American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-06-25
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
JAMES MowBRAY, nine wears old,

| JAMES MOWBRAf, nine years Oiu, was
arrested at Philadelphia, Pa, the other day,
for deliberately throwing handful of I'M
slaked lime-into little girls eyes. When
the girls screams attracted crowd he re-
treated TO a neighboring. lot, where, it is
said, he coolly informed companion that he
had " fixed that Irish girl.''
PARTICULARS have been received OF
the wreck of the steamer Tararna, on the
/ coast Of New Zealand. One hundred and
thirty lives were lost. Some seventy bodies
have been recovered and buried near the
coast.
A DISPATCH from Copenhagen says
several thousand workmen are on a strike in
Stockholm, and riots in Sweden recently
are believed to be incendary in origin. The
condition of the country Is unsatisfactory.
GEORGE ARMOUR, head of the we'll
known Chicago grain firm Of Armour, Dale
& Co., has just died in Englond, where he
had gone for rest and recreation.
The house of William Stout, a pros
porous farmer near Agency Ford. Buchanan
County, Mo-, burned on the 18th, and Mr..
Stout's mother, an aged and infirm woman,
who lad been left alone on the premises,
/ persisted In the flames.
A HURRICANE destroyed several
houses and ravaged large section of coun-
try west of Galveston, Texas.
AYoUNG German named Malapert, a
SON of the Baron Fritz Won .Malapert. of
Hesse- Darmstadt, committed suicide in Chi
| cago by leaping from the top of the Water
Works tower, distance of fully 200 feet.
Cause undetermined.
The Kentucky State Commissioner of
Agriculture reports great damage to crops
from drought.
MIR. ALFRED CR1swEII. a farmer re-
sidino r.,r p,ymord IN WINS RETURNING
with his family from meeting in town on
the night of the 18th. when in crossing the
track of the Wabash, St.4Louis &. Pacific
Railroad his wagon was struck by the ex-
press train. running at a high rate of speed ,
instantly killing Mrs. Criswcll, her babe
dwo years old), and two nephews, aged re-
spectively eight and fifteen years; also one
horse. Strange to relate, Mr. Crisweil and
Mr.. Clark and'wife, yle wcre I'm The wagon,
were on1g alighfly injured. Th6 verdict of
the Coroner's jury was that they came 10
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"a" o. 'oN 20 anu Doii N',u'' poun
young men, went over the Jam at Marsnali-
town, Iowa, ana were drowned.
DESTROYED by fire. The entire business nor
ton of the town is swept away. Loss about
5000. 900.
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twenty-one wears, Imprisonment in the PEN
iteutiary. Emery resisted and was shot in
the head. II was sunnosed he was dead
when HANGED
Tur ;,,rv i, tho Victoria d;sastor in
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verd;c, ce,sur;rg tho owner c,nt.in and
enyinser nj the Inflated YES .el The Gov
arrmant Trsnector e. .Iso ho,d 20 hl.mo
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committed suicide bv in mining from bridge
into the river near Central CITY. Colo. His
matrimopi,l relations were unbapnv
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