American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-09-10
VOLUME XXXI.

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| \ DISPATCH from Salem, H., reports
a terrible accident in Fayette County, ives
of Patoka, caused by the explosion of
steam boiler attached to a separator. 81,
men and one woman We're killed.
AT West Gloucester, Mass, James L
Jeffs was shot and probably instantly killed
by his wife. who had armed herself with
revolver, a she claims, TO protect hersel
from her husband. who attempted to Gu
her thoat with knife. The woman is un-
der arrest.
HENRY LAWSON, colored, was hanged
ut Chattanooga, Tenn, on the ID. His Of
Tense was an outrageous assault upon 4
white woman.
FRANK JONES and Henry KcKibbins
met with a terrible death while cleaning q
well on the farm OF Widow McKibbins, neal
Zaliski, o. Mckibbins went down into the
well and was overcome by damps. Jones
had the courage to 20 down 10 save his
friend, but he had scarcely reached the bot
tom before he, too, was stricken down.
THE residence of Mr. Edward Cherry
at Charleston, 5. c., was burglarized the
other day by negroes, who commenced an
infamous outrage on Miss Cherry. Her
brother Drained one of the brutes with an
AK.
AT Chicago, on the night of the I'd,
John c. Neal, temporarily lodging at house
on Clark Street, suddenly jumped out of bed
with a wild yell and shot David Fagin, a
room mate, in the head. Rushing down.
stairs he fired a shot into VIM. Springcord.
He then jumped out of a window and ran
down Clark Street, shooting negro who at
tempted to stop him. After swapping his
revolver at several other persons the lunatic
was captured by policeman and subdued
by clubbing. The three wounded men
were all seriously injured.
A PARTY of men went to the house of
w. A. Hardy, SAYS a dispatch from Lake
City, Fla, to release Miss Keen, held
for child-murder. Hardy fired on the crowd.
They returned the fire, shooting Hardy
through the breast, his child through the
skull, and wounding colored man. The
Sheriff called out the light infantry to guard
the prisoner. The suspected parties were
arrested.
THE Downing, Love and Still FAM
hies, in the Cherokee Nation, assembled at
n wedding recently, at which an old feud
was revived, and the head of each family
we're slaughtered and several others injured.
MISCELLANEOUS.
A DISASTROUS storm occurred along
the Southern Atlantic coast on Saturday the
9th ult. Its most severe effects were felt
at Savannah, where the gale reached a ve-
locity of 10 miles an hour about midnight, ut
which hour the Signal-service Office was I'M
rooted and all the instruments swept away.
Hundreds Of buildings in the city were par
TALLY or wholly demolished or unroofed;
the parks were shorn of some Of their finest
trees and otherwise injured; in the ceme-
teries monuments were broken down. There
is not in the whole city of Savannah a street
or square unscarred by the frightful tenn
pest. So blockaded were the streets with
huge trees, great piles of tin-roofing and
bricks, that vehicles could not pass, and
even pedestrians found trouble in making
their way along the sidewalks. There
was no loss Of life in the city, but
out on the plantations along the river
and on adjacent islands the killed are num-
bered blythe score. At Tybee Island the
storm ragged with frightful force. The
house Of Mr.. Henry Solomon, on the ocean
front, which was supposed to be one of the
most substantially built houses on the ISL
and, was blown down and the inmates bur-
led in the ruins, which almost immedi-
ateF burst into flames. The wife and
daughter of Mr.. Joseph Wolf and Mrs.
VOLTS young brother, Joshua Falks, were
taken dead from the ruins. They sought
refuge at the Solomon mansion when the
storm came up as affording greater security
han their own house, which was near by.
Whole families of colored people were
drowned. The injury to the wharves and
shipping is immense, and the total damage
caused by the storm is too great for any re-
liable estimate.
ADoLPH j. SCHADE, the defaulting
Teller of the Third National Bank Of Pitts
,urgh, has been arrested in Chicago. The
100. and he fed from Pittsburgh upon the
discovery Of his crime in January last.
FELIX, Chief of the Union Financiere
Bank at Paris, has suddenly disappeared,
ogether with the entire cash capital of the
concern, estimated at $500, 900.
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, has been visit
ID by a most terrific thunder storm. Mrs
snyder, farmers's wife, was killed while
tanding in her door. A dozen houses and
,arns were struck and fired.
The investigation into the death of
Jennie Cramer, whose dead body was found
ecently on the beach near New Haven,
Jonn., strongly duplicates the Malley boys.
the Malley family have testified
hat James Malley was at home on the night
II the supposed murder, other witnesses
wear positively to having seen him on that
light in company with the unfortunate girl.
A WARRANT for the re-arrest of ex-
secretary Stuart, of the Brooklyn IN. W
Board of Education, has been issued. He
) now charged with the embezzlement of
IO7, 800.
THE ship Sandusky, from Pensacola,
Ia, for Liverpool, was completely broken |
Up in the recent gale off the coast. Two sea-
men and the cook were swept away, and the |
emainder of the crew were rescued from |
he wreck after seventy eight hours suf- |
ering from hunger and thirst. The schooner |
.ucic Wheatley, from. Jacksonville, for Bal
more, also foundered, the crew being saved |
rom starvation by passing steamer.
THERE has been another earthquake |
n the Island Of Chic, said to be more vio-
ent than that of last April. The inhabitants
re in despair.
MRS. HANNAH Cox, 105 years old on
une 20 last, said to be the Oldest person in
Jew England, died at Holderness, N. H.,
n the 18th ult. She was born at Preston,
,oDn. She removed to Holderness when 4
hid, and has always lived there since. At
, years OF age she was married to Capt.
robert Cox. She was the mother of seven
hildren.
ADvIcEs from Cape Town say the
Jnion mail steamer Teuton, with 200 souls
N board, was wrecked near Quoin Point
nd only twenty seven persons saved.