American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-10-15
GOVERNOR Hoyr notifies the Insur-

ance Commissioners OF PENNSYLVANIA he will
NOT Issue any more letters patent to mutual
assessment insurance companies. As the
Governor constructs the law, the business l.
not conducted legally.
The Atlanta Cotton Exposition opened
on the 9Th with appropriate ceremonies.
Owing to the railroad blockade many OF the
exhibits had not arrived, and in consequence
the exhibition was in 8 very Incomplete
state.
THE National Farmers Alliance, in
session recently at Chicago, received a re
port nom the Secretary giving the total
membership at "a. 800; number of Alliances
now organized. 1000. distributed as follows:
Nebraska, 291; Kansas, 2S5; Iowa, $50; New
York, 60; Wisconsin. 81; Michigan, 10;
Missouri, 10; Indiana, 10s Illinois, As,
| and Minnesota, so. Resolutions were
adopted opposing all monopolies, favoring
| Just income tax, condemning free railroad
passes, demanding impartial laws for the
equalization of the transportation of freight
and passengers. and declaring that the adul-
iteration of food Is as dishonest and more in
furious than counterfeiting noney and
should be Punished rs severely. The officers
elected for the ensuing year are: President,
John D. James, of Kansas; vice-President,
hon. Matb AnuerSoh, OF Wisconsin, Secre'
fary' ID. W. WOOD OF Utmost treasurer
Allen Root, OF Nebraska.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Mrs. GREEN, residing on the York
o',s,r shot !, ~. hr.ss, t,,or a TOW n,stoi in
the hands of a yonng SON.
JOHN and James Packard, brothers,
w. M,nh - '>P''''''
EoUp bovs u,o,o stealing a ride in a
~. s,s ~ ,ha - 80. W." Moor;aan n, Tho a.r
,h.x were IN t,rred over and al wera
smotberrd 40 death,
THr Head bodv pf NelHe Wr;oht a
h..u,if,,, eirI Of On W., ,o,nd so.t;ng IN
~. s.n.i ~. ..Ih;o,, tn e.,
rao-.sr, .x.u,;n.t;on sbo,,,sa Tho, Oh. h.d
mot come 10 bcr de.th NV drownino- and
number of costnsior. mon her had and
body gave evidence that abe had been fouIIy
dealt with, A man named Fred. Hopkins.
with whom she had been intimate, has been
arrested, charged with her murder. The
parents Of the girl are small farmers in the
vicinity, but for some years she had not
lived at home, but worked around ut vari-
Gus places.
WHILE Ralph Durbin and wife and
daughter. aged 10, and Miss Buck, sister
of Mrs. Durbin, and three small children
were returning from church at DanSfiie,
..non Uoun, - snIs a,.ep'eu 70 erOss
stream suplect 10 hign hoods. Mrs. Dur
Din, Miss Duroin and Miss Buck were
drowned. Mr.. Durbin got out by bis own
tbe cb,Idrsn
CALEB HARRIS and wife. of Provi.
dence, r.. l., were drowned in Moosehead
Lake on the I'd.
A SMALL child. while standing near a
molasses eyaporator. near Dandridpe
Tenn. witnessing the evanor,,ion With
gre,t o,ee- lost its tootho,d and felI into tho
seeth;ng mas. .rd w,s d..d ha,ora ;,s ~
r,f., re,.,ivos .o,,Id r.so,,. H.,
A.-o.-. Ia C
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sS, Ecu, ,I na",e was y~'neS a. Le"is.
C-s...Spn ~ w s,,,, =.
80 ~. 'IIo o.-e, wy pm so'
Va U I'm ~''o = 'oo " . ,uu INC .o~n
"en "ere An.eo anu tnree otners
Dadiy injured oy tne iaiing OF some masonry
near Livermore, "a
AT nhenanooan, rage county, Iowa,
Robert Bell was shot and killed by his wife
in a 1T OF insanity? She declares that she
was commanded Dy an angel TO commit the
deed.
Miss SADIE SIMS, of Raleigh, N. c.,
was fatally poisoned by the administration
Of arsenic by mistake for quinine. Her
sister, who committed the fatal error, was
crazed with grief.
Two robbers, known as Clark, alias
Butch, and Frenchy, both formerly Of the