The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-21

ElpcJrIc CurreMVs.

Seydewitz has been appointed President
of SlIesia.
Mr. Johnson's residence burned at Woos-
ter Ohio.
The Conservative Bulgarian Cabinet has
been formed.
Favre, the contractor Of st. Gothard tun.
mel, died of apoplexy.
State Senator Ford, of Maryland, was
drowned at Ocean City.
The Gates murder trial is resumed at
Trontou Ohio this p. m.
Harry Palmer, of Jarrett & Palmer, the
atrical agents, New York, is dead.
At Paduch KY, fire destroyed the
Post-otlice building on Main street.
John Smiths residence Monroe, Ohio,
with contents, was destroyed by fire.
]. A. Blacks store was burned by incen-
diaries at Ligonier Ind. Loss 81, 900.
Justice Prindevile of Chicago, has de-
cded that pool selling is not gambling.
The sculling match between Higgins and
Boyd takes place on the 18th Of september.
Three young men, Odum, Hathaway and
FicElin, were drowned at Washington,
Indiana.
The house and barn of Adam Wagner, in
Madison Township, Hancock County, o.,
were burned
Charles Gambetta claiming to be the
uncle OF Gambetta, has just died i'll an
almshouse in Milan.
Commander Beardslee, Of the L. s. ship
jamestown, has destroyed all the NooChe-
moo stills in and about Sitka.
Saturday morning, a boy named from
pey, near Defiance, was struck by a paSsln &
freight train and instantly killed.
Green Bros, cotton brokers of New York,
have notified the Cotton Exchange of IheiI
inability to meet their engagements.
The distillery of the Snyder Brothers, in
Trmble County, Kentucky, opposite Mad
ison, Indiana, was destroyed by fire.
+ At Newark, Ohio, while boy named Ro
| Brady was attempting to adjust betting ir
a saw mill, he was caught and instantly
killed.
VIM. Versailles. a Russian, was shot deac
| by man named Herman, while attemptin!
| to forcibly enter the latter's house, at Sltka
Alaska.
The Baltic takes out $1O,000,000 o
Sl2, 100000 four per cent. bonds which tn
First National Bank of New York sol,
early in the week.
The Mosel, which arrived in New Yorl
Yesterday, brings over six hundred steerag
passengers, mostly Russians, who alone rep
resent a capital Of 100000.
Napoleon Bonaparte (colored) was hanget
at Sardis, Mississippi Saturday, for tn
murder Of Tom Butler (colored) commit
ted on the 9th Of last August.
viii. Squires and wife attempted suicid
with laudandm by mutual agreement, a
Akron, O., but it was tzzle on tn
woman's part The man died.
John F. Newby's sawmill, Brownstown
Ind, was burned. In Union County, KY.
a man named James Lentree killed anothe
named Elisha Thompson. Whisky.
The principal building and stalls of tn
Clinton County, Indiana, Agricultural Sc
ciety, near Frankfort, were consumed b.
fire on Saturday, caused by boys playing il
some straw.
The steamships Santiago de Cuba, of Nev
York, and Scots Grey, of London, collide
in the Delaware, at Philadelphia Saturday
Both vessels were badly damaged, involy
ing a loss OF $4,000.
VIM. Kent and his wife, Elsie Kent, wer
arraigned in the Justices Court of Prov
dence, r. l., charged with blackmail, ST
ductiOn and adultery. The revelation {
their crime was horrible.
There is great excitement at Alexandri;
Virginia, over the proposed duel betN ee
Z. J. W. SOmmers, prominent druggs
and f. A. Howell, First Sergeant OF til
Alexandria Light Infantry.