The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-07-26
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NEW WS
Mr. SAMrPI r TIIDFN sailed for Furono

NIB. SAMUEL j. 11LDEN sailed Tor Europe
July IS, on the steamer Scythia.
In Montreal, ON July 16, at the funeral Of
the victim of the 18th of July riot, thous
ands of Orangemen followed the deceased to
the grave. A mob attacked the procession
killing one boy and wounding several
| others.
IT can be stated upon high official
authority that before taking any furthe,
steps toward a recognition of the Diaz
government, the United States Government
will await the promised reparation for the
actual invasion and conflict by Mexican
troops upon the soil of the United States.
In the Cabinet July II, Mr.. Fosters dis.
patches from Mexico and Gen. Ord's tele-
grams covering the same points were pre-.
sented by Mr.. Seward. The belief of our
authorities, based on information from Gen.
Ord, is that no trouble between the forces on
the Rio Grande will ensue, and that Presi-
dent Dias has issued his late orders for the
purpose of preventing popular clamor.
A DISPATCH from Scranton, Pennsylvania,
July II, says: A fire is raging in Roaring
Brook Colliery, at Dunmore. 1t broke out
| last night in the stable in the lower vein,
| three hundred feet below the surface. When
discovered all the mules. ten in number, had
| been burned to death. The foreman was
carried out at noon to-day unconscious. The
heat and smoke are intense, and men can
work only in very brief relays.
| THERE was a general run on the banks of
| deposit at St. Louis, on the 18th and 10th
inst Several of them were compelled to
| nloca omour ofharc ba Rank of ST Ionic
and the North st. Louis Savings Association.
| Shrinkage in real estate values, in which
these banks had tied up most of their
capital, was the cause of their being unable
to meet the sudden demands of depositors.
| AN important strike took place among the
brakemen and firemen on the Baltimore and
! Ohio Railroad, on the 18th of July, on ac-
| count of decrease in wages. The strikers
| blockaded the trains at Martinsburg, West
| Virginia. The Governor ordered out the
| Matthews Guard, from Wheeling, and the
strikers attacked the military. One of the
strikers was killed, and a soldier wounded
by pistol shot. The strikers numbered five
hundred men.
| AToRNADo swept over portions of Dutchess
and Columbiana Counties, New York, on the
afternoon of July Is, accompanied by hail.
Trees, fences, and barns were destroyed, and
acres of corn and oats cut down. During
| the storm the lightning struck a shed at
| North Bergen, New Jersey, killing Mrs.
Sandow and babe, ten months old, and Fred
rick, Muller, boy of fourteen years. Mrs.
| Sandow and Muller had been wedding in a
| field, and took shelter from the rain in the
| shed.
NEWS to the following effect has been re-
ceived at Portland, Oregon, from Wallawala,
dated July 13. On the 10th inst Joseph
and his band surprised party of thirty-one
Cinnamon who were coming down the Clear.
water in canoes, and for mere pastime and
| recreation inhumanly killed. the whole party
| but one, who managed to elude them and
escape. They are the first Cinnamon who
have been molested by the Indians of late,
and many of them are frightened out OF
their Senses and are leaving for the upper
country.
On July 10, at Pittsburg, freight train men
on the Western Division of the Pennsylvania
Railroad refused to go out with their trains
The strike was caused by the company in
creasing the number of freight cars on the
trains. Heretofore conductor and his
| crew ran seventeen. cars. An order lately
issued doubled this number, without increas
ing the crews. The strikers and their friends
in all nearly five hundred, assembled at the
outer depot, and by intimidation prevented
the crews from going out which otherwise
would have remained at work. The Sheriff
of the county was compelled to telegraph to
Governor Hartranft for military aid to sup
press the rioters.
THE strike of the Baltimore & Ohio fire
men and brakemen ON July IS had grow
into war of such proportions as to cal
forth proclamation from the Presiden
ordering the rioters to disperse. The militi
along the line of the road being fount
inefficient and inclined to sympathize witt
the strikers, call was made by the Gov
ernor of West Virginia for United State
troops, and six companies started on tn
night of July 1s, from Washington TO
Martinsburg, the scene of the principal dis
turbance. The strikers had at that time er
tire possession of the road from Grafton t
Martinsburg. Passenger trains bearing tn
United States mails were permitted to pass
but a complete blockade was established O.
freight trains.
TIE United States troops arrived 8
Martinsburg, the location of the B. & {
5 Railroad strike, on July 10. They found a
quiet there. A considerable number {
canal men joined the strikers. Governo
Matthews telegraphed to the Secretary
War to send one hundred more rifles an
two pieces of artillery. The Secretary, upo
the receipt of the telegram, telegraphed
a General Barry, commanding at Fort M
t Henry, Maryland, to hold two field pieces
q readiness as foot artillery subject to furtht
4 orders, and General Barry reported that tt
= guns were ready to move on receipt of orde
for that purpose. On the 10Th it W;
:, reported that the Baltimore and Oh
Railroad strike had become genera
y extending from Martinsburg to Parker
e burg, Benwood, Columbus, Newar
It and Chicago. The strikers induced the e
l. gineer and fireman of the only train tn
e tried to oleave Martinsburg early in the NOR
70 ing, to desert it. The strikers surround
- the militia and they retired for reinfore
~ ments. At Newark and Columbus, Obi
. freight trains were stopped by the strike
r, but the passenger trains were unmoleste
le The railroad officials called on the Govern
I'd of Ohio for troops. The telegraph win
in were cut west of Martinsburg by the strike
~ on the afternoon of July 19. At six p.
-, two trains moved out of Martinsburg, p
=, tected by the troops, one for Baltimore a
% the other for Cumberland, and reached tn
III destination in safety.
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TRAVELLERS in Turkey describe t
different ways of shoeing horses
Turkey and Russia, which may SCI
"a very awkward compared with the sim
MS methods of the American smiths.
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