The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-27
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NEWS


Maine, is 11,774.
THE Merchants Farmers and Mechanics
Bank of Chicago has failed.
FIFTY Indians were killed in a fight,
Friday, September IA, near Camp Grant,
Arizona.
THE famine-stricken provinces of North
China are now further afflicted with plaques
| of locusts.
PRESIDENT HAYES was handsomely enter
tanned in Atlanta, Georgia, Saturday, Sep
tember %.
EDWARD C. DYER, Pittsburg cattle
dealer, was found murdered and robbed near
Columbus, O., few days ago.
THE application for bail of Abe Roths-
child, the alleged murderer of Bessie Moore,
at Jefferson, Texas, has been refused.
ABOUT three thousand more troops ar
rived at Havana from Spain, during the last
few weeks, landing at different points.
JACOB NORRIS, of Baltimore, robbed his
mother-in-law of $4,000, and his mother
and sister of $4,000, and then suicided.
JOHN RHODE, the murderer of James
| Temple, was hanged at New Castle, Del, on
September 81, in the presence of two hun
dred people.
| THE President, after leaving Nashville,
| stopped at Murfeesboro, Chattanooga, and
other lines along the route, on his way to
Knoxville, and was cordially received along
the whole line.
| THE Republicans of Massachusetts, met in
| Convention on September 10, and nominated
A. II. Rice for Governor. Resolutions were
passed indorsing the civil service and
Southern policy of the Administration.
| THE crusade against the Cinnamon in
California is being vigorously carried on.
| Forty buildings occupied by Chinese were
| burned at Grass Valley on September Is.
Labor is becoming too cheap for the restive
hoodlum.-
RAILROAD casualties in one day: Fred
Graham, brakeman, killed at Cleveland; i;
Thomas Melvin, killed, Kent, Ohio; Worley
Barnan, laborer, killed near Kokomo,
Indiana; Henry Sutliff, killed near Steuben-
vile, Ohio, while asleep on the track.
EDWARD OvERTON, engineer at Leggat &
Buffers tobacco factory, PA and PIG Wash
ington Avenue, st. Louis, accidentally came
in contact with the fly wheel of an engine,
and his head was taken off as cleanly as
hough cut with knife or guillotine.
IT is asserted that the Sitting Bull Com
mission will not complete its labors this
season, because it is too late for the men,
bers to reach their destination prior to the
beginning of extremely cold weather, and
that the conference with the Z" Big Injun Z"
will be postponed until the opening of next
spring.
IMAGINATION has issued a manifesto, which,
as an electioneering document, is refresh
ing for it's GOODNESS. He warns all voters
that elections adverse to his policy "would
mean an aggravated conflict" The Marshal
| President, it will be remembered, has a
million of armed men at his back.
THE State Republican Convention of
Maryland met at Baltimore September 20
and nominated DIR. E. G. Porter for Comp
troller of State. Resolutions were passed
indorsing the civil service, Southern and
financial policy of the Administration.
IOther resolutions were adopted, relating to
State matters.
Boss TWEED testified on Saturday, ,Septem-
ber Is, before a committee of New York
Aldermen, showing up some of the Ring
thieves, and with a refreshing particularly
as to names and amounts of money paid
New York legislators for their votes on the
new City Charter Bill. From $4,000 to
$4,000 vote was the range of prices.
A TELEGRAM from Fernandina, September
%, says of the yellow fever: "There have
been five deaths since last report, including
two Sisters of Mercy. There are several
new cases, many critical. The weather is
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respondent. The situation is apparently
getting worse. Medical aid was asked from
Jacksonville, and a physician responded.
Captain Jacob Brock, pioneer steamboat
man is dead"
THE Louisville Courier-JournaPs Richmond
(Ky.) special says that, a year since, Jasper
Maupin shot John Burnham, at Kingston,
Madison County, wounding him. Maupin
was indicted. The trial was set for Septem.
ber 20, but the case was not reached. In the
evening the parties met in the street in
Richmond, each accompanied by friends,
: when firing began. Jasper Maupin, John
, Burnham, Chris. Ballard and William A.
Corneilson were killed. The survivors
were arrested.
THE western bound Chicago express train
due there at 5 :15 p. m. collided with the pick
up freight train, by misplaced switch, one
mile east of Rome Depot. Both engines
were completely wrecked and the mail and
baggage cars smashed. The fireman of the
express, said to be William Hendrickson, o.
, Albany, was instantly killed. JOSEPH
, Durlin, of Utica, brakeman on the freight
train, killed. J. L. Tunnard, of Troy, mai
agent, died from his injuries. A numbe
were severely I'M jured.
, PONvERT & Co., old and large sugar i'm
e porting houses in New York City, have mad
/. an assignment. The Ponverts being il
e sympathy with the Spanish Government
+ were specially obnoxious to Cuban revolu
:, tionists, and several of their most valuabl
plantations were burned, or otherwise dc
' stroyed. The losses in this way must hav
, reached from 81 100000 to $2,0OO,OOO. TIL
), debts of the firm are largely what are know
II to sugar manufacturers as "factors claims,
l. and probably are not less than $500, 900, du
" mainly to Cuban firms.
v On the morning of September 20 trai
of fifteen cars, containing six or seven hui
dred Sunday School excursionists, le
y Delta on the Peach Bottom Narrow Gaug
IL Railroad, and on approaching Lutz
n the engine was thrown from the track, an
N two boys, named Jones and Barton, stan,
n ing on one of the platforms, were Instant
~, killed. One man was seriously, and five
-, six were slightly injured.
A GREAT demonstration of the workin
i'll men of Northumberland and Durham w,
OF held on the town moor of Newcastle Satu
Id day, September %, in honor of Gener
le Grant. Twenty-Five trade societies partit
ne pated in q procession, which occupi'
SO twenty minutes in passing agiven poir
of The number of persons present on the mo
VI was estimated at from forty to fifty thor
r and. The demonstration has no precede
since the great political meetings at t
time of the Reform Bill excitement.
at THE strike Mt the American Iron Wor
We at Pittsburg, Penn, has ended, the m