The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-12-06
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NEWS.

RE VIEW OF DOMESIIC NE HC.
A DEAF man, named William McMahon,
while walking the railroad track near War
saw, Ind, was run over by the cars and in
stantly killed.
THE Collector of the Port. Stults, of
GAINESVILLE, received orders to discontinue
the collections of tolls after December 1.
A TERRIBLE murder is reported from
Cleveland. Charles McGill, of Athens, in
fit of jealousy, killed his mistress, firing
ten shots into her body. The murderer was
arrested.
GREAT excitement was created at Frank
lin County. Arkansas, by the killing of A.
J. Boiler, prominent merchant of that city,
by J. B. Patterson also well known citizen
of Franklin.
AT Columbia, Tenn, few days since, a
a mob of twenty-five hundred citizens took
negro from the jail, and hanged him to
the Courthouse window. He had made a
brutal assault, a few days previous, on awhile
woman.
THE Second National Bank of Lafayette,
Ind, has suspended. The cause of the
suspension is the defalcation of the Cashier
in the sum of over fifty thousand dollars.
The Directors report that the assets are
ample to pay all depositors, in time.
NEAR West Albany, Athens County, Ohio,
William McWhorter, and his brother, DIR. J.
D. MeWhorter, got into a quarrel, when
William procured gun and shot his brother
through the breast, killing him instantly.
The murderer fled to parts unknown.
CHARLEY PINE, sixteen years old, while
playing with a pistol near Marshall, Illinois,
was cautioned by his parents, and replied
that he was not afraid to put the pistol to
his head and snap it. He did so, and the
pistol was discharged, killing him instantly.
THE United States Grand Jury at St.
Louis has found an Indictment against Walsh,
with others, for alleged conspiracy to de-
fraud the Government in the construction
of the new Custom House at st. Louis, of
which Walsh was experimenting Architect.
A flat boat containing thirty colonists on
their way to Arkansas, was overset at Pitts
burg by coming in contact with coal-barges,
and Swiss family named Rife, consisting of
father, mother and two children, and an
unknown man from Philadelphia, were
drowned.
The official vote at the State election in
Nebraska has been canvassed, showing that
Lake, for Chief Justice, received 1860 !;
Howe, 1880. For Regents: Holmes, 29,-
69S; Persinger, 2S,937; Grim, 6,915; Cass,
$3.50. Total vote, 45,S68. Falling off 105
in one year.
THE messenger sent to notify the crews of
life-saving stations between Cape Henry
and Kitty Hawk to patrol the beach has re-
turned, and reports he has been informed
by the crew of No. Station that the crews
and citizens between Stations Nos. and 5
found and buried sixty-two bodies washed
ashore since the wreck of the Huron. The
bdoies were horribly multilated, SO much
so that Identification will almost be an i'm
possibility.
THE lessees of the public works of Ohio
have abandoned their lease and surrendered
the canals to the State Government This
action is alleged by the lessees to have been
taken in consequence of the violation of
contract on the part of the State by reason
of the Legislature having last winter au-
thorized the abandonment of the Miami and
Erie Canal basin. The general opinion of
the matter is, however, that the canals had
become improbable, and that the reason
above alleged is merely pretext to get rid
of their liabilities under the lease.
JUDGE TOWNSEND, of Columbia, S. c.,
has rendered judgment ayerse to motion
in arrest of judgment in the cases of Smalls
and CORDOBA, and sentences were passed as
follows: Francis L. Cardoza, ex-Treasurer
ofSouth Carolina, for conspiracy to defraud
the State, two years Imprisonment in Jail
and four thousand dollars fine, and one
years Imprisonment added if the fine is not
paid at the expiration of two years. Smalls,
member of Congress, for accepting bribe
of $4,000 while member of the State Sen.
ate, was sentenced to three years. hard
labor in the State Penitentiary.
THE six Chinese companies at San Fran
cisco have addressed communication tc
Secretary Evarts. They call attention te
the fact that since the adoption of the treaty
the United States has received from China
| nearly 100000 indemnity for outrages
on American citizens and property il
China that for years the Chinese have beer
| robbed and murdered in California, and no
| in one case in fifty were the perpetrators
| brought to justice; that the punishment o
\ the Chico murderers is attributable to th
influence and money OF good citizens of Sal
Francisco, the result being an exception t,
| the rule; recall the recent anti-Chinese rait
in Placer County, and the July riots in thi
city to disprove Sargents statement tha
county officials have sought to punisl
| offenders against the Chinese and succeeded
| They admit the courts are honest, but tn
officers surrounding the judiciary ar
| pledged to prosecute them before they CA
get Office. They state that in twenty-fv
| years the immigration has not exceeded tn
emigration by four thousand majority, an
reiterate their desire, expressed to Senate
Morton, that the immigration of Chimes
should be restricted within certain lines.