American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-03-12
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| WILL LowREY, young man, son OF
| wealthy widow residing near Bloomington,
| ILL.,, was engaged i'll cleaning his revolver the
| other day, when his sister, abeautiful young
| lady of 20, passing near him, he playfully
pointed at her the supposed unloaded pistol
| and pulled the trigger. To his I'M
speakable horror the pistol was
| discharged, and his sister fell to the floor.
Examination showed that the bullet had en-
tered beside the spinal column about eight
inches below the shoulder, ranging upward.
Surgeons were at once sent for and they pro-
normced the wound fatal. The young man,
on learning the terrible result of his foolish
ness, declared he would kill himself, and was
only prevented from doing so by the inter-
ference of those near him.
The Chicago boiler-makers, ship
carpenters and caulkers are still holding out
for advanced wages.
Mrs. ELIZABETH PERCEIVED, pro-
prietress of the English Kitchen restaurant,
New Orleans, was shot and mortally wound
ed by her divorced husband, Richard Ste
vens, as the Mardi Gras procession was pass
ing her place of business.
THE International Cotton Exposition
of Atlanta organized with H. T. Kimball as
President and Senator Brown Chairman of
Executive COMMITTEE.
THE trial of the Sprague divorce suit
has begun at Providence, r. I.
MIR. MICHAEL BoMPIr, partner of the
firm Of E. z. Simon & Co., Shreveport, La,
was killed on the I'd, while sitting in his
store, by the falling of a wall of an adjoining
building which had been partially destroyed
by fire short time previously. The falling
bricks crushed in the roof Of the Simons
store, carried away the second floor, and the
whole mass fell upon Mr.. Bonpit as he was
sitting at his desk, burying him beneath tons
of debris. He was dead when extricated,
and was probably instantly killed.
CHICAGO has had another smallpox
scare, growing out Of the discovery of the
fact that for some time past five persons
have been down with the dread disease in
the building No. 210o Archer Avenue, oc-
cupied by Henry Pickart as beer saloon.
The matter was kept secret, as confessed by
Piekart, from fear Of injuring his business.
The disease has spread to the adjoining
house.
The boiler in Charles Horrence's
saw-mill, at Melville, Henry County, Ind,
exploded on the Sd, killing instantly L. n.
Martz, and injuring several others.
A FATAL gas explosion occurred at
O'Clock on the night Of the Sd i'm the Rocky
Mountain Coal and Iron Company's Coal
Mine No. 2, at Alma, Wyoming, three miles
from Evanston, by which fifty five lives will
probably be lost. At the time of the explo-
sion there were fifty Cinnamon and five white
men in the mine. From the time of the eX-
plosion till a. m. no relief could be af-
forded the doomed men, and the mine slope
was on fire at the time. An entrance was
finally effected and fifteen Cinnamon were
taken out alive, but all were badly wounded
and are likely to die. No white men were
saved. The explosion shook every house in
Evanston.
A TERRIBLE explosion occurred at the
Turret Powder Works, on the northern
shore Of the bay, opposite San Francisco, on
the 4th, by which two Chinese were killed,
five other Chinese badly wounded and two |
white workmen severely hurt. The build
ings were blown to atoms.
THE italian bark Aguo, bound from |
to New York, was wrecked off the |
western end Of Coney Island during severe |
gale on the 4th, and only one man out of q |
crew Of fifteen was saved.
PINK PRATT, colored, was hanged at |
Ga, on the 4th, for a criminal as
.ault upon q young white girl.