American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-08-20

teen additional quarters to his wonderful
record. The fastest quarter was mad, in
two minutes seven seconds, the slowcst in
three minutes twelve seconds.
The large woolen-mills in Iowa be-
longing to the Amana Society, valued at
$4,000, have been destroyed by fire.
The dwelling of DIR. William Bowen;
in Scituatc, Mass, burned on the sth. The
family were aroused in time to save their
lives. After the house burned fire broke
out in the barn near by. but the flames were
extinguished. The fire was caused by an
Internal machine operated by clock work.
DIR. Bowen has been very active in enforcing
the law against li,nor-sclling and has before
suffered In consequence.
A. q. WHEELOCK, confidential book
keeper Of the firm of J. C. wolcott & Co., ~
Broad Street, New York, has absconded
with money and securities TO the value of
over $4,000. He was known as being fast
young man. 1t is supposed he sailed for
| Europe.
PAwNEE CITY, Neb., has been swept
by fire. Nearly all the business houses were
destroyed.
A TERRIFIC storm cloud burst over
Central City, Colo, on the Sth, and immedi-
u
TO five feet deep rushed down Nevada and
Eureka streets, sweeping everything before
It. Great powders weighing nearly ton
| were rolled around like pebble stones. I'm
mense quantities of debris were washed
down the gulch at an incredible speed.
Roadways in the track of the flood were en-
tirely destroyed. A number of small houses
were washed away, and at least one life was
lost. The damage Is estimated at so, 900.
Idaho Springs, Virginia Canyon and other
towns similarly situated, suffered severely
from the inundation.
ADvICEs from Havan2 received by
the National Board Of Health state that dur
ing July there were ninety-eight deaths
from yellow fever, and during the week end
ing August 5, thirty-six deaths from the
same disease, with 200 cases reported. Dur
ing June there were 235 deaths from yellow
fever ut Vera Cruz. Yellow fever also pre-
walls throughout Colombia, at Guayquil, San
Jose de Guatemala and at La Libertad and
Salvador, in the three latter places the
deaths averaging twenty daily. Along the
Isthmus Canal route an average of five
deaths has occurred daily.
MAUD S has again lowered the trot-
ting record by quarter of a second, having
made n mile in 2:1O IA at Buffalo on the
18th. This leaves St. Julien Just an even
second behind.
THE Parry House, summer hotel at
Beach Haven, N. J., burned ON the night OF
the 10th. Two hundred guests lost all their
clothing and effects, and were compelled to |
go to Camden clad i'm bathing attire.
GREvY, a large village in the Canton
of Grisons, Switzerland, Mas been DESTROYED |
by fire.
THE business portion of Trafalgar,
johnson County, Ind, has been DESTROYED |
by fire.
Crow DOG, who shot and killed Spot
ted Tail, has been confined at Fort Niobrara
to answer the charge of murder, to which he
is amenable under 'swhite mans law" The
killing seems to have been coolly premedi-
tated, and without any other provocation
than jealousy. Spotted Taft was shout start
ing for Washington, having been designated
Us one of the representatives of the Six Ma
tons at the coming conference.
THE Boer Government has been form
ally proclaimed. 1t is to be known as the
South African Republic.
MANY towns and villages in Western
Prussia have recently suffered much from
fires. The fact that the inhabit-
,nts are Jews leads to the conclusion that
he incendiaries are Jew-h aters. Antf-Jew-
sh disturbances have again broken out i'm
West Prussia and Pomerapia.
Two parties of hostile Indians are now
operating along the line of the Atlantic &
Pacific Railroad in New Mexico, and three
companies Of infantry from Fort Wingate
rave been sent out to protect the settlers
iarcia's settlement, twelve miles from Ell
Rita Station, has been burned by the Indians
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