The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-20
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NEWS.

L " L VI tHe lttulHS IstpuDllCdH papers VI
Paris have been seized by the police for
publishing reports of the Gambetta trial.
IN the ruins of Hale's piano factory, in
New York City, skull, burned and twisted,
was dug up on the 18th. The remains of
five persons have been recovered.
AT the great shooting contest between
the American and British teams at Creed
moor, on September IS, the Americans
came out ahead. Every contest was fairly
won by our wonderful marksmen.
President HAYES and suite arrived at
Dayton on September II, and had a warm
reception from the citizens. He made a
brief speech from the Beckle House, ex-
planning the policy of his Administration.
FROM Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, we
learn that the Nesquehoning, Lehigh &
Wilkesbarre Coal Company's miners have
gone to work. The men On Summit Hill
also voted to go to work. This mine has
been idle since July.
FROM eighteen to twenty thousand people
attended the reunion of the Twenty third
Ohio Regiment (Hayes's old regiment), at
Fremont, ON the 14th of September. The
President took part in the reception. Secre-
tary McCrary and General Rosecrans de-
livered speeches.
CHARLES SPENCER, aged twenty-five
committed suicide by hanging himself with
pocket handkerchief to the studding of his
cell in the old city prison at Richmond, Ind,
where he was temporary placed on account
of intoxication. He was aside from his
somewhat Incorporate habits. respected
young man.
AT Georgetown, Del, during a recent
thunder storm, Gideon B. Kitchens, with
four sons and two daughters, took refuge
under tree in a field. The lightning
struck, and three of the children, two sons
and a daughter, were instantly killed. The
father and the remaining children were Sc
| riously, but not fatally hurt.
THE Democrats of Massachus etts met in
Convention on September13, and nominated
the following State ticket: For Governor,
VIM. CASTOR; for Lieutenant Governor, VIM.
r. Plunket; for Secretary of State, Weston
Rowland for Treasurer and Receiver, Gen.
David E. Skillings; for Auditor, John E.
Fitzgerald; for Attorney General, Chas. o.
Thompson.
| INDIAN INSPECTOR VANDEvER telegraphs
| from Mesilla, New Mexico, to the Com
missioner of Indian Affairs as follows:
"The Warm Spring Indians have left their
| reservation, and have murdered thirteen
| persons. Jeffords, former agent of the
| Chiricahuas, stirred them up to insubordi-
nation. He can be convicted on Indian
testimony of furnishing whisky to the
| Indians"
TWENTY thousand people were on the
beautiful grounds of the Soldiers Home, at
Dayton, Ohio, on Wednesday, September -,
to witness the ceremonies of the unveiling
of the Soldiers Monument. Over three
thousand veterans of the late war passed in
review. Addresses were made by President
| Hayes, General B. F. Butler, General J. D.
Cox, Chief Justice Waite, Secretary Nc
Carry and others.
| EARLY the morning of September 9th a
collision on the Virginia side of the
Potomac, near Long Bridge, between a
cattle train on the Baltimore & Ohio Road
and a freight train on the Midland Road,
resulted in both engines being badly
| damaged, the caboose of the freight train
| burned, and eleven head of cattle killed.
The conductor of the train, Thomas Luckett,
was fatally injured.
THE Prohibitionist party of Maine met in
Convention, on September II, and nomi-
mated a Safe ticket Judge Pitman was
nominated for Governor. Resolutions were
passed complimenting the National Ad-
ministration, and declaring that the real
remedy for the present distress among
laboring men and elsel, mere is to save, by
legal prohibition, the annual waste of $780,
100000 now spent for liquor.
AT Harriburg. Pa, on the 18th, the State
Prohibitory Convention organized with A.
A. Barker, Chairman, and K. Newton Pierce
Secretary. A full platform of principles was
adopted, declaring adherence to the prin
ciples of prohibition, and an abiding faith
in the ultimate success of the prohibition
party. Thefollowing ticket was nominated
} A. H. Wilton, for Supreme Judge; Samuel
T. Cornett, for State Treasurer; and A. A
Barker, for Auditor General.
THOMAS FRANCIS CURLEY, who murdered
Mary Ann White, was hanged on the morn
ing of September 10, in the prison at Norris
town, Pa, in the presence of about two
hundred people, including the officials
After the services of the Catholic Church
| almost instantly. The body was allowed t.
r hang twenty-five minutes and was thel
, delivered to the attendant priests. Curley'
l last remark upon the scaffold was, "Gentle
g men, bid you all goodbye"
THE election returns from Maine, frs
L received, indicate a ma jority of from eigh
}, to ten thousand for Gov. Connor owe
Williams, regular Democratic candidate
Some three thousand votes, at least, hav
Y been thrown for Munson, the Greenbac
. candidate, drawn from both parties. TIL
= Republicans have probably elected twenty
y nine of thirty-one State Senators, and full
~ two-thirds, and possibly three-fourths, c
q e the House of Representatives. The vot
II of the State was comparatively light on,
e A DISPATCH dated Camp Sheridan, Sep
e 10, via Camp Robinson, Nebraska, Sept 1.
k says: Lame Deer's band of Indians arrive
le here to-day, which completes the surrende
st of all the hostile Sioux, clearing the Blac
n Hills and Big Horn country, as Sitting Bu
and party are in the British possession
The number surrendering to-day is betwee
~ ~ three and four hundred. About one hui
), dred and seventy-fve of the band hs
Il previously arrived. The final party were a
~ companied by the Indian couriers sent oil
70 by Major Burke.
IN PRESIDENT HAYES called upon Senat
le Morton in his sick-room, at Richmond, Inc
:" on September 10. The interview was a vel
re pleasant one, and, a correspondent say
IS. " brought out the fact that the Indial
&c Governor is in thorough sympathy with Il
Il. course of the administration, and on
III waits the recovery of his strength to gi
Us it his active support" After the intervie
st' the President returned to Dayton, where
20 % was joined by Mrs. Hayes, Secreta
"i McCrary and Mrs. McCrary, Chief Justi
-, Waite, General j. ID. Cox, and Mr.. r.
~ Anderson and daughter, and the part
as without delay, started for Fremont in
:. special train.
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