American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-03-05
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


Natchez. No lives lost.
ALBERT BRUNEI, aged Is, died OF
hydrophobia at New Orleans on the Goth,
having been bitten by dog six weeks pre-
viously.
JAMES TELLER, aged 81, of Temp
kinsvflle, n.y., was shot while standing in his
own doorway, the other night William Smith
Is the supposed murderer, and he is under
arrest, together with Feller's wife and step
daughter, who are held as accessories. Mrs.
Teller ran off with Smith some months ago,
but her husband took her back again. She is
described as being good looking, but having
Q bad character.
AT Ash Grove, Shelby County, ILL.,,
Mrs. Nancy I. Forbes fell into an open fire.
place, holding her infant child in her arms.
The child was burned to death, and the
mother was very painfully burned about the
head and face. With her clothing nearly
burned of, Mrs. Forbes ran a quarter of a
mile to her fathers house, where she died
In great agony. a
The severe weather on the plains has
proved terribly destructive to animal life. A
recent traveller over the Santa Fe Road says
the grass has been covered with snow for
over sixty days, and the cattle are actually
starving to death, many Of them having been
killed by the cars as they crowded together
In the sheltered cuts and were unable to get
out Of the way of the trains. A stock agent
Of the Santa Fe counted 9GO dead cattle be-
tween Dodge City and Sargent, a distance of
112 miles, all lying inside the telegraph poles.
1t is estimated that he did net count one half
Of them. Stock men disagree as to the loss
that will be sustained, but from best data at
hand it is now believed that fully 20 per cent
will be lost.
THE boiler in F. w. Meyers soap
factory at Louisville, KY, exploded on the
I'd. killing Meyer and injufing his son
William.
THE National Association of the Veter-
ans Of the Mexican War met at Louisville.
KY, on the 22d, about two hundred being
present.
MIR. A. S. MITCHELL, an Old news
paper man, formerly Of St. Louis, died at
Hot Springs, Ark, on the 23d, of pneu-
monia. .-sa - E.l
WELCOME A. ARNOLD, a resident of
Kingston, r. T., died of hydrophobia, at
Buffalo, N. Y, on the Goth, while being con-
veyed home by his friends from the West.
Eight years ago Mr.. Arnold was bitten by a
man who had been bitten by rabid dog.
No evil effects came Of the bite until four
years afterward. when Mr.. Arnold became
mad, and at times was so wild and violent
that he was very dangerous. lie recovered
and his friends thought he would never again
be affected. The second attack a few weeks
ago resulted as already detailed. He was
only . years old. He had recently been
visiting at Kankallee, Ill.
Mrs. JULIUS CLEMENS, of Northamp-
ton, Mass. a victim of hereditary insanity,
rose from her bed in the night, went to the
barn, saturated her clothing with kerosene,
and, lighting match, burned herself to a
crisp. N
JOHN JACKSON and Frank Otto, en-
ployed In livery-stable at Nebraska City,
were burned to death. The stable. caught
fire, and, while attempting to rescue the
horses. the burning hay-mow fell on them.
HARRY MARTIN, aged IS, of Mount
o., fatally shot himself in the
while showing his new revolver to
some friends.
GLADSTONE met with quite a serious
accident on the oath. While stepping from
his carriage he fell, striking the back OF his
head on the carriage step, cutting itseverely.
He will be laid up for some time.
FOUR men were recently found killed
In whisky howell between Bacon Springs and
Fort Wingate, n. N. There was evidence to
show that q card party had been in progress,
which probably ended in a general shooting
melee. The proprietor OF the place having
left, no further particulars can be obtained.
ROBERT HADFIELD, an old and well
known resident of Buffalo, N. Y, formerly
with the press, While Iaboring I'M
der o mental arrangement shots himself
through the head, causing instant death.
He was 81 years old, an Englishman by birth,
and son of Robert Hadfield, the noted Lib
eral, who represented the Sheffield District
In Parliament for over 40 years.
JOHN C. NORRIS, a well known resi-
dent of Indianapolis, committed suicide
while temporarily deranged.
SEVERAL more Chicago dealers in
butterine have been fined for selling their.
goods without advertising its
character. They appealed, and viii make a
lest case rs to the validity Of the ordinance
under which they are being so vigorously
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THE Seventy first New York Regiment
left for New Orleans ON the oath to partici-
pate in the Mardi Gras festivities. They
stopped over in Cincinnati one night, where
they were entertained with public receps
lion and banquet.
A RAILROAD accident near Longview,
Texas, on the oath, injured twenty persons,
some of them seriously. -
Two passenger cars on the New Jer-
sey Midland Railroad went down an en-
bankment near Ogdensburgh, took fire and
burned up. Thepasscngers (some dozen in
number) and train men all got out alive,
some slightly scorched, and all more or less
hurt, but none fatally.
The French bark Fannie, from Phil
Sept 80, for Havre, laden with
petroleum, has never been heard from since
she sailed, and is undoubtedly lost with all
On board, twenty one persons.
THIRTY-sIx successive shocks of
earthquake occurred at st. .1richaels, in the
Azores. -Onc church and 300 houses have
fallcn. Several persons were killed.
THE International Cotton Exposition
u Atlanta organized with H. T. Kimball as
President and Senator Brown Chairman of
Executive Committee.
GEN. NEY, Due d'Elchingen, was
lound dead at Chatillion, in France, his
forehead pierced by a bullet and pistol in
his hand. Gen. Ney was the grandson of
he famous Marshal Ney.
JOHN VANDERHIEDE was hanged at
shelbyville, KY, on the 25th, for the MUIR
der Of q negro. This was the second execu-
ton In this countyof white man for kill
ing a negro, the first having occurred in 1925.
E. o. HAYDEN, a murderer, was
hanged at Windsor, VT, on the 25th.
Mr.. VIM, H. H. RUSSELL, we'll
known St. Louis lawyer, was murderously
assaulted in his office, on the 18th, by a