American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-04-23
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE Governor of Dakota, the Mayor
of Yankton, and other leading citizens hav'
| issued an appeal for aid for the sufferers b.
the recent inundation.
A STRANGE and terrible disease ha:
broken out among the Cinnamon employed
-on the Canada Pacific Railway works in Brit
| fish Columbia, more than 100 of them hayin:
died in day or two.
THE Citizens Bank of Atlanta, Ga.
State Institution, closed its doors on thu
18th. 1t has large line of deposits and car
ries about 500, 900 Of State funds. The Off
GERS of the bank are charged with having
used the funds for outside speculations.
The Missouri overflow has caused
great destruction on the low lands between
st. Joseph and Kansas City.
+ "A COMPANY has been organized at In.
dianapolis to build an AIRLINE railroad from
that city to Logansport, connecting with the
Panhandle for Chicago.
A NEGRO woman was lynched at Mar.
tin's'Dspot, S. c., for attempted arson. =.
CHARLES MORMON, a Leadville stage
driven, was Iynched at Durango, Colo, for
killing Polk Prindlc, an ~inoffensive citizen.
A DESTRUCTIVE cyclone passed over
the country north of fernando, Miss, on
the 18th, -demolishing everything in its path.
DR.. Undertakes house was blown down
and he and his daughter were seriously in.
jured. A colored woman on Mr.. Memsone's
place was killed, also a child on the Banks
place, md Mr.. Glover and his wife were
both injured JohastoaLS Co.'S and Lack
lands stores were destroyed and their con-
tentsrtrewn for miles along the path Of the
hurricane. Ben. Harwell was Killed in his
own house, ant. Deputy Sheriff Skies john
ston was blown off his horse and had both
legs broken. - - I%5N ib:tG4. Hf
ABEL WILSON, a wealthy bachelor,
Of North Andover, Mass, was awakened by
thu noise of footsteps in the house -ep the
morning Of the 18th. He< remained wake
until about O'Clock, when the door of his
chamber was burst in and two men rushed
into the room. He seized his rifle, which
was standing near the bed, and fired, hitting
the foremost burglar. Both fled down the
stairs after the shooting and Mr.. Wilson arose
from his bed. He found finger marks in
blood on the plasterinS at the west window,
and about 40 feet from the house found the
body Of young man behind stone wall.
1t proved to be that Of Arthur Foster, stu
dent of theology at Phillips Academy. He
had been shot in the left arm, the ball pass
ing into his chest and through his heart. A
few minutes afterwards Luther Foster, twin
brother of the killed burglar, appeared on
the scene, and confessed that he and Arthur
had conspired to burglarize the house. He
said his brother fell dead after jumping from
the window.
STocKTON's gang of desperadoes are
still depredating in Arriba County, N. NJ,
and committing murder. Adjutant- General
Frost reports from there that he can not or
ganize his militia to fight the desperate gang,
being unable to obtain transportation from
here for his arms and other equipments,
L. II. PHILLIPS, q farmer of Liberty
Township, Warren County, Iowa, horribly
maltreated his wife, and drove her from the
house. Twelve of the neighbors subsequent
ly armed themselves and went to Phillips
house, for the purpose, as alleged, of protect
ing his wife, who had meanwhile returned,
to her home. A melee occurred, in which
Phillips was shot dead. The parties en-
gagged in the affair have been put under ar
rest and held for the Grand Jury to deter
mine their responsibility.
THE employees of the Consolidated
Street-car Company of Cincinnati struck on
the 18th for an advance in wages, causing a
general stoppage AZ street-car traffic on all
the lines controlled by the company, which
some thirteen different routes,
covering all the principal thoroughfares in
the city. The Covington and New
port employees also voted TO take
hand in the strike. The rate of
wages heretofore paid has been from $1.50 to
81. rs, employees being required to work fif-
teen hours per day, not excepting Sunday.
The advanced rate demanded is $500 and
p. % per day. The company express a de-
.ermin alton not to accede to the demandsof
he strikers, and say they ~iRhave - Hi
,Llty in supplying their places at the old
-ate Of wages.
JAMES DALEY, proprietor of the Con-
aaught UreIanD Telegraph, tas been ar
.ested under the Coercion act. The arrest
,aused considerable excitement.
Rev. W.MoRLEY PUNsHoN, the dis
English preacher and author, is
lead.
:. PkKNELL, addressing Land League
conference at Dublin, characterized many
# the provisions: Of the. Iand bill as fllusory,
the provisions for securing free
ale. -Thssbfll, he said, wsaad. not benefit
epants n arrears. Dilions saida1he bill, il
,asscd, would destroy the power of the
and League, and warned the tenant farm
rs against being led to accept 1t. A reso-
ution passed declaring the bill Inadequate.
? CADET BUCK, of Texas, who shot
ohm G. ThompsoA, Jr., of Ohio, a student |
for West Point Academy, has
een tried and acquitted.
A POST-MORTEM examination held on /
he body of Hattie DEUEL., the Iowa City fast
ng girl, showed that there was not a single |
rop of blood IN her body and that her |
tomach was entirely void Of substance.. The |
ody weighed forty five pounds.
AT GQffstown, N. H., an octogenarian
AIMED Franklin Aiken was overcome by
moke and excitement in trying to save
is homestead from fire, and was burned to
cath.
AT Red Oak, Iowa, on the 18th, a
Dung lady named Sadie Spencer was struck
y locomotive and literaEytorn topieces.
AT DeGraff, o., on the 18th, Jonathan
hatcher and Jacob Rowley quarreled about
ome house rent. and Thatcher was stabbed
4 the neck and abdomen. The wounds are
evere but not fatal. Thatcher was formerly
dItor of the DeGraff Banner.
THREE large petards thrown into
ouses in Madrid, Spain, caused considerable
amage to property. No one hurt.
ELMoRE T. COBB, son of one of the
7ealthiest men of Cleveland, o., blew his
rains out on the 18th.
A DELEGATION of Virginia Republi-
ans, headed by Congressman Jorgensen,
allied on the President on the 18th and beg.
ed him not to recognize Malone nor to
any Republican coalition with
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