The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-05-19
HILLIARD'S HOE.
Homicide With an Humble I'm.
plement of Husbandry.
DastardIy Deed Of Mexican
Monsters.
Conductor Killed in a Railway
Collision.
Specials to the star.

FISHING WITH REVOLVER.
ST. JACOBS, ILL, May 19.-Two boys,
Sherman Hays and Hy Wissore, were
fishing yesterday and began shooting at
their corks with an old revolver, when
Wissore accidently shot Hays through the
body, killing HIM almost at once.
DIED IN HIS FATHERS ARMS.
RUsHvILLE, ILL.,, May 19.-Augustus
Branstool, aged 16, was accidentally shot
and killed yesterday BY a young compan-
ion while hunting. He merely reached
home and died in his fathers arms.
MURDER, OUTRAGE AND ROBBERY.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex, May 19--An Express
special from Brownsville says: Yesterday
morning at o'clock seven armed men
awakened Henry Bishop, at his store on the
Elsons in Hidalgo County. He opened
the store, when one of the party struck him
across the head with large knife, splitting
his skull. After telling him they stabbed
him eleven times, and then plundered the
store of money and goods amounting to
several hundred dollars They also carried
off all the books and papers. The thieves
are supposed to have come from Mexico.
They finished up their work by outraging
the servant girl.
DYING FROM A RAT BITE.
MARION, IND, May l9.-Mrs. Nathan
Coggshell was bitten about three months
ago by rat through the fleshy part of the
right hand. Three or four days afterward
her hand began to swell and be very
painful. She began to decline, and now
her life is despaired of.
SUICIDE OF AN OLD LADY.
ia CROSSE, WIS, May 19.-Mrs. Nutting
widow of Abe Nuttlng aged seventy-fve
years, eleven miles from this city, and
quite wealthy, was found in the barn on
her premises yesterday with her throat cut,
she having committed suicide. The cause
is supposed to have been the recent death
of her favorite son.
MRS LUCAS STILL ON DECK.
DETROIT, May 19-Kate Lorungie, the
female whose exp ploits among leading men
in jackson, Boston and Cincinnati are well
known, was arrested Monday and given to
a Boston detective, who started for the
Hub with his prize. In Boston the police
knew her as Louisa Sylvan, particularly
hard case, who jumped her bail in Boston
where she was hauled up a while ago for
blackmailing. In Cincinnati she sailed un-
der the name of Mrs. Lucas.
HOMICIDE WITH HOE.
RALEIGH, N. c., May 19.-George Jones,
colored. whose wife had left him. yesterday
followed her to the house of Hilliard Bry-
ant, in Nash County, and, armed with a
pistol and bowie-knife. ordered her to come
out. Bryant went instead, and broke
Jones' head with hoe. He died at once
FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION.
HALIFAX, May ia boiler explosion
Yesterday in McLelland & Blaske's saw mill
near here, killed Hugh Boyd and Allen
Heighton.
OLD MANS FATAL FALL.
LIrcHF1ELD, Ky. MAY 19.-Asa Bratcher, a
man over seventy years of age, died yester-
day evening from the effects of fall he re-
ceived on last Friday from his back porch.
The old man was drawing bucket of wa
ter and stopped down to pick it up, when
he fell off the perch.
HORRIBLE DEATH OF BOY.
DAVENPORT, a., May 10. Frank Brown,
aged twelve, at Washington, Iowa; yester-
day was leading mule, when the halter
chain became entangled about the boy and
the mule ran, dragging the boy thirty rods
over stones and mangling him into shape
less mass, killing him instantly.
FATAL RAILROAD COLLISION.
NASHVILLE, May ia freight and
special train on the Nashville & Chatta.
nooga Railroad colilded near Anti.
och at II o'clock last night, damag-
ing both trains slightly. Conductor James
W. Gollitban, in charge of the special.
jumped from the train, receiving injuries
from which he died at two o'clock this
morning.