American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-12-18
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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THE boiler of q portable saw-mill a
Wendell, Mass, exploded ON the Sth, KILN
six persons and injuring two others. Thos
killed were the two proprietors Of the mil
Ma, BILE and Clark, Oscar, George and Will
Brown, three brothers, aged from II to q
sons OF Hosea Brown, Of New Salem, ant
Mrs. FELTON,, the housekeeper.
LOUIS ToCKsTEIN, an insane man les
capped from his keepers at the st. Charlie.
Hotel, in Chester, ILL.,, on the morning of tn
9Th, and making his way to tn
house of Thomas Ryan, while the fam
lily were at breakfast, assaulted then
with an Ak which he had picked
up on the way. Thomas Ryan, aged 50
Mrs. Julia Smith, his widowed daughter
aud her little girl, Sarah, were all three
butchered in the most horrible manner.
9-year-old grandson Of Mr.. Ryan wit
messed the maniac's assault, and
ned to neighbor's for assistance. The MUIR
derous lunatic was finally recaptured and
sent to Jacksonville for confinement.
The Rock Island east-bound passen.
ger train. that left Atchison, Kans., on the
night of the 9Th, jumped the track near Ed
gerton Junction, the entire train and engine
going into the ditch, killing Captain Sims,
one of the Oldest mail agents in the West.
Mail Agent Bellard was injured badly, but
will recover. Quite q number Of passengers
were more or less injured, but none seri-
ously. Stoves were overturned and set fire
to the coaches The entire train, consisting
of two coaches, mail and baggage and ex-
press car, was burned.
JOHN w. MARTIN, a st. Louis police
officer, was charged with neglect Of duty and
sentenced to be dismissed from the force.
Upon learning the verdict he deliberately
drew his revolver and put bullet through
his brain, dying instantly.
THE mail-coach eastward bound was
captured and robbed by highwaymen three
miles east of BrownwOod, Texas, on the
night of the It'll. The passengers yielded up
ABOUT $165 and the registered mail about
$3.50 more.
A TERRIBLE ARRAY recently occurred
in Newberry County, s. c., between the
Messrs. Thomas Gather and tive sons) and
Mr.. John Lyle, in which Mr.. James Thorn
~, the father, received fatal wound in the
left breast, and the sons scalp wounds by
pistol shots from Mr.. Lyle, while Mr.. Lyle
was killed by blow in the head from q club
in the hands Of James Thomas, Jr. Lyle is
. son-in-law Of James Thomas, ST., and the
difficulty grew out of a family feud.
PARTICULARS have been received at
Galena, ILL.,, of the recent terrible death, in
a snow-slide in Colorado, of Lieut.. Thos.
Gray, Of that city, and companion named
Chas. Eaton, an employee in the Gaslight
Lode, near Tyner, Colo. 1t seems that
Gray and Eaton, with others, were
one Of the range of
mountains which divide the North
from the Middle Park. When half way
down they were buried under an avalanche
of snow from above. Three of the party es-
capped, while Gray and Eaton were buried
deep under the snow. The body of the lat
ter WINS found eighteen feet below the sur
face. while that of Gray had not been re-
covered. The last named leaves wife and
four children.
TIE st. Louis Daily Times franchise
Is again in ffrig1r1Un, and the pupr1cation Of
the paper has been temporarily assumed by
the Repwtlicon.
TIE st. Louis Theatre Comique was
destroyed by fire on the 9th.
JAMES PALUGHI, an Italian, died in
Chicago from trichina, eaten in uncooked
sausage. For thirty days he suffered great
ly, and succumbed only when the parasites
penetrated to his heart. His wife, son and
two daughters were dangerously i'll from the
same cause.
SEVERAL heavy coffee importing
firms have failed in New York.
TIE Canadian Parliament assembled
on the 9th. The chief business on hand is
the Pacific Railway negotiations, though
Indian affairs in the Northwest will receive
attention. fl9t 49,
FOURTEEN deaths from diphtheria
have occurred at Fox Lake, Wis.,, and the
public schools have been closed for the year.
WILLIAM HALL was hanged at Sher-
brooke, Quebec, on the 10th, for the MUIR
del of Thomas Milligan in September last.
FIFTEEN business buildings in YER
saflIes, KY, were burned on the 10th.
The Courthouse at Anderson, Ind,
with all its records, was burned on the 10th.
THREE negro murderers of Mrs.
Kennedy, in Clarendon County, s. c., were
hanged by o mob. One Of them was a
woman. -
Four Socialists have been jailed at
Darmstadt on charge of high treason, and
six persons are in prison at Pferzheim for
circulating revolutionary publications.
The Sioux Of the river agencies are
greatly dissatisfied with the esssion of rail-
road right Of way by the Red Cloud and
Spotted Tail bands. The two factions are
about equal In military. strength. but the
river Sioux are scattered along the Missouri
from Fort Randall to Bismarck.