The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-05-03

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he time appointed, the door of their room
vas broken open, and Ida May found dead.
'allie was in a comatose and dangerous con-
lition and was taken to the hospital. In the
.oom was found an empty bottle labeled |
Powers and Welghman's morphia." They |
we're from Whitewater Township in Hamil- |
ton County.
Frank Baum, of Ada, Ohio, was fatally |
injured recently by the kick of horse. The
same horse, about year ago: killed man
near Cleveland.
A daughter of Joseph Kite, farmer, near
Urbana, was burned to death by her clothing
catching fire while burning stalks.
Ebenezer Stout, a we'll known citizen of
years was prominent in the early political
history of Illinois, committed suicide lately
by taking an overdose of laudanum.
A terrific thunder, lightning, and hail
storm visited the vicinity of Springfield, ILL.,,
the latter part of April. The wind tore up
trees, unroofed houses and barns, leveled
fences, and drove the large hail-stones
through plate glass windows, infiicting dam
age to the amount of many thousand dollars.
Over one hundred panes of glass were
broken in the State House. Outside the
city the damage is also said to be consider
able.
The United States detectives made an i'm
portant capture in Cincinnati recently, of
counterfeiters, with their molds and tools,
and a large quantity of bogus half-dollars.
The detectives have been on the clay" for
this band for months, and now think they
have succeeded iu breaking it up.
Mrs. Sallie Dill, who with her daughter, took
poison at the farmers Hotel, Cincinnati,
died from it's effects. The cause OF the
suicide was sad one. They belonged to
Shaker village in Hamilton County. The
mother left with her daughter, who was dis.
miss cd from the village ON account of world
illness, and failing to get suitable employ
ment or to gain permission to return to the
village, they took refuse in death by
poison.
VIM. Pintz, who killed Catharine Burr, a
child about nine years old, in BolliDger
County, Missouri, on the 18th of May, 1875,
was hanged at Marble Hill, April 27, be-
fore great crowd of people, who came for
many miles to witness the execution. Pintz
confessed that he killed the girl, and had
also murdered man named William Gray,
for which he was paid $40.
The death of Parson BrowDlow, at Knox
vile, on the 29th April, is reported. He
had been sfflicted for years with paralysis
death was an extension of this disease to the
bowels, paralyzipg the same.
There has been another advance of five
cents ON freights from Chicago west
ward.
One thousand dollars worth of smuggled
opium has been Sc ICED in San Fran cisco.
Reports from sections of Nebraska show
the crops to be in most excellent condi.
ton.
The strike of the Reading Railroad loco
motive engineers appears to have been
abandoned
William Fair, son of Christian Fahr, q
haif-grown boy, was drowned lately while
fishing in pond near Indianapolis.
Foret1s. AeeDss
The Turks crossed the Danube, April 26
at several points. and sent out flying corps
to destroy the railways before the advance d
the Russians.
a
Roumanian troops have evacuated Kalafat
| The backward movement seems to indicate
that there is no intention to make, at any
rate for the present, common cause with the
Russians, but, on the contrary, all the Rou
manian for ces are being collected to act &C
cording to circumstances.
A Vienna special states that the Russian
imperial family have given 40, 0,O0O, 900 rouble
from their private purses for the expense
oil the war.
The following announcement is official
Safvet Pasha has addressed the following
dispatch to the Turkish ambassador at Lon
don: "The first engagement hes just beel
fought at TehuruksoD, near Batoum. Afte
some fighting the enemy was defeated an
put 10 rout, with loss of eight hundred.
The Russian General Staff has left Kisct
enetf for UDgheni and Scutari. A cavalr
force is marching toward the Danube. Th
artillery is concentrated at Ungheni, and tn
infantry msssed in the direction of ChotiI
scutaii and Ungheni.
The London 7tIegropHs special from Per
says: 1t is reported that Russia has decide
to send second circular note to the Power
ard wait for a reply before she declare
war. 1t is considered the bad condition {
the roads in Asia Minor is the cause of Ii
apparent hesitation.
No declaration of war has yet been mad
but on the Esd of Aoril the Emperor of Ru
= = sia exhorted his soldiers to deeds of valo
and the Russian Embassy have shaken tt
dust of Constantine ople off their feet. The
seems, therefore, to be no special need of
> manifesto.
The Times correspondent with the Turki
n army states that ten thousand men fro
Widdin have gone to the seat of ws
r Despite the assertion of the Russian tel
grahic agency that perfect understand
e has been arrived at between Russia and Al
IS tria relative to Eastern affairs, there can
r no doubt that Austria reserves to itself q
a solute liberty of action.
e The Russian telegraphic agency's telegra
?, dated Sunday April %, says the Porte ca
y on Servia for leave to occupy its frontier
d Gladova to prevent the passage of the r.
d slams.
If Mr.. Layard, it is stated, has informed
h Porte that England had guaranteed the ]
e tegrity and iDdepenencs of the Ottman E
Of pire only on the conditions laid do wn by I
a. treaties, stipulating for its control by
powers. The Porte having contested Il
r. right, it has forfeited the benefits guarante
Of by those treaties, and England could not
ga tervene with arms in its behalf.
lie The Cars manifesto to the Russian arI
Id and people was promulgated on April
,g The Emperor declares that in view of
at rejection of the protocol and the obstin
40 refusal of the Porte to yield to the just
1g mands of Europe, the moment has arriv
ly for Russia to act independently. G"rtc
lis koa issued an official circular 10 the Powe
er giving notice that Russia had resolved
invade Turkey. He also sent polite nc
dated April "a, to the Turkish Cha
d'Affaires at St. Petersburgh, requiring b
ri to leave the country.
in The Russian troops were at once put
ne motion, and crossed the frontier into R
IN mania.
es The London Daily TelegrapRs corresp
to dent at Pera, says that the Russians, a
lt- gether, lost about two thousand men in