The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-02-23
NEWS IN BRIEF,
fse,4s f,o.. sh. Cap.taI.

ftepss fpo-s the Capital.
The Joint commission of the two Houses re- I.
sumed its session on February L. and pro-
ceeded to the counting of Electoral votes. h
The four votes OF Florida were given to :
Hayes and Wheeler; the eleven votes of
Georgia, to Tilden and Hendricks. Next ,
followed in succession the State Of Illinois, !
with twenty-one votes for Hayes ans
Wheeler; Indiana, with fifteen votes for
Tildsn and Hendricks; Iowa, with eleven
votes for Hayes and Wheeler; Kansas with
Eve votes for Hayes and Wheeler Ken
lucky, with twelve vo.es for Tilden and
Hendricks. Then came Louisiana with its
contesting Electoral Colleges. The GER
tifcates aud accompanying papers were
directed to be sent to the Electoral Com
mission.
At Urbana, Ohio, a fire which broke out |
in the shed of Kullingcamp's bakery, laid |
the whole building in ashes. The livery |
stable Of Charles Ganson was next con-
sumed. Then followed the liquor store of |
Gugenham & Gardner, the billiard-room OF
B. Christiancy, the grocery of c. Stockard,
and many other business houses. The fire
was in the center OF the town, and destroyed
the principal business portion of the city.
The West.
A number of reports of Indian depreda-
tions have been coming in from small towns
adjacent to Deadwood, until these rumors
assumed an alarming aspect, and the sub
stantiated news Of simultaneous attacks in
different directions leads to the belief that
the Indians are surrounding that vicinity.
Iarw
tire, near Bear Butte. Fletcher's herd of
mules was also attacked in the same vicinity.
Montana Rancho, a short distance from
Deadwood, wss attacked at about the same
time, the Indians capturing all the stock.
Wigginton's herd of horses, which was near
Crook City, were all captured, Wigginton
was wounded and his assistant killed. Con-
siderable stock in the vicinity of Spearfsh
was also run off.
The following dispatch was received at
. Salem, Oregon:
SALEM, OREGON, February II, 1877.
To the Agent Of the Associated Press:
1 desire to state through your columns that 1
have never sent to Governor Tilden any telegram
signed Gabble," or " Governor" and denounce
all such pretended kilograms base fabrcations
far as l am concerned and / have never used a
cipher, any fictitious signature, in a letter or
dispatch, in my life.
l.. +. GROVER.
At Minneapolis, VIM: II. Side, Assistant
Cashier Of the First National Bank, of that
city, was shot in the head and mortally
wounded, by young woman named Kate
Noonan. Sidle was young man highly
connected, and the affair creates great
deal of excitement. Miss Noonar
claims that Sedle had seduced and then de
serted her. The shooting occurred on the
street, in front of the Nicollet Hotel an(
was witnessed by several persons. Th,
woman was Immediately arrested, an,
betrays no remorse for the deed. Sidle die,
soon after IL o'clock this morning.
The South.
About noon, on February 15, in an altel
cation in his Office with a man who is uI
known to the police on duty in the Stat
House, Governor Packard, of Louisian;
was shot in the knee cap. The party VIII
did the shooting was fired upon by bystal
der and wounded in the arm. There was q
blood drawn by the bullet said to have bee
fired at Packard. The result is only sligl
bruise. Weldon, the man who did IL
shooting, claims TO be the son of Luthers
minister in Pennsylvania. Being asked b
motive, he replied, Only patriotism" 1
had only been in New Orleans twenty-fo
hours.
A Philadelphia dispatch says: Inquiri
made at the Office of the Philadelphia Pr,
disclose the fact that VIM. II. Weldon Il
person who gained admission to the Exec
tive mansion at New Orleans to-day, up
the pretense that he was a CORE espondent
that Journal and then shot Gov Packa
has no connection whatever with the Pr
aud nothing is known of him at the Office
that paper.
A Mobile dispatch says that Weldt
who attempted to kill Packard, was ne,
known to take any part or interest in p,
tics. An acquaintance says he has not bt
in a condition of responsibility for m
than a week. He had been in Mobile sil
last October, in the employ of P. Fl. Pep
& Co., until about ten days before his
tempt at murder. He is regarded as ms
in Mobile. Judge Whitaker, of the
perior Criminal Court, at New Orleans
charge to the Grand Jury, recommen
the indictment of Weldon.
General BreUstEes.
On the 18th, at Fort Wayne, Indit
Sheriff Munson arrested James Hartn
Walter Durham, and Perry Tracy, on
charge'of numbering James O'Brien on
night OF November IL, or the mornin
November Is. O'Brien's body was fo
in the canal, and the Coroner's jury TO
that he had been robbed and pushed into
canal No clue to his murderers was
tanned until few days SINCE when evidt
came to light which Enthusiastically fas
the crime upon Hartman, and shows
others TO have been accessories.
William Green, convicted of the mu
OF his half brother, Samuel Marshall,
hung in Pittsburg at noon on the 18th.
crime was committed at Mansfield Pa
the evening of September A, 1875. The
cution took place in the Jail yard, and a.
one hundred persons were admitted.
twelve o'clock the doomed man was ts
from his cell and led to the scafiold by
Sheriff and his deputies. On the sea-
he spoke few words, and exhorted t
present to put their trust in God, as he
done.
An Ownesboro, Kentucky, special tt
Evansville Journal gives the partiel
OF the suicide Of Hon. james L. Joh1
OF that city, formerly member of Con,
from the Second District of Kentucky.
placed the muzzle of rifle over his
and pushed the trigger back with the ran
The deed was committed in the mornil
So'clock, and was caused by mental de
sion, arising from i'll health.
A special from New York to the Gil
natl Commercial has the following:
Purser OF the steamship City Of Richm
In which James Gordon Bennett sale
Europe, says that Bennett and How
Robinson boarded the City of Richr
from the Herald yacht at Sandy Hook.
Bennett was already in the steamship
the party made the voyage to Liverpool
DIR. w. Pollard, an apothecary, for the
four years at the Central Hospital fc
Insane, located at jacksonville Ill