The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-22
LOSS OF LIFE.
Terrible Boiler Explosion at
Chicago To-day. :.
Fratricide in East Tennessee.
Arkansas Murderer Outfianks the Hang.
man.
Specials to the Star.

OptClbb 10 tuc QUIZ
CHICAGO, Sept 22-The boiler of the tug
G. W. Parker burst at a. m. to-day while
towing the schooner s. A. Wood. The fol-
lowing were killed. Robert Leahey, Cap
tain; John Callahan engineer; Peter Bar
die, fireman, and VIM. Burton, cook. Hen
ry Mcclure, deck-hand, was saved badly
injured, and was taken to the hospital. The
Parker belonged to the Vessel Owners Tug
Association. This is the first tug explosion
that has occurred here since 1867, when the
Red Jacket exploded her boilers, killing
two and injuripg several.
DISASTROUS WRECK AT LAwRENCEBURG.
LAwRENoEBURG. Sept. 22.-Freight train
No. II, going West Saturday night, was
wrecked by five cars jumping the track on
the l., G.. & L. Railroad. The cars lodged in
the ladies' room of the depot, as also in
the east end of the depot. Three-fourths
of the depot was demolished. The cars
were wrecked, being completely knocked
into splinters. Bob Pumphrey, head brake
man, jumped from the train, and dislocated
his, ankle. He will recover. Damage
$25, 900.
| OFFICER SHOT AND KILLED.
LINCOLN, ILL, Sept. pa rough named
John Hendrix ST and killed Officer
White, at Allenville, while the latter was
attempting to arrest him for making an as
saut upon an old man named friedrich,
Saturday night.
| STRANGER DIES IN JAIL.
DENVER, COL, Sept. pa stranger CIV
ing his name as William Terray, of New
York, was picked up on the street raving
maniac and placed in Jail. Here he con-
tinued in delirium until he died in few
hours.
FIRE AT DANvILLE, IND.
DANv1LLE, Sept. 22.-While the family
of John Ragand, living four miles from
here was absent from home yesterday after
noon, the house took fire from defective
hue, and both building and contents were
destroyed. Loss $1,000.
MUCHLY MARRIED PAIR.
ROCKFORD, ILL.,, Sept 22.-G. w. Ford, q
prominent attorney OF this place, has been
convicted in the Circuit Court and sent to
the Penitentiary for the crime OF bigamy.
On Thursday last his wife was sentenced to
three years in the Penitentiary for the same
offense. They had mutually separated and
married other parties.
BOY LOSES LEG.
BRAZIL, IND, Sept. pa boy from Indi
annapolis fell from freight on which he
was stealing ride here yesterday, and was
run over. He will lose a leg.
FIRE AT NASHUA, N. H.
NASHUA, Sept. 22.-Dearborn's Block, in
this city, was burned last night. 1t was
twice before burned, it is claimed by incen.
diaries. Total loss $4,000
oUTFLANKED THE HANGMAN
LITTLE Rock, ARK, Sept. 22.-The mur
derer Wheatley, in the Jail at Pocahontas
convicted of murder in the Randolph Cir
cult Court. and sentenced to be hanged, has
: committed suicide bv slow starvation. He
stubbornly refused all food from the day o.
his sentence until he died.
FRATRIcIDE IN TENNESSEE.
t MoRRIsTowN. Sept 22.-Information il
just received of lamentable affair which
transpired at Romes, little village in the
adjoining county of Greene. Two brothers
: named Nathan and Thomas Carter engaged
in a difficulty which ended in Nathan
drawing a knife and fatally stabbing hi
brother once in the abdomen and once il
the lungs. At last accounts Thomas wa
dying. ,.......
SAD ACCIDENT TO MOVERS.
CLEVELAND, TEN, Sept. 22.--While Thos
: Newcomb was moving his family to Ben
ton, Polk County, hislittle granddaughter
aged four years. rolled off the wagon whil
asleep; the wheels passed over her, crush
ing her skull and killing her at once.
INDICATIONS OF LYNCHING.
COLUMBUS, KY. Sept. 22.-Buck Mailing
colored youth aged IS, attempted to vic
late the little daughter cf Mr.. Thos Dean
. at Union CITY, Tennessee He was cap
! tured at Fulton. Kentucky, and taken bacl
to Union City, where there is every lndica
ton that he will be lynched.
: JIMMY. THE GREEK.
!. DAYTON, o., Sept. %. Officer Baker lat
last night ran upon John Williamson, ALA
y Jimmy, the Creek" and collared him
q jimmy is an old time thief, whose abidin
n place is Cincinnati.
Il MONDAY All MEMPHIS.