American citizen., 1879-04-19

from Fort Keogh, their destination, when
fired upon. Bader was Instantly killed and
Kennedy badly wounded. The latter crawl
ed into the brush and kept the Indians off
with his six-shooter until assistance ar
rived. Bader was scalped. Kennedy will
probably recover.
A dispatch from Pesth, Hungary,
10th, says that 1900 persons in and about
Szegedin are still subsisting on charity, and
that the supply of bread is becoming ex-
hausted. To render matters still worse, it
has rained for 10 days continuously.
John P. Phair was hanged at Wind
sor, VT, on the 10th, for the murder of Miss
Anna Freize, the keeper Of a house Of i'll
repute, in June, 1874. The evidence against
Phair was largely circumstantial, and he
died protesting his innocence. He had been
once reprieved, the time of his execution
being originally set for April 6, 1877.
The Astrachan plague is declared over
and Gen. Melikoff and all foreign doctors
have gone home.
AT Shohola, Penn, on the 9th, Geo.
Hess cut his wife's throat and then drowned
himself. The cause of the tragedy is not
stated.
Judge Eldridge of Memphis has SEN
fenced a prisoner found guilty of carrying
concealed weapons to three months labor
in the Work -house and $40 fine-the extreme
penalty of the law. Judge Eidridge has re-
ceived many encomiums for his "new de-
parture in enforcing this long neglected
law.
Mrs. David Mauck, aged 25, and Miss
Sarah Vaughn, aged 10, of New Amsterdam,
Harrison County, Ind, were found lying in
their beds with their heads terribly bruised
and beaten ON the morning Of the 9th. Mrs.
Mauck was dead when discovered; her com
panion was alive, but almost insensible. The
latter revived sufficiently to intimate that
David Msuck, the husband of the murdered
woman, and his brother Hugh were the -au-
thors Of the tragedy, but could give no de-
tails. The murderers had both fled and Of
ficers were in pursuit.
At Goldsboro, N. c., in Komgay's
foundry, boiler exploded on the 10th, kill
ing j. B. Timberlake, foreman, and badly
scaiding four others.
At Lake City, Minn., Turkish bath
blew up on the 10th, tearing the quarters to
pieces and fatally scalding DIR. Cell, pro-
prietor.
The Topeka Commonwealth gives
currency to report that the Cheyenne In
in the direction of Western Kansas.
Serious troubles have broken out
again between the owners Of the Denver and
Rio Grande Railroad and the Atchison. To-
peka and SAnta Fe Railroad Company. As
is well known, the latter company leased the
Denver and Rio Grande some months
ago, and has been operating it
ever since. 1t is now claimed by
the Denver and Rio Grande that the Atchi-
son, Topeka and Santa Fe had not complied
with the terms of the lease, and they are
trying to get possession of the road again.
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Com
pany, however, deny the truth of these state
ments, and say they will defend their rights
to the property to the last.
The Chinese Six Companies of San
Francisco, in response to numerous appli-
cations for Chinese laborers to go to Missis-
sippi, Louisiana and other Southern States,
to take the place Of negro labor now emf
grating, say that they have no control over
their peoples labor and therefore can not
enter into contracts for that purpose.
The National Executive Committee of
the Colored Emigration Society has adopted
resolutions requesting Government aid
through Quartermasters and Commissary
Departments, to destitute colored emigrants
arriving at St. Louis or other points on the
Mississippi River.
1t is stated that the citizens of Vicks.
burg, Miss, have agreed to pay the return
fare Of the destitute colored people from
that section who have emigrated to Kansas
and to guarantee them, should they return
all their civil and political rights.