American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-16
LATE NEWS ITEMS,

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s IN pennsylvania and elsewhere.
William Shelburne was married t
+ Ada McCloy, in Clay County, N. C., on Ii
: 1st. They were both of the best families
the county, and the marriage was the cor
> summation of two years. engagement,
5 larger portion of which time had bee
spent by the gentleman in Ne
Orleans, where he had DOS
ition as clerk in cotton house. On tn
night of the marriage the young bride dis
closed to her Mortified husband a trut
which she could no longer conceaI-that sh
was about to become a mother, and name
Simpson Foster, neighbOring young farm
er, as her seducer. Frenzied by the intelli
gence, the husband left the bridal chamber
seized a double -barreled shotgun
and riding to the home of Foste
he called him to the door and shot him with
out word of explanation. The unhapp,
bride was entirely prostrated by the resuI
OF her criminal folly, and a few hours after
ward died in giving premature birth to he
lIlegItImate babe. Fosters wound was no
1atai, and 1t was expected that the injured
husband would return and complete, his un
finished work.
A terrible tornado swept over a por.
tion OF Casey County, KY, on the Afternoon
of the I'd. The house of Vincent Wesley
near Rich Hill, was demolished in an instant
and all the inmates, six in number, killed
These We're: Vincent Wesley and wife, two
grown daughters, nephew named sloan
and neighbor, VIM. Taylor. Mrs. Wesley's
body was blown 400 yards, and her clothing
was entirely stripped off. The two daugh-
tiers were carried 30 yards, and were found
| locked in each others arms. The father and
nephew were fearfully mangled, and all must
have been killed by the first force of the
| tempest. The dwelling, stables and out
buildings were blown entirely away, the
logs being scattered for many yards along
the sweep of the tornado, and the hearth and
foundation stones blown from their places
In the vicinity of Mount Olive, Mrs. Nor
gan, wife of John W. Morgan, was
killed, and several houses were swept
away and the remainder otherwise injured
Large trees were twisted from their roots
and carried hundreds of yards A consid-
cradle number OF horses, cattle and other
stock, and nearly all the poultry in its course
were killed. The pecImiary damage is
not less than $4,000.
A negro named Winston Anderson
was taken from jail and hanged by a mob at
Clarksville, Tenn, on the night of the 1st.
He was guilty of attempting an outrage up
on young white girl.
A destructive fire occurred at Hot
Springs, Ark, on the morning of the 5th, by
which some $50 buildings, comprising about
one half of the place, were laid in ashes
The fire originated in the lower part of the
city, near the Malvern Roads swept clean
both sides of the principal street to the Big
Iron Spring. The more important buildings
consumed were the Hot Spring House,
American Hotel, Earl Hotel, Valley and
State Bank, POst-office, Daily Sentinel of
flee, Telegraph office, and a number of other
business and bath houses. The buildings
being all of wood, and the fire appliances
limited, the flames swept their course almost
unopposed. The loss is estimated at from
100000 to $30O,00O, and large number of
people, among whom are many invalids,
were rendered temporarily homeless.
The wife of David Razure, of New
ton, Kansas, eloped with B. c. Arnold, of
the same place. The guilty pair went to St.
Joseph, Mo-, and took rooms at a hotel as
man and wife. Razure followed them up,
and upon his confronting them, which he
did IN most unexpected manner, apparent
ly, some lively shooting took place between
the two men. Two balls from Arnold's pistol
struck Razure in the shoulder, coming out
at the breast. Arnold was struck square in
the breast by shot from Razure's pistol,
but pocket-book in his breast pocket stop
ped the force of the ball, which inflicted
merely flesh wound. Razure's wounds
were considered fatal. Arnold was arrested,
but released on bail.
The Mardi Gras festivities at Mem
phis and New Orleans were witnessed by
thousands of visitors from all parts of the
country, and were very successfully con-
Quoted.
Congratulatory messages passed be-
tween the Sultan and the Emperor on the
Sd, and amicable relations are resumed.
The Miami Savings Society of Gin,
cinnati closed its doors on the I'd. Liabiii-
ties, $4,000; assets, $152, 900.
The Newcomb-Buchanan Distillingy
Company of Louisville, KY, the largest dis
tilling concern in the country, suspended on
the 9th. Liabilities not known, but believed
to be much less than assets. The cause of
the suspension is claimed to have been the
agitation of the reduction of tax on whisky
by Congress. This occasioned less than one
half the usual sales, and, added to the fact
that large sums had to be paid for whisky
coming out of bond, caused embarrassment.z
Four children of Matthew Lynch, of
Fort Wayne, Ind, obtained railroad tor
pedo, which they usedfo plaything The
torpedo exploded, causing the death of three
OF them and seriously wounding the fourth
Tom SpOttswood, notorious desper-
ado, formerly of Missouri, has been arrest
ed as the leader of the gang who recently
robbed the express car on the Texas Central
Railroad.
The Fifth Annual Convention of the
National Butter, Cheese and Egg Associa-
ton was held at Chicago, beginning on the
9Th.
James Love, farmer residing near
Lowell, Henry County, Iowa, did not live
happily with his wife and they agreed to
separate and divide their household goods.
On the morning of the 9TH the wife, who had
some time previously taken up her resi-
dence elsewhere, returned to her former
home to get her portion of the goods.
She was accompanied by her 7-year old son.
andzLove gave them both an apparently cor
dial greeting. On some pretext he put the
little boy up through the scuttle- hole on to
the roof, and then deliberately shot his wife
in tie back of the head, killing her instant
lv. He then left the house, and going to the
woods near by, committed suicide.
The steamer City of Chester, of the