American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-04-27

/, George Leeds and Richard Varley
seamen of the United States steamer Pow
haitian, fell from the main-topgallant var,
while exercising in Norfolk Harbor, an,
were instantly killed.
The United States Supreme Court ha:
rendered decision in important lane
case-that Of Ray County, Missouri, agains
Vansycle-in which the validity Of the bond
is sustained and a judgment rendered
| against the county.
The Galveston NeaUs has information
4 of an Indian attack on the mail carrier neal
Fort Concho on the 18th. One man wa.
killed and the mail taken. The same da,
another party of indians captured 10 mule,
at Fort Davis. Cavalry are in pursuit. The
Indians are supposed to be from the Fort
| Stanton reservation.
The House of Commons on the 10th
adjourned to the 9th of May, and the House
| of Lords to the 18th.
Intelligence has been received from
Santiago de Cuba that the time for the sur
| render Of the Insurgents having expired,
active operations will commence in the East
ern Department against Maeeo and few
more chiefs, who are still under arms.
Miss Mary Kunkle, beautiful girl
aged 10, whose parents reside near Balbec,
Jay County, Ind, was assaulted and horri-
bly, maitreated by n tramp while on her
way home from the village on the 18th inst
The villain fled or he would have been sum-
marfly hanged by the Infatuated neighbors.
A sickening scandal concerning Epis-
copal Bishop Samuel Allan McCloskrey of
Michigan has found its way into print, and
the sudden resignation of the Bishop and
the announcement OF his departure for Eu-
rope are considered by many as tacit ad-
mission of some at least of the charges made.
His friends admit that he has been guilty of
certain indiscretions, and intimate that his
mind is affected. The lady in the case was
kind OF protege of the Bishops, is young
and pretty, and was recently married to a
young man of Detroit. The Bishop is "a
years of age. A number of highly amorous
and suggestive letters written by him to the
girl previous to her marriage are the most
troublesome evidence in this sorry affair.
John Lyon, a wholesale liquor-dealer
of Boston, objected to his daughters keep
ing company with a young man named
Charles I'll. Lauman. On returning from a
walk with the girl on the night Of the 18th,
Lauman was taken to task by the father,
and an alteration ensued which resulted in
Lyons being fatally shot by his daughters
lover.
Charlotte Harris, colored woman
who was recently hanged by mob in Vir-
ginia for instigating the burning of a barn,
is now shown conclusively to have been in
nocent Of the charge.
The International Sunday-school Con-
vention assembled at Atlanta, Ga, on the
18th. About 400 delegates were present,
representing all the States, Indian Territory
and Canadian provinces.
A triple lynching affair occurred at
Huntsville, Ala, on the 18th. A few days
previously George Shoenberger, a well
known and respectable citizen, was waylaid
and killed by two negroes, Ben. Evans and
Eph. Hall, instigated, as it was proven, by
worthless white ruffian named Mike White.
All three were arrested and lodged in JAIL
On the day named large crowd, comprising,
it is said, many of the best citizens of the
county, assembled at the Jail, and forcing
an entrance led out the three victims, who
were speedily swung Off from the limb of
tree. The negroes confessed to the murder,
but White protested his innocence to the
last. None of the lynchers We're masked,
and thousands stood by and witnessed the
whole proce eding.
Underwood, Jackson and Sam Bass,
operators on the Union Pacific
Road, have been recognized as members of
the Denton County gang of Texas-Pacific
train robbers.
At Providence, X. L., on the 18th,
Corporal Hassan Sulih, Turkish Arms In
spector, stabbed his mistress repeatedly with
a dirk and then jumped from a third-story
window. Both were seriously injured, but
probably will recover.
At Richmond, Ind, on the 18th, two
brothers named Stevenson shot and fatally
their brother-in-law, Charles
Maule, for the alleged seduction of young
sister of his wife under peculiarly aggravat-
ed circumstances. Maule firmly denied the
charge.
Another fatal case of hydrophobia &C.
Cured in New York City on the 18th, the
victim being a little boy named Schweitzer.
He was bitten by Spitz dog.
Robert McEvoy was hanged at Aiken,
S. c., on the 10Th, for the murder of Major
JONES J. Gregg in April, 1876.
Sam Steenburgh, colored, was hang
ed at Fonda, N. Y, on the 18th, for the
murder Of Parker in November last. A few
days before his execution Steenburgh con-
fessed to having killed eleven men in his
lifetime, besides having committed numer-
Gus minor crimes.
At Troy, Geauga County, o., on the
night of the 18th, l.. b. Stroud killed his wife
by plunging large butcher-knife several
times in her abdomen, and then cut his own
throat from ear to ear. Stroud was very
bad character, had abused his wife shame
fully, and was Infatuated because the neigh
bors had taken her part and intimated to him
that he had better leave the country or he
would be summarily punished for some of
his misdeeds. Stroud had recently been in
dicted by the Grand jury for poisoning
horses and cattle and burning a barn be-
longing to neighbor.
Two officers from Texas arrested the
notorious T. Mckinney and his comrade at
Ozark, Ark, and while passing through the
Indian Territory, en- route to Texas, the
prisoners tried to escape, and both were
shot and instantly killed.
The severest storm ever experienced
in the Black Hills commenced on the 10th
and continued for five days. Heavy snow,
rain and hail fell in succession, doing much
damage to mines and rendering the roads
utterly impossible. The Belle Fourche
River, usually fordable, was swollen to a
great depth and was three miles wide