The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-05-08
FLASHES.

Jack Radcliff, Snowman, suicided at
Liberty, Ind, yesterday.
Hon. John A. Learing, ex xmember of
Congress, died on Saturday at Minneola,
Long Island.
Heavy and continued rains are report
ed throughout Kansas, with much dam
age to property.
A. j. Parshal arrived at Cheyenne on
Saturday from Custer with 81, 900 III Black
Hills gold dust.
The Consolidated Virginia Mining
Company declared dividend of two per
cent. on Saturday. The California de-
clared none.
At the Nashville races on Saturday
the first race was won by Nipper, the
second by Weatherby, and the third by
Brown Asteroid.
The Rowing and Boat Clubs Of Dublin
University have organized ajoint repre-
sentative crew of four to take in u con-
test at Philadelphia.
John McGregor, First Sergeant of Com
pany X, OF the Second United States
Cavalry, was accidentally drowned near
Fort Laramie yesterday.
Colonel Breadhead, United States
Pay master, was robbed Of 81, 600 by BAN
dts, near Yreka, Cal, on Saturday, and
his clerk slightly wounded.
The three-mile boat race for 81 900,
over the Charles River course, between
the Faulkner, Reager and City Point
crew, has been postponed for two weeks
The President has pardoned James E.
Marsh, Gauger, convicted in The West
ern DISTRICT Of Missouri of false returns,
on the ground that there was no inten-
| tional fraud.
Mr.. P. Lorillard's New York stable,
comprising Parole, Tigress, Durango,
Tampic0 and Benzine, has arrived at
| the grounds of the Louisville Jockey
Club irgood condition.
An explosion took place in the maga.
| zine OF the Delaware, Lackawanna d
| Great Western Railroad Company al
New York, killing one man and damag.
ing property to the amount of $50, 900.
The stockholders OF the Cincinnati,
Batavia & Williamsburg Railroad have
voted to extend its charter and the road
from Williamsburg to Portsmouth by
the way Of Winchester, and to increase
its capital stock from 100000 to $500, 900.
From all parts OF Illinois come further
particulars OF disasters by the tornado
OF Saturday. At Nevja train was
| blown from the track, and several pas.
sengers injured. At Pana, Blooming.
ton, Lincoln, Paris and other places,
houses were blown down or unroofed
aud much damage done.
The sentences on members OF the st.
Louis Whisky Ring on Saturday were as
| follows: Louis Kellerman, Gauger, six
months in the County Jail and 81 ,0OC
line; John e. Howard, Gauger; John A.
Mead, Gauger; r. b. Jones, Storekeep.
er; Henry Armstead, Storekeeper, each
fifteen months In the County Jail and
81 900 tine.
Chicago was on Saturday visited by a
tornado which seriously injured several
persons, damaged the Southern Michi.
gan Depot, the Palmer House, the old
County Hospital, and a number of small.
er buildings, ,prostrated several steeples,
blew the tower ana fog bell on the lake
crib into the lake, aud caused damages
amounting to $25O,O00. Leavenworth,
Kansas, was also visited by similar
storm earlier in the day, and nearly the
same amount OF damage inflicted.
The following questions were submit
ted to the Impeachment Managers BY
Belknap's counsel on Saturday: First
II two persons guilty Of crime, in office
cease to be officers 9t the same time, one
by removal, the other by resignation, Il
the one rather than the other subject tt
/ impeachment afterwardf II the distinc
tion between the two cases oxist, please
state. 6econd--Is private citizen liza
BILE to impeachment under the Constitu
ton Of the United htstess Il hje hAyip6