American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-08-27


killed two of them and seriously injured tn
third.
Two men were instantly killed AM
two others badly mangled by a nitro -glycer
inc explosion at mining camp Is miles from
Gunnison, Colorado.
JAMES NUTTER, young farmer re
siding near Rushville, Ind, choked TO dealt
from a wheat-beard lodging in his throat.
The Apaches are reported to hav,
swooped down upon a small Mexican vii
lage, eighteen miles from Rio Purca,
point on the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad, ant
murdered twenty-scven out Of twcnty-nint
Inhabitants. The two Mexicans who mad,
good their escape were nearly exhausted
when they reached the railroad, and had
their horses shot from under them before
getting out Of reach Of the Indians.
INFORMATION has been received of q
desperate duel fought in the Indian Nation
between L. o. Carpenter, a Choctaw chief
and Col. Amos Price, prominent citizen Of
the Creek Nation. Price was killed and Car
penter fatally wounded. Considerable feel
ing exists over the affair, as both were
among the most prominent men in the Ma
ton.
Mrs. MORRIS EPLY, wife of farmer
near South Bend, Ind, aged %, was bitten
on the ankle by a rattlesnake while gather
ing corn. She received prompt medical at
tendence, Notwithstanding which she only
survived a few hours.
JOHN JENKINS, aged 60, a wealthy
farmer residing near Mount Vernon, o., was
set upon by an Infatuated bull which he was
leading to water, and SO horribly gored that
he lived but a few moments.
| WILLIAM BROOKS, a well-to-do farm
or residing near Shelby, N. c., attempted to
| shoot his wife, with whom he had quarrcled,
and not succeeding he went and hanged
himself.
Two Americans were assassinated
| were arrested on suspicion Of being their
murderers, but were shot dead while at
tempting to escape.
AT Pittsburgh, on the 18th, while a
force of men were engaged demolishing an
old brewery, the floor of the third story gave
way, burying four men in the debris, and
killing John Finney instantly. Others were
seriously but not fatally injured.
AN Omaha servant girl lighted the fire
with kerosene. Result, house burned down
and girl frightfully injured.
MORRIS FREIBERG, of the dry-goods
firm Of Kohn & Freibcrg, Memphis, at
tempted to rescue young Kohn, son of his
partner, who got into deep water while the
two were bathing in the river. The drown
ing lad clutched his would-be rescuer about
the neck with a death like grasp, and both
went down TO a watery grave.
CHARLES STOCKLEY was hanged at
Batavia, N. Y, on the 18th, for the murder
OF John Welker in April last.
A HORRIBLE crime was committed
recently near Dover, in Terrell County, Ga.
A negro named Frank Hudson murdered an
old farmer named David Lee, his wife, and
white servant-girl, and frighifully wound
ed another servant, q colorcd woman. He
then robbed the house of $500 and made his
escape, but a posse of armed men were in
pursuit.
A WHITE woman named Julia DAILY
was burned to death at vicksburg, Miss,
on the 18th, from a coal-oil lamp explosion.
A Fort SMITH special says parties
from Fort Sill, 1. T., say great excitement
prevails in that section consequent on the
recent discovery Of gold deposits in the
Wichita Mountains, ten miles west Of that
place. A number of persons have already
located claims. The search for gold is made
by soldiers as well as citizens in that section.
MISCELLANEOUS.
THE two houses of Parliament have
come to an agreement regarding the Irish
land bill, and its passage is now assured.
The Peers will, however, formally record
their protest against the bill as unjust to the
landlords.
A PROMINENT physician of Cincin-
natl reports twenty well -defined cases of
nhafI f1.o IN, ,,
glish colonists at Rugby, Tennessee. A
corps of physicians and nurses have been dis
patched to the afflicted settlement. Bad
drinking water was the chief cause of the
epidemic.
THE Orangemen of Liverpool and vi
cinity have enlisted 400 laborers to reap and
harvest the crops In "boycotted districts
of Ireland.
A BERLIN dispatch says it is feared
Breslau will shortly be declared in a state Of
siege, because of the prevalence of social ag-
itation there.
ADvICEs have been received at the
Interior Department from Indian Agent
Hunt, at Anardado Qndian Territory, an
the discovery of rich and extensive
silver finds near Fort Sill, within the limits
of the Kiowa, Comanche and Wichita In
forms the Department that Illegal attempts
are being made by white men to locate min
ersl claims in these regions. The matter has
been referred to the Secretary of the Interior
by the Commissioner Of Indian Affairs, with |
a request that troops be furnished to protect |
Indian interests in the newly discovered |
fields from intruders.
The Georgia Senate has passed a bill |
nrobibitin0 Mormon DroseIytino in that |
State, the penalty being imprisonment in the |
Peni entiary.
FRANK NYE, the alleged chief of an
extensive gang of horse-thieves, and said |
TO be implicated in various extensive swim
dies in various parts of the country, has been
captured at Indianapolis.
ARCHBISHOP CROKE strongly recon-
mcnds the people to give the Land bill fair
trial and accept IT as great boon and bless
ing.
A DELEGATION of nineteen Indian
chiefs from the Sioux, Bonca and Winneba-
60 tribes, called to W ashington by the Sec
rotary OF the Interior. held conference with
the Secretary and Commissioner OF Indian
Affairs at the Interior Department on the
18th. The conference was called with view
to settling some disputed questions Of bound
airy rights on their respective resarva-
lions, and also 10 determine the future loca-
ton Of the Poncas who remain upon the old
The Sioux voluntarily offered
to ccde p, 600 acres of land to the Poucas
without any remuneration, and the latter
accepted the offer in the friendly spirit with
which it was made. The land is in North
ern Nebraska, near the Niobrara River, and
each Ponca family will receive $40 acres.
The Omahas and Winnebaooes eynresscd J