American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-01-26
LATE NEWS ITEMS.


Chachapoyas, the capital of the Am
azon, was recently visited by an earthquake
which demolished several houses and dam
aged many others. Fortunately there was
no loss of life. The walls swaying to and
fro, the groaning of roofs, the noise of fall
ing tiles, the walls cracking and throwing.
out clouds. of dust, combined with the
shrieks, groans and desperation of the
agonized inhabitants, made frightful scene.
Callao also experienced a severe shock of
earthquake, but no damage was done.
The new tariff bill reduces the artf-
cles taxed From 2,16O to 400.
Jason Leighton's camp on West
River, above Cherryfield, Me-, burned on
the night of the 11th, and four of his chill
dren perished in the flames. II
Bob McKenna, alias g Little Reddy," :"
chief of the gang of highwaymen who robbed
the Black Hills tage-coaehes last summer,
was arrested on the 18th at Rainsboro, High
land County, o., where he had recently
married and settled down as farmer. His
last and most famous exploit was on June
26, when $14 900 was taken by party of five,
all of which they got away with.
McKenna left the Hills Immediately after
getting the dust, and has been tracked
through Texas, Arizona, Missouri and Illi-
nois by Bullock, former Sheriff of Dead
wood, who finally succeededfin effectingi his
capture. McKenna's wife is said to be a
very handsome and intelligent young lady,
and he is respectfully connected.
The, clearinghouse of Chestnut and
Dubois, Carlinville, H., suspended on the
18th. The bank was established in 1857, and
until the present crisis has maintained a
high standing. Improbable investments in
real estate are said to be the principal cause
of the failure. 1t is believed that depositors
will ultimately be paid in full
John Appel & Co., pork-packers, and
James H. Snodgrass & Co., Wholesale gro
GERS, of Cincinnati, o., have made assign
ments. Amounts involved not given.
There have been several additional
failures. among The New York druggists,
brought about by the suspension of Dun
ming, note broker.
Davis Bros. & Co., leather dealers,
and Chas, Richardson & Co, paints and oils,
are among the recent Boston failures.
In new York City on the 10th, James
w. johnson killed Mrs. Anna Surnam and
then shot himself. johnson was formerly Il
resident of Chicago and in good circum-
stances, He had lost all his property and
become reduceda D. extreme poverty. The
murdered woman formerly lived with him
as his mistress, but had left him for another
man. Destitution and jealousy combined
are therefore supposed to have actuated the
double crime. =
A heavy snow-storm on the Pacific
coast was reported on the 10Th, blocking all
railway travel and breaking down sno&-
sheds.
The Danville Bank of Danville, Ill,
suspended on the 18th. Condition not made
public, but reported as bad.
,A,Deadwood dispatch of the 10th says
that the mining town of Lead City, three
miles from Deadwood, was taken possession
of by mob of rOughs from outside camps,
who ousted the regularly constituted au-
thorities and were running things to suit
their own sweet wills.
b cFhe FesEname of-the New Y orlz muir
deref and suicide is jacques, not johnson.
He was an Englishman, and from 1868 TO
1878 kept a hotel near the corner of Lake
and Madison Streets, Chicago. In the latter
year he sold his hotel, and eloped with
Mrs. Surnam, the woman he murdered He
left wife and nine children; Mrs. Surnam
a husband and four children. Since that
time both had been going very fast on the
down grade, until at last they reached the
bottom.
Four lads, named Washington Russell,
Spencer Mitchell, Walter Goodall and Jesse
Ingham, went over a dam in a skiff, nea1