American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-03-02

/ Three men, named England, Triplett
and Crawley, were killed by the explosion
of boiler in steam sawmill owned by Mr.
! Shields, two miles from Palmyra, Mo-, on
the 18th. The mill was entirely demolished
The Insane Asylum at Winoski, She
boygan County, Wis, was totally DESTROYED
by ire ON the night of the 18th, and four in
mates, Lucretia Toothaker, Mrs. Mcdonald,
August Althrop, and Billy Doe, an Indian,
perished in the flames.
Ambrose, negro. who was arrested
upon a charge of beating a white boy so that
he died, was taken from the Jail at Column
bia, Texas, on the 20th, by mob of masked
men, and hanged.
Col. Joseph NJ. Harss, of Lawrence
burg, Ky, was shot three times and fatally
wounded by Joseph Fraser, on the 21st.
The shooting was the result of quarrel
The boiler of the Mound City Flour
ing Mill, situated east of Bigelow, Holt
County, Mo, on the 22d exploded with ter
rife force, entirely demolishing the mill and
instantly killing j. McWilliams, NJ. AckIev,
j. II. Caldwell and VIM. Anderson, and, it is
thought, fatally injuring James Dawson.
Doc. ShOckey, a notorious desperado,
charged with the murder of a mail contract
Qrat Lake Charles, La, was being taken
from Texas under Governors requisition,
when he was rescued from the Sherftf's
posse by.a party of several masked men
heavily armed.
Lewis Hill, alias Henry Williams,
was hanged at Isle of Wight Court house,
Va, on the 22d, for an outrageous assault
upon respectable young white lady of that
county.
The revolution in San Domingo CON
tinues and President Baez is besieged in
San Domingo City.
A daring express robbery was COM
mitted at Allen Station on the
Texas Central Railroad, about %
miles north of Dallas, on the night Of the
22d. just as the train halted at the station,
at 9:30 p. M, five masked and armed men
boarded the express car, while another
jumped upon the locomotive and covered
the engineer with his revolver.
The express messenger showed fight, firing
several shots at the robbers, and it is be-
lieved wOunding one of their number He
was finally overpowered, however, and,
covered by the muzzles of two revolvers,
was compelled to open his safe, from which
the robbers took the money packages,
amounting to about s., 500, and rode off.
None of the passengers We're molested, nor
did they make any show of resistance.
The Jury in the Rand murder case,
on trial at Galesburg, H., rendered a ver-
dict of guilty. of murder in the first degree,
the penalty assessed being imprison-
ment for life. The prisoner was at
once removed to the Penitentiary at
Joliet, on account of threats being freely
made to lynch him by the exasperated citi-
zens of Knox County.
J.W. Barron, Treasurer of the Dex-
er, Maine, Savings Bank, was found lying
'enseless in the bank, with rope around
Ms neck and body, and wounded in the
lead, on the night of the 22d. He died in a
ew hours. 1t is supposed that he refused
o open the safe and was killed in conse-
luence. The robbers secured less than Sl00 |
Charles Hayward, a Bourbon, Ind,
on the 23d shot his wife three |
lines through the body, wsunding her ia
ally, and then shot himself through the |
lead, causing instant death. They had been |
married. over a year, and it was supposed |
iyed happily together. They left a young
babe.
Three deaths have occurred at Rich |
ord, VT, from the use of poisonous well
water, and others are reported hopelessly |
H. One of the dead is Walter D.. Estes, !
we'll known lawyer.
An explosion of dynamite at Parma,
italy, on the 23d, killed six and wounded 63 |
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