The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-02-07
LOCAL BREVITIES.

LOCAL BREVlIlESs
ONE hundred and twenty-fye deaths
In the city last week.
THE new Baptist church Of Avondale
was dedicated yesterday.
TURKISH BATHS are to be established
soon at the Grand Hotel.
ToPsY HOWARD, who bit the officer
when he was arresting her, was sent up
Tor sixty days.
GILBERT AVENUE, just east of Efluent
Pipe street, is about impossible. ls the
Street Commissioner dead?
CHARLES MARSHALL, the colored man
who killed Red Williams, Yesterday, has
not, as yet, been captured.
ANDREW j. GLAEsER's beer saloon on
Sycamore street has been robbed of $40
worth Of cigars and other goods.
PETER DowD, drayman, thirty-five
years old, has been missing from his
home, No. 10 Milton street, since Satur-
day evening.
DIR. CRUIKsHANK, Ex-County Treasur-
er, is lying dangerously ill at his home
near Westwood, Green Township, with
hemorrhage of the lungs.
SAMUEL EARHART, of Madisonville,
IN. & G. R. r.. died there Saturday at
The age of ninety-three, on the same
farm on which he had lived since 1890.
THERE is bad land slide in the Bow
Ter Hill ON the line OF the College Hill
Railroad, north of Groesbeck avenue. A
retaining wall right there would be a
good thing.
MIKE MONOHUE, rather than promise
to accept one hundred days for the next
offense Of drunk and disorderly, chose
thNr kbon t,,nn fr,t fob mi 0f
thirty days for this otfense.
ONE OF Keeler's newsboys on the Bal
timore and OHIO Road, when near Balti-
more, was blown from the train the
night of the terrible storm, and SO badly
injured that he will probably die.
THE little French barber named John
Pierre Ferrie, who used to keep shop
ON the north side of Fourth street west
of Main, now occupied by Fountain
Lewis, died in New York city on The
I'd inst.
THE following named gentlemen have
been elected as members of the Old Vol
unteer Firemen's Life Association:
Messrs. John Gewes, Thomas j. Schell,
Henry Bielman, VIM. Wells, John Koch,
Herman Ficke and W. M. Hubbell.
A ooAL-oIL lamp explosion in room
at 296 court street, occupied by Mr.. and
Mrs. Holland, caused an alarm to be
sounded from box 96 at 8 O'clock last
night. The Hollands were absent at the
time. Loss about $50; insured i'll the
Washington Company.
ARBEITER HALL was crowded by about
two hundred and fifty Communists yes
terday afternoon Tor the purpose of dis
The Southern Road. VIM. Haller ad-
dressed the meeting in favor of the levy.
Nothing definite was done.
The amount asked by the Commission
ers appointed by the Superior Court,
Messrs. Pullan, Stone and Mansfield, as
pay tor fixing the compensation to be
paid the Southern Railroad Trustees, is
$1,000 apiece. They were employed over
seven months at their work.
MEssRs. Err, IRELAND & BAL
LEY, pork packers On Stark street, killed
this morning three hogs, the aggregate
weight Of wnlch was two thousand one
hundred and eighty pounds. One OF
them alone kicked the beam at nine hun
dred and twenty. They came from Rip
ley, Ohio.
Two HORSES, belonging to Mr.. G. M
Murch, attached to a carriage in which
Mrs. Murch was riding, became fright
ened on Poplar street and ran to Free
they eollided with street car and tht
vehicle was turned on It's side. Mrs
Murch was unirj lred.
JOSEPH DENNINGER, German timer
aged about forty years, living at Mt
Pleasant, ended his existence Frida
night by-cutting his throat with razor
He leaves wife and two children ii
comfortable circumstance. The caus
assigned for the deed is dependency
superinduced by intemperance.
PROFESSOR OSCAR ABRAHAMsoHN
who some time ago opened school il
this city for the teaching OF German, ii
succeeding admirably with his pupils
He came most eXceliently recommend
ed, and his experience here seems to b.
tully verifying all that was said OF hin
as u scholar and teacher. A number o
ais pupils are already beginning t
speak the German language quite well
and several Of them are already not onl
speaking but writing 1t.
RUDOLPH HEEMAN, a teamster livin
with his family at No. 81 Riddle stree
hanged himself with a strap in an Ou
house on mis- premises Saturday evening
He had been an intemperate man 70
some time, but some few weeks sine
determined to reform, and the change i
his habits made him gloomy and dt
spondent. This is one theory Of his sci
destruction. Another Is that persec,
tion by creditors whom he was unable
pay induced him to take his life. II
leaves wife and four children.
ALTHOUGH many are predisposed
lung trou lies from birth, yet even sue