American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-05-11
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

LATE NEWS ITEMS.
| The Detroit Free Press establishment
was destroyed by fire on the morning of the
18th, caused by an explosion of a gas main
leading into the building. With the excep
| tion of the basement floor, containing the
presses and appurtenances, the building and
contents are a total loss. There was $42 ZOO
insurance on the establishment Estimated
loss, about $4,000. L
Fritz Meyers, notorious horse-thief,
| was taken from the jail at Belleville, Repub-
| lie County, Kansas, on the night of the 9th
and hanged by Q mob of about 40 men armed
and masked.
About II O'Clock on the night of the
2Sth, three masked men entered the POST
office at Marshall, Texas, and presenting
their revolvers at the Postmaster, ordered
him to open his safe, which he did. The
robbers took about ST 500, but in their haste
overlooked a package containing $500.
A Galveston Nesos special reports an
other mail carrier killed by Indians, between
Forts Davis and Stockton, on the 2Sth, being
the sixth person killed In that vicinity during
10 days. A train from Fort Davis, which
arrived at Fort Stanton, was attacked by In
dians near Borelia Springs. The mountains
"ie iePoi'eu iuii VI i"uianS'
August and Hannah Grisler, an aged
couple VINO hved near 1oungsVile, sullivan
county, n. l., nave oeen 1ouna horribly
Hu''' A. eru eesu IN ING house VI .ne ia1
.e 8. . ~ nau Deen '.;ns sone ''ine,
anu !. Is 'nousn' August Ai'ieo us "ne anu
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AL ASsis.an' AeasuieiS .hrouSnou'
tne oh1ed states nave Deen authorized 10
exchange silver dollars for greenbacks.
Near Tyler, Texas, four negro chill
dren, left locked up at home while the moth
er was at church, were burned to death on
the night of the 2Sth.
At Kansas CITY, on the night of the
Goth, Theodore Haltenbacb. a German chem
list. aged a. and his wife were found dead in
their rooms. with a bloody AK and an emptv
revolver living on the floor Roth of them
had Apparently been Drained with the AK.
but neither had been shot. Their little girl
aged 8, was terribly cut, but succeeded in
reaching the ward and alarming the neigh
bors. who rushed in 10 find the bouse In
hames and The dad bodies A. described
The he'd occupied nv MRS. HaItenbacb and
her child was saturated with kerosene. The
little girl was so badly injured as to be I'M.
able to give any Ineligible account of the
affair .
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the eo,h A.. 100 .,,ots ,.ar. axots,.S
One Catholic WAS tiIIed and two othsrs
,vonnd.d A.. o-.naa,..n ~. 80.
but NOT fataIIv- : =.
The towboat Warmer from New Or
,eans to g Iouis ,,;,t h.rr.. ., ,o,
ploded her boilers at Memnbis on the morn.
ing of the. lat. The pilot-house and roof
were blown to a great height, and fell back
upon the wreck, which took fire, but in a
few minutes after the explosion the
boat sank, so that only the
upper works were visible. The following
lost their lives by the explosion: George
Dawson, Captain: Dixon Kennett. pilot:
VIM. Radcliffe, engineer; VIM. Petit, VIM.
Radcliffe, and another deckhand, name I'M
known: Jacob Cox, the pilot ON watch, was
blown 70 feet IN the air, fell beneath the
pnot-wneei on the wreck and was badly
thougn NOT dangerously bruised. His aerial
flight was shared by John w. Poe, the boats
clerk, who was also in the pilot house at the
.n. " 'ne eAp,oslon oeselai o.nels were
Gu. nome - ".s 'no"sh,, ,a'ahy.
INC 'ii"i'iiP o'el .no uiioer' EieFat-
ed haliroad In new fork City was made on
Inc ISL ana was IN every way success. Time
from irini'y Church 10 Cehtrai fark, ~
minutes
.. Il. cummings, revenue lnformer
in Baldwin County, Ga, was shot by an I'M
known assassin.
The Newcomb- Buchanan Company OF
LOUISVILLE, n.y., whisky distillers, which was