The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-04-17
| -blooded Murderer
Acquitted.
'!robable Fratricide in Georgia.
little Babe Brutally Drowned at
Galena.
pedals to the Star.
PROBABLE FRATRICIDE.


ATLANTA, Ga, April ia difficulty oc-
urred at Long View, on the Airline, in
ihich young man by the name Of D..
hore, cut his brother Pete so badly that
is life is despaired Of
q KILLED BY AN EXPLOSION.
II COLUMBUS, GA, April ia short while
sinte the boiler of Mr.. A. J. Samples saw
j mill burst injuring three men. Mr.. Mac
Temples sustained the sexerest injury, be-
ing badly scalded, and he fingered in great
agony until yesterday, when he died.
COLD BLooDED MURDERER ACQUITTED.
i MARSHALL TEX, April 17.-Last year a
young man named Jared B. Kirby, living
In Brenham, went to the Methodist
Church at Hampstead. He had previously
procured pistol, and laid in wait at the
church door for the gray-haired old man,
John Steele, who was in the congregation
worshiping.
As the congregation came out Steele was
among the first. As he descended the
steps Kerby deliberately shot him down
like dog, and put bullet in the body
after the old man had expired. The cause
alleged by Kirby was that, at the close of
the war, Steele had killed his father. Yes
terday the premeditated murderer was &C.
quilted.
CHILD sCALDED TO DEATH.
Hot SPRINGS, ARK, April yesterday
q little girl, daughter of a washerwoman OF
this city, scalded itself to death by pulling
4 tub of boiling water over on herself. She
died in great misery.
KILLED BY TRAIN.
MARSHALL, TEX. April ia man named
Samuel Gray was run over by train No. 8,
near Queen City, this State, and instantly
killed.
FIRE AT OMAHA.
OMAHA, NEB., April 17.-Four frame
buildings on the north side OF Douglass
street, below Tenth, burned yesterday.
Partly insured, and loss not heavy.
BABE roULLY MURDERED.
GALENA, ILL, April 17.-An inquest was
I held in this city oger the remains of male
Y infant, found floating in the Galena River.
3 The body was perfectly nude and free from
7 any marks OF violence.
Y No facts were enlisted concerning the
oarentage of the little innocent. It was
apparently week old, and had been
brown into the water when alive, not
aore than twenty-four hours before being
ound. 1t is evidently case OF foul MUIR
er.
THE TREE is READY FOR HIM.
CLINTON, ILL, April 17.-News has just
,ached this city Of a very shocking trag.
ly which occurred at Roberts, Ill, where.
man approached little boy playing
the streets and mortally shot him with
ut the least provocation.
When the news spread posse Of forty
len went out in search the villain, but
p to this date have not discovered his
hereabous. The mmlnity is highly
licensed, and will hang the villain to the
rst tree should he be caught.
FATALLY BITTEN BY A HORSE.
WABASH, md, April w. King, a
iirmer living two miles north, while at
ending his horses was bitten OH the neck
y one of them, from the effects of which
.e can not live. He is thirty years old and
Unmarried.
III SAD CALAMITY IN MINNESOTA.
II MADELINE, April Yesterday morn
! ing buggy containing Mrs. Sophia Ken
K nedy, her daughter and Bertha Bastrian
while crossing milldam on narrow road
4 was overturned and the women all thrown
, into the water, fifteen feet deep. Mrs
Kennedy and her daughter were rescued
by men working near, but Miss Bastriar
was drowned. Her body was taken out an
I hour after.
HOTEL BURNED AT HAMBURG.
HAMBURG, a., April 1.-THE large frame
hotel here, known as the Wells House, 10
Gated near the c., B. & @ Depot, was burned
to the ground about two o'clock this morn
ing. The cause of the fire is not known
but it is thought to be the work o
an incendiary, as suspicious looking
persons were noticed around the house at I
late hour last night. The house was in
sured for $4,000, and the household good
for 81, ,000 The total loss is not yet known
The fire originated in an clubhouse. A
good part Of the household goods wer'