The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-10
CIRCLE OF CITIES.
News Notes Cleaned and Garnered by
Star Special Reporters.
Chicago.

THEY HAVE GoBBLED OUR BOY WITH TAIL.
Special to the Star.
CHICAGO July l0-Mr. Rehn, father of
the boy with tail, reached here with his
child from Cincinnati to-day. He will not
allow the child to be publicly exhibited,
and is fearful that he may be kidnapped for
show purposes.
81. Louis.
SEVERAL sHooTIsTS-DEAD D0INGs OF OLD
soL-DRoWNED AND sCICIDED.
Special to the Star.
ST. LOUIS July 10.-Erb, the wife muir
derer, will be placed on trial next Monday.
His defense will be insanity
Last evening Frank Roddy, the eight
year-old son of Mrs. Roddy, residing at No.
1 ,52O South Seventh street, was drowned in
the river at the foot of Barry street.
The city has made extensive preparations
for hot weather and sun-strokes Extra
ambulances and ice-caps have been pro-
vided. There we're six cases of sun-stroke
reported yesterday afternoon, four result
ing fatally.
Elizabeth Lewis took an overdose of NOR
phine and died at 612 South Seventh street
yesterday evening.
The report that the Wabash and the st.
Louis, Kansas City & Northern Railroads
are consolidated under the name of Wa
| bash, ST. Louis & Pacific is not confirmed.
Mrs. Julia Beude who shot Oferman,
her brother-in-law, was arrested yesterday
and released under $4,000 bail. Offerman
is out of danger.
Louisville.
FIRE THIS MoRNING-DFATH OF A VOCALIST, ETC.
| Special to the Star.
LOUISVILLE, July 1O.-The old Henry Theater,
now Eclipse Hall, was pretty well cleaned out by
| fire this morning. Loss $1,000
AT the races this evening Rarus, Trinket and
so-so will try their mettle,
| Yesterday afternoon, about O'Clock, Mrs. Sid
nay CARL Harris, the songstress died at the resi-
dcnce OF Mr.. Wood Merriwether, this city. She
was well known as q concert singer.
| Yesterday the answer OF Judge Thomas F. Har-
gis to the petition of Mr. Thomas NJ Green was
| filed in the Common Pleas Court.
Andrew Keeneman was buried last evening by
the caving OF bank and received fatal injuries.
Indianapolis.
A FATAL ASSAULT - CATHOLIC MATTERS -
DROWNED, ETC.
Special to the Star.
INDIANAPOLIS, July 10.-James Craig, a
dry goods dealer in Franks Block, yester-
day made ferocious assault on James
Long, janitor Of the building. Long is
sixty years old and will not recover. Craig
was arrested.
The Catholic Knights of America at
tended requiem mass this morning, at
which Bishop Chatard officiated, after
which he addressed the association. They
elect officers to-day.
| Robert Whitman, aged twenty-one years,
was drowned while bathing in White River,
near the Charlottesville bridge early last
evening.
The corner stone of the new st. Joseph
Catholic church will be laid ON one week
from next Sunday.
| Baltimore.
FEMALE BAsE-BALLIsTs- s-REPENTANT sUIcIDIsT
PIGEON RACE
Special to the Star
BALTIMORE, July 10-Fully two thousand
people went to Newington Park to see two
female mines play base. e.ball, and as many
more saw the game from neighboring
housc-tops. 1t was an Indifferent game.
| John Zimmerman, from New York,
jumped from Kerr's wharf with suicidal in
tentions yesterday, but striking the water
he changed his mind, and cried "murder!"
An officer tished him out.
A great carrier pigeon fly will come of
here in thirty days to decide the pigeon
championship of the State.
Alexander Hollingswell, aged twenty
three, painter, fell from the scaffold OF a
house in Northeast Baltimore at noon to-
day, and was killed.
| PittsbUrg.
| JOHN A. sMULL FOUND DEAD IN BED.
| Special to the Star.
| PITTsBCRG, Pa, July 10.-John A. Smull Resi-
dent Clerk OF the House OF Representatives at
Harrisburg and author of Smulps Handbook, for
years Il standard authority in matters of State
| politics, was found dead in bed this morning at
the Girard House. Philadelphia. He mad been in
public lite thirty years, beginning as page in
1888. He was wealthy and unmarried.