American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-07-30

| Deputy sheriff Hndman at Lin
| com; Morris Bernstein and James
Roberts at Mescalero; Beckurts, Crawford,
Morton and Baker. four of Chisholm's herd
crs: John McCloskcy, one OF BiIly's own
men, for characterization: James Grant and
John Garrish at Fort Sumner; and finally
two Of his guards when he escaped from Jail
on April - last, where he was awaiting his
death sentences. The Territory will pay
Sheriff Garrett a~reward of 5000, and the
citizens will endeayor to raise him $500
more.
HENRY SMITH was hanged at Corinth,
Miss. on The 18th. for the murder of accom-
rade named Burt, in April, 1850. Smith
made a full confession of his crime a few
| days prior to his execution, which, by his
dfrcctfon, was printed and sold, the proceeds
| to be given to his little boys, aged five and
nine.
THIRrY-rwo deaths had occurred up
| to the Goth as the result of the recent lorna
do at New Ulm, Mimi, and vicinity. Great
destitution exists, which is being relieved by
contributions. from nearly all parts of the
country. -
T. L. BRAYToN, United States Deputy
Collector of Internal Revenue, was muir
dered by Illicit dstillcrs in Pickcns County,
JOHN EBERLY committed suicide on
his wife's grave at Marion, o.
AN express train on the Delaware &
Hudson Railway struck a rock, near Dres-
den, y. ", on the 21st, three cars leaving
the track. Charles Csrswell, engineersSy WAS
killed, and the fireman and two passengers
were injured.
A ROCK slide in the Washington quar-
C1.es. NA1 . H.
death of VIM. Coffin and Charles Erthnan.
Mrs. MERKs and Miss Blitz were
killed by runaway horses in Jersey City, Nj.
A YACHT containing six young men
belonging to South Boston, Mass, capsized
and all were drowned.
THE open cut of the Caledonia mine,
at TerravilleSDET. ,Ecayed IN on the Goth,
burying seveassainers..s.sWm m. Gill; Daniel
Cameron and Andrew Latson were taken out
alive. Joha Costello, james Roach, Pat
Hawkins and l.. Ii. Hamilton are supposed
to be killed.
AT Arkansas city, Axiom 1e 21st,
Robert Costello settled quarrel with a
neighbor named Gptherings by shooting him
while he was ploA ding al field, thobalE pass
ing through his victim and killing a horse
two rods distant. Costello was held TO await
the result of the wound.
AT Fall River, Mass, Andrew john
son, John Howard and Joseph Yates, all boys,
were drowned while bathing. An 11-year-
old son of NJ. III. Gushing met the same fate
ut Middleboro.
ANTONITO, Colo, has been infested
for several months with gang Of robbers,
who have held up and robbed all the stran-
gers coming into town. The gang has been
,. Ia,
George C. O'Connor, who, in his capacity of
Justice OF the Peace, shielded tisrm and had
citizens arrested and fined without the least
provocation. On the 22d o'Connor rode
through town on horseback, with a VIM
chester rifle and two revolvers, threatening
everybody. Allegiance Committee caught
him in his saloon and hung him in an old
slaughtcr-house.
LATER details Of the capture of Sfax
say 100 French were killed or wounded. A
portion Of the town Is held by the Arabs,
who fire from the houses and prefer death to
yielding.
The Perryville (Ark.) vendetta has
broken out afresh, the latest victim being
Mr.. Mathews, editor of the PerryvilIe Times,
who was shot while standing in front of his
Office on the evening of the 2lst, sixteen
buckshot entering his side. 1913
JOHN WILSON, while in state of
story window of a hotel in Dallas, Texas,
and sustained fatal injuries.
MISCELLANEOUS.
THE monument to the Confederate
dead at Culpeper, Va, was untsfled. on
the 2lst in the presence Of several thoHsand
people, with appropriate cercmodex
Tue Secretary of the Treasury has
awarded the gold life-saving medal to the
famous Ida Lewis, now Mrs. Ida Lewis
Wilson, in recognhjb1sof her services in
rescuing number OF persons from drown
ing since the passage of the act authorizing
such awards.
THERE was general jail delivery at
Ozark, Ark, the other night, by which four
prisoners on trial, for murder, with every
prospect Of conviction, were three. A jail
guard is said TO have opened the door.
THOMAS DEWITT and Legfande En-
sign have been arrested III Philadelphia for
completely in Star-route' postal frauds.
Other arrests are to Follow u.
The Socialistio Congress, which twas
prohibited Mt Zurich, assembled ut London
on the 18th. Louise, Michel, thef apnestied
French Communist, Prince Krapetkine. the
Russian Nihilist, and other prominent lead
ers were In attendance. The sessions of the
Congress were strictly secret, but public
meetings were also held, at which red flags
were freely displayed and the1nost incendf-
aryspeeches made. Mrs. L. Lecompte, said
to be a delegate from America, was one of
ths .principal speakers. y, -. ...I.., e
The Navalos are so greatly dissatis-
fed with their Agent, Galen Eastman, that
they have risen in open mutiny, and all the
Agency employees have fed from Fort De-
fiance to Fort Winsate for protection The
indians want Col. Edward Hatch reinstated
as Agent.
THE National Educational Association
met at Atlanta, Ga, on the 10Th. The ad-
dress of welcome was delivered by Governor
Colquitt and the inaugural address by the
President Of the Association, J. FL. Smart, of
Indiana. Two hundred delegates were
present, representing thirty States.
THE town of Wallace, Wis, sixteen
miles north of Menominee, has been de-
stroyed by fire. 1t comprised a saw-mill
and twenty-fiv dwelling-houses.
NUMBERS of farm laborers in County
Cork, ireland, have struck for higher wages,
and are marching through the county, fore.
ing others to join in the strike.
SYRACUSE, N. Y, was damaged by fire
on the 18th to the extent of half a million
dollars. Weiting Opera house, the finest IN
the State, was destroyed in two hours.
Half a dozen persons were more or less in
1ured by the falling walls and debris. 1t is
feared one or two persisted in the burned
buildings.
: LIEUTENANT RAY, of the United States
cd no Co,