The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-11-15
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NE WS.

HENRY .. cANfORDy Oh rlOrlOa, mas Deen
nominated Minister to Belgium.
CHICAGO went Republican in the local
election by about five thousand majority.
THE Senate has confirmed the nomination
of Mr.. Welsh as Minister to England.
B. b. GROOM, the noted stock dealer,
Kentucky, has made an assignment with
s400, 900 liabilities.
Gov. WILLIAMS, of Indiana, has appointed
Hon. D. w. Voorhees, to ELL Senator Nor
toms unexpired term.
F. X. PHOENIX, of Bloomington, I'LL, who
has the largest nursery in the United States,
has failed. Liabilities, $4,000.
PENNSYLVANIA returns are not all in, but
the Democratic majority on the State ticket,
as a whole, is not far from ten thousand.
THE great hardware firm of Mulholland &
Baker, Montreal, have failed. Liabilities
are reported at 100000. The assets show a
surplus.
The Communistic threats at San Fran
cisco have alarmed the Chinese, who have
addressed a letter to the Mayor asking pro-
lection.
MONDAY, November 5, two inches of snow
were reported in Central Illinois. A snow
storm prevailed throughout Canada at the
same time.
THE recent timber seizures in Mississippi,
by Government officials, have been declared
illegal by Judge Hill of the United States
Circuit Court.
A PARTY of miners at Deadwood seized
the Kcets Mine on Saturday, for wages due.
An attempt of the sheriff to restore order
and recover the mine failed.
ANDREW NORTON, burglar by profes-
sion, was stabbed in st. Louis to the heart,
and a piece of the blade remained there
thirty hours before death ensued.
THERE is no foundation for the reporters
a reserved of land to Sitting Bull and his
band at Red Deer River or anywhere else.
MARSHAL IMAGINATION has been urged to
resign the Presidency of France, but re-
fuses. There is much excitement through
out the entire country, and an outbreak at
any moment is among the probabilities.
CARDozo, the ex-Treasurer of South Caro-
lima, has been found guilty of robbing the
State. The jury consisted of eight negroes
Congressman are to be tried Immediately on
similar charges.
E. KINNEY & Co., bankers, of Cincinnati,
have suspended-the first event of the sort
in Cincinnati financial circles since 1873.
Liabilities, $4,000; assets to three times
that amount The debts will be paid in full
as soon as the securities can be realized
upon.
BENZ. B. GROOM, of Clark County, KY, a
well know stock raiser, filed his voluntary
petition in bankruptcy few days ago. His
liabilities amount to $27S,000, of which
$126 900 are unsecured. Assets, $130,0OO in
land, personal property, and chooses in
action.
Two men, Ennis and O'Leary, had walk
ing match at Chicago, for purse of 81 ,OO0
The latter was the winner, walking one
hundred miles in nineteen hours, ffty-nine
minutes and forty seconds. Ennis only
/ walked fifty-four miles in seventeen hours
and quit.
In Iowa, the latest returns show that the
Republicans will have forty eight in thu
Assembly, the Democrats forty, the Green
hackers eig hit, the Socialists one, and three
Independents. The total Greenback vot'
in the State is estimated at twenty-five
thousand.
MILLER, GARDNER & Co., large whole
sale dry goods house of Evansville, Indiana
are reported as having failed for $15o,00o
with 100000 assets. Cause assigned, tn
fast life of Tom. G. Gardner, son of one o
the partners, who embezzled between $780,
600 and $4,000.
THE latest election returns in New Yorl
indicate that the Democratic majority OF
the State ticket will be from twelve t.
fifteen thousand, and that the Republican
will have the Senate by ten majority, an
the Assembly by six. This will make tn
new Legislature but little different in con
plexion from the last.
A CAREFUL revision of the vote of Penl
sylvania, embracing official returns frol
nearly every county, gives Judge Trunke.
| Democrat, for Supreme Judge, 1883 mi
| jority. This majority can not fall belo
t 1000. Scheil, for Auditor General, an
:, Noyes, for Treasurer, both Democrats, ha,
, over 10000 majority, Noyes leading tt
ticket.
JOSEPH ENGELER, alias Carl Strahl, WI
!, arrested in St. Louis lately on suspicic
y that he had murdered Henry Goetz, farm
l. at Columbia, Illinois, and his wife. DuriI
It the day, while en- route to the scene of Il
, murder, Strahl confessed the crime to Il
officers. About O'Clock at night he W
taken from Jail by party of excited farme
. and lynched.
!. A CHICAGO Times dispatch from Ty
! Rivers, Wis, says a two-masted vessel
- sunk a few rods northeast of the harb
III piers at that place, which, it is asserted,
IN the Mcclellan. The crew are not discove
De BILE, but, as two bodies have been picked l
n it is presumed the whole crew went dow
To There is a theory that this vessel and I
= other collided during a storm in the mig
lo COLONEL X. G. INGERsoLL has been
vited to deliver an oration in Indianapo
the proceeds to be devoted to fund for
Oy erection of monument to Senator Mort
on The veterans of the Union army have bt
n called upon to meet in every county on
ty oath, and form an auxiliary organization
[r. raise funds for the same purpose. Gene
w. Lew. Wallace has been made President
,.o the State organization.
CT
-: Hoster's brewery, Columbus, Ohio,
i' killed recently by the explosion of
ne' hogshead. The hogshead had been pitc
to fill up the inside cracks, and the b.
had become filed with the cold MKT,
Tho Baumaister thrust heated rod into
of bung and suddenly Withdrew it. AS s
the as the air entered, the hogshead explot
ave the head striking and terribly mangling
go man.
tne THE will of the late Senator Morton
the been admitted to probate at IndIanap
heu He bequeaths all his estate, real
,Ne- personal, to his wife, Lucinda M. Nor
her requesting in his will that she aid his
Wv sons, Oliver L. and Walter Morton in
-. compilation of their college studies.
80 few bequests and presents are made, but
~ whole execution of the will is left emit
cor to his wife, without bond or inventory.
go estate is valued at about $4,000.
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