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Newspaper
The Star
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1872
Page
1
A dense OCR listing shows numerous businesses and suppliers with names and street addresses, including attorneys, auctioneers, bootmakers, grocers, and manufacturers. The item reads like a historical commerce directory with varied firms and locations, heavily focused on 4th and 6th streets and nearby avenues.
Special dispatch from Hamilton Ohio reports Tom McGehban suing John W Sohn Ezra Potter BR N Andrew James Jackson Cowell for ten thousand dollars after expulsion from Hamilton. Dr John McElwell named as Straightout Democracy candidate for the Third District. County fairs and fair entries attract attention with horse shows upcoming.
In Lorpow on October 1 a large 8000 strong crowd at Hyde Park backed wholesale emigration to the United States amid employer mistreatment and failed strike efforts. Speakers urged wider adoption across England, promising higher wages and better homes abroad. The Nazarene wreck near Formby, Lancaster, during heavy gales last week cost all aboard their lives, with other lesser disasters noted.
MapDriD reports the government plans to submit its claims against the United States to a Convention of European powers. The State Department prepares documents detailing parish claims and will call for arbitrators. The amount is not yet specified but expected large.
Constantinople reports a firman granting Egypt freedom of home administration and hereditary rule, with authority to contract loans without Sultan approval. The move loosens direct imperial control while expanding financial autonomy for Egypt under the new rulership.
The schooner Annie Wight bound up collided with an unknown schooner at the head of Lake Erie, losing her head gear and sinking the other vessel. The Walter Oakes coal fire sunk at Rondeau while bound up. The Fayette loaded with iron ore bound down reportedly sunk at the head of Lake Erie. Several others ashore and the Yankee Blade at Point au Pelee.
Two colored men Geo Reed and John ime quarreled Sunday night at a colored church over a money contribution. Reed drew a navy revolver and fatally wounded Sims ei in the dispute.
Ten murderers await trial as Secretary Boutwell plans action. The American and British Claims Commission has returned, and its sessions will resume in a few days.
Chicago reports the Republican County Convention will nominate seven state senators and fourteen representatives along with county officials. Police actions on Sunday target saloons and a potential citywide closing order, while officials await citizens’ input on enforcing the Sunday saloon ban. Hotels report full occupancy with crowds and cancellations.
In San Francisco on October 1 the jury found Mrs Laura D Fair not guilty in the November 1870 steamer murder of Critenden, despite prior conviction and a hanging sentence. The verdict sparked intense public reaction with claims of bribery and outraged justice. She was released by officers after the verdict amid widespread excitement.
Report details a devastating tornado from Ashport to Osceola and Island City. Fifty-two injured and one killed in Ashport, with thirty-six houses wrecked and widespread crop damage. The Ada Heitman ship was damaged while boats avoided swamping.
A chaotic New York report recounts coach drivers striking over wage demands and selective action against those resisting. In a separate case a lunatic, Patrick Long, killed wife and daughter with a meat saw before arrest. Also mentioned are alleged ballot-box stuffing in Brooklyn and a murder suspect, Charles Schneider, linked to a body found near an express depot.
News from BufFrao New York reports a severe Sunday gale on Lake Erie causing many vessels to seek shelter or be driven ashore. Boats leaving Saturday afternoon were forced back to port and several craft lie beached along the Canada shore with some total losses feared.
Reports include Bishop Lognen’s death in an unnamed city, Commissioner Waller recovering from illness, union meeting in Louisville, and Vermont pencil production. Notes cover Miss Lillian Jemmah in Little Rock, the Ninett tribe at Charles Town, and Sweden’s three Queens. Banking, railroad, and wool industry data appear alongside a Chicago lecture by Edmund Yates and customs suspensions on infected European cattle. Oil region unrest and violence touch Tunnel Hill incidents amid a broader panic over production and market effects.
The Times reports the resignation of Lord Conners Atherley. A Hyde Park meeting of railway workers discussed advancing a movement for a broad salary increase for many of their class to the United States.
Peter Cartwright, a prominent Methodist exhorter and presiding elder, pursued a long itinerant ministry across Kentucky, Illinois, and surrounding circuits from 1803 onward. He participated in General Conferences, led at multiple districts, and played a key role in the Potawatomi Mission while aiding church expansion and the centenary funds.
A fragment urging sleep as a productive limit to overwork. It cites Mathew Murray of Leeds and a mother focused on her child as examples of how rest can clarify problems and sustain devotion. The piece echoes Collyer on quiet perseverance and inner balance.
The Greeley club held a crowded meeting with Hon. Albers S. Willis addressing the audience and Col. George C. Tarvin presiding. A permanent arrangements committee was formed and the finance committee expanded, as citizen turnout filled Odd Fellows Hall.
Ganéria circus drew slim attendance in Rich. A northwest storm brushed Richmond with uprooted trees. The Indiana State Fair opened in Indianapolis with expectations of record crowds and strong exhibits including horse displays.
Excerpts describe the lonely fate of boarding house tenants as the wreckage of lives and wealth surround them. The piece notes many missing and dead after an asylum debris clear up in Newburg, with authorities relocating patients and inmates.
Fragmented OCR entry lists awards and exhibitors with bronze and silver medals for various railcar related items and metal works. Mentions Post & Co Cincinnati and other firms, plus scattered phrases about Holy City and religious imagery, ending with miscellaneous references to soap and Jerusalem.
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