The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-02-14

Hail stones as large as hens eggs fell
at Lebanon, Indiana, last night.
Henry Watterson, Of the Louisville
Courier-Journal, is still seriously i'll.
Barnhart Brothers saw mill, Marion.
Ohio, burned yesterday. Loss, $4,000.
Judge j. L. Elliott, late of the Indiana
Supreme Court, died at New Castle, In
diana, yesterday.
Henry Clews has been unanimously re-
admitted as a member OF the New York
Stock Exchange.
The Calendar Clock mandatory at
Ithaca, New York, was burned Satur.
day; loss $4,000.
Sir Baldwin Wake Walker, formerly
Surveyor General OF the British Navy, is
dead, aged seventy-three.
The House Committee ON Pacific Rail-
roads have agreed to recommend the pas
sage Of the Tom Scott Texas Pacific
Railroad Bill.
Count Won Arnim has petitioned the
Emperor for permission to 60 to Berlin
without being liable to arrest, In order
to be with his sick son.
Dr.J. McMahon, of Mt. Vernon, Ohio,
is missing. So is neighbor's wife.
The two are supposed to be ON the road
to California, leaving weeping families
behind.
Andreas Fuchs, the butcher OF W. w.
Simmons on the 3d inst, was. arraigned
i'll the Brooklyn Court and pleaded "Not
guilty." His trial was set down for
March 3D..
The st. Mary's River ls on high, and
much damage is reported Ill the vicinity
Of Fort Wayne, Indiana. A half mile of
1 r q o. Iun Ec af Al
river is washed away.
| General Gideon j. Pillow has filed q
petition i'll bankruptcy, assigning among
he Is held responsible personally for his
acts as Major General In the late war.
The Sultan has agreed to grant am
nesty TO insurgents submitting immedi
ately. Austria will thereupon with
draw the subvention granted the Turk
ish refugees and order them TO return
home.
Three murderers were convicted anC
sentenced to be hung: Rubenstein, the
murderer Of Sarah Alexander, at Brook
lyn; Fletcher, the slaughterer of Hanley
at Philadelphia, and Ward, who killed
Meirs, at Belvidere, Nj.
| Packer, the teller of the National
Bank of Commerce, of New London, W he
robbed the vaults OF $21, 800, made resti
tuition of all except 1900, for which the
bank is fully secured. Packer says that
he had no precOnceIved notion of taking
the money, but committed the crime in q
moment, being overcome with tempta.
ton.
In the Babcock trial at St. Louis, the
greater part Of Saturday was taken uI
with arguments OF the counsel ON the
admissibility of certain kilograms said
to have passed between Babcock and
Mcdonald and Joyce without the point
being decided by the Court. Deputy
! Commissioner Rogers, who was in Com
missioner Douglass Office In Washing
ton, testified to having conversations
with Babcock about the transfer of Reye-
nue. officers at st. Louis. President
Grants deposition in the case was taken
at Washington, but will not be made
public until read in the trial at st. Louis.
The House Committee to investigate
the affairs of the Freedmen's Bank had
before it the Secretary OF the Seneca
| Sandstone Company, who described the
means by>which the Freedmens Bank
for debt of some $4,000, now amount
| ing, with interest, TO about 100000, was
induced TO take as collateral security
second mortgage bonds of the company
| for sos 200, which are ofno market value
whatever. He also produced the stock
book of the Seneca Sandstone Company
which showed that one day certificates
of stock for two hundred shares each
were issued to U. 8. Grant, Gen. Dent
Surgeon General Barnes, w. II. Seward
E. B. Washburne, Caleb Gushing and b
| b. French.