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It is reported, upon the alleged authority of Prof. Botken, the Czar's private physician, that a true case of the plague has occurred in St. Petersburg. 1 The Keokuk and Northern Line steamers Lake Superior and Dubuque were burned at Alton, III., on the 4th. The steamers were lying together, undegoing some repairs. The cause of the fire is not known. The boats were valued at about $20,000 each and were not insured. Fred. Foss, engineer, and Wm. Morgan, fireman, were killed by an accident on the Vandalia Road, near East St. Louis, on the evening of the 4th. The house of Peter Drouillard, a French farmer living near Sandwich, Ontario, was burned on the night of the 1st, and his two daughters, aged 9 and 15, perished in the flames. The charred bodies of the two sisters were found in the smoking ruins, tightly clasped in each other's shriveled arms. Drouillard was severely burned in trying to save his children, who slept in an upper room. A traveling clock-peddler, who was stopping there for the night, was shockingly burned, but will recover. Rev. Sidney M. Stray, pastor of the Presbyterian Church at East Lake George, N. Y., 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 fired. Fortunately, the wounds of neither were very serious, and both will probably recover. Chief Moses has been indicted as accessory to the killing of one Perkins in Ya. kima County, Washington Territory, but he has escaped to his camp, and any effort to capture the wily chief, it is apprehended, will be resisted by all his followers. A dispatch from Calcutta says thousands of the natives are dying in Cashmere of famine. A saw-mill boiler exploded near Leav enworth, Ind., on the 3d, tearing the mill to pieces and badly injuring four men. Nineteen lives were lost by a recent explosion in Deep Drop Pit Colliery, Eng. land. Mrs. Margaret Witt, wife of George Witt, living near Kane, Greene County, was fatally burned on the evening of the 4th by the upsetting of a lamp, which her little child accidentally pulled the table. A premature explosion of nitroglycerine at Dutch Gap, James River, on the 5th, killed M.C. Haggerty, Government contractor for widening Dutch Gap, Elias Hall, superintendent of blasting operations, and one colored man. Sam Tolson, a colored man, was lynched near Roanoke, Howard County, Mo., on the 3d, for the murder of a white boy named Featherston, with but little or no provocation. A telegram from Tashkend states that after the death of Shere Ali at Mazari Sherif, 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 explosion of a saw-mill boiler near Sullivan, Ill., on the 5th. The Dime Savings Bank of York, Pa., has suspended. It is supposed it will pay 75 or 80 cents on the dollar. A fire at East St. Louis, Ill., on the night of the 8th, destroyed several small buildings, among them a blacksmith and wagon shop, in which the fire originated, the unner floor of which was occupied as a
