The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-12-27
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NEWS.

The California Legislature has elected J.
T. Farley as United States Senator.
THE Springfield Savings Bank, at Spring
field, Illinois, has gone the way of many
other banks in that State of the same char
acter, and suspended.
JOHN CRoNIN, three years old, was shot
in the head a few days ago, in Boston, by
Henry Hickey, eleven years old, and died
in few minutes. The boys were in an up
per room at play, when the Cronin boy
scratched Hickey in the face, and started to
run down stairs. The latter followed to the
head of the stairs and fred the fatal shot
with revolver.
A MAN by the name of Jack Salisbury was
shot by Constable Wood and posse, at Sis
terville West. Va, few mornings ago
Salisbury had badly beaten a man named
Ben Wright, from some old grudse; and
when the officers undertook to arrest him,
he fred upon them, and was shot by an Off
Ger in the back of his head. He was lying
at Sisterville in dying condition at last
accounts. Wright, who was beaten by SAILS
bury, was expected to die.
A HELENA (Montanal special says:
Father Genin arrived at Maria's River
Sunday, and reported to Fort Benton, by
messenger; that Sitting Bull had crossed the
line and camped at Bear Paw Mountains,
with a large force of Sioux and Nez Perces.
A man named Valentine is supposed to be
killed. This report is confirmed from other
sources, and it is stated that the Indians are
burning the prairies south of Bear Paw,
hot P,1I ic hot 10
ground, and has been joined by Lone Deer's
band of seventy-6ve lodges"
REV. GEORGE Fox SEYMOUR, D. D., vino
has Just been elected Bishop of the Spring
field (IH.l Diocese. was born in New York
City in 1929. His father was Isaac n. Sey-
mour, who was for many years Treasurer of
the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company.
Seymour commenced his classical education
at the grammar school of Columbia College
and was graduated from that institution in
1850. He was ordained priest by Bishop
Potter, in September, 1855.
| THE boilers of the cat meal mandatory
of Stewart & Douglas, at Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, burst the other night at twelve
o'clock, destroying the boiler, engine
house, and the workshop, and knocking
out forty feet of the wall of the main build
ing. Pieces of the boiler, brick, and timbers
were blown with great force for several
blocks in every direction, doing consider
able damage TO surrounding buildings. No
lives lost. Estimated loss to mill, $4,000.
ABOUT three O'Clock, a few mornings since
Milan Flint, prominent merchant of
Princeton, Illinois, got up out of his bed,
j Il. Il, L, f,o, 10
ear with a razor, and died shortly after.
Flint leares wife and five children in
reasonably good circumstances. He was a
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
where he attended service the day before his
death, in apparent good health, although he
had at times for the two weeks previous,
beeh vefy respondent on account of bad
| health.
| THE war department has received infor-
nation that local difficulties in Ell Paso
County, Texas, which grew out of the fight
and title to certain salt mines. has assumed
quite threatening aspect. The few United
States troops and State militia in the county
| were surrounded, and un ess soon released
it was feared they would fare badly. The
dispatch from Governor Hubbard, asking
assistance from the President, was referred
to the Secretary of War, and by him to Gen
eral Sherman, who telegraphed Genera
Sheridan to SEND all the troops he could
The latter replied that he had ordered al
available troops to the scene of difficulty.
THE Galveston Ne0's Austin special say.
dispatch has been received by the Gov
ernor from the Sheriff of EI Paso County
stating that the State troops surrendered tt
the Mexican mob at three p. m. on the 18th
Their ammunition was exhausted, and the,
were unable to hold out any longer. Afte
the surrender, Howard Atkinson and a mai
named Mcbride were shot to death by th
Mexicahs.
THE will of Anne E. P Sever, of Boston
has been submitted for probate. In add
ton to private legacies it contains the fol
lowing public bequests: Harvard College
$4,000, of which 100000 are to be eS
pended in the erection of building to b
called "Sever Hail." $4,000 for the library
, and $4,000 unrestricted to the Bosto
Children's Hospital, $4,000; Boston Po1
5 and Seamen's Aid Society, Children's Mis-
sion, Provident Association, House of tn
: Good Samaritan, New England Historic an
l Genealogical Society, General Theologics
Library and Young Mems Christian Unior
! $4,000 each; to the Training School fo
$ Nurses in Boston, and the Connecticut R.
treat for the Insane, each the sum of $500
1 is given at the termination of the trust fC
life. In all, S195, 900 in public benefaction