American citizen., 1878-11-16
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Two brothers, William and Benjamin
Sawyer, both past 80, proprietors of an OF
mill at Decatur, ILL.,, had quarreled consid
erabiy about their business affairs, and OF
the morning of the 4th, during an angry dis
cussion, William seized a revolver and hret
three shots at his brother, the last sho
striking the top of his head and fracturins
| his skull. William then rushed from tht
office out into the yard, and shot himself
with the same weapon, dying within an hour
Benjamin was still alive some time after the
/ shooting, but his recovery was extremely
| doubtful.
John Chin, Chinese laundryman al
Quincy, ILL.,, was murdered in most
atrocious manner on the night of the Sd
| Information was first given of the crime by
Jim, Johns partner, who said that two ne
groes killed him. From admissions subse-
quently made by Jim it is suspected that he
himself was the murderer, and he Is ac-
cordingly under arrest. ....5
jeremiah Kennedy, the Chicago wife
murderer, committed suicide in his cell on
the Sd, by cutting his throat with razor
which he obtained from an adjoining cell.
Kennedy was declared insane by the jury
that convicted him Of murder.
Cowan, Sheets Il Co bankers at Bel
laire, o., have failed. Liabilities, $4,000;
assets, $4,000.
A snow-storm of almost unprecedent-
edseverity has occurred in Austria. In the
vicinity of Vienna the railway lines were all
blockaded and telegraph lines prostrated.
The snow fell to a depth of several feet.
Eli Smith, railroad man out of en-
ployment, committed suicide at the Capital
House in Topeka, Kan, on the 9Th. His
home was in Marion, o., where he leaves a
wife and two children.
A colored man was taken out of Jail
and hung ut Clarksville, Ark, on the night
of the 9th, for committing rape on a white
woman.
Washington Thomas, an active par
tisan of Tammany Hall, committed suicide
in New York City upon ascertaining the de-
feat of the Tammauy candidates.
The failure is announced of Wilson &
Co., calico printers, Alexandria, Dunbar
tonshire, Scotland. Liabilities, 800 900.
The failure throws out of employment sew
eral hundred persons.
By the explosion of saw mill boiler
near Savannah, Andrew County, Mo-, on the
9Th, J. Simmons and w. s. Farrow were kill
ed and two other men injured.
The Berlin authorities have interdict-
ed the sale of the Socialistic works of Las
sale.
President Hayes has Internationally
pardoned the last five of the convicted St.
Louis Whisky Ring. They are Messrs. Hen
reichboffen, Bernard Engelke, John l..
Bernecker, A. NJ. Everest and Henry Harda-
way. All others convicted for this offense
-
Imprisonment to which they were sentenced
have expired.
The ship Fifeshire was lost on the
her crew were drowned.
A St. Petersburg dispatch of the Sth
says the Gar is very i'll at Laveda and en-
tirely unable to transact any business.
j. ST.. John, of Kingsville, Ashtabula
County, o., on the Sth threw himself under
the wheels of an express train at Leetonia,
o., and his body was severed in two. He
left papers indicating his intention to com
NIT suicide, but assigning no reason there
for.
A special from Pembina, Dakota Ter
ritory, Nov. 8, to the St. Paul Pioneer
Press, says: W. H. Anderson, Dallas, Tex
as, Sheriff, in pursuit of VIM. Collins, one
of the famous bank and train robbers OF
that region, found his man in Pembina, this
evening, and attempted to arrest him. Col
Inns resisted and the men exchanged fire
with fatal effect, both dropping dead in two
minutes.
A gang of armed thieves took posses
sion of Johnson's jewelry store in Eighth
Avenue, New York City, about O'Clock on
the evening of the 7th. One covered the in
mates of the store with a revolver, while an
other packed up about $4,000 worth OF
watches, and two others meanwhile stood
outside with rcvolvers drawn and compelled
the passers-by to move on. They got of
safely with their plunder before the police
arrived.
The body of Jacob Peyton, an old
and respected resident of Roanoke, Hunt.
| ingdon County, Ind, who died on the 3D.
was stolen from its grave and taken to the
Fort Wayne Medical College, wher,
it was found by the police on III,
| eth. 1t had not as yet been touched
by the dissecting- knife. The college officer
say 1t was left in the building by unknown
parties, and that they were taking steps t'
identify it and have it returned to the grave
The affair caused much excitement.
William Rainey, colored, was hanged
at Warrenton, n. c., on the Sth, for tn,
murder of John Taylor, also colored. H,
confessed his guilt on the scaffold, but me
his fate with great firmness.
The liabilities of Dodd, Brown & Co.
of st. Louis, are 81, 700, ,11O; actual available
assets, 1896, ,s69.
A fire broke out in the Ocean House
Cape May, about O'Clock on the mornin;
of the 9th, and extended rapidly to othe
hotels and cottages, burning owe
an area of about 40 acres. TIL
principal houses destroyed are Con
gress Hall, the Ocean, Center, CoIumbia
Atlantic and Merchants Hotels. The tota
loss is estimated at about 100000. The fir
is supposed to have been the work of an In
cendiary, as there had been no fires in tn
Ocean House since the close of the season
In 1860 nearly the same area was swept b
| fire.
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