The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-08-01
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NEWS.

AT Canton, N. Y, Peter Bresnehan, who
hanged Friday.
YELLOW FEVER is spreading in New Or
leans. The cities along the Mississippi
have established quarantine.
A BALLooNIsT named L. d. Atchison,
while making an ascension at Elmwood, Ill,
was killed instantly by falling a distance
of two hundred feet.
Miss ELIZABETH TODD and Miss Dora
McAllister, of Oskaloosa, Ia, were drowned
while bathing in Skunk River, five miles
from Oskaloosa, recently.
JOE PEYToN, of Cincinnati, in a fit. of
Jealous rage, went to the house of his mis-
tress and shot her through the heart. He
was afterward arrested and acknowledged
the murder.
NOSE KIRKENDALL, aged twenty-five,
colored, was taken from the Jail at Harri-
son, Ark, by mob, few nights since, and
hanged to tree. His alleged crime was an
attempted outrage on white female.
SERIOUS labor -rious have occurred at
Washington, d. c., on account of laborers
on the Washington Monument working un-
der price. 1t was found necessary to call
out the military and police to quell the dis
turbance.
An eight-year-old grandson of George
Maishes, residing two miles east of Frank
fort, Ind, was killed by a passing train.
He crossed the track Immediately in front
of the train and sat down on the end of the
ties. No one to blame.
Dr., Sol
Marion Campbell, who served in the Eighth
Iowa Infantry during the war, and who
since the war served several terms in the
Mississippi Legislature as Senator and as
Representative, was drowned near his home
lately, while bathing in Skunk River, New
Sharon Village, Iowa.
The National party of New York, in Con-
vention on the Oath of July, nominated a
State ticket, and passed resolutions favoring
the payment of all debts, public and pri-
vate, in greenbacks, and demanding the
repeal of the National bank Act, and the
immediate calling in and payment of all
bonds in absolute paper money, without
regard to the time they may have to run on
their face, and no further issue by the Gov
ernment of any bonds.
A SPECIAL from Belleville, ILL.,, says that
the boiler of thrashing machine at work
on the farm of Ben. Wesset, near that city,
exploded, killing VIM. Dexter, of Center
vile, Mr.. James, a neighbor, and the engi-
neer, name unknown; mortally wounding a
man named Lang from st. Louis, and seri-
ously injuring Mr.. Vessel and his brother,
and another man, name not given. The
| ic Oft ri hnf fo6 fn fho 10
or carelessness of the engineer.
| THE conflict between the Mayor and the
Metropolitans, at East st. Louis, was re-
newed on the 23d of July. The conflict on
this occasion grew out of the efforts of a
railroad company to lay connecting track
to run trains across the city, which the
Mayor ordered to be stopped. Several
| Metropolitan officers and little girl were
wounded. Governor Cullom ordered out a
company of guards from Belleville, to take
charge of the town and keep the peace.
A CORRESPONDENT q the Cincinnati
Gazette says that Lieutenant David Mcclure
and General Thomas Green fought blood
less duel on Big Creek, near Madison, Ind.
lately, Jacob Greiner and Robert H
Humphreys being seconds. The weapons
were shotguns, distance ten PAGES. After
exchanging shots twice, reconciliation
was effected, and the parties returned to tn,
city. Paper wadding had been substituted
for bullets by the seconds without th'
knowledge of the combatants.
A BLOODY affray occurred in a wheat fielt
a few miles west of Sandusky, Ohio, on Sat
urday. Edward and John Savilia an,
Amasa Short had been growing wheat OF
| shares, and a fight resulted from troubl
about the division of the crop. Short attacke'
Edward saviIia with a pitchfork an
stabbed him several times in the arms an
! legs, but the wounded man got the fork ava
from Short and stabbed the latter nine time
with it, inficting terrible injuries. Shol
has gone to Canada.
. A Herald correspondent, who professe
y to have accurate information, gives som
account of a secret organization called th
t knights of Labor, which has, he says,
D membership in almost every State of th
f Union-of 141 900 in California, $4,000
|, Pennsylvania, $4,000 in Indiana, $4,000
o Ohio, 200 in North Carolina, down
e 5000 in Colorado, and total OF. $1,000
! The Society, he thinks, has drawn largel
from the different labor organizations
e the country, and intends now to take a han
in politics, its natural afiliation being wit
the Greenback party.
A SPECIAL to the Cincinnati ENQUIRER sa,
, that in the neighborhood of Fluviana Cou
I. House, Va, Colonel Wilson Houchins mu
y dered his family with an ak while the
y were seated at breakfast. The victim
y were his wife, mother-in-law and little SO
= After completing the terrible work, Houc
q ins went to his barnyard, seated himself
n it is believed on keg Of blasting-powder
at and smoked his pipe. After finishing b
se smoke, it is supposed he touched off his
to fernal machine with fire from his pi
through the bung-hole of the keg. A fes
r, full noise followed the explosion, attracti
IS. neighbors twelve miles distant An inves
r. CATION of the premises disclosed porti
ne of Houchins' body up in the branches OF
es tree, forty feet from the ground, the he
~ on top of the barn, and portions of t
he trunk and legs in other portions of t
a barnyard. The keg contained forty pour
lle of heavy blasting-powder, which had be
lei used by Houchins for blasting purposes
"a, his quarry near by.
m NASHVILLE was tnroWn into great st
~ of excitement, a few days ago, by str
Nv ~ fight, resulting in terrible tragedy.
OF seems that at speaking of the Independ
ls candidates for county Offices, after the C
So didates had finished, Samuel Fl. Hi
nd, mounted the stand and made an onslau
in, on Judge Nathaniel Baxter, of the Giro
be- Court, and the Democratic nominee for
ses election, charging Baxter with the seduct
of his (Hicks') mother-in-law, and ind
closing the speech with an invitation to
ing saa aA's, .oas ay, r; "nion Is one oI tne lafs
use him at a certain point on Cherry-street
eer time during the day, when he'd be arr
az and prepared for them. At ten o'cl
that day Hicks advanced up Cherry.st
bod toward Union-street nearly to the cor