American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-06-08
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

James o. Taylor, a well-to-do farmer
of Clarksviils, = West Va, is under arrest
charged with the horrible crime of outrag-
ing his own daughter, beautiful girl aged
II. Taylor Is. Appointment member of the
NJ. E. Church. His daughter, who has al
ways borne a most excellent character, her
self preferred the CHARGES against him, the
details of which are almost too horrible for
belief.
The State Savings Bank of Dallas,
Texas, suspended on the 27th. Liabilities,
$5i 600; assets, 5000.
At Arlington, Bureau County, ILL.,,
on the evening Of the Goth, Samuel Kearney,
who had been paying his addresses to Mrs.
Elizabeth Shehan, daughter of Judge Gull
lenbine, upon being refused further permits
sion to continue his visits, armed
himself, and gaining admission
to Mrs. Shehan's apartment, shot her, but
without fatal effect. She then ran down
stairs, pursued by him, and the father at
tempting to arrest the assassin, the latter
fired at him, the ball entering his hip.
Kearney then seized a carving-knife from
the table, with which he deliberately cut Mrs.
Shehan's throat from ear to ear, and then
with razor he severed his own jugular,
falling back dead almost instantly. Mrs.
Cullenbine, in attempting to wrest the
knife from the assassin, was also
badly cut, but both she and her
husband will recover. Kearney was
about 40 years of age, and had been visiting
Mrs. Shehan for about year. The latter
was the mother of two children, and had
been separated from her husband for some
years.
Frost Coles and Alexander Sliey, two
prominent citizens of Forest Depot, Camp
bell County, Va, on the 2Sth met in the
woods by agreement and fought duel with
knives, the only witness being an old color
ed man who was called in to act as umpire
and see fair play. Both made a terrific on
slaught, which resulted in Sliey's receiving
a mortal wound in the left breast, his own
knife striking and breaking against his an
tagOnist's breast-bone. Sliey fell dead and
Coles fled to escape arrest. The two men
were brothers-in-law and had been warm
friends, but quarreled about some trivial
matter, the lie was given, and, in the opin
ion of one of them at least, nothing could
wipe out the insult but blood.
The House Naval Affairs Committee
have agreed to report favorably on the Har-
r:s bill appointing Board Of Admiralty to
sell the old ships and construct a new navy.
Kimberly, Carnes & Co., one of the
largest iron firms Of Western Pennsylvania,
with works located at New Castle, Green
vile, Sharon and other points in the Chenan-
go Valley, have failed.
1t was reported on the 28th that the
Mexican town of New Laredo was besieged
by an insurgent force under Gen. CARA
Ayala, and that the Customs officers had fled
to the American side of the river for pro-
lection.
AT Springfield, Mo-, on the night of
the 10Th, lady named Mrs. Thompson,
while temporarily insane, cut the throat of
her daughter Nettie, aged IL, and then cut
her own. Both died.
The recent cyclone in Wisconsin
killed 80 people and injured about $50.
Hundreds are left homeless and without
meal to eat. The survivors along the line of
the tornado are in great distress.
The west-bound express train on the
Union Pacific Railroad was boarded by
masked men on the night of the 29tb, near
Percy Station, who entered one of the sleep
ing-cars and robbed number of passengers
OF their money and watches and then de-
camped, being evidently frightened off before
they had completed their work. A posse of
men Started: at daylight in pursuit of the
robbers.
Andy Compagnion, a desperate of
Owensville, Gibson County, Ind, who was
suspected of having committed numerous
crimes, on the night of the 29th was taken
from his house by a party OF masked men
and shot dead in the Public Square, his body
being literally riddled with bullets.
Thursday, May 80, was generally ob
served throughout the Northern States as
Decoration Day. At Gettysburg, Pa, the
ceremonies were participated in by Presi-