The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-06-05
WHAT THE WrREs WHISPER.

WHAT THE WIRES WHISPER.
DR.. V. Kersey, prominent physician n
of Richmond, Ind, died yesterday.
Charles Churchill, Fort Wayne boat
man, failed In an attempt to suicide by
poison.
Henry Grouse, charged with shooting,
with intent to kill, Isaac Stigus, was
bound over to Court at Urbana, o., yes
terday.
The Myers Cadets, of Toledo, were
awarded them at the Chicago army re-
union.
Thomas Mckenzie and James McNally
were arrested at Cold. Springs, KY,
Thursday night, while trying to rob a
freight car.
| Matthias Entz, of Lebanon, o., was shot
yesterday by his .brother-in-law, George
Gonyon. Entz is still living, and Gony0n
has fed. Some family disturbances
caused the trouble.
| The United States steamer Michigan
left Erie, Pa, yesterday, for Detroit.
Hon. Henry Rowle, Mayor of Erie, and
Republican nominee for State Treasurer,
is the guest Of the officers.
| The store OF Thomas Turner, of Mari
eta, o., was burglarized and dry goods
to the amount Of $500 carried off. 1t is
supposed 10 be the work Of three men,
who left in skiff on the Ohio river.
A quarrel occurred among some men
In Anton Huter's saloon, in the western
suburbs OF st. Louis, yesterday morning,
and Huber drew a revolver and sh0t
John Condor in the heart, killing him
Instantly.
Treadwell & Co., agricultural imple-
ment dealers, of San Francisco, have
suspended payment. Liabilities over
s500,00O. 1t Is thought in business cir.
cles they may pull through If granted. an
Extension.
A man named Job Pence committed
suicide at Eaton, o., by cutting his
throat with q razor. The supposed
cause was family troubles. Pence was
about forty years old, and was in goot
circumstances.
Chief of Police Majors arrested the
parties that committed the murderoui
assault upon Isaac Sperry at Mt. Yer
non. They will have a hearing as soor
as the wounded man has recovered suf
fcient'to appear against them.
The New York Evening Post says
"We learn that w. s. Leslie, receiving
teller in the clearinghouse of Duncan
Sherman & Co., has absconded, taking
with him $12, 900 of the cash OF the firm
He had long been in their employ"
A little son of James. Fitzmartin, oil
Urbana, o., was left to take charge Of
the baby for q - moments. He got 9
loaded revolver from q bureau drawer
and was playing with it, when it went
off, tearing his left hand in terrible
manner.
Il A committee has been formed at El.
mira, N. Y, of which Ex-Congressmar
J. A. Boardman smith is head, to make
arrangements for the erection of a mon.
ument to the Confederate dead, nearly
5000 of whom lie buried IN Woodlake
Cemetery there...s.s ...S.- ss.-,,.s-e....-v
Two well-known farmers, living min
; miles from Marion, Williamson county
quarreled Thursday about the rent of o
farm. Cluts stabbed Perigan twice Will
a Bowie-knife, and Perigan almost sew
cred one of Cluts' arms and laid bare
three Of his ribs with an ak. Cluts il
expected to die and Perigan is in Jail.
During the night of May 10, burglary
was committed at Oudshoorn, FL olland
and among the property stolen were
ten bonds of a thousand dollars each oil
the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad
Company, twelve of the same denomina.
tion Of the Winona and st. Peter Rail-
road Company, fourteen coupons of the
Winona and st. Peter Railroad Com
pany, and twenty of the Chicago and
Southwestern Railroad Company, rep
resenting. about $4,000.
A terrible accident occurred at S:3l
O'Clock last evening on the Cincinnati
Sandusky & Cleveland Railroad, two
miles from Sandusky. The boiler OF the
engine exploded and killed Thos. Larkin
engineer, mortally wounded Jos. Lees
fireman, and severely injurIng Thomas
Ranahan; engineer on the Baltimore
Pittsburg & Chicago road, who was In
the cab on the way to Tiffin to take his
train. The bodies were brought to San.
dusky at II O'Clock last night. The cause
Of the explosion is not known.
The jury in the Holyoke disaster find
that no blame is to be attached to any
person in the immediate connection with
the fire, but they CAN not too strongly
condemn the almost criminal careless
ness shown in the construction Of the
galleries and means Of egress therefrom
The jury declare that the parties who
built and suffered such death-trap to
stand, should receive the unmeasured
censure OF the community. The jury
further find that the direct cause of the
fire, with its terrible sacrifice of human
life, is attributable to the use of trim
mings OF laces, paper, &C., about the
altar, and to the fact that the building
was sheathed with pine sheathing, in
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