American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-02-22

made for lynching the murderer. Sheriff
Martin, however, by brave and successful
maneuver, managed to get his prisoner OF
| board a train and took him to Kearney
where he is in comparative safety from the
| mob,
Al Troy, N. Y, on the 10th, G. F
Simmons, crazed by the elopement Of his
wife, poisoned his three children and cut
his own throat.
The captured Cheyennes have all been
taken to Fort Leavenworth, where they
will probably be tried for the murder of
white settlers in Kansas.
William Butler and wife, of Halls
Vile, Ross County, o., went visiting on Sun
day, the 9th, leaving their two children,
aged and 3, locked in the house. During
their absence the house burned down and
the children persisted in the flames.
By the caving in of an embankment
on the Chicago and Alton Railroad extern
sion at Kansas City. on the 18th, large
number of laborers and four teams were
buried in the cut. Six of the unfortunate
men were dead when extricated, their names
being James Hogan, Thomas Casey, Dan
Lucitt, Richard Ryan, Ed. Hines and Peter
Bagley. Six others were badly injured, one
of them, James o'Brien, probably fatally.
At Bro wnsville, Tenn, on the 18th,
Frank Bond, young lawyer, was shot and
fatally wounded by his cousin, James s.
Bond, Jr., who then ATTEMPTED to commit
suicide. by shooting himself through the
head. The latter's wound is not serious.
The shooting was the result Of a disagree
ment regarding the sale of some property in
which both had an interest.
A negro burglar named VIM. Patter-
son, who attempted to rob the iewelry-store
of NJ. b. Wright in Kansas City, on the night
of the 18th, was killed In hand-to hand
fight with the clerk, lad II years old, named
Augustine Marty, who was armed with a
dirk-knife. The Coroner's Jury exonerated
young Marty.
The we'll known Tattersall's stables
in New York City burned on the night of
the 18th, with over 10 horses, many Of them
roadsters.
Charles r. McGill was hanged at Cleve-
land, o., on the 18th, for the murder of his
mistress, Mary Kelly, in December, 1877.
Another revolution in Hayti is an
John Edwards was hanged at Smith
Geld, N. c., on the 14th, for the murder of
one Ballard about two years ago.
At Ottawa, Ontario, on the 18th of
February, the thermometer was 81 deg. be-
low zero. At several points in the valley
was frozen.
The main building of the Soldiers Or
phans' Home at Xenia, O., was destroyed by
FIRE on the morning of the 1eth. Six hundred
had itrSf inf bod hra La, in, IL,
building and returned to the cottages when
the fire broke out. Several members of the
officially visiting the institution,
saved their lives by jumping from the Sec
,nd-story windows. The entire contents of
he building, including the personal effects
If officers and teachers, were destroyed.
The loss to the State Is about $4,000, upon
which there is no insurance.
Seven of the Cheyenne prisoners con-
ined at Fort Leavenworth have been iden-
flied as being engaged in the raid through
Kansas last fall, and they have been turned
,ver to the civil authorities of Ford County,
where they will be put on trial for murder.
James Beck, a baggage-master on the
iron Mountain Railroad between st. Louis
md Columbus, KY, has been convicted of
'obbing the mails and sentenced to three
TearS IN the Pen1tentiary.
At Terre Haute, Ind, Knight and
jointly indicted for wrecking a
rain on the indianapolis and st. Lonis
Railway, by throwing a switch, were found
,uilty by q jury and sentenced to imprison-
nent for life.
Three masked men robbed the Little
Rock mail stage, on the night of the 14th,
hree miles west of Pine Pluff, Ark. The
lriver and the single passenger on board
we're relieved of their money and valuables
md the mail-bags Quilted. No clew to the
Ephriam Hyster and wife, of Som
,rville, Me-, went TO a neighbpring town
hopping, leaving their three children
ocked in the house. During their absence
he House caught fire and burned, together
With all its contents, including the three
children. Their ages were and 2 1-2 years
md months.