American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-02-15
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

i LATE NEWS ITEMS.
Phipps, O'Connell & Co., leadin
Cincinnati boot and shoe house, have faile
with liabilities of from $4,000 to 500, 600
McMullanky & Co., wholesale boo
and shoe manufacturers of Montreal, hav
failed with liabilities amounting to $500 ,OO(
Several other houses were expected to fol
| low suit.
Herman, Frederick and Arthur Hem
rich, three brothers, aged respectively 16
IA and 10, were drowned in the Ohio Rive
at Louisville, on the I'd, by the overturnin.
\ Of q skiff, .-. se *
William Worts, alias Jack Murray
alias "Wild Bill,"a well known desperate
from the Indian Territory, on the I'd shot
gambler named Grant at Denison, Texas
and In attempting to escape from the office
was himself shot and killed. Grants wound
| are not serious.
The London Times states that 1O,OOt
dock laborers are on strike in Liverpool
and 10000 more out of work in consequence,
of slackness of trade.
The Theater Royal at Glasgow, Scot
land, burned on the ID. No lives lost.
1t is reported the black plague has
made its appearance in the province o.
Ceara, Brazil. -
St. Mary's College, Catholic educa
tional institution at St. Mary's, Pottawatto.
inie County, Kansas, burned on the Sd. Loss
between $4,000 and 10000. There were 81
boarding pupils in the institution, most Of
whom lost their entire personal effects.
The Sayles brothers, extensive manu-
facturers of wooden goods, with factories al
Mechanicsville, Dayville and Versailles
Conn.,, have suspended. They manufactured
nearly $1,000, 900 worth of goods a year and
employed large number of hands. Boston
wool dealers are heavy losers.
The War Department has received in
formation that telegraphic communication
is now open between Forts Elliott, Custer,
Keogh, and Beaufort, which are connected
with Bismarck and Deadwood. This con-
meets all the frontier forts by telegraph.
During the absence from home of Mr..
and Mrs. Morgan, who live near Blue Tank
Station, on the line of the NJ, K. and 7. Rail-
way, in the southern part of the Indian Ter
ritory, their house burned down and their
two little girls, aged respectively 9 and Z,
persisted in the flames.
Collector Clark, at Atlanta, Ga, gives
an account of a whisky raid in Cherokee
County, in that State, in which United
States officers were fired upon by party in
ambush, and several, including guides, were
wounded.
The reported recovery of the body of
the late A. T. Stewart, of New York, is
again denied.
Advices from Cape Town, Africa, re-
port that in the engagement with the Brit
ish troops the Zulus, under King Cetewayo,
were badly defeated and fed in disorder.
The billiard tournament at New
York, for the championship of the world,
resulted in the triumph of Jacob Shaefer,
Of Chicago, who made the best single aver
age. Slosson won the second prize and
made the best grand average and the two
highest runs on record.
Percy r. Gaylord, night clerk in the
Gault House, Chicago, committed suicide
on the It'll. No cause known.
Jacob Maddox, aged %, the son of a
wealthy farmer living near Hallsville, De-
witt County, ILL.,, on the It'll blew his brains
out with revolver on account of being re-
fused by the lady he loved.
Addie Durham, aged IL, committed
suicide with revolver at Seymour, Ind.
Her father was about moving to Kentucky
and Addie did not want to go. She had, be-
sides, disagreeable step mother, and this
probably had something to do with her tragic
determination.
The Senate committee will recon-
mend concurrence in the House provisions
reducing the tax on manufactured tobacco
to 16 cents per pound.
A man calling himself James Cooke,
but whose real name is unknown, was hang
ed at Dalles, Oregon, on the It'll, for MUIR
der.
A band of masked men entered the
house Of Daniel Frantz, 10 miles northwest
of Dayton, o., about O'Clock on the even
ing of the It'll, bound and gagged the mem
bers Of the family, and robbed the house of
$500 in money and 81 800 in securities.