American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-08
TELEGRAPHIC NOTES.

n dlu OIl GuO N1hIIOGJ0S
Columbia and Augusta Railroad fell
through trestle- bridge over the South Fork
Greek, about 10 miles south of Rock Hill, S.
c., on the oath. Two passenger-coaches went
to the bottom of the stream and were nearly
submerged. Most of the passengers sue
ceeded in climbing out of the car windows,
although several were drowned and others
injured.
AT Benton Ridge, Hancock County,
o., on the 22d, DIR. Frank H. Knapp shot and
killed DR.. Fl. X. Mott with a shotgun. Both
were practicing physicians. Dr-Knapp says,
as defense of his crime, that DR.. Mott had
several times fired at him with revolver,
and did so on the day of the shooting, and
that he fired the fatal shot while under the
conviction that his life was in imminent
peril.
Charles Jones, half-breed despera-
do, who attempted to kill his wife and child
at McAllister Station, Indian Nation, was
arrested and subsequently shot and killed
while attempting to escape from custody.
Two men named Shepard Clark and
Israel Doty were recently killed in Don Juan
County, Cal, about 10 miles from Pagosa
Springs, it is supposed by a Mexican and
Navajo Indian. The discovery of their dead
bodies was the first known of their murder
The Bismarck coach was attacked and
captured by Indians, on the 22d, near Sui
phur Springs Station, about so miles from
Deadwood. The passengers saved their
sealps by taking to the bluffs. After ran
sacking the mail-bags, the Indians killed
two of the horses and decamped with the
other two.
A fearful gale ragged around the Brit
iSh TS1a On he mic Of ha OAfh Thirty
vessels were reported ashore between Rams
gate and Deal, and many lives were lost.
The Virginia rivers rose so high on
the oath and 25th that great damage resulted
in many parts of the State. At Richmond
the water was IS inches above the high-water
mark of 1870, all the streets in the lower part
of the city being inundated. The gas
works were submerged, the water works
badly damaged, and a large number of
bridges were swept away. The property
lost was estimated at over 81 100000. At
Danville, Charlottesville, Lynchburg, and
other places in Virginia, as well as at vari-
GUS places in North Carolina, Maryland, West
Virginia and Western Pennsylvania, much
damage was done by high water. The Bal
timore and Ohio, Virginia Midland and other
railroads, and the James River and Kanawha
Canal were all seriously damaged in various
places. The aggegate losses by the flood will
amount to several millions.
A late Guatemala dispatch says: A
topic of absorbing interest is a conspiracy to
murder the President of Guatemala and his
advisers, and to overthrow the Government,
which was discovered on the 1st inst, in
time to prevent it, by the arrest and execu-
tion of II of the ringleaders, including Maj.
Kopesky, in charge of the artillery barracks,
Capt. De Leon Rodas, second in command,
and Gabriel Aquilar, rich priest.
The murderer Rand was removed
under requisition from st. Louis to Gales
burg, Knox County, ILL.,, on the 9th, where
he will be tried for murder.
Mrs. E. P. Shall, boarding g-house
keeperat Columbus, o., was fatally burned
on the 2Sth while kindling a.fre with coal
oil.
The desperate Rand has been identi-
fied as man known as Charles A.Vanzandt
who was sentenced to the Northern Indiana
Penitentiary in 1872, for the term of five
years, for burglary committed at Lafayette,
Ind. He ewas discharged in May last, upon
the expiration of his sentence.
A colony of about so persons left
Pittsburg on the 2Sth, on fiatboat, intend
ing to go to Arkansas by water. just as
they entered the Ohio River the flatboat be-
came unmanageable, and, striking fleet of
coal barges, was completely wrecked, the
whole party being thrown into the river.
A Swiss family named Rife, consisting of IA
ther, mother and two children, and another
man, name unknown, were drowned. All
the others were rescued.
Roper, alias McGhee, a negro, was
hanged by mob at Columbia, Tenn, on the
9th, for an attempted outrage upon white
lady named Miss Bette Templeton.
The Second National Bank of Lafay-
cite, Ind, suspended payment on the 2sth
The Cashier, Mr.. Charles F. Mayo, acknowl-
edges himself defaulter to the amount of
So 900, which he had squandered in outside
speculatiOns.
Three colored children, aged 10, s
and years, were left alone in a house in Sc
dalia, Mo-, on the evening of the Goth. In
some way the house took fire, and the two
younger children were burned to death.
The eldest barely escaped.
A saw-mill boiler exploded near Gar
land, Pa, on the 2Sth, killing two men and
injuring another.
At Bridgeport, Conn, on the morn
ing of the 3Oth, Daniel Stillman and wife,
aged invalids, were found in their dwelling,
murdered. A colored man was arrested on
suspicion.
At Cincinnati, on the I'd, Charles R.