Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-08-27
An Express Train PreCipitated Into
Canal.
kidnapper Of Italian Children Brought
10 Grief,
A Dreadful Condition of Affairs in
Kansas.
The Pack Horses Of an Exploring
Party Stolen.
Politics and Railroad Matters in the
Golden state.
HON z NJ e WS.
BALTIMORE-PAsrA AND PRESENT.
The American Celebrates Its Centennial
Anniversary.

celebrates its centennial anniversary to-
day. The office is handsomely decorated
with flags, coat of arms of the State, etc.
Accompanying its morning edition, it
publishes fac sin1iJe of the first number
OF the paper, dated Aug. 20, 1878, which
with other interesting matter, contain
long advertisement of George Washing
ION, setting forth the advantages of 10000
acres of land on the Ohio and Great Kan
avail rivers, for which he had lust receiv-
ed patent. 1t also prints an illustrated
supplement with Baltimore town in 1878,
and pictures its first office. The popula-
ton of Baltimore town was then 4,S76.
Railroad Mem on n Strike.
ROCHESTER,, N. Y, Aug. 19.-The con-
ductors and brakesmen on the freight
trains of the western division of the New
York Central Railroad last night struck
for advanced pay, in accordance with
promise made them month since. No
freight trains are moving between this
place and Buffalo.
The express train due here at o'clock
this morning from Detroit, on the Great
western Railway, is in the canal at Thor
aid. The train was drawn by two locomo-
tlves and consisted of seven baggage and
express cars and an unusual number of
passenger cars. The draw was open, and
was not observed by the engineer. Both
engines and all the baggage and express
cars plunged into the chasm, so thas there
was not room for the passenger coaches.
1t is reported that all the passengers and
employees escaped injury.
Missing.
LOUISVILLE, Aug. ia man named
Lord, who is said 10 be travelling corre-
spondent of the Herald, has been missing
since Tuesday. Foul play is apprehended.
ATLANTA, GA, Aug. 20.-At a colored
Church Fair, last night, eight rowdy me-
a6 q p1rIla ttp ctoh ho1
him with knife. He drew q pistol and
shot one of the eight dead in the church
door and the rest ran away.
The Children steaIers.
New YORK, August 2o.-Vicenzo Malto,
an Italian padrone, was arraigned before
q U. S. Commissioner to-day, ON the
charge of keeping italian children in a
state of servitude. One of his victims tes-
titled that Malto decoyed him from home,
compelled him to go out with musical in
Struments ndbrlng him a stipulated sum
of money daily, undera penalty of brutal
chastisement. The children were beaten,
kicked and tied up whenever they failed
to satisfy Malto's requirements. They
were fed on bread and cheese only. The
examination adjourned until tomorrow.
Bloody RencOntre.
AUGUSTA, GA, Aug. 20'-A bloody and
fatal affray occurred at Swannsboro' Eman-
uel county, Ga, to-day, between James G.
King and Bruce McLeond, which resulted
in the death of both parties. King advis-
ed his sister-in-law not to receive Nc
Leonds attentions. She acted according
ly, writing note to that effect This eX-
asperated MIcLeond, who while under the
influence of liquor, insulted King, which
the latter resented by slapping his face,
whereupon McLeond fired four times from
a revolver, fatally wounding King, who
returned the fire, inflicting wounds from
which McLeond died. Both parties are re-
specially connected. King was q lawyer
and McLeond clerk.
Lucky windfaII.
Mrs. Campbell and Mrs. Chambers, of
Madison, Ga, have fallen heirs to So, 000,-
600 in France, and leave here next Tues
day to claim their inheritance. The prop
erty is an inheritance from the estate OF
Reunaleon. The ladies are in receipt of a
letter from Judah P. Benjamin to the eff
feet that there will be no obstacle in their
way of obtaining possession of the proper
ty.
A Faiihless Watch.
CHICAGO, August 20.-The investigation
of the Chicago and Alton Railroad acct
dent, shows that the engineer on the coal
train found his watch an hour behind
time. If his watch had been right, he
would not have obeyed the conductors
orders to ego ahead ;" two minutes after
WHICH In6 COlllSlOu OCCuIIeu. ne ell
gineer was detained.
How They Settle Difficulties.
New ORLEANS, Aug. 20-On Monday
morning last DreuX Guidevay and Felix
SOleau, who had quarreed at a ball, met
in the old Grand Prairie, st. Laundry Par.
ish, to settle the difficulty by fist fight, tC
witness which about one hundred persons
assembled. After the fist fight, fight
with pistols, growing out of an old feud
between Guidevay and others present, re
suited in killing three men and MORALLY
wOunding a fourth. The conclusion ar
rived at by the coroner's jury was that Au
gustin Guidevay killed Carroll Blackman
DreuX Guidevay killed Alexander Deloin,
and Aristide Ordiga killed Dreux Guide
way. After being shot down, BlackmaI
fired three shots at Augustin Gudevay
who is between siXty-tive and seventy
years old, MORALLY wounding him. Sew
eral of the participants in the fight hav,
been arrested.
"BIeeding Kansas!"
FORT SCOTT, KANSAS, August 20.-A
special dispatch to the Monitor from Les
cygnes, county seat of Lyons county, state
that the greatest excitement exists there
A mob OF four hundred men have takeI
possession of the town and arrested tn