American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-10-25
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

The O'Leary belt has been won by a
young man named Nicholas Murphy, who
made score of 500 miles. "Blower "
Brown, the favorite ut the commencement of
! the race, was obliged to Withdraw from the
! track at an early stage of the proceedings,
on account of sickness. Young Murphy is
] an Irish lad whose only training consisted in
wheeling bricks in brick-yard at Haver-
straw, n. Y. In addition to the belt he gets
well paid for the walk, receiving 5000 in
cash.
The Governor of Georgia has been
| called upon to furnish military assistance in
suppressing a band of outlaws in Baldwin
County, known as the Georgia Tigers"
They are said to hold possession Of half the
county and to defy arrest. They have killed
in the past three years 20 men and women,
mostly negroes. The Governor sent one of
his staff and a number of detectives down,
and will send military if needed.
The Gate City Guard of Atlanta, Ga,
where they are the guests Of ffsc-ee~cre4s
Regiment. They we're reviewed. by the.
Mayor and Aldermen.
I The Underwood Holbrook war has
broken out afresh in Carter County, Ken
recently shot and wounded by one of the
Holbrook party, and his son jesse was shot
and killed while on the way to see his wound
ed father. At last accounts the Holbrook
~party had the Underwood house surrounded
and threatened to shoot any person who
should go to the assistance of the inmates.
The Governor has been appealed to for mill
tary assistance. ,-.-..
Two men, named Stevens and
Campbell, were arrested near their homes in
johnson County, Mo-, on the 18th, charged
with being implicated in the Glendale ex-
press robbery. They were taken to the Kan
sas City Jail. Many think the James brothers
were at the head of the gang. A dispatch
from Denton, Texas, says the robbery was
organized by three of the survivors, of the
famous Sam Bass gang, Henry Underwood,
Frank Jackson and Cal. Carter.
At the Front Street Theater, Balti-
more, on the night of the 14th, in the last act
of the play of " Rowing jack" in which a
discharge of musketry takes place, young
man named James Nelson, of Queen Anne's
County, Nd, a medical student at the Uni
yersity of Maryland, who was seated i'm the
audience, was fatally shot through the head,
one of the muskets being loaded with ball
instead of blank cartridges.
Capt. John F. Mason, a well known
shipmaster of Kennebunk, Me-, while de-
ranged, stabbed his wife's sister, Mrs. f. G. |
Moody, and then killed himself.
The discovery is announced of gold
bearing quartz in the Big Horn Mountains,
about 20 miles northwest of Fort Mckinney, |
Wyo., the head of Tongue River. The ore
assays from 81 to $40 a ton. Many miners |
are Hooking TO the spot.
1t is reported from chihuahua, Mex
leo, that the Government troops have +
whipped the insurrectionists at st. Andres,
killing IL, wouindinS many and taking 90 l
prisoners.
The long-talked-of boat race between
Hanlan and Courtney, that was to have been
rowed on Chautauqua Lake, NY, on the
10th, did not come off, some miscreant hav
ing entered Courtney's boat-house during
The previous night and sawed both of his
boats in two. The affair caused great OK
element and indignation, and suspicious
were freely expressed that Courtney himself
knew something about the matter. The af-
lair is to be investigated.
Sylvester NJ. Hickey, who was shot by
Florence Mcdonald in Cincinnati, will re-
cover from his injuriee.r
The trial of, the Rev H.-H.i HAYDEN
'or the murder of Mary Stannard began at
New Haven, Conn, on the 18th. The pris-
oner pleaded not guilty. So.
A Vienna dispatch of the fifth says
that snow was falling there rapidly and was
ilready six inches in depth. AT Gratz the
snow was several feet deep. Such weather
was unprecedented for this time of year.
The Coroner's Jury in the Michigan
Central Railway disaster at Jackson find that
Calwell, yard-master, was criminally negli-
gent, and Sawyer, switchman, and Jones,
censurable for their part in caus-
ng the accident.