The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-05-13
Louisville Deacon Holds 6
Private Execution.
The Last Blast of a Tired Out
Trumpeter.
Hunting an Iowa Fiend With
ShOt-Guns. =
FIRE AT INDIANAPOLIS.

fire had caught in the engine-room and had
been communicated from that place to the
machine room, where Engine 43, worth
10000, was standing. At the time the fire
broke out there we're eleven engines in the
round-house, but all were removed before
any damage except the No. 43. which was
left total wreck. The loss, as nearly as
could be ascertained, will reach 5000;
fully insured. ..s5
AN ALABAMIAN's SUICIDE.
DECATUR, ALA, May 13-Thomas Dali
ley, a hard drinker, committed suicide
yesterday near Bridgeport, by laying his
head across the railroad track. The loco
motive literally crushed his head from his
body. .-..u.. .....s
TWO MORE INDIANS DROWNED.
DuBuouE, IA, May 13-It has inst been
learned that two more Indians were
drowned Sunday morning in the Missis-
sippi River with 10. Frenchman, Chief Of
the Winnebagoa ..,..... ....-...
. DROWNED IN THE vERDIeRIs.
FREDoNrA, KS, May 1a-William Tuck
er, aged about twenty years. hailing from
Champaign County, Illinois, was drowned
yesterday while attempting to cross Verdi
girls River, on mule.
THE TRUMPErER's FINAL TRUMP.
OMAHA, NER, May 13.--Alex. H. Rear
don, chief trumpeter of the Ninth Infantry
Band, at General Crooks headquarters,
committed suicide yesterday by deliberate
ly sitting down with his back against a
fence and shooting himself through the
head with revolver the charge entering
his mouth and passing through the brain.
,a FATALLY BEATEN WITH BAR.
KANsAs,CIrY, Mo-, May 13.--Jack MCGEE,
an employe of the Kansas Pacific shops at
Armstrong, struck a felow-workmen yes
terday on the head with an iron bar. frac-
turing his skull and causing injuries which
must necessarily prove fatal. MCGEE is in
Jail.
t@ DEATH IN A BEAR PIT.
MARSHAL, TEXAS, May 13.-A citizen
named Tally, with Leonard Huff, went
bear hunting in Frio Canyon, near Rio
Frio. They struck bear trail and traced
1t to Rocky Cave. Tally let himself down,
through the mouth of the cave, but called
to Huff, who was above ground, saying he
was getting sick. Before Huff could assist
him. Tally fell dead on the stone floor of
the cave from gas damp. %
TRAGIC TEXAS. -..t
ROUND Rock, TEX, May 13.--The inter
national mail train, while crossing bridge
near here, ran over and killed negro girl,
aged ten.
LoSevIEw, TEX, May 13.-A brakeman
on the Texas Pacific, named Carlin, while
pulling pin to disconnect the engine from
the cars, fell from the tender and was
killed. sl..
DEACON JERRY's JUMP:
LOUISVILLE May 13.-Jerry Quinn, ne
gro teamster, committed suicide yesterday
by hanging himself in stable in the rear
Of his no me, on Madison street. He had
been married twice, but was widower at
the time of his death. He leaves two step
sons by each wife. (
He prepared regular .bangman's knot
with which to do the business. One end
was attached to a beam above an empty
stall. The whole rope was about five feet
long. He had evidently gotten up on the
feed box, and, after adjusting the loop,
jumped off. He was deacon Of the Fifth
and York.street Colored Baptist Church,
and handled all the funds.
--. DETERMINED TO DIE.
COLUMBUS, Ga, May 13,-The negro who
drowned the baby of his paramour in a
street cistern and disappeared some days
ago, has ever since been hiding in the lat
tice work of the Western Railroad bridge
over the river. His mother told the officers
of the place of his concealment. They ap-
peared at either end Of the bridge and de-
manded his surrender. The fugitive leaped
forty feet into the river,an was uninjured.
By the leap he sought the deepest water and
drowned himself.
s JONES DATE rs FIXED.
HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS, May Is. - Judge
Wood to-day sentenced A. e. Carter, alias
L. B. Jones. to be hanged July I'd for the
murder Of w. r. Spaulding near Dodge,
July "a, 1873.
National Associated Press to the Star.
BOY MURDERER ACQUITTED.
CHICAGO, ILL, May 13.-Charles Schank,
indicted for murder in killing the boy
Kandza, was acquitted by the jury in the
Criminal Court late last night.
.a.f. AN IOWA FIEND.
MASON Cry, Iowa, May 13-The most
fendish and revolving crime ever perpe-
trated in this section + Iowa has Just come
to light. Last Sunday night in Lafayette
the father of three girls, aged
9. 15 and IS years, came to Mason City with
the ostensibe purpose OF purchasing sup
plies for the family. -.
While absent he became intoxicated, and
going home his lustful propensities so
overcame his reason that he ravished all
three of his daughters. Their screams
were heard by neighbors living at a distance
of two miles over the prairie.
A party at once proceeded up to the
scene. The widest excitement prevailed
Men ware already there from anffbar Ia