American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-09-03
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The shops of the Galveston, Harris
burg e San Antonio Railroad at Harrisburg,
Texas, were burned on the sd. together
with the tools, machinery, three locomotives
and one passenger car. Total loss, S2J0.G00 /;
insured. The fire is supposed to have orig
mated from spontaneous combustion.
THE citizens of Alaska have held a
convention at Harrisburg and addressed n
memorial to Congress asking for n Terri
torial Government
! A. j. WHITToN, Government In
! spector of Weights and Measures at Mon
treal, Canada. is a defaulter to a large
amount and has fed to the States.
THE reputable citizens of Benson,
Arizona, give notice that they have driven
from the town gang of confidence men
| who have long infested the place, to the dis
comfture and pecuniary loss of many East
ern tourists.
ARKANSAS CITY, Ark, suffered the
destruction of nearly the entire business
portion of the town by fire, on the morning
! of the oath. The Journal office was entirely
consumed. The total loss foots up about
100000, with but little insurance. a coal
oil lamp explosion was the cause of the con-
migration.
THROUGH the assistance of the United
States Ministers to Chill and the Argentine
Republic, the boundary between those coun-
tries has been fixed.
The Attorney General has given de-
cision in favor of Gen. Hazen as against Gen.
| Sherman, conceding to officers of the Signal
Corps army status under the law.
A LETTER from Bangkok, Siam, says
Asiatic cholera is raging. 1t is variously
estimated that from 100 TO 800 natives are
dying daily. Very few foreigners have died,
but several have fed to Singapore and Hong
Kong.
A SERIOUS riot occurred at Rathkeale,
County Limerick, Ireland, owing to the re-
| port that the police were about to remove
some cattle seized for rent. mob assem-
crowd several times.
TRAIN-wRECKERS in Massachusetts
made three unsuccessful efforts on the Old
Colony Road, near Bridgewater.
THE proclamation issued some time
since by the Indian Bureau, ordering all
white settlers to vacate the lands of the In
dian Nation who have not paid their tax and
obtained permit from the Indian authori-
tics, is now being enforced. Lieut.. Shoema-
ker, with n company OF United States SOL
under Gov. McCurtain, have been stationed
on the border of the Territory, near Fort
Smith, for the purpose Of ejectins all settlers
who are not disposed to go voluntarily. Many
Of the settlers claim to be unable to pay the
tax, and their forcible dispossession is said
to work a great hardship, leaving them and
their families homeless.
THE National Board of Health has
ivs ,rto fipa off 70 No
ly rigid in their examination of vessels COM
ing from yellow fever ports.
GOVERNOR CoLQUITr, of Georgia,
has been elected President Of the Interna-
tional Cotton Exposition in place of Senator
Brown, resigned on account of illness in his
family.
A BUS containing q load of passen-
gers from the W abash Railroad, while going
from the depot to the village of Lexington,
Mo-, about O'Clock on the evening of the
18th, was stopped by party of four or
five masked and armed men, and all the
passengers robbed Of their money and other
valuables. The distance from the depot TO
Lexington is about four miles, through n
comparatively open country. The men evil
IDENTITY were well acquainted with the
ground, and conducted the robbery in
manner that would indicate that they were
experts In the business. Immediately after
the deed they left in the direction of the
railroad. As soon as the passengers arrived
at the town and acquainted the citizens with
the facts, a number started in pursuit, de-
termined If possible to capture the out
laws.
JOHN c. HATELY's packing-house,
Chicago, was destroyed by fire on the Goth.
Loss, 500, 1000.
A RICH find of silver about ten miles
from Deadwood was followed in forty eight
hours by the creation of West Virginia City,
the election Of Recorder, the settlement of
1000 persons, and the opening Of nine sa-
looms and two faro-banks On the fourth
day n daily newspaper appeared.