American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-03-08
LATE NEWS ITEMS

/ A dis patch from Yankton, d. T., oath
says: Three points in Dakota, Rapid City
Cheyenne Crossing and Sulphur Springs
from so to 10 miles apart, were struck ST
rultaneously by war parties, working, doubt
less, under preconcerted arrangements
Parties Just in from the places during tn,
past week or two have reported the Siou,
country swarming with small war parties
from the Red Cloud and Spotted Tail camps
and from Cheyenne River and Standing
Rock Agencies. 1t is said many red strag.
glers have recently strayed away, while
general uneasiness pervades the whole up.
river country.
| A motion in the House of Commons
on the 2oth, that summary prohibition Of
the Importation of cattle from the United
States is calculated to destroy an important
trade and deprive England OF the advantage
Of cheap meat, was postponed for foul
weeks.
| New Orleans, Mobile and Galveston
celebrated Mardi Gras with the usual cere.
monies. Memphis had no formal celebra.
| ton. e-s .. F.e..f.
| At New Orleans, on the 25th, Eel
Howell, General Southern Passenger Agent
| of the Piedmont Airline Railway, was shot
and instantly killed by A. I. Wimberly,
merchant of Coffeeville, Miss, in an ARRAY
at the corner of st. Charles and Common
Streets. Ed. Howell, brother of the de-
| ceased, then shot WimberIy in the back, in
| fiicting mortal wound. A bystander was
also wounded. Ed. Howell was arrested.
A large fire at Bamberg, s. c., de-
| stroyed two-thirds of the business portion
of the town. Loss, $4,000; insurance about
$4,000.
Erwin Sullivan, mail carrier between
Mayfield and Wadesboro, Galloway County,
KY, has been arrested for robbing the mails.
David Fender, who garroted Mrs. D.
Barry on Fifth Avenue, New York and tore
the diamond rings from her ears, has been
sentenced to the State Penitentiary for 90
years.
Chief Moses has been informed that
he can not have the reservation that he ask.
ed for last fall. =
Five members of the family of Rupert
Redemius, German farmer, living at Grid
ley, Mclean County, H., have died recently
from the effects Of eating pork affected with
trichin&.
A horrible double murder was recent
ly committed in Tishemingo County, Miss,
the victims being Messrs. A. V. Hutchins and
Thomas McNatt. They were neighboring
planters, and were returning to their homes
from Iuka, where Hutchins had been to get
the money for his last years crop Of cotton,
81, 100 in gold, which he was intending to
pay on 4 plantation he had recently pur-
chased. The dead bodies of the two men,
horribly mutilated, were found about two
miles from their houses. No clew to the
murderers.
Mail advices from Capetown explain
the recent disaster to the British forces.
The Zulus attacked Col. Durnford's column
before it reached the encampment where
Maj. Pulleine was in command. Maj. Pull
leine went to the assistance of Col. Durn-
ford, and was himself cut off by the Zulus.
Pluro-pneumonia has broken out
among the cattle at Manchester, England.
Charles Peace, a notorious English
murderer and burglar, was hanged at Leeds
on the 25th.
A terrible storm devasted the coast
Of Italy on the night of the oath. The en-
tire coast was strewn with wrecks, and
there were many lives lost. In the interior
the storm was also very destructive. At
church was blown down while the people
were at mass, killing two priests at the altar
and three other persons, and wound
ing twenty-four others. A SINH
lar catastrophe occurred at Aontauro,
where the vault of a church yielded to the
force of the storm and killed the priest, who
was celebrating mass, and injured a num-
Der Of the congregation. At Rome the force
of the wind was unparalleled. All the win
dows of the monastery of Monte Allie Croci
were destroyed, and portion of the base of
Michael Angeles statue of David was swept
Off.
At Baltimore, on the night of the
9th, Clara Sharp and her young son were
burned to death by the explosion of a coal
oil lamp. Two other inmates of the room
were severely injured. The house was
burned down. The people were all colored.
Track-laying has begun on the southern
extension of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa
Fe Railroad. The company expect to have
the road completed to Las Vegas, New Mex
leo, early in April.
Both houses of the Minnesota Legisla-
ture have passed bill reducing the legal
rate Of interest from II to 10 per cent.
Capt. Sawyer and wife, and three sea
men OF Ine schooner DaNlQ III. Falck, were
drowned in a storm off Barnegat, N. j., Oh
the Goth.
The ship Adriatic has been wrecked off
Dunkirk and AZ lives lost.
A dispatch from Vienna states that an
avalanche near Marburg killed 81 persons
and destroyed nine houses.
AT Carbon Hill, Athens County, o.,
on the night Of the 21th, NJ. Il. Lunsford and
six of his children were smothered or burned
to death. Mrs. Lunsford and her infant
child were rescued. The family occupied
rooms over a store, and none of the inmat es
seem to have become aware of the fire until
their escape was cut of.
The residence of j. b. Coulson, at
Cedarville, Iowa, was burned on the night
OF the 10Th, and three Of his children perish q.
ed in the flames.
The mutilated body of a young woman,
Enclosed in trunk, was found in the Sagus
| River, at Linn, Mass, on the 2Ith. The nose
| had been completely severed from the face
evidently for the purpose of prcvcntin.
| identification. An autopsy revealed the fact
! that death had been caused by abortion.