American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-10-04

time he had been sutton FOL
the hand of Mary Long, pretty
girl of 16, employed as domestic in neigh
boring family. Mary did not reciprocate
his love, and his persistent attentions finally
became so obnoxious to her that she went to
live with the family of Henry Klinek, about
four miles away. Here, on the night men,
toned, Young Schwab went, armed with 4
double-barreled shotgun and a revolver.
Finding the door of the house unlocked, he
went in, proceeded to Mary's bedchamber,
and, putting the muzzle of the gun to her
breast, fired, probably killing her instantly.
He then went to the front of the house, and
with clothes-line hanged himself to cher
~ tree.
Rev. Dexter L. Lounsbury, rector of
the Episcopal Church at Stratford, near
Bridgeport, Conn, was, on the morning of
the oath, shot and instantly killed by his
wife, while sleeping in bed. Mrs. Louns-
bury had for some years been afflicted with
a nervous disorder, but insanity had not
heretofore been suspected. Recently she
had become quite excited regarding an at =
tempted burglary of their house, and had
asked her husband to procure her revolver,
which he refused to do. She was deter
mined to have pistol, however, and went
herself to New Haven and bought one-a
small single-barreed affair, with which the
killing was done. This it seems she had
kept concealed under her pillow, probably
without her husbands knowledge. Immc-
diately after the shooting she ran upstairs
crying, "Pve killed my husbandr' and
awoke the servants, who gave the alarm.
Mr.. Lounsbury was found dead, shot
through the back of the neck, the ball
Al,
oner's inquest the unhappy woman testified
that she had gone to bed as usual, and had
no recollection of any thing more until she
stood upon the floor in the morning with the
pistol in her hand. All the servants testified
that deceased had been very kind to his wife.
The Jury, after being out Is minutes, re-
turned n verdict that the killing was done by
Mrs. Lounsbury while she was in a condition
of temporary insanity.
In the town of Porter, Rock County,
Wis, on the 23d, George Darlington, Ger
man employed on the farm of Alexander
White, murdered the latter's little boy, aged
D, i'll most atrocious manner, and then fled,
riding off one of Mr.. Whites horses. The
boys body was discovered lying under a
manager in the barn, his throat cut
from ear to ear, his abdomen ripped open
and his feet and hands securely bound.
There were indications that the murderer
had first hung his victim, and finding death
by that means too slow, had cut him down
and finished him with knife. No cause for
the deed can be imagined.
At Worcester, Mass, on the evening
of the 23d, Maggie Courtney, "A young lady
about % Years OF age, was fatally burned
while attempting to take down Il hanging
kerosene lamp.
Fred. Nix, colored, Postmaster at
Blackville, 5. c., recently shot and
wounded by man named Williams. The
shot was fired through the delivery window
of the office. The United States Commits
sioner issued warrant for the arrest of the
culprit. The Post-office Department has
sent a special agent to inquire into the mat
ter, and it is intimated that the Post office
will be closed unless the Postmaster is pro-
tected while in the discharge of his duties
by the local authorities.
At Buffalo, n. Y, on the 23d, Charles
f. Schuyler, a telegraph operator by profess
sion, succeeded in kidnapping young lady,
the daughter of L. Townsend Davis, prom
inent and wealthy citizen, for the purpose of
compelling her father to pay large sum for
her ransom. Miss Davis was lurcd away
from school by the villain, upon the repre-
sentation that her father had been injured
by an accident, and that he i'm his en-
plOy and had been sent for her. The
unsuspecting girl accompanied him to Il
room i'm public building, where he said her
father had been taken, and Immediately up
on her entering he locked the door and de-
manded that she copy letter he had already
prepared, pleading with her father to give
the bearer 500, as the only means to secure
her release. The girl finally prevailed upon
him to let her go, upon her taking oath
not to disclose what had happened, and to
Immediately secure the money herself and
bring it to him. Upon reaching home she at
once told her parents her strange story; de-
tectives were put upon the Villains track
and he was soon captured. In his possession
were found numerous letters addressed to
prominent citizens, of like character to that
which Miss Davis was required TO copy, from
which it was evident that he had resolved to
enter upon the abduction of the children of
wealthy parents scheme by which to
make money easily and rapidly.
The business center of the village of
Carroll, in Carroll County, Iowa, was de-
stroyed by fire on the morning OF the 18th.
The Masonic and odd Fellows Hall, Pres
byterian Church, and over forty business
houses were burned out. Loss from $780,
900 to $200,000; insurance not over $50 900.
Sir Garnet Wolseley telegraphs that
all important Zulu chiefs have now submitted
to the British authorities.
Buck Mailing, a negro, who commit
ted an assault upon a little girl in Obion
County, Tenn, was recently hanged by mob
headed by the girls father.
Zululand is to be divided into many
distinct sOvercignties. number of the
Chiefs who are to receive territories belong
to tribes who had been subjugated by the
Zulus.
1t is reported that Il party of young
men from Dallas and Fort Worth, who re-
Gently went hunting in the Panhandle coun-
try, Northwest Texas, were attacked by In
dians and seven Of them killed.
Anthony Blair, colored, was hanged
at Morristown, Tenn, on the Goth, for the
murder of his step daughter, girl of 16, in
July last.
A railway train on the Island of Rua-
tan, carrying 100 barrels of gunpowder, was
blown to atoms recently by an explosion of
the powder. Ten persons were on the train,
and the ground was strewn with their dis
membered bodies.
Marcus A. Whitley was hanged al
Pocahontas, Ark, on the Goth, for the MUIR
der Of Duke Sumner in February, 1877. He
expressed penitence and was baptized by
two clergymen.
The Russian Official Messenger states
that 2,9ST fires occurred in Russia during
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