The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-02-26
LOCAL BREVITIES.


TIE Finance Committee of Council meets
this afternoon.
The Investigation Committee of Council
hold meeting tomorrow evening at half
past o'clock in the City Buildings
Mr. FRANK J. Mort, clerk at S. b Stone
d Co.'s coal elevator, has young son at his
house. Mother and child doing well.
Rev. J. H. HuNrLEy will deliver his lee
ture on DAY and Night in London" at
the Plumstreet Universalist Church next
Friday evening.
ARCHBISHOP PURCELL has written a card
denying the statement that the German
Catholics of the city either feel or express
no sympathy for him.
Boz FoRsYrHE, the ticket agent who alb
seconded few days ago after disposing of
several valuable tickets to scalpers, has
been heard from. He is in Leadville
Two little lads, respectively ten and
twelve years of age, have been missing since
yesterday morning from the home of their
mother, Mrs. Lena Weiman, No. 726 Elm
street.
The twenty eighth annual commence
Rent exercises of the Cincinnati College of
Medicine and Surgery were held last night
ct Pixies Opera-house. The house was filled
10 oyerfowing.
fHE Sinking Fund Commissioners came
TO decision yesterday afternoon on the
subject of the Southern Railway, which
will be submitted to the Trustees in joint
conference this afternoon.
The Workipgmen of the Fourteenth
Ward are requested to meet at No. 1856 Cen
tTaf avenue, on Friday evening" for the
purpose of nominating delegates to the
Convention which will be held March 1st at
Arbeiter Hall.
TnE transportation Committee of the
esengerfest last night elected J. J. Abbihl
Chairman and A. Hickenlooper Secretary.
The Press Committee also organized, elect
Ing Amor Smith Chairman and R. Burg
helm Secretary.
JOE MoFFATT, Councilman from the
Fifteenth Ward, shivers like an aspen leaf
In the cold winter winds Thieves entered
his house ON Monday night and stole every
stitch of his underwear, leaving him even
without socks "Eh, what?'
FREIGHT Train No. on the Louisville
Ghort-line ran over a horse near Ellison
Rtation yesterday morning, before daylight.
The engine and six cars were thrown from
the track but luckily no one was injured.
sequence OF the accident.
CONRAD RANTz, married man who has
family of six persons living in Whitewater
Township was brought down last night
and locked up in the County Jail on
charge of bastardy preferred by an unmar-
ried woman named Barbara Schardine.
Rantz is q nice SIC h)ardine.
fHE Hamilton County Republican Ex-
va N NJ toe M at Lost piubf T,,rDar
Hall, and resolved to hold the Convention
On March Goth and the primary meetings
under the Baber Law on the day previous
A. Committee of five was appointed to Sc
leet a hall in which to hold the Conven-
hon.
LAST night as party of young men were
going from the masquerade at Jefferson
Hall to that at Turner Hall one of their
humber (Andrew Salmon) was run over by
buggy, at the corner of Thirteenth and
Walnut streets. He was taken to his home,
E5. ~ Harrison avenue, and medical aid
summoned.
LAZARUS MEIss yesterday afternoon pre-
ferred the charge of grand larceny against
Mr.. Henry Weisenborn, the proprietor of
music store on Walnut street, near Fourth.
Meiss asserts that Weisenborn, under the
pFetense of making repairs, took his piano
sway from the house and then made an
assignment of his possession to Emil A.
fente The case comes up before Squire
bchwab tomorrow morning.
THE German Protestant Orphan Society
held its regular semi-monthly meeting last
night and elected six new members Mr.
Kruyter, the Superintendent, was granted
leave Of absence to 60 to indianapolis.
Rhe Treasurer reported that he had re-
90 for A hou
Henry Berg was given home at the Asy-
hlm, and the Secretary announced that
khe quarterly meeting would be held next
EuDday.
Lulu NEuBERT three -year-old daughter
Of Philip Neubert, residing at 493 Colerain
svenue, Camp Washington, was visiting the
EngiDehouse yesterday, where she was
quite fayorite, when one of the men, Sam
mel Coleman, placed her on the back of one
sfthe horses. Soon however, the child got
TOO near the animals heels and was kicked
b. it, fracturng the top of her skull, which
will likely prove to be fatal wound. Cole
man was also kicked by the horse and had
ane of bis legs broken.
AT the last meeting OF the University
Board private palaver was held by the
Board, and charges were made by some of
the Board that Prof. Ormond Stone was un-
eoie 10 teach, and that through his fault
the class in astronomical arithmetic had
eisbanded; that Prof. Clark was not compe-
tent to have charge of the laboratory, and
complaints were made against Profs Pit
man and Warder. The matter was referred
10 the Committee on Funds and Claims
With the Rector and the Chairmen of the
Committees on Academic Department,
School Of Design and Observatory.
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Sudden Death On a Train.