American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-01-10

with the murder of Il. q. Hayward in Sep
TENDER last, Were taken from The Jail at Col
den, Colo, on the night of the 9th ult., by,
a masked mob numbering about $50 men,
and hanged to bridge. Simmonds con-
fessed that himself and Woodruff were the
guilty parties, but Woodruff persstently
declared his innocence of the crime. The
preliminary legal examination of the prison
ers, it is raid, left no doubt as to their guilt.
AT Chicago, on the 9th ult, Mr. NJ
b. Gould and Gen. J. NJ. Waite, two well
known business men and intimate personal
friends, by way Of a joke attempted to
brighten the eolored janitor of the building
where Gen. Waite had his apartments by
playing burglars. They according
ly entered the room, hastily gath
cred up "a number of articles
and then secreted themselves in a closet.
The ianitor, coming in and hear
ing their half suppressed talking
in the closet, thought they were
burglars sure enough and ordered them to
come out and surrender, and upon their
fusal to do so he picked up Gen. Waite's
revolver and fired through the doora at close
range, almost Instantly killing Mr.. Could
Four negroes, charged with murder,
were taken from the jail at Amite, Tangipa-
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by mob of so men, and shot to death.
Dave Hall, John Gallagher and AMMAN
known as Missouri" We're found on the
24th, near Young Man Butte, 100 miles
west OF Bismarck, frozen to death.
An express train on the Iowa and
Minnesota Division OF the Chicago, Milwau-
kee and st. Paul Railroad was thrown from
the track by a broken rail near st. Paul, on
the 3lst. One of the slecpers broke its
couplings and rolled down an embankment
TO the river, q distance of GO feet.s The car
was smashed to pieces and the six passen-
gers in it were all taken up in an insensible
condition. They-were- all seriously, buts-it
was thought none fatally, injured. - -
At Lcavenworth, Kas., ON New Years
Day, w. W. Embry was shot and almost in
stantly killed by Thos. C. Thurston. ? The
two men were partners in the publication of
a Sunday newspaper, and having duarreled,
each had the other arrested upon a charge
of embezzlement. Both were released upon
bail. Thurston says that Embry threatened
to club him to death the first time they met.
On New Years Day Thurston was in a sa-
loon playing cards when Embry came in,
and as the latter advanced towards the card
table, Thurston drew his revolver and shot
him through the heart. Embry will be re-
membered as the man who shot Col. Anthony
about four years ago. Thurston gave himself
up.
The Grocers' Bank of New York, one
of the oldestbanks in the city, has suspended
payment on account of some recent heavy fall
ures affecting its resources.
Three boys, Harry Coles, Charley
Burlin and Charley Dorman, aged from II to
Is, were drowned on New Years Day while
skating at Allilnce, o. The ice on the pond
suddenly gave way, letting eight boys down,
only five of whom We're rescued
AT Burlington, Iowa, on the 31st, j.
K. Woodward, son of ex- Mayor Woodward,
shot and instantly killed his brother-in law,
E. NJ. Price, and then blew out his own
brains. The tragedy was brought about by
domestic difficulties. g E-rtStts 1t,
The Kentucky Legislature met on the
3lst ut.
- At Boston, on the morning of the 3Oth
ult., Mrs. Helen Josephine Ward, widow
Of 81, was shot and killed by her daughter
OF the same name, aged II. The mother and
daughter lived by themselves in apartments
in Hamilton Place, and kept a loaded re-
volver I'm bed with them for their protection.
The daughter says she dreamed of burglars
in the night, and was first awakened by the
report of the pistol which she held in her
hand, and upon trying to awaken her mother
found her speechless and shot through the
head. The daughter was arrested, and there
are circumstances in the case that vibrant n
suspicion that her story is not in all respects
true.
1t was reported from Deadwood on
the 3Oth that, the Bismarck stage had been
stopped and robbed by road agents near An
telope Station, and that the only passenger
in the coach, a Mr.. Oates, had been shot and
killed, presumably while resisting the rob-
Beers. ..1
The residence owned by ex-senator
Stewart Of Nevada, known as "Stewart-
CASTLE" one of the finest private residences
in Washington, ID. c., was totally destroyed
by fire, together with all its magnificent fur
niture, on the night of the 30th ult. The
house contained 20 rooms, and cost, with its
furnishings, not less than. quarter million
dollars. 1t was insured for something less
than half that sum. -,
At Cincinnati, on the 1st, Col. l.. A.
Harris, ex-Mayor, shot w. Fl. Adams, in
an alteration growing out of business
transaction. The wound was supposed to be
fatal. q = s-rri = e. - Ii ~ = z
f The principal business portion of Red
Bank, N. j., was burned on the night Of the