The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-07-12
shot himself. Cause, probably fearing his

shot himself. Cause, probably fearing his
trial.
DURING recent heavy storm the light
ming struck shade-tree in the cornield of
George W. Miller, one mile east of Mead
| vile, Pa. under which his son, George Mil
| Ter, jr., aged sixteen years, had taken shell
ter. Young Miller was killed instantly.
| There were two marks on the face and one
near the heart where the fatal bolt had done
| its work.
| THERE are now upward of one hundred
| thousand head of cattle in the immediate
vicinity of Dodge City, Kansas, some of the
herd running high into the thousands.
There is a single herd numbering forty
thousand, another of twenty-one thousand,
and one of seventeen thousand. The Texas
drive to Dodge City this year will run close
| on to two hundred thousand.
A REDUCTION of five cents per hundred
on frst-class freight to New York went into
effect at St. Louis on the I'd inst, on all
the trunk lines, and reduction of eleven
cents on bulk meats. Live stock was also
| reduced five cents per hundred to New
York, Buffalo, and Pittsburg, the rate estab-
| lished being sixty cents to New York, and
| thirty. five cents to Buffalo and Pittsburg.
GREAT excitement has prevailed in Carter
County, KY, on account of the conduct
| duct of outlaws there, who have been roam
ing the county rough-shod, committing all
sorts of outrages and defying the laws. The
Light Guard Military Company, from Cow
ington, was sent to the county by order of
the Governor to defend the citizens and cap
| ture these bands.
ACCORDING to a dispatch from Phoebe
there is no trouble with Indians in South
east Nevada, but B. F. Holland, Agent in the
Maopa Reservation and William L. Carter a
blacksmith, were killed by a band of four
horse-thieves. All the inhabitants of the
valley turned out in pursuit. One Isaac
McMannus was captured and wounded near
st. George. The others are supposed to be
hiding in the mountains near by.
On July d. the body of William Cortaine,
of the Government Lake Survey party sur
veying the coast about Sandusky, O., was
found in the lake near Port Clinton, few
miles from Sandusky. The indications are
that Cortaine was murdered and thrown
into the lake by party of roughs, who fol
lowed him from saloon from Port Clinton.
Cortaine was twenty-seven years old, and
lived at Detroit, where he had a wife and
one child.
CAPTAIN JOHN A. WEBSTER, senior officer
in the United States Revenue Service, died
July 4, at his home in Hartford County,
Maryland, aged ninety-one. The deceased
commanded the famous six-gun battery on
Ferry Branch when the British fleet bonn
barded Fort McHenry in 1914, and repulsed
the enemy, who had passed Fort McHenry
during the night in barges and light vessels.
He was presented with several swords for
gallant services in this action.
THE st. Louis Republicans special from
| Boonville, Missouri, says: News has been
received here of case of poisoning at Tip
| ton, Monitau County, in which six persons
| were given poison in milk while eating
breakfast. The unfortunates are G. c. Nc
| Clay, wife and baby; Mrs. R. L. McCulloch
| and baby, of Helena, Montana Territory, and
Mrs. Brown. About eleven o'clock those
who drank of the milk took very sick, and
| are now in very critical condition, with
out any hope of relief, as the physicians have
done them no good. A negro woman is sus-
/ pected, and is in Jail to await further de-
velopments.
l. A DISPATCH dated July says: The in
| dictment of the Louisiana Returning Board
| has created much excitement in New Or
| leans. 1t is said a movement is on foot to
secure the Indictment of Stanley Matthews
and J ohm Sherman as accessories before and
after the fact to the crimes of perjury and
forgery, charged in the indictments against
the Returning Board. The members of the
Returning Board say if the persons on whom
they depend hesitate or fail, that no part of
the transactions which gave Louisiana to
Hayes will longer sleep in mystery. 1t is
believed that these indictments are the re.
suit of some advices from very prominent
politicians in New York.
A Mt. VERNON, Kentucky, special to the
Louisville Couraer-Joau7aal says: On mid
night Saturday, June 80, nearly one hun
dred men attacked the house of James
Bethurman, noted desperate. Bethurman
would not surrender, and firing upon the
attacking party with his shotgun killed
Charles Burton. Though some fifty shots
were fired at him, Bethurman escaped. The
same party entered Mt. Vernon, and visiting
the Jail took therefrom James Smith, An
drew Cummings, Kirk King, and J. o
Gibbs, all charged with robbery. Removing
these four a mile from town they hung al
of them. There is considerable excitement
but no outbreak.