American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-07-09
CRI,1Es AND CAsuAITIEs.

sui at Barbados, vice W. Ii. HALLS, sus-
pended.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
AT Kingston, Madison County, Ark,
JEFF. Carroll, son of the Mayor of Eureka
Springs, was shot and killed by Frank Jen-
kins. A companion Of Carroll's, named
Garrett, was wounded in the hand, render
ing amputation necessary. The shooting
grew out of an old quarrel. jenkins fed.
In Bedford County, Tenn, the wife
OF Rev. Ephraim Anthony, formerly Luth-
eran ministe accidentally shot herself while
cunning for u hawk. Death was instant
aneOus.
EUGENE GUYN, a wealthy young
West yirginian, was fatally stabbed on an
Ohio River steamboat by mulatto waiter
named Thomas Graves, with whom he had
an alteration about trivial matter. Guyn
first struck Graves blow with his fist, when
| the negro retaliated.
THE children of Godfrey Baugh, of
Stanford, Ky., during the absence Of their
parents at church took down the old rifle,
and Julia, aged IA, was shot through the
head by her brother Ben,' aged II, causing
| instant death. They "didn't know it was
! loaded"
SOME farmers of Searcy County, Ark,
the other day got into difficulty with herd
ers who have brought cattle from Missouri
and elsewhere to feed upon the range a
pitched battle took place, in which George
Youngblood, herder, was fatally wounded,
and others received slighter wounds. The
stockmen held the ground at the close Of the
| fight.
w. E. LEE, a wealthy planter of
Sewer County, Ark, took down his rifle,
and thinking it empty, placed his foot on the
| hammer to blow through the barrel, when
| it was discharged, the contents entering his
| head and scattering his brains in all direc-
lions. He leaves wife and five children.
A MYSTERIOUS railway murder has
occurred in England. A retired business
man, named f. j. Gould, while returning
to Brighton from London, where he had been
to collect dividends, was killed and his body
thrown out of the compartment Of railway
carriage. 1t was found in Balcombe Tunnel,
the throat Gu and stabbed in various places.
A fellow passenger of the murdered man,
one Henry Mapleton, alias Lefray, was found
in the carriage when it arrived at its destina-
COMPOUNDED and bleeding. He reportedthat
shortly after passing Croydon several shots
were fired by some one in the carriage and
he was struck and stunned. Several bullets
were found imbedded in the woodwork of
the carriage. Strangely enough he was per-
mitted to go at liberty after having his
wounds dressed, and subsequently, when
the officers went to his house to arrest him,
he had fed. Lefray is said to be n newspa-
per reporter, and claims the authorship of
several successful minor plays and operas.
He is believed to have committed the muir
der.
A FAMILY feud in Morgan County,
KY, led to the recent killing of William
Greer by ''Doc" Cockerill. This murder was
the sequel of the story Of five murders, one
to avenge the other. Cockerill had son who
killed three persons and was himself killed by
Greer six months ago. Since then Cockerill
and all the women Of the family have been
going armed for Greer, who never went out
of his yard till the fatal day, when he VEN
tured in the field and was shot dead while at
work.
FIVE Hungarian miners lost their
lives in Luzerne County, Pa, 1t Is believed,
by eating poisoned sausage.
H. c. CADMUs, Postmaster at South
Amboy, n. j., became short in his official
accounts, and not having the nerve to meet
the Government officer sent to examine his
books, he shot himself fatally.
The Phaeton, q local steam packet on
above MaysviIle, KY, on the 2sth, blowing
the boat 10 atoms. The force of the explo
sion was backward, in the direction of the
ladies' cabin, which fortunately was unoc-
cupied, but every person on that part of the
boat was either killed or injured. Four
lives are known to have been lost, the en-
gineer, Cash Naylor, being of the number.
THE convicted murderers of the late
Abdul Aziz, nine in number, have been sem
fenced to death. They are Midhat Pasha,
Mahmoud Pasha, Nown Pasha, Ali Bey,
Nedjib Bey, Fahri Bey, Hadji Mehmer,
Mustapha the Wrestler, and Mustapha the |
Gardener. Izzet Pasha and Zida Pasha,
implicated in the murder, have each been
sentenced to ten years. penal servitude.
IT is reported at Piedras Negras that
several American railroad engineers were |
killed in the interior of Mexico, in conse-
quence Of u dispute regarding the right of
way, but no particulars have yet been OBJ
tanned.
DICK WOOD, a noted desperate of
Western Texas, has been hanged by the Wig
ilantes.
THOMAS SMALrY and VIM. Pierson,
aged eight and ten years, have been arrested |
in Jersey City, N. j., for iendish cruelty to
Thomas Lawson, aged six, whom they drag
ged into an clubhouse, stripped, and abused
in various ways, including the cutting of
his chest and back with a pocket-knife.
The perpetrators say they only did it for fun.
THE body of Martin Fennucon, an
aged citizen of Linesville, Pa, was found
hanging to a fence, dead. He disappeared
a few days ago, and the supposition is that
he became entangled in the fence and was
too feeble to eXtricate himself.
CAPT. STANLEY, of the bark Marga-
ret, reports that June II he picked up in an
open boat the captain and three men of the
French fishing schooner Emile Ornestine,
of st. Petersburgh, run into the previous
day by the bark Artistic, of Liverpool, and
six of he crew were drowned.
A. d. BARBER, E. r. Phelps and G.
A. Edwards have been indicted by the Grand
Jury at Albany, N. Y, for bribing or fur
nishing money for the purpose of bribing
State officers.
A YACHT was capsized off Bridgeport,
Ct, on the 2sth, by phenomenal squaIl
which lifted it completely out OF water, and
five persons were drowned. A survivor de-
scribes the battle of the elements as simply
appalling. !
The storm of the goth was wide
spread and severe. At Cherokee. Iowa, the {
residence of Mr.. Stevens was completely de- !
two children being instantly I
killed and his wife receiving fatal injuries
An old lady named Oberch, of the same
place, also was killed, her house being over
At Keller Station, Ind, train OF l