The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-06-06
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NEWS.


DEDICATION Day was observed generally
throughout the country.
THE President and party attended the
Decoration Ceremonies at Gettysburg.
President HAYES and Cabinet have been
invited to visit Memphis, and participate
in the Fourth of July celebration.
AN extensive forest fire has been raging
in the vicinity of Wareham, Mass. Four or
five thousand acres of fine growth of wood
are destroyed.
CHRIsToPHER HENDERSON and Max
Seibert, of Detroit, were out rowing few
evenings ago. The boat upset, and both
were drowned.
A TERRIFIC cyclone passed over Rich
mond, No., Saturday evening, June 1, by
which ten persons were killed, three NOR
tally wounded and large number more or
less hurt.
| THE Illinois State Journal, which for
more than forty years has been published at
| Springfield, and which was the oldest daily
paper in the State, has succumbed to the
pressure caused by heavy debts.
| EXCITEMENT exists at Madison, Ind, in
consequence of the finding of Madame Rust,
wife of Professor L. Rust, President Of the
Madison Business College, hanging cold
and dead, in the bedroom of the family resi-
dence.
THE latest sensation in Cincinnati is the
marriage of James Molony, a well-known
Cincinnati lawyer, to Miss Helen Wise,
daughter of the celebrated Jewish Rabbi.
The couple eloped, and the marriage was
private.
AT Swanders, small station four miles
from Sidney, Ohio, collision occurred be.
tween two freight trains On the Dayton and
Michigan Raj, road. Both engines and cars
engineer, was killed.
The venerable poet, William Cullen
Bryant, in fit of syncope, fell down the
stone steps of friends mansion in New
York, and was severely, if not dangerously
injured. The physicians expressed fears of
conclusion of the brain.
THE jury in the case of Rev. Geo. Vos-
burgh, on trial in Jersey City, the past two
weeks, on the charge of poisoning his wife,
brought in a verdict of not guilty. The ver-
dict was received with cheers by the men
and tears from the women.
THE latest statement is that out of five
hundred men on the Grosser Kurfust, the
German ironclad sunk lately, about two
} hundred and ten were saved, including
thirteen officers, among whom was the Cap.
tain, previously reported lost.
BENZ. F. MOVES, President of the
National Capital Life Insurance Company,
of Washington, was found guilty, Saturday
of conspiracy in securing fraudulent trans
fer of securities of the Mutual Life Insur
ance Company, of New York.
AT the Pennsylvania State Convention
of Prohibition SITS the following ticket was
nominated: Governor, General F. II. Lane
, Lieutenant Governor, John Shallcross; Sec
retary of Internal Affairs, Calvin Parsons
{ Supreme Judge, Daniel Agnew.
, THE bankrupt firm of Hadley Bros
Chicago stationers, have paid dividend oi
forty five per cent to the creditors, and
will probably pay ten per cent. more soon
Their offer of forty per cent was refused
by the creditors some three months ago.
The body of Miss Jennie Swandell, form
erly teacher in the public schools O.
, Louisville, and who committed suicide BY
drowning, on Thursday, May 80, was re
8 covered Saturday afternoon. No cause cal
be assigned Tor the act other than Temporary
q arrangement.
f Two accidents occurred on the Louisville
! and Nashville Railroad Saturday. The first
at Nolin Creek, was caused by a rail givini
away, and by it six persons were injured
The other was q collision near Uptol
Station, and by it two persons were kille,
: and several injured.
v BENJAMIN WEDEL, an Israelite, wa
: killed on the i. C. & L. r. R. He was
;, trave.ing salesman for Cincinnati notio
house. 1t seems that he was about to ge
> off car at Delhi, and missing his footin
y fell between the bumpers of the movin
= cars, and was crushed.
5 THOMAS MAGUIRE, of Baldwin's Theatel
n San Francisco, has engaged Beecher to d,
re liver ten lectures in cities west of the Rock
n Mountains, paying him $11 900 in golt
J. Mcguire will charge two dollars head, an
10 is believed to have good chance to max
e from 1000 to $20, 900 out of his contract.
JOSEPH 'OBERLIE, Alvis Smith, Edwar
~ Williams, and Christ Turner, while el
le gagged in cleaning privy vault en- Grow
Ii street, Cleveland, were overcome by fol-
ts gas, and falling into the vault, all four wei
n sufocated before they could be rescue,
ct ALI were married, and leave large familie
tn SOME one, unknown, placed tie on tt
lg Prospect Park, Brook yn and Coney islam
at Railroad track few nights ago, and the r
. suit was gravel train thrown from tt
~ rails and five laborers killed and sever
IA seriously wounded. The killed are Villa
llG Graft pofrioH d. I'll
at Grohegan, John Ellis.
er AN open letter from Postmaster-Gener
ey Key to the people of the South is given
he the Washington dispatches. He advis
al, the people of the South to organize, al
i'm retire to private life the members of Co
or gress who have reopened the President
y. ~ question. The object, he says, is to on
'"V Hayes and inaugurate Tilden.
- THE forty-sixth annual meeting of Il
~. Congregational Publishing Society, at Be
'at ton, Mass, shows aggregate receipts
Id $66,O74; expenditures, $36, ,755; showing Il
gh condition of the society to be sixteen D
ch cent. better than a year ago. Hon. Charl
at Trussell, the past ten years President, d
nf- cllhea re-elecuon' ana >. Russell Bradfo
II succeeds him, with Rev. Jos. Means, d, ]
- Secretary, and Edward Gay, Treasurer
bo THE body of John Scott Harrison recent
deceased, son of President Harrison, and
one time distinguished himself in polite
c'' circles, was found by his son in the disse
er- ing room of the Ohio Medical College
me Cincinnati. The son was at the time
ed search of the dead body of a friend who
'on tomb had been robbed by the "hum
ing hyenas." The janitor of the building "
arrested as accessory to the terrible outra,
BENJAMIN PETERSON, colored man
I ing in Remington, New Jersey, in fit
H. jealousy, visited the house of Peter Nike
an another eolored man, living near the ci
fni called Nixon to the door, and shot him
,en the head, scattering his brains over the wa