American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-02-26
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
CHRISTIAN MARRGAET and wife were
suifocated at Milwaakes ~ gesSfsen s;cosi7l

suffocated at Milwaakee ~ gesSfsen a;coai-
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IT has been intimated to President
Hayes by British agents that the Irish
American sympathizersYith the~Parnellite
movement contemplate d iN sion of.sS lama
1 da by way of rcprisui f6r the coercion bill
| The President says he will Took after the
matter.
h F. A. MCCAIN, in the. employ of the
Roberts Torpedo, Company, was driving
along the highway, fifteen miles southeast of
Bradford, Pa, in a sleigh, with 200 pounds
/ Of nitro-glycerine. The horses became
! frightened and ran against bowlder, caus-
| ing an explosion. McClain was torn to
mince meat, both horses We're killed, and no
! evidences of the sleigh could be found.
The Lancashire (Engo golfers are
ca = strike, :. - .Fs-..ffs -, +
! LIEUT.. PIERcY ROPER, Royal Engi-
ncers, was, found shot dead in Brompton
Barracks, a revolver was found lying some
distance away. The murder is believed to
have been committed by Fenian.
THREE steamers have been chartered
to convey British troops to South Africa.
Or a crew of eighteen men of the ship
Neomanton, lost on the coast of Newfound-
land, only the Chief Mate, McCreechy, and
| Seaman Dooley were saved. 4 b.
AT Lee Mines, Colo, a giant-powder
cartridge laid under the stove exploded.
Four men were injured. ! = ~
GEORGE M. RoUsH, a wealthy stock
raiser, living near Bloomington, H., died
about three years ago, OF what was thought
| to be heart disease. 1t is now reported that
Peter, the second son OF deceased, died re-
| Gently in northern Iowa, after making the
| confession that he murdered his father by
putting poison in glass of water standing
athis bedside.
PRESIDENT GONZALES, of Mexico,
has made a grant of 800 leagues of land in
the Province of Sonora to Samuel Bannan, n
Californian, who proposes to colonize 1000
American families in the district. Gen.
Manuel Castro, who commandsd the native
Californian forces in battles fought with
Commodore Stockton and Gems. Kearney and
Fremont in 1S46, will be appointed Military
Governor Of the Province, in order that he
may assist the colonization scheme.
THE pursuit of Sitting Bull has been
abandoned. Major Ilges will return to Fort
Buford after securing few hostile Sioux,
who are secreted in the Yanktonais village.
A WASHINGTON Associated Press dis
patch says ths Greenbackers are working In
dustriousIy with n view of presenting COM
pact front in the next House and there hold
ing the balance Of power. Weaver and Gill
lette, whose terms expire with this Com
gross, will devote their energies to Keeping
their party organized. They insist that
the Greenbackers-elec to the next Con-
gress will vote together; that not one will
vote either with the Republicans or Demo
Gratis. The Republicans lack one of the
number necessary to ,organize the House,
and Greenbackers will force the Democrats
to Join them to beat the Republicans. Lead
ing Republicans, however, say that Brumm. {
q Pennsylsania, and Ford, Of. Misf oiirb will
certainly vote with Them in the organization
Of the House.
ALL branchestof labor in the mills at
Fall River, Mass, have voted TO strike, the
date to be kept secret.
THE Bayou Lafoufche packet AS
sumption exploded her donkey. boiler at New
Orleans on the 18th, killing a negro laborer
and seriously iaduring several other persons.
THREE children were fatallys burned
a Danielsonvile, Conn.,, while kindling the
fire with kerosene. Their motherwas badly
burned in trying to extinguish the flames.
AT Robinson's Camp, near Leadville,
Colo, on the 18th, Jack McIlhaney, a po-
liceman, shot and killed George, Harbor,
miner, and was himself shot and mortally
wounded some time later by an unknown
assassin, doubtless in revenge for killing
Harbor, which the latter's friends claim was
entirely without Justification. There was
great excitement throughout the camp,
which was heightened by the influx OF num-
Der of armed men from Kokomo, an adjoin-
ing town, some Of whom were friends of the
miners and others In sympathy with the So
called slaw and order" party. A serious
collision seemed likely to occur between the
opposing factions. c
The st. Louis police imbroglio has
been settled by the deposition of Boland as
Vice. President Of the Board Of Commission
ers and tAelreappointment of McDonough
Chief, with plenary powers. <
SEVERAL cases of trichinosis have &C.
.csrred at Rondout, N. Y. : : % -
EIGHT Indians lost their lives by the
recent floods in the neighborhood of Ilges'
camp at Poplar River. --
The headquarters Of the Land League
are to be removed to Paris. 1t is alleged
that mail communications have been tam
pered with by Government officials, and all
important communications will henceforth
be dispatched by special courier. In the
House Of Commons, in response to an in
qufry, the Home Secretary said the power to
open letters in transit through the post is
reserved to the Home Secretary for exercise
m exceptional cases. He declined to make
any statement as to whether 1t had been re-
Gently exercised.
THE boiler in, Bush's mill. in Isabella
County, Mich, exploded on.the 10th, Kill
ing Andrew Gearheart and -wounding four
others.
THE United States National Bank of
New York has been organized with Gen.
Grant, III. Victor Newcomb, Fl. f. Vail,
Morris X. Jessup, Henry b. Hyde, Logan c.
Murray, w. Il. Travers and John j. McCook
as Directors. Ii. Victor Newconb becomes
President and Logan C. Murray, Cashier.
PIERCE's Palace Hotel, at Buffalo, N.
Y, was entirely destroyed by fire on the
morning Of the 16th. Loss, $3.50, 200; insur-
ance, $500, 900.
THERE are sixteen cases of small pox
at Calliope, Sioux County, Iowa, 43 miles
north of Sioux City, and they are unable to
procure nurses for the sick or help to bury
the dead, and are also cut off from supplies
of coal and provisions. Sioux City has been
called upon to aid the stricken community.
- GEORGE KIeKETT, planter, his
daughter Martha, and colored man, were
drowned west of Weathersford, Tex, by the |
falling Of n bridge over Thompson's Creek.
= The Missouri Valley Bank at Kansas
City suspended payment on the 18th, after !
brief run. The bank officials claimed they |
would beable to resume again in a few davs |
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