American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-02-09
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

There is no truth in the report that
Sitting-Bull has crossed over into United
States territory. He is peacefully encamped
with all his people, near Cypress Mountain
Canada, and shows no disposition to go up
on the war-path at present.
J. & G. Ritterhausen, of Hamburg,
Germany, cotton importers, recently failed
in business, and both members of the firm
committed suicide.
At Carpentersville, Putnam County,
Ind, during services in the Methodist Epis-
copal Church on Sunday evening, Jan. 27, a
man named Harris created a disturbance,
and refusing to desist at the request of the
minister, the Rev. Mr.. Mason, from Balm
bridge, he was forcibly elected by the latter.
Harris lay in wait at the church door, and
when Mr.. Mason came out he struck him
down with a club and then stabbed him
with a large knife, killing him almost in
stantly. Harris was arrested, and is now in
the Greencastle Jail. f-
The First National Bank of Kansas
City, Mo-, H. NJ. Holden, President, sus-
pended on the 30th, caused, as alleged, by
the withdrawal of over $3.50, 900 in deposits
within few days previous. The officers,
in published card to the public, say that
all depositors may rest assured of being paid
in full in due time. The Commercial Ma
tional Bank followed in the wake of the First
National and closed its doors, attributing its
inability to pay to a similar cause. The latter
was only small concern.
The Secretary of the St. Louis Cotton
Exchange warns cotton dealers and pro-
ducers in the Southwest against certain
parties who have mailed circulars from that
city soliciting consignmentsi of cotton, and
using the name of the st. Louis Cotton Ex-
change. The names printed on the circu-
lar are S. II. Bransen, President, Joseph
Pollock, President, and D. H. Rupert,
Secretary, none of whom are known to the
business men of St. Louis.
A surplus of $4,000 of the Brandon,
VT, National Bank has been wiped out and
its capital of 100000 impaired 10 per cent
by the action of the late cashier, D. G. Bas-
com, in letting j. O.. Batcheider have about
$100, 900, part on raised notes. Bascom has
left town.
Rumsier, one of the proprietors of a
saloon and clearinghouse in Bloomington,
Ill.,, which was burned on the morning of
the 30th, lost his life in the burning build
ing. Tommy Howard, the bartender,
barely saved his life by jumping from an
upper window, after his right arm and side
had been burned almost to a crisp.
Two masked men robbed the stage
between Fort Worth and Weatherford,
Texas, on the 29th. Five passengers handed
over three gold watches, S40O in cash, and
other valuables.
The Topeka Bank and Savings Insti-
tute, of Topeka, Kansas, State bank, closed
its doors on the 31st; also, the Merchants
National Bank of Fort Scott, Kansas.
Z William Wieners was hanged at ST.
Louis on the 1st, for the murder of A. v.
Lawrence, a barkeeper at the Theatre
Comique in that city, in January, 1877. Be
fore he was swung off he made a short
speech, saying: My Friends-7I have
to bid you all goodbye. ]
committed a rash act, but not cold -blooded
one, as God is my witness; but it has at last
led me to the scaffold. hope that all men
will take warning by my fate and let bad
whisky alone. hope that shall be the last
one that perishes on this scaffold. am very
glad-good- bye"
Philip Watson, colored, who muir