The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-29
CIRCLE OF CITIES.
News Notes Cleaned and Garnered by
Star Special Reporters.


LEGISLATURE ADJoURNED-GovERNoR vEToEs-
sKULLEsS BABE, ETC.
Special to the Star
DETROIT MICH, May 29.-The Legislature nd
iourned to-day. Ithas been an expensive luxury.
The Governor vetoed the Tramp Bill also the
Game Law Bill, prohibiting the expectation Of
venison.
United States Minister Birney, from TheHague,
has reached there. A delegation of his townsmen
from Bay City will meet him and do him honor
The Missouri State Editorial Association will be
here Saturday one hundred strong. They are now
at Toledo.
Mrs. webber, OF this city, cut with knife on
the head by another woman some months ago,
gave birth TO a child with no skull bones.
Pittsburg.
MONSTER RAILROAD FIGHT.
Special to the Star.
PTTTsBURG, Pa, May 29.-The important rail-
road suits OF the Baltimore & Ohio and New Jersey
Central Railroads and F. s. Lathrop and L. H.
Taylor stockholders in the junction Railroad vs..
the Juniata Railroad and p Railroad are on trial
in the United States Circuit Court
The object of the suits is to give to the B. o. q
direct line to New York The arguments will be
finished to-day. Fitz John Porter, J. C. Bullitt
and James E. Gowsn represent the plaintiffs and
Wayne McVeigh, Chapman Riddle and Ex-sena-
tor John Scott the defendants.
Louisville.
sUTCIDE-EscAPED FROM DEowNINg-NooRE GEN.
TESIAL, ETC.
Special 10 the Star.
LOUISVILLE, May 29-Mrs. Stephen Shotwell, a
most highly accomplished and respected lady,
well known In the best society Of the city, com
mitted suicide yesterday by jumping into the river
from the ferry dock at the foot OF First street. She
has been partially insane for some time.
Yesterday three boys-Mike Clerg, John Carr
and Pat Corrigan-were carried out upon the falls
in a skif and rescued from drowning by William
Devan, of the Life Station.
The Tom Moore centennial was duly celebrated
at Woodland Garden yesterday.
The six-months-old child of Charles Tidducio
was smothered TO death in bed by his six xyear-old
brother yesterday morning.
Minor Hawkins, an old negro, well known. fell
dead in the street yesterday.
st. Louis.
CoLoRED EXODUS CRIMINAL TRIALs-TEM-
PERANcE CONVENTION.
Special to the Star.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, May 29.-The trial of Jos.
Sanders, charged with the murder of Chas.
Breitensten, is still in progress.
The colored exodus is not yet thing of
the past and almost every boat arriving
from the Lower Mississippi brings few
families. Two boats came in yesterday
with forty-fve colored emigrsnts on board
who look forward to Kansas as their Ca
naan.
The first annual State Convention of the
American Temperance Association of Mis-
souri, closed with grand temperance rally
last night.
]. Philip Krieger, Jr., the Ex-Casher of
the Broadway Bank, who defrauded that
institution Of 100000, thereby causing it
to close its doors, has his preliminary ex-
animation to-day.
indianapolis.
A HOSPITAL MYsTERY-GRowERs AND BREED
ERs-HEAvY ROBBERY, ETC.
Special to the Star
INDIANAPOLIS May 29.-There has been
a good deal of mystery surrounding the
case OF Jennie Fouts, the young woman
who died at the City Hospital last Friday
night, and ugly reports are whispered con.
corning certain physicians, as there are in
dications of an attempt to produce abor-
ton.
The Wool Growers and Short-horn Breed
ers are enjoying an excursion around the
Belt Railroad to-day.
Michael Landrigan, living out on the
Three Notch Road, has been robbed of two
trunks, containing $1,SO0 in greenbacks,
$50 in gold, and many valuable papers.
The Grand Lodge of Masons adjourned
yesterday morning, to meet on the fourth
Tuesday in next May, after having COM
pleted the election of officers.