American citizen., 1881-04-30
Personal AND GENERAL.

THE insurgent natives of the Zoolot
Isles attempted to surprise the Spanish
forces, but were repulsed with loss of I'm
killed.
The town of San Marcial, for severa
months past the terminal station of tn,
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway, wa'
almost totally destroyed by fire on the 18th
The business part of Bound Brook
N. j., burned on the 18th. Forty families
are homeless. Loss, 100000; partly in
sured-
AT South Bend, Ind, on the Goth
Matthew LutZanovitch cut his wife's head
open with an AK and fatally injured her. He
is believed to be insane.
DE JARNETTE, who shot and killed
his sister in a house of ill-fame at Danville
Va, has been acquitted on the ground Of in.
sanity.
THREE prisoners in the Cook County
Jail, at Chicago, made a desperate but in
| efrectual break for liberty on the night OF
4 the 18th. During the melee colored pris-
oner, named James Coleman, who went to
the assistance Of the guard, was shot and
probably fatally wounded by Mckay, one OF
the ringleaders in the emeute.
A DEAD body, supposed to be that OF
Rev. Robert Matlock, was found suspended
TO tree on the mountains between
Calico Rock and Batesville, Ark. Matlock
was recently tried for the murder of Thomas
Miller, planter, of Independence County,
last year, but was acquitted, and the pre-
| sumption is he was lynched by friends of the
| murdered man. He belonged to the sect
known as ''Sanctificationists," }" whose teach
ings, it is alleged, are obnoxious to the
public welfare.
FIVE men were drowned by the sweep
| ing away of a bridge over Rock River at
Milan, ILL.,, and five more were drowned in
the same stream at Beloit, Wis, by the
| laundering of boat.
SHERIFF WE. BEATTIE, of Critten-
den County, Ark, on the 21st was shot and
killed by negro named Hayes White, whom
he was attempting to arrest for having rob-
bed the store of Mr.. Trucker, at Crawfords-
vile, few nights previous. White had
been previously arrested, but overpowered
the officers and escaped, after having seri-
ously wounded Turner Hendricks, colored
constable, and Emmett Sweptsop, a white
citizen, who were taking him to Jail.
The Sanitary Council of the Missis-
sippi Valley met at Evansville, Ind, on the
Goth, and discussed various matters relating
to the coming season of epidemics.
THE Dittmar Powder Works at Bing-
hamton, N. Y, were destroyed on the 21st
n;,o ny .ne eApiosioh 0, hi'ro,siyeerihe anu w
wv poui,us % po"ueI. nu.iuihss were ue-
,ro,,nd IN, The Same d.r an exnIosion in :,
powder mill near Bridgeport, Conn, shook
the city like an earthquake.
AT Aberdeen, KY, on the Goth, Mrs.
i a'neil,e Nanno,i, Aseu oo, uuiihs .no ,eii-
Pofa.y aosence Vi her oausn'er' WIN "hoin
sue n'eo' ren iii'o ,no his anu was i,'EuiS
ournea' one was oeao "neh 'ne ial'i'iy re-
srp,o,,s r,.l.dv 10 ae,;ot;nr.ho
~
noLses =, Onao1 no u'sease :. WY
inst above The boof. and develops yery w ra,,,
idly. Veterinary surgeons describe it as a
swelling, followed by q suppuration, which
breaks out, producing n running sore. As
the disease grows, the limbs become swollen
and sometimes spreads to the body When
this occurs IT is apt to be fatal. 1t seems to
be a sort Of aggravated form of the scratches,
and is apparently caused by long and con-
tinuous exposure to cold and wet.
CYRrTs Young. known as the Coal
King Of the Tusc,rawas Valley - was almost
instantIv Killed near I lawrence q. Inv helm,
caught in the sboft;nc Of nortable engine
He was considered the wealthiest man of
Stark County, the value of his possessions
being estimated at s, 100000.
JOHN HOLLOWAY has been arrested at
Silver Lake, Kosciusko County, Ind, to
answer for the alleged crime of numbering
his wife and one-year-old babe, in April,
1880. To conceal the crime 1t Is alleged he
burned the mousse. Inc circumstances were
very mucn against HOLLOWAY from ine START
us..d., ~. nV '"o "
Mns yvp - canton and Mrs
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:,
M oharieS'on' 'on n'iioS iioin Aohho-
stone, Arizona, three cowboys entered the
store OF springer q HACKER ana compeied
tne Proprieson 10 open lne '"ie, rom "nieh
'ney 'ooh So'o. Ai..ous" LIS. s"' INC
roopcrs were neoosn,I1u ne ioo"ns
night Deputy oheriil BEL anu posse sur
rounded house, demanding thelr surren-
der. The demand was answered by voiley
from mchesters' when the a,res,ins party
openeu upon . t','o P,rns .,d .sstmI
,oot,, I.coh
IT,, T..;..; s+root-o.r or,nlo,-oos
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are oh strihe ioi hie nei ""oo
SMALLPOX Is eplueIhlc ooth III lne
Sandwich Islands and emma.
DEhFisch rASchA, WIN io,ooo Aur
ish troops, attacked and deieated the Al
banians near Uskup.
TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND emigrants
left Hamburg for America the first three
months of the present wear, against 8, 900 for