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Newspaper
The Star
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1872
Page
1
Coverage mixes the full disaster particulars with casualties and a separate note on a New York wrestling match. It reports Homer Lane’s throws by Harry Grace and mentions The Heir of All the Russias and Sick in brief items.
From New York dispatches reports say the Czarewits suffers typhus with sleepless nights and severe fever. The day brings reports of police raids, arrests after violent quarrels, a five hundred dollar wrestling match, crowded skating ponds, and a canceled Saratoga cock fight amid widespread fires and calls for tougher fire laws.
Report of a Buffalo Corry Pittsburg line wreck near Prospect Station on Tuesday. A trestle collapse threw baggage and passenger cars thirty feet, burning coaches as rescuers with scarce water fought flames and digging out victims. Dozens dead or injured, gruesome details of flame and wreckage amid snow delay救.
The report details a fatal train wreck where ten bodies were recovered from two burning cars and as many as thirty five total lives may be lost. Injured survivors include residents of Titusville and Corry with several critical cases and a delirious mother seeking her child.
The lower Cortes read a foreign news item on Porto Rico stating slaves will be freed within four months of enacting the bill, with slave owners indemnified. The state covers 40 percent, the colony the remainder, and cheers followed the reading amid Cuba reform postponements.
The Pocahontas tale blends fact and romance. She wed John Rolfe and traveled to England with him, where she was shown at court. Captain Smith met her in London, and rumor said she still loved him, believing him dead. She died soon after, on the verge of returning to America.
The New York Sun reports a grand December wedding at St Bartholomew's in Manhattan uniting William Sloane and Emily Vanderbilt. Prominent guests included Commodore and Mrs Vanderbilt, the Stewarts, the Astors, the Roosevelts, and many others. The reception at 459 Fifth Avenue drew 600 to 700 attendees amid lavish floral displays and formal attire. Fifth Avenue traffic was halted briefly for the celebration.
The court upheld a ruling barring Chinese or Mongolian witnesses against white persons under existing law. It noted future codes repeal such disqualifications in January but declined to reconsider, urging inferior courts to follow now unsettled precedents until reversed. The San Francisco Bulletin reports the stance amid impending code changes.
A Newburg Telegraph report recounts a weasel mother defending her four young by alighting on a pail with nesting in a field. The she attacked the overturned container to save her offspring, then returned to protect them from harm.
A cooking range exploded in the Union House kitchen at Chillicothe causing extensive damage. A lid forced into the ceiling, a kitchen girl Ann Seeling had her dress caught alight but escaped, with the blaze blamed on a water surge in the pipes.
A Chicago Times correspondent from Tahlequah describes the Cherokee Senate chamber and House. The scene shows a mixed but decorous body, English and Cherokee proceedings, with a full blood majority in the lower house and a practical, unornamented chamber. The piece contrasts discipline with free discourse and notes limited progress this session.
Excerpt extols the sacred 'brother' title in Masonry as a universal bond across nations and creeds. It lauds fraternal love, memory worthy maxims, and the lodge as a mystic temple where all meet. It rejects sectarian divisions in favor of universal sympathy and charitable support.
A St Louis Journal narrative chronicles a young man seeking work who is hired for a trial as a firefighter. The tale depicts a midnight blaze and a frantic alarm as engines arrive and water douses the flames saving St Louis. The youth departs at dawn, heading toward the next assignment.
A recipe describes combining cream of tartar with cochineal to create a pink dye. It instructs rubbing powders, adding water, dipping cleaned items, and optionally using alum water and a touch of gum arabic.
A wartime advisory promotes hot water, wet cloths, and beef brine as treatments for sprains and bruises. Wormwood and tansy lotions are also recommended. The report notes over a thousand American girls studying in France and Italy and mentions progress on the Detroit River tunnel at about 1,100 feet.
Christmas was widely observed in the city with crowded churches and Sunday schools. Theaters and minstrels drew large crowds while hotels offered lavish dinners. The County Jail and reformatories received holiday meals from the Y M C A and House of Refuge exercises included gifts for inmates. Despite celebrations, incidents of stabbings and disturbances persisted late at night.
Presbyterian Sunday schools held Christmas Eve entertainments for children in Lockland and Wyoming. The Colored Babyist Sunday school and the Colored Methodist School prepare a New Year tree for their pupils. Mr A Schwartz injured his leg but is improving. Lockland Division Sons of Te will elect officers Monday evening.
Community points include Frauen and Young France Verein activities, Christmas gifts for Sunday schools, and a near recovery of Mayor Dirr from illness. A council meeting is set for next Monday, a waiting-room open at Marietta road, and Cumminsville station reports heavy daily rail commuters. A gardener's wife died suddenly likely from heart paralysis, sleighing remains good, and Spring Grove avenue shows lingering ice with new snow.
The City Council plans to reduce the night police from ten to five officers tonight. Christmas in Newport passes quietly with church services and Christmas trees. The New Red Free Press will be closed for a week, and Short-line trains run behind due to bad weather.
A short recipe describes mixing flour and vinegar with tea and cake ingredients to make a simple Virginia cake. The steps are to beat all ingredients, add flour last, and bake. The note calls the result Virginia Cake and praises its flavor and ease of preparation.
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