American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-06-26
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Toronto. He surrendered five plates, two
being of United States legal tender notes.
GRAND RAPII,s aud 0conte, Wis,
were both nearly inundated onsthe 10Th. The
damage to property is immShse u through
the Northwest. The upper Nfissksippi was
up to high water mark. as Is
GEN. RoCA, Minister of War, has been
declared elected President of the Argentine
Confederation. He was backed by the Gov
eminent. 1t is expected that his opponent,
DIR. Tejedos, Governor of the province of
Buenos Ayres, will resist the installation Of
Gen. Roca, and possibly declare the secession
Of Buenos Ayres from the confederation,
which would lead to civil war.
ROBERT DECURCIER, under sentence
of death at Toronto, ;con,mitted suicide BY
poison the day previous to the one fixedfer
his execution.
CENTRAL Indiana and SoutheFa Ohio
were raided by hurricane on the night Of
the 18th. At Cicero, Ind, two churches and
/ several houses were blown down and their
inmates in some cases severely injured. At
Colfax four persons were reported killed
and several injured. The crops were badly
damaged over large area OF country. -
AT a meeting of the Leadville Miners
Union, held on the nth, it was agreed to re-
sumo work at the terms on which they were
employed previous to the strike, certain
mine owners to recognize the eight-hour
system in the future as heretofore, and Civ
ing pledges to use theif induence tcAave
that system generally adopted throughout
the camp.
By the bursting of a steam pipe-in the
Cincinnati Music Hall, where the Millers'
International Exhibition is being held,
County, Ind, and L. Becker, Of Texas, both
millers, were seriously, if not fatally, in
jured.
A TERRIBLE tornado passed between
Colfax and Frankfort, Ind, on the 18th, un-
roofing houses, barns, etc. Four persons were
killed and many wounded.
WHILE the Spanish war ship Cuba
Espanola was entering the harbor Of santi-
ago de Cuba on the 18th, her boiler exploded,
killing twenty persons and wounding lib,
of whom eighty-four were troops being
transported.
GEN. E. d. TOWNSEND, Adjutant-
General of the Army, has been placed on the
retired list. He is succeeded by Gen. Rich
ard C. Drum, formerly Adjutant- General.
A BOILER explosion in Waldeck &
wirts' distillery at Milwaukee Killed David
Hanson, the foreman, and fatally wounded
John Schundein. The brewery was partially
destroyed by fire. F.---
JUDGE SAMUEL B. GooKINs, well
known jurist and writer, died of heart dis
ease in Terre Haute, Ind, on the 14tb.
AT Albuquerque, N. Mex, on the
18th, A. Young shot and killed Ed. Harris. 4
Both were well known gamblers. Z "a q.
GEN. GARFIELD had a public recep-
ton in Washington on the evening of the
18th. It was rendered by the National Wet
eran Association.
THE King of Greece is being most
royalty entertained in London.
ON the 10th five tenant families were
evicted near Balla, Ireland. At night they
were conducted back to their holdings by d
large and determined crowd. KS
Snow fell in Minnesota on the 14th
day Of June.
IT is reported from Fort Keogh that
500 of Sitting Bulls band, from the other
side of the International boundary, have
come In and surrendered to Lieut. Whistlerr
They represented that great numbers Of In
dians were in a starving condition. 1t is
said more are about to come in. 80 ''-"
THE, Government has decided to de-
mand from the Spanish Government an ex-
PLANTATION of the recent firing on the Ameri
can schooner Ethel A. Merritt, near the Gu
ban coast, by a Spanish man -ofswar.
THE members of the Arkansas Edi- !
torial Association were accorded an informal
reception by the President and Mrs. Hayes |
during their recent visit to Washington.
THE Democrats of the Third Missis
sippi District have renominated Hon. II. D.
Money for Congressman. 1920
HON. BURwELL B. LEWIS, Repre-
sentative in Congress from the Sixth Ala
bama District, has resigned. -
THE Ohio State Board of Charities I
are investigating scandalous charges against
the management Of the. Central, Lunatic I
Asylum at Columbus.
Col. ALBERT j. MYER, Chief Signal
Officer, has been promoted to the rank Of /
General. .t5i,f.i.- sa't.
The Masonic and Odd Fellows Build
ing Mt Starkville, Miss, was burned on the
18th. The Southern Lire Stock Journal
office was completely destroyed. --Totalless
about $4,000. =
FouR men were crushed to death and
several others injured in the Yellow Jacket
Mine at Gold Hill, New, on the 18th, by
carload of tools falling upon, them from
near the,surface to the bottorfi.
SAM. s. HOWARD was hanged at Bas-
trop, Tex, on the 18th, for the murder of
Alexander Farmer in May, 1858.
THE first honorary prize of the Berlin
Fishery Exhibition has been
awarded to Prof. Baird of the Smithsonian
Institution, Washington. The United States
receives the gold medal and address.
HANLAN was badly beaten by Ross in
he Providence boat race, owing, as claimed
BY him, to q stitch in the side.
Boston celebrated the anniversary Of
Bunker Hill June II, with great enthusiasm.
A RECENT telegram says: A terrible
courge resembling dysentery is prevailing in
Adams, Mass, which battles the skill of
physicians. Over 1000 persons, old and
,oung, have been stricken down. Phys-
,ians are busy night and day. Many cases are
cared to be fatal, There is little doubt that
he epidemic is occasioned by impurities OF
he water in the reservoir.
SENATOR ZEBULoN VANCE, of North
Carolina, was married on the 18th to Miss
Florence S. Martin, wealthy young widow
# Oldham County,Ky. ,
AT KendallviIle, Ind, jesse Boyer
vas examining revolver when it was acci-
ientally discharged, the ball entering the
brain. Death resulted in a few hours. He ]
vas young man, and unmarried. !
TnE Brussels Exhibition was opened
With great ceremony, the King and Queen of :
Belgium officiating. The city was decorated
md the day made a holiday. i
The Louisiana Supreme Court de- !
ides that the part Of the Louisiana license =