The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-05-18
FLASHES.

Dom Pedro took ride through st.
Louis yesterday.
Emperor William will visit Alsace
during the summer.
John O'Connor was sentenced to the
Penitentiary for Life at Louisville yes
terday.
A desperate, known as "The Califor-
man." killed two men in Nashville, ILL.,,
yesterday. he was not arrested.
The Semi-annnaI Convention of the
Western Tanners and Hide Dealers
Association is in session at Louisville.
No one was killed or even dangerous
ly injured by the accidenL to the militia
ry excursion train on the Petersburg
Railroad.
A cargo of over seven hundred tons of
Lake Superior iron ore was received at
Ashtabula Harbor Tuesday, the tirst ar
rival Of the season from Lake Superior.
J. G. Sanders, of Cheyenne, and two
others were killed by Indians few days
ago, on Sand Creek, near Custer City.
They were ont prospecting. AL were
scalped.
A man named King was attacked and
killed by Minor Mellon six miles from
Blair, Nebraska, Tuesday night. Kings
Drolner was also badly beaten and will
likely die. Cause OF the quarrel un.
known.
A report comes from Portsmouth, New
Hampshire, tnat Swedish woman, liv-
Ing on Smutty Nose, Isle Of Shoals, has
confessed, on her death-bed, that she
murdered the two women in April, 1873,
Tor which Louis Wagner was conyicsed
and executed.
Judge Drummond, of Illinois, has
| granted the application recently made
| by Herman OsJerberg for q deed of sale
1 of the Rockford, Rock Island & St.Louls
| railroad, as Trustee for the Dondholders
whom he represents.
The Lafaye cite, Bloomington & Missis.
1 sippi Railroad, a leased line of the 70.
led0, Wabash & Western, was sold on
Monday for debt. II was bought by Mr.
John L. Martin on behalf OF the bond
\ holders tor half u million dollars.
In the Yost~trial, at Pottsville, Penn
| syiyania, yesterday, Mrs. Kerrigan les
Tilted that Kerrigan, witness lor the
prosecution, left home the evening o
July s, having loaded pistol in his pos
| session, and that he did not return until
the morning following, when he told hel
he had shot Yost.s
The following Directors OF the Mis-
souri,, Kansas & Pacific Rad were yes
terday electeu; Il. Riggs, N. S. Nc
Cready, Francis L. Kiddy, j. l.. AgneW
II. A. Johnson, Jonn Elliott, Snephart
Candy, Henderson Moore, alb OF New
York; Erastus Corning, Of Albany, New
York; W. NJ. Gentry, of Sedalla, Mis-
souri,; b. p. Mcdonald, of Fort Scout
Kansas; q. Ii. Pratt, OF HUMBOLDT, Kan
sas, and N. U. Gross, OF Emporia, Kan
sas. 4
A man and woman, both drunk, wer,
seen 10 stagger down Chestnut street
in Philadelphia, at l O'Clock YESTERDAY
morning, proceed to the river, clas]
hands, and jump of the pier into th,
water. The man was rescued, but th,
woman was drowned. The man said Nil
name was Jonn Brown, and that he re
sided In New Jersey. He did not know
the woman, but had met her ON tn
| street, and they walked down together
The Woman's body was found in th
morning, BUT not identified.
The Eclectic Medical Association o
Ohio yesterday. elected s. II. Potter, o
Hamilton, President; r. Parker OF Be
rea, j. b. Watts OF Xenia, and j. u
Butcher OF Urbana, Vice Presidents
}. II. Mclaughlin, OF Springfield, Re
c0rding Secretary, o. Il. Iillson, o
West Aiexandria, Corresponding Secre
laryi and james Anton, Of Lebanon
Treasurer. A resolution was adopted
urging the preparation of petitions Il
the General Assembly asking that when
the Board of Health Law is passed Il
shall provide that all legalized schools
Of medicine shall be representa- on thai
Board;