The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-04-03
FLASHES.

Government has given orders for the
protection OF foreign residents at MaJa-
| moraS.
| The First National Bank of La Crosse,
! Wisconsin, has closed its doors. Cause
not known.
| The prisoners in Jail at Brenham,
Texas, attempted escape, but were all
| captured in the jail-Yard.
Col. Edward T. Jones, a prominent
President OF Canton, Miss, suicided at
Jetfersonyille, Ind, yesterday.
AT Fairmount, w. Va, fire origin
ated in Swerker's carpenter store and
| destroyed property worth $l25,000.
Mollie Holbrook, OF Chicago notoriety,
! and Mary King were arrested in New
| York yesterday while shop-iitting.
The famous race-horse, Ballankeel, has
| beeh ratired from the turf on account of
an at1iction caused by the epizootic.
A skiff containing three colored men,
struck the bridge at Leavenworth, Kan
sas, and two Of them were drowned.
! Isaac Page, OF Gardiner, Me-, yester-
day killed his wife, who had just given
birth to a child, and then killed himself.
The bill for the taxation of church
| property was rejected in the Massachu-
| sets ssa House by a large majority sasar-
| A fire at Bluffton, Indiana. destroyed
Waring, Studybakcr & Co.'s fax mill
aud contents. Loss $4,000; no insur-
ance.
The office of the United States Express
Company at Akron, Ohio, was robbed
Friday night OF some 5000 by unknown
parties.
A. dispatch from Mackinaw represents
the prospects for an early opening OF
navigation not favorable. Ice is heavier
than it was fortnight ago.
General Rice, the post-trader broker,
testified that he obtained four post
traderships for other parties for pay, but
that he paid nothing to Belknap.
4 A reduction of the wages of the brake
men OF the Lehigh Valley Railroad has
caused strike. Several Of the men
have been arrested tor stopping freight
trains.
John Ackerman, aged eighty-seven
years, pensioner of the war OF 1872,
and the last surviving witness of the
Hamilton-Burr duel, died at Scipio, o.,
yesterday.
The Post-ofilce Department has re-
lceived notice OF the ratification by the
IOdPbAGbC 0OfOlHhOhI vi buO duuAtiOudl
lpostal agreement concluded between the
United States and Japan.
Il The drug store of DIR. Cobleigh and
and the crookery store OF William Hill,
at Warren, o., were almost DESTROYED
by fire yesterday morning at 2 O'Clock.
Loss $4,000; insurance $500; no insur.
ance on drug store.
i, BelPs story about his connection in
the Babc6ck case is generally discred.
ited and denied. The various parties
say that he came to them and proposed
10 DO what he said he did in the case,
but that his services were refused.
The Fort Clarke Horse Railway Com
pany's stables and buildings at Peoria,
ILL.,, were destroyed by fire Friday night,
together with seventeen horses and nine
mules, which were burned to death
Loss about $1,000; insurance, $4,000.
II Martin South, son. OF j. w. South,
! lessee and keeper Of the Kentucky Peni
tentiary, was assassinated at his stal
| in the market at Frankfort, Saturday
tWalter Stephens, prominent butcher
was arrested. charged with the crime.
4 c. s. Bell, who testified before tn,
, Committee on War Expenditures, wal
ri assaulted by man named Mollere in 9
. hotel in Washington, Saturday. Bel
was seated in the hotel when Moller,
II entered and, walking up to him, strucl
ties we're separated, and Mollere left the
hotel.
On Thursday morning the store oil
Hirsh Brothers, at Somerville, .Tennes
see, was broken open by party Of dis
guised men, fifteen in number, who, after
beating the two young Hlrshes, tiet
y ropog around their necks and dragged