The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-27

| largely to the excitement of that week.
The strike was for an advance of twenty
five per cent. on all day labor.
THR steamer Grand Republic, the largest
and finest steamboat on the Western waters,
| took fire about midnight, ON September 20,
| at st. Louis, and burned nearly to the
waters edge. The flames communicated
from her to the steamer Carondelet lying
alongside, and all of her upper works were
destroyed. Her hull is of iron, and, there
fore, will be saved, but her machinery was
badly damaged. Both boats were lying up
at the foot of Lesperance Street, about two
miles and half from the center of the city,
BY a cyclone which passed over the
Southwest on September Is, great damage
was done to the crops in Louisiana and
Texas. The Houston Age contains the fol.
lowing estimated damage around Galveston /:
Government works in Colivar Channel in
cluding portion of the fleet, $4,000; Gal
weston, Houston & Henderson Railroad, loss
of track and bay bridge, $40, 900; Gulf, Colo
rado & Sante Fe Railroad, loss of track and
bridge, $4,000; cotton presses, $1S,500; un-
completed buildings in the city, 81 800; bath
houses on beech, $500; twenty small
schooners capsized, $1,000; private build
ings and. property $4,000. Total $4,000.
EARLY, few mornings since the engine
house of the Wabash Railway at Defiance,
Ohio, was totally destroyed by fire. Two
locomotives were reduced to shapeless
mass of old iron. John Dwyer, teamster,
living in Defiance, was burned to death.
His body, when discovered, was beyond
Identification, being literally burned to a
crisp; but as Dwyer was sleeping off a spree
in the house. and has not been seen since
the fire, no doubt is felt but that the body is
his. Peter Cantrall, the night watchman
was rescued from the burning building, and
found to be frightfully burned over the en-
tire body. After several hours of excruciat-
ing agony he died.
JUDGE WILLIAMS has granted the petition
filed by number of depositors in the
Farmers, Merchants and Mechanics Savings
Bank, at Chicago, and appointed receiver,
Mr.. 7. W. Ward being named for the posi-
ton. The bond was fixed at three hundred
and fifty thousand dollars. There is little
excitement en- account of the failure, as it is
generally believed that it will prove disas-
trous neither to depositors nor to the public.
The depositors number two thousand five
hundred, and their accounts aggregate
nearly half million. The assets are be-
lieved to be in pretty good shape, as Mr..
Myers was usually careful business man,
without expensive habits, and honest in his
dealings.
THE Democrats of New Jersey, in State
Convention September 10, nominated Gen
eral George B. Mcclellan for Governor, and
passed resolutions reaffirming the principles
declared in the National Platform adopted
at st. Louis; denouncing the frauds and
crimes by which our candidates for Presi-
dent and Vice President are prevented from
occupying the positions to which they were
chosen by decided ajority of popular and
Electoral votes; - congratulating the sup
porters of free government that even a Re-
publican Administration has found it neces-
sary to "adopt the Democratic policy of
local self-government;" and expressing
sympathy with the workingmen in the
prevalent distress.
GENERAL STURGIs, assisted by Howard's
cavalry under Sanford, had fight in Cannon
Creek on the morning of the 14th.
Numbers of Indians were killed, and many
horses taken. The Crows got away with all
| the Nez Perces' pack-animals. They re
port that the River Crows from Muscle
Shell have headed off the Nez Perces, and
| are drawing them towards General Sturg1ss.
| In two fights the Crows and soldiers have
captured nearly one thousand horses. The
| Crows have about four hundred Nez Perces'
horses at the Agency. Over three hundred
Crows were to join General Sturgis ON the
| evening of the 14th, when he would again
pursue the Indians. Howard was twenty
five miles behind him.
| AN Omaha dispatch says that the Union
Pacific express car was robbed at Big
! Springs, few days ago. The express car
was entered by half a dozen masked men
with drawn revolvers, who threatened to
shoot the messenger, Miller, compelled him
to unlock the safe, containing sixty thou
sand dollars in gold coin, and succeeded in
escaping with the whole amonnt. The tele-
graph operator at the station was compelled
to break his instruments to prevent his re-
porting the occurrence. About dozen men
were in the party. They went northward,
| but this is believed to be feint and it is
suspected that their ultimate destination is
southwark. E. Morsman, Superintendent of
the .. z. Express, offers ten thousand dol
lars reward for the capture of the parties,
and for the return of the money. A pro
rata of said reward will be paid for the re-
turn of portion of the money, or the cap
ture of any of the men.
PRESIDENT HAYES and party left Louis.
vile on the morning of September 10, for
Nashville. The train stopped at Elizabeth.
town, Bowling Green, and Franklin, Ken.
lucky, and at Gallatin, Tennessee, where the
party were received by large crowds and
salvos of cannon, and brief speeches were
made by Hayes, Hampton and others Of
the suite. AtNashville, the reception was
scarcely less hearty than at Louisville. The
President was formally received at the cas-
portico of the Capitol, and responded to al
address from Governor Porter, Governor
Wade Hampton, and Secretaries Evarts ant
Key also delivered addresses. At the con
clusion of the ceremonies at the Capito
q procession was formed, and headed b,
the carriage containing the Presidential
party, proceeded to the Custom House
where the ceremony of laying the corne
stone of that edifice was performed under tn
auspices of the State Grand Lodge of Cd,
Fellows, the President spreading the morta
and adjusting the stone.
THE Gold Hill, Nevada Meus: Word
spoken on one side of Gold Canon ar
heard with striking clearness upon tn
! other side. The sounds are telephone
across the intervening space, and may b