American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-07-16

ISAIAH NOBLE, . farmer living near
New Holland, o., accidentally ran reaper
| over his little four-year- boy, crushing
his head and instantly killing him. The
child was lying asleep in the track of the
machine.
Miss SALLIE WATSON, aged 16, the
beautiful daughter of j. II. Watson, q
! wealthy citizen of Drew County, Ark, was
lately missed from her home near Month
! cello, and after a brief search her dead and
mutilated body wasNfoASa in an adjacent
woods. Howell Edmhnds, brptherin law
of the deceased, who has heretofore borne =
good name, was arrested on the charge OF
committing the murder, and so strong were
the proofs against him that he narrowly es-
capped lynching.
doc" THOMAS and his brother,
Marion Thomas, have been arrested, charged
with the robbery of the stage between Sclig-
man and Eureka Springs, Ark, on the night
OF March 10.
FURTHER Information concerning the
recent massacre of party of Americans in
| Mexico by Indians is to the effect that the
victims were not railroad engineers, as at
first supposed, but party Of travellers going
| by coach to Chihuahua. The Indians am
pushed the coach and fired upon it, killing
the driver at once and the two lead mules.
| The passengers, seven in number,
were then taken out and five of them
killed, viz: Charles Greene, of Indepen-
| dence, Kans.; Larie Fordham, of Bos-
ton, Mass; Guy Levitt, Of Indiana;
George Wallace, of Taylorville, Ill,
and Charles Haines, Of Kansas. Grecne's
body was burned. The other bodies were
all scorched. Thomas r. Pugh, one of he
passengers, and son of ex-senator PWh,
was taken prisoner by the Indians. What
his fate is has not yet been learned. The
other passenger, Thomas Cummerfort, of
San Francisco, CAL, and the conductor es-
capped in the darkness. The Indians were
remnant of Victorio's Apaches. The Aexi-
can authorities have already dispatched sew
eral bodies Of troops to the Candelario
Mountains to scout for these Indian, and
Gov. Terrasas will order Mexican Federal
| troops from chihuahua to scout the stage
road, and will also furnish an esort for
stage coaches.
Two children, of Samuel Cri,pen, at
West Troy, n. T., were suffoated by
the burning of some fire crackers stored in
The room where they were sleeping
SOLOMON MERRICK, James Il. White
and James Alexander Bartum, the latter
colored, were killed outright; james Cox,
colored, MORALLY scalded; Edward Sheehan
badly, though not dangerously s:alded, and
four other hands badly injured by the eX-
plosfon of a portable engine on the farm of
Edward Sheehan, in Talbot County, Md, on
the 9th.
A TERRIBLE wind-storm passed over
Sioux City, Iowa, on the 9Th At Perry
Valley, seven miles north, tie house of
farmer named Coe was entirelr demolished,
and his wife and two children seriously in
jured. The house of George w. Chamber
lin was also wrecked, and the occupants IA
tally injured. The storm moved eastward.
Its path was but 100 PAGES VIDE.
AT Rangely, Me-, fifteen men were
injured by the falling Of new ROOF. they
were putting on meeting house. =
FRED HYLAND and Mark Folsom,
both about II years of age, were drowned
in Coon Creek, near Des Moines. Iowa, on
the It'll.
A STOCK train on ;he Union Pacific
Railroad ran into freight train near Law
renee, Kansas, on the6th, killing Christie
pher Stark, of Perryvfle, Kans., and seri-
ously injuring several ohers.
LIGHTNING struck barn near De-
catur, Ala, where number of people
sought refuge. Four were killed outright
and eight seriously Injured.
A DAUGHTER of 1ajor-General Tyres,
of England, recently fell overheard at
Hyenes, France. Her mother and two sis
tiers sought to rescu, her, and all four were
drowned.
SAMUEL TRIvns was hanged in Al
exandria, Rapides Parish, La, on the Sth,
for the murder of 4. j. Hanna. -.- i
POSTMASTER c. E. Carman, at Lyons,
Mich, accidentally shot and killed his IA
year -old son theother night. The boy had
wandered out onthe roofin fit of somnam-
bulism and his fther mstook him for bur-
glar.
Mrs. PRBTEBARD, of Asbury Park,
N. j., committed suicide the other day, it is
said in consequence of mental anxiety for
President G,rield's condition.
THE British bark Beatrice, Captain
Stewart, for Rouen, with oil, was struck by
lightning while off Reedy Island. The fluid
ran down The mast into the hold and fired
the cargo. An explosion followed and the
main hatch vas blown intothe river, carry
ing ssiler With it, who was drowned, The
captain, Seward, mate, and two sailors were
injured by he flying timbers. The vessel
burned to the waters edge. Is ~