American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-06-01
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

William b. Walls, the Prosecuting
Attorney in the famous murder trial of
Nancy E. Glen, in Indiana, has made a con-
fession and allegation that $1,000 in cash
was paid to Judge Truman H. Palmer for
granting the nolle prosequi by which she
was set at liberty.
Mrs. Lydia Sherman, known as the
:" Connecticut Borgia,'' who -confessed-o
the killing of nine persons by poison-two
husbands and seven children-died in the
State Penitentiary at Hartford on the 10th.
Thebanking house of Joseph Rrown
at 1xI&esbarfe,g pa, has closed its doors,
causing great distress to the poorer classes,
who are the principal dopositors.
Forty lives were lost by the burning
recently Of the theater ut Ahmedrugger, in
in India.
From Richferd, VT, comes the news
that 600 Fenians. are drilling at Classy, n.
Y, IS miles west OF the first-named town.
An invasion of Canada is thought to be the
object, but the military are on the alert in
the Dominion.
On the Goth, subscriptions to the
per cent loan amounted to $274 500. ,,f.T
An agency of the OVERWHELMING Of San
Francisco was opened on the Goth in New
York.
At Corning, N. Y, on the goth, the
Corning, Cowanesque and Antrim railroad
car-shops burned. Loss, $4,000; insur-
ance So, 200.
A heavy wind, rain and hail-storm
ran all the way from Wheeling, W. Va, to
the lower part of Mississippi on the Goth
In vicksburg the rainfall in two hours was
over one and one-half inches.
The pleasure steamer Empress of In
dia, with party Of about IS persons on
board, became unmanageable and capsized
over a dam on Grand River at Gait, Ontario,
on the night Of the 22d. All the passengers
were plunged into the river below. Only
one body has been recovered, that of Henry
Jaffray of Gait, reporter for a newspaper.
Among the missing are Edwurd,Wren, Thos.
Hliiot, Fred. Kane, John BrazeF, JAS. Mont
gomery, one of the proprietors of the boat,
Andrew Jackson and David Scott.
Near Dubuque, Iowa, on the 21st,
three children Of farmer named John
| Wormkey were suffocated by the burning OF
sticks thrown into a wood-box. Wormkey
and wife had locked the children in the
room and gone to work in Il corn-field.
| Reports have been received at Lon.
! DIM, from Shanghai, annou siHg fiat there
| had been a rainfall in several provinces, that
| sowing is general and prospects for har-
| yesting encouraging.
The Coroner's Jury which has beer
holding an inquest on the victims OF the mil
| explosion at Minneapolis, has returned
verdict that the disaster was the result of At
explosion of mill-dust floating in the all
kindled by fire in the woodwork Of Wash
burn A Mill, originating ina spark from the
| stones running empty ,-r
The Committee on Commerce of the
Senate agreed to report fayorabIy the nam,
of st. Gem for Surveyor of the Port of st
Louis. fs-
Henry Roberts, colored, was hang
ed at Charlotte, N. c., ON the 24th, for tn,
murder of Gus Ware, also colored, in Feb
ruary last.
At Columbia, S. c., on the 22d, DIR
tJ. C. Cook was shot dead in his house dur
ling IA quarrel with his brother-in-law
Charles Martin, aged 20.
jesse Walker was hanged at Farmers
| vile, Union Parish, La, on the oath, for tn
murder of his cousin, Violet Simmons, il
February last. Both the murderer and hi
victim were colorstl. isrf
Governor Colquitt, of Georgia, ha
committed the death sentence of Mrs. Kat
Southern, of Pickens County, to imprison
ment in the Penitentiary for 10 years.
The rectifying establishment of MI
Christopher Sandheger, at Cincinnati, on
of the largest in-the West, has been seize
by Government officers account of alleg
ed non cancellation of stamps.
A destructive fire occurred at Parkers
burg, West Va, on the 2ith, II houses be
ing burned.
|, Three, firemen We're killed at Hart
ford, Conn, on the 2ith, by falling walls.
During severe storm on tho night c
the 2ist, an entire freight train OF Is car
together with the locomotive, went throug
a high trcstle on the Kansas Pacific Rail
road near Denver, into the yawning abys
below. Three men on the locomotive wer
| presumably killed, but nT long search fc
their bodies had proved unavailing, and sti
more strange to relate, no trace OF the loco
motive could be found.
Stockholders of the Consolidated Vii
ginia Mine have begun proceedings again
the firm of Flood Il O'Bricn, trustees OF II
company, to recover the sum of 81, 6}f y,
alleged TO have been wrongfully diverted /
c said trustees in their management of Il
= mine. The defendants claim that the OF