American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-05-14
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


eminent astronomer. and Mrs. Sallie Craw'
ley, a charming young widow of St. Joseph,
Mo-, were married the Sd. There i.
quite 4 romance connected with the affair.
the acquaintance being formed while the
| gentleman and lady were travelling on the
Contincnt-the former with an invalid wife
and the latter with an invalid husband, both
of whom subsequently deceased.
JOHN F. GALE, a telegraph operator,
drowned himself in the lake at Milwaukee.
J.W. AVERY & Co., wholesale grocers,
of Memphis, Tenn, have made an assign
ment. Liabilities, S2l, 900; assets nominally
S22, 600. II. How is named as assignee.
The creditors are principally merchants Cd
Memphis.
FIVE children of Fritz Nebin, farmer
of Hayward, CAL, were returning from n
picnic, when in crossing the railroad track
their wagon was struck by the locomotive of
an express train and completely demolished.
Three of the children were killed outright
and the other two died within ten minutes.
The eldest was Is years of age, the young
est Z.
JACOB BEEsoN & Co., one of the
largest grain dealing firms connected with
the Detroit Board Of Trade, made an assign
ment on the 9Th to Don NJ Dickinson.
Liabilities, S35, 900; assets, So, 900.
JOHN HAHN committed suicide at
Spades Depot. Ripley County, Ind, by
throwing himself into burning brush heap.
Intemperance and family troubles had rem
dered him desperate.
THE switchmen employed upon the
various railroads centering in Chicago en-
tered upon a strike on the I'd, their demand
being for a general advance of wages to So. 90
and $2.75 per day.
NJ. SHILLING and J. Epstein, two
merchants of Palestine, Texas, were drowned
in Clear Lake by the capsizing of their boat
while fishing.
A TURKISH victory over the Alban-
ians at Prisrend is reported. The aggregate
losses in killed and wounded are placed ut
1,S00.
The journeymen bakers of New York
and Brooklyn are on a strike.
GEN. JOHN PRESTON, of Columbia, s.
c., is dead.
CoLoRow, the Ute Chief, and seventy
five lodges of the red men were recently en-
camped within three miles of the military
post on the White River, and it looks as if
they meant to be troublesome.
JOHN w. MCCLUNY, one of the
Judges of johnson County, No., was struck
by lightning and killed near Warrensburg,
on the LIST. He was well known and highly
respected.
A SAD accident occurred at Greneda,
Miss, the other day. Capt. Fowler, drug
gist, was charging soda fountain, when the
generator exploded, fatally injuring DIR.
Ray, the leading physician Of the city, who
died two hours afterward. Capt. Fowler's
injuries, it is thought. will also prove fatal.
A MEETING of Oklahoma colonizers
was held at Wichita, Kans., on the Sd.
Capt. Payne was present and announced the
unfavorable result of his trial before the
United States Court at Fort Smith. Resolu-
lions were adopted denouncing the injustice
of the verdict and pledging renewed efforts
to effect Judgment in the Territory.
THE Executive Committee of the Ar
kansas Democratic State Central Committee
have called a meeting of the entire committee
for the oath of May, to consider the question
of differences between Democrats in this
State on the debt question.
Two hundred bales of cotton, in tram
sit from St. Louis to the steamer Asdrubal
for the Continent, were burned at New Or
leans on the Sd. Loss, $4,000; insured.
ARRANGEMENTS have been consum-
mated for the consolidation of the Missouri,
Kansas & Texas and Texas g. international
and Great Northern Railways. The st.
Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern and Texas
Pacific will be consolidated the 18th inst.
A TRAIN dashed into a carriage cross
ing the track at Camden, N. j., on the I'd.
Mrs. Valentine Grim was killed, and her
husband and Adolphus Butler were seri-
ously in. red.
THEb over 5000 applications for
Consulsh low on file at the State Depart
ment iny shington. There are about IFS
Consuiates all told, and there are only about
half dozen vacancies.
SEVERAL passenger coaches were
thrown down an embankment ON the Troy &
Boston Railway, near Eagle Bridge. No
lives lost.
WAR between Japan and China is
considered probable.
A TELEGRAM from Montevideo says
the British war sloop Doterel was blown up
recently at Sandy Point, Straits of Magellan.
Eight officers and 135 men were killed, only
fifteen of the vessels complement escaping.
The following is list of the killed
and wounded in the two wrecks that occur
red on the I'd on the Texas & Pacific Road at
Sweetwater and Katula, near the western
terminus: Frank Lewis, engineer, and his
brother, J. Lewis, fireman, residence Knox
vile, Tenn; j. Langdon, brakeman, resi-
dence unknown; VIM. Dye, residence Fort
Worth; NJ. B. Sanders, engineer, residence
Dallas.
The President has nominated Eliot
c. Jewett, of Missouri, Assayer in charge of
the Assay Office at st. Louis.
A LITTLE daughter of Dennis Nc
Cauley, of Dennison, Ohio, was met by a
man named Sheets, who gave her two rail-
road torpedoes, telling her they contained
candy, and that she must open them
with . stone. She innocently laid enc of
them down on The sidewalk and tried to
burst it open with a brick. After striking
two or three times the torpedo burst with a
terrible force. The little girls eyes were en-
tirely destroyed, and she was otherwise SO
badly injured that it was feared she can not
recover.
A TRAIN on the Little Rock and Fort
Smith Railroad ran over and killed Annie
Martindale, of Alma, the other day. The girl,
who was only IL years old, was crossing the
track when the train came in sight, and was
paralyzed with fright and unable to get out
Of the way. The body was frightfully mu-
tilated.
NORRIS CHENEY and Daniel Abbott
were crushed to death and several others
were seriously injured by the falling Of a
building which had been "jacked" for re.
pairs at Littleton, N. ii.
FIVE cases of giant powder, contain
ing 500 pounds, exploded in New York City
the other day, without damage to person or
property.