American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-06-28
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

At Hunters Greek, Mich, on the De-
troit and Bay City Railroad, on the morning
of the 14th, Manley Stevens, Jr., a night
Waterman in q saw-mill, went home and
found John House in company with Mrs.
Stevens. The Infatuated husband shot the
Intruder five times through various parts of
the body, shot his wife through the head,
and then shot himself, also through the
head, dying instantly. Mrs. Stevens and
House were both mortally wounded.
At Boswell, Ind, during q sudden
| thunderstorm on the evening of the 14tb, a
large number of persons, present at a shoot
ing-match, took shelter under q low lum-
ber-shed. The shed was struck by light
ming and two men were instantly killed and
two fatally injured, and several others were
badly stunned.
A telegram from Rio Janeiro states
that Gen. CODY has deposed the President
of Paraguay and seized upon the Govern
ment.
Balls School house, in the northern
part of Lancaster County, Neb., was struck
by lightning few days ago. School had
just been called and the pupils were singing
when the fluid descended the chimney and
stove pipe. Miss Babcock, sitting near the
stove, was struck and almost instantly kill
ed. Ralph Babcock, a brother of deceased,
had his right arm fearfully lacerated, and
will be crippled for life. OF the IS persons
in the room, II were more or less injured.
One end of the school-house was knocked
entirely off and many of the desks were
broken in pieces.
The recruiting steamer Wachusett ar
rived at Pensacola, Fla, on the 10th, and
was expected to be on her way up the Mis-
sissippi on or before the LIST Of July.
The young wife of jesse Ashburn, who
resided near Humboldt, Kansas, recently
day she was buried the husband also COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself through
the head. They had only been married six
months, and it is said lived happily together
until Ashburn's mother came to reside with
them and made things generally uncomfort-
able about the house.
The anniversary of the Battle of
Bunker Hill was observed in Boston by
grand procession and a general suspension
of business.
John Moore, who grossly assaulted
and then murdered Miss Woodward, on the
9Th inst, near Wexford, s. c., on the 18th
was hanged by a mob of $50 armed men,
who rode into Spartansburg. The Jailer had
removed Moore for safety, but the mob dis
covered his whereabouts.
Mrs. William Oliver, living near
Campbellsburg, KY, on the 18th, in fit of
temporary insanity, killed her 12-year-old
daughter by splitting her head open with an
AK.
A Nashville Grand Jury has returned
indictments against a number of prominent
off ofa lie for vr1fa iafi Af 10
funds.
There was quite heavy fall OF snow
on the 18th along the White Mountains in
New Hampshire.
There has been a violent earthquake
in Sicily. Five villages were almost wholly
destroyed; 10 persons were killed and sew
eral injured. The Inhabitants of the dis
trict are fleeing en- masse.
The revolution in Panama is ended.
At Bridgeport, Conn.,, on the 18th,
the wife of Oliver Tomlinson shot her hus-
band and then herself with revolver, both
through the breast. Neither wound is like
ly to prove fatal. Mrs. Tomlinson had be-
gun proceedings for divorce against her hus-
band. She claims that the shooting was
accidental, but he says that it was deliber-
ate. Tomlinson is a man of considerable
property, and well known in Bridgeport.
James F. DOugherty of Frankfort
Penn, on the 18th shot his wife and after
wards attempted suicide. The deed was
prompted by jealousy.
The Allentown (Penn.) Rolling mills
have stopped work on account of the pud-
dlers striking for an advance Of per cent.
The trial of Lily Duer for shooting
her friend Ella Hearn in a fit Of jealousy, at
Snow Hill, Md. resulted in verdict of
msnslaughter. The Judge sentenced the
prisoner to pay fine of 800, which her
friends at once paid, thus securing her dis
charge.
John Kemmler, German, at South
Holyoke, Mass, on the 21st, shot and killed
his three children, aged respectively 6, 4 and.
year. Kemmler had been out of work for
several months and had just been ordered to
vacate tenement belonging to the Germa-
mia Mills, where he had formerly worked.
He sent his wife from home on an errand
before attempting his horrible crime. When