American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-10-16
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources

NEWS LIN 6AxEks
Compiled from Various Sources
BIZ threatening strike all along the
line, the employees of the Grand Trunk Rail,
way hsve secured an advance In wages.
TIE Russian papers are filed with
accounts Of the great destitution prevailing
I'm the interior. Many deaths from starva'
tton have occurred.
A wKLL-DEFINED case of yellow fever
fs reported from New Orleans, but 70 late
in the season n to cause no spprshshsiea OF
/ fhe spread Of the disease.
Of negro laborers. oom-
pressmsn- and longshoremen, at Houston,
Tex, begun On the 4th and threatened to
assume serious proportions.
PKoF.JACoB BALL, n well known nat
uralist and geologist, died recently In camp
in Willcberger County, Tex, where he was
pursuing his scientific explorations.
THE Georgia State election, which
took place on the 9Th, resulted In the re-elec-
ton Of Governor Coiquitt. the regular DEM
ocratio nominee, by majority Of some 49,
600.
THE Mexican House of Representa-
tives, by resolution, have declared Gen. Con-
zaies duly elected President OF the Repub-
lie, his term TO begin on the LIST OF Decem-
Der.
GEMS. GRANT and Logan attended
the reunion Of the survivors Of the Twenty
hrst Illinois Regiment at Decatur on the 9th.
Gen.Grant was the first Colonel Of this regi-
ment
A TELEaRAN from Breslau, Germany,
reports that an accident occurred on the 9Th
inst, In mine near Kattowftz. Fifty-four
workmen were overwhelmed, all but four
: Of whom were suffocated.
= Ar Pottsville, Pa, on the 9th, Charl-
ton Wflthem, an employee in the Port Clin-
ton Iron Works, shot and seriously wound
ed bis wife and then shot himself, dying in
stantly. Jealousy was the cause.
TIE Supreme Court of Utah has de-
cided that the female-suffrage law in that
Territory ID constitutional, and that under it
women are entitled to vote at all elections.
Judge Foreman dissented from his opinion.
ACCORDING to returns on file in the
secretary Of States Office, the Constitutional
amendment voted for at the recent election
I'm Arkansas, fayoring q scaling down of the
State deb, was rejected by majority of 1890.
THE centennial anniversary of the
Battle Of Kings Mountain, North Carolina,
was celebrated on the 9Th and It'll. There
was Q mimic fight, representing the battle
-. h.fx he rff and A
troops.
PROF. RILEY says he has reached a
stage In the management Of the cotton worm
when there is ne longer any excuse for its
rav.ges and that the caterpillar and the boil
Wesm viii cease to be cause Of anxiety to
Intelligent and enterprising planters
TIE st. Louis Fair opened on the 4th
with nns display in nearly every depart
ment and large attendance. The annual
pageant of the Yelled Prophets, which came
on on the night of the sth, was magnificent
affair and was witnessed by hundreds of
thousands Of spectators.
DIP. devices, the Greenback candi-
date for Judge Of the Supreme Court of
Pennsylvania, In . published letter, with
draws from the canvas, for the reason, he
states, that Gen. W0Ver IN using his innu-
ence - the head Of the National ticket, in
favor of the Rspubli.a ssndiassss.
JOSEPH MooREH0UsA Of Elizabeth,
N. j., died ON the 4fh nom hydrophsbia.
He was bitten by . dog with which he was
playing In May last. The wound was eau
terized and Moorehouss thought ne more
about It until the day before he died, when
he was attacked with spasms and died with