The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-16
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NEWS

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the jetties at the mouth of the Mississippi
| and pronounces them success.
! AwoMAN was arrested in New York while
attempting to escape to Europe with three
children, which she had Kidnapped from
| Chicago.
| THE young swells of Lancaster, Ohio, re-
| produced the jousts and tournaments of
merrie old England at a recent fair in that
| vicinity.
! AN American has been arrested by police
| spy in the South of France for calling Presi-
dent MacMahon an ass. The United States
Charge dAffaires is looking into the matter.
| SENATOR CONKLING reached New York,
! from Europe, on the 10th. In the evening
numerous assembfage of friends ser
enaded him, and he responded in pleasant
speech.
SEVENTEEN inmates of the poor-house at
Sincoe, Ontario, were burned to death at
recent fire which consumed the building.
Four others were dangerously injured in
! the fire.
A BOY in a Baltimore factory crawled
under furnace to clear out the ashes, acci-
dentally tipped the grating, and was covered
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out in terrible agony.
THE miners of the entire Tuscarawas
Valley having resolved to inaugurate strike
on August for an advance of fifteen cents
per ton, four companies of militia were
ordered out in anticipation of trouble.
THE striking silk weavers of Paterson,
New Jersey, met August 8, and agreed to
complete the unfinished warps at Strange's
mill; afterward to receive the wages be-
fore the reduction. This ends the strike.
THE Secretary of War has received let
ter from the Committee of Public Safety at
Pittsburg, thanking him for his action our
ing the recent troubles, and requesting
permanent garrison, as large as the condi
ton of the army will admit, to be stationed
! at the Allegheny Arsenal.
EX-CoUNCILMAN John B. Macarthur, of
Indianapolis, attempted suicide, the other
day, by taking morphine in glass of beer
A fit of vomiting saved him. No reasons
| were given for the act, only that he "wished
| to get out of the wav."
THE Minister of the Interior of the Do
| minion of Canada lately visited Washing
ton for the purpose of conferring with the
President and the Cabinet concerning the
return of Sitting Bull and his people from
| the British possessions to the United States
THE young man who shot boy for steal
ing melon, near Newport, Kentucky, has
been held to answer the charge of murder
He seems to have been under the impression
| that the gun was not loaded, but guns that
have reputation for being unloaded are apt
to go off in a most unexpected and deadly
manner.
AN old man named Lindsay, at church
in Georgia, threw kiss to young woman
named Men eeley, and her brother objected
| to such actions on the part of the old fell
| low. Words followed, then blow from
McNeeley, and finally Lindsay used his
knife, stabbing the young man four times
severely.
| A RECENT fire in San Francisco DESTROYED
| the block bounded by Drumm, East,
| Merchant, and Washington Streets; also the
north half of the block between Clay and
Merchant, and the south half of that
between Washington and Jackson. The
space was mostly covered by frame buildings
of little value.
| A TELEGRAM received at Harvard College
| Observatory states that new planet of the
| tenth magnitude has been discovered by
M. Borelly. Its position is reported as fol-
| lows: Right ascension % hours 40 min
utes, decreasing 26 seconds daily, and south
declination degrees "a minutes, with a
daily southwark movement of minutes.
In quarrel between Mr.. Benjamin Burr
Cox and his son Willard, near Glendale,
Hamilton County, Ohio, the son stabbed his
father in several places with a penknife,
and death ensued in a few minutes. The
father, according to his wife's testimony,
had come home drunk, and threatening to
kill the whole family, violently attacked his
son Willard with chair.
Two hundred and eighty United States
| regulars arrived at Scranton, Pa, on August
6, relieving the National Guard. The miners
of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
| Company showed no sign of returning to
work, and threatening letters continued to
be addressed to mechanics regarded as being
in favor of going to work in the car shops
WILLIAM BLAKE, a courtly old gentleman
of sixty-one, who has been occupying al
| obscure position as a clerk at Kingston
Springs, Tenn, for the past two years, has
just been notified that he has fallen heir tc
$500 in England, provided he quit.
America for Great Britain, which he says hi
will do. He is first cousin to Sir William
, | Blake.
A SPECIAL to the Galveston Neus from San
! Antonio, says that Lieutenant Bulls crossed
the Rio Grande on the 4th, recaptured fiv
stolen horses, and returned to the Texas sid
on the 9TH. Major Schofeld arrested forty
,, five Valdez filibusters at Eagle Pass. Valde
himself was at Laredo, and warrant wa
.. issued for his arrest, but he escaped
Y Escobedo and his party are at Laredo with
. | out funds.
\ AN entire family, consisting of Levi
G Spencer and his four children, two girls an
two boys, living in Clark County, Missouri
= were murdered for money, few nights age
L The crime was no doubt committed fo
: money, as Spencer had in his possessio
e 800 belonging to the township, of whic
v he was Trustee. The weapons used wer
=. an ak and a pitchfork. No trace of tn
: murderers has been discovered.
8 AT Scranton the late riotous miners hav
J. turned the table on the citizens who serve
o on the Mayors posse, by getting the Co
oner's jury on killed rioters, and making
Ii verdict to suit themselves. The Jurors seel
It to have made the work complete and t
le have made trial unnecessary by returnin
1T averdict of guilty of murder in the first d
10 gree. The brave General Heidekoper SCI
a detachment to stop the arrest. We inft
by this that there were grounds for expec
lo ing violence to the arrested.
IT. OFFICIAL information has been receive
r at military headquarters confirming the r
ly NOR received few days since regarding
ne fight between the Indians and the Unite
ge States troops in Texas. 1t is ascertaint
d, that disastrous encounter was had
OF Stuffed Plains, in which there were tv
W. officers and twenty-six soldiers kille
er The remnant of the party continued
'r- march after having suffered this loss, al
has since reached Fort Condor, with an a
ditional loss of five privates and for