American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-08-30
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

! LAIE NE w . 1lGnO.
By.recent accident on the Argentan
and Granville Railway in France, ID persons
We're killed and 50 wounded.
A van, in which eight persons We're
riding, was overturned at Nogent sur
Marine, in France, and all the occupants
killed.
| Two young men named Common and
| Weaver, farm hands on the place of Israel
Derol, in the Muskingum Valley, near Mari
| eta, o., We're instantly killed by lightning on
the 18th. They had taken shelter in a barn,
where they We're found dead some time after
the storm. What is strange is that there was
no damage done to the barn, except one
board knocked off.
The Walnut Street Bank of Cincin-
natl, Messrs. Bussing & Co., proprietors,
has made an assignment. Liabilities S 100, =
! 900. This is the bank that had stolen from
it, by sneak-thief recently, bills and bonds
to the amount, now claimed. of over
$4,000. Cashier Seaman has left the city
! The body of Captain Secrest, the muir
dered mail contractor of the Indian Terrific
ry, was found by a party of soldiers about
$50 miles southeast of Vinita, and about 80
miles from the stage line. A large bullet
wound was i'm the head. There was no trace
of the three men who accompanied him, and
who are supposed to have shared the same
fate.
The stage out from Santa Fe, n. NJ,
the on 18th, was stopped by three road
agents, 30 miles from Las Vegas. The two
passengers, eN-Governor Army of New Mex
leo, and J. II. Strahan of New York, We're
robbed, and the three agents rode off on the
stage horses.
The st. Louis cigar-makers are on a
strike for higher wages.
By the fall of a rotten bridge over the
Housatonic River ut Rockbridee, Mass, on
the 18th, Il wagon and six occupants went
into the river. Somers Benjamin, aged -,
of South Egremont, was killed. Aggie
Ronald and Fanny Willard We're seriously
wounded.
Iiilaire Latrimouille, a French Cana
dian tramp, was hanged at Albany. n. y,
on the Goth, for the murder of Catherine
Dunsbach. farmers daughter, i'll April
last. The murder was committed for the
sake of robbery, the old farmers little hoard
of money, which he was reported to keep
secrcted in his house, being the object
sought. The daughter, who was left alone
in the house, was, after short struggle.
| subdued by the robber, and her throat cut
from ear to ear.
Two fires, believed to be of incendia-
ry origin, occurred at Memphis on the Goth.
Incendiarism has become frequent there
since Yellow Jack took possession of the city.
The Central Branch of the Union Pa
cific Railroad is completed to Gaylord,
Smith County, Kansas, on the north fork of
the Solomon River, % miles west of Cawker
City.
Mrs. John T'illinghast of Utica, n. Y,
on the Goth, during temporary fit of insan-
ity, while recovering from an epiIeptic fit,
poured Kerosene oil on the fire. The can
exploded, and neighbors, rushing into the
house, found her sitting in the rocking
chair, enyeloped in flames. She died soon
after.
A new line of mail steamers is to be
established between New Orleans and New
York and British Honduras.
The American Linen Company of Fall
River, Mass, lose 159, 900 by the defalca-
ton of Paine, their third Treasurer.
Mrs. Virginia Clark, wife of Prof.
Clark of Berryville College, Carroll County,
Ark, was accidentally killed recently under
most distressing circumstances. The Pro-
fessor and family and several students
had been camping at Eureka
Springs for some time, for health
and recreation. The party were seated at
what was intended to be the final dinner
before breaking up camp, when, without
warming, Il large tree, half burned in
two near the ground, was discovered
to be falling. All started up and es-
capped except Mrs. Clark, who, having an
infant in her arms, was embarrassed in her
| movements, and was caught and crushed by
| the tree. With mothers forethought,
however, she held her babe at arms length.
and it was not harmed. She died in half an
| hour.
An earthquake shock was experienced
at an early hour on the morning of the 21st
at Port Dalhousie and other places in Cana
da; and Il similar shock was felt at Lockport,
n. Y, about noon of the same day.
| j. NJ. Cotton, Postmaster, Station
Agent and general dealer at Williamstown
| on the Kansas Pacific Railway, nine miles
| from Lawrence, was murdered in Il most
horrible manner i'm his store OH the night of
the Goth, it is supposed by tramp. An AK
was the weapon Used, and his head was
nearly severed from his body. Several sus-
| pected parties We're arrested.
Angelo Amfane, otherwise known as
Larry O'Neil, the third of the conspir-
! sttoTs eISaSeu Ill the murder OF Mr. Frye
at Boston, was arrested in New York on
the 22d.
Three men We're killed by the explo-
sion of >awmill boiler at Wilson, n. c.,
on the I'D.
Bunk AXE, negro, was hanged at
Austin, Texas, on the I'D. His crime was
the commission of horrible assault upon a
young German girl.
a saw-mill in Sonoma County, Cal.
was carried off by tidal wave, and three
men and one woman drowned in the ocean.
Judgments of the Russian Military
Tribunal against a number of Nihilists have
been published. Five men are sentenced to
be hanged, one woman TO be sent to Siberia.
and - other prisoners to 10 years. penal
| servitude.
The Edison Company have obtained
permission from the French Government to
! establish telephone communication between
the various quarters of Paris.
Dan. Logan and another man named
I Carmack We're hanged together by mob at
| Trinidad, Col, on the night of the 22d