The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-05-30
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RECENTLY seven men were prepar-
ing to have a fsh-frv on an island
in Waterman Reservoir, Smithfeld, R.
l., when a shower came up and lightning
struck the party. William Colvin, of
Scituate, and Daniel Knowlton, of Green
vile, standing back to back under tree,
were killed. Eugene Knowlton, brother of
Daniel, and Jeremiah Angel, were badly
injured, both boots being stripped off their
feet. burned, and their limbs part ally para
lived. The other three were stunned, but
not seriously.
The Western tornado was more disastrous
than at first reported. The towns of Mineral
Point, Iowa, and Oregon, Wis, were de-
molished, and the destruction of life and
property was great. Among those reported
as killed and injured are the following: At
Mount Vernon, VIM. Osborne, wife and
daughter, seriously injured at Paoli, the
family of A. F. Cla k, slightly injured; at
Oregon wife and children of NJ. Mccarthy
badly injured, and Mr.. and Mrs. Pierce,
seriously; can't recover; at Montrose the
wife of John Galena was killed and others
badly injured.
THE Pennsylvania Democrats have nom-
mated Fl. Dill, for Governor; L. P. Ross,
Supreme Judge; J. .Fertig, Lieutenant Gov
ernor; J. s. Africa, Secretary of internal
Affairs The Platform of res lutions
charges all the distress to labor and trade
upon the Republican policy; declares
against contraction; arraigns the Republi
can State government for failure to prevent
discrimination in Railroad freights, and fail
ure to pass free pike bill; and urges that
investigation be made in Electoral
frauds, but deprecates any attack upon the
Presidential title.
A TERRIBLE accident occurred at noon on
the 21st of May, on c., S. & c. R. r. The
train due at Urbana, Ohio, at 1 :18 p. m.,
left Bellefontaine fifteen minutes late, and
was running at the rate of fifty miles per
hour, when eleven miles north of Urbana
the engine struck COW, and was ditched
and totally demolished. The baggage car
followed, mashing in one end. The palace
car was thrown across the track and dam
aged slightly. Next came the smoking car,
which was thrown on top of the engine.
The rest of the train was wrecked. Several
persons were severely injured, among them
the engineer and fireman.
A TERRIBLE tragedy occurred in the
French settlement at Dubuque, Iowa, few
| days ago. A farmer named John Wormkey,
commonly known as Sailor John, in COM
| pany with his wife, went out in the confeld
to work. Before leaving, they locked up
their three children in the room, supposing
| that the little ones would be safer under
| lock and key than running about. On the
| return of the parents, couple of hours af.
| terward, on opening the door they were hor
| rified to discover that the house was filled
with smoke and that the little ones were
lying dead upon the floor. From the ap
pearance of the room it was evident thai
the children had taken burning sticks out
| of the stove and threw them in the wood
box. As there was no draft in the roof, the
fire in the wood-box smouldered and emit
ted smoke which filled the room and as
phyxiated the children. The eldest of tht
unfortunate little ones was but nine year.
of age.
MOST terrible murder is reported from
Taylorville, Ill. An invalid, named Mrs
Hamilton, in the environs of the town, wa
killed by an ak in the hands of Viii ian
Day, boy about fifteen years of age, during
the absence of the family. The boy statet
at first that some tramps had murdered tn
woman with a hatchet, and that he saw then
running away from the house. He gave
description of the men, and immediatel,
large party were out in every direction
securing the country for tramps. Severs
men were arrested and brought in, and tn
, boy pretended to identify one of them, bu
the people had already began to suspec
the boy, and after thorough examinatio
of the field by which the house was SUI
t rounded, it was found that there were n
tracks of any person, and as the ground wa
wet the people were sati fed that no tram
| had done the deed. The boy, upon bein
) thoroughly examined by Sheriff May an
i c ERIK Joe Hill, acknowledged that b
had killed the woman with the a,
+ No reason was given for the act, except ths
, the woman had corrected the boy the morl
Y ing before.
e THE Indiana Greenback National Labc
s Party which met at indianapolis on May
= passed resolutions in opposition to ever
t measure looking to the resumption of spec
payments, and in favor of =" the abolition
r I'll bank issues, the free and unlimited coli
y age of gold and silver, and the issuing /
l. the government of full legal tender fl
r money, receivable for all dues and payab
/, for all debts, public and private, in amour
e sufficient to meet the wants of trade, to gi,
n employment to all labor, and to enable Il
people to do cash business, and to relei7
d them from the d. BIT system whi,
ii has made the industrial and col
Is mercial classes the slaves and drudg
It of the credit mongers of the world
D. The resolutions also "denounce the red fl
.e communism imported from Europe, viii,
te asks for an equal division of property, al
Ia we denounce the communism of the Il
tionat banks, of the bond syndicates, and
the consolidated railroad corporation
:. which have secured and are enforcing
70 unequal division of property" The fl
lowing State officers were nominated: 81
- retary of State, Henley James, of Gran
- Treasurer of State, R. p Main, of Floy
Auditor of State, Jacob F. Bird, of Gibso
n Attorney General, David Moss, of Hami to
;. Superintendent of Public Instruction, 10
Young, of Marion.
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,h FOREIGN SUMMARY.