The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-09-13

order to the President assume centrol of the
Church, Wells and J ohm W. Young aequiesc-
ing. The meeting was amicable, and the
arrangements are satisfactory to all present
and doubtless will be so to the Mormons
generally. John Taylor, the first of the
Apostles, is virtually the head of thr Nor
mon Church. A Committee was appointed
to manage financial affairs until October 9th,
when the semi-annual Church Conference
will be held and Trustee in Trust elected"
AT Wapakoneta, Ohio, on Wednesday
night between nine and ten o'clock, the
County Treasurer of Auglaize County, on
his way home from a Catholic festival, was
captured almost in the center of town,
gagged, carried down an alley, he'd
prisoner till midnight, then taken to the
Courthouse, and after being subjected to
severe ordeal of fire, which was placed be-
tween his feet as he lay upon the floor, was
| compelled to divulge the combination of the
county safe. Some forty thousand dollars
was taken therefrom. Mr.. Myers, the
Treasurer, was discovered next morning, in
helpless and suffering condition, his
wrists, feet, mouth and face bearing witness
of much suffering. Myers was the outgoing
office the 1st of September, but owing to
some delay in the settlement of the ac-
counts, was stillin possession.
THEIRS arose early on Mon
day September 3, and worked until 40,
when he went out for an hours walk on the
Terrace. He afterwards wrote until noon.
| At noon he took luncheon with an appetite,
| but toward the end of the repast he stam-
mered out few words, his mouth contrac-
| ted, his eyes became covered with film,
| and he was carried to bed. NJ. Thiers did
not appear entirely aware of his danger.
His prostration was complete after twenty
minutes had elapsed. President MacMahon,
who was at Montbrison, upon being in
| formed of the death of N. Thiers, imme-
diately telegraphed to Paris to summon a
cabinet council, to arrange for solemnizing
the funeral with the greatest pOmp. Presi-
dent MacMahon thinks that, in the presence
| of such loss to the country, all divisions
should for time disappear, in order, ly a
great national demonstration, to pay honor
to one who has rendered such great services
| to France.
THE following is published concerning
the crimes for which the four Henry County
| (ky.) murderers were in jail: The murders
with which the persons were implicated
were those of Parrish, for which Shuck
suffered death on the gallows peddler
from Jacksonville, in Shelby County, named
Darrall; Beeler James, son of member of
the gang, who was sacrificed by his unfeel-
| ing father because he knew too much about
its affairs, and whose bones were found
where Dick Shuck said they were placed.
John Oman, a bad fellow, who was first
robbed, and attempted to be killed with a
pistol-shot, which only broke his arm, and
was then taken in a skiff into the Kentucky
River, weighted with rocks and sunk in the
raging current, the river being very high at
the time. Following this was the murder
on Six Mile, of Eli Downey, a cousin of
Shuck, who was shot in the head by Jack
Simmons, son of the King, and robbed of
one hundred and forty dollars, and his
sisters pension money. Next comes the
murder of an Indianian named Gallagher, a
| fruit tree peddler from Indiana, who was
first robbed and then knocked in the head
with stone and his body thrown into the
| ~