The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-30
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NE WS


CALLAo dates to August report severe
earthquakes in Chill.
THE President and party returned to
Washington from their New England trip
on August "A.
The coal miners in Allegheny County,
Pa, and in Western Maryland, have struck
for higher wages.
HAMILTON FISH, Secretary of State dur
ing the administration of President Grant,
started Saturday, August 25, for Europe.
On August %, the Town Council of Glas-
gov, Scotland, unanimously resolved to
present the freedom of the city to General
Grant on the occasion of his approaching
visit.
MOSES STRONG, Assistant State Geologist,
of Wisconsin, son of Hon. Moses NJ. Strong,
of Mineral Point, was drowned in FIambeau
River, Saturday, August Is, while engaged
in geological explorations. The body was
afterward recovered.
A SPECIAL from Mount Douglas, ILL.,,
says that an early hour in the morning of
August 81, Hon. Daniel M. Winters, for
merly member of the State Senate, and a
very prominent citizen of Illinois, met his
death by receiving kick from horse.
The mystery surrounding the disappear
ance of the little child of Mr.. Rose, near
Blair, Nebraska, has been solved by the
finding of its body about two miles north
west of his house, on the bank of small
stream called Davis's Creek.
THE Merchants Exchange Bank, of San
Francisco, announces that it will go into
liquidation. Cause, plethora of idle capital,
stagnation in mercantile and stock circles,
and decreased business under ruinous COM
petition. The bank is perfectly solvent, and
Will pay dollar for dollar.
DAvY CRoCKET's snuff box, presented to
him by Henry Clay while both were men,
bers of Congress, has just been presented to
the Tennessee Historical Society by Mrs.
Matilda Fields, youngest daughter of Davy
Crockett, now residing in Obion County,
Tenn.
THE Hawaiin Gazette, having late advices
from Kilanea, states that lake which a
few weeks ago, was empty and dead, exhibit
ing only black pit five hundred feet in
depth, is now full of activity and filled with
molten lava to within few feet of the
surface.
BERGIN, the Mt. Vernon, Ohio, murderer,
who killed his man on the day of the execu-
ton of Harry Adams at Dayton, as if to show
his contempt of the hanging business as
practiced in Ohio, has been refused new
trial and sentenced to be hanged on the 7th
of December.
| A BRUTAL murder was committed on the
farm of August Pape, in Jefferson Town
ship, nine miles east of Fort Wayne, few
evenings since. A young son of Mr.. Pape
was shot and instantly killed by tramp
whom he ordered away from the farm. The
murderer is at large.
THE ceremony of unveiling monument
| to the memory of Col. Robert L. McCook, of
the Ninth Ohio, took place at Washington
Park, Cincinnati, on the 23d of August.
| Addresses were made by Stanley Matthews,
Rev. NJ. Lilienthal, and others. The cere-
mony was very imposing one, and largely
| attended.
! DEPUTY COLLECTOR CHAs. B. VADIN has
| been held in $4,000 bail at Richmond, Va,
| charged with the embezzlement of Govern
ment funds, which, he states, were lost
gambling. Colonel Dyer telegraphed to
Norfolk, ordering the increase of the bail of
several parties arrested for irregularities in
! the Custom House of that city.
HEAVY rains have swollen the streams,
| inundating the country round about Nor
wich, Conn.,, and washing away the culverts.
| A train from New London tumbled into a
culvert, except a passenger car which re-
mained ON the track. Six train hands were
injured, some seriously, but none it is
thought fatally. One house was washed
away and child was drowned.
THE New South Wales steam collier
Yana Yana, in entering New Castle harbor
on July Is, was boarded by a heavy sea, q
heavy gale blowing, and went down, stern
forward, with all hands, Captain Summer
bell Miller, Chief Officer; Anderson, Sec
ond Officer; Eddes, Chief Engineer; Baxter
assistant, and twelve seamen, fireman, etc
The body of Officer Miller was recovered.
AN extensive gang of horse thieves has
been broken up in Salem County, Missouri
within the last few days. Ten members O
the gang were arrested. Among them is Big
, Jim Smith, one of the most notorious hors
thieves in the State, and the leader of tn
, gang A man who arrived in Lexington re
, ports that in the bottom between Lexington
and Holden he saw three bodies hanging t.
tree labeled "horse thieves" They ar
supposed to be of the same gang.
JOSEPH and his Indians left Hole-in-the
Rock Station on the 10th or Goth on the ap
proach of Howard, going east or northwest
t and surprised Howard's men, who ha
/ charge of the pack animals and loose stock
e at daylight on the morning of the goth a
I Camas Meadows, which is about twent
miles east of Dry Creek, stage station
The Indians got away with about one hu1
dred of Howard's pack animals, and ais
! about thirty horses belonging to the MOI
J. tana volunteers.
t A report from Virginia City, Montan,
Y August "a, says: The Indians are reporte
n this morning on Madison River, forty mile
q below Henry's Lake. Most of the familie
in the Madison Valley came to Virginia Cit
;. during the night. The Indians have gait
- cred many horses, and killed one man O
u Wolf Creek. 1t is probably only straggli1
IS party, but it cuts off communication wit
st General Howard by that route. Courie
D and provision wagons en- route have bee
10 stopped. There has been no news from Ge
h eral Howard since night before last.
n THE Democrats of Pennsylvania held
o. State Convention on the 22d of Angus
II Nominations were made for the Offices
=: Supreme Judge, Auditor and Treasure
10 Resolutions were adopted, declaring the
IL duction of Rutherford B. Hayes into the
~ flee of President high crime against fir
O. government; that capital combined in &C
We porate organizations has been too highly
vored by both State and Federal legislatio
and its demands for large returns are inco
in sistent with the depressed condition of t
ed laboring and business interests of the cou
he try; and reafirming and adopting the fns
D. cial resolutions of the National Democra
n platform.
x REPORT from Deadwood of Aupust