American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-07-24
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


Atchison, Buchanan County, Mo-, opposit
Atchison, Hans, on the 18th. The allcge
grievance of the mob was that C. IL. Peel
the contractor for the excavation work c
the packing house of J. NJ. Smith, late G
Quincy, ILL.,, had employed three colore
men in his service and was payin
but S1.25 day. When his me
commenced work drunken mo
armed with revolvers and knives appeare
on the scene and compelled them to qui
work. From there the crowd, increasing
all the time, proceeded to other places wher
colored men We're employed and compelled
the suspension Of all work. The Mayor o
Atchison went over and endeavored to re
strain the rioters, but without success, ant
the Sheriff of Buchanan County was sent TO
to come and exercise his authority.
S. S. RICKLEY, President of the Cap
| ital City Bank at Columbus, o., was sho
through the head on the 18th by Andrew
Eichenberg, German dyer. The latter theI
put bullet through his own brain, causing
instant death. The shooting took place in
the bank at noon, the only other person
present being Ralph Rickley, the Cashier.
who is a son of the President. Echenbers
came in and asked Mr.. Rickley to loan him
$50 on some securities in his possession. The
latter refused, whereupon Eichenberg pulled
out a revolver and fired without any warn
ing at Rickley, following almost instantly
with the shot that terminated his own life.
The man is believed to have been insane.
Mr.. Rickley is seriously wounded, but may
recover.
A DOUBLE assassination occurred in
Jefferson County, Mo-, on the 10th. An
drew Wilson and Martha Soultz were shot
and almost instantly killed while riding along
the road in wagon, by some unknown per-
son who was hiding in the woods. Wilson
was about thirty years of age, married
man, and was going with the girl Shultz to
secure her situation when the deed was
committed. Wilson'S brothers -in-law are
suspected of being the guilty parties.
IT is said that large amount of
fraudulent scrip, purporting to be abstracts
of title to lands in Marshall County, Kans.,
has been negotiated in Ohio, principally in
Lorraine County. Many persons in that Sec
ton, of limited means, who purchased with
the purpose of becoming permanent resi-
dents in Marshall County, have been victim
lied. The lands thus sold, and to which no
title whatever is conveyed, are what are
known as the 'Larimer Lands" lying in
the northern portion of Mari shall County.
ANOTHER destructive oil fire has oc-
Cured at Custer City, near Bradford, Pa,
caused by lightning striking an oil tank.
CHAsrINE Cox, colored, was hanged
in the jail yard of the Tombs, New York
Jane De Forest Hull, in June, 1879.
THE Alban;ans have opened the war
upon Montenegro. The first attack was
a number of Montenegro pickets were sur
prised, shot down and beheaded, the victors
bearing off their heads as trophies. The at
tack causes great excitement.
IT is reported that Peru and Bolivia
are about to be united into one Government,
under the name Of the United States Of Peru
and Bolivia.
DURING a ratification meeting at
KY, one man was fatally shot
while leaning out of n window, another man
had an eye put out by ball from a Roman
candle, and another received the contents Of
a shot gun in his back.
The schooner Duval capsized on Lake
Michigan and all on board were drowned.
CONGRESSMAN SPARKS has been re-
nominated in the Eighteenth Illinois Dis
trict.
Hon. GoDLovE S. ORTIZ has been re-
nominated for Congress in the Ninth Indi-
ana District.
Hon. JOHN A. ANDERSON has been
for Congress from the First
Kansas District.
THE Denver and South Park Railroad
Is completed to Leadville, $50 miles from
Denver.
THE population of Chicago, officially
stated, is 503,501
JUDGE T. NJ. RICE, of Cooper Coun-
", is the Greenback candidate for Congress
in the Seventh Missouri District. Judge Rice
IS of Republican proclivities.
THE Greenbackers of the Fourteenth
Illinois District have nominated J. R. Scott
,or Congress, vice Col. Wolfe, declined.
GEN. JAMES r. CHALMERS, represent
ng the Sixth Mississippi District in Con-
yress, has been renominated.
THE Department of Agriculture has
reports from nearly 1000 correspondents in
Guiding almost every county in the wheat
growing States, which give an approximate
estimate of the crop of 1880. These re-
urns give more favorable aspect to
he crop than anticipated in informa
lion from other sources. The destruction
If wheat by the army-worm has not
been general nor extensive, the depreciation
1eing local in character, and confined almost
to portions of New York and
The worm made its appear
lnce in some of the Western States, but not
o an extent sufficient to materially reduc-
he general crop results. In some local
ties the early harvest saves crops
RON, most sariorrs
ause of short yield has been
he drought which has prevailed In the
grain-growing areas where the
,ulk of this staple is grown. In Dakota,
Wisconsin and Michigan later
eports show great improvement and larger
'ield than was expected. In Illinois there
will be approximately an average crop. In
Kansas and Iowa the yield will also be fair.
THE July synopsis of the cotton crop
eport presents avery favorable average con-
Iition Of the crop i'm nearly every section of
he South. In certain portions there has
,een slight damage from drought, caterpillar
nd rust, but not sufficient to reduce the
General average below the crop of last year.
The present condition of the crop is report
d fully equal to that reported at this time
asst year
A DISPATCH has been received by the |
lillian legation at Washington, announcing
he arrival of the CHILEAN fleet off Callao, and
heir determination to invest Lima il the
erms of peace proposed by Chill are not ac-
epted by the Peruvisn Government.
A CONVENTION of Irish Republicans
vas held in Indianapolis on the 18th, $50 |
delegates from various States being present. |
Ifter two days session an address was
dopted, declaring among other things that |