The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-09-05
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NE WS.

EVERY CITY of the North has organized
relief societies for the benefit of the yellow
tever suffers.
A TORNADO occurred in Grundy County,
ILL.,, which destroyed several buildings,
killing one man and seriously iDjuring
another.
LUTHER BRIGG was drowned recently
while attempting to ford the Missouri
River, at Helena, Montana. The body was
not recovered.
MICHAEL FARRALL and Francis Conway,
living in st. GATHERINGS, Canada, quarreled
Monday night, when Farrell shot Conway
dead with a shotgun.
MRS. GENERAL SHERMAN has leased her
house in st. Louis to friend for three
years, and with her daughter will make her
home in Washington.
AN accident occurred to an excursion
train on the Grand Rapids and Indiana
Railroad, few days ago, by which thirty
five persons were injured, three fatally.
A MAN named johnson shot and killed his
wife, from whom he had been separated for
some time, at Lower Boulder Valley, Mon
tana, after which he blew his own brains
out.
UPoN representations made by Collector
Mott, of North Carolina, the Government
has ordered an additional force of soldiers
Illicit distilling.
NOTICE has been served upon the Ad
ministration that the assumption OF
extraordinary power in furnishing supplies
to yellow fever sufferers will be questioned
in Congress at the next session.
As result of the refusal of the Faculty
of the Indiana Medical College to admit
college for women will, in all probability,
be started, with DIR. Mary Thomas, os Rich
mond, at the head. DR.. R. 7. Brown will be
one of the Faculty.
The Galveston NeacS' Eagle Pass special
says that Deputy United States Marshal
with detachment, left there on August 81
to arrest Colonel Martinez and about thirty
of his followers for violating the neutrality
laws by raising force on American soil to
invade Mexico, last May.
DIR. chopin, Of New Orleans, holds to
the theory of the gem origin of yellow
fever, and says it is not indigenous. 1t il
a living organism and reproduces itself. Il
must run its course, like scarlet fever
smallpox, cholera, ETC., and he knows of nc
remedy that will check it.
| A DISPATCH from Salinas, Monterey
County, California, says farmer named
| Samuel T. Stephens murdered his daughter
twenty-five years of age, cutting her throat
then took dose of strycbnine, and after
ward blew his brains out with musket
Cause, dependency about money matters
PRESIDENT HAYES and family arrived a
Fremont, Ohio, Saturday evening, in {
special car, on the L. 8. & NJ. S. R. R. HI
was met at the depot by the Light Guart
Band and about one thousand citizens
After the usual hand-shakIng he was es.
corted to his residence by the band. HI
left Monday evening at seven o'clock, ol
his Western trip.
A WAUKEsHA (Wis.) special says tn
Waukeska House, which burned there Satu'
day morning, was three-story brick hotel
owned by Matthew Lafin, of Chicago, an
was one of the most popular hotels in Wis
consin. The total loss was $4,000, wit
an insurance of $4,000 on the building an
$25,OO0 on the furniture. All of the fou
hundred guests escaped with most of thei
baggage.
BY comparative statement of the in
ports and exports of the United States fo
the month ending July 81, 1878, and for tn
seven months ending the same, compare
with like date for the corresponding period
of the year Immediately preceding, it
shown that the excess of exports over in
ports this year over last year amounted i
the month of July to 81 ,059, ,O79, and in th
seven months to $6o, ,525, ,254.
THE contract for building the State-hous
at Indianapolis has been awarded
Konamacher & Denig for 81 ,561 200, excl
? sive of the heating apparatus, to cost SAC
= 900. The lucky bidders are from Columbu
Ohio, and though comparatively your
men have had large and varied experienc
Their latest work is the Eastern Pen
tentiary of Texas. They also built the ne
Blind Asylum and Agricultural College
: Ohio.
CONSIDERABLE talk has been caused
8 Davenport, Iowa, by the discovery TIL
9 sixteen graves at Camp Mcclellan, ne
/ that city, have been robbed of their co
q tents. The graves are those of Indians wi
were brought from Minnesota as prisone
: about fifteen years ago, and died while
custody. The person who opened t
u graves is said to be a young physician w
e sold skeletons to colleges from twenty-f
e to thirty dollars each.
II HONG CHIN Foo, Chinaman who has
e sided in this country since 1873, has left
e Louis for Memphis to treat yellow fever
|. a remedy which he claims to be infallib
He proposes to make pipes of peculi
- construction, and provide preparation
:, !, opium and some oil, the use of which
IL states is the real cause of the immunity
3 the Chinese from the ravages of the disea
er He is perfectly sanguine of the success
Is his experiment.
es A SPECIAL to the st. Paul Pioneer Pr
to says a tornado and hail storm at Fargo,
ir T., on the evening of August 26, prostrat
N ten or fifteen buildings and damaged ma
a. more, all glass in the north windows bel
~ broken. Among the buildings blown do
T! were the Episcopal Church and the n
Ut City Hall. Six horses were killed in {
Va otooAC' AhiOO PcIsOus were uurI, DuC
Lst lives lost. The storm extended some tive
an miles along the Northern Pacific Railro
be The tornado followed the line of the
Paul & Pacific.
N AT SIX o'clock on the evening of Aug
A., 80, a FIRE was discovered in the cupols
= the Putin-Bay House, at Put-in-Bay Isla
and in less than two hours the fine no
w with six additional buildings, including
I'm Bing House, was in ruins. The content
most of the buildings were saved. The
is roughly estimated at one hundred tho
'es and dollars, with insurance for one fou
ls the amount. The guests of the Putin
ng House saved most of their baggage, and
ne safely quartered at the Beebe House.
tu- lives were lost.
,he The thirty-sixth annual Conclave of
of Grand Commandery, Knights Templa
Igh Ohio, closed its session at Put-in-Bay