American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-10-08


though several counties in Kansas also com
plain of grasshoppers. Spring wheat-Av
erage condition 81 against SO in 1880 and s
in 1879. Tobacco also shows a low average
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Or sixteen souls on board the shiI
Calcutta, from East Indies for Boston
wrecked near East London, only the mate
carpenter and one seaman were saved. Five
! bodies were recovered.
THE ship Alice Buck, from New York
to Portland, Oregon, laden with railway
iron, was wrecked on Ravens Beach, off the
Golden Gate, California, and ten of her
crew were drowned. An Anchor Line
steamer arrived at New York reports the
sinking of a.vesseI and loss of all on board.
A ferry-boat near Savannah, Ga, went
down with twelve colored people.
AT Williamsburgh, N. Y, Thomas
| Saunders, aged 50, refused marriage by his
| fandlady, Susan Bromley, aged 81, went of
and got drunk, and returning to the house
engaged the woman in conversation. While
talking he suddenly stabbed the woman and
then drew the knife across his own throat.
Both will die.
| THE boiler of an engine on the Min
ncsota & st. Paul Railway exploded on the
9th, near Prior Lake, while running at if
! teen miles an hour. The engine was thrown
| $50 feet forward and off the track, two cars
being derailed. Engineer Grove Bradbury
was thrown a considerable distance and died
soon after. The fireman and Conductor
Jones were slightly injured.
j. J. STETTHEIMER, young man of
good education and fine appearance, said to
be the son Of wealthy New Yorker, shot
himself through the breast at a Boston
hotel. When told by the doctors that he
might possibly recover, he expressed his
regret, saying he had no wish to live longer.
Financial embarrassments are the supposed
cause of his dependency.
IKE STOCKTON, one of the leaders of
the notorious Stockton Eskridge gang of
desperadoes, who was wanted in New Mex
leo for murder, rape, arson, and other
crimes, was fatally shot while resisting ar
rest.
THE boilers of Huff & Haltman's saw
mill, at Traskwood, Ark, exploded on the
24th, killing John N. Huff, one of the pro-
workmen.
Two roughs, named Mcdonald,
cousins, who brutally murdered two broth
igan, few days ago, were taken from the
jail and lynehed.
AN excursion train on the Airline
Railway, near Aylmer, Ont, colhded with
freight train at Orwell, five of the nine pas
senger coaches being completely wrecked.
Two passengers were killed outright and
several are missing, supposed to be buried
in the wreck. About twenty were severely
wounded, and a number slightly. Seven
bodies were subsequently recovered.
PRESLEY CowEN, aged 81, son of
Hon. D. d. T. Cowen, of st. Clairy1lle, o.,
made balloon ascension with Prof. Tony
White at the Guernsey County Fair, Wash
ington. The balloon in descending caught
upon tree top and pitched Cowen out. He
died within two hours from the effect Of his
injuries.
A TERRIBLE tragedy is meagerly re-
ported from Greene Cut, Burke County,
Ga. In a Magistrates Court quarrelsprans
up between Thomas Smith and his two sons,
Arthur and Mike, on one side, and Charles
Walker and Ed. Palmer on the other side.
All began firing about the same time. Pal
mer shot Arthur Smith dead, and old man
Smith killed Walker. Mike was mortally
AT Spartanburg, S. G., B. w. Hicks,
a white man, was hanged for the murder of
his wife last May.
AN entire passenger train, with the
exception of the locomotive and tender, was
blown from the track of the Des Moines &
Fort Dodge Railroad, at Perry, Iowa, dur
ing a recent gale. The coaches, which were
with passengers, were overturned.
and a number of persons were quite badly
bruised.
A DISPATCH from Victoria, B. c., |
says the steamboat Elizabeth j. Irving took |
fire at the town OF Port Hope, Frazer River, !
and was entirely consumed. She had on |
board the mails, eighty passengers and full |
freight, railway and other goods. All the |
it is thought, were saved. but a |
number of Indians are supposed to be lost.
ARNErA, a Cherokee murderer who
shot I. Dry for a jug of whisky, was exc
cuted at Tahlequah on the Goth.
MISCELLANEOUS.
CAMDEN, Schuyler County, ILL.,, was
struck by a tornado on the Goth, which de-
nolished several buildings and shattered
many others. The wife of DR.. Watts was
killed instantly by the falling walls of their
residence. A two-story building, occupied
rs q Qrup-etOTc anu ost-U1hCC vi IoWtE
floor, and second story as Masonic Hall,
was blown down and burned, entaifng a
loss of about 5000. The total loss in the
village is estimated at 500 Two
the Methodist Episcopal and
Christian, were completely demolished.
Dwelling houses and barns were torn and
twisted into all shapes; fences and orchards,
corn- fields and hardwood timber groves
we're completely riddled, and in places corn
fields appear like staIk-fields In early spring
after being pastured by droves Of cattle.
The estimated loss to the farming COM
mlrnity within five miles of the village is
s15, 900. The storm lasted but five minutes,
md was accompanied by heavy hail and
sheets of rain. Il
A sLEEPING-CAR of the train on the
Canada Southern Railroad due at Detroit
It 1 a. m. on the 27th plunged from the
transfer boat into the river at Crosse Isle,
md gave the half-dozen passengers who
we're inside a most tremendous ducking.
the car trucks became detached
md went Immediately to the bottom,
eaving the car floating upon
Is side, and the inmates
escaped through the windows. The most of
hem were ladies. None of the passengers
lad retired to their berths, or it is probable
,ome would have been drowned. The coach
attached to the sleeper, which was filed
With passengers, was dragged partially off
he boat, but the rear coupling held firmly