American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-01
TELEGRAPHIC NOTES.

DurlDg services at the Church of the
Ascension at Philadelphia, on Sunday, the
18th, Alexander B. Savers walked up the
aisle, drew pistol, and shot his wife, Eliz-
abeth, who occupied pew several feet in
advance of where Savers had been sitting.
The bullet entered her back, infiicting a NOR
tai wound. Sayers was promptly arrested.
Both parties were regular attendants at
church, but have been separated for two
years. The husband has already served a
term in prison for breaking her arm.
The Post-office at Grafton, O., was
entered by a burglar on the night of the
18th. Charles Allen, young man who slept
over the office, discovered the burglar as he
was making his exit, and commenced firing
upon him with revolver, but without ef-
feet, when the latter turned and shot Allen
the ball passing through his bowels, wound
ing him mortally, it was supposed.
Robert Chasten insisted upon going
home from singing-school with young lady
named Miller, against the wishes of her
brother, who undertook to pull Chasten
away and thwart him in his attempt. Chasten
resisted, whereupon young Miller drew
revolver from his pocket and deposited the
contents in the body of Chasten, two of the
balls taking effect in the breast, killing him
almost instantly. This occurred about 10
miles west of Deputy, Ind, on the evening
of the 18th.
The extensive rubber factory of L.
Candee Il Co., at New Haven, Ct, was total
ly destroyed by fire on the 10Th. About 300
men were at work in the building, the
larger number of them in the upper stories,
and the flames spread so rapidly that many
had to jump from the third-story windows,
several sustaining severe, if not fatal,
injuries. 1t was not known whether ali
escaped from the building. 1t seems almost
providential that a short time before the fire
broke out, all the female employees, about
800 in number, were dismissed for the dav
on account of there being no work for
their department, otherwise the loss
of life must have been great. The value of
the property destoyed is about $500, 900; in
surance, 1925, 900.
The Fort Edward Institute, at Fort
Edward, n. Y, was burned on the night of
the 10Th. Nearly 200 students were in at
tendance.
The clearinghouse of W. R. Knowl-
ton & Co., at Newton Falls, O., has sus-
pended. Liabilities said to be large.
A severe tornado is rep orted to have
passed over portion of middle Texas on
the 10Th, destroying much property
By the explosion of a kerosene lamp
in New York City on the evening of the
18th, Mrs. Thomas Doran and her two chill
dren were burned to death.
The Confederate monument at Chat
tanooga, completed and ready to erect, was
defaeed beyond repair on the night of the
18th by unknown persons.
The banking house of w. w. Smith.
at Hamburg, Fremont County, Iowa, sus-
pended on the Goth. Liabilities, 500, 900; as
sets, $40, 900.
AT Warsaw, Ind, on the evening of
the 21st, Libbie Jacques, aged 10, was terri
bly, and fatally burned about the face and
breast, by letting fall lamp filed with oil.
which she was lifting from a chandelier
While endeavoring to put out the flames on
her clothing, o. p. jacques, her father, burn
ed both hands so severely that it was thought
lmputation would be necessary. At Terre |
Haute, on the evening previous, Mary TareI- |
BY, servant girl in the employ of Hon. Bay |
ess Ell. Hanna, was so badly burned by lamp |
explosion that she was expected to die.
Nicholas Plumbing has been arrested |
It Wilton, Wis, charged with the murder of |
Mrs. Van Voorhees, and her three children, |
whose dead bodies were found in their burn |
ng cottage about the first of November. It |
vas supposed at the time that Mrs Van
Voorhees, killed her children and then took |
ler own life, but later Developments strong |