The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-11-29
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NEWS.
The President has signed the Army and

THE President has signed the Army and
Navy Deficiency bills.
The Paris Exposition Bill has passed the
House, with an appropriation of s150,000.
THE entire business portion of Ceylon,
Adams County, Indiana, was burned Satur-
day.
MOSES Fl. GRINNELL, former Collector of
the Port of New York, died recently, aged
seventy-fve.
w. s. WOOD & Co., silk and wooden
manufacturers of Montreal, have made an
assignment. Liabilities about $4,000.
THOMAS MALEY, a newsboy of Ft. Wayne,
Ind, was killed by a freight train while run
ming along the top of a train of cars.
THE Collector, of the Port, Stults, of
GAINESVILLE, received orders to discontinue
the collections of tolls after December /.
A YOUNG son OF Anson Monroe, of
Bellevue, Michigan, fell into boiler of hot
water and was scalded to death a few days
ago.
THE Third National Bank of Chicago has
loss except to stockholders, and little, if
any, to them.
ORLANDO ABBOTT and wife, of North
Andover, Mass. while attempting to cross the
track at Portland, in light wagon, were
struck by the engine and both killed.
MICHAEL KoUNEEoNE, an employee of
the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Rail
| road, had both legs cut off just above the
knees, at Bryan Bluff, Iowa, by freight
| train.
THE boiler of a steam thrashing machine,
exploded on a farm henr Warsaw, Ind, in
stantly killing Gideon Hartung. The de-
ceased was twenty-eight years old, and un-
married
THE National Woman's Suffrage Associa-
ton have called the Sixteenth Amendment
Convention of all Woman Suffrage Associa-
| tions in the United States to be held at
Washington January 8, 1873.
WHILE returning home from Sidney, O.,
| a man named Burton, who lived in Lock
port, had his buggy upset. The lines got
entangled about his neck, and the horse
| dragged him until he was strangled to death.
A LITTLE child, ten years old, of Mr.. E.
Whitaker, in Beaver Center, Crawford
| County, Penn, was left in the house alone
by its parents, and upon their return they
found it with its clothing completely
burned off and life extinct.
On Sunday night a burglar attempted
to rob the postofice at Grafton Station,
| a few miles south of Cleveland. Charles
Allen, a young man who slept in the office,
fired at the burglar. The latter returned
the fire, fatally wounding Allen, who died
next evening. The burglar escaped.
| Two Mormon elders named Morgan and
Murphy, who, for some months past, have
been proselyting Georgia and Alabama,
just below the Tennessee line, left there for
New Mexico with twenty families, some of
which are the most respectable of that
community.
SENATOR SHARON in a recent interview
with a San Francisco reporter declared
peremptorily that he should not go to
Washington during the present session of
Congress, and gave as an excuse that his
important business interests would not per-
mit him to leave the city.
OFFICIAL returns complete from Wis
consin, give Smith, Republican, for
Governor, 1873 Mallory, Democrat, 70, ,4s2
Allis, 26.163. The other Republican and
Greenback majorities are less except
Schwarz, Greenback, for Treasurer, 81, ,4S9,
and Gunther, Republican, for Treasurer,
81,137; whereas, Pingles, Democrat, had
go, ,405.
JAMES CLARK, a well-known desperado
and his band, of Clay County, Kentucky,
shot and instantly killed man named
Murphy, and afterward, overtaking an
other, named Matt Clark, shot his horse
from under him. A posse of citizens pur
sued the cut-throats, and, after about fifty
shots were exchanged, the mob fled.
MEHEMET ALI kilograms from Orchanie
Thursday November %, as follows: "We
arrived here to-day. The Russians sent one
regiment of infantry and one of cavalry from
Vratza against Nevesich. These were over
whelmed, and the cavalry regiment, excep
six men, was destroyed. We also captured
two guns and a number of prisoners"
A SEASON of great floods was reported il
| the Potomac and other streams in Virgins
: on November 245. The State of Virgini.
was almost submerged. Buildings ant
bridges were swept away, gas works wer'
demolished and cities left in complete dark
ness. The Baltimore and Ohio and Chesa
peake and Ohio Railroads suffered severel,
from overfows.
THE st. Louis Globe Democrats Bonneville
special says George Staples, living nea
| Versailles, Morgan County, NO., came hom
| drunk recently, suarreled with his dangh
g ter-in-law, and finally knocked her dow
e and kicked her: Geo. Staples, jr., he
husband, interfered, and his father al
tempted to shoot him, but the son wrenche,
the pistol from his fathers hand and pu
: three balls into his breast, killing hin
. instantly.
A STOCK and passenger train was wrecke
on the Valley Railroad of Virginia, fe,
T days ago, and Thomas Chitlow, engineer, an
r John Thompson, fireman, were scalded t
v death by steam from the locomotive. Fiv
+ cross-ties had been placed in a culvert O
the railroad with the ends projecting, whic
were struck by the engine, ditching tn
train. Two men of the neighborhoot
Dewitt Etinger and Isaac Powell, wer
=, arrested for the crime.
DIFFERENCES among members of the Me,
u lean Cabinet have resulted in Minister,
changes. General Manuel Gonzales is to
y Secretary of War. Senior Zamacona will r
| eA"ih III AhcAioO Nv pACoChI, anu, IL ID Sal
I, will be Secretary of Foreign Relation
o Divisions have also arisen in Congress
. Friends of Senior Vallarto have proposed
n resolution in the Senate approving his d
% plomatic course on the American questiol
q 1t was voted down. Fears are entertaine
e. that the perfdious course of Vallarto wi
a. orce war upon the United States. $500
st THE Secretary of State of Kansas has +
e, ceived official returns from all counties
or the State except Butler, Phillips, Pra,
le Smith, Greenwood, and Mcpherson. HUI
~ phrey, Republican for Lieutenant Governo
ef received 56,672; Handley, Greenback, 9,29
Watterson, Democrat, 2S,159; scatterin
70 1913. Humphreys majority over all, 23, 80
" Humphrey over Watterson, 1858; Huntt
~ Republican, for Chief Justice, receiv
ad 57,019; Riggs, Greenback, 9,575; Wagsta
ad Democrat, 24,655; scattering Sal. Hunte
w. majority over all, 21 ,94S, Hunter over Ws