The American citizen. [volume] (Topeka, Kan.) 1888-1909, 1889-05-10
THE SOUTH.

THE SOUTH.
John WRIGHT, living north of Honey
Grove. Tex, recently told Frank Evans
story Of a scandalous character concern
ing a Young lady under a promise not to
repeat it. Evans put the story in clrcula-
tion and gave Wright as the author. This
made trouble for Wright and he went to
Evans and asked a retraction. Evans
refused and Wright told him he would
kill him, and, though Evans begged for
his life, he was shot down.
FRANK MUDD, a telegraph operator at
Jasper, Ala, while sitting at his desk re-
! Gently during a thunderstorm, was struck
and instantly killed by lightning.
JESSE RUSSELL was horribly mangled at
| Selma, Ala, by the premature discharge
Of a cannon on centennial day.
| FREIGHT was wrecked near Cisco,
Tex, on the 1st, but no one was injured
| THE dispatches sent out from Texas
purporting to give details of the riotlng
at Siloa and Guanajuato in Mexico were
stated to be gross exaggerations. Inc
prefect at Silao was assasslnated and MS
was the only life lost in the entire affair.
The authorities have restored order.
ALMOST the entire business portion or
Stuttgart, Ark, was destroyed by hre the
other night, causing $4,000 loss with only
$4,000 insurance.
THE ten days. quarantine at Sanford,
Fla. against yellow fever has been raised
and the guards dismissed.
THE Supreme Court Of Florida in test
case has decided that the Legislature hqs
the right to reduce railroad rates to
point too low to permit the earning OF
operating expenses.
THE Board of Trade at Little Rock, Ark
has sent petition to President Harrison
for the appointment of merchant living
west of the Mississippi river as membe
| | of the Inter S ate Commerce Commission
A TORNADO struck Warsaw, N. e., OF
the Cd, demolishing many dwellings, ais
the Presbyterian church.
t HAYES, the engineer charged at BIZ
Q mingham, Ala, of the murder of his wifi
and child. ha, been found guilty ana In
= penalty fixed at death.
t A PRIVATE letter from Morrillton, Ark
8 states that an attempt to assassinate ex
s Sheriff Harry CoblenlZ had been made
the street of that place by Oby Bentley
Il The trouble grew out Of the electio
r, frauds.
4. RARoN ERLANGER has returned from
|. trim through the Southern States, an
It speaks in glowing terms of the future
that section.
The session of the Canadian Parliamel
l. was prorogued by the Governor-G ener
10 on the ID The speech congratulated Il
e members on their good work.
THE court of Tipperarv, Ireland, h
\ affirmed the sentences of John O'Conno
W Thomas Condor, Charles Tanner and NJ
y Manning, Irish members of Parliamen
Of for violation of the Crimes act.
y JOHN DILLON, the Irish leader, spoke
i. a monster meeting at Melbourne Austr
liza. recently, when FL 900 was subscrib
ID for the Irish cause.
Ve GENERAL BoULANGER has summoned
Il council Il his supporters to meet in Lo
don.
r. SIX dervishes have been executed
a. Wady Halfa, Egypt for outrages
I'D women and children.
r. The consular body in London have p
sented Mr. Waller. the retiring Amerlc
he Consul General, with a gold-moun'
cane and a gold-mounted umbrella
e. replving to a speech made in behalf OF
*, donors Mr.. Waller expressed his pleas'
vo that such good man as Mr.. New the
coming Consul General, was to succ'
lat him.
cav 4hE Ivy oAAoS AS'~-S
les nounced that they will not attend the
The given by President Carnot in honor OF
the opening of the Paris Exposition.
FREDERICK GRANT United States
m. lister to Austria, and his wife were /
ON sented to Queen Victoria on the Sd.
bed THE Freeman's Journal states that
md Marquis of Ormonde will succeed L
Londonderry as Viceroy of Ireland.
one HENRY B. SMITH, the paymaster or
SIX United States corvette Essex, who dis
reared with $1,000 of the Governn
md money, has been found at the home of
ind mother, crazed by liquor and the me
one gone.
are THE sugar crop of Cuba is reported '
short with the prospect for any impr
h . ment next year bad owing to the 6
ago | drought -
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