American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-07-12


in Jail, awaiting trial, having been arreste
just in time to save him from coat of ia
and feathers at the hands of the ehrage,
people ~ Coesse.
King Cetewayo has made renewed
IDENTIFY believe that he is sincere in his pro
fessions this time.
John Crocker, VIM. Perry and d
O'Donohue, three miners, were suffocatet
by fire in the Yellow Jacket Mine Mt Vir.
ginia, New, on the night OF the LIST. The
damage to the mime was small.
The condition of the crops in South.
ern Russia and the Caucasus has been
scarcely ever so bad as it is at present
What was left by drought and hail is now,
it is asserted, being annihilated by frightful
swarr:1s OF grasshoppers and corn-beetles.
The Chilians are said to be prepar-
ing an attack on Lima and Callao with an
army Of 10000 to 5000 men, while the IRON
Glade vii, engage the attention of the pres
ent garrison. The main army of Peru is
scattered and its transports hemmed in at
Callao Bay, so that it is believed relief for
the beleaguered garrison would be impos-
sible.
of Panama, resigned on the 18th ult., and
Jerard Ortega, as second substitute, was in
stalled President for the unexpired term,
ending December 81.
Advices from Port au Prince, Hayti,
list, state that the populace fired upon the
Senate, and the Senators fed, many being
shot. Fighting continued.
During the session OF Congress just
terminated, 727 bills and 46 joint resoIu-
tions were introduced in the Senate, and
1885 bills and 119 joint resolutions in the
House.
There is some talk that the President
will call an extra session of Congress to
meet in October.
The United States sioop-of-war Wa
chusett left Vicksburg on the LIST, bound
northward, but grounded on a sand bar OPP
posite Lake Providence, 10 miles above
Vicksburg, and stuck fast.
A fatal case of cholera was reported
from Fall River, Mass, on the I'd, the vic
tim being all old citizen, Joseph Chacer.
Thirty-one men were killed by an
explosion in the High Blantyre coal pit,
near Glasgow, Scotland, on the Sd.
Mrs. Henry Larue and her sister
jumped from a moving train at Turner's,N
Y, on the Erie Railway, on the Sd. The
former, bride, was instantly killed, and
the latter, aged II, was seriously injured.
Nimrod Spattenhuber, a young Ger
man, was hanged at Lebanon; Pa, on the
Sd, for the murder of John Ivison.
The wife of Emanuel Berry,, pros
porous farmer of Bovine Township, Kent
County, Mich, who had been for some time
affected with a mild form Of insanity, but
was not considered dangerous, on the I'd
killed her three young children and then
took her own life with revolver, which she
had obtained without the knowledge of her
while he was out working in the
cornield. Upon his return to the house he
found them all dead.
At Newcastle, Pa, on the 4th, Miss
Rhetta REM, q young German girl, was
burned to death by her dress taking fire
from burning ire-cracker, while walking
along the street; and at Poughkeepsie, N.
Y, Miss Jessie Dunbar, aged %, met the
same horrible fate.
The Unitarian Church at Scituate,
Mass, was burned by fire crackers on the
4th.
In New York City, on the 9Th, Mrs
Mary Anderson and her infant were both
turned to death. The mother kindled the
fire with coal-oil.
The Semple & Birge Manufacturing
Company, st. Louis, hardware dealers and
suspended payment on the
,th. Liabilities about $250,OOO, due mainly
to manufacturers of agricultural imple-
ments in Ohio and Pennsylvania: assets not
stated.
Bernard Helms, wealthy farmer who
resided in the town OF Alden, N. Y, on the
Buffalo and Batavia Railroad, on the even
ng Of the 9TH, in drunken fit, shot his wife,
q mortal wound, and then took his
own life.