The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-12-20
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NEWS

! c. J. CONVENTION, druggist, Montreal, has
made an assignment. Liabilities large.
| The University Building, near Chicago,
| burned Saturday morning. Loss $4,000.
| THE well of L. A. Mcclure, residing near
Argos, Indiana, was poisoned with strych-
| nine.
| J. j. BROWN, prominent citizen of Will
mington, Ohio, dropped dead on the street
of heart disease.
| S.N. BIxBY & Co., backing manufactur-
| ing firm, New York. have suspended. Liza
| bilities, $145,000; assets, $94, 900.
| BooT ALEXANDER, colored, awaiting trial
at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, ON the charge
of murder, was lynched Friday night.
THE trial of Beavers, at Madison, Ind, for
the murder of John w. Sewell, has resulted
in verdict of guilty, with the death penalty
attached.
| A PLOT to lynch the murderer Rande the
| other night, at Galesburg, Illinois, was dis
| covered in time to make postponement of
the job necessary.
THE St. Louis Clearinghouse shows the
aggregate clearing of thirty nine banks of
that city for the year ending November 80
to have been 81 ,001 ,S9O,93
MINISTER WELSH arrived in London on
the 18th, and was received by Mr.. Pierre
pont, the retiring Minister, the Secretary of
| Legation and few Americans.
| THE whisky house of Cochran & Fulton,
Louisville, was damaged by fire few nights
ago, to the extent of two hundred and
seventy-fve thousand dollars.
| EX-GOVERNOR PINCHBACK, of Louisiana
has addressed an open letter to Governor
Nichols, resigning his place as United
States Senator from that State.
Two farmers living near Kirkersville,
Ohio, named Evans and Coulton, settled an
old feud Friday. The latter killed the
former with wooden sled-shoe.
JAMES McCLEsDoN, colored, was hanged
at Basthrop, Louisiana, on Friday, in the
presence of two thousand persons, for the
murder of G. NJ. Evans, year ago.
| HENRY GROOM, a negro, threw a eoal-oil
lamp at his mistress, Emma Chinn, in Louis
vile, the other night. Result: House de-
stroyed and Emma burned to death.
SIX steamers left New York for Europe
Saturday, December s, without a bushel
of grain in their cargoes. Fresh beef
and oysters were the largest items sx-
ported.
B. D. KOONs, ex-member of the Pennsyl-
vania Legislature, has been convicted of en-
bezzling 81 200 from the Oddfellows' Lodge,
Wilkesbarre, Pa. Keons has applied for a
new trial.
BARBARA WINKLER, wife of James Wink
Ter, of Hanging Rock, Ohio, was burned SO
badly by the sudden explosion of a lamp,
on Saturday morning, that she died in about
four hours.
MEADER's Furniture Factory, northwest
corner of Smith and Front Streets, Cincin-
natl, was recently destroyed by fire, entail
ing loss of 100000, with an insurance
only of $4,000.
A DWELLING on the farm of w. w. Tucker,
near Deep Creek, in Norfolk County, Va,
burned Friday night, and female member
of the family, named Ann Atkinson, per-
ished in the flames.
MOB in St. Clair County, Missouri, op-
posed to the collection of railway tax, on
Friday night took forcible possession of all
the county records, and detied the lawfully
: constituted officers.
, THE Marsh Harvester Company has made
an ASST gnment to Mr.. Starke, of Sycamore,
! Illinois. C. W. Marsh is President, and j.
? D. Easter, of Chicago, owns half the capital
, stock, which is 100000. No particulars.
THE leading bankers of Milwaukee have
united in circular to their country Ger
respondents, notifying them that after Ian
uary l, the rate of interest on balances over
e two thousand dollars will be reduced to two
I per cent.
AT Silver Springs, Wyoming, on Friday
a soldier named Kennedy killed Sergean
Schaffer, of the Third Cavalry. Kenned,
: was drunk at the time. The same night hi
f comrades took him from the guard-hous,
n and lynched him.
q A BARN near Hackensack, New Jersey
n owned by Peter R. Ackerman, was destroye,
q by fire recently. The stallion Hyperion
with a record of 2 :27, valued at twent,
u. thousand dollars, and eight other valuabl
u horses, were burned.
- A WASHINGTON dispatch says: There
{. a good deal of fuss and feathers concernin
K our relations with Mexico, but no real al
Ir prehension of an outbreak is entertained b
It General Ord or any of the officers now her
q from the Department of Texas.
g THE workmen employed in the Govern
,s ment buildings in the District of Columbi,
!. have passed resolutions thanking Sunse
= Cox for his efforts in their behalf, and COZ
IL demning other Congressman who have bee
e antagonistic to the laboring men.
re IN Scioto County, Ohio, one Hunt, il
e. furiated by the testimony of one Cutlip b.
It, fore Grand Jury, attacked him with
re club, fraeturing his skull. CutlIp died i
tUenty-four hours tharoo HINT h,
al fled. Cutlip was peaceable young man.
10 THE wife of Daniel Shopbell, highly e
o teemed citizen of Ashland, Ohio, was foun
~ drowned Saturday morning about seve
~ o'clock. Her body was lying with her fa,
III down in a small stream of water near b.
e. home, the water being only five inches dee
he THE Receiver of the National Trust Cor
is pany, New York, posted notice, Saturda
We stating that the depositors, he felt sur
ifs would soon be paid in full, and may safe
he count on dividend of at least fifty per Ger
nj as soon as legal forms can be compile
- with.
c. D. EVANS residing near Patask a
~, Ohio, died at ten o'clock, Friday night, fro
Ill the effects of blow on the head dealt wi
'es a heavy club in the hands of Ewing Coult,
NV hSiShpoi1 oo he1i-puob oCfCh Y ClOCke I
he morning of the same day on which l
he death occurred.
his JOHN JONES, colored, was hanged
on Mariana, Arkansas, on Friday, for t
nd murder of Joseph Colwell, colored, o
~ year ago, at Bradley's Landing The 70
no broke when the drop fell, and he was tax
up insensible and hanged until he was de.
AS James Caldwell and Quincy Parl
ten were going to the latter's home, in an op
one buggy, in Connersville, Indiana, the no
Ihe took fright and ran away. Caldwell '
lce thrown against tree and almost instan
Nv killed. Parker was severely, though pr
'ln- ably not fatally injured.
MD THE Directors of the German Amerit
,raI Bank at Chicago have suspended payne
tbe Its liabilities to depositors are $65 900 ass
and $108,00 Stockholders will lose alb