The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-03-29
WHIT THE W1nEs wHIsREn

4 0onn corey Will Dc udhgeu may loCn,
at Paris, Illinois.
General John G. Breckinridge is much
improved in health.
The Ashland Savings Bank, of Potts
vile, Pa, has suspended.
General Augur has assumed command
OF the Department of the Gulf.
The Post-offce of Whitewater, Mich,
was destroyed by fire Sunday night.
The California Democratic Convention
will be held in San Francisco June 20. /,
Extensive frauds have been discov-
cred In the construction of the new Bos.
ton P0st-ofice.
Mr.. Samuel Elwell, a wealthy citizen
OF Liberty, Indiana, died Saturday, aged
one hundred years.
Colonel Fred. Grant leaves Washing.
ton to-day to resume his place on Gen.
eral Sheridan's staff.
Three convicts, Green, Hamilton, and
an Indian, escaped Friday night from
the Arkansas Penitentiary.
The furnishing-goods house of Simms
Bros. Co., OF Boston, have suspended;
liabilities, $3.50, 600; extension probable.
The report Of the loss of the steamer
Ruby, with all hands, ON Puget Sound,
is contradicted. No accident occurred
| to her.
/ Warrants have been issued for the ar
rest OF ten more alleged Ku-KluX in
Todd county, Kentucky. Nine of them
have fled.
Two negro men. and boy were
1 drowned at Memphis Saturday, the skitl
in which they were towing being drawn
under barge.
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ington at Kiddeyille, KY, on Friday
morning. They quarreled about a won.
an. All colored.
i All the Pennsylvania car-builders. ex.
amlners, etc., members of the III, and l.,
b. A., who were suspended, will resume
work for the Philadelphia and Reading
} Railroad.
The grlnding-mill connected with the
Miami Powder-mills, near Yellow
Springs, exploded early Saturday morn
ing. Fortunately no lives were lost
and the damage is but slight.
The proposed procession in New York
in honor Of the late John Mitchell, anC
funeral Oration in the Hippodrome, was
abandoned, the police authorities hay
ing refused TO give their consent to the
parade.
!, All the papers submitted with the ap
plication Tor a renearing of the. case o.
FItz John Porter have been referred tC
, the Attorney General, who will prepare
ah opinion, III conjunction with Judge
Advocate General Holt.
The train on which were the Indiana
: editorial excursionists jumped the track
: between Tallahassee and Jacksonville
4 Florida, and the quill-drivers received
u very lively shaklng up and some
bruises, though none were seriously i'll
jured.
While attempting to arrest some par.
ties suspected OF burgling the Court
house Of Stone county, Missouri, tn
!. Sheriff met with resistance from an OF
Z ganized gang 0farmed desperadoes, an,
/, one man was Killed. A serious contlic
is anticipated. III
r James Lick, Of San Francisco, has file,
, in the Recorders Office a revocation o
: the trust deed executed last July, con
yeying his property TO Trustees ior yari
GUS benevolent purposes. He proposes
: to amend his bequests and administe
upon them himself.
Ell On Thursday last Louis A. Middleton,
J editor OF the West Point Miss. Times
|, was shot and killed by d. L. Love, edi
/ tor Of the West Point Citizen, ior an OF
l fensive article published by Middleton
: Love demanded q retraction, which be
, ing refused, he drew a pistol and sho
! Middleton four times, killing him instant
! ly and then made his escape.
: On last Tuesday it was discovered
5 that the house OF an old man named Ey
ans, who lived by himself five miles iron
!: Trenton, Missouri, had been burned. Oh
searching the ruins the charred remain,
OF the old man were found. A fellow
n named Sayers has confessed that he an(
two other men, named Phillips and Corn
well, went to the house Monday night
, knocked Evans down, beat him with
!, club, plundered the house OF money an,
other yaluables, and then fired it. Phil
! lips and Cornwell are arrested, an,
! threats oflynchlng are freely made.
A dispatch from Victoria, Vancouver
Island, reports the equinoctial hurrican
= Wednesday last, doing much damage /
. property. Many buildings were un
!, rooted and blown down, trees uprooted
I. and telegraph lines demolished. Tn
, bark Stella cut away her masts to avoi
II drifting ashore in the harbor. Tn
/ schooner Industry sunk in the harboI
! A number of persons were injured, bu
! 4 no lives are reported lost. The mai
+ steamer Mohong0, from Sanfrau, had he
, paddle-boxes stove, lost her pilot-house
j and narrowly escaped laundering in nth
i gale.
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