American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-03-22
LATE NEWS ITEMS

A notice signed by Bismarck an
nounces the German Empire is free from
the cattle plague.
The great international pedestrian
contest, for the champion belt, began at
Gilmore's Garden, New York, at l a. m. on
Monday, the 10th. The contestants are o.
Leary, present champion, Rowell, an En-
glishman, Hartman, of Boston, and Ennis,
of Chicago. The party covering the great
est number of miles, either by walking or
running, up to the termination of the race,
Saturday, the 18th, at IL p. M, is to be de-
clared the champion.
The President of the Memphis Board
of Health denies the rumors that yellow fever
still exists in that city. The last case oc-
CURED, he declares, on Dec. 10, and was
officially ported. The health Of Memphis
is now good, and an efficient sanitary system
in vigorous operation.
Sheriff II. II. Vickery, of Douglas
County, NO., was killed on the sth while
endeavoring to arrest, at his house, a man
named Shelf. Alsup. The Sherifi's posse
returned the fire from the house, killing
Alsup and his little 5-year-old daughter, and
wounding some of the other inmates.
The village of Dorozema, in Hungary,
flood in the River Thesis. The inhabitants
took refuge in the surrounding hills.
The dead body of woman, inclosed
in q box, was discovered in the baggage
room of the Union Depot at Kansas City, on
the 18th, where it had been remaining for
some days, and begun to give out an Often
sive odor. The box was regularly checked
from the West. The body was partially dis
membered, and is supposed 10 have been in
tended for some medical llege.
The reported massacre of 80 Indians
in Washington Territory, few weeks ago,
by a party Of settlers, is now contradicted.
1t seems that the news was stupid hoax,
gotten up for the benefit of some of the
"up-eountry" papers.
Charles Herbeck and wife, who lived
about 10 miles west of Lincoln, ILL.,, recently
separated on account of n quarrel, the hus-
band going to Lincoln to board. On the
11th he hired livery-man TO take him
home. His wife was engaged in ironing
when he arrived, and after few minutes
conversation he drew a revolver and shot
| her through the body, inflicting mortal
wound. He then secreted himself in the
barn, and when party Of ncighbors hearing
of the tragedy, went to look for him, he put
the pistol to his head and blew his brains
out.
Two more cases of the plague have
occurred in St. Petersburg, and the fatal
spotted typhus also prevails to an alarming
extent.
The Pail Mall Gazette says that a
private letter from a high official states the
people Of Cashmere are dying of famine like
flies, and that at the present rate Of mortal
ity the province will be nearly depopulated
by the end of the year.
At Mantle, Conn, on the 18th, Mrs.
John Taylor sent her two boys, aged 10 and
D, to the pond for a pail of water. They
both fell in, and the mother, going to their
assistance, also got beyond her depth, and
all three were drowned.
John S. Petersen, aged &c; VIM
Trainor, As, and Thomas BurrelI, "a, were
drowned by the upsetting Of skiff while
crossing Lake Charles, La, on the 18th.
Columbus, o., has an organized band
of incendiaries. A number of fires have oc-
Cured. Rags and paper saturated with coal
| oil have been found in numerous buildings
The military and extra police are on duty,
with orders to arrest persons who can not
| give a satisfactory account OF themselves,
and to shoot those found lurking about alleys
and refusing to halt when challenged.
| A dozen or more persons were in
| jured, some quite severely, by the breaking
down OF gallery in Gilmore's Garden, New
York, on the 18th, during the progress OF
the International Pedestrian Tournament.
The accident occurred soon after O'Leary's
breakdown, and added TO the intense ex-
citement caused by that event.
The dead body of woman, encased
in sack, was found floating in the river al
Spri' gwells, near Detroit, Mich, on the 18TH
The limbs Of the dead woman were tightly
bandaged and a handkerchief stuffed into