American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-08-23

the building. hut insisted upon putting on
her clothes before leaving her room. and this
delay proved fatal.
The other day +. p. Lesuer. his wife
and two children, at Candy, Marshall Coun-
ty, Mimi. We're struck by lightning. The
woman and children We're killed outright
and Mr.. Lesuer was fatally injured.
Captain John Secrest, contractor on
the mail route from Vinita to Las Anmas,
New Mexico, was returning from the latter
point, accompanied by Mr.. j. C. Wilson
and another man named Young. On sun
day. July %, they took dinner at Burners,
some 81 miles west of Vinita. This was the
last time they We're seen. Some eight or ten
days afterward the blackboard and harness
used by them We're found several miles from
the road, east of Burners, but all efforts to
get any further clew to the missing men
proved futile. There is but little doubt they
were murdered, and a gang of desperadoes
who have made their headquarters in that
section are supposed TO have committed the
deed.
The steamer Corsica, from Cardiff for
New York, and the steamer Semiramide,
from Boston for Liverpool, both iron YES
sells, came into collision 100 miles west of
Fastnet, and the Semiramide went down.
The crew We're saved.
The recent storm in Denmark destroy
ed over 100 farm houses, killing 30 persons,
and did incalculabe damage to crops.
Nicholas Dubois of Keokuk, Iowa,
Chief Engineer of the New Keokuk and ST.
Louis Railroad, was instantly killed on the
18th, by an accident that occurred on the
line about 90 miles south of GAINESVILLE, Mo.
Thomas Carroll, conductor, had both legs
broken. and several other employees We're
more or less injured.
Five persons were killed by collision
on the Atlantic City Narrow gauge Rail-
road, in New Jersey, on the 18th. They
were A. f. Worthington, conductor; +.
Wood and Jacob Deginther, brakemen; j.
Smith, news agent, and Charles School, a
deaf mute.
At st. Louis, on the 18th, Thaddeus
Baber, dissipated plumber, ut the termina-
ton of an extended spree shot his paramour,
IA young woman named Lizzie Schendel, in
fiicting mortal wound, and also her moth
er, Mime. Schende, killing the latter in
stantly. Baber and Lizzie Schendel had
lived together for six years, and the cause of
the tragedy was her leaving him recently, on
account of continued ill treatment, and go
ing back to her mothers, where the double
crime was committed.
A large grain elevator in st. Louis,
known as 3. Elevator B." belonging to the
Central Elevator Company, and located at
by fire, with its contents of Il, 200 bushels of
wheat, on the night of the 18th. Total loss
about $3.50 900; insurance about S. 200.
j. p. Frye, Il wealthy leather dealer
i'm Boston, was found murdered in the base
ment of his residence, No. 10 JOY street, on
the morning of the 18th. He had bullet
hole in his head, another one in the region
Of the heart, and six or seven ugly wounds
i'm the back and neck, made either by knife
or a revolver. The crime was probably the
work of burglars.
Bob McCorkle, colored, was hanged
at Taylorsville, n. c., on the 18th, for the
murder Of J.. Wesley Wycoff, white man.
The mufaosed mans wife, a white woman
Of more than average Intelligence and Of
very 'prepossessing appearance, was con-
victed as an accessory to the crime and
is now undergoing life sentence in the
Penitentiary. The evidence disclosed the
fact that Mrs. Wycoff and the negro, who
was a coarse, repulsive fellow, had become
too intimate, and that the murder was COM
mitted with the knowledge and connivance
of the unfaithful wife.
fremont Temple, Boston, was near
ly destroyed by fire on the night of the l4th.
Loss about S 100, 900, covered by insurance.
Wiffendot, a Choctaw Indian, con-
victed of the murder of a young lad about
four months ago, was executed by shooting
at Atoka, I. T., on the 18th.