American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-04-08
TELEGRAPHIC NOTES.

A special to the Galveston Neaos from
San Marcos, Texas, says the Austin stag,
was robbed in San Marcos Bottom, about
three miles from that town, on the evening
of the 9th, by two masked men. The rob
4 bers compelled the driver to quit the road ant
| drive into the woods, where the passengers,
eight in number, were made to give up theil
money and watches, after which the robbers
proceeded to rifle the mail. They secured
about s. 900 in money.
Thomas w. Piper, the murderer OF
little Mabel Young iHDoston. has been sen :
fenced to be hanged.
The new St. Louis Directory puts the
population of that city at 49s, 1872.
The most severe snow storm of the
season occurred throughout Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska, on
the Goth, to the 2sth. Snow fell to a depth
OF from 10 to IS inches in some localities,
and railroad travel was more or less inter-
rupted.
During the severe storm on the night
of the 2Sth, a frame building ON the out
skirts of Brooklyn, occupied by colored
family, was blown down. The mother and
a little boy were killed, and the father and
another child badly injured. A steamer and
two barges were sunk in the Hudson River.
Adoubly fatal shooting accident oc
CURED near Meadville, Pa, on the 30th.
While man named Ferry was dismounting
from his horse with a double-barreled shot
gun, loaded with buckshot, in his hand, the
weapon was accidentally discharged, the
contents striking lady named Wentworth,
and her cousin, little boy aged six years,
who was looking out of window, killing
both of them instantly.
During the terrific snow-storm on the
night of the 9th, Mrs. George Holton and
her two little children, living near Wamego,
Kansas, on the line of the Kansas Pacific
Railroad, started to go to a neighbours
house, only quarter of a mile distant.
The snow blew so hard in their faces that
they became bewildered, and wandered
about the prairie until exhausted. They
were found the following Wednesday frozen
to death, not twenty rods from the house
they were in search Of. The mother had
taken off nearly all her clothes to protect her
children, and was herself in an almost naked
condition.
The 1000 premium offered by the
Memphis Cotton Exchange for the best bale
of cotton for exhibition at the Centennial,
has been awarded to VIM. Taylor, of Lee |
County, Ark.
Four of the sixteen boilers of Fetch
er's Mill, at Providence, r. l., exploded |
on the 31st, killing two men and wounding, |
more or less seriously, number of others.
An engine on the Tyrone and Clear
field Railroad exploded near Sandridge, |
Pa, on the 31st, killing three men, named |
Miller, Campbell and Channon, and fatally
another, named Waters.
Col. Edward p. Jones, of Canton,
Miss, well know dealer in patent rights,
suicide on the LIST.
The Office of the United States Ex-
press Company at Akron, o., was robbed
on the morning of the LIST of $12, 900 in cash
and several sealed bags of money, the aggre-
gate amount taken being not less than $685.,
BOO or $3o, 200.
The Security Bank of Washington
closed its doors on the LIST, and will go int
liquidation. Liabilities about 500, 600, of
which 500, 600 are due depositors.
At Gardner, Me-, on the morning of
the LIST, Isaac Page killed his wife, who had
Just given birth to a child, and then killed
himself.