The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-07-25
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NE WS.

drowned while bathing in the Tippecanoe
River. His body was recovered.
WIN. JAMESON, mulatto, while riding on
the prairie near Houston, Texas, was struck
by lightning, and he and his horse were
instant killed, being literally left in a
jelly.
AT Versailles, Ohio, son of Mir. William
Hale, jr., while riding was thrown from
his horse near the Bee Line Depot, causing
a fracture of the spine and skull, resulting
in instant death.
DAVID MCCoLLoCH, living near Benton,
Ohio, while picking cherries fell from the
tree distance of thirty feet, and dislocated
both wrists, broke both arms and broke his
nose. His injuries are serious, but it is
thought not fatal.
SITKA advices, via Victoria, report
fight among the Indians, in which four
were killed. The Indians are favorably
disposed toward the whites. An old squaw
was fayed alive and banged by the Indians
for practicing witchcraft
A BOILER in the Davis Planning Mill, at
GAINESVILLE, Ohio, exploded at eight o'clock
Wednesday morning, destroying the entire
building and killing three persons outright.
Three more were fatally and several badly
injured. Loss about $4,000.
4 SAD accident occurred at Aledo, ILL.,,
lately, resulting in the death of an estimable
young lady, the daughter of ]. E. Harrount,
who, while handling toy pistol, accident
ally shot herself, the ball passing through
her lung and causing instant death.
LYMAN Cook, lawyer, cut his throat
with a razor a. his home in Dublin, seven
miles east of Plainfeld, Ohio, inficting
fatal wounds. He had been drinking
heavily for some time past. He was about
thirty years of age, and had wife and
child.
HARRY THRoCKMoRToN, fifteen years
old, son of Den Throckmorten, the dentist,
was drowned three miles west of Marion,
Ohio, at place called Deep Cut, on the
Scioto River. He got into deep water, and
being unable to swim was drowned before
assistance arrived.
A FEW mornings since, the dead body of
a man was found floating in the water out
side the bath-house a. Ferry Bar, Baltimore,
Md. From his effects it is supposed the
deceased is C. Rhinehart, agent for the Ger
man Catholic paper, Wahrheitsfreu,ad, pub
lished by Benziger Bros, Cincinnati.
ABOUT four O'Clock Thursday afternoon,
while Samuel Atthouser and his son, aged
twelve years, were hauling wheat from a
field four miles northeast of Sandusky, O.,
during storm, they were struck by light
ming, which killed the son and severely in
jured the father and burned up the wheat.
JOSEPH SPRIGGs, aged nineteen, the son
of a wealthy farmer living at Shiloh, four
miles west of Sonora, KY, was drowned in a
mill pond while bathing. The body was re-
covered almost instantly by colored man
who stood on the bank and saw the unfor-
tunate young man go down, but not know
ing what to do in such case, of course,
life's light went out.
LATE Saturday evening four men at
| temped to ford flooded creek at Ka ida,
Putnam County, o. Getting into swift
current, the wagon was swept into deep
water and capsized. Two of the men, Harris
and Burkhart, in attempting to save the
| horses. We're drowned. Burkhart leaves a
large family. The bodies were recovered af.
ter several hours search.
| The tramps are making great deal OF
trouble on the Davenport and North.
western Road in Iowa. Fifty of them
boarded train at Dixon a few mornings
since, but were Kept off by Sherifs that
were sent out. Sixty tramps were kept of
another train at Monticello for four hours
ON Saturday, and they were finally dispersed
| by the Sheriff of the county.
! CHARLEsWAcHsMAN, boy of ten years
was drowned in the Saltwater River al
Dayton, Ohio, recently. He and two
brothers were walking along the river banR
when his hat was blown into the stream II
his efforts to get the hat he was swept into
deep water by the current and out of react
of assistance. The river is very high, ant
the body was carried down the stream.
MRS. MARY BLACK, of Hamilton, Ohio
attempted recently, in the Emery Hotel, a
Cincinnati, to take the life of Scot
Symmes, her seducer. She fired three shot
at him, and after hard struggle, he sue
ceeded in obtaining the weapon. She ac
cuses him of slandering the character of he
husband in order to obtain influence owe
her feeling, running her, her husband an
family.
A BAKER CITY dispatch of a recent dat
says: The Umatilla Indians, under Forsyths
struck the hostile camp late at night, abou
two miles and half from Stalks RancI
Daily road, killing seventeen warriors an
capturing twenty-five women and childre
and sixty or seventy head of horses. Th
kostiles are much demoralized, and eaptiv
squaws report that they are breaking int
dc &la
1 fleeing to the Weiser, and making their wa
4 to the Bannocks, of the buffalo country.
s RICHARD SUTTON died in Washingto
= City, on July IA, in his SEVENTEEN yea
r He was native of England, and III ear
g life was employed in the House of Common
- of Great Britain as a reporter, but came
Washing on over third of a century ag
= and up to a few years past was an offici
reporter of the debates of Congress, for
e long time having charge of the bushes
IL He was one of the best shorthand writers
IS the day, and in the art was the tutor of t
Ie Murphyship successors in the Senate, al
8. others who stand high in the profession.
d A FEW days since, train No. 13, on t
e. Pittsburg, Cincinnati & st. Louis Railws
os engine 407, and twenty-five cars, we
= through the bridge over 1ippecanoe Riv
at Monticello, Ind. The train had p
u ceeded about half way over the brid
10 when the west span, one hundred and Fl
10 feet in length and seven'y.fve feet
u height, broke in the center, letting the
he tire train of twenty loaded and two emf
n cars fall through. Two men were bur
n under the ruins, and the conductor, bra
a men, and passengers made miraculous
~ cape.
PARTICULARS are received of an accid
,s+ on the Pan Handle road, near Montice
in Ill. freight train of twenty-eight C,
m bound west, was thrown from the tr,
II while crossing a bridge over Tippecal
IT. River, all the cars except the caboose tul
1as ling into the stream, distance of min
nit feet. The caboose, with six passep gers,
yer saved by the presence of mind of brs
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