The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-09
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NE EWS

JAMAICA telegram reports revolution
and a two days confagration at Port au
Prince Hayti.
MRS. NATHAN BLACK committed suicide
at Nashville, Tenn, lately, by cutting her
throat with razor while insane.
ONE hundred workmen were discharged
from the West Albany, New York shops,
for participation in the late disturbances
there.
A STREET drain at Toronto caved in re-
Gently, killing Charles d. Brown and F. w.
Laughlin. Three others were badly in
jured.
1T is understood that the members of the
Grand Army of the Republic in Chicago
will form military organization under the
State law.
The Charter Oak Life Insurance Com
pany has resumed the payment of death
claims which were suspended under tenn
porary injunction.
IT is reported that the Bank ofMontreal
will lose about 100000 by the failure of
Mecker in Chicago. His total Indebtedness
to the bank is over 100000.
Sincoe, Ontario, were burned to death at a
recent fire which consumed the building.
Four others were dangerously injured in
the fire.
OWING to disagreement between the
Adams Express Company and the Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad regarding the rates charged
for goods, the express company has ter
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pany.
THE receipts from internal revenue during
the past month were $S,764,574. The esti-
mated receipts are reduced at least 81 ,000,-
600 in consequence of the late strike. The
custom receipts during the month were
$40, $780, $50.
JAY GOULD was assaulted lately, in New
York City, by Major A. A. Selover. The
assault is said to have been dictated by the
sympathy that Major Selover has for "Jim :"
Keene, the California millionaire, in the
Quarrel between Keene and Gould, which
has culminated within a few days.
JAMES MASON and Thomas Howard, engi
neers employed ON the c., B. &. Q. Railroad,
at Aurora, ILL.,, while in discussion rela-
tive to matters connected with the strike,
became terribly enraged at each other.
Mason drew revolver, shooting Howard
through the heart, killing him instantly.
The remains of General Custer have
reached West Point, and were inferred in
the receiving vault, where they will remain
until the funeral in October. The remains
of Colonel Cook, Lieutenant Reilly, and DIR.
DeWoolf have been forwarded respectively
to Hamilton, Ontario, Washington, D. c.,
and Norwalk, Ohio.
The schooner Grace A. Shannon, owned
by Alexander Graham, of Chicago, which
left Buffalo with six hundred tons of coal
consigned to Heldstrom, of Chicago, was run
into few mornings ago by the propeller
Favorite, between Milwaukee and Racine.
The Shannon went down instantly. Al
hands, except the seven year old son of Mr..
Graham, were saved. Loss, 800, 900; insur
ance, $4,000.
A sEvENTEEN-YEAR old son of John
Mathers, a well known cattle dealer at
Poolesville, Warren County, Ind, COM
mitted suicide by hanging. He left a letter
to his father saying that life had been very
burdensome to him for two weeks past,
and that he had concluded to end it. He
was at the Pine Village camp-meeting, ana
seemed in his usual spirits. No cause is
known.
NEWS from the Wyoming and Lacka-
wanna regions to August 6, show that all
mining and shipping operations there are
brought to standstill, and tens of thousands
of miners, in all stages of destitution and
misery, are engaged in a struggle to bring
the operators to terms. 1t is the darkest
picture that the labor troubles have pro-
duced and the worst, it was feared, was yet
to come.
Col. LOGAN H. Roofs, Treasurer of the
Texas & California Stage Company, of Little
Rock, Ark, is just in receipt of a telegram
from Dan. C, Stevens, Superintendent of the
lines of that company in Texas, west of
Fort Conche, stating that the Indians made
| a raid at Muerto Springs and killed driver
named Heury Dill, and took off twelve head
| of mules The murder and robbery took
place on the last day of July. The news
came by stage to Fort Stockton, the end of
the military telegraph lines.
THE center of the lapor troubles has been
transferred to the coal regions of Pennsyl-
yania. A mob of six thousand men on Au-
gust /, attempted to destroy the car shops
at Scranton Pa, and would not desist until
they were fired into by volunteer company
of young men. Four of the strikers were
killed and many others wounded. AT
Wilkesbarre similar demonstration was
made but without fatal results. 1t is feared
that the miners and railroad men will com
bine and cause serious trouble. One hun
dred thousand men on a strike are a stand
ing menace to the State of Pennsylvania.
A GOOD portion of the Presidents mes
sage, upon the reasselnbling of Congress
will be devoted to a consideration of thu
labor question. 1t is known that at thu
numerous Cabinet meetings held within th'
two past weeks, this subject has, in severa
instances, been discussed, to the exclusion
of all other matt nrs. Several members o
the Cabinet are known to favor the passag
of law providing for the organization o
commission which shall have due regar
for the interest of all concerned, producers
,, merchants, railroad employers and capita
lists, so that on any question fair con
, promise may be effected.