The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-04-07
THE NEWS.

WAS burned on Sunday. Loss S14, 900.
The Senate refused Monday to recon
slider the vote reducing the President,
salary to S25,O0O.
The Express agent at Parsons, Kansas
named Dinsmore. has been arrested for
robbing the mails. He confessed, and
made restitution of between 500 and
$500.
Bridge, O'Donnell, aged about thirty.
FIVE, was found murdered in field OF
the outskirts Of Wilkesbarre, Pa. The
woman had been grossly assaulted before
the murder.
The election in Connecticut M1nday
resulted in victory for the Democrats
Ingersoll was chosen Governor by q
majority of between FIVE and six thoua.
and. and the House is Democratic BY
thirty-six or more.
The Government buildings in all the
principal cities in the country were do
ing business by candleliRht Monday
night. the Secretary of the Treasury
having advised the officers that there was
no money on hand to pay gas or water
bills.
The city elections Monday through
ont the country generally resulted in
Republican victories. In most of the
towns in Michigan, in Cleveland, Toledo
and other places Republican city officials
were elected. The Democrats were vic
torious in Columbus and Cincinnati.
The case Of the parties arrested last
fall by H. c. Corbin, saloon-keeper, OF
Westerville, for destroying his liqnor
saloon, was discharged by Judge Bing-
ham, of Columbus, Ohio Monday, and
the costs assessed upon Corbin, the pros
ecution having failed to prove that any
of the indicted parties were engaged in
the alleged violations of law.
Two young men named Thornton J.
Robinson and Jessie Mitchell fought a
duel in Campbell county, Va, recently,
Robinson was shot in the abdomen and
Mitchell received a shot in the hand
which glanced and entered the back OF
his head. Robinson is said to have been
killed and Mitchell cannot recover
There was a woman in the case.
The House adopted resolution yes
terday requesting the President to in
form the House whether, since 1869, any
of the executive offices acts or duties,
and ifso, what have been performed at a
distance from the seat of Government
established by law, and for how long at
any one time, and in what part of the
United States, and also, whether any
public necessity existed therefor
The following dispatch was sent by
the Chinese Company, of San Francisco,
Monday, "To Ming Wah Hospital,
Hong Kong: Chinese immigration must
stop. Excitement increases every day
against our people. Signed, Wing Yung
Company" The California Senate adopt
ed resolution to appoint a committee
of FIVE Senators to make a full investi-
CATION of Chinese immigration. to sit at
anv time and place within the State,
with power to send for persons and pa
pers, and shall prepare memorial for
presentation to Congress on or before the
first of next December, setting forth the
results of their inquiry in full.
In the Senate Monday Mr.. Thurman
called up the Senate bill to amend the
act to establish a uniform system of
bankruptcy throughout the United
States. He explained that the object of
this bill was to put an end TO the dis,
cordant decisions which had made the
bankruptcy law one thing in one district
and another thing in another district
The bill amends the bankrupt law so as
to provide that no voluntary assignment
by a debtor or debtors of all his or their
property, heretofore or hereafter made,
in good faith, for the benefit of his or
their creditors ratahly or without Great
ing any preference, and valid according
70 law of the State where made, shall of
itself, in the event of his or their being
subsequently adjudicated bankrupts in a
proceeding of involuntary bankruptcy,
be a bar to the discharge of such debtor
or debtors. After discussion the bill was
read a third time and passed without
division.