The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-04-27
MURDERED MOTHER.
Terrible Tragedy at Knox
vile, Tenn.
54..
Steamboat Mate Killed. by an
w. Engineer.
Remarkable Mortality Among
COnvicts.
Specials to the Star.

KILLED BY LIGHTNING.
LITTLE Rock, ARK, April 27.-Mrs Sarah
Adams was killed by lightning during the
storm near Newport. and the little son of
Mr.. Buckalew, a few miles from them, was
also struck and killed. while out playing,
at about the same time.
MURDERED HIS MOTHER.
CHATTANOOGA, April GA dispatch from
Knoxville says that Yell Eckle has mur-
dered his mother at that place by striking
her on the back of the neck with bed-slat.
Eckle had been very noisy and violent in
his own house, which adjoins that of his
mother. and she had gone down to quiet
him. Eckle was quiet man when sober,
and his mother was an excellent woman.
KILLED ON THE PANHANDLE.
PITTsBURG. April 27.-Patrick Kinney,
aged twenty-four, was struck by train on
the Panhandle at 1 o'clock this morning at
Steubenville, O., and instantly killed. He
leaves wife and two children.
MUTINoUs CONVICT KILLED.
HuNTsvILLE, TEX, April 27.-Twenty-
two convicts attempted to escape from the
penitentiary at Rusk on Monday evening
They attacked Sergeant J. G. Smither with
rocks and tried to carry him over the guard
line with them. They did not succeed,
however, and Sergeant Smither. after
warning them to desist, shot and killed one
convict. o.
A DUEL TO THE DEATH.
New ORLEANS, April 27.-A gentleman
just from Jacksonville, Fla, states that a
duel was fought there three days ago just
beyond the city limits between two Gu
bans named Rafaal Toledo and Yndabiro
Pima, both cigar makers. Three shots were
exchanged and Toledo was killed. There
we're no seconds. The affair was witnessed
by boy.
STEAMBOAT MATE MURDERED.
PIrrsBURe, April 2.-At o'clock this
morning, while their boats were detained
at Lock No. l, William Tate, Mate of the
tow-boat I. N. Phillips, was killed by Jacob
Merriman, engineer of the propeller Stella
McCloskey.
| Both were intoxicated. and Tate was
killed by kicks and blows, growing out of q
dispute regarding their relative ages and
merits. Merriman was arrested. Tate was
forty years of age, and leaves two children
at Webster, near here. e....
| CONVICT KILLED AT HARD TIMES.
SHREVEPORT, LA, April 27.-Geo. Cump-
ston. colored convict, was shot and killed
yesterday at Hard Times while trying to
escape. One day last summer Cumpston
also tscaped, and was captured by Charles
Kent white man, whom Cumpston killed,
again escaping, and again being caught.
TOOK A CHANGE OF VENUE.
MEMPHIS. TENN, April 27.-W. J. Gov
dale, ship carpenter, committed suicide
here this morning by taking arsenic. His
wife, who was a low prostitute before and
since his marriage to her in January last,
swore out warrant for assault and battery
against him yesterday, and he took a
change of venue to higher court. 1t is
notable that his partner committed suicide
by walking off the deck of a steamboat at
Helena two months ago, ..1.
KILLED IN THE PENITENTIARY.
| SOLOMDOoJ W, pm Hds-JnLuCS uuSOIl,
negro convict from Brown County. sen.
fenced for one year for burglary was killed
at ten o'clock this morning. by the burst.
ing OF an emery wheel in the potter's
foundry. He had been in the Peniten.
tiary but twenty-eight days.
FIRE AT LOUISVILLE.
LOUISVILLE, April 27.-The grocery store
of Robert Hughes, corner of Washington
and Buchanan streets, was partly destroyed
by fire at an early hour this morning. Loss
about 1000.
THREE CHILDREN DROWNED.
National Associated Press to the Star.
| SHELBYvlLLE, ILL. April 27.-George
Comston, welLknown farmer, in crossing
the Okaw River, which was swollen to q
great height, Sunday night with his family
in spring wagon, ran against log, up.
setting the wagon. By great effort he
saved himself and wife, but their three
children perished in the flood.