American citizen., 1881-04-02
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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cago was D, 752, 1870, the largest number eveI
| packed in any city in the world in any one
year.
AT Charleston, ILL.,, the other night,
q party OF masked men took out Myron Mar
tin, VIM. Sweeny (alias English Bill) and
Chas. Scott (alias Grasshopper), returned
convicts from Joliet, and hung and whipped
them till life was nearly extinct. They were
then warned to leave the town, under PEN
atty Of death. The three men are alleged TO
have been the leaders Of gang that during
several years past have committed numerous
crimes, such as burglary, arson, etc. Some
of their suspected coD<ederatcs were also
given notice that it would not be conducive
| to their bodily welfare to remain longer in
| the town.
A GENERAL strike of the Pittsburgh
IRON -molders is threatened unless wages
are advanced 10 per cent. before the LIST of
April.
MINISTER FOSTER has been informed
wishes him to retain his post at st. Peters
burg.
THE Boston reception and dinner to
Carl SchIrz took place on the 22d. He made
an address explaining and defending his con-
duct of Indian affairs.
GEORGE PARROrT, alias big Nose
George" a famous Wyoming stage robber
and desperate, was taken from the Jail at
Rawlins. on the night of the 23d, by party
of masked men and hanged to a telegraph
pole.
FIVE citizens of Arizona pursued q
band of Apache mule thieves for seven days,
but were ambushed and murdered by them
The weavers of the Chace Mill, Fall
River, Mass, have joined the spinners in
their strike, causing an entire cessation OF
work. A general strike Of all mill opera
tiyes is considered imminent.
HON. JOHN U. PETIT, Judge of the
22d District, Indiana, and for several terms
Representative in Congress, died at Wabash
on the 21st.
AN express train on the Lake Shore &
Michigan Southern Railroad ran off the track
at Nottingham, eight miles east of Cleye-
land, on the night of the 22d, while running
at a high rate of speed. Engineer John
Lace and fireman Henderson were killed.
Messenger August Schneider was severely
but probably not fatally injured. No pas
senSers were injured, though all the for
ward cars were considerably shaken up, and
the express and baggage cars were badly
wrecked.
THE large three-story brick building
of tho Rocbester IN w Hydraulic Com.
many fell in ruins ON the DIST. The eause
is believed to have been an explosion Of the
steam boiler used for heating the building.
Joseph Schell, aged 20, was killed instantly
on the sidewalk by a falling wall. Four or
five other men were injured, none fatally.
THE Chicago & Atoms elegant new
oining-ca occiuehta' eook nre aoou' .oI'y
lni,es from hansas Ti'y' on .ne n'sn' VI 'ne
zoo anu was eh''reS ues'ro'eu'
noo oiu''', JUL "o was iooon.iy
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t;oa W. 49, arros, oh.raad with ths terri
bIe crime
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rAr. CbEhr' WHO canie W houa,
NO., about month ago, with the ostensibie
purpose Oh opening a saloon, was oe'ec,eo I'D
trying 10 oursiariIe ihe i.o'ia Na'iohai hahh
.dau on .nr u s - nar,or srI ~, nnnhe,s % sho, ~
dead For three nigbts Pat had
worked unmoIested in tunneling
an entrance TO the vault from
vacant building adjoining the bank, and on
the fourth night, just as he seemed about to
reach the coveted prize, he was pounced
upon by the City Marshal and bank officers,
who had been secreted in the bank. 1t is
not known that he had any confederates.
NEW steamboat line from Dubuoue
to 6, Ionis is hcinp orpanized tn RIM in
o..,.at;.,, ,,,;,b ,hn (,h;o.oo Nf;,,r,rIoa G.
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corpus cnIs'l stage sesesty asS miles S south Of
- ,ho vi, sho,t GOO -
thrao rso ,ra,ohas vere secured from Tho nasson-
oors The robbers were all voune men.
Mn IT. M SINcLAIR. head of the
great pork. packing house of T. M. Sinclair
& Co, died on the oath from injuries re-
ceived on the previous day by falling through
the hatchway of his packing house at Cedar
Rapids, Iowa. Mr.. Sinclair controlled the
largest pork packing business IN the world,
the firm having branch houses in several
American cities as well as In Europe.
WM. L. EWING is the Republican can
5idate for Mavor of St. Louis.
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