The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-23
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NE WS


STEPHEN HALL, Wendell Small, and
Frank Houston were drowned in Lebago
Lake, near Portland, Ne, few days ago.
THE two hundred and fifty silk weavers of
Newark, New Jersey, will resume work in
a few days, compromise having been
effected
NINE of the leading strikers on the Lehigh
Valley Railroad, at Easton, Pa, were ar
rested Saturday, August is, and taken to
Philadelphia.
THE Democrats of Maine have nominated
Joseph H. Williams, of Augusta for
Governor, and passed resolutions reaffirming
the st. Louis platform.
DIR. EPSTEIN, at Cincinnati, by mistake,
gave his young son dose of morphine
| instead of quinIne, and death occurred
from the effects of the dose.
A YOUNG woman, at Cincinnati, named
Nellie Mcintyre, in fear of desertion by her
| lover, policeman Sussmann, of that city,
took laudanum, and died in a few hours.
PROF. HALL, in charge of the great tele
| scope at Naval Observatory, at Washington
has discovered two satellites to the planet
Mars-an achievement that, we are told, has
caused great sensation in the astronomical
| world.
GEN. CROOK tells the authorities at Wash
| ington that the Indians are better armed
| and shoot surer than the soldiers. When the
| Indians add to these advantages superior
| for ce it is not wonderful that the soldiers
are shot down in great numbers.
| THE Washington Cabinet has authorized
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service to represent the United States in
| treating with Canada for the return of Sit
| ting Bull and his band. Col. Corbin has
been appointed Secretary of the Commits
sion.
SENATOR MORTON arrived at Richmond,
Indiana, from California, on the evening of
the 18th, accompanied by his wife and sons.
He was lying i'll there, with a stroke of
paralysis, occasioned by indigestion and
severe labor. His friends looked for a
speedy recovery.
THE government canal around the Des
Moines Rapids of the Mississippi River at
Keokuk, Iowa, has been so far completed
as to admit of the passage of boats, and was
| formally opened to navigation on the 22d
inst, at noon. The City Council and
citizens of Keokuk celebrated the event in
| an imposing manner.
| On August IA, by heavy fall of coal in
the Philadelphia Coal Company's Mine, near
Shenandoah, by the explosion of blast,
Daniel David was instantly killed and Owen
| Cunningham badly hurt. The men were
taken out as speedily as possible and re-
moved to their homes. Medical aid was
| padf for hos xyhn
THE Galveston Meas special reports a
| fight in Mexico between the Kickapoo and
Liapan tribes of Indians, in which seventeen
Liapans were killed. Mexican troops are
reported as concentrating at Camargo,
| opposite the Ringgold barracks. Fort
Clark special says Mexican cattle thieves
drove one hundred and fifty head of cattle
across the Rio Grande on the 14th.
THE Presidents middle of August trip in
cluded number of the large cities in Yer
mont and New Hampshire. The Benning-
ton Centennial was attended. The President
was accompanied by members of his Cabinet
and his family, and the people gave him a
fine reception. Speeches were made at
Windsor, Vermont, by the President, Sec
retaries Evarts, Schurz, Key and Devens.
THE will of the late Chauncy Rose OF
Terre Haute, has been filed for probate.
Decedent wills $175,O00 additional to the
Vigo Orphans Home, another 100000 to
the endowment fund of the Rose Polytech.
mic Institute, and $75, 900 for the establish.
ment of free medical dispensary in the
city of Terre Haute, besides sundry minor
sums and real estate to relatives and friends
VIM. CAsKY, a colored man, produced a
terrible commotion in the negro church al
the corner of Eleventh Street and Christy
Avenue, St. Louis, the other night, by walk
ing in, and, while the services were pro
crossing, drawing a revolver and firing
three shots at his wife, one of which pene
trated her chest, producing mortal wound
There had been trouble between the couple
and about three months ago Mrs. Casky left
her husband, which led to the shooting.
THE centennial anniversary of the battle
of Bennington was celebrated in Benning
ton, VT, on the 18th and 10th inst. Ad
dresses were delivered by distinguished
citizens, and a commemorative poem read
Governors from several States were present
as also President Hayes and staff. The Yer
mont Veteran Soldiers Society closed thu
Centennial by monster torchlight pro
cession. Gen. Mcclellan attended the dedi
cation of the army and navy monument.
A RAILROAD accident occurred, on tn,
? 18th, at Hoosic Junction, On the Troy
S Boston road. The train left Troy at 80
p loaded with excursionists and was run int,
. by Montreal freight The passenger car
j, of the former were wrecked; the engine AM
= = a number of freight cars were totally de
y stroyed. The injured are: J. H. Clarke
engineer, arm broken; Stickney, fireman
|, both legs run over w. E. N. Danchy, righ
= leg; Mrs. Conant, head cut; Mr.. Ward, Sc
# riously injured in the back and head. TIL
d telegraph operator at the station endea,
6 ored to open the switch, and was hurled o
the embankment. Medical assistance an
y a wrecking train were sent to the relief.
= THE Greenback party of New Jersey, o
- August IA, nominated General Thomas /
il Hoxy for Governor. The resolutions deman
l. the immediate repeal of the Resumptio
Act, attributing to it the contraction of tt
N currency and the general distress of tt
TO country, and warn the workingmen that it
part of the conspiracy of the money pow
to pauperize and then disfranchise lab
All parties who desire relief from Il
II present burdens are invited to join. Th
~ resolutions also denounced the demonetiz
nv ton of silver, and demand the repeal of Il
~ law.
of ITis reported from Summit Station, Pen
d. sylvania, that all operatives in the folio
nd ing collieries struck on the 18th: T
,w three collieries of the Beaver Meadow CO
an Company, employing about nine hundr
Dz- hands. Collieries at Stockton, of J. G. l.
1t derman, employing about six hundr'
Id, Spring Mountain collieries, seven hundr
ed The two collieries of Beaver Brook c,
by Company, five hundred. Lehigh and Will
he barre Coal Company, four collieries
OF Audenried, about two thousand men.
ng l.. Mumper & Co.'s two collieres, four h,
OF dred and fifty. These comprise the c
lieries south of Hazleton. The men