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Newspaper
The Evening Star
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1872
Page
4
Evening weather report by Twitchell the optician at 12 West Fourth Street. Northeast winds and cloudy skies noted with a chance of light mist near Fifth and Vine. Further details not legible.
Miss Anna Stubbs of the Eleventh School District resigns as teacher amid concerns over a looming school treasury deficit estimated at 128 224 dollars. Alabama strawberries appear in market at one dollar per quart. Hess Flavin and Van Rosse of the Volksfreund depart for the Fatherland. A boy sustains a serious cut from a fall into an excavation near the S712 office. Archibald Gordon of the New York World remains ill with pleurisy at the Merchants Hotel. Debates continue on Cincinnati thieves during the Republican Convention. Local cries praise Manning and Co for luscious oranges from Walnut Street. A bricklayer and a bystander suffer leg injuries from recent falls. University trustees elected. electors for Cincinnati Typographical Union named. City Civil Engineer elected on fifth ballot. Superior Court sees a petition against Dr. O M Langdon for funds improperly kept. Park Association incorporators announce plans to convert Buckeye grounds into a public park. Reports of shop incidents and a sensational drive ending with a woman injured and refusing to name her companion. Lane Theoseminary anniversary exercises and Society of Germany annual meeting ahead with speeches and a Chicago visit.
A New York correspondent cites a Commercial piece claiming Keenan spoke energetically from the reporters' stand in Industrial Hall. The letter reportedly mixed up Broadway and the Austral coast as Keenan gave his views on the situation.
A large Florence audience gathered Saturday at the Florence Chapel to witness Florence Lodge No. 216 install its officers. The rites included lodge ceremonies and music with Misses Vinnie Ioanewen and Wood at the organ.
The docket lists 14 petty offenses including battery grand larceny counterfeiting and vagrancy with several cases continued to Saturday. Alfred Perry fined for drunkenness and careless driving. Koach fined for breaking glass. Barney McGill sent to the Soldiers Home for ten days. James Matthews fined and bonded for peace. Harriet Halsey bail set at 300. George Krollmann trial adjourned. Frank Fisher sent to ten days for theft. Eliza Carr and John Watts discharged. John Lewis discharged after warning. John Thesker tried for cutting with a blade and bound over on 400 bail. All parties were noted as colored.
Detectives Orr Carr Hatley and Leper entered a Sixth street store at ten o clock taking fifteen overcoats a leather trunk shoes and silver spoons engraved J L W as stolen items. Lenning arrested as the guilty party and more goods found at a boarding house. An amended school rule seeks to allow brief parental removal for private lessons on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
A neatly dressed man enters Isaac Strauss’s pawn shop on Sixth Street seeking a loan on a stud set valued at about 400 dollars, which proves to be counterfeit. A group of ten men holds a second meeting at an insurance office on Third Street to organize a dancing club with Eugene Crapsey as president and Darwin F. Davis as secretary.
Reports recount low water and channel obstructions near Louisville and the Ohio river. Boats including the Glasgow and Armadillo operate in restricted conditions while salvaging efforts for the Oceanus disaster proceed, with Captain Rea funding a burial and Hill inspecting the wreck.
Market activity is light across staples with dull Bran at 18 19 per ton and mixed movement in butter and dairy. WHEAT shows active demand with price advances. COAL remains unchanged with river and Pittsburg quotes. Oranges and Lemons show uneven demand. overall trade reflects firm retail demand for some items and steady local demand for hay and lard.
A scattered market update reports prices and activity for seed, tobacco, Demerara, whisky, and other commodities. Notes mention Ohio low options, wrappers, and barrels, with varying quotes and limited context for several items.
Market notes from Garyserox Augusta Savannah and Charleston report dull prices in middlings around 22 to 23 half to 3 cents with varied sales and receipts. May 7 figures show moderate activity and stock tallies while a late paragraph urges humane treatment of domestic workers and respect for their rights.
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