American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-07-26

At Charleston, S. c., on the 18th
there were 10 deaths from sunstroke-1(
| whites and five colored persons.
The River Improvement Convention,
which was to have been held in Quincy, Ill.
on July %, has been postponed until Octo'
Der Is.
At Milwaukee, on the 18th, an aged
| German couple, driven to despair by power
| ty, deliberately walked out into the river
and drowned themselves. When their bodies
| were recovered they were found locked in
each others arms.
Ia February last the mutilated re-
mains of a woman packed in trunk were
found floating in the Sagus River, at Lynn,
| Mass. The body was identified that OF
Jennie p. Clark, a servant girl, but the de
tectives for long time were unable to get
evidence suffi Gent to criminate the parties
suspected of her murder. On the 10th, how
ever, arrests were made OF Nine. g. C.Good-
rich, a female physician, and DIR. Daniel F.
K,mball, who have joint office at 81 La
grange ST., Boston, also of Mr. A. N. Adams
of Highlands, at whose house Jennie last
worked, and of two women nurses living in
Somerville, at whose house she is supposed
to have died. The latter are not charged
with criminal completely in the murder, and
it was upon their statements that the other
three arrests were made.
Wednesday, July 16, was the hottest
day of the season throughout the East. In
New York City the mercury reached 1O2 de-
grees in the shade.
The extensive Pitts Agricultural
Works at Buffalo, N. Y, were destroyed by
fire on the morning of the 10th.
A very severe storm occurred in Mas
sachusetts on the afternoon Of the 10th. At
Boston, Pittsfeld, Fitchburg, Springfield,
Worcester, and other places great destruc-
ton of property by wind, hail and lightning
is reported, and many lives are reported
lost by disaster to shipping along the coast.
The regatta of the Mississippi Valley
Amateur Rowing Association was held at
Keokuk July 15-17. The principal races were
the four Dared gig race, which was won by
the Peoria Club; the four-oared shell race,
won by the Shoe-wa- cae- mettes of Monroe,
Mich; and the six-oared barge race, won by
the Peorias.
The steamer State of Virginia, from
New York for Glasgow, went ashore at sa-
BILE Island during a storm on Sunday, the
18th. Three women and five children were
lost in the surf while landing. The remain
der of the IA passengers on board were res
cued. The ship was total loss.
Chastine Cox, the negro who killed
Mrs. Hull in New York City, has been sem
fenced to be hanged on the Goth of August.
Governor Mcclellan of New Jersey
has respited until August Is, Covert d. Ben
nett and Mrs. Smith, sentenced to be hanged
for the murder of the latter's husband.
A Berlin dispatch says the cholera
has made its appearance in Smolensk. The
terrible epidemic diphtheria continues its
ravages in Bessarabia, while the Governor
has ordered the universal fumigation of the
dwellings and clothing of the peasantry.
In consequence of the depression in
Lancashire, England, large numbers of op-
eratives are emigrating to America.
Napoleon Bonaparte, colored, was
hanged at Sardis, Miss, on the 18th, for the
murder Of Tom Butler, colored, in August
last The execution was witnessed by
crowd Of 1900, principally negroes.