The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-15
TIGHT-R0PE TERROR.
A Boys Fatal Fall Of Fifty
Feet.
Eix Miners Suffocated by Smoke
in Utah.
Chronicle Of Criminal and Calamitous
Events.
Specials to the Star.

Specials to the Star.
LEAvENwoRTH, KANs., Sept 15.-A specia
from Ogden City, Utah, states that while
Prof. Megginson was walking tight rope
across the street, fifty feet high, carrying
his assistant, aged fourteen years, he los
his balance and let the lad drop. The pool
boy whirled through the air and struck the
pavement on his head with heavy thud
He lived only few hours. Megginsor
caught the rope and saved himself. The
boys name is William Allen, said to be 6
runaway son of the City Marshal of juno
lion City, Kansas.
DESPERATE LUNATIC
NASHVILLE, Tenn, Sept. 15.-Samuel
Saunders, an old colored lunatic beat
Charity Crockett, an aged negress, yester.
terday so that she will die. In making his
arrest Policeman Mckinney was terribly
beaten by Saunders, who was then tied in
a wagon and hauled to Jail.
AN EMBARRASSED BACHELOR.
WASHINGTON, IND, Sept. 15.-Peter Nc
Gookan, merchant of this city, committed
suicide in his room yesterday by shooting
himself through the head. He was bach
elor. about forty-two years old, had been
drinking to excess for several days past,
and was financially embarrassed.
ARTERY SEVERED WITH A SAW.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Sept. 15.-Yesterday
VIM. Kerr's two little boys were playing,
near here, when one of them struck the
other on the neck with carpenters saw,
Bevering an artery which will result in his
death.
OLD TENNEssEEAN DROWNED.
CLINTON, Tenn, Sept. 15-Mr. William
Summers an old citizen of Humboldt,
while crossing the Obion River near Green
field, fell out of the wagon and was
drowned.
TOWNSEND TAKES A TUMBLE.
TULLAHoMA, Tenn, Sept. 15.-Old Au-
gustus Townsend pretty full of drink, was
iostled out OF his wagon yesterday near
Manchester, and falling upon the stony
road broke his neck.
WAKD UP THE WRONG MAN.
DENVER, Coll, Sept. 15.-,L w. Allrich, of
Decatur in the Peru mining district was
yesterday halted BY two road agents who
commanded him to hold up his hands, He
drew his revolver and fired at the same
moment with one of the robbers Mr..
Allrich was untouched, but his bullet
killed the footpad, and his companion fled.
he SHOT sNIPE.
JEFFERsoNvILLE, IND, Sept. 15.-Harry
Webb and Harry Carl, aged fourteen and
fifteen, went out hunting. Both stopped to
rest, some fifteen yards apart, when Webb
threw up clod of earth, and calling to
Carl that there was snipe, Carl fired, ap-
parently at random. The whole charge
took effect in young Webb's left shoulder
and face, wounding the boy so that he will
probably die.
HORRIBLE FATE OF SIX MINERS.
OMAHA, NEE, Sept. ia special Just
received here from Privo City, Utah, gives
details of the horrible suflocation of six
miners in the Grizzly Mine Little Cotton
wood Canyon. The names of the unfor-
tunate men are James Lawrence, Hugh Nc
Donne, Robinson williamson James w.
Cormick, Geo. r. Taylor and c. d. Sherck,
and their death was caused by the smoke
exit getting choked up, which sent it back
down the tunnel. Mcdonnell and Sherck
lost their lives in attempting to rescue their
mates. The bodies of all except Taylor
were taken to Salt Lake City, where they
will be buried.
MURDER AT COLUMBUS.
COLUMBUS, O., Sept 15.-Andrew Elem.
ing, young blacksmith, aged 49, was shot