American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-04-26
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

LATE NEWS lIEMS.
The small band of Indians who killed
and scalped Private Leo Bader of the Second
Cavalry, and seriously wounded Sergeant
Kennedy of the Signal Service, have been
captured and taken into Fort Keogh. Ba-
der's horse and scalp-lock were found in
their possession.
The Providence Savings Bank and
Trust Company of Providence, Luzerne
County, Penu., has suspended. 1t has
about $4,000 of liabilities and 100000 Of
assets, the latter however comprising no in.
considerable portion of worthless notes and
bonds.
The Commissioner of Indian Affairs
received telegram from Fort Sill, on the
14th, saying there is not the slightest founda-
ton for the report of Cheyenne outbreak.
A man named Collier is reported to
have been lynched in Lampasas County,
Texas, for harboripg a member of the How
ell gang of desperadoes.
A package obtaining $4,000 in bank
notes was stolen from the counter of the
State Treasury at Springfield, ILL.,, on the
18th, by one of two confederates who went
into the office ostensibly to get a bill changed.
The village of Lisbon, Texas, 10
miles from Dallas, was struck by tornado
on the 18th. Ten or more houses were de-
| molished. Mrs. Vaughan was killed; Mrs.
Mary Belt was wounded and two of her
children badly hurt, while number Of
other persons were more or less injured.
The villsge of Pocahontas, Tenn,
on the line of the Memphis and Charleston
Railroad, was almost destroyed by a tornado
on the night of the 18th. Several persons
were injured.
DIR. Samuel P. Chalfant, San Fran
cisco dentist, on the 18th shot and killed
Josiah Bacon Of Boston. Chalfant had been
sued by Bacon for infringement of a dental
patent, and in an excited interview between
the parties in Bacon's room, in the Baldwin
House, Chalfant shot him. There were on
witnesses. Chalfant fled, but subsequently
gave himself up. He admitted the shooting,
but said in eXtenuation that he drew his
pistol during the controversy with the view
of compelling respectful treatment, but
with no intention of shooting at him. Harsh
words followed, the dispute waxed warm
and in his excitement the pistol went off.
Pierre Lorillard's American gelding
Parole has won the Newmarket handicap
race.
A dispatch from Charleston, S. c.,
gives m eager particulars of the destruction
Of life and property by terrible hurricane
which swept over the southern portion of
the State on the night of the 10th. In the
village of Walterboro more than 100 dwell
lings and all the churches were demolished.
Three-fourths of the inhabitants were
homeless. Fifteen persons were killed and
many wounded. At Oakley, station on
the N. f. Railroad, all the negro houses
were leveled and one negro killed, besides
many hurt. Similar casualties are reported
from various points in the track of the tor
nado.
Hezekiah Shaffer was hanged
Chambersburg, Penn, on the 18th, for the
murder of his wife in February, 1878. He
died protesting his innocence of the crime.
On the Monday preceding the day fixed for
his execution, Shaffer made a desperate eff
fort to commit suicide by opening his arter-
les with piece of wire taken from a broom.
He was SO Frustrated by loss of blood that
he had to be carried to the scaffold and seat
ed in chair while the rope was placed
about his neck.
James Carroll, a negro, accused of
committing an outrage upon a white lady,
was taken from a train at Licksville, Md,
on the 18th, by q band of masked men, and
By an explosion of fire damp in the
Agrappes coal pit, near Mons, Belgium, the
wood work Of the shaft caught fire and fell
in. There were 240 men in the mines, and
at last accounts none had been rescued.
The Town Farm buildings at Wells,
Me-, burned on the night of the 10th, and
George Dickman, keeper, and one of the
paupers persisted in the flames.
At Morristown, N. j., on the 18th,
Chr stian Leslie shot his wife and then killed
himself.
William Love, colored, was hanged
at Austin, Miss, on the 18th, for the murder
of J. F. Sanderson at Commerce.
DIR. st. Louis, who was sentenced to
be hanged at Wahoo, Neb., on the 18th, for
poisoning his wife, on the morning of that
| day shot himself with a revolver, inflicting a
mortal wound.
A dispatch from Pesth, Hungary, 18th,
says: The Rivers Maroso and Koros have
again broken their dams. Zerend is de-
stroyed and Arad endangered.
OF the 24O miners imperiled by the
explosion in the Agrappes coal-pit near
Mons, Belgium, 50 were finally rescued alive.
A train of loaded freight cars, togeth-
er with the locomotive and tender, went
down through burning bridge on the Kan
sas City branch of the Hannibal and st. Joe
Railroad, near Kearney Station, on the morn
ing Of the 10Th. The wrecked train i'm
mediately took fire and the wood
work was entirely consumed. James
| Hawkes. and w. Bailey of Spring
field, H., were in a car loaded with
stock and household goods in the
middle of the train. Hawkes. was caught
under the falling timbers and could no
be extricated before he was burned t.
death. His companion had his arms and
legs broken and his skull fractured, bu
was taken out alive, although doubtless fa
tally injured. All of the train men wen
down with the train, but all escaped will
slight injuries except the conductor, l.. ID
Murray, who had his leg broken. 1t is be
lieved that the bridge was fired by tramps
Fifteen lives were lost by coal min,
explosion ut Departure Bay in British Co
lumbia, on the 18th.
A BOSTON congregation sings it
hymns from a screen, upon which
magic lantern throws the verses in larg
| fr.t.