The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-07-19
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NEWS

marck, D. T., on July II, from the Big Horn
country, having on board the remains of the
officers who persisted in the Custer mas
sacre of year ago.
ADvICEs from Camp Sidney, Indian Ter
ritory, say the officers quarters at that post
were burned a few days ago. Scarcely any
thing was saved, the officers losing nearly
all their furniture and personal effects.
ALLEN STARK, it is reported, was taken
from the Jail at Scottsville, Kentucky, a
few nights ago, by body of men, and
hanged. He was on trial for the seduction
and murder of Miss Burton, of Mt. Oliver.
Ex-PREsIDENT GRANT left Cologne on
July 10, proceeding up the Rhine. He was
received in Frankfort on the evening of
Wednesday, the 18th, by committee headed
by the American Consul, and on Thursday
dinner was given in his honor.
II. NJ. & B. HALL, of Ellsworth, Maine,
lumbermen, have failed. Liabilities esti-
mated at one hundred and seventy-fve thou
sand dollars one-half secured by assets. The
unsecured creditors are mostly nominal.
The failure caused much financial distress
on Union River.
AT Tuscola, below Champaign, Illinois,
lately, a horrible death by smothering in
grain occurred to lad ten years old, the
son of William Purcell, an engineer in Davis
& Finney's elevator. The boy was playing
about bin, when the chute was opened and
he drawn was down and ingulfed in the tide
of grain, and perished.
On July II, resolutions were adopted in
the United States Court of Washington
City, setting forth the great judicial services
performed by Judge David Davis, particu-
larly in Illinois, and regretting his retire
ment from the bench. The resolutions were
offered by the Hon. John T. Stuart, the law
preceptor of Abraham Lincoln.
NEWS comes from Carter County, KY,
July 9, that three of the band of marauders
named Underwood, have submitted to
capture by the Covington militia. The
remainder of the band took themselves
away into the mountains, to be ready to re-
new operations upon the inhabitants as
soon as the present melee is over.
THE celebration of the anniversary of the
battle of the Boyne by the Orangemen took
place at Montreal, Canada, on July II. A
large mob of Catholics gathered to break up
the procession, and one Orangeman was
killed and a number severely injured. The
military were called out, the police force
being insufficient to quell the riot.
THE steamer J. n. Camden, en- route from
Parkersburg to Pittsburg, exploded both
boilers and sunk at the head of Fish Creek
Ripple about three O'Clock in the afternoon
of July 8. William Barnard, the pilot and
three colored men, named Charles Mitchell,
Reeder Adams, and James Dorsey, of the
crew, were instantly killed. Several were
injured.
Mo-, say that Poindexter Edmonson was
hung ON July 13, for the murder of William
Shaw on October 2, 1876. The gallows was
erected in an open field, about quarter of
mile from the jail; from two to three
| thousand people, men, women, and children,
from the surrounding country witnessed
| the execution.
| THE United States troops were compelled
to follow border marauders into the territory
| of Mexico on the Sth inst. A considerable
amount of stolen property was seized by
General Ord's troops. Some of the Indian
thieves were captured and punished, anG
| tHc WeIc ulspeIScu. 1uc dCllOu u
the commanding officer has been approved
by the President and Secretary of State.
CAPTAIN ]. J. BROWN has arrived a
Brownsville, Texas, from the City of Mexico
which latter point he left on July 7. He re
ports the country orderly and well united OF
Diaz. He met the latter and was assured b,
him that he was satisfied with the order o
General Ord, and that he should direct hi
forces to cooperate with those of the United
States whenever the latter crossed in pursui
| of marauders.
David Pearce and George Stevens, negroes
who waylaid, murdered and robbed youn,
man named Edings, near Charleston, S. C.
May II, under circumstances of peculia
atrocity, were hanged at II :35 on the morn
ing of July 13. They were baptized previou
to the execution by Catholic priest, wit
whom they left full confession of thei
crime. They died without struggle. Abou
two hundred persons witnessed the execu
ton.
On Friday, July 6, Mrs. John Green, Ii,
ing near Roanoke, Randolph County, Mi.
souri,, was shot by her husband and mo-
tally wounded. Green claimed it was an a,
cident, but Mrs. Green asserted it was no
and shortly afterward died. Her father ha
Green arrested, and he was taken to Hunt
vile for examination. On the followin
} Monday night some fifty men took Gree
and hung him.
AN extra engine and caboose runnin
toward Greenfield, Mass, on the Fitchbul
Railroad, at Wendell Station, ran into teal
:, crossing the railroad at that point, KILN
= Ira Davis, Mrs. Jonah Davis, his mothe
: Mrs. Ira Wakefield, Mrs. Eugene Brow
Z and Miss Nellie Lacey. Mrs. Brown live
! half an hour. The others were killed il
1 stantly and badly cut up. The locomoti,
/ was not running at very great speed. I'll
party were returning home from Deriving.
v AT a recent Cabinet session the Howea
e expedition to the North Pole was the su
e ject of lively conversation, with view
IT determining whether the interest of scien
1t and the welfare of the government would
e subserved by extending national assistan
II to the proposed expedition. 1t is unde
N stood the discussion was not unfavorab
?. The Woodward expedition around t
y world was, in connection with the Howga
Io = expedition, the subject of interested conv,
a sation.
- Ex-PREsIDENT GRANT and party arrived
II ~ Frankfort-on-the-Ma July ~, from Wi
h baden. They were received at the stati
=, by the American Consul General and a
10 ception committee. American resider
20 hOisted flags in honor of the occasion. T
reception committee conducted Gene
Grant through the Roemer, the ancient p
ace of the Diet, and the Cathedral The
AZ AZ was banquet at the Palmergarten, whi
y was given in the evening in honor of t
- General.
n NEWS to the following effect has been
le ceived at Portland, Oregon, from Wallawa
lv dated July 13. On the 10th inst. Jose
D. and his band surprised party of thirty-o
Mt Cinnamon who were coming down the Gle
er water in canoes, and for mere pastime a
ly recreation inhumanly killed the whole pal
r. but one, who managed to elude them a
ly escape. They are the first Cinnamon W
er have been molested by the Indians of In