American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-11-04

thrown down an embankment 60 feet high.
Fifteen hundred passengers were on the
train, all belonging to Madison and neigh
boring counties in the State.
The residence of Chief of Police
Blocher. of Little Rock, Ark, was burned
on the night of the 22d. 1t was probably
the work of incendiaries, and the family
barely escaped with their lives. Loss,
S., 900.
Yellow Jack" Donahue, noted
member of the Molly Maguires, has been
convicted of murder at Pottsville, Pa. He
is the tenth member Of the gang who has
been convicted of murder, and many others
are under arrest but not yet tried.
A horrible domestic tragedy is report
ed from the vicinity of Rushville, Ind.
Chadwick B. Britain, a young man from
Paris, KY, had married the only daughter
of John Rhodes, a farmer, and, after living
peaceably with the old people nearly q
year, finally demanded possession of the
| farm. Upon their refusal he became
to leave. He did1 fsaee and was ordered
but returned on the night of the oath, and ,
after an alteration with the old lady, shot
her dead. Mr.. Rhodes, hearing the shot,
hastoned to the house, and was fired at, but
the pistol missed fro. Britain then fred
twice into his own body, dying instantly.
Brittain's young wife, now approaching
confinement, is reported nearly insane over
the affair. Britain left letter blaming Mrs.
Rhodes, his mother-in-law, for making
trouble.
There are, as usual, conflicting &C.
counts Of the origin of disturbance at Port
Gibson, Miss, on the 21st, in which several
shots were exchanged between the whites
and blacks. One negro was wounded and
several arrested and lodged in Jail.
Intelligence was received at Paris on
the 25th that the Turkish Consul and wife
at Tif1is, in Asiatic Russia, had been assas-
sinated.
A serious accident occurred on the
New Jersey Central Railroad near Somer.
vile, on the night of the 9th, caused by a
misplaced switch. The train went off the
track, the engine was turned upon its side,
two coaches were piled upon the Iocomo-
tive, and three other coaches were thrown
from the rails. Three passengers were
taken out Of the wreck dead. Five others
were seriously wounded, and nine slightly.
1t is alleged that some of the strikers ON the
road purposely misplaced the switch, but
this seems to be merely conjecture.
The Continental Life Insurance Com
pany of New York has suspended, and j.
J.Anderson has been appointed Receiver.
The ofRcers Of the company attribute the
suspension to the general shrinkage Of real
estate and stocks and bonds. With ju-
dicious management and curtailed expenses
the officers think the policy holders will not
lose any thing eventually.
Henry Scales, colored, was hung in
the Illinois District of the Cherokee Nation,
by the Cherokee authorities, on the 21st |
inst, for killing another colored man. This |
was Scales third murder.
An explosion occurred at St. Johns, !
N. B., on the Goth, in the building occu-
pied by Adam Young as a tinsmith shop. |
The building was set on fire, and several |
mon working in the fifth story were burned
to death and four probably fatally injured. |
Two others were burned severely.
The Jury in the case of Alexander
Sullivan, on trial in Chicago for the murder
Of Francis Hanford, were unable to agree
and were therefore discharged on the 26th. |
It Is said that the Jury stood eleven for ac-
luittal and one for conviction. Sullivan
was subsequently admitted to bail in the
sum Of So ZOO.
At Calhoun Falls, VT, six miles from
St. Johnsbury, on the 9th, Frank johnson,
If Windham, Me-; Charles Putney, of
Concord, N. H.; and Joseph Heon, of St.
Johnsbury, were excavating for q paper
mill, and placed some rend rock to dry un-
Ter stove in the basement. While they
we're at work on the first floor the explosive
omitted hIovUiDO tho hrIf ldjpn which |