American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-07-23
JOHN GOSHEN, New Mexico desper-

men, was Killed by the siy-year-old son OF
one Hallowell, near Santa Fe, the other day.
Previously he had attacked llalloweil with
out provocation, and been knocked down.
Later he called at Halowell's house, found
the latter's son playing in the yard, and
asked for his father. "What is your name? ?"
inquired the boy. "Goshen," was the re-
ply. "Pll see if father is at home, F" said
the lad as he went into the house. When he
returned he brought shotgun, and Goshen
received a load OF buckshot before he could
mount his horse. The boy had been in
structed by his father to shoot Goshen II he
made his appearance during his parent S
absence.
JOHN ID. JONES, O. miner, was IN
stantly killed by falling 200 feet down a shaft
in the Denver City (Colo.) Mine on the 18th.
GERTRUDE ROBERTS, an inmate of
the Lorgne Pointe Insane Asylum, Mon
treaI, was beaten to death by her cell mate,
Della Poircr, a religious monomaniac.
TIE toy pistol got in its work with
such good effect in St. Louis on the Fourth.
that three boys have since died in a single
day from lockjaw, caused by wounds re-
ceived from this source.
| WILLIAM DoDsON, Pleasant Adams,
Richard Bates and Joe Benton, colored, con-
1
Greeuville, S. c., December 7, 1879, have
been sentenced to be hanged.
! DIR. w. d. CUBAGE was killed by
one Burnett, near Silver City, Montgomery
| County, Ark, for undue familiarity with the
wife of the latter.
Mrs. REvAN and her daughter, aged
II, were killed by lightning stroke in Spar
tanburg, S. C. Mr.. Revan, who was in an
4 n sfa
also struck by the same flash which proved
so fatal to his wife and daughter, and was
injured very seriously.
AT Rockport, Me-, Willie Cain, aged
| 10, was drowned by Ralph Richards and Ed
ward 7. Gross, aged IA and IL years, to
whom he refused to give up 25 cents.
THREE fatal cases of sunstroke occur
red at picnic at Elgin, ILL.,, on the 18th.
The victims were young men named Ham
mond, Botsford and Richards.
Mrs. SADIE STEWART, wife of Theo-
dore Stewart, of Silver Creek, N. Y, COM
mitted suicide by plunging into Niagara
Falls. She had domestic troubles.
/ MRs. MARY KRAY. and daughter,
Mrs. Alice Monahan, and Hattie Doane,
aged IL, of Brooklyn, N. Y, wero fatally
burned by the explosion of a can containing
kerosene. They were using it in lighting
the fire.
| THE night express train on the Rock
Island Road, which left Kansas City on the
evening Of the 18th, was boarded at Came
ron, Mo-, by four men, and at Winston,
! twelve miles east, by three more. Just as
| the train left Winston, and as the conductor,
| w. Westfall, was taking the tickets, large
] man, with black whiskers, jumped up and
said, ''Hold up your hands," and at the
same moment fired, the ball striking the con-
ductor in the shoulder and q second shot en-
tcring his back, killing him instantly. Mean
while q portion of the gang Of robbers had
/ gained access to the baggage and express car.
Murray, the United States Express agent,
was knocked down and the safe robbed of its
| contents, thought to be about $4,000. Dur
| ing the melee two men on the front end Of
! the baggage fired at the engineer, but
did not hit him. Near where the fight took
place there are a number of masons at work
on bridge piers, and one of them named Nc
Lellan, who was in the smoking car, was
killed while trying to assist the conductor.
Mrs. DAMAKE was fatally burned at
Great Falls, n. H., while kindling the fire
with kerosene.
FRANK BROWN and Jesse Meyers, the
| last of the so-called "New Madrid outlaws"
18th. p
ISAAC GREEN and John Hardin, col
| ored, were executed at Mariana, Ark, on
the 18TH The execution of Willis Reeves,
for the murder of Joe Drake in February
last, took place at Van Buren,, Ark, on the
same day.
MISCELLANEOUS.
THE Military and Scientific Commits
sion investigating the recent railroad disas
ter, in an official report submitted at the
City of Mexico on the 18th, say: s. The
bridge being broken down, the company
proceeded, with astonishing impudence, to
move a laden train with a weight Of more
than 200 tons, which the bridge could not re-
sist-consequently there is no reason the
company should be excused from payment
Of damages
THE Egyptian Ministers concur with
the Khedive's wish to decree the abolition of
slavery in Egypt.
A sAw-MILL, eighteen houses, and
9, O00, 900 feet of lumber at Pottsdam, N. Y,
| burned on the 18Th. Loss, 500, 600. 3.
A DARING bank robbery was perpe-
trated on the 18th at Riverton, Fremont
| County, Iowa. just before the close of
| banking hours two men, who looked like
well -to-do cattle men, rode up in front Of
Davis & Sections banking house and, dis
mounting, entered the building. One of
| them, producing 500 bill, asked to have 1t
| exchanged for smaller bills. Mr.. Sexton took
| the bill and stepped back to the safe to get
the money, when the two strangers jumped
| over the counter, drawing revolvers at
| the same time, and I'm a twinkling took pos
session Of the contents Of the vault, amount
| ing to about - 900 in currency. Having
secured this they went out coolly but expe
ditiously, one covering the retreat while the
| other mounted, and the latter then bran
dishing his revolver for the benefit OF any
one who might think of interfering. They
| then rode leisurely OF, none Of the bystand
ers being prepared to obstruct their pro-
gress. Parties were instantly organized for
pursuit and the telegraph was used to try
and head them of from other points, but at
last accounts no capture had been effected.
| ALLAN RUTHERFORD, lately employed
in the City Stables, Toronto, has been in
formed by letter from Scotland that he is
Earl of Teviot and master of a rent roll of
ECO 900 per annum.
| THE recent unparalleled rise in the
Iowa River caused great destruction Of
property in various localities.
GRIsCoM, the Chicago faster, COM
pleted his task on the 18th and tasted food
for the first time in forty five days at the
Olympic Theater In presence of a thousand
pcrsOns.
THE great land slip near Sigrisweil,
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