American citizen., 1881-06-04

The wife of ID. +. Coon, formerly
County Surveyor, living at Lyndon, Hans,
cut her throat from ear to ear with razor.
The wound is not deep and has been sewed
up. She caused the accidental death OF her
baby some time ago, and was thought to be
insane.
One hundred and eighty bodies of
victims of the London (Ont.) disaster had
been recovered and buried up to midnight
OF the Goth.
The house, barn, corn-crib and all
the grain and hay belonging to John Smith,
Vanceburg, Ky., who was driven from home
by the regulators recently, were burned on
the 25th.
THE cities of Galveston, Houston, Aus
tin, Waco, Dallas, sherman, Dennison, Fort
Worth and San Antonio, Texas, are TO be
connected by telephone.
Mrs. WILLIAM HARDGRAvEs, of Har-
mony, Ark, tried the experiment of kindling
her kitchen fire with powder. The bottle
containing 1t suddenly exploded, killing her
almost instantly.
CAPT. A. j. FRITZ, well-known To-
cal politician and sporting man of San Fran
cisco. hanged himself on account of tenn
porary financial reverses.
A CARGO of 2S,O0O bushels of wheat
was shipped by barges from st. Paul on the
2Sth, billed direct to Liverpool, via Glasgow,
Scotland. The contract rate is % cents
bushel. The grain will be thoroughly re-
inspected upon its transshipment at New
Orleans. Much interest is felt in the sue
cess of this experiment, which if successful
will probably lead to the establishment of an
immense direct trade between the grain CEN
tiers of the Upper Mississippi and the Old
World.
JAMES WEsTAURER's young daughter,
aged 16, living at Markesan, Wis, poisoned
herself with strychnine, because her father
had forbidden the house to her lover, Daniel
S. Murray, aged IS. The latter, learning of
the girls death, committed suicide in a SIM
liar manner.
A TELEGRAM from st. John, N. B.,
| says Eli Martin, Napoleon Martin and James
Bouchard, breaking a jam Of logs on Fish
River, were carried over the falls and
drowned.
MORMON missionaries who have been
trying to make proselytes in Germany are tc
be expelled.
PRINCE MILAN will probably be
crowned King of servia, in accordance with
the agreement with Austria.
HENRY GRAFT, a German, went into
Chicago saloon and drank pint of whisky.
He then closed a wager with the barkeeper
that he could drink quart of whisky before
leaving the bar. He accomplished this feat
! in few minutes, but upon turning round
| to walk out, fell dead.
THE Executive orders recommended
by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue
have been signed by the President, trans
ferring the Indian Territory from the Fifth
oil sfx.fr Of ri to hat
Kansas, and remodeling the three collection
districts of Texas so as to conform to the
judicial districts.
THE Tranhttyter Zeitung has again
been prosecuted for disrespect to Bismarck,
and its editor sentenced to one months i'm
prisonment.
A DENVER & Rio Grande freight train,
suddenly rounding a curve near Granite,
Colo, crashed into the caboose of a con-
struction train, containing twenty men, kill
ing one and injuring ten others.
CRUz DOMINIC was hanged at Ba-
kersfeld, CAL, May 81, for the murder of
Francisco Cuneo. lie died protesting Lis
innocence. John b. Douglass was hanged
at Virginia City on the same day, for the
murder of Mrs. Alice carp.
IT is reported that Prof. Riley will be
reinstated by DR.. Loring in his old place as
Entomologist of the Agricultural Depart
ment.
PRESIDENT GARFIELD has appointed
! Volney v. Smith, of Arkansas, United States
| Consul at st. Thomas.
JUDGE CRoZIER, of the District Court
of Leayenwortb, Kansas, has rendered a de-
cision in the case of druggist charged
with violation of the Prohibito-
ry law, : to the effect that
the law is unconstitutional, inasmuch
as it undertook to prohibit the
1 sale OF articles which under the
amendment it could only regulate,
and that the act was further in contravention
of the Constitution because it undertook to
confer Judiciary powers upon the Probate
| Court.