American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-01-03
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

The steamboat Maggie Baker, just ar
rived at Mobile from Montgomery, Ala, was
burned to the waters edge on the Goth.
Eleven hundred bales of cotton were de-
stroyed by fire or damaged by water. Boat
and cargo fully insured.
Seymour G.. Stone, proprietor of
shoddy-mill at Bennington, VT, lost his life
by the burning of his mill on the Goth. Mrs.
Stone is crazed with grief at her husbands
terrible death.
Two Irish lads, Edward Harvey and
James MCGEE, peddlers of dry-goods, were
murdered on the night of the 10Th near Jer
nigan, Russell County, Ala, and their
bodies thrown into the Chattanooga
River. The murder was discovered
the next day, when two negroes were arrest
ed. These confessed, duplicating two 9TH
ers. large crowd of whites and blacks
assembled on the following day, Sunday, and
decided to hang the two murderers, which
was done forthwith. They displayed a sui
len Indifference and asked no mercy. The
two others implicated had not been arrested
at latest accounts.
The High School building at Milwau-
kee, Wis, was totally destroyed by fire on
the night of the 21st. Loss about $4,000.
On the same night the extensive brewery,
malt-house, etc., of P. Best were also
burned. The latter loss, including grain in
store, will aggregate about $250,0O to $780,
900, fully insured.
The large corset and suspender fac
tory of West, Bradley 4 Cary, on West
Twenty ninth Street, New York, burned on
the night Of the 22d. Twenty women were
in the building and barely escaped with their
lives. Four Of them were severely injured
by jumping from the windows, and two fire
men were badly hurt by falling debris.
Matthew Gleason's house at Ayers
town, \. j., burned on the night of the 22d
and his three children persisted in the flames.
The revolutionary army entered San
Domingo on the 18th OF November, President
| Guillermo having previously fled. Peace
has been entirely restored.
At Christmas-tree festival in the NJ.
E. Church at Pataskala, o., on Christmas
| Eve, young man named George Lynn, who
personated Santa Claus, was dressed in a
| costume covered with loose cotton. In some
manner the cotton caught fire and young
Lynn was very badly burned before it could
be extinguished. The affair caused panic
in the church and several people were in
jured.
Delphos, o., at an early hour on Christmas
morning, the victim, Mr.. Bernard II. Picker,
being a well-to-do and estimable German
citizen, residing nearly in the center of the
city. Mrs. Picker gives the following ac-
count Of the affair: any husband was
aroused from his slumbers by heavy knock
ing at the front door. Getting up, he opened
the door fearlessly, and was instantly
seized by three masked men, who demanded
his money or his life. He, needless of their
threats, made a desperate resistance, and
was only overpowered when he was shot
through the head by one of the ruffians and
instantly killed. ! rushed from the bed to
assist my husband, and was seized and
threatened with the same fate. 1, however,
screamed at the top of my voice, but was
finally overpowered by being tied and gagged.
They again demanded the money and / re-
fused, and they then placed me against a
red hot stove and tortured me so badly that
I could not endure any more pain, and / fin
ally gave them the mony, amounting to ST.
800 in currency, the savings of years. They
then took their departure" Mrs. Picker's
injuries were quite serious, and possibly
fatal.
Willis Hall, the main building of
Carleton College, Mortified, Mimi, was
burned on the 23d. Loss, $4,000; insurance,
81. go.
The sevcrest weather known for years
prevailed throughout Minnesota Just before
Christmas, the range of the Thermometer be-
ing reported at from II TO - degrees below