The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-08-21
LOCAL NEWS.


must TALL.
The will of Henry X. Hobbs was ad
mitted to probate.
VIM. ZwECKBRONER was appointed
administrator OF GOtLlieb Handle. Per-
sonalty, $500.
THOMAS G. QUINN, ESQ.,, delinquent
| Water-rent collector, returned to-day TO
the shades OF private llte.
q. BART. CHAPMAN is on deck again
in the Health Office, and looks as though
| he had been taking a healUh-lift.
JOHN f. BELL thinks that the side.
walks of Cincinnati are in worse con-
dition than those of any city IN the
United States. He didn't say any thing
about the streets.
BARRISTER TRAVIS, who has been re-
tanned by Burrell Dudley, the Lockland
murderer, went to LccSland TO execute
a mortgage on the mans little homestead
| for his fee, $500. Mrs. Dudley emphati-
caly informed the Majah that she'd like
to see her husband hung, and never
would sign the papers.
THE libel case of l.. Barney, of the
Trade List, against Robert Innes and
Gerold Gordon, of the Merchants and
Manufacturers Review, was called last
Saturday afternoon before Squire Fred.
A. Johns on. The defendants waived an
examination ana were bound over in the
sum OF $500 each.
MEssRS. BLACKBURN AND HUNT, at
torneys Of l. n. Rltcnie, who, last week,
was bound over to the Grand Jury on
the charge OF murder in the first degree,
in the killing of Barney Geisler, made
an application in the Probate Court to
llNy ifnn a Il
bail. The case will be heard tomorrow
BRUCE WILLIAMS, a young colored
man, was liked" by Judge Lindemann
this morning ON the charge of knock
ing down and robbng Smith
| the other night. He was bound over TO
the Grand Jury. For getting drunk on
the money he goes for thirty days to the
| Work'house. For giving the arresting
officer considerable trouble he was fined
$50 and costs.
JOHN MCDERMOTT, after getting tired
of playing baseball in the MilIcreek
bottoms yesterday, shouldered his bat
and started for home. When on the
corner of Wade and Cutter streets
he saw colored man. He
struck at the man and the bat made a
base hit on a saloon window, and then
McDermott made a home run for the
OllVer-street Station-house. He will
get his little dose next Friday.
. TURNER LACEY, a colored man, ac-
cuses Joseph Prues and John OBrien
with rObbing him of a ring and other
trifling articles Sunday Afternoon,
while he was passing the corner
of "Cheapsde" and Ninth street.
This morning Judge Lirdemann
bound them over to the Grand Jury on
the charge of highway robbery. Kate
jenkins swears that Prues is the man
who so brutally beat up Officer John
Holland recently in BucEtown.
SAMUEL BACoIoCco, a two-hundred
FOUNDER, who lives at No. 1874 George
street, and who keeps saloon at the
streets, was picked up from the brick
pavement OF his yard this morning with
a broken arm, u bruised side and
a dislOcated elbow. He fell from
the third story window of his
residence, and says he must
have been walking in his sleep. Drs. o.
E. Davis and }. j. Quinn say he'll he all
right again in few days. A board
fence on which he "lit' looks as though
it had been struck by lightning.
JouN SCHROEDER and Ii. G. Burton ap-
peared in the Police Court this MORN
ing charged with larceny. On
Saturday afternoon, 1t is alleged,
they went into Julius Mitthofers
jewery store corner of Main and Hunt
street, and, while apparently intent on
making n selection Of some gold rings
which they wished to purchase, substi-
tuted brass ones. Going to Mr.. Neiman's
store. at No. $50 Main street, they had
good luck, it is said, as they got away
with four rings, leaving those Of base
metal. The defendants not being ready
for trial their cases were set down for
tomorrow.