The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-03
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Detroit.

| Detr0bts
FATAL FOUNDING APPRAY - RAILROAD UNI
FoRNs-HEAyY SNOW STORM.
Special to ilse Star.
DETROIT, April 8. - Two men namet
Bruhaker and Schilling, living near Far
well, pounded VIM. Brownson and ther
carved him horribly. He will die. Family
trouble caused the row.
The Michigan Legislature will assuredlI
pass the law compelling all railway employ
es to wear uniforms and forbidding freigh
determinations.
| Their WIS a heavy snow storm through
the State yesterday which continues to
day.
PLAYED IT FINE on THE HARDWARE MEN.
Special to the Star
PITrsBuRG, Pa, April 3.-Two confidence
men to-day played it fine on spratt, John
ston & Co., the Liberty y-street hardware
men. While one engaged the attention ol
the only occupant of the store, the other
pried open the money-drawer of the safe
and took 500 in cash and s., 600 in notes.
Philadelphia.
BLOWN FORTY FEET INTO THE AIR.
Special to the Star.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, April 3.-The boiler
in Whites mill, at Frenchtown, N. j., ex-
ploded yesterday, killing the engineer, who
was blown forty feet into the air.
Louisville.
TENNEY LICKED THE WRONG sTAMP-ToM BU-
FORD INJAIL-THAT BAD BOY, BARNES, ETC.
Special to the Star.
LOUISVILLE, April SO. II. Tenney, a
prominent lawyer of Mount Sterling, ar
rived here last evening and reports that he
had been arrested by the U. s. Deputy Mar
shall OH the charge of having used a can
celed stamp on letter. He gave bail.
Col. Tom Buford PAGES uneasily up and
down the Jail corridors, utterly obliyious
to all around him. lie says his quarters
are very pleasant, but he is very anxious to
see some of his Woodford County friends
1t has been discovered that the suicide of
Define, the apothecary, was oCcasioned by
the sudden insanity of his son, and also the
insanity of his son-in-law.
Sheriff Hamilton leaves for Frankfort to-
day with eleven recruits for the Peniten-
tiary.
Last night Barnes Smith, negro impli-
Gated with the rapist Washington, followed
a young colored girl to church door and
struck her on the head with stone, in
hicting wounds which may prove fatal.
indianapolis.
woOD.sAwING coNTEsT-woRK ON THE STATE
HoCsE-CRIMINAL MATTERS, ETC.
Special to the Star.
INDIANAPOLIS, April "a wood-sawing
contest will take place at Shaw's carriage
depositoryon Georgia street thisafternoon at
3 o'clock with His Excelency Governor
Williams as umpire. This appears to be q
contest with some sense in it..
Coy. Williams left yesterday morning for
Jeffersonvlle, having been summoned by a
dispatch in consequence of the burning of
the cooper shopat the prison. He returned
last night.
Thirty men commenced work upon the
foundation of the State-house to-day.
Evidence was concluded in the Tate trial
yesterday, and arguments of counsel com
menced this morning. These will occupy
at least two days.
The Grand Lodge Knights of Honor of
Indiana is in session here. The organiza-
ton numbers two thousand three hundred
members in this State
Huntsinger, the murderer OF Robert
Gray, whose trial is set for the 2lst inst.
will be prosecuted by Major Gordon. 1t is
rumored that the Guetig trial will be post
poned another month.
Columbus.
THE STANDARD OIL MONOPOLY.
Special to the Star.
COLUMBUS o., April 3.-The Committee
engaged in investigating the Standard Oil
monopoly held another short session this
forenoon. Three witnesses were examined