The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-08-22

ming. A terrible explosion followed,
demolishing the magazine and scattering
the debris in an easterly direction, making
gap in the neighboring woods fifty feet
wide and killing three of a picnic party and
more or less injuring several. John Was
Ter, boy named Vaughn and son of An
drew Gallagher were killed, Many houses
in the neighborhood were badly damaged,
and several cattle were SO injured that they
had to be killed,
THE criminal sensation of the week in st.
Louis has been the attempt of Mrs. Frank
Steger, living at 1,615 Jackson street. to ad-
minister Paris green to her husband by put
ting the powder in his tobacco. He smoked
the tobacco. and the poisonous stuff made
him terribly sick, but failed to kill him.
The woman was arrested charged with the
crime, and confessed it. She said that her
husband beat her, never worked, but made
her support him and the family, and she
thought he deserved the poison. She is by
no means alone in this view, despite the re-
markable device to which she resorted to
to get even.
THE spread of the yellow fever this season
creates great excitement. Gen. Bardy, Sec
ond Assistant Postmaster General, has been
notified that all the mail communication
with New Orleans and Memphis will be
served. On the 10th he received a dispatch
announcing the discontinuance of the train
of the Memphis & Little Rock road on ac-
count of yellow fever. The entire postal
system throughout the Lower Mississippi
Valley is greatly interrupted, as Post
masters are only irregularly on duty. The
department will sustain considerable loss,
as it is the present intention to destroy a
vast number of mail bags which are penned
up in infected districts.
THE Orange Young Britons, Apprentice
Boys and True Blues, of Ottawa, Canada,
accompanied by about one hundred and
seventy-fve OF their brethren from Mon
treal, marched through the principal
streets of Ottawa on the 18th. At Sparks
and Wellington streets rough named Tom
Kennedy endeavored to break the ranks,
and attempted to trip the drummer, but was
beaten badly, and only escaped by vaulting
! over fence. The lower town Union men
attacked the Montreal Britons at York and
Sussex streets, but were defeated and es-
capped before the police came up. A Union
wood, were subsequently arrested, and
bailed after the procession dispersed. Two
Montreal Britons were cowardly assailed on
Wellington street. The assailant was ar
! rested.
JOHN A. LEET, witness before the
Potter Committee, has gone crazy. On
| Sunday evening he registered at the Astor
| House, and was assigned a room on the
third floor. At the desk the man appeared
| to be laboring under some excitement.
About half an hour after going to his room
the loud report of pistol was heard from
Leete's room, and the crashing of bullet
through the door, accompanied by loud
| cries from the room. Several officers were
summoned and they burst open the door,
and Immediately a bullet whizzed past
| them and the party inside slammed the
door in their faces. Another attempt by the
| officers to get in was met by another bullet,
but both shots fortunately missed. The Off
GERS then made combined rush and over
powered Leet before he could again fire.
Leet was witness before the Potter Inves-
tigating Committee. He was ter
ribly excited, and said there was conspir-
acy to kill him, and he meant to kill the
first man who entered the room. He fired,
he said, in self-defense, as he heard some
one trying to enter his room.
THE Greenback State Convention of Col
orado, which lately met at Denver. adopted
a platform arraigning the Democrats for the
advocacy and support of African slavery
- teaching the wild and cruel fantasy
that man could hold property in man, y
and the Republican party for legisla-
ton in the interest of the money power.
1t demands the issue by the Government OF
absolute paper money as full legal tender
for all debts, public and private, in sufi'
cient volume for the entire needs OF trade,
and in payment of the whole of the interest
bearing debt, and paid directly to the peo'
pie, without the Intervention of banks OF
agents; the Immediate repeal of the re-
sumption act, and all laws authorizing Ma
tional Banks; enactments by Congress pro-
hibiting any further issue of bonds, and 8
constitutional amendment making such is
sue impossible; an income tax on all in
comes above one thousand dollars. The
nominations were: R. G. Buckingham
Governor; P. A. Simmons, Lieutenant Gov
ernor; j. E. Washhurn, Secretary; W. D
Arnett, Treasurer; G. w. King, Auditor
Alpheus Wright, Attorney General; A. ]
Crittenden, Superintendent Public 1nstruc
, ton; II. C. Childs, Congress.