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Newspaper
The Evening Star
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1872
Page
4
Special weather notes reported for the Evening Star by Henry Twitchell an optician located at 153 West Fourth Street read from the Northeast Corner Fifth and Vine Street station entrance weather section.
Local items report a missing child at Bremen Street Station and a Michigan delegate, Charles J. Pad dock, injuring his shoulder on a John Street car near Poplar. Fire alarms, injuries, theater plans, park crowds, and a Dayton area exposition project populate this brisk local page.
In Hamilton District Court Campbell v Park and Gaynor v Corry proceed against property owners over Jefferson Street improvements. Superior Court General Term Judge Hagans handles long term vacancy, while Stewart v Trustees of LC Hopkins sees land condemnation for Forest Avenue widening. Proceedings decide plot attachment, juror challenges, and various estate appointments.
A largely attended Apollo Hall assembly featured an extensive wine display. Wines included Catawba from E A Thompson and E Kinney, Ives seedling varieties, and selections from Cincinnati Wine Company such as Reisling and Muscatel. An amused exchange about whisky ended with adjournment to the last Saturday in May.
The death of Robi. T. Brady, longtime clerk at Chambers Stevens & Co., is reported after a half past three p.m. departure from his Longworth Street home. A bullet hole in Brady's head suggests suicide or murder. a heart condition may have contributed, and his telegramged death connected to Carlisle Illinois, with Will left behind.
In Cumminsville the B grade teacher Miss Kate Smedley received bouquets and congratulations from her department as a birthday celebration. The village council plans to discuss annexation to Cincinnati and police force funding at this evening's meeting. Spring Grove Avenue line notes show last cars at 7 5 P M from Cumminsville and 1 0 from Brighton with night service at 8 15 9 45 and 11 15 P M returning times. The company recently added new cars praised for comfort and cleanliness.
The Christian Association in Cleves filled the Town Hall for Dr John King’s lecture. The talk was able and eloquent, pleasing the audience, who urged publication in pamphlet form for free distribution by association members and friends.
Morning scene in City Buildings as General Hickenlooper received a fine gold chain and Masonic seal from office attaches before the Council accepts his resignation. He thanked friends for their kindness and surprise at the action. Within the past two days police made one arrest for crime.
In Covington the Liberal Republicans held a Greeley and Brown ratification meeting at Odd Fellows Hall with a crowd so large standing room was scarce. Mayor K D Hayman presided. Cassius M Clay and others spoke amid church baptisms on the riverfront and local incidents including a pistol accident at Droege's foundry and a fatality after a window fall. The Covington Newport Medical Society will be represented at the American Medical Association meeting in Philadelphia. The city census lists 9044 children ages 6 to 20 across eight wards.
The covert run turnpike fully repaired after the storm will reopen today. The Board of Examiners holds a 9 am session Saturday for higher branch teacher exams in Newport Public Schools. One hundred soldiers depart Newport Barracks tomorrow for New Mexico. Liberal Republicans plan a meeting this week to ratify Greeley and Brown with Henry Stanbery speaking. John H. Reigers arrested for drunkenness and assault on an officer. A New York gas company proposes ornamental gas works in Newport. council to consider. Rev. Mr. Allen will lecture on Burmese manners at the First Baptist Church. Young Men's Dramatic Association stages an Odd Fellows Hall exhibition to fund a banner. A free lecture on Irish in America is set for Thursday at the Church of the Immaculate Conception.
In Dayton Kentucky a fundraising fete for the Episcopal Mission is planned for tomorrow evening on Dr. Taylor’s grounds, praised as an ideal venue. Chancery Judge Donophon ruled the prior injunction already covers the entire premises. defendants must file answers and the case proceeds to trial at the next term.
The article tours the Railway Supplies works at West Second Street and Plum run by Messrs. Post & Co. with Jos. Kinsey as president. It notes steam powered production of brass and silver plated fittings from head lamps to small hardware, and comments on the bustling workshop with apprentices and craftsmen. It also mentions the American Protestant Association planning its annual visit to an orphan asylum on Sunday May 12, with marshals listed.
The Jane Coombe company returns this week at Pike's offering London Assurance with Miss Coombs as Lady Gay Spanker and Robinson, Curran, and Bradley in key roles. Wood's presents Chanfran in Sam and Stetson at the National in Neck and Neck with a film olio by Charley Howard and Cincinnatus.
The Coroner conducted an inquest into the death of Barbera Gatt. The twenty four year old woman, found in the river Saturday afternoon, had been in the country ten or eleven months and worked as a domestic for P Cavagna at 31 West Fifth Street. Her disappearance occurred about two weeks earlier with no clues until the discovery. Her face was too decomposed for identification, but relatives matched her by clothing. The Coroner adjourned the case until Wednesday for further particulars.
The docket shows 43 cases with 51 names including six assault and battery, two rape, one horse stealing, five petit larceny, one abusing family, one carrying concealed weapons, forty six drunk and disorderly, two nuisance. Fines and terms range from $5 to $30 and up to ten days for drunkenness and disorderly conduct.
Weather remains clear and warm as river traffic dwindles with channel depths under eleven feet inland and five feet four inches at Pittsburg. Arrivals include Buell, St. James, Maysville, Kitty Hegler, Shamrock and more. departures list Gen Buell and others. Miscellany notes wrecks, boats in tow, canal mud, new lock gates, a Woodson steam boiler model, and a battered victim description from a recent recovery.
On the morning voyage of the steamboat Lumsden near Little River, James P. Johnson saved a woman from falling overboard after a man slipped in. The incident drew cheers from the crew as the shaken passengers were rescued and the hat was recovered with help from several roosters.
Market report from the Office of the Star on May 6 1972 covers multiple commodities. Prices listed for coffee coal eggs fruit grains including wheat corn oats rye and barley. Livestock poultry and provisions show steady to fair demand with firm prices on several items such as lard bacon and sugar.
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