Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-07-20
EAST AND SOUTHEAST.

erty and domestic discord are supposed b
have instigated the act.
EAST AND SOUTHEAST.
The Citizens Savings Bank of Pittsburg
Pa, has go,ie into bankruptcy. Liabilitie
about $50, 600, and assets not over one-hal
that amount.
Benjamin Noyes, President OF the Ma
tional Life Insurance Company of Wash
ington, ID. c., convicted of conspiracy t,
defraud the policy -holders Of the New Jer
sey Mutual, has been sentenced to Is months
imprisonment at hard labor in the New Jer
sey Penitentiary and to pay the costs of tn,
suit.
Norwich, Conn.,, was greatly excited OF
the 10th over the reported death of a woman
by Asiatic cholera.
At Amsterdam, n. Y, on the 10th. a large
broom factory in process of construction
was blown to the ground by a hurricane
burying nine men in the ruins, three Of
whom were fatally injured.
A bricklayer named White was struck by
lightning while working on a church tower
in Forty Street, New York City, on
the 10th. He fell dead to the pavement, q
distance of 60 feet below.
The accounts of the late State Treasurer
Of Georgia, John Jones, are said to show q
deficit Of S253, 900, for which suit has been
brought against his securities.
At Brooklyn, n. Y, on the,11th, Mrs. Mar
garet Wash, aged 30, and her daughter, aged
s, were burned to death by the explosion of
a kerosene lamp, which the mother was
using in pouring oil on a fire in order to
hasten the flames.
James A Long (colored), son Of ex-Con.
gresham Long, is under arrest at Macon,
Ga, charged with robbing the mails while
acting as mail-agent.
Mike Shaw ras hanged at Milledgeville,
Ga, on the 18th, for wife-murder; and Hi
ram Fooks (colored) was on the same day
hanged at Wilmington, Del, for the murder
of John Tyler, also colored.
Henry Wise was hanged at Walterboro, S.
c., on the 18th, for the murder Of Mercer
Brown, his rival in love affair.
Thomas Ballard, known as the " King Of
Counterfeiters," committed suicide in the
Albany IN. " Penitentiary on the 11th, by
stabbing himself with shoemaker's knife.
GENERAL.
The officials at the Indian Bureau in
Washington discredit the reports regarding
the large number of Indians on the war
path in the Northwest, and say that there
are not really over 200 all told who are en-
gagged in the revolt.
Gen. Sheridan is to take personal COM
mand of the forces in the Black Hills coun-
try.
Mrs. Eliza Pritchard, formerly Pinkston,
it is reported, has been subjected to another
interview and recanted her recent state
ments regarding the killing of her husband
by negro.
At the recent session Of Congress a change
was made in the laws regulating the COM
pensation of Postmasters of the fourth class.
The change makes the salaries depend upon
the amount of stamps cancelled in each office,
not upon that sold.
The eclipse of the sun on the 10Th inst.
will be total from Irkontsk, Siberia, through
the western part of the British Possessions,
Denver, Colorado, and northern and east
ern Texas, entering the Gulf of Mexico, to
disappear little southeast Of San Domingo.
The exhibition will be visible as partial
eclipse over all the United States, Mexico
and British America that afternoon.
Gen. Sherman has issued general order
OF instruction to Army officers, in con-
formity with the recent act of Congress for
bidding the use Of the Army as posse COM
itatus.
Jefferson Davis made an address at New
Orleans, on the 10th, the occasion being the
presentation to him OF gold badge and cer-
tifcate of membership of the Association of
the Army Of the Tennessee. He reiterated
his mistaken belief in the right of secession
and the duty Of a citizen to battle for the
cause Of the State, and charged that "every
evil which has befallen our institutions is
directly traceable to the perversion of the
compact Of the union and the usurpation by
the Federal Government of undelegated
powers"
The recent excessively hot weather was
productive of numerous fatal cases of sun
stroke in st. Louis, Cincinnati and other
places.