American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-05-08

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A BOILER i'm the Torrent Single Mill,
at Savannah, Ga. exploded on the 9th,
killing Lewis n. Torrent, Superintendent,
and George Hughes, engineer. Eight per-
sons were injured. The building was total
ly consumed.
WIN. LIsuAN and wife, new settlers,
living four miles from Umatilla Agency,
Ore, were recently found murdered i'm bed.
their heads being chopped to pieces with an
Az Robbery was not the object. all the
property remaining undisturbed. No clew
to the assassin.
Mrs. Houston, living in the country
near Austin, Tex, on the 9th, in fit of in
sanity, attempted to murder her five chill
dren by driving knitting needles into their
brain through their ears. One was killed and
two others seriously injured.
JOHN S. HOOVER was taken from
the Jail at Buena Vista, Colo, on
the morning of the 2Sth, by twenty
masked and armed men, and hanged
from the window of the Courthouse.
Hoover shot and killed James Bennett last
April. He had secured two continuances OF
his trial upon affidavits, and finally pleaded
guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced
to eight years. imprisonment in the Penitcn-
tiary.
rooN ii'o' "o'o Ao' ~
THE steamer Alice, from Pittsburg
for St. Louis, on the 2sth went over the falls
and Government dam at Louisville and sank
forty Ieet from shore III eigh,eeh ieet OF
water. Many OF the passengers jumped
o'erooaiu, pu' ~ 70 ] "''i' o"0' 81"
uhAnoMu man ""s 1io"u
"A NEVADA hiurueie' On"iieS "es-
ey Haymers' was nahseo at lhnem"cca OH
'he -''n'
MRS. AbhAhAM CAhMAN' Vi oersey
and was burned to DEATH She was the
mother of Mrs. Jennie r. Smith, who with
Cove Bennett has been tired three times Tor
the murder OF her husband.
l. Nj. NALLoch mas oeen nelo ior trial
without bail on the charge OF killing Charles
Dc Young OF the san rahcisco Chfontcte'
A DESTRUCTIVE tornado swept over
the southern suburbs of Columbia, S. c., on
the 10Th. Many buildings were destroyed
and several persons were more or less in
jured.
LUCIAN M. NOFTSINGER was hanged
at Gainesville. Tex .on the 3Oth, for the muir
der of Willis Cline in August. 1873 Noft-
singer was rejected by the woman who sub
sequently became Cline's wife, and in order
to satisfy his jealousy and obtain revenge he
murdered her husband. Ben krebs and
James Preston, who were to have been exc
cuted at the same time and place, were saved
by executive clemency.
Two men were killed and several in
jured by the explosion Of n boiler in the fur
mace of the Bryan Hill Iron Company, ne ar
Youngstown, D., on the 3oth'
SIX employees OF drug house In
Aldergatc Street, London, lost their lives by
the burning Of the building on the 3Oth.
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FOREST hres III oceah Souhsy' N. d.
nave rendered ues.i'u'e ln,ee nunuree iam-
lies ana ehtireiy ues'royeo INC oeIry ihuus-
try for this season.
HE onlted STATES munster 10 20
iombia' VINO recently iei. ior nus post mas
spec,al instruction. no, ON .ns suo!e1. ., .ne
aim Ply, ,Se c.,.h," "omfp,ar,t;o ~, ~.
uen. =. .no .o'oD" .."' .A's
Certain poiaon' VI .n. 's. n, anu tna'
wv 1n,S.n
seps ny INC oo'o"'"'i oo".Fo'
the Ainericans 10 iooh ai'er 'heir own inter-
ests.
1T has been discovered That the Nash
vile and Chattanooga Railroad Company
owes the Government sl6o'ooo for arrears OF
interest que on nrst mortgage nonos' wnicn
maturea IN i~s. Inc oetacnea coupons
nave IAN IN tne treasury .weNe years, very
curiousiy, WITHOUT any ones at'ehtion Delhg
called 10 lne iac1'
AnI Oniis.a"h Ooii.li''oo VI n"e""u
teiegraphs 10 Lonoon; "A terriDie famine Is
I.ss '"Iousnou' mepo.',a anu c nu
.iams .re cr.w,;ng hi.her for reIief Our re
so,,,,.os .ro totally in.doou.te 70 moot tho
nscessi,;es
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WIN causing 'ie eNpios'oi III inc ",nCer
ai"ce ~ 81 petersburg Oh the i''h oi rep
fuaIy' nus peen aHHes'eu'
IHE britisn traihihg-shlp Ataianta ls
Supposeu 70 DC 'os' " sea WIN All On ooaru'
AN capturing party u 10 men, Iuny
armed ana equipped, nave left Leadviile
Tor the Ute country. They Will establish
mining camp ON roaring FORKS ana IL Is
saio VIII heh. lne ihoiahs OF any one else
VINO attempts 10 order tnem OH. Inc
indian bureau Is omeiaiiy INFORMED OF these
ihroads Dy the clerk In cnarge OF Los ilnos
agency, VINO says ouray suggests that troops
&c olueieu :" i''ieu'a'oy " pfe'eh'
Im aooodon. Nth a. ;o,. o,.,
o W w JIM ioooiu
. .,on VI Nons iess, oiueIs nave oeeii sen' 10
nv Vu. qua. 20 oi inc Deparl"ent OF
W ISSUE wv .e"o' ~, 'ne use VI 'nc
ny the recent Uofnaoo IN Missouri'
INDIAN depredationsi IN oocorro Coun-
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