AMERICAN NEWS.
August 17th. Political riots with firearms have occurred in South Carolina among negrp factions which were struggling for control of the State. A band of negroes in Mississippi were repulsed by the white residents with several killed. * Military assistance was sent for. ' . Two railway accidents, with loss of life, have occurred. Extensive fires have occurred in various parts of the States. A fire broke out on a Cincinnati steamer. Thirty-five lives were lost. Great scandal is created in Montreal, owing to the discovery of the exchange, by three members of the Cabinet, of a piece of Government land worth 230,000d01. for a piece of private property worjh only 40,000d01.
The Cubans attacked and destroyed plantations, and are arming emancipated negroes. The Pacific mail steamer Guatemala was wrecked. No lives lost.
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Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 392, 19 September 1874, Page 3
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132AMERICAN NEWS. Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 392, 19 September 1874, Page 3
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