American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-02-23
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

The-Troy On. Y. Times building was
burned on the 10th, including seven stores
and various offices, etc. Total loss about
100000.
Ten of the heaviest grain firms at Bel
fast, Ireland, have failed. Aggregate liabil-
tiles estimated at 81 900.
Three children of colored man
named Leftridge, living at Bucktown Furn-
ace, Lawrence County, o., were burned to
death on the 18th. The mother left the
children alone in the house to call upon a
neighbor, and when she returned her house
was wrapped in flames.
At Witcham. New Brunswick, on the
night ofytfle 10th, a house belonging to Dam
iel Reardon burned, and Reardon, his wife
and four children perished in the flames.
The neighbors knew nothing of the catastro-
phe till morning, when the charred remains
were found in the debris.
The Etna Iron-works, with a capital
of 81 ,000, at Ironton, o., has suspended
payment. The nominal assets are largely in
excess of liabilities.
Mr.. and Mrs. James WoFmly, living
on a farm about 10 miles from GoldsbOro,
N. c., were recently brutally murdered by
a negro named Noah Cherry, who entered
the house during the night and fell upon his
victims with club while they were asleep.
The murderer lived ON an adjoining farm,
and the horrible crime was committed on
account of a personal grudge. Cherry was
arrested and was likely to be lynched.
An investigation into the cause of
the wreck of the steamer Metropo-
lis discloses the fact that her timbers were
so rotten as to render her entirely unsea-
worthy. Several witnesses testified to hav-
ing heard the Captain say, after the wreck,
that he had been told by Mr.. Lunt, one of
the owners, that if he had any accident not
to make any halfway business of it; if he
made a wreck. of the ship he should make it
good one. Mr.. Lunt, it should be added,
declares this story an entire fabrication.
The old mansion of Daniel Webster,
at Marshfield, Mass, burned on the I4th. 1t
was occupied by Mrs. Fletcher Webster.
An explosion demolishedT Leet. &
Smiths percussion cap factory at Spring
field, Mass, on the 18th, and killed Otis B.
Smith, the junior partner.
Judge Dillon has declined to make a
decision in the case known as the pro rate
case of the Kansas Pacific against the Union
Pacific Company, in the Circuit Court of the
United States for the District of Nebraska,
and for that reason the Kansas Pacific has
dismissed the action. so.-
/ Edwin Balson and Owen Harris, first
and second officers of the Cunard steamer
China, were washed overheard and drown
ed on the last voyage from Liverpool.
John w. Beavers was hanged at Mad
ison, Ind, on the 18th, for the murder of
John W. Sewell, real estate agent of In
dia0anoliS in OOua,,11Ya,. UI,o
was committed in Scott County, where Sew
ell had gone for the purpose of selling a
farm to Beavers. The transaction was
effected, after which Beavers murdered
Sewell and took possession of both the mon
ey and the deed for the land. -
John Ables was hanged at Carthage,
Mo-, on the 18th, for the murder of John L.
Lane in April, 1874. Ables charged that
Lane had been intimate with his wife y
At Mount Sterling, Ky, on the 18th,
James Anderson was fatally stabbed by Col.
Weldon D. Gay, of Powell County. The
parties had hot words regarding business
transaction, the lie was given by Gay to An
derson, and when the latter sprang forward.
intent upon avenging the insult, he was met
by Gay with an open knife, which was
plunged into his vitals. Immediately after
he cutting Gay was attacked by the broth
er of the wounded man, who felled him to
the pavement with one lick from an AK
handle, and would have Drained him, but
for the prompt interference of bystanders
Young Anderson is a well known citizen
his wife being the daughter of Hon. Garrett
Davis.
THE President has sent the following
nominations to the Senate: Bayard Tay-
lOr, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary to Germany; Jehu Baker
Illinois, Minister resident to Venezuela
VIM. C. Goodloe, Kentucky, Minister resi-
dentto Belgium; Ben. F. Simpson, Kansas
United States Marshal, Kansas; VIM A
Howard, of Michigan, Governor OF Dakota
Territory.
By the falling of the floor in a hall at
Stevens Point, Wis, on the night of the
18th, during lecture by Eli Perkins, Col
James NJ. Blood was killed and Eli Perkins
had his arm broken.
The Cuban insurgent Gen. Jesus Pc,
rez has been killed in an action withthe Span.
ish troops, and DR.. Bravo, a member of the
insurgent Congress, has been taken prisoner
1t is reported that Vicente Garcia and othel
insurgent chiefs have resigned.
A fire, originating in the Excelsior
Building, West Twenty-third Street, New
York City, on the night of the 18th, destroy.
ed that building, together with the Church
Of the COvenanters and the Twenty third
! Street Presbyterian Church.