American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-10-16
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE epizooty has reached Cincinnati.
| PROF. BENJAMIN PIERCE, mathema-
tician and Professor at Harvard College, is
dead.
THREE conductors and baggagemen
| on the Kansas Pacific Railroad have been ar
rested, charged with a Systematic scheme for
swindling the company by selling forged
| tickets to passengers, who were instructed to
leave Denver on certain trains whereby the
/ bogus tickets were taken up by one of the
conductors engaged in the conspiracy. II is
not stated to what extent the scheme had
been worked.
Mrs. FANNY EAsTERLING was burned
TO death In her own house at Georgetown,
S. c., on the morning of the eth.
JACOB BARR was thrown upon a cir
cular saw in mill near Mount Gilead, o.,
and completely bisected, death resulting in
stantly.
A GAMBLER named "Doc." Jenkins
died at the card table in Charlotte, n. c., on
the night of the 9Th. He was playing for
high stakes, and was just in the act of throw
ing down the winning card whsn he dropped
dead. Heart disease, aggravated by the ex-
citement Of the game, was the cause OF his
death.
CHARLES RoEDELL and Charles
Freeman were thrown from a scaffolding to
the pavement, a distance of twenty feet,
ut Bradford, Pa. both being killed. The ac-
cident was caused by the breaking Of u rope.
A DIFFICULTY occurred few das
since Mt Concordia, Bolivar County, Miss.
between B. F. Owen, Justice of the Peace
and J. w. Glover, farmer. Owen was
holding his court. Glover made Il disturb
ance, and was ordered under arrest by
Owen. Pistols were at once drawn by both,
and firing commenced. Owen fell dead.
Glover ran about three hundred yards and
fell, fatally wounded. He died after linger-
ing eight hours. Both young men We're Of
good standing in the community.
IT was reported on the Sth at Del
Norte, Colo, that young Jackson, who was
captured by the Indians, had met his death
at the stake.
Two cases of yellow fever were re-
ported from Key West, Fla. on the sth.
JOSEPH MUHRER, a farmer residing
In the vicinity of La Crosse, Wis, was re-
turning home from town in an intoxicated
condition, in company with his wife. Having
lighted his pipe, he threw the burning match
into the loose hay with which the wagon
was filled. 1t blazed up SO suddenly that
the clothing of both was set on fire, and
Muhrer was fatally and his wife seriously
burned.
JAMES M. STRIKER, Postmaster of
the United States House of Representatives
since 1876, died at his home In Alexandria,
Va, on the eth, aged 81.
Col. X. L. VAN HORN, was unani-
mously nominated for Congressman on thu,
frstlballot by the Republican Convention OF
the Eighth Missouri District
A TERRIBLE tragedy occurred on the
9Th, I'm Pike County, Iii. About one milo
above Cincinnati Landing and six miles west
of New Canton lived q family named Baker,
consisting Of father, mother and two daugh-
tiers, the elder aged fifteen. With and work
ing for them lived a young man named Sell
lers, who was from near Nebo, in the same
county. Sellers, it seems, had been paying ,
attention to the elder daughter, had be-
come deeply attached and desired she
should marry him. To this the mother,
probably on account of the youth OF
the daughter, would not consent. On the
evening of the day named Sellers again in
sisted that the girl should marry him, eld
consent being again refused, he drew a
volver. Taking deliberate aim he first shot
the dog belonging to the family, then quickly
shot Mrs. Baker, the mother, and thon the
girl whom he loved. This done, he placed
the muzzle to his own temple ard fired.
Each shot was instantaneously fatal. The
tragedy was Witnessed by the younger
daughter, from whose testimony before the
Coroner's Jury the above facts were ELECTED.
Mr.. Baker, the father, was not at home at
the time.
GEORGE LowERY and David Thomas,
both white men, were hanged by a mob in
Nelson County, Va. Their offense was an
indecent assault upon lone widow, followed
by the robbery Of her house.
Two brothers named Wilson, who in
vadcd the Ute Reservation and run OFF
dozen Of horses, were pursued by the In
dams, overtalxen and shot, between Jacks
Cabin" and Crested Buttes.