The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-03-01
WHAT THE WIRES WHISPER.

WHAT THE WIRES WHISPER.
Cambridge, Ohio, has done well for the
Kansas sufferers.
A fire in Wachita, Kansas, yesterday,
destroyed sixteen business houses.
Gallipolis has had spell, and Miss
Mary Langley is the champion speller.
Edward Johnston. another of the Men,
phls express robbers, has been captured.
Considerable damage has been done by
overflows in the Susquehanna river,
caused by ice gorges.
In reply to Tracy's ISLANDERS of Moul-
ton, Woodruff g. Robinson, his partners,
publish card warmly indorsing him.
ID. r. Locke, "Petroleum V. Nasby,"
has disposed OF his interest in the Toledo
Blade to his lormer partner, j. T. Jones.
The first passenger coach over the
Cairo 81 st. Louis Narrow Guage Railroad
will arrive at Cairo from st. Louis to-day.
Sir Charles Lyell was buried Saturday
in Westminster Abbey, with great pomp.
The grave is next to that of Ben JON
son.
The brain of Ortwein, the murderer
hung at Pittsburg the other day, weighed
5213 ounces, three ounces above the av-
erage.
A telegram from Chattanooga says the
backwater from the Tennessee river still
covers the railroad track, obstructing the
running of trains.
Supplies destined for the Kansas suf-
ferers, unless consigned to the Central
Relief Committee at Topeka, will not be
carried free by the railroads.
The Standing Committee OF the Epis-
copal Diocese of Kentucky has resolved
to vote against the conservation OF DR..
De Koven as Bishop of Illinois.
Tussy Hilbert, q notorious Urbana
thief, was arrested for carrying conceal
ed weapons, and fined by the Mayor $100
and sentenced to thirty days in prison.
The agent of the Southern Express Co.
at Mckenzie, Tennessee, was assaulted
in his office Saturday night by three
robbers. lie. captured one,' and the 9th
ers fled.
The Senate on Saturday passed the
Civil Rights Bill by vote of 38 to 26.
All amendments were voted down, and
the bill now goes to the President for his
signature.
The Illinois Senate has passed to
third reading substitute for the Com
missioners' railroad bill, which leaves
the present Potter bill in force, and adds
to IL more obnoxious features.
A dispatch from Florence, Arizona,
says that the man recently arrested
there has confessed that he is the verit-
able Old Bender. He is expected to ar
rive at Topeka in few days.
Dewitt G. Seaman, aged about fifty
five years, of Watkins, N. Y, was struck
and killed while walking on the track of
T., Rail
bor Creek, Pa, Saturday night.
The Clay County, (Ind.) coal opera
tors have issued a statement to the pub
lie, setting forth the fact that the strik-
ers are attempting. to keep up prices that
would force Brazil coal from the market.
There was riot at the Loyal Hanna
Coal Company's Works, near Latrobe,
Pa, on Friday, between striking miners
and new hands. Ten fing-leaders were
committed Saturday, and five others to-
day.
The Minnesota House has passed
bill repeating the railroad law of last
winter. The bill appoints one Commits
sioner, with advisory duties only, in
dicating great change in popular senti-
ment.
1t is believed in Madrid that the cam.
paign against the Carlists will be termi-
mated during the spring. 1t is asserted
that 300 Navarro troops recently deserted
the Carlist army. Five were recaptured
and shot.
SciotO county has raised one hundred
and sixteen thousand dollars tor the
Michigan & Ohio railroad. This is five
thousand dollars per mile as donation,
and thirty-tiVe thousand dollars for con-
tingencies. o.
Reese. the Mormon whose first wife
sued for divorce and alimony, has been
ordered to pay attorneys fees, $1,000,
and $4,000 alimony per year from the
time of the filing of the complaint, pend
ing final decision by the Court.
The annual report of the Chicago, Bur-
lington and Quincy Railroad shows: To-
tai earnings of the road, $11, ,317; oper-
ating expenses and taxes, $6,513,512; net
earnings for the year, IS, 131, ,805; net sur
plus earnings over every current liabil-
ity, $425,393.
Francis M. Lucas, a merchant and real
estate agent of Robinson, Crawford
county, Indiana, a, son of Judge Joshua
Lucas, died at the Mississippi House,
East St. Louis, Friday afternoon, from
the effects of an overdose Of morphine,
administered by his own hands.
Three hundred striking miners are on
the rampage in the vicinity of Hazelton,
Penn. On Saturday they drew the fire
from under the boilers, stopped all the
pumps, set fire to the engine-house, and
shot the engineer at Buck Mountain.
Several other persons were assaulted,
and similar outrages are reported at the
Loyal Hanna Mines, near Latrobe.
Coates & Tapping, of jackson, Michi-
gan, were awarded the contract for
building the new State Insane Asylum
at Pontiac, on their bid of $31L69S. On
close examination Of the schedule the
Commissioners discovered the bid of
was some $4,000 larger than originally
which occasioned the choice
falling to Coates s. Tapping.
Mr. Eyarts not the LAWYER for the Casa