The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-11-22
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NEWS.
HARRY RUSSELL, son of a GAINESVILLE
banker, suicided by shooting, Saturday.


THREE colored children named Williams,
were burned to death in house near Nor
folk, Virginia.
FIELD & LETTER, the Chicago merchants
whose store was burned, are preparing to
resume business in the Exposition building.
MARY Rock, a girl of twenty years,
drowned herself in the Mississippi, near
Davenport, Iowa. Cause, seduction and
desertiOn.
GEO. KIRBY and Edward Grain, railroad
rioters, have been convicted in Baltimore.
Indictments are still pending against thirty
four additional rioters.
THE Peoples Savings Bank at Newark,
New Jersey, started in 1871, has suspended.
About $4,000 are due depositors. Assets,
if realized, enough to pay in full.
AT the recent municipal election in Chat
tanooga, Tenn, the republicans elected
Republican Mayor and six Aldermen, and
the Democrats elected four Aldermen and
the City Marshal.
A TERRIFIC explosion of fire damp oc-
CURED at Jermyn Colliery, near Scranton,
Penn, few days ago. A number of men and
boys were dreadfully injured, two at least,
of whom can not live.
A YOUNG man named Perry Bowsher has
been arrested for the murder of the McVey
family, toll keepers on the Chillicothe pike,
not long ago. A portion of the missing
bonds belonging to the family were found
on his person.
A SAN ANToNIA, Texas, dispatch says:
Information has been received at head
quarters from the border that several large
parties of Indians, one of them composed
of thirty five bucks, have crossed into
Texas to raid.
THE latest news from Ell Paso County,
Texas, is that that entire region is under
the control of the Mexican mob, backed by
United States authority and claiming allegi-
ance to the Mexican flag.
DANIEL MURPHY, agent at Providence,
R. l., of the Phoenix Life Insurance Com
pany of Hartford, has been arrested for
forgery. Murphy had 5000 receipts printed
fac SMILES of genuine, which he issued to
the insurer when premium was paid.
FROM Council Bluffs, Iswa City, Omaha,
Yankton, Topeka and Atchison, we have re-
ports of lively earthquake shock on the
18th November. The houses were denuded
of plastering in many places. In North
Platte cases in printing offices were over
turned.
A SPECIAL from Leavenworth says ex-
United States Marshal Saffenberger, of Colo
rado, who has been in the Kansas Peni-
tentiary for the past eight months for rob-
bing the United States Government of
$4,000, was recently pardoned by President
Hayes.
A GENTLEMAN from Michigan City, Ind,
reported the diphtheria raging there to a
terrible extent. There were five funerals in
the town in one day, and most of the
schools in Laporte County and the st.
Joseph region are closed on account of the
| alarming prevalence of the disease.
EVELYN STUART, wife of Robert Stuart,
who is possessed of an Independent fortune,
| and resides at the Buckley House, Fifth
Avenue, New York, committed suicide a
| few mornings since. The unfortunate lady
| had become respondent through her
husband being addicted to heavy drinking.
THE New Orleans Ne,rs special report
reaches Fort Clark that Lieutenant Bulls,
with a small party of scouts crossed the Rio
| Grande near the mouth of the Pecos River,
was attacked by a body of five hundred
Indians and compelled to retreat; loss not
| stated. Col. Young has left Fort Clark with
two hundred cavalry to REINFORCE Bulls.
| A SINGULAR animal has broken loose in
the woods of Union County, Ohio, and has
been seen by many of the inhabitants. 1t
leaps like tiger, is spotted like a leopard,
and roars like lion. In recent night en-
counter with the wonderful beast, four men
were seriously and one dangerously
wounded. Dogs fighting with it were torn
| to tatters.
A SPECIAL from Houston, Texas, says
1t is rumored that Colonel Villareal invaded
Mexico, fifty miles above Matamoras, in the
interest of Generals Escobedo and Lerdo,
and to stir up the revolution in Tamaulipas.
VillareaPs force is small and inadequate to
cope with General Canales, commanding in
Tamaulipas, but he expects to be Joined by
the adherents of Lerdo.
A DISASTROUS confagration occurred al
Chicago on the 14th. The immense dry
goods house of Field, Letter & Co., with its
valuable contents was almost totally de
stroyed. The loss is estimated at s., 100000
with an insurance of 81, 100000. Accidents
were numerous during the progress of the
fire. Two fremen were killed, and number
seriously injured.
In Warren County, some fifteen miles
from Des Moines, Iowa, man named
Reuben Proctor, who was having his pre-
l1minary examination on a charge of having
fatally shot Miss Cadigan while burglariz
ing her fathers house, was taken from hi
room by mob of forty men, and hanged
The mob wore no masks, and are understood
to be citizens of the township in which Mis-
Cadigan lived.
GREAT excitement prevails in Reading
. Pa, on account of the suspension of tn,
Reading Savings Bank, the banking hons
of Bushong & Bros, and the Dime Saving
Bank. The crash will affect Eastern Penn
, sylvania severely, and the best business mel
, look forward to gloomy prospects. Th
Sheriff of the county has on deposit $21 ,0OC
, and large amount of the deposits cor
sist of the savings of the laboring classes
A FEW nights since, James Boyles wa
. taken to his home in East Alliance, Ohit
under the influence of liquor, by Denni
a Quinn and A. Ryan, and put to bed, bu
= getting up soon after got his gun an
3 shot Quinn through the heart, killing hil
instantly. He also attempted to shoe
/ Ryan, but the latter wrenched the gun frol
;: him just in time to save his life. Quin
leaves a wife and four children. Boyles
in iail.
THE news comes from Chicago that IL
4 body of VIM. F. Coolbaugh was found abol
"a six o'clock in the morning on the steps of IL
n Douglas monument. A revolver with M
e Coolbaugh's name on it was lying by h
q side. Mr.. Coolbaugh was President of Il
r. Union National Bank, and one of the mo
It prominent and trusted fnanciers of the cit
20 He was the leader of the Chicago banke
v the time of the panic, and his advice al
ID course controlled their action.
'r MUCH excitement prevails in the northel
part of Union Comfy, Ohio, on account
a wild animal which has recently brol
w loose upon the citizens in that localit