American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-05-18
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

contrary to expectations raised by tn
recent conciliatory attitude of the Papacy
those Prussian priests in receipt of Govern
ment stipends have been asked by. Carolina
Caterini, Project of the Congregation Of tn
Sacred Council, either to renounce thei
salaries or declare their opposition to tn
Ecclesiastical May laws.
A portable engine, used for hoistinl
ice out of barge into an ice-house at Mem
phis, Tenn, exploded its boiler on the 9Th
killing Tom Hoist, the engineer, and serious
ly injuring several others.
An election riot occurred at Weldon
N. c., on the 9th, in which John Purnell
colored, was killed, and several others, whit.
and colored, wounded.
II Contracts have been let by the Atchi
son, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Com.
pany for the construction of the first 10(
miles Of its New Mexico extension.
The Treasury Department gives no.
tice that dangerous counterfeit note of the
denomination of 500, on the Merchants
National Bank, of New Bedford, Mass, has
been put in circulation in the Western
States.
1t is now believed that the band of
| train robbers that for several months have
been depredating on the Houston and Texas
Central and Texas and Pacific Railways, have
been virtually broken up. Lieut.. June Peak,
Of the Texas Rangers, has arrested, in Den
ton County, Green Hill, D. G. Mullins, and
Robert Murphy, on United States warrant
charging them with being accessory. Sam
Bass, the leader of the gang, has been pur-
sued to his hiding place, and at last accounts
was badly wounded. The robbers Pipes,
Herndon and Mays have been brought be-
fore the bar of the United States Court at
Tyler.
A meeting of master cotton-spinners
and manufacturers, held at Manchester on
the eth, unanimously resolved to issue cir
cular to mill owners throughout the strike
district, recommending that mills still open
be closed Immediately, and advising that no
individual arrangements for re-opening
mills be made with workmen. The adoption
of this resolution caused great anxiety at
Manchester. 1t is believed it will render a
general lockout inevitable.
Miss A. S. Stewart, Il teacher in the
Clifton Academy, near Norfolk, Va, was
found dead in her room on the morning Of
the eth. A medical examination showed
that she had been fatally drugged. Her
room was robbed of many valuables, includ-
ing diamond engagement-ring, gold watch
and chain, besides some money. Miss Stew
art was beautiful and accomplished lady,
and was to have been married this summer
to Norfolk gentleman. Several negroes
who had been lurking around the neighbour
hood are suspected Of the crime.
On Sunday, the 9Th, $4,000 persons
visited the Paris Exposition.
The President has signed the act
amending an act to aid in the construction
Of railroad and telegraph line from the Mis-
souri, River to the Pacific Ocean.
Near Oxford, Miss, on the night of
the 9th, three tramps went to the house of
Mr.. Warner, planter, and brutally assault
ed Mrs. Warner, who was alone in the house,
SO that her life was despaired of. The
scoundrels were all captured and lodged in
jail, and were threatened with lynching.
A tornado and water-spout occurred
at Canton, China, on the 18th ult. Some
500 lives were lost and large number Of
buildings destroyed.
The Cuban sugar crop it is estimated
will fall short 30 to So per cent. as compared
with last year.
bennington, the noted stallion, sire
of Enquirer, Longfellow, Parole and other
noted horses, died at Chestnut Hill, Phila-
delphia, on the 9th.
The Allan line steamship Sandman,
from Liverpool, May 9, for Quebec, with |
400 passengers, took fire at the entrance of
Londonderry Harbor, caused by an ex-
plOsion of gas, which killed three persons
and seriously injured some 40 others. The
passengers were transferred to lighters and
taken to Londonderry.
Isaiah Evans, colored, was hanged at
Amite, Tangipahoa Parish, La, on the 10th
for the murder of Edward Bowen, white, in
July last.
Another party of Russian naval Off
GERS arrived at New York on the 9th on the
steamship Salvador. Lieut.. Rodnocof, one of
the party, being interviewed by a newspaper
reporter, said: Il have not the slightest
hesitation in telling you the object for which
the Cimbria came to America. She has on
board a number Of Russian naval officers
who are to take command of a certain num-
Der of ships that we intend to purchase
here, if we can find suitable ones. i and
my brother officers have come dire It
from st. Petersburg. We intend visiting
all the dock yards to see if we can find the
kind Of vessels we require land then, If there
is a prospect of war, we shall buy them i'm
mediately and have them fitted up. We ex-
pect to get as many volunteers from Ameri
can ports as will be necessary to work the
ships until we can receive crews from Rus
STA. We shall get the ships out of American
waters before war is proclaimed, and then
the United States Government can not in
terfere with us.''
At Rockport, Ind, on the 9th, per-
former belonging to Whalen's Variety Com
bination, of Louisville, undertook the feat of
shooting an apple from the head of woman.
The aim miscarried, and an S-year-old boy
named Wiegel, who was playing outside the
canvas, was shot in the forehead and almost
instantly killed.
Near Augusta, Me-, on the 18th, ia
son Scribner, a small farmer, killed three of
his children and then attempted suicide.
the house, or they too would have been
murdered.
Porter Brown was hanged at Nanny,
Sabine Parish, La, on the 18th, for the muir
der of DIR. Evans in March last. Brown
made a full confession of his crime and asked
forgiveness.
There was slight snow-storm, fol-
lowed by hail and rain, throughout portions
of Iowa on the 18th. No serious damage to
fruit or crops is reported. There were also
severe frosts throughout Central and North
ern Ohio.
A young desperate named Ernst
Whitehouse, who in june last, at Tcrre
Haute, Ind, shot Deputy Sheriff j ohm Cleary |
aud escaped from his custody, and upon be- !
ing pursued by posse of citizens turned and
fired into their ranks, keeping them az bay
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