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Newspaper
The Star
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1872
Page
1
The edition highlights The Fifth Avenue Hotel fire and reactions questioning it as a crime, distressing morgue scenes, Massachusetts views on Sumner, a censure resolution in the legislature, and conciliation in French politics.
Paris reports a Dufaure Commission majority willing to grant Thiers a four year presidency or other terms with veto power over Assembly measures and ministerial responsibility, contingent on Thiers breaking with Radicals and not backing Gambetta. Dissolution talks persist with Left and Right factions set to push or oppose.
Centennial Commission meetings and confirmations occupy Congress as the Senate approves numerous posts. Secretary Boutwell may accept a funding proposal if Congress delays further action. Hancock’s headquarters move to New York, and the Treasury enforces San Juan rules after British troop withdrawal. A New Yorker’s $450 conscience gift is noted. Louisiana seeks domestic violence protection. the President signals support if needed.
The Attorney General says the government cannot recognize the disputing factions as they stand. He presents a compromise offer to the Capitol Legislature: if Republicans gain a genuine majority, they shall be acknowledged, though Senator Spencer’s re-election is uncertain. It is widely believed Vice President Colfax may take over the New York Tribune at $20,000 yearly and resign the vice presidency next week.
New York readers recall the Fifth Avenue Hotel blaze with heart wrenching scenes at the morgue. Spectators crowded Bellevue for hours as ten bodies were recovered, with eleven more dying in fire and steam. The fire began near the laundry on the second floor, flooding upper floors with water and devastating furnishings valued around 50 000 dollars, while the building loss neared 5 000 dollars. Officials press for investigations as emigration and local political clashes pepper the day.
Report from California states the steamship Sacramento went ashore at midnight on the 5th, 200 miles south of a California port in fog. Second officer Harrington on the wrecked vessel's boat says all aboard are safe as the ship wedged on rocks. Relief steamer Montana was dispatched to bring passengers to San Diego, then to San Francisco via Senator. Weather remains calm with no imminent danger.
A disastrous blaze in Stewart Guthrie County yesterday destroyed seven prominent buildings and most contents. Estimated damage runs to about $200,000 with insurance covering less than that.
Troops led by Colonel Stone, seventy five, depart from Jackass Creek Oregon in pursuit of Modoc Indian resistance. Minnie Myrtle Miller wife of Joaquin Miller travels east to deliver lectures in major cities. In Chicago the Big Strike at the North Branding Mills escalates, threatening serious outcomes as workers demand higher wages and managers close branches, displacing nearly five hundred workers. An Austrian sailor Erzgovitchy is tried for murder, found guilty and sentenced to three years in prison.
Massachusetts House refers a resolution condemning Senator Sumner on desecration of Union war memorials to the Federal Relations Committee. Separately, press reports allege fraud in Gaston’s mayoral election with ward voting discrepancies and potential ticket-splitting creating questions about the mayoral result.
The War Department Chief Signal Officer reports for the Northwest to Missouri and the Ohio Valley southerly winds cloudy and warmer with falling barometer. From the Ohio River to the Gulf clear cold weather and veering to southerly winds. Lower lakes Canada clear with increasing temperatures and diminishing pressures. Middle States and New England northerly to northeasterly winds with rising temperatures and occasional snow.
Squire Richard Mahan, long a resident of Pleasant Ridge after moving from Pennsylvania sixty four years ago, was buried with Masonic honors in Miamisville. He was among Hamilton County’s oldest citizens and one of three directors of the County Infirmary, having held many public trusts with unquestioned motives and good faith.
Local report on Father Gureschi's lecture at St Xaviers Church last night in aid of church sodalities. The sermon extolled earthly loves from parental to spousal bonds, praising selfless devotion and the dying child’s moment, with lessons for parents. The gathering concluded with musical interludes, cake and wine, and songs before departures.
Judge Swing adopted new bankruptcy procedures requiring Registers to transmit orders to the Clerk within a day and to file quarterly schedules detailing cases with no assets or debts or where discharge petitions are neglected. The order also mandates rules to show cause for dismissal or for reporting trusts, with deadlines for debtors and assignees.
The United States Court announced orders entered yesterday requiring Registers in Bankruptcy in each district to, within one day after any order or proceeding is made, send to the Clerk of this Court a copy or abstract of the order or proceeding for entry.
The court directs bankrupts to file detailed schedules by January 1 1873 and quarterly thereafter. It requires creditors and assignees to appear within twenty days to show cause why petitions or reports should not proceed. The aim is to force prosecution to final settlement rather than delaying discharge.
August Gohring sues for libel against Delacourt and sues the School Board for 225 for alleged services. Bonds of Infirmary Directors were accepted by the Commissioners. Butler County Bible Society to meet at Presbyterian Church with officer elections and Rev. Hatfield speaking. Hamilton post office letters listed. Frank Kellar, former prominent businessman, dies. buried Greenwood. City Council meets. streets and alleys debated. salary list requested. graveyard committee formed. A turkey is stolen from a neighbor. common pleas court to adjourn Saturday.
The Harris and Venable inquiry by the City Council did not start as planned because Hag rty failed to notify in time for his bosses to attend. The adjournment pushed the meeting to 9 am. A warrant for Lonhardt and his two daughters was issued for assault on a young man. Lonhardt claims Newman slandered his daughters, provoking the attack. Earlier, three men were arrested for disorderly conduct on the Newport and Cincinnati line and one man, Frank, was injured. He accuses Councilman Davis of the blow that fractured his skull.
Three reverend gentlemen and three fourths of M Kendrick College faculty traveled toward the Illinois Conference seat. They crowded into a single narrow bed in a hospitable house where the host dimmed the light and warned of a scrooge presence before morning.
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