The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-02-26

MILAN, Ind, req. Z6.-Phl1p B0altS,
bachelor. sixty-two years old. in good cir
cunstances, living all alone ON his farm,
five miles northwest of here, was found
murd cred in his house yesterday morning.
Late last evening VIM. s. Trissinger, a
nephew Of Boalts. was arrested, charged
with being the murderer, his heels cor
responding with tracks made at the old
mans house.
ALL BORN To BE SHOT.
HICKMAN, KY, Feb. 26.-Gen. Henry
Darnell has just died at Madrid Bend, Lake
County, Tenn, from the effects of two pis-
tol wounds received at the hands of Albert
Nall in 1875. Gen. Darnell makes the third
who received fatal wounds in that diff
Guilty, and the fourth member of his family
who has been killed. He was the father OF
the late Henry Darnel, Representative
from Pemiscot County, Mo-, who was killed
in the fall Of 1878.
MARTfNsvILLE MURDER TRIAL.
MARrrNsvILLE, IND. Feb. 26.-The evil
dence in the Price trial closed before noon
yesterday. The defendant himself was the
last witness examined. Arguments Of the
counsel are in progress to-day.
SUICIDE OF A SPECULATION.
LEADvrLLE COL, Feb. 28.-Albert Die
trioh, q mining speculator. who had become
terribly addicted to dissipation of late,
suicided at the Leadville House yesterday
through the agency of laudanum. He
came from Pennsylvania.
CANADIAN CAPITOL BURNED.
TORONTO, ONT, Feb. 20. - A dispatch
states that the House of Assembly at
Fredricktown, New Brunswick was de-
stroyed by fire last night The Legislature
was to have assembled there to-day.
.a BOTH MEN WILL HANG.
MARSHALL, TEXAS, Feb. 28-Much satis-
faction is expressed from Gainesville at the
affirmation by the Appellate Court of the
penalty of death against Krebbs and Pres
ton, perpetrators of the dreadful massacre
of the old Methodist preacher, England,
and his family. in Montague County, some
years ago. The men will both hang.
ABAD BARBER BOUNCED.
KANSAS Cry, Feb. 26.-Frank Boyd. q
colored barber, whose wife obtained d.
vorce from him not long ago on account of
his cruelty, forced his way yesterday into
the kitchen Of the house. where his wife
was getting breakfast. and assaulted her
with a razor, doing his best to kill her.
She fought him with chair and poker
and in the struggle bit one of his fingers
nearly of. He tried to escape, but q
mounted policeman overlook him two
miles south of the city and arrested him.
BOYD MANNED a man for life with razor
some years ago at Lawrence. Kansas.
THE LAW OF LYNCH.
DEADwoOD. Feb. 26.-"Curly" Wood and
his son Charles were hung on Thursday
last at their camp on the Belle-Fourche,
for catt.e-stealing. Gus Johnson and Bad
Land Charley. for like offense. were last
week pursued into the Inyan Kara Range
by vigilantes, and both shot.
INNOCENT JUvENILE PAsrIMEs
NASHVILLE, TENN, Feb. 26.-At half-past
2 O 'clock yesterday afternoon, Joseph Vo-
gel, pupil of the Hume School, stabbed
Benjamin Cockrill. schoolmate, so severe
lv that no hopes of his recovery are enter
| tanned.
SERIOUS ROW ON THE ROAD.
MURFREEsBoRo, TENN, Feb. 26.-As eight
or ten negr es were going to their homes,
on the Lebanon Turnpike. in wagon,
they were overtaken BY three white men
Baker Bryant, Baker Wrather and Epps 8.
Edwards-near Sinking Greek. They en-
gaged in row about giving the road, and
one of the negroes threw stone, which
struck Bryant on the head, crushing in his
skull. Wrather and Edwards were bruised
considerably during the melee. One of tie
negroes is reported dead, and Bryant, it is
thought. will die.
LIECOLH's MURDERER CAPTURED.
HARRIsoNBuRG, Va, Feb. 26-George
Woods, the man who brntally murdered
Jacob Lincoln, cousin Of the late Abra-
ham Lincoln, Ex-President, has been cap
tured, and is now in Jail here. After COM
mitting the murder Woods fled to the
mountains but was traced to his hiding
place by tie officer OF the law.
SOLDIER SHOT BY A POLICEMAN.
ATLANTA, Ga, Feb. 28.-l asst night a
crowd OF soldiers of the Fifth ARTILLERY,
drunk. had a row with a policeman and a
general melee ensued, in which police
man shot Private Bergen in the breast, in
flicting fatal wound. The affair caused
some xc.tement here.
National Associated Press to the Star.
FIRE AT ST. JOSEPH, MICH.
ST.. JOSEPH. Feb. 26.-The house of G.
Dempster burned here yesterday. Loss,
| IS, 500; insurance, $500.
FIRE IN NEW YORK TO-DAY.
| New YORK, Feb. 20 "A fire broke out
early this morning at 81 and SO Elizabeth
street, occupied by various industries. Tie
flames spread to the adjoining property
and through to Grand street, causing q
total loss on buildings, machinery and the
stock of the occupants of about see, 900.
RICH BUT BAD BURToNIAN.
DETROIT, Feb. 26.--William Withians a
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