American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-10-30
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

sin supreme Court, Is dead.
The Rhode Island Greenbackers have
nominated full State and Electoral ticket.
The steam barge Trader was wreck
ed on Lake Michigan during the late storm,
and her Captain and crew of ten were all
drowned.
LEE SHRYOCK, Cashier of the Louis
Vile Turf Exchange, is missing His ac-
counts are short from $50, 900 to $4,000. 1t
is believed ne has drowned himself.
A BATTERY of three boilers in the dis
tillery of Cox & Fairbanks at Terre Haute,
Ind, exploded on the 10th, instantly killing
six men and seriously injuring twice as
many more. The names of the killed are:
Joseph Denny, John A. Brooks, NJ. Kelly,
VIM. Bergman, Frank IIanley and Harvey
Day (colored). Seriously injured: Henry
Wilson, Eugene Mehring, Henry Dinkle,
Frank Brown, John Yeo, Wash Simpson,
George Grom and VIM. Kirtley, the latter
fatally. The cause Of the explosion is not
known.
AN accident occurred on the Cincin-
natl and Dayton Railroad, at Jones Station,
nineteen miles north of Cincinnati, on the
Goth, by which fifteen passengers were in
jured, several seriously.
AN emigrant family, consisting of one
man and two women, camping near Spring.
field, Brown County, Mimi, were frozen to
death during the late storm.
The residence of MIR. Frank Risden,
near vermiIlion, o., burned on the night of
the 10th and Mrs. Risden persisted in the
flames.
THE timbers of the steamer Alpena
which have drifted ashore are said to be
mostly rotten, proving that the vessel was in
an unseaworthy condition.
PETER GARRETT and Emma Prittle,
both colored, living at Cuero, Tex, were
poisoned through taking strychnne admin
istered by mistake for quinine. Both died.
MAJOR THOMAS L. BUTLER, who as
sisted at the capture of Pensacola and was
aide-de-camp to General Jackson at the
Battle of New Orleans, died at Louisville,
on the 21st, aged 81.
AN express train on the Pennsylvania
Railroad jumped the track while rounding
a curve near Conemaugh, Pa, on the 21st.
The express and baggage-cars were badly
smashed and one of them burned. Charles
McCloskey, express messenger, was crushed
to death by an iron safe. Two passengers
were injured.
THE Vermont Legislature has re-
elected United States Senator Edmunds.
The Courthouse of Llano County,
Tex, has been burned with all its records.
1t is said that the fire was the work of in
cendaries, parties against whom indictments
were pending.
GEORGE MossER, while firing a sa-
lutte at a political celebration at Madison,
Ind, had both his arms blown off and his
eyes blown out by premature discharge Of
the cannon. He can not recover.
FRITZ WoLFKIN, while bear-hunting
with two companions, near Spearfish Falls,
D. T., q few days ago, was attacked by n
large cinnamon bear. His head was nearly
torn away from his shoulders, both arms |
were broken, and the lower jaw, nose and |
one eye completely torn away before the ami |
NAL was killed. Death occurred in a few |
hours.
HENRY WILLIAMS, alias Charles Pier |
son, colored, was hanged at Raleigh, N. c., |
on the 22d, for the murder of another negro |
in August last.
THE railway train from Dortmund,
to Berlin, on the 22d, was pre-
cipitated down an embankment. Two per-
sons killed and twenty-six injured.
A DISPATCH from Rome, Italy, says
he distinguished German authoress, Eliza
Lenhardt, committed suicide at Civita
Vecchia by throwing herself into the sea.
JAMES B. DOYLE was arrested in Chi
ago recently having in his possession a
arge number Of stolen and altered Treasury
ponds. Doyle is a son-in-law of Brad. Fos-
er, a notorious counterfeiter.
THE news of the defeat and death of
Victorio and sixty Of his followers, by the
Mexican troops under Col. Terrases, is con-
irmed by an official communication from
hat officer to Gen. Ord. There are still
hirty of the band at large who were not
present at the fight.
The propeller Europe, which was
bought to have been lost in the recent gales
N the lakes, has come into port at Chicago.