The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-02-10
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Electric Currents.
Capt. Paul Boyton reached Pittsburg yes
terday. ..
John Bigelow, an old resident of Newark,
O., is dead
A deaf mute was killed by cars at Ko-
komo, Ind.
John Mitchell was killed by the cars at
Sandusky, O.
The Montenegrins occupied Spaiz and
Velibrado unopposed.
Samuel Matthews, Circleville 70. )young
man, committed suicide.
Louis s Sallngs, aged ffty-fve, commit
ted suicide at Baltimore.
Richard Heuser was fatally injured while
telling tree at North Vernon, Ind.
c. 0. Bertop, toys and Mrs. A. WILDER,
milliner. burned out at Keokuk, la.
Mauspeaker's grocery was badly damaged
by an incendiary fire at Champaign, Ill.
A treaty of commerce between Germany
and Samoa was signed the oath of January.
John Meyers lumber-yard, in st. Louis,
Mo-, was burned Friday night. Loss,
$4,000.
Thomas Richards veteran of the Black
Hawk war, committed suicide near Cham
paign, Ill.
Thomas Mendenhall, prominent bust
ness man of Salesville, Ohio made an as
| signment.
The sessions of the Reichstag, which
opens Wednesday next are expected to be
very stormy.
At Paducah, KY. Friday night, Martin
Devitts residence, valued at S., 900, was de-
stroyed by fire.
General Durbin Ward s residence at Leb-
anon, O., was burglarized, and $500 worth
of jewelry carried off.
Mrs Hoffman, an aged lady of Cleveland
o., died Saturday from the effects of coal
gas, which she inhaled.
Four men, including the captain and
mate, were saved from the British ship Van
Dieman, lost by collision.
The United Presbyterian Church at Mil
roy, Ind, was fired by an unknown incen-
diary and totally destroyed.
A colored woman, over one hundred years
old, was found dead in her house at Ports
mouth, N. II. Rats had eaten her face.
JOS B. Walker, aged seventy-nine, an ex-
tensive land owner of Valley Forge Penn,
committed suicide by cutting his throat.
James Lorenzo Richmond suicided Satur-
day at the residence of his brother-in-law
Judge Elmer Adams, in st. Louis, by shoot
ing.
Schubach, of Munich, has been COM
missioned by the Emperor to paint the
portrait of Bismarck for the National Gal
lery.
| A cooking main between New York and
| Westchester was fought Saturday. Thir-
teen battles were fought. New York won
| 7 toe.
The mill of Frank Nicoln, at Jordan,
Mimi, was burned Sal alurday morning.
Loss on the mill and elevator, $4,000; in
sured for $40 900.
The Philadelphia police raided Enoch's
Variety Theater, capturing the proprietor,
his wife, forty one women and one hundred
and eighteen boys.
Citizens OF Omaha and vicinity have
shipped a carload of flour to Glasgow,
Scotland, for the relief of the unemployed
and distressed in that city.
The Ameer is sick. and has abandoned his
journey to Tashkend. Yakoob Khan con-
tinues to send daily reports to the Ameer
regarding the state of affairs at Cabul.
The English Government has at last re-
solved to prohibit the landing of live cattle
from America at any English, Scotch or
Irish port after the 2Sth of February.
At Akron, Ohio, Saturday, Darius Weeks,
a juryman in The case of the State VS.. Cart
wright, charged with resisting an officer,
was stricken with paralysis in the Court
room.
Daniel Mills house, near Ft. Wayne
Ind, was destroyed by fire Saturday. Jesse
and John Hyler, hired man, fatally
burned.
Twenty-Five hundred Catholic ladies of
the Rhine Provinces have forwarcd peti-
tion to the Emperor against the suppression
of the Ursuline Converts of Nennenwerth
and Therwailer.