The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-04-10
WHAT THE WIRES WHISPER.

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foot deep.
The Missouri river has overfowed its
banks below Fort Lincoln.
The strike of the New York longshore-
men became general yesterday.
The New York Tribune is to-day cele-
brating it's thirty-ftth anniversary.
| Col John NJ. Powell, of Mississippi,
died yesterday from taking morphine.
4 Judge A. A. Atocha, oil the New Or
leans Superior Criminal Court, and Pro-
vost Marshal under Butler, is dead.
4 At the commencement OF the New York
Free Medical College for Women Thurs
day night there were nine graduates.
4 Charles Bendix, formerly Vice Presi-
| dent OF the New Orleans Teutona Ma
tional Bank, suicided yesterday by
poison.
Charles Tappan, the last surviving
member OF the well-known anti-slavery
family, died in Washington yesterday,
aged ninety.
Campbelllord Hotel and a block of
stores on Bridge street, Campbelltord,
Ont, were destroyed by fire. Loss, $780,
QUO; insured for $4,000.
The schooner Jennie Staub, from Sa-
vannah to New York, foundered off
Hatteras Shoals yesterday with all on
board, eight in number.
1t is said Mr.. Faurneer will be made
one of the Judges Of the Supreme Court
of Ontario, and be succeeded by La Fam
me as Minister Of Justice.
President Grant will leave Washing
ton Friday for Massachusetts to attend
the Centennial celebration of the battle
OF Lexington, on the 18th inst.
| The Louisville Board of Trade, re-
Gently chosen, has issued an address to
the citizens OF the city in behalf OF sub
scriptions to sustain the organization.
The President has signed the commits
sion of Robert w. Healy to be United
States Marshal for the Southern Dis
trict of Alabama, in place of Jerome j.
| Kinds.
In the matter of the indianapolis Deaf
and Dumb Asylum, the committee of in
vestigation entirely eXonerate Mcintyre,
and report that there was no ground for
| the charges.
| A woman by the name of Carrie Rus
sell was arrested yesterday at Logans-
port, Indiana, on q Charge of infantIcide.
The Child was found in the river last
| Wednesday.
Governor Hendricks, of Indiana, is in
Washington tor the purpose OF making
| reports as to the disposition of arms Civ
| en- to the State of Indiana by the General
Government.
Patrick O'Shea, who stabbed his wife
on the night of March 1S, 1874, from the
fleets of which she died five days later,
was hanged in the jail-yard at st. Louis
at o'clock yesterday.
At Monticello, Indiana, an unknown
n nj do
| on the track tof the Panhandle Road,
dead, and in SO torn and mutilated a
| condition as to be unrecognizable.
| The escape of the noted eounterfeiter,
Peter Mccartney, in Texas, is held up in
Washington as another illustration Of
the inefficiency of the Secret Service Di-
vision OF the Treasury Department.
The case OF Stephen Osgood against
the Chicago, Danville & Vincennes Il. r.
was argued before Judges Drummond
and Blodget, at Chicago yesterday, after
whicn the Court took it under advise
ment.
The steamer Belle Yazoo reports a fire
at Greenville, Miss, Wednesday night,
destroying Johnson's saw and planning
mills, Kitchman's bank, and many other
business and dwelling houses. Supposed
incendiary.
The Elm Grove herd of cattle, belong
ing to Elliott d French, was sold at Dex-
ter Park, Chicago, Thursday. The total
number of cattle in the. herd was sixty
four head, and the total receipts from
their sale was $3l 900.
The Blake Lamp Company, of Canton,
O., with capital stock of $4,000, in
shares Of S1Oo each, has just been incor-
porated' by Andrew M. Blake, ira M.
Allen, Henry 5. Belden, John f. Blake
and other prominent citizens.
Notice of action has been given in the
new six million suit against Wm. NJ.
Tweed. The list of property attached
embraces every thing known to be in
possession of Tweed at the time of the
exposure, and which he passed into the
hands of other parties.
A dispatch from Omaha says the num-
ber of emigrants westward bound the
present seasonlis nprecedented.. Ninety
three hundred have left that place since
March 1st. Over one thousand were de-
layed there Thursday Tor want of cars,
but were sent out on special trains yes
terday.
An excursion party in the interests of
EN- grafton to Texas, consisting of fifty
two delegates from twenty-seYen coun-
ties in Texas, and in charge OF Col. Alli-
son, lelC benson yesterday at L. M.
by special train, en- route for ST.. Louis,
Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Louisville and
Chicago.
At Logansport, Indiana, yesterday af-
ternoon, boy named Eddie Stewart,
was run over and killed, at Buck Greek,
on the Toledo and Wabash Railroad.
He jumped from the train while it was
in motlon, fell upon the track and was
stunned. The train backing up to the
station ran over him.
At Mansfield, Ohio, Amos Seibert, who
was confined in jail awaiting his trial
for burglary, escaped Thursday night by
saving three iron bars off ut the window
and using one Of the bars TO break the
stone window-sill and pry out the brick.
1t was done after O'clock, as every thing
was right at that hour. He has not been
captured.
At Rockford, Michigan, a fire was dis.
covered breaking out on the roof of the
Lapham House, at an early hour Thurs
day morning, but was kept under con-
troll, although it burned furiously, and
was not subdued until damage was
done to the amount of $1,000. Upon in
yestigation it was found that the roof
was saturated with kerosene oil. No
clue has yet been found to the perpetra-
tors.
large gathering of KNIGHTS TemnIar