American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-05-01

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FAYETTEVILLE, the county seat Of
Washington County, Ark, suffered Sc
verely from the tornado of the 18th. IT
struck the town at its southwestern part and
extended through it in a northeasterIy di-
rection, sweeping almost every building in
its path for distance OF half mile. The
track Of the tornado was about thirty feet
wide. Two persons were killed outright
and dozen mere or less injured.
FORSYTH, in fancy County, Mo-, also
suffered badly by the tornado, two persons
being killed and others injured. The rava-
ges Of the storm were experienced in vari-
GUS localities in nearly every county in the
southwestern portion of the State.
BARNETTsvILLE, in Morgan County,
Mo-, about one hundred miles due north OF
Marshfield, was almost totally destroyed by
the tornado of the 18th. Seven persons were
killed and many injured.
A CHINAMAN, charged with murder,
hanged himself in his cell at Sancelito, Cal.
THREE colored men confined in the
jail at Moberly, Mo-, charged with the muir
der of another old colored man named
George Matthews, were forcibly taken from
their cells by mob of about forty men on
the night OF the Goth and two of them, Hem
ry Mitchell and Dick Yancy, were
hanged from railway trcstle just
outside the town. The other prisoner, AL
fred Caseon, who was not an active par
ticipant in the murder, but was charged
by the other two with having persuaded
them to do the deed, was let off after having
been made to confess all he knew. 1t is
said that Mitchell and Yancy had previously
acknowledged their crime.
TERRIRU r accident Oocr1rrod in Nav
York City on the night of the 21st. While
gress in Madison Square Garden, the various
parts of the building being thronged with
people, portion Of the side wall suddenly
fell outward, and the roof of this section,
which was used as a dancing hall,
crushed down upon the dancers,
burying them out of sight.
Mrs. VIM. q. Hagemann, the wife OF a well
known lawyer, and her maid; Miss II. l..
Willett and Mr.. H. Tillotson, editor of For
est and Stream, were dead when extricated.
The injured number fifty or more, some of
whom will probably not recover.
The city of Hull, Quebec, suffered
from a severe connagration on the night of
the 2ist. Fully one-half of the city, COM
prising an area about one mile long and 400
yards wide, is in ruins. From 100 to 800
houses, mostly of wood and occupied by the
poorer classes. were destroyed. Several
lives were lost and 600 people were rem
dered homeless.
AT Mayfield, Ky, on the goth, w. w.
Eel shot and lsillcd Dr.. Dalton, Of Galloway
County. About a year ago Dalton attempted
to elope with Ezeli's sister-in-law, which
attempt was frustrated by Ezell, and since
that time there has been bad blood between
the parties. Ezell claims that Dalton threat
ened to kill him, and that he shot in lf-de-
Tense.
DIR. GoERsEN, the suspected Phila-
delphia wife poisoner, has been held for
trial.
A BOARDJNG-HOUSE was crushed by
a landslide at Mineral King, near visalia,
CAL, on the 18th, and several of the inmates
were killed.
S. NJ. PILLsBURY, Jr., of Boston,
aged thirty, committed suicide by guiIlotine.
The instrument was so constructed with
weights, grooves and pulleys as to insure
death. Cause, temporary insanity.
The boiler in the mill of C. w. Dun
bar, ten miles from Memphis, Mo-, exploded
on the 22d, demolishing the mill and killing
the proprietor and two other men, named
Wilson and McCan.
EDWARD NUGENr and Henry j.
were hanged at st. Louis on the
latter for the murder of Franz
vosz, in June, 1878, the former for the muir
der Of his wife, in August, 1876.
Mrs. ANNA ORMsBY, her daughter
sallie, aged about fifteen, and her son Gus,
a young man, all Of yevay, Ind, and Mrs.
Ormsby's niece, Miss Anna Miller, Of Rising
Sun, Ind, on the 21st started in a carriage
from Vevay to attend the wedding Of Mrs.
Ornsby's son Graham, who was to be mar
ried to a Miss O'Neall, residing on the
south bank Of the Kentucky River, in
County, Ky. The carriage had been
driven upon the ferry fiat to make the cross
ing, when the horses became frightened and
and backed the carriage into
the river. The three ladies were drowned,
together with the team; the young man
saved his life. The intended bride and
groom and their friends were standing in
the door opposite and were witnesses of the
terrible scene.
X. HoYLE, defaulting tax-collcctor
prison cell at Los Angeles, CAL, where he
had been apprehended upon a requisition |
from the Georgia authorities.
SPENCE PETTIs, the noted forger,
hanged himself in the Concord State prison.
Four lives were lost by the disaster
in Madison Square Garden, New York.
A BRIEF telegram from San Francis
20, 23d, stated that Charles DeYoung, of
he San Francisco Chronicle, had been shot
md killed by 1. NJ. Kalloch, son of the Rev.
I. :. KaIloch, who was some months ago |
shot and wounded by DeYoung.