American citizen., 1881-06-04
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

seriously injured by a falling embankment
near Jersey City, n. J.
THE Chief Signal Officer announces
that Mexico enters, by the Brownsville and
Tampico cable, into meteorological connec-
tion with the United States Signal Service,
| and that this country will receive data from
| Mexico, Vera Cruz and Tampico hereafter.
In the Pitney investigation, Storekeep-
er Hatch stated that 400 yards of fine carpet
| disappeared from his rooms while he was on
leave last summer. Called upon for an in
ventory of carpets on hand, Pitney included
| the 400 missing yards, but in the meantime
borrowed an inferior article from a carpet
firm whom he had favored. The ring was
in the habit OF selling good carpets and fur
niture under the head OF condemned.
The greater part of Pinsk, Russia, has
| been destroyed by fire. The losses are
enormous, and the inhabitants are I'm great
distress.
| A PASSENGER train on the Boston &
Albany Railroad colided with q light engine
between Ghent and Pulver's Station, wreck
| ing the engines and instantly killing Robt.
Best, engineer, and Charles H. Dewes, fire.
man Of the passenger train.
THE Danish Supreme Court has con-
firmed the sentence Of death passed by the
| West Indian Commission on thirty-nine ne
| groes convicted of participation in the Santa
| Cruz revolt.
JOHN THOMAS, a noted desperate and
mail robber, escaped from Jack Wharton,
| United States Marshal, near Hazlehurst,
Miss, by jumping through an open car WIN
dow while he was handcuffed and the train
going nearly thirty miles an hour.
A BOAT containing four boys capsized
in the North River, New York City, and two
| of them, Peter keenan, and Baker, were
drowned.
| A DISPATCH from Copenhagen an
nounces the arrest Of Jorgensen, editor of a
| Socialist paper, on q charge of melting to
murder the King and establish a commune.
BILLY LEROY and Sam Potter, two
desperadoes, were lynched by the citizens OF
Del Norte, Colo.
! The boiler in Risk & Co.'S foundry al
Memphis exploded on the oath. killing w.
H. Halder and Edward Hopkins and seri-
ously injuring three other men. The boiler
was an old one and, it is said, known by the
owners to be unfit for use. The Coroner's
Jury declared them culpablc for the dis
aster.
JEFFERSON DAVIS is visiting in Mon
treal, Canada.
The body of Miss Frank M. B. Ken
dali, of Madison, Ind. was cremated al
Washington, Pa, the other day. The lady
was well known a writer for various pub
lications.
| ROBERT LANGHORN and Robert Point
started in a skiff to cross the river at Le-
Clair, ten miles above Davenport, Iowa.
They had a keg of beer with them, but were
not noticed to be Intoxicated. When in mid
stream the skiff sprang leak and both went
down before help could reach them.
AT Fayette, Miss, the five-year-old
son of Capt. Stephen e. Ramblc mounted
the balustrade at the head Of the winding
stairs for the purpose Of sliding down, wher
he lost his balance and went crashing head
long to the bottom, his head striking the
post at the foot of the stairs. Nearly every
bono in his body was fractured.
WASHINGTON BENSON, aged 55, q
wealthy farmer from Midland County, Mich.
started with his family with private convey
ances on a pleasure trip to Iowa. While in
camp near South Bend, Ind, Mr.. Benson
was leading a spirited stallion to water,
when the animal attacked him in a savage
manner, biting and crushing him to death
IT is believed the losses incurred
through the failure of Robert A. Bakers
Bank at Fond du Lac, Wis.,, will aggregate
$500, 900. Baker, the President, and Bur-
roughs, the Cashier, are both under arrest.
The city will lose about $40, 900, running the
City Treasurer, C. j. Pierson. Every thing
indicates general crookedness on the part Of
Baker and Burroughs.
| LINTON B. GRoFF, Postmaster al
Lin. on, o., has been detected in systematic
| for of al Ha baf
collected about 81 800 from various offices il
Ohio and Pennsylvania before he was arrest.
ed at Altoona, i'm the latter State. He ha,
made full confession.
THE business portion of Harrison
Boone County, Ark, has been almost en'ire.
ly destroyed by fire, said to have been of in.
cendiary origin. Total losses about S25, 900
with but small insurance.
The eleventh annual Convention o.
the National Woman Suffrage Association
opened at Boston, Mass. on the 26th, Mrs
Elizabeth Csdy Stanton presiding.
Mr.. THOMAS T. RICHARDS, Treasur
er of the MissourfZinc Works, a well known
and wealthy citizen of st. Louis, committed
suicide with revolver in fit of menta
alteration.
CoMMODORE NUrT is dead.
E. L. SAGE and II. r. Lott, Jr., o.
Floyd, La, had difficulty which ended II
the death OF the latter. j. T. Lott, a brother
of the murdered man, took part immediatel,
after the shooting, and received probabl,
fatal wounds.
1T is announced that Mr.. Morgan
Minister TO Mexico, is to be retained in hi
present position, at least until next winter
AT Pittsburgh, on the 26th, Mrs
Egier attempted to start fire with kero
sence, when an explosion followed, hel
clothes were ignited and then the dwelling,
which was burned to the ground. The hus
band of the unfortunate lady, who set about
saving his children, was badly burned abou
the face and hands. He forgot one child
whose charred remains were subsequent,
found.
The Arkansas Democratic. State Elk
ecutive Committee have issued an address tt
the people of the State setting forth tht
points of dispute between the members o.
the party on the question of the States in
debtedness. The address urges harmony il
the party and a united front in the mex
compaign; that. the debt question shal
not be made test Of party fealty; and rec
ommends that a constitutional amendment
be submitted by the next Legislature to tn,
people declaring what part of the debt shal
or shall not be paid.
A GANG of desperadoes, armed anG
disguised, pillaged the store of J. A. Tai
bott, at Mountain Home, Baxter County
Ark, the other night, securing a Iarg,
amount Of money from the safe, which the,
forced open, besides many valuable goods
They then set fire to the premises whicl