The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-01-16
CRIME AND CALAMITY.
National Associated Press to the Star.
SHE DIED FOR LOVE.

SHE DIED FOR LOVE.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, Jan. 16.-Miss Rosa
Solomon, beautiful Jewess, of Hopkins
vile, Kentucky, who has been visiting
friends here for a few weeks, yesterday
took twenty grains of morphine, dying in
convulsionssoon after Miss Solomon, it is
stated, was engaged to gentleman of high
standing in Cincinnati, and the marriage
was soon to take place; but yesterday she
received letter from the gentleman, stat
ing he had changed his mind, and it would
be impossible for him to marry her. In
grief she took the fatal dose.
AILsA CRAIG's TRIPLETs
AILsA CRAIG, ONT, Jan. 16.-Tuesday
morning Miss Walker, residing at Brecon
Mills suddenly expired. Her betrothed,
Edward Cousins, hearing of her death, cut
his throat; and Miss Walkers mother on
seeing the corpse of her daughter, dropped
dead
FATAL FIRE AT ATCHIsoN.
ATCHIsoN, KANSAS, Jan. 16.-A fire, the
work of tramps, destroyed the round-house
and machine shops of the Atchison & Ne
braska Railroad in this city yesterday.
Four engines and all of the repairing ma
chinery OF the Company were destroyed
The charred remains of human body
were found in the ruins, which proved to
be those of John D. Lyons of Cambridge
port Mass Letters indicate that he was a
tramp, and it is supposed he was asleep in
the round-house and was suffocated by the
smoke while trying to escape. A heavy
storm of sleet and snow prevailed at the
time of the fire, which prevented spread
OF the flames. The total loss is estimated
at $4,000.
SUICIDR OF A JuNATTc
DAYTON, o., Jan. 16.-An attendant'at the
Southern Ohio Lunatic Asylum yesterday
morning found J. Braden, one of the in
mates in the lower ward, dead in his room
He had hung himself during the night
By tearing his bed-quilt into strips he i'm
provised rope, one end of which he fast
ened to the bars of his window; on the
other end he made a running moose, and
putting it around his neck, threw his weight
on it and thus strangled himself to death.
Braden was from Warren County, where
he leaves family.
SAD DEATH OF AN ACTOR.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 16.-Mark Bates, the
we'll known Western actor, died in a police
station here yesterday from an affection of
the heart, superinduced by dissipation.
DUTCH NIcK's NARROW ESCAPE,
PrrTsBURa, Pa, Jan. 16.-Nich. Jacobus,
known by the sotriquet of Dutch Nick"
was shot very seriously in q mysterious
manner this morning about 1 o'clock at
the corner of Fifth avenue and Chestnut
street.
He was walking with his wife at the
time, when some unknown man stepped
up, puts pistol to his side, and fired. The
weapon was so close that the powder
burned Jacobus' clothing. His condition
is dangerous. His wife was formerly Char
lotte McAleese, the female sculler, who at
one time pulled in race here. There is no
clue, apparently, to the guilty party.
Specials to the Star.
BLOODY MURDER IN TENNESSEE.
NASHVILLE, Jan. 16 Yesterday morning
the neighbors of John Whittemeyer, who
lives on the Blooms Elm farm, IL miles from
here, found him and his wife murdered in
their house.
On disordered bed lay the nude dead
bodies of John Whittemeyer and his wife.
Whlttemeyer's head and face had been bat
tered into pulp, the whole left side of the
face having been almost wrenched from the
right side.
The wife's breast was beaten into frag-
ments She had been three times stabbed
in The side. She also had been disem-
boweled, apparently with the same stick,
Upon the bloody breast of the mother Law
an infant of twelve mohths, unharmed.
Between the mother and the father, sitting
in pool of blood and prattling to the babe,
was little girl two years of age as if to
keep it in spirits.
Suspicion rests upon a colored man
named Knot Martin who, with Geo. Berry,
colored), had dispute with Whitemeyer.
FIRE AT DANvILLE, ILL.,
DANvILLE, ILL, Jan. 16-The engine
house of the Paris & Danville Railroad was
destroyed by fire yesterday. The building,
,hree engines and large amount of other
property were destroyed. Loss $4,000;