The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-15

A BRACE OF HORRIBLE DEATHS.

Special to the Star.
PITTsBuRG, July ia little girl named
Hsnlon was run over at the Anderson
street crossing, in Allegheny, on the Fort
| Wayne Road, at noon to-day.
Her body was cut in two and she was in
stantly killed
Ella kuhns, young lady of eighteen,
was fatally burned yesterday afternoon at
Greensburg, and she died this morning. Her
clothes caught from a fire some children
had built on the street.
Detroit.
UNPRoMIsTNG CROP REPoRT-BoY DROWNED.
| Special to the Star.
DETROIT. July 15.-Reports received this
morning from all the principal counties in
Michigan show that the crops for 1879
though somewhat above the average, do
not equal last year. There is a greater acre
age, but less average yield per acre. The
entire wheat crop will be gathered by the
18th.
AT Bay City boy named Daorey, aged
six, was missed yesterday and his body was
found this morning in the river.
| Chicago.
| NhlFr DENNEh hESJMES HID DUTIES.
Special to the Star.
CHICAGO, July 15.-Matt. Benner at 10
O'Clock this morning resumed his duties as
Chief Engineer of the Fire Department,
his bond having been approved last night.
He received congratulatory kilograms from
Detroit, Cincinnati, Pittsburg Denver, New
York, Philadelphia and San Francisco.
| InhianaDOltS.
TRIUMPHAL ARCH - sUNsTRUCK OHIO BOY
| DRoWNED-PERsoNAL, ETC.
Special to the Star.
INDIANAPOLIS July 15.-An immense tri-
umphal arch is to span Washington street
at the opening of the two-days Exposi.
ton this month. 1t will be fifty feet high,
surmounted by soldiers.
| Henry Sweetland, the colored man who
shot VIM. Baldwin on the Fourth, was ad.
mitted to 81. 900 bail yesterday.
An employe of the Atlas Works was sun
struck yesterday, and it was reported last
evening that he had died. His name could
not be learned.
The name of the young man who was
drowned in White River was Robert Lip
man, instead of Whiteman, and his father
is Theodore Lipman, basket-maker of
Madisonvile, o., near Cincinnati.
| Twenty-Five students from Belefontaine.
O., passed through here last night en- route
for Colorado, where they will spend their
vacation.
Rev. Father Scheidler, V. c., writes from
his home in Bergholz Paderborn, Prussia,
that his party had arrived safe at home.
The party consists of Rev. Father Scheid.
Ter and sister, Rev. Father Brandt, of Lou
isville, KY, and Rev. Father Topmoeler,
of Cincinnati They left on the 8th inst.
for Rome.
CRUSHED TO DEATH-FIGHT WITH STEER
| DRoWNED--BAD CASE OF CoLIc, ETC.
Special to the Star
ST. LOUIS, July l5.--George Smell, aged
nineteen driving a mud cart, fell from his
seat and was run over by the wheels. He
was terribly crushed and died in an hour.
Yesterday morning by the collision OF
freight cars, in East st. Louis, Frank Gait,
a freight agent, was seriously injured.
| A boy named Bernard McGrury was
drowned in the Labeaume street quarry
| yesterday Ihe pouE was recovered.
John Ryan, aColumbia, Illinois, granger,
got up a bad case of collie yesterday
from too many green plums and too much
ice water.
| A German named Chris. Colcross failed
in an attempt to commit suicide yesterday
Henry Smith, butcher, had terrific COM
bat with Texas steer last evening. The
man was horribly gored by the animal, but
he finally conquered it bycutting its throat
with his knife. His wounds may prove
1 fatal