The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-02-20
THE DAILY STAR
LOCAL BREVITIES.

TnE Independents of the Board of Trade
met yesterday and agreed upon ticket to
be put In the field.
ANY ONE finding Officer Dinsmore's badge
will confer favor upon him by leaving 1t
at Ninth-strect Station.
C. J. HARDINGHoUsE, clerk living at 5S
Clay street. is under arrest on the charge OF
trying to pass counterfeit half dollars at the
bali at Jefferson Hall.
THE Women's Foreign Missionary Society
of the Cincinnati Presbytery, held its
monthly meeting in the Second Presbyte-
rian Church yesterday.
THE Cincinnati Musicians Union held a
meeting yesterday afternoon for the pur-
pose of fixing on a regular price-list but
little progress was made.
A FINE portrait of Police Commissioner
Charles Jacob, Jr., by George Forbriger, is
on exhibition in Wilfert's window, corner
of Fourth and Walnut streets.
AN application from stranger in Kansas
for enrolment in the United States Secret
Service, at the earliest possible moment, is
the latest otfice-seeker heard from.
AMANN 4 Co., wholesale liquor dealers of
East Second street, who made an assignment
four weeks ago, have settled with their
creditors on basis of fifty cents on the
dollar.
The City Council has refused to provide
an armory for the Cincinnati militia, and in
consequence all of the companies, with the
exception of the Lytle Greys, are talking of
disbanding.
THE Robert Mitchell left last night with
large number of Cincinnatians for the
New Orleans Mardi Gras. Tomorrow the
Golden Crown will leave, and on Saturday
the Charles Morgan.
THE first public reunion of the Cincinnati
Kenyon College Alumni Association was
held last night at the Burnet House, on
which occasion twenty-eight of the old
graduates were present.
A SOLEMN requiem high mass for the re-
pose of the soul of J. N. A. Benziger Of
Benziger Bros, who died Sunday in New
York, was celebrated this morning at 8
o'clock at the Cathedral.
A HEAVY sentence was put upon three
more keepers of all-night houses this morn
ing, which is to be put into execution if
they fail to conform to the new law requir-
ing them to be closed at midnight.
JAS. SANrRY, fifty years DID, was drowned
in the canal near Lockland last night by
falling off the bridge He was under the
influence of liquor. He leaves wife and
several children Squire Voorhees, of Read
ing, held an inquest this morning.
JOSEPH SINNERS, five years old, whose
Parents live on Walnut street near Four
teenth, was run over by farmers wagon
on Thirteenth street near vine, about 6
o'clock last evening and badly injured in
ternally. He also suffered broken leg.
THE calico ball at Pixies Opera-house next
Monday promises to be the recherche affair
of the season. Its managers are from the
leading circles in Cincinnati society," and
the cause is one that commends it most
heartily to the patronage of our public
spirited citizens.
AT a meeting of the Cincinnati Chapter
American Institute of Architects, held YES
terday afternoon, the following officers
were elected for the ensuing year Presi-
dent, JAS w. Mclaughlin; Vice President
e. Anderson Secretary, Chas. Crapsey
Treasurer, Geo. W. Rapp
SERGEANT THORNTON and Officers Green
meyer, Delehanty and Sheedy raided the
house known as the "Modoc," at No. %
Broadway yesterday, from whence Mrs
Jane Williams and six Of her boarders were
taken prisoners, and sent to the Work
house for thirty days this morning.
GEORGE MEYERS and Valentine Bibner,
aged twelve and fourteen, who live in the
neighborhood of Bank street and Freeman
avenue, were caught last night in the cellar
of Max HauSer, No. 699 Freeman avenue
filling sack with tobacco, and were com
mitted To the House of Refuge this morn
ing.
THE twenty-sixth annual reunion of the
A. A. Scottish Rite Masons began yesterday
afternoon. The work yesterday afternoon
and evening was in the Lodge of Perfection
and this morning was Council of Princes of
int hn - D.,
Croix; Thursday, all day, Consistory S. P.
r.. S.
JUDGE BuRNET yesterday issued writ of
habeas corpus at the instance of Mrs. Lizzie
Broger to the Mother Superior of the Con-
vent of the Good Shepherd, on Baum street.
for the purpose of inquiring into the al
legged illegal restraint by the Superior of
her two little girls, aged ten and nine. The
matter will be heard in the course of day
pr two.
A SHOOTING affray occurred late last night
in a saloon at Camp Washington which re-
suited in John Asbach, basket-maker liv-
inc on Colerain avenue, receiving q severe
but not dangerous wound i'll the breast.
George D. Williams, carpenter living on
Mohawk street, who did the shooting, was
arrested this morning and put under $500
bail to appear Feb. 2Sth.
TIE Cincinnati NOlkSblatt III To-Day Is
sue publishes an item to the effect that the
officials of the Public Library permit {
great waste of gas; that the ,Janitor, while
cleaning up the building during the night
allows nearly every light in the building tc
burn from early in the night until morn
ing. If this is so it is the Superintendent!
duty to remedy the matter.
A Systematic thief has of late been pay
ing his compliments to the cigar store o
Nose Kramer, on Vine street below Sew
enth of late Mr.. Kramer has noticed tha
every time he or his clerk was engaged il
the rear a box of cigars would mysteriously
disappear. Nose has now purchased one 0
the big Colts and is waiting anXiously TO
another visit from the stub stealer."
BENJAMIN LEHMAN, colored man, quit
familiar to the police, has been arrested ant
will be tried one week from to-day on tn
charge of grand larceny. The warran
states That he picked the pockets of lad.
living in Oakland, last December, of $37, an,
of school teacher living on Clark street
last Friday, of $29. In the latter case h
was seen ard Detectives Cushman and Amp
thaue" we're mt upon his track