American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-03-15

1t is reported, upon the alleged au
thority of Prof. Botken, the Cars private
physician, that a true case of the plague ha
occurred in St. Petersburg.
The Keokuk- and Northern Lin,
steamers Lake Superior and Dubuque wer
burned at Alton, Ill.,, on the 4th. The steam
ers were lying together, undergoing some
repairs. The cause of the fire is not known
The boats were valued at about $40, 900 eacl
and were not insured.
Fred. Foss, engineer, and VIM. Nor
gan, fireman, were killed by an accident or
the yandalia Road, near East st. Louis, or
the evening of the 4th.
The house of Peter Drouillard, q
French farmer living near Sandwich, Oiita-
rio, was burned on the night of the 1st,
and his two daughters, aged and Is, per-
ished in the flames. The charred bodies OF
the two sisters were found in the smoking
ruins, tightly clasped in each others shriy-
eled arms. Drouillard was severely burned
IN trying to save his children, who slept in
an upper room. A travelling clock -peddler,
who was stopping there for the night, was
shockingly burned, but win recover.
Rev. Sidney M. Stray, pastor of the
Presbyterian Church at East Lake George,
N. ", was exhibiting a revolver to his wife,
when it was discharged, wounding her.
Thinking he had thus accidentally killed his
wife, he placed the revolver to his own head
and fred. Fortunately, the wounds of
neither were very serious, and both will
probably recover.
Chief Moses has been indicted as ae-
cessory to the killing of one Perkins in va
kima County, Washington Territory, but he
has escaped to his camp, and any effort to
capture the willy chief, it is. apprehended,
will be resisted by all his followers.
A dispatch from Calcutta says thou
sands of the natives are dying in Cashmere
offasnine 2. IN oil"
A saw-mill boiler exploded near
Leay enworth, Ind, on the Sd, tearing the
miiito pieces and badly injuring four men.
Nineteen lives were lost by recent
explosion in Deep Drop Pit Colliery, Eng
land. -..-- 49, ,.- st
Mrs. Margaret Witt, wife of George
Witt, living near Kane, Greene County ILL.,,
was fatally burned on the evening Of the 4th
by the upsetting of a lamp, which her little
child accidentally pulled offthe table. n '
A premature explosion of nitro
glycerine at Dutch Gap, James River, on
the 5th, killed NJ. C. Haggerty, Government
contractor for widening Dutch Gap, Elias
Hall, superintendent of blasting operations,
and one colored man. M
Sam Tolson, a colored man, was
lynched near Roanoke, Howard County Mo-,
on the Sd, for the murder of white boy
named Featherston, with but little or no
provocation. r- 81
A telegram from Tashkend states that
after the death of Shere Ali at Mazari Sheriff,
a bloody conflict broke out among the fol-
lowers of various pretenders to the Afghan
throne, and the partisans of Yakoob Khan
were victorious.
Jonah Baughn was killed and two
other men seriously injured by the explo-
sion of a saw mill boiler near Sullivan, H.,
on the 5th.
The Dime Savings Bank of York, Pa,
has suspended. 1t is supposed it will pay
10 or so cents on the dollar.
A fire at East st. Louis, Ill, on the
night of the Sth, destroyed several small
buildings, among them blacksmith and
wagon shop, in which the fire originated,
the upper floor of which was occupied as a
by Mrs. Henrietta Bausch and
family. The occupants of this floor
were not awakened until the lower
part of the building was all in flames. Mrs.
Bausch jumped through window and es-
capped with her life, although severely burn
ed. Her three children, aged 10, and 9
years; Henry Schoeppenkoetter, q black
smith, and Mrs. Catharine Borst, visitor
persisted in the flames. The fire is believed
70 have been the work of an incendiary. :
Gen Melikof telegraphed on the 9th
that foreign physicians, at a meeting held in
Witlianka, have declared that the epidemic
may be considered to have died out, as
there has been no case since the 9th of Feb
ruary; but, as it is impossible to guarantee
that itmay not reappears especially at Wit
ianka, they recommend the continuance Of
certain precautions The Gordon around
the Government Of Astrakhan, which the
foreign physicians Judged no longer neces-
sary, has been Withdrawn. Il
Three children of Daniel Martin (col-
ored) were burned TO death in house at
d. c., on the night of the Sth.