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

A collision occurred on the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western Railroad, near
Goldsboro, Pa. on the 3Oth, by which i've
persons were killed and 10 wounded.
A false alarm of fire in Chinese the
alter in San Francisco on the night of the
60th occasioned panic and stampede, in
which about 70 persons were killed and as
many more wounded.
Two large buildings of the Miami
Powder Mills, located IA miles from Spring
field, o., blew up with terrific violence on
the afternoon Of the LIST. Michael Deneane
was blown to atoms, and several other per-
sons were severely injured. The concus-
sion was SO great that windows were broken
miles distant. Antioch College, at Yellow
Springs, was considerably damaged, and
the shock was felt with great force at
Springfield, Xenia, London and other
points. The damage is estimated at $15,-
600.
Some Of the personal property of
Brigham Young was sold by public auction
on the LIST, to satisfy the award of the Court
in the Ann Eliza divorce case.
General Augur received dispatch
from Artesia, Miss, on the I'd, stating that
meeting there on the previous day ended
in free fight, and the wounding Of six me-
groes, one MORALLY. United States troops
were called upon by the citizens, and their
prompt appearance prevented further dis
turbance. The citizens requested the
troops to remain to prevent a repetition of
the riot.
At Keota, Iowa, on the 1st, Mr.. and
Mrs. Vincent and a Mr.. Gilman, well
~, - xhok
ing the railroad track in q buggy, when an
engine backed down upon them. Mr.. and
Mrs. Vincent were instantly killed, and
Mr.. Gilman fatally injured.
By the breaking of car-axle on the
Pennsylvania Railroad, on the night of the
LIST, near Center Valley, three sleepers and
one passenger-car were thrown from the
track. The brakeman and porter were
killed, and several others injured.
The Chicago and Southwestern Rail-
road was sold on the LIST under a decree of
foreclosure, to the Iowa Southern and Mis-
souri, Northern Railroad Company, for 81, :
572, 500. 1t is understood the Chicago,
Rock Island and Pacific will get it.
Eugene Catchings and Bill Payne
were hanged at Kaufman, Texas, on the
Sd, for the murder of John Love, near Ter
rell, in Kaufman County, on the 18th of
May last. Catchings was the son Of a Mis-
sissippi planter, and was only % years of
age. Payne was mulatto, aged about %,
born and raised in Illinois. John Love, for
whose murder they were hanged, was an
industrious gardener from Pennsylvania,
s. years old. Robbery was the incentive to
the crime.
A party of negroes broke into resi-
dence near Aiken, s. c., on the night Of the
I'd, and murdered Mr.. Hanslam and his
nephew, named Postman. After robbing
the premises the murderers fired the dwell
ing.
Francis Thompson, the notorious ne
gro, who for years figured as woman and
imposed on the Congressional Committee in
connection with the riots in 1866, died in the
hospital at Memphis on the Sd.
The following sensational story is tel
egraphed from Woodstock, VT: Last even
ing, shortly after dark, Myron Emery, lad
OF II, was seized near his home by three
masked men, bound, gagged, and dragged
Two miles to Silver Lake and thrown in .
The men fed, and Emery managed to free
himself and get ashore, where he was found
completely exhausted and insensible. The
perpetrators have not been discovered and
no cause can be assigned.
A serious accident occurred to the