The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-04-29
HIT BY HICKMAN.
William Mckee Murdered
by Mistake.
Carved by the Cook Of a LOuisi.
ana Steamboat.
A Roaring Lion Loose in
Texas.
WIFE MURDERER TO HANG.

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Specials to the Star.
LITTLE Rock, ARK, April 90. - Ned
White, who was indicted in Jefferson
County for numbering bis wife and brought
his case to this County by change of venue,
was tried and convicted by our Circuit
Court and sentenced to be hung on the 4th
day of June next.
MURDERED BY MISTAKE.
KEoKuK, Iowa. April 29.-Wm. Mckee,
while under the influence of liquor, start
ed last night to walk from Montrose, in
this county, to his home, near that place.
About midnight he stopped at the farm
house of AL Hickman, went in, and Hick-
man, mistaking him for burglar, struck
him on the head with billet of wood,
crushing the skull and killing him. he
was the son of prominent citizen of the
county.
THE COOK CUT HIS THROAT.
SHREVEPORT, La, April 29-In drunken
fight in the Eldorado Saloon yesterday, one
Neville. pastry cook on the steamer Silver
City, cut the throat of Jack Hanson, host
Ter for the Shreveport & Monroe Stage
Line. Neville is in the Station-house and
the wounded man in the Charity Hospital.
JOLLY WHO IS NOT JOLLY.
ATLANTA, April 29-James Jolly. the
allege murderer of Miss Victoria Norris,
is represented as suffering the greatest tor
ments on account of his crime. As he lies
in jail sleep refuses to close his eyes, and
in Imagination during the dark hours OF
the night he sees demon shapes endeavor-
ing to destroy him. Wednesday night
he spent in his cell weeping. wailing and
praying.
A ROARING LION LOOSE.
DALLAS, TEX, April ga wild Mexican
lion has been loose for some time about ten
miles west of the city, committing depre-
dations on stock and frightening inhab-
itants. The beast is larger than New
foundland dog. Yesterday it attacked a
young lady named Martin, who had strolled
off from pleasure party, and her right
arm and shoulder were seriously torn.
Her screams brought friends to the rescue,
and her life was saved. Yesterday farmer
was attacked, and would have been killed
but for a bull ldog, which was mortally
wounded in the fight.
CHILD sCALDED TO DEATH.
MEMPHIS, April 29.-The four-year-old
child of Mr.. Brad. Simmons, near Morrill,
ton, Ark, was scalded to death yesterday
by falling into basin of boiling water.
ONE FARMER KILLS ANOTHER.
DIES MONIES, Iowa, April 29.-Edgar
Campbell, % years old, a farmer, living
ten miles southwest of Knoxville. was shot
and killed by neighbor Lewis Sherman,
on the road between their residences The
trouble grew ont of Campbells stock break
ing into Sherman's field. ce .........
MURDERED AND BURIED IN A SWAMP.
NEW YORK, April pa special from
Waterbury, Vermont, says: Alice Meeker,
living in Duxbury, had been missing since
last Friday. Yesterday suspicion rested on
Altman Meeker, a cousin of the girl, who,
when arrested, confessed that he had poi.
soned her and buried her in swamp.
Meeker accompanied All officer and found
the body.
LITTLE cHILD's HORRIBLE DEATH.
FLEM1NGToN, N. Y, April 29.-The wife
of Peter Hyler, at Redington, yesterday,
while feeding the chickens, missed her
little four-year-old child. and went to look
for her. To her horror she found the dead
body of her child suspended by the neck
from the door of corn-crib, which is built
in the wagon-house, and which worked up
and down in grooves.