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Newspaper
The Evening Star
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1872
Page
4
A packed week with 109 deaths, police suspensions, robberies, and fires dominates city life. Reports include a coal oil explosion fatality, a steam engine incident loss, public muzzling on streets, park curfew relaxations, and a large steam-dummy excursion. Police court actions feature theft, drunkenness, and assault cases with multiple fines and detentions.
The Greeley party county executive committee announced last night the ward by ward results for the central committee. Names listed include John J. Hooker in First Ward Irwin Wright Second Ward John Rauth Fourth Ward Dr A C Kemper etc with ward representatives from Avondale Harrison Riverside Wyoming Sharon Spencer Township and others.
Officers heard groans from a cellar at No 31 West Seventh and found Mrs Margaret Betts, a German cleaner, badly injured after a fall down the stairs in a vacant house. She survived initial collapse and was taken to Cincinnati Hospital for care. She had been hired to clean the vacant Nos 3 ½? house and slipped while at the head of inner stairs. She endured days of pain and isolation before rescue.
The Cincinnati Inclined Plane Railway Co petitions Council to authorize constructing an inclined plan linking Mansfield street to Walker and Ringgold streets to span Mt. Auburn and the city. The plan would cross Milton Boal and Prospect streets and occupy Walker street between Ringold and Prospect, and Mansfield between Liberty and Milton, under the City Civil Engineer’s directive.
A roster of marriage licenses issued includes Geo Fagin with Martha McGrew John F Palmer with Ella Hintzleman C V Koenitz with Clara Zeefell H Johnson with Caroline Brooks and many others names in a long list, showing couples paired with brides. Clerk signatures P H Williamson and M L Clerk accompany the notice.
Mrs Schick appointed administratrix to sue Rev Samuel J Browne for the shooting death of her son. Long & Kramer and Campbell & Buchwalter filed the petition alleging wrongful act by Browne on or before July 1 1872 and seeking $10,000 damages for heirs at law Elizabeth Schoneberger Kate Pittner Christina Kautz Lena Wunder Joseph Schick Eva Schick and Michael Werner.
The Big Show arrives tomorrow with a postponed grand opening in the afternoon to allow a forenoon procession. The parade starts at Union Baseball Grounds, travels Freeman to Findlay, Hamilton road, Walnut, Eighth, Broadway, Fourth, Plum, Eighth, Freeman, and back to the exhibition site. Three shows daily from Wednesday through Friday at 9:30 AM 1 PM and 6:10 PM. Barnum will be present this week. Correction: Leonard A. Harris Jr was treated for a head gathering causing temporary mental disturbance after an arrest for drunkenness. Judge Straub sent him to the hospital for treatment.
The notice lists numerous market items including gold quotations, cheese, coal, coke, apples and lemons, dried fruits, lard, linseed, petroleum, chickens, and provisions. It reports demand, prices, and activity levels across various commodities, with notes on limited local demand for many items and fluctuations in meat and bacon markets.
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