American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-07-06
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Oliver S. Vincent and VIM. II. Code,
clerks in the Tax Collectors office at Brook
lyn, n. Y, entered the vault where the
books are kept, carrying burning match to
light the gas. An explosion ensued, blow
ing the walls of the vault into the middle Of
the office and demolishing all the furniture.
Vincent and Code were fatally injured, and
Sc, eral other occupants of the office were
badly hurt.
Mrs. Nihart and three of her children,
Of Cowley County, Kansas, were drowned
on the 23d while fording stream.
A call has been published, addressed
to the colored citizens of Kansas, Missouri,
Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, and Colorado, for
a meeting in Kansas City, Mo-, on Tuesday,
the 2ad day of July, at O'Clock a. m, with
a view to the organization of an industrial
and business league.
H. c. Randall, a photographer of
Fonda, Iowa, was shot and instantly killed
on the evening of the 23d, by Jacob KEEP
hart, who had become jealous of Randalps
attentions to his wife.
Four large boilers in the Puddle Mills
of the Chesapeake Nail Works, at Harris
burg, Pa, exploded on the 25th. The mill
was almost entirely demolished. Cham
bers Bowemaster, foreman, was horribly
mangled and instantly killed. Henry vies,
John Hess, George Frank and John Hell
rick were badly scalded and injured by the
flying debris. One of the boilers was car
ried over the adjoining mill, 65 feet in
height, and landed in a field about $50 feet
from the scene of the explosion. Another
was blown through the top of the mill into
brick warehouse. The third was carried
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the building, and the fourth boiler was en-
tirely torn to pieces. The loss is from ST., 900
to $15, 600.
The President has directed the Secre-
tary of the Interior to request the Hot
Springs Commissioners to continue their
work in accordance with the provisions of
the bill passed, but not properly enrolled,
trusting that Congress at its next session
will confirm their acts and vote the necessary
appropriation to pay the expenses of the
Commission.
Four children of John Ronleau were
burned to death in their bells at Beau Har-
nois, Quebec, a few nights ago.
John Finn, James Shea, Hattie Sands
and Mary Welch, of Oswego, n. Y, were
drowned at Pleasant Point, Lake Ontario,
on the 18th, where they had gone on an ex
cursion given by the congregation of St.
Johns Church.
A Bismarck special announces the
discovery of rich gold field in the Bear
Paw Mountains, Montana, and great ex-
element at Fort Benton.
The principal business houses of Fari-
bault, Mimi, were burned on the night of
the oath. Loss about 100000; insurance
about $50 900.
There are reports of Indian depreda-
lions in the Black Hills.
Frank Perino, colored, was hanged
at Savannah, Ga, on the Goth, for the MUIR
der Of J. F. Lee, a white farmer, in April
last. He acknowledged his guilt.
w. II. Andrews, the well known Gin
cinnati dry goods merchant, was shot and
probably fatally wounded on the night of
the 25th at the residence OF his father-in-
law, at Warren, Pa, by burglar whom he
discovered in his room. The latter escaped.
At Bronson, Mich, on the night of
the 25th, Samuel Whitaker shot his wife
dead and then killed himself. The parties
were respectable, and domestic trouble was
the cause OF the tragedy.
Indians made an attack upon the
mail-coach nesr the Pecos River, Texas, Oh
the night Of the 26th. Several shots were cx-