The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-03-17
The News.
The Union Pacific is blocked with

1 By the recent storm in Illinois sever
persons were killed. seventeen injured
and thirty houses blown down.
A demand is made for more custom.
officers at Philadelphia, to protect the
revenues in connecti"n with the impor
tation of Centennial goods.
Augusta and Bangor. Ne. elected Re.
publican Mav"r- and Beddeford chose a
| Democrat To the same office. The re
suits show Republican gains.
District Attorney John w. johnson
of Lancaster county, Pa, was arrested
Monday on charge of issuing furgrd
and fraudulent naturalization papers.
A company of Spanish military engi-
neers, arrived in Philadelphia Monday
and, after parading the streets under the
escort of the State Fencibles took pos
session of their barracks on the Centen-
nial grounds.
The colored people of Washington
held an Indignation meeting Monday
night, at which they denounced the ac-
tion Of the Senate in refusing Pinchback
seat. Morton was complimented and
afterwards serenaded, as was also Pinch
back.
Josephus Sooy, Jr., defaulting State
Treasurer of New Jersey, was Monday
prisonment He wept bitterly on hear
ing the sentence. He Is over sixty years
old, and has family highly respected.
The Mississippi Senate, by vote OF
80 to 4, found Lieutenant Governor Da-
Wis guilty as charged in the articles Of
impeachment. One colored and FIVE
white Republican Senators voted in the
affirmative.
. The Church of the Pilgrims, of
Brooklyn, My, Rev. DR.. Storrs pastor,
last night met and declared that they
would not be bound by the findings of
the late Advisory Council, nor continue
denominaiional fellowship with any
church which adheres to those princi-
Piles.
It is now believed that fourteen per-
sops were burned in the Almshouse, at
Norwich, Conn. Saturday night. Most
of them were old people, from sixty to
seventy years of age. Seven bodies
have been taken from the ruins to-day,
burned to a cinder and unrecognizable.
Five inmates were injured by jumping
from windows, two of them fatally.
The report that an arrangement has
been made by which the Government
is to purchase the entire bullion product
of the Consolidated Virginia and Cali
fornia mines for a year, for nse in the
resumption of specie payments, is pro-
nounced incorrect by the Treasury De
partment, although it is admitted that a
proposition of this kind has been receiv-
ed and is now under consideration.
The Ohio Legislature will adjourn
April 9th.
John H. Magee, Treasurer Of Ottawa
county Ohio, has been arrested charged
with emhezzlement. Amount, $4,000.
Cincinnati voted in favor of issuing
100000 of bonds in addition to the
S10,OOO,O0O already issued, for the build
ing of the Cincinnati Southern Railway.
Thirteen members of the National
House of Representatives are sick from
the bad ventilation Of the hall. The
Committee on Public Buildings have
been instructed to examine into the mat
ter
Tho Senate, by a vote Of 26 TO 20,
passed a bill fixing the salary of the
President at S25.OOO. Of the Presiden-
tial candidates, Conkling, Morton and
Thurman voted for the bill and Bayard
against it.
A snowslide occurred at Ophir, Utah,
carrying away the boarding house of the
Poorman mine, burying with it William
Higgins, Jos. Higgins and Thos Lynch
There are no hopes of recovering the
bodies at present. A snow storm is rag
ing and it is probable that much loss of
life and property will follow.
The National House of Representa-
tives, on Tuesday, ordered the arrest of
the witness, Hallet Kilbourne. who re-
fused to testify before the Select Com
mittee on the Real Estate Pool. When
brought before the bar of the House by
the Sergeant-at-Arms,t the witness had a
written statement read from the Clerk =
desk. In reply to questions by the
Speaker, he said that he was not ready
to answer the questions that had been
asked him; whereupon the House order
ed him to be committed to Jail until he
gets ready.
Gen. Boynton, the Washington corres-
pondent of the Cincinnati Gazette, ap-
peared before the War Department Com
mittee on Tuesday and testified in regard
TO the claim of the Kentucky Central
Railroad. He gave the sources of his
information, ard said -Ae-had written mp
the affair in manifold and given copy
to the correspondents of the New York
Herald, Boston Journal and Chicago
Times. Although he did not know, of
his own knowledge, that the facts were
true, he believed them TO be true.
The United States Senate Tuesday, by
vote of 26 to 20, voted to fix the sala-
ry of the next President at S25, 600 per
annum, a sum less than is paid the Brit
ish Minister residing in Washington.-
This is the sum paid nearly ninety years
ago, when the expenses incident to the
Office were about one fourth what they
are now. II the chief executive of the
nation can get along on the same salary
that President Washington did, why
shonld not the Congressman of the pres
ent day return to the small salaries en-
joyed by their predecessors eighty odd
years ago?
A novel operation recently performed