American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-07-23


dead or alive, was found on the Mount NAL
larston. The revenue cutter Corwin has
sent a slcdge party after the Indians TO re-
cover the articles named and obtain further
information. No news from the Jeanette.
MAUD S. trotted a mile at Pittsburgh,
on the 18th, in 2:10 1-2, beating her own
time and all previous records by one-quar-
ter of a second.
The works of the Excelsior Manufac-
turing Company, at St. Louis, Mo-, burned
on the 18th. Losses estimated at $3.50, 900.
The company announce that most of their
patterns and machinery were saved and
work will be resumed at once.
A NUMBER of gambling houses at Hot
Springs, Ark, have been broken up by the
authorities, and their gambling implements,
furniture, ETC., were publicly burned.
KRING, the murderer of Mrs. Dora
Broemser in st. Louis, sentenced to be
hanged on the 18th of July for crime COM
mitted nearly eight years ago, has again es-
capped the gallows through the Intervention
of the State Supreme Court, Chief Justice
Sherwood having at nearly the last hour
granted q supersedeas in his case.
A DELEGATION of Missouri River In
dams, including Spotted Tail, Red Cloud,
Standing Bear and others, are to be invited
to Washington early in September to dis
cuss various vexed questions with the Gov
eminent. The Northern Cheyennes are very
much dissatisfied with their present location
i'm the Indian country, and want to 60 north
to the Missouri River country. They would
prefer to locate at Fort Keogh, but there is
no Indian reservation there.
GREAT damage was occasioned in
O L. .t,I,
occurred on the 14th. In Mayer Township a
bridge, a church, and a number of houses
were destroyed, and several persons badly
injured. some Of whom can not survive.
JULY 14th was generally observed in
Arkansas and Kentucky as a day Of fasting
and prayer for the recovery Of the Presi-
dent.
WHILE funeral services were pro-
crossing in Greenvile On. j. church, the
other day, thunderbolt fell within few
feet of the building and shook it to its foun-
dation. A panic ensued, but no one was
hurt. Another bolt struck the pole of a car
rage outside the church and knocked the
horses down.
THE Siberian plague has made its APP
pearance in the environs of st. Petersburg,
and is spreading with alarming rapidity.
sons are afflicted. The local authorities are
helpless, owing to the want of efficient doc
tors and the fact that the peasants sell the
skins OF the beasts which have died of the
disease.
A DARING MONDAY robbery was COM
mitted in New York City on the 18th. As a
man and boy from Reppert's brewery, Nine
ty-second Street and Third Avenue, were
going down town in light wagon to make u
deposit i'm the Nassau Bank, vender's
wagon containing three men was run into
the brewery wagon, apparently by accident,
at Forty-seventh Street. Immediately one
of the three men seized the brewers horse,
another pounced upon the clerk, while the
third seized the money package, containing
So, 800 in bills, and a bag of silver, the latter
Of which, however, was dropped as being too
heavy. They all brandished revolvers DUR
ing the foray, which was over and the'rob-
bers far away before the alarm could be
given.
BoNEsETTER, a well-known trotting
stallion, dropped dead on the track during a
race at Pittsburgh, Pa. He was owned by
NJ. v. Bemis, of Chicago, and valued at $15,-
900.
THE Hardin House, at Mexico, Mo-,
burned on the night of the 14th. The fire is
supposed to have been the work Of an incen-
diary.
THERE are now 200 persons impris-
oned i'm Ireland under the Coercion act, in
Guiding one member Of Parliament, one
priest, one Magistrate, several Town Coun-
cillors, and many Poor-law Guardians.
THE prosecutions of offenses under
the anti-Socialist laws continue in Saxony
with much vigor. All Of Herr Bebel's agents
have been imprisoned and seventy Social
lists were banished from Leipsig in a single
day. f4=.s
The Cincinnati Board of Health re-
corded 365 deaths from heat during the week
ended July 10th.
A LARGE portion of Bradford, Pa,
burned on the 10Th.