The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-03-24
What a Texas Man Got For
Beating His Wife.
Two Careers Cut OF By the
Circular Saw.
Sad Suicide Of a LOve-lOrn Ken.
tucky Maid.
7IRE NEAR MIDDLETowN.

longing to Mrs. Morningstar, on Ter farm
three miles north of this place, took fire
yesterday afternoon from q spark and
burned to the ground. Loss about $3. 500.
Insured in the Ohio Farmers for 81, 500 on
the building and contents.
WILL PROBABLY PROVE FATAL.
SEYMOUR, IND, March 24.-Ed. Johnson
and Mart. Miller. two farm hands living
four miles from here, got into fight on
Sunday morning, and Miller shot Johnson
in the lower part of the abdomen. 1t was
not thought dangerous then, but DR..
Shields. of this place, being called, pro-
nounces the wound probably fatal. J..
WHOSE HANDS ARE THEsEl
COLUMBUS, IND, March 24.-A pair of
human hands, cut off at the wrists. were
found in box floating in the river here
yesterday by some boys. One was shriv-
eled up and the other full sized. No one
knows where they came from.
KILLED BY CIRCULAR SAW.
FRANKLIN, IND, March 24.-Jackson
Davids, residing six miles north and work.
ing in circular sawmill, was killed al.
most instantly yesterday. A piece of tim.
Der held in his hand was caught in saw
and hurled against his left side, crushing
the ribs. He was married and aged thirty
eight.
DEPOT BURNED AT TUsCOLA.
TUsooLA, ILL, March 24.-The l., D. & s
Depot at Newman, Ill, in this county
caught fire yesterday afternoon from the
engine OF corn-she'ler and was totally
destroyed. Loss 81, 200 to $780,
wIFE-BEArER KILLED BY AN OFFICER.
DALLAS. TEXAS, March 24-At For
Worth yesterday negro named Jim Pow
ers was whipping his wife severely, whel
Policeman Rigales, who had been called il
by the neghbors, ordered him t, desist
Powers refused, threatening to whip tn,
officer besides. The latter drew six
shooter and killed the negro.
FELIX SHOOTS THE COOK.
WICHITA KANSAS, March 24.-Andrev
Naughton, cook at the Douglass Avenu
House in this city, in quarrel last evenin
with Felix, a colored man employed in tn
stables, was shot by the latter, one bal
went through the neck of Naughton, fror
the effects of which he is now dying. H
is twenty-three years old.
| THE FATAL CIRCULAR SAW.
ToMAH, WIS, March "a "A young mai
named Garret Gilbert, while attempting t.
replace belt on a circular saw here yes
terday, was thrown against the saw an,
instantly killed.
BURNED TO DEATH BY BONFIRE.
LA SALE ILL, March 24-Lizzie Fri.
trail, aged fourteen years, living two mile
south of this city. bright girl, was burne
to death yesterday while playing at Dor
fire.
| H DROWNED IN THE ILLINOIS RIVER.
LA SALE, ILL.,, March 24.-E. Faltens {
Grand Haven. Mich, was drowned las
evening, few miles below this city, in tn
Illinois River. He and a companion wer
returning from winters hunt in sma
yawl, when squall struck the craft.
SUICIDES IN THE NORTHWEST.
FAIRFIELD, Iowa, March a. - W. +
Davis, proprietor of the Fairfield Marbl,
works, committed suicide last evening b
shooting himself thr ugh the brain. H
used intoxicating liquor to considerabl
extent.
ROCHESTER, MIMI, March 24.-Diederic
Hedemann, of Elein, Wabashaw Count,
committed suicide last night in Richardso
Bros store, where he sleeps, by shoutin
himself through the right temple.
SAD SUICIDE OF A YOUNG LADY.
LOUISVILLE, KY. March 24.--Louisa Co
lins, gocd-looking young girl of eighteer
committed suicide at Gillman's Station, O
the Short Line yesterday in horribl
manner. She took double-barreled she
gun, loaded with No. bird shot, place
the muzzle against her breast and di
charged the weapon with her foot. Th
charge entered just below the breast-bon,
ranging upward, and lodged against tn
spinal column. The poor girl lived fou
hours after receiving the wound. Disay
pointment in love is the supposed cause.
FATAL FALL FROM A soAFFoLD.
NASHVILLE, TENN, March M-At hal
past 8 this morning w. o. Hagan an
Michael blanchard were thrown from tn
northeast tower of the Exposition Built
ing to the second floor, forty feet by tn
breaking of a scaffold. Blanchard was 8,
verely bruised, and Hagan's shoulder wa
broken and his skull fractured. He wi
die.
| National Associated Press TO the 5tar.
WHOLE FAMILY POISONED.
! BRo0KLYE, March "a. The family q