The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-04-18
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NEWS.

BAYoRD TAYLOR and Murat Halstead
sailed for Europe in the steamer Halsatia on
the 18th.
A GALVESTON Neacs special says San
Antonio firm has been shipping arms and
ammunition to Mexico for several weeks
past movement against Diaz is sus-
pected.
The Kentucky Legislature adjourned on
the 10th. Among the acts done, was the
adoption of a joint resolution looking to
the revision of the present Constitution of
the State.
FRED. WELLS, butcher, and Jacob
Knodel, saloon-keeper, both Germans,
committed suicide on the same day in Gin
cinnati. Wells cut his throat from ear to
ear, and Knodel put "a bullet through his
brain.
ALBERT SMITH, a grocer, while hunting
rnipe ON the lake beach at Erie, Pa, acci-
dentally shot himself, the charge of shot
going through his heart and the ramrod
through his head. He leaves a wife and
seven children.
| JUDGE MCCALLIsTER, of Chicago has
decided that a judgment note is invalid,
and the execution fraudulent, when the
party who obtained the note was aware that
the party from whom it was obtained was
ON the verge of bankruptcy.
JOHN E. LYON, President of the Boston,
Concord and Montreal Railroad, was burned
to death recently at the Pennigewasset
House, Plymouth, New Hampshire. Being
i'll, he arose during the night, fell, and the
lamp in his hand breaking, set fire to his
clothing.
PROFESSOR JOHN w. HoYT, of Wisconsin,
who has been prominently connected with
agricultural progress, and who was a Com
missioner to the Vienna Exposition, was
recently nominated, and has been confirmed,
as Governor of Wyoming, in place of Gov.
Thayer, removed.
TOPEKA special says Judge Foster, of
the United States Court which is in session
there, has instructed the Grand Jury to in
vestigate the strike on the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe Railroad, and to indict all
persons who can be proven to have inter
fered with or delayed the mails.
Thomas George, young man about
twenty-five years of age, residing one mile
east of Irville, Ohio, went hunting Satur.
, day evening, and, not returning, search was
, made for him, and he was found dead with
bullet-hole through his heart. Whether
accidental or suicide, is not known.
A FEW evenings since, while the turnkey
of the City Jail at Lancaster, Ohio, was Civ
ing the prisoners water, he was knocked
down by one of them, who took the keys
: and pistol, and liberated three others
l Houghton, the three-card monte man, and
| Ridley, trunk thief, were captured immedi
| ately. Beach and Clark, petty thieves, were
, captured few hours after.
! 1t is reported that Colonel John G. Syke,
, Special Secret Agent sent out by Presiden
: Hayes, has been in Sacramento severa
weeks, and has Investigated the Chimes
question. 1t is supposed the President
D purpose was to obtain material for hi
e promised special message on the Chimes
= questions. Having fulfilled his mission
d Sykes left for Washington few days ago.
> SIX young men of Martins Ferry, Ohio
r went out in a light pleasure boat for tn
purpose of rowing on the Ohio River, an
by some accident the boat was swampe6
and three of the young men, Miligan, Nj
Kimm and Crowl, were drowned. By tn
n efforts of one of the young men, Jane
Z, Greer, one of the party, was saved, Will
If another swan to the shore and gave th
o alarm.
n s. Angler CHASE, Treasurer of the Unio
"a Mills, at Fall River, Mass, is said to be d
a faulter in the sum of S4SO,000. The bank
~ and other corporations are all secure as fl
% as heard. The Union Mills have been a
n tached by Henry 1. Pearce, a private bankt
n of Providence. Chase, the Treasurer, in
,e letter to the Directors, acknowledges $4SC
ID 600 defalcation. Some of the Directors al
,e said to be on the mill paper.
y Miss JANET BRECKENRIDGE, aged sixt
50 the maiden sister of Robert Breckenridg
q Esq, of Lafayette, Indiana, was four
:. drowned early in the morning lately in tt
Wabash River, about a mile above tow
~ The unfortunate lady has been in ill heal
III for some time, and it is very probable tn
3. in deranged state of mind she left hon
ly in the evening, and either intentionally
he accidentally met her death as above.
ss EDWARD A. DENEEN, aged twenty, son
til s. H. Deneen, Professor of Latin in M
es Kendree College, at Lebanon, ILL, shot hi1
or solf twice in the head, at his fathers re-
dence, and at last accounts was dying.
appears that on Saturday evening he becar
intoxicated, and the next day, seeing t
great distress and sorrow of his paren
ID caused by his conduct, he went to his roc
he in a fit of remorse, and put two bullets in
II his head.
od IT is publicly announced at DENY
-. Colorado, that Fl. A. McIntire, President
'io the First National Bank of Lake City, a
* Vice President of the First National Bal
NJ. Of ro14 Ia Ho1 -
ar. with $4,000. The first disclosures We
ed made quite recently, and showed that 4
Oh Intire had, in the interim following t
he death of the President of the bank at Co
h. RADIO Springs, and before the vacancy v
"a supplied, secured from the deposits of I
'io bank between $4,000 and $4,000. In ad
lef ton to this, he has hypothetic stock of
ra- two banks with which he was connect
or amounting to $4,000. 1t is feared that
wv. losses of the Lake City Bank will be irrepa
ex- BILE, and that further disclosures will sw
ner the estimates already made.
of VIM. NJ. TWEED died in Ludlow-str
mt Jail, New York, at precisely twelve o'clt
m, on April IL. He was attended by
Carnochan, who was with him from an ca
lhu hour in the morning also Foster Dewey,
ore secretary, Mr.. Douglass, his son-in-law,
Try, Edelstein, of his counsel. All hope of
om- recovery were abandoned soon after elev
be- when DR.. Carnochan announced a clogg
t as of the heart and complete nervous exha
he ton. Keeper Kernin was hurriedly 8,
no moned three minutes before noon, 1
reaching Mr.. Tweed's room the noon sig
rang out, and the long prisoned old 4
dropped back dead in his bed. His
Ion words to DR.. Carnochan were: "I h
:, :, q q tried to do some good. If 1 have not
n n good luck l am not afraid to die. bell
= - the guardian angels will protect me-"
,ver
mes AN Iowa farmer had poor health,
,yal his wife undertook the management
the things herself. She now raises beef
i'm pork for market, feeds the stock and