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Show NEWS OF THE WORLD. <br><br> Assistant District Attorney Herring has been for six weeks in Arizona, negotiating with parties who stole A.T. Stewart's body. <br><br> [unreadable], N.Y. May 7. - This morning, while McKelsey, chief keeper of the reformatory, was endeavoring to punish an insubordinate convict, Edward Symond, from New York, plunged a sharply pointed [unreadable] knife in to his stomach. McKelsey reeled from the dark cell into the corridor and fell dead. Symond then handed the knife to the assistant keeper and was locked up in a dark cell. McKelsey was from Detroit and an old officer of the Michigan State [unreadable]. He leaves a wife and three children. <br><br> GAVESTON, May 8 - Sam Knopp (colored) was hanged at Fort Worth yesterday for the outrage of a white woman. The father of the woman made the noose. During the preparations for death Knopp joined in praying and singing and said to the ten then and people present, "I was a soldier in the Union army for ten years, but bless God I am now a soldier of the cross. I am perfectly satisfied and willing to die. Farewell all." The trap was then sprung. <br><br> The prisoners fired Crockett jail. The occupant of the cell where the flames started is dead. <br><br> LOUISVILLE May 7. - A special to the Courier-Journal from Mt. Vernon says, On the 23rd of December Sgt. William A. McKenney shot and killed Fred Smith, at the residence of his father, six miles from Mt. Vernon. McKenney had seduced the daughter of Smith, the evidence of which seduction was plainly seen in a babe which Smith's daughter, Nannie, had given birth to about six weeks before the killing. McKenney was arrested and held to answer by an examining court. He was indicted by the grand jury at the present term of the Circuit Court for willful murder and yesterday the trial began. Smith's wife and his daughter Nannie were the only witnesses of the killing. According to the preponderance of testimony, Smith had driven McKenney and Nannie from the house, had attacked McKenney and stabbed him severely with a knife before McKenney fired the fatal shot. Nannie had been living with McKenney since the killing, and their former relations have been kept up. The testimony closed this morning, and after the jury had been instructed by the court the argument of counsel began. The defense begged the jury for an acquittal of the boy, promising that as a fitting final to the prosecution, William and Nannie should join hands and in the solemnity of matrimony would pledge lifelong devotion to each other. The jury after a deliberation of about twenty minutes returned a verdict of not guilty. Immediately after, William and Nannie marched arm in arm into the courthouse, and, halting just outside the bar in front of the judge's seal, Judge McClure stepped in and in a few words pronounced them man and wife. The occurrence caused considerable sensation. <br><br> LONDON, May 11 - Batanga, on Cameroon's River, on the west coast of Africa, has been bombarded and burned by the British on account of the capture and ill treatment of British subjects by the natives. The Basutos are surrendering their army, and the colonists believe this is the closing act of troubles in South Africa. <br><br> Several thousand troops arrived at Constantinople during the last week. <br><br> Some thousands of desk laborers in Liverpool have struck for higher wages. <br><br> The strike in Roubaix, France, is extending. Eighty establishments are closed. <br><br> It is expected that the sufferings of 1873 will again be witnessed in England this season. |