American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-08-06
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

excursion train full OF children was ap
preaching, but the engineer applied thu
brakes in time TO prevent what might have
been terrible disaster.
! q. WILLIS GROVE, George Platt anC
Robert Davis were instantly killed and iar'
ry Gellam slightly wounded by the explosion
of an engine near Napa, Cal.
/ WHILE William G.. De Turk and fam
lily, of Reading. Pa. were driving, the othel
7 day, the horse became frightened and rar
away, breaking the carriage into fragments.
De Turk was instantly killed, his wife and
son and Mrs. Ii. II. Hail., sister, seriously
! injured.
ELIZA hartley, a colored cook in
| the family of Thomas Killecn, a molder al
New Orleans, put rat poison in dish oil
| vegetable soup prepared for the family din
ner, of which all partook freely and were
soon taken violently i'll. Physicians were
promptly called and administered antidotes,
saving the lives Of all excepting one of the
children, girl three years of age. The cook
confessed that she put the poison in the soup
q in order to make the children sick, as they
had annoyed her greatly during the morn
ing" but denied inie lding to cause the
death of any one.
The conservation of the Right Rev.
DIR. McMullen as Bishop Of the (Catholic)
Episcopal See of Davenport, Iowa, took
place at the Cathedral Of the Holy Name, in
Chicago, on the 18th, with the usual i'm
pressive ceremonies.
The Eastern war in passenger ratios
extended to Boston on the Eth, when
through tickets to Chicago were freely sold
at IS 90.
"A SHOCKING accident occurred at
Muir, Mich, on the 18th. A small house
occupied by Alonzo Derrick, his wife, and
six children accidentally took fire and burned
tofhe ground. The fire originated. in an
upper chamber, whore three schiidren, one
a deaf mutes aged eleven, md two other
boys, aged eight and five years, were sleep
ing, and it was impossible to rescue them.
The irrecognizable remains were buried in
one coffin.
TwoAys, Geerss andFfea. children
Of Mr.. Gotlieb Kock, of Denver, Colo, were
poisoned by eating the heads Of matches.
Georges aged fye years, died soon NJ ,er, and
Fred, aged three years, was believed to be
beyond the possibility OF recovery.
PREPARATIONS are being, made for
the coronation Of the Car at Moscow.
In Brooklyn, N. Y. Mrs. Catherine
BehIer was fatally burned by the explosion
of a can of kerosene with which she endeav-
ored TO kindle fire. The flames spread,
and Mrs. Toole jumped from second-story
window, sustaining serious injuries.
THE marriage is announced of T. II.
Tibbles, the advocate OF the POncas, and
Upright Eyes," said to be "the handsomest
and best educated Indian woman in Amer
lea"
"A SAD accident occurred at billiard,
o., on the Goth. As Owen Clover was back
ing reaping machine out of his barn, an 49,
months-oid child of a neighbor toddled I'M
der the machine, was run over and instantly
killed.
JOHN PATTON, aged twenty-five and
John Kufz, aged nineteen, were killed by
flying debris from a blast at a quarry near
Reading, Pa.
. c. N. WALLS, editor of the Paris
Qll.) Republicans Beacon, went to Chicago
to attend the races and has not since been
heard of. He is known to have drawn 81, $50
from his bankers while in the city. The
only clew to his disappearance is given by a
small boy who left two empty pocket books,
as belonging to Mr.. Walls, ut one
Of the newspaper offices. lie says he saw
the man faint, and his hat fall off, and he
dropped the pocket-books, but two men
supported him and removed him to some
other part of the grounds. This took place
near the pool-stand.
REV. WILLIAM F. WHITCHER, pas
tor of the Matherson Street Methodist Church
IN Providence, r. T., the most fashionable
church of hat denomination In the city, has
been detected in purloining valuable old
books from various parties and has resigned
his charge and announced his intention Of
severing his connection with the ministry.
Wbitcber is So years of age, his father is
wealthy and his wife has an Independent in
come, while bis own salary was s., 900
year. He generally mutilatcd the stolen
books in such a way as to destroy their iden-
fity and then sold them, although many
were still found in his possession.
Four masked men visited the farm
house of Robert MARVEL, near Traders
Point, Marion County, Ind, few nights
ago. They bound Maxwell and his wife,
pi, ched Hans wilkins, a brother in law, out
,f the window, and robbed the place of 5000.
wilkins and MARVEL are very old and were
incapable of resistance.
AT Poncha Springs, Colo, on the
night OF the 26th, Capt. Randolph Carpenter
was hot and killed by J. P. True, proprie-
or of the Bank of Poncha Springs. st
JOHN j. JENNINGS was taken from
all at TERRA Amanilla, N. NJ, and hanged
~ mob. He was charged with the MUIR
Ter of one Lewis, and Lewis's wife, who is
of a criminal intimacy with her
husbands murderer, is held for completely
n the crime. Three fatherless children are
eft without home. l'' --'f 'af
THOMAS M. MAYFIELD, who killed
MS father-in-law, Marshall Aday, in Stra-
iorn Miss, in July, and then fled, has been
lrrested at Little Rock, Ark, and taken
nome for trial. Mayfield admits the killing,
,ut asserts that it was done in a rough and
umble fght, IN which Adsy was the aggres-
Miss MINNIE REEVE, station agent
md operator at Minnetonka, MIMI, was
Killed by a railway collision near that place
IN the 26th. She was most estimable young |
ady, and was a sister of the Master Me-
,hanic ON the Iron Mountain Railroad.
NINE persons recently made their es-
ape from the Yell County Jail at Danvile,
Ark. Two only had been recaptured at last |
MIDHAT PASTA, and all others con-
Ficted Of the murder of the late Sultan, ex-
'ept the two actual assassins, have been |
,anshed for life to Siberia.
A TELEGRAM from Tunis says 1900 |
Arabs have advanced to Padeuss, six kilo-
metres from Goletta. Four Europeans and /
hree Arabs have been murdered. There is
,reat excitement. The Bey has ordered the
emoval Of the bridge Of boars between Go
eta and Padeuss.
BLANCo FLORES, the Mexican MUIR
lerer, and ex-member of the VasquIez gang