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0 — AMERICAN. A terrible atonn broke over Chicago on the 10th. of September, causing immense destruction to Shipping. A train was thrown into the Mississippi River by the rails spreading, and resulted in fifteen persons being seriously injured. At Oil city lightning struck a large crude oil tank at the Imperial Refinery. Five tanks filled with oil and benzine were destroyed ; altogether about 60,000 barrels were consumed by the fire.. The loss was 200,0.00 dols , and there was no insurance. . A frightful negro slaughter occurred at Clinton, Massachusetts. Early in September there was a great riot first, in which the blacks suffered heavily, and were driven off. On .Saturday, the 4th of September, 500 armad whites arrived from Elwards and Bolton, and occupied Clinton, .On Saturday these .amd Wicksturrers commenced slaughtering the negroes’, and killed in cold blood all they could find. Five hundred were killed in the city and country. The authorities were utterly powerless to stop t! e atrocities which were reported. For days afterwards it was a reign of terror all over the country. Governor Ames did all he could to stop bloodshed. EUROPEAN - . Telegrams to the 12th ult. from Cetigne, Montenegro, says all the country between Servia and. Montenegro is in full revolt. Fully ten thousand insurgents have taken the field, towns are sacked, and all the Turkish villages burned and the men massacred. The Christian iahabitants have taken refuge in the mountains. The Turkish troops are demoralised and the insurrection is spreading on. all sides. Montenegro is prepared for war, and the wildest enthusiasm prevails. A general war is regarded as inevitable. The Pope has instructed the Catholic clergymen in Bosnia and Herzegovina to use their influence in calming the people, and to facilitate the pacification of the Provinces The Admiral of the French American squadron has been superseded an account of his pronounced Bonapartist tendencies. Thirty thousand Khokand rebels were defeated by the Russian expedition.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 704, 15 October 1875, Page 3
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