The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-04-30
Deserts the Daughter and
Kills the Brother.
Assassination of a Mobile
Murderer. WI.
Mr.. Loom Looms Up in
Dakota.
WADE SENTENCED TO DEATH.

Specials to the Star.
INDIANAPOLIS, April 3O-The jury in the
Wade case returned verdict last evening
at TAO, after five hours consultation, con-
victing the prisoner of murder in the first
degree and sentencing him to suffer the
death penalty. Quite large number of
people were present when the decision,
which seems to meet with general favor,
was read. Wade received it in his usual
quiet way. and seemed but little affected.
When Mrs. Brown was informed of his
sentence she exclaimed: 1T serves him
right He gets what he deserves. He has
kept me from my children, and he ought
to die. 1t serves him right; serves him
right"
CHARLES POWELL TO HANG.
ATLANTA. April 30.-Charles Powell col
ored, who killed Sam. Staten. colored, at
Neville, Telfair County. short time ago,
has been tried and found guilty of murder.
He was sentenced to be hung on the 11th
of June.
WOMAN BURNED TO DEATH.
MEMPHIS, TENN, April 30.-A colored
woman named Jane Frierson, living on Mr..
L. s. billiards. place, seven miles north OF
Oxford, while burning corn-stalks by some
means got her clothing on fire and was
burned to death.
EXECUTION IN ALABAMA TO-DAY.
DECATUR, ALA, April 30.-A dispatch
just received here from Montgomery states
that Gus. Wegan, convicted of murder, is
TO be hanged to-day at Talladego, his ap-
plication for a respite having been denied.
KILLED BY FALL.
DUBUQUE, a., April 30.-A fatal accident
occurred at Webster City yesterday. Elisha
Sackett, carpenter, iell from a scaffold-
ing and was killed.
THE PENALTY OF ADAM.
DALLAS, Tex. April 30-The jury in the
case OF Adam Thompson, or trial for the
murder of Joseph Shumaker, brought in a
verdict last night of murder in the first de-
gree, affixing the penalty at death.
MR.. LooMER LOOMS UP.
YANKroN, D. T., April 3o.-At Lawes'
Ranch, opposite Rosebud Landing, on the
Miss 'uri, George De Camp was shot and
instantly killed yesterday by James Loomer
Intimacy with Loomers wife was the cause.
DEsERTIoN, HORSE PISTOLS AND DEATH.
SHREVEPORT, La, April 30.-A fatal diff
Guilty is reported on the plantation of
Marion Mcmillan, six miles from here.
John Williams had deserted the sister OF
Ned Crutclfield, whom he promised to
marry.
Crutchfield, with his friend Andrew
Mitchell. went to Andrews house and
called him out. In the meantime Crutch-
fields daughters assaulted Williams wife.
Crutchfield himself went to assault Will
liams, followed by Mitchell. Williams,
with an old-fashioned horse-pstol. fired on
Crutchfield, hitting him in the head and
killing him almost instantly. The ball
also struck Mitchell and severely wounded
him. .
SUICIDE IN A CIsTERN.
PEORIA, ILL.,, April 30-Mrs. Elizabeth
Weiss an aged and respectable German
woman, committed suicide yesterday by
drowning herself in her cistern. She got
breakfast as usual and when her husband
returned, about clock, she was missing,
and was found in the cistern. The open
ing was very small, and the woman par
TALLY disrobed so she could get into the
Cistern. ..
YOUNG BoATMAN DROWNED.
BURLINGTON, Iowa, April 30.-Wil G.
Zimmerman, twenty-five years of age,
while practicing on the river last evening
in light working boat, was drowned by
Its ursetting. Deceased had for several
years been clerk in the Merchants Ma
tional Bank of this city; was son of Rev.
John Zimmerman, pastor of the German
Lutheran Church here.
THE FATAL EMERY WHEEL
DAVENPORT Iowa, April 30-A young
man named John w. Potter. from Clinton,
Iowa, was killed yesterday in saw-mhll
at Moline, by the bursting Of an emery
wheel. g@
a} A DESPERATE AssAssINATED.
NEW ORLEANS, April 30--A Mobile dis
patch says that Tom Fincher, notorious
desperate, was arrested and tried for the
murder of old Mr.. Wheeler and Mr.. Al
len. but acquitted. Afterward. while walk
ing near Spring Hill, an unknown party
shot him with rife, the bullet entering
his neck and coming out at his mouth, kill
ing him instantly.