The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-03-31
NEWS
Heavy SHOWS and very cold weather


Heavy Enows and very cold weather
in the West.
Probabilities Is getting up some 'sev
ere local storms" for moving day
A large number Of mills IN Massaeh-
useIts are stopped by high water.
Two additional articles Of imp~ach-
meni have filed against Gov. Ames, Of
Mississippi.
The schooner Harriet Newell went 4
ashore on Bluff leland, coast of Maine. 1
Yesterday. The Captain and his wife
were drowned.
William Redmond, Of indianapolis
attempted to shoot his divorced wife, /
and falling in this. shot himself in the
head. He may die.
The latest news from the Indian war
is that Gen. Crooks victory over Crazy !
House" was a very decided one. Moth |
ing to he proud Of.
The brig A. Porter went ashore on
W SAP pam
and seven men were drowned, the first
mate being the only one saved.
OF fnrty cnllieries owned and operated
by the Philadelphia and Reading Coal
and Irnn Company, at Pottaville. twen-
ty-6ve resumed work yesterday morn
ing.
Thomrs ". Piper, formeIi.: sexton of
the Warner street church. Boston. and
convicted of the murder Of Mabel
Young in that building on the Sd Of
Nav last, was yesterday sentenced to be
hanged.
The Supreme Court yesterday decided
that the federal election law. under
which certain white parties were indict-
ed for interfering with she exercise of
the suffrage of colored voters, is uncon-
stitutional and void
Members of the Honse judiciary Com
mittee, including Republicans. say the
testimony given by Marsh before that
Committee is stronger than his testsno-
nv before the Committee on Expendi-
tnres in the War Department. and that
il is conclusive of General Brlknap's
guilt-he cannot escape. IL ia believed
the Judiciary Committee will formally
present their articles of impeachment
this. week.
A few days since, in the Baltimore
City Court, Judge Brown presiding, dur
ing the trial of a cause, the foreman Of
the Jury was discovered to be in a state
of in,oxication. He was Withdrawn,
the jnry discharged, and the case con-
timed. On Friday he was sentenced by
Judge Brown to ten days imprisonment
in the city Jail, to forfeit his pay as
Juror, and to be disqualified hereafter
from serving on jury.
B. P. Rogers, receiving teller of the
| Fulton Bank of Brooklyn. has abscond-
ed, being a defiulter to the extent Of
S25. 600. The officers Of the bank pub
lish card, saying that on opening the
vault the morning of the 18th inst, il
was ascertained that the receiving teller
had stolen from il between S24 900 and
S25 900 in currency intended for the
days business, but had not disturbed
the securities Of the bank. Rogers was
for many years in various banks in
Brooklyn and Detroit.
Saturday, storm was very disastrous
in New England. The loss by the
breakage of dams, destruction of bridges,
mills, dwellings, and by inundatIon
where property is MT swept away, is
immense and cannot be accurately esti-
mated. At Providence the rain fall was
400 inches, and for six days. including
Saturday, 7.66 inches. At Danielson'
Vile, Conn. Gain<burg's mill was un'
,Ier-mined and ia likely to be carried
away. The loss is already estimated Al
$4,000 The Baltic Mill at Norwich
Conn, was partly swept away, and viii
not he able to repair short of three
months. Four persons crossing pond
at Norwich were drowned. At Burrill
Vile. Conn, mill and mannfacturins
property valued at over $4,000 wa
swept away.
@The Noisy Pond dam at Clinton
Mass, gave way on account of the higl
water, and loss Of ahont $780, 900 wa
caused Among the buildings carried
away were the Clinton tannery, Fuller
vile Company's factory, comb factor,
and four other buildings The princip
+ al losses are at Fullerville, which j
now a complete ruin where was thTiv
ing manufacturing settlement. Th
company occupied five buildings. hard
lv ves,ige of which now remains. A
Taftsville, Ct, FIVE men were drowned
by the washing away of the dam EN-
bankment they were Strengthening.