American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-07-27
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Kennedy, An Irish Iaborer, shot his wife
twice, killing her instantly, and then shot
himself in the vicinity of the heart, also ia
tally. Poverty and domestic discord are
supposed to have instigated the Act,
Thomas Ballard, known as the ssKine
6f Counterfeitcrs," committed suicide in the
Albany IN. " Penitentiary on the 18th, by
stabbing himself with n shoemaker's knife
AT Aledo, Ill, on the 14th, yuutg
lady, daughter of Mr.. J. +. Harcount, while
handling toy pistol, accidentally shot her.
self, the ball passing through her lung,
causing instant death.
| Ten thousand English nail.makcrs
are on a strike for an advance of 30 per cent.
In wages.
The planing-m of Davis & Starbuck,
at GAINESVILLE, o., on the 18th, was leveIed
to the ground by the explosion of the steam
! boiler, burying the workmen In the ruins.
James Podgett, j. w. Burchard and Charles
Etsler, ST., were killed, four others were
seriously hurt, and several more slightly in
jured.
Mrs. Bowers was burned to death at
Rochester. Ind, on the 18th, by kindltng the
Ere with keeosene; and Mrs. Eliza White, of
st. Louis, came to her death in the same
manner and on the same day.
Three fatal cases of yellow fever had
occurred on the 18th, on the United States
steamer Colorado, lying off the Brooklyn
Navy Yard.
Fipes and Herndon, Texas train rob.
beers, have been sentenced to HE imprison-
ment.
Sam Bass, the train-robber, and his
gang, said to number a5 men, on the 18th
had f~s az ,;xI,
Sheriff Grimes, of Williamson County, and
posse. Sheriff Grimes was killed and also
one of the robbers, and Moore. Deputy
Sheriff, was fatally wounded:
At Harrisonburg, Va, on the 10Th,
Mr.. Abe Richie and his son, young man,
were both killed by lightning, while stand
ing under tree in the harvest-fieId, where
they had taken refuge dtifing shower.
At Abingdon, Va, on the goth, Wal
ter Preston, young man, shot and killed
John Styles and then killed himself. Styles
was superintendent of Prieston's Brothers
farm. Walter had ridden faeoriie
horse to death, and being upbraided by
Styles, became enraged and shot him. In
fit Of remorse he then shot himself.
A fatal case of yellow fever occurred
at st. Louis on the Goth, the victim being a
voting man who, it is supposed, contracted
the disease on a South Sea vessel at New
Orleans.
The name of the Independent Order
of Workingmen has been changed to that o.
the Independent orde. OF Mutual Aid.
Chief Joseph's band of Nez Perces,
numbering all told 433, have been transfer
red from Fort Leavenworth to the Indian
Territory, where they will share the re.er-
walton now occupied by Captain jacks
band of Modocs.
From July 10th to goth, inclusive,
there were i5s deaths from sunstroke in st.
Louis, beside many others indirectly at
tributable to the excessive heat. The total
number of deaths from the LIST to the 20th Of
July was Gao, against 40 deaths for cor
responding period last year.
Sam Bass, the Texas tfain-robber and
desperado, was finally captured, after being
fatally wounded on the 7ctk; rear Hound
Rock. One Of Els gang, named Barnes, was
Sihed; another, named jackson, escaped.
The capture was effected by Major Jones
and party of State troops and citizens.
There was a standing reward of 5000 for
the capture of Bass. dead or alive.
Nose kerkendall, colored, was
lynched in Boone County, Ark, on the 18th,
for an attempted outrage upon a white lady.
North Albany, N. Y, was struck by
a cyclone on the 21st, which caused damage
to the amount of 100000.
1t is reported that the wheat in Wis
consin and Minnesota has been severely In
jured by rust and blight, caused by the in
tensely hot weather. The damage is esti-
mated at from % to 80 per cent. on the total
crop.
Miss Julia McPhee and Mrs. George
Byers were killed by lightning at Gloucester,
Mass, on the 21st.
John Shackley, Frank Jones, Patrick
johnson and John Clauhence were killed by
the explosion of the boiler of steam
thrasher near Jamestown, Ind, on the 18th.
Seven other men were seriously injured.
The wife of James Trump, of Pitts
burg, Pa, kindled the fire with kerosene.
Eight hours afterward she died in great
agony.