.
dren. Cause unknown. Verdict of the
Coroner's jury not yet rendered.
A dispatch from Astoria, Oregon, says
the heaviest gale ever experienced there
occurred Sunday morning. The British
bark Corsica dragged her anchors and
went ashore. The New York ship Ida
Lilly driited toward the shore and ran
into the Corsica, damaging both consid.
erably. Many minor casualties are re.
ported.
| From many portions of Southern and
| Southwestern Minnesota accounts come
of farmers having already commenced
seeding. The snow has mostly disap-
peared in all this region, and grain
sowing will doubtless universally COM
| mence in the course of week. The sea-
son is counted late, but not unfavorable
| Tor the wheat crop.
A citizens meeting was held at Grand
Rapids, Mich, yesterday, to discuss the
propriety Of building a railroad from
that city to Alpena, on Lake Huron, a
distance of two hundred miles, through
! the most valuable timbered land in Mich
igan. A company has been organized
some time Tor this purpose, who have
presented bill asking the State to ap-
| propriate one section OF unsold State
swamp land to each mile of the proposed
road. The meeting instructed Repre-
sentatives at Lansing to secure the pas
sage Of the bill at once.
Exchanges from every quarter speak
in the most cheering tones of the pros
poets of good spring trade. There is
no doubt the country is in a reasonably
sound condition, and the credit of the
mercantile community on sound basis.
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