American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-03-19
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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Treasurer of the Toledo City Board of Wa
terworks, Is defaulter to- the apount OF
from 5000 to $4,000, and has absconded-
gone to Europe.
The Pennsylvania State Hospital for
| the Insane, at Danville, was partially de-
stroyed by fire on the night of the 18th There
were about 500 inmates, the larger portion
of whom fortunately were attending service
| in the chapel at the time the fire broke out,
| and so were kept together and -unler control
without much difficulty. No lives were lost
| The building was an immense one and cost
| about 5000, 200.
A RECENT railroad collision in West
Virginia RESUMED in the death OF DIR. Cald-
well, of White Sulphur Springs, and two en-
gineers and fireman.
f. w. SMITH, bookkeeper for Potter
& Co., at Aitkssn, Mimi, was fatally stabbed
by McGaw, of the firm of Sampson & Nc
Cav, dying witain n few hours. The killing
seems to have been done with but very slight
proyocation, disputed item in an account
having been the original cause OF the contro-
versy.
TEN buildings were burned at Boil
var, Tenn. Loss about $25, 900; insurance,
$11. 900.
AN ol-mill at Hickman, Ky, burned
the other night. Al,e Jones, who was Sleep
ing in the building, burned to death, and a
Mrs. Person, who occupied an adjoining
house, became crazeI with fear and leaped
from a window into the seething flames.
Several other persons were badly injured.
By the falling of a building in course
of construction on Larimer Stpeet, Denver,
Patrick j. Smith was killed and Thomas
Cowley had his back broken, and has since
died. Four other workmen were wounded,
none seriously. The accident was caused by
poor construction.
The office of the Union Express Com
pany ut Louisville, Ky.,,was robbed the 9TH
er night Of some So, 500, the story being that
masked robbers broke in, bound and gagged
the Waterman and> blew. open the safe.
Investigation Htened the crime upon the
night watchmal N6dhA FpaRname@F Frank
Bfker, and his xncle, Fam SRose Nged
abGft 80, the latter being tie brother o. Val.
Roe, formefyPf the AdrAa1anl moreSe-
Gently fthA taion Express (m1seys B4h
men arsNundef arrest.
! Ex-PRxs1DENr. HAIES had a cordial
rec s s esxlands And Fremont on
The first important ARREST under NE
Coercion act was made ontthe sth, the VIC
prominent merchant, n cotisin of Michael
Davit, and actively identified with the Land
League. The arrest caused great excite;;.
ment.
AT st. Louis, on The 18th, Michael j.
Reilly, anex-policemana and ex-lctter-carrier,
shot and instantly killed Albert c. Hatch. n
shoemaker, aged AZ. Rp9s wife was the
cause of the murder, She haSinA on several
occasions left him to take up with Reilly,
who is himself a married man with several
children. The injured husband had doubt
less made threats against the destroyer OF his
domestic peace, and both men went
armed, prepared to shoot on sight.
The meeting finally took place. Hatch tried
to draw his revolver, but was forcibly re-
strained by a third party, and meanwhile
Reilly. who was greatly excited, shot his an
tagonfst through the head the muzzle of his
revolver almost touching his face. The
murderer gave himself up without resist
ance.
The case. Of the United States against
Captain u. s. Payne, Of Oklahoma fame,
came up in the United States Court at Fort
Smith, Ark. on the Sth, on demurrer to de-
fendant's answer, and was argued at length.
The case was taken under advisement by the
Court until next term.
the Santa Fe Road and the Mexican Central
project have organized another company,
which will lay track from,Altaaa, onthe
Gulf Of Mexico, to Durango, some two hum
dred miles distant. - q
THE fine block of bulldogs ON Union
Avenue, between Mulberry aud Sdnta Fe'
Streets Kansas City, occupied by Wood,
ward, Faxon & Co., wholesale druggists,
Kelly, Willis & Co., Wholesale hardware, and
Oglebay q Co., wholesale. grocefs, WAS en-.
tirely destroyed by fire on the morning of the
10th, together with nearly the entire stocks
of the three firms named. The origin Of the,
fire is unknown. Woodward, FaxDn & Co. 3
loss, $4,000; insured for $4,000. Oglebay
& Co.'S loss, $4,000; insured for $4,000
Kelly, Willis & Co.. loss $50, 0O0., fully in
sured. The buildings, owned by Leach,
Olmstead & Hall, were valued at so, 900, on
which there is SIS, 200 insurance.
FOUR men were badly injured, two
1t was thought fatally, by the explosion of
milestone in Fischer's Touring mills, South
Desplaines Street, Chicago, an The 10Th. Au-
gust Fischer, proprietor Of the mill, j. II.
Taylor. a miller, and Theodore Blakeley and
1ehn Newberry, laborers, were the victims
Of the casualty. 1t was said the last two
could not survive.
THE dwelling of Mrs. Levi Belknap,
Of East Barnard. Vermont, was burned, and
her body was found in the ruins. Suspi-
cious circumstances, strongly indicating
murder, will probably lead to the arrest OF
one or more persons.
THE principal business portion of
Rosita, Colo, including the Post office, was
destroyed by fire on the morning of the 10th.
Losses aggregate about $780, 600, with COM
paratively small insurance.
GEORGE E. GOOCH, heavy Chicago
butter and cheese exporter, failed on the
10th.
QUEEN CAROLINE, the widow of King
Christian WILL, of Denmark, is dead.
Mrs. A. B. VINES, of Elkader, Clay
ton County, Iowa, died from the effects of
eating canned salmon. which had become
tainted and the can corroded.
SEVERAL lives were lost on the 9th,
by the burning of a large drapery establish
ment, known as LIE Printenps, in Paris.
A BOILER undergoing repairs at the
Phoenix Iron Works at Buffalo, N. Y, ex-
ploded while being tested on the 18th, kill
ing six men and wounding seven others.
UP to the 10th of March about fifty
arrests had been made in Ireland under the
Coercion law. The most conspicuous per-
sons so far arrested are Joseph B. Walsh,
an extensive merchant in the Town of Gas.
tlebar, in the west part of the island, . rela-
tive of Michael Dayitt; Cornelius Keogh, Z
farmer living at Cahirconlish, in the.
County of Limerick; and Michael
b. Boytop, 4. The latter Is