The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-03-13
WHAT THE WIRES WHISPER.

j. Stocher's saloon building at ALI
ance was burned Thursday night.
w. +. Grant, editor of The Grand Rap
ids News, has left for parts unknown.
Harry Fracker has been appointed
Gauger Of the Seventh Kentucky Dis
trict.
The Ex.Empress Eugenie has, 1t is
said, just contracted another private
loan.
George P. Benis has sued the Credit
Foncier for $l2, 600 salary due as Secre-
tary.
The war against salo0n-keepers has
again been commenced In Kentland,
Indiana.
Brigham Young returned home from
the penitentiary yesterday with an es-
cort OF friends.
The Puddlers' lockout in Pittsburg
continues without any material change
in the situation.
| A party is advertised to leave Bis
marck for the Black Hills next week,
and another April 9th.
The San Francisco Board of Brokers
| yesterday subscribed $4,000 for the re-
| lief OF Kansas and Nebraska sufferers.
Mrs. l. ouisa Clarkson, mother of Right
| Rev. Bishop Ciarkson, died in Omaha
| Thursday evening at the age OF seventy.
A big banquet Will shortly be given in
ST. Louis to Captain Eads in recognition
of his efforts for the improvement OF the
Mississippi river.
! Will S. Hays, the popular American
song writer, fell down q short flight OF
stairs at the Public Library Hall last
night and was slightly injured.
The Western Savings Bank of st.
Louis, O small institution in the western
part OF the city, closed doors on Friday.
The officers say they will pay every dol
lar of Indebtedness.
| The creditors of Roe Bros, Chicago
wholesale merchants, who failed last
| winter, at a meeting yesterday agreed to
accept the proposition Of the firm to pay
ltwenty-four cents on the dollar.
+ Mrs. Sarah Il. Easton suicided at Yir.
ginia City, Montana, yesterday. With
| revolver she shot herself through the
breast. Probable cause, domestic trou'
| BILE.
W. j. Murphy, a planter on Red river.
near Fulton, Ark, was shot and killed
by man named Jones, on Thursday,
and robbed of $4,000 in gold and curren.
ey. The murderer escaped.
Snow-slides in Big Cottonwood Can.
yon, Utah, have been frequent of late,
and at present the canyon is impossible,
at one place the road being covered to
the depth of fifty feet deep tor nearly a
mile.
The B. & NJ. Railroad Company in Ne.
braska has filed bill in the Uniled
States Circuit Court against the Union
Pacific Railroad Company, claiming title
| to 300,000 acres OF land now i'll posses.
sion OF the latter company.
What was known as the Boston Eleva
tor at Lake City, Minnesota, burnet
/ yesterday. The building was wortt
4 $50, 900, and insured for $l9,600. The
warehouse contained rs, ,000 bushels o.
wheat, most of which was insured.
| A fire on West Indiana street, Chica.
i 70, last evening, destroyed a house be.
longing to e. r.. Watson, and damaged
dry goods belonging 10 Stark Bros. te
the amount of tilty thousand dollars
fully insured.
Il Lieutenant-General Sheridan arrived
In New York Thursday evening from
w Washington, and left yesterday morn
ing tor Chicago. He' will go from Chi
caEo, in a few days, to Leavenw0rth
and will proceed thence to New Orleans
where he expects to arrive in about twt
weeks from date.
A Burglars broke into the depot of tn,
!, Chicago, Ridgeville & Fort Wayne rail
!, road, at Ridgeville, last night, burst ope:
trunks and carried off large amount O
clothing, sc. They were making strong
. efforts to open the ticket case when the.
were frightened away. No arrests.
A man named W. W. O'Brien, book
keeper and cashier for wholesale liquol
firm in Toledo, has defaulted and fec
from the country into Canada. OBriel
was hitherto regarded as perfectly trust
worthy, and had been sent out by thu
firm to collect some two thousand dollars
in claims. How much OF this amount h
, obtained is not definitely known.
A letter from London states that tht
, banquet to the Prince Imperial, at Wool
+ wich, has given rise 10 a good deal o
criticism, both there and in France. Th'
, commander of the garrison, who presid
ed, made an exceedingly fulsome speecl
[ in pl aise If the. Prince, and even went s.
| far as to expfess the hope that tn
, swords of the English officers might ont
day be at his service. 1t Is understood
, that the Prince is TO be attached to th,
, staff of the Duke oi Cambridge.
Il e. G. Chilson, Methodist ministe
' from Waterv1lle, Kansas, arrived at lie
lena, and was domiciled at the lnterna
tional Hotel. While the guests were a
. dinner to-day fire was discovered il
his room. Several men attempting t.
|, enter the room were knocked down ant
seriously injured by Chilson, who wa
: discovered to be insane, and had set th
bedding on fire. The fire was ex
: tinguished with slight loss. Chilson wa
oyerpowered and conveyed to the asy
lum.
4 AT Bryan, Ohio, last. evening a fir
broke out in. Letchers Block, occupiel
} Iby j. Collier, boots and shoes; j. N
Ryan, jeweler; Letcher u Co., produce
! and tie U. 8. Express Office; the secon,
i story by DR.. Keiser, and the third stor.
! lby billiard saloon. The goods wer
i nearly all saved. The north wall fell
; demolishing a two-story frame adjoining
owned and occupied by M. o. Quilkel
!. Bros, grocers, whose stock was re
0 moved. On the south the fire spread t
/ | the Myers Block, occupied by Bryan
0 Willet u Co., dry goods, and the Free
: masons' Lodge. Loss estimated a
forty to fifty thousand dollars; about hal
4 insured.
81 Clara Morris, the actress, in a lette