The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-06

E. L. DAVENPORT, the well-known actor,
died Saturday, September l, at Canton,
Penn, of gout.
BRIGHAM YOUNG, the great Mormon
prophet, died at his home in Salt Lake City,
on the Goth of August.
THE decrease in the public debt during
the month of August was So, $50 ,53S, leaving
the debt, less cash in Treasury, 81, ,055, ,469,-
779.
GENERAL A. G. LAWRENCE, of Rhode
Island, has accepted a position ON the Sit
ting Bull Commission, representing the In
terror Department.
A DREADFUL fire has occurred in the
Rosario Mine near the city of Mexico.
Twenty-four lives were lost and many
persons seriously injured.
ALVIN ADAMS, the founder of the Adams
Express Company, died at Watertown, Mas
saehusetts, Saturday night, September l, at
the age of seventy-three years.
In a quarrel growing out of a difficulty
about some wheat, Charles Knapp shot and
instantly killed his brother Walter, in Riley
Township, Sandusky County, Ohio.
WILSON SHANNON, an Ex-Governor of
He was elected Governor of Ohio by the
Democrats in opposition to Thomas Corwin
DURING the storm August 81, several
barns were struck by lightning in various
parts of Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania
causing loss aggregating many thousands
of dollars.
GENERAL GRANT was presented with the
freedom of the city of Edinburgh, Scotland,
on August 81, by the Lord Provost, Sir
James Fanshaw. Two thousand persons
were present.
THE knights Templar of the United
States recently held their Triennial Conven-
ton at Cleveland. One hundred and fifty
thousand people are said to have witnessed
the grand parade and review on the 2Sth of
August.
THOMAS c. FAULKNER, an old resident of
Dayton, fell from the second story of the
Phillips House the other evening, forty feet.
His injuries were considered fatal. He was
formerly member of large woolen mill
firm there.
AT New York, Saturday September 1,
Judge Donohue granted a writ OF habeds
corpus, requiring William NJ. Tweed to ap-
pear before committee of the Board of
Alderman, and testify in regard to the Ring
operations from 1868 to 1870.
A MAN registering as L. NJ. Stein, NJ. D.,
New York City, jumped from the new sus-
pension bridge at Niagara Falls into the
river below, distance of one hundred and
seventy feet. He rose to the surface for q
moment and then disappeared.
ONE hundred and sixty cigar-makers, en-
ployed by Cincinnati firm, struck recently,
not for higher wages, but against the employ
ment of women in the factory, and the
strike threatens to become general through
out the city. 1t is said that they fail to re-
ceive any public sympathy.
THE State Department at Washington has
taken the Diaz Government on probation.
If it proves its ability to carry out the
treaties of Mexico with the United States,
| and shows that it is acceptable to the Mexi-
can people, it can have the recognition
of the nation, with all that the name i'm
plies.
THE engineers, fremen, and brakemen on
the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton road
refused to move the freight trains at mid
night August 81. The men had determined
not to submit to recent change made by
the road in the distance tables to be run by
engineers. The difficulty, however, was
afterward compromised.
THE journal Des AIpes has been summoned
before the Correction Tribunal at Paris fol
publishing an insulting remark relative to
General Grant. The Bien Public announces
that all the members of the Council General
of Lyons has been summoned to appear be
fore a Judge dInstruction because o.
vehement speeches against the Ministry Al
their sittings.
THE long agony about commission tt
treat with Sitting Bull has been ended by
Mr.. Bull himself, who has come across
the border with his thirteen hundred war
riors and encamped upon American soil
When last interviewed the old chic
was in a repentant frame of mind and hun
cry. He is probably making for the flesh
pots of the reservation.
ADMIRAL RAPHAEL SYMMEs, formerly o
the Confederate Navy, died at Port Clear
Ala, on August 80. He was born in Mary
land about 1910; was Secretary of the Light
house Board when he joined the fortunes o
the Confederacy; commanded the 290, after
ward called the Alabama, and his naval ca
, reer ended when the Alabama was sunk b
, the Kearsarge, off Cherbourg, June 10, 1866
THE State Savings Institution of Chicag
made an assignment on August 2S to Abn
Taylor. This bank has been establishe
,, some twenty years, and from the prestige
;. it's early reputation has secured the patrol
e age of great maj jority of the poorer classe
f who deposit in the savings institution
The maximum estate of the Directors
> $4,000, and the minimum 1000. tt
a failure will fall with crushing weight Q
g these people, many of whom have investe
l. their all with that bank.
n A FEW evenings since, as the Lowell tra
e was running down Penn Pier, at Saler
d Mass, it struck a group of five person
g killing Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Swazey al
- Miss Rachel Giefferd, sister of Mrs. Swaze
@ and injuring two others. The accident
IN attributed to the carelessness of the condu
W tor of the train, running it down upon t
lie crowded pier with no headlight or lante
IL to give warning. WILDER F. Swazey, one
ID ID the injured, died. This makes the four
victim. Several persons are report
missing Several ladies in fright Jump
overheard, but all were rescued.
it. A FATAL shooting affray occurred in Rio
IL mond, Madison County, Kentucky, on t
ss 2Sth of August, resulting in the death of t
he men and the dangerous wounding of t.
ut others. Four men came to the town to
nd lease a man named Saunders. They
lis tackled the Town Marshal and his two d,
he uties, named Edwards. The officers fou,
'e- the desperadoes, killing Walter Saunders,
s: CRAB Orchard, and a man named Balla
ry and dangerously wounding Will Kenne,
ne who, however, escaped. The fourth ma
oii good his escape, also. A party went in p
Oh suit of the two latter. The town was il
Oh great state of excitement over the affair."
.ro AN immense concourse assembled on
at Fair Grounds at Cleveland, August 90
witness the prize drills between differ
Communicates of the Knights Templar. I
le- first prize was won by Detroit Commando
ey No. 1 the second by Raper, No. 1,
is IndianapOlis. the third nv Monroe No