American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-06-11
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE first annual meeting of tn
League of American Wheelmen took plac
in Boston on the 30th, and was an event of
most newell character. Many clubs from dif
ferent cities We're represented in the parade
m which there were about 500 bicycles i
line. The procession was witnessed by i'm
1 mense crowds.
THE town of Taylor, in Red Rive
County, Texas, thirty miles north Of Aus
tin, was visited on the night Q
the 30th by q terrific hail and wind
storm. The Catholic, Methodist and Pres
byterian churches were moved from thei
foundations and badly damaged. Odd Eel
lows Hall was blown over an,
demolished. Some thirty or forty building
were damaged, but very few persons wer
| injured, and only one, a young man, seri
! ously The track of the storm was abou
mile wide, and crops within the limi
were totally destroyed and many fine sheer
were killed.
| CAPT. PAUL BoYroN has started tc
swim down the Mississippi from st. Paul te
St. Louis.
COMMODORE WILLIAM j. KOUNTz, Of
Pittsburgh, was recently arrested at st.
Louis on an Indictment for criminal libel.
| His alleged offense Is the publication of cir
culars rejecting on the characters OF the
owners Of the Anchor Line of steamers.
The Illinois General Assembly ad-
journed sine die on the 30th.
THE Barlow & Sanderson Stage was
recently robbed by four unmasked highway
men near Poncho Springs, Colo, all the pas
sengers being compelled to hand over their
money, watches and other valuables. On
FL .frxl,f ton
sion Of a store at Poncho Springs. They
compelled everybody present to hold up
their hands and ordered the proprietor to
turn over the contents of the safe, amount
ing to about $50. They then departed. The
leader of the band was recognized as Charles
Allison, former Deputy Sheriff of ConeJos
County.
THE National Woman's Suffrage Con-
vention met at Providence, r. l., on the
Goth. Many leading advocates were present.
Addresses were made by the President, Mrs.
Elizabeth A. Me{riweather, Of Memphis, and
others.
JOHN F. FITZPATRICK and E. T.
Mountain Railway Company, the former MS
express messenger and the latter as brake
man, are under arrest for having in their
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to Gen. Grant and supposed to have been
stolen from his trunks, which were broken
open while the General was EN- route to Mex
leo about April 1st. The two men got on a
spree and indiscreetly displayed the glitter
ing badges attached to their lapels, which
led to their arrest by detectives employed
by the Railway Company. 1t is not known
that Gen. Grant had ever discovered his
loss.
A DARING and successful robbery oc-
CURED at Nortonvile, a small railway sta
tion between Topeka and Atchison, in JEFF
ferson County, Kans., on the night OF the
3Oth. About 10 O'Clock, as C. C. Mccarthy,
Postmaster and dealer in general merchant
disc, was preparing to close up his store,
three masked men entered the establish
ment, and covering Mr.. Mccarthy and his
clerk with their revolrers helped them
selves to the money in the safe and on the
counter, where Mr.. Mccarthy had just
laid the days funds, securing in
all about 81 zoe, all Of which, with the ex-
ccption Of about 500 United States money,
belonged to the firm of Messrs. Mccarthy &
Layson. The work was quickly and quietly
done by two Of the men, the third standing
guard at the door Of the store. Mrs. Nc
earthly and two other ladies were present at
the time, but the fellow at the door pre-
vented their escape or the giving of the
alarm, and when they had completed their
work they quietly walked of, and it is be-
lieved took the train South. The telegraph
was put in requisition 10 effect their capture,
but the rascals made good their escape.
THE American horse Iroquois, owned
by Mr.. Lorillard, won the great Derby race
Of fbo1 Of ba fava
lite, came in second. This is the first time
the Derby was ever won by an American.
E. L. STIcKNEY, q mining man, en-
tered a Denver (Colo.) boarding house
while the inmates were at table and opened
fire on Mr.. T. Campan, real-estate agent.
Two shots struck Campan, causing instant
death, and another pierced Mrs. Deveraux
through the heart. The latter shot was ac-
cidcntal. The murderer is under arrest.
Campan's atten ions to Mrs. Stickney were
the cause Of the sanguinary attack.
JOHN COYLE, JR., of Marietta, Pa,
shot Eva Meyers, q servant girl in his ia
theirs family, for resisting his attentions, and
then attempted suicide.
AT Seguin, Texas, Miss Knight, II
years old, kindling fire with kerosene, was
burned to death by the explosion Of the can.
SOME forty persons were more or less
burned by explosions of gasoline during a
fire at Springfield, Mass.
A GAINESVILLE (Tex.) dispatch says:
John Thompson shot and killed Deputy
Sheriffs Charles and Sam Meredith and L.
Krilht, who attempted his arrest upon a
warrant for carrying concealed weapons.
Thompson escaped into the Territory.
Rrypcv Ape apforod tho eforo IF A TT
e. J. T. Major, at AulvIle, Mo-, on the
morning Of the LIST, and blew open the safe.
The explosion set fire to the store and the
flames communicated to adjoining build
ings, nine in all being destroyed.
Two men were killed and a number
Of others injured by a boiler explosion at
Pa.
CARELESS craftsmanship during a
shooting tournament at Denison, Texas, re-
suited in serious injuries to five little boys.
THE failure is announced of the Old
Pioneer Mail Company, A. Arnot, OF st.
Louis, Mo-, President.
The ring-leader of the anti-Jewish
riots at Kief has been sentenced to three and
n half years penal servitude and the loss of
his civil rights. His most active accomplices
have been sentenced to eighteen months,
and twelve others to short terms of inn
prisonment.
ADELBERTUs MILCHUZNEY, an ex-
Catholic priest of Chicago,
was found dead I'm his room on the I'd under
which strongly point to foul
play. His housekeepcr, n woman named
Julia Angeleske, went out on an GRAND about
noon, and upon her retdrn found him lying
iead covered with blood. and the room