The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-08-22
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NE WS.

CATHoLIC-ORANGE riots are reported In
Ottawa, Canada. The military was called
out to preserve the peace.
HENRY A. MAURICE, JR., of Creville, Cal,
suicided at that place Sunday morning.
Cause, financial difficulties.
THE Germans of New York celebrated
the triumph of the Social Democrats in the
recent elections in Germany.
THE town of Shasta, Cal, was one-third
burned on the morning of the 18th. The
portion destroyed embraced the larger por-
ton of the business part of the place.
CHARLES W. ANGEL, Secretary of the
Pullman Car Company, at Chicago, has
absconded with $4,000. Vigorous meas
ures have been taken for his apprehension.
PROFESSOR FREDERICK w. LARDwELL,
mathematical author and Professor of AS
tronomy and Engineering in the University
of Kansas, died at Lawrence, Kansas, Satur-
day.
AT Toronto, Ont, Vigilance Com
mittee has been formed in Parkdale, west
ern suburb, for the purpose of protecting
property. OF late tramps have been max
ing things lively for the villagers.
WEDNESDAY night, at Reading, Oregon,
VIM. DAILY quarreled with his wife's brother,
J. Woodward, over family matters, when
Woodward stabbed DAILY twice, and DAILY
shot Woodward, both falling dead.
CAPT. JOHN CowDEN left Memphis Satur-
day on tour throughout the Northwest, in
the interest of his plan for securing deep
outlet to the gulf, and for the reclamation
of lowlands along the Mississippi River.
TRAIN robbers entered baggage car on
the Kansas City and st. Joe Railway, about
one mile below Winthrop Junction,
opposite Kansas City, on the 18th of
August, and over-awing the attaches with
revolvers, rifed the express safe of over
$5,0OO
AT Ottawa, Ont, most violent thunder
storm developed itself Friday night. A
house owned by John Cook was struck by
lightning and completely destroyed. The
inmates escaped with much difficulty. A
barn owned by Magee at Billings Bridge
was also destroyed by lightning.
AHoRsE on the track of the Marietta and
Cincinnati Railroad, a couple of miles from
Chillicothe, on Thursday, threw freight
train No. from the track, killing the fire.
man and brakeman, and badly injuring
Betterton, the engineer. The names of the
killed were Pat. Shayne and Mont. Henry.
THE third annual session of the State
Archaeological Association will be held at
Wooster, Ohio, Tuesday, September 8. In.
vitations have been sent to all the leading
archeologists in the United States, and a
number of interesting papers will be read
at the meeting, which will continue two
days.
JOHN TENEYCK, colored, was hung at
Pittsfeld, Mass, on the 10th, for the MUIR
der of Mr.. and Mrs. David Stillman, at
Sheffield on the 29th of November last. He
confessed other crimes, but denied the
murder of the Stillmans. He is also guilty
of bigamy, leaving three wives and num-
of children.
| AT st. Louis Friday night James Pitsford,
foreman of the Skinner Hook and Ladder
Truck, and one of the oldest and. best
members of the Fire Department, was acci-
IDENTIFY thrown from the truck at the east.
ern approach to the bridge while going to a
fire. He was run over by the truck, pro-
ducing injuries from which he died.
| A READING, Pa, correspondent to the
New York Tribune has obtained some i'm
portant facts in regard to- the recent
startling growth of secret society called
the Knights of Labor. The society is said
to comprise SOC, 900 members, and to WELD
a tremendous influence in the matters OF
strikes. 1t is bound together by an oath.
AT Augusta, Ga, lately, at political
meeting, where Governor Wade Hampton
| oil ho md
Loreys took the opportunity of settling an
old family feud. Pistols were drawn and
firing commenced. Friends of each party
Joined, and the affair ended with the killing
of four men and the wounding of half 8
dozen others.
THE st. Louis Globe-Den,ocrat special says
Riley Comstock, farmer, and L. R. .Willough
by, from Illinois, employed in getting ou
railroad ties, got into an alteration at {
picnic near Bunker Hill, Howard County
NO., few days since, which resulted il
Willoughby shooting and killing Comstock
The murderer was arrested and lodged il
Boonville Jail.
OFFICIAL information is received tina
Lieutenant Wallace, of Fort Missouk, ha
overtaken the marauding band of Ne
Perces, numbering about twenty, who hav
been plundering their way from Canada t,
} Idaho, and has punished them severely
/ killing six, wounding three, and killing o
I capturing most of their ponies. He ha'
only handful OF men in his command, bu
used them to excellent advantage.
THE body of man found in the river a
a Louisville is that of a son of Bisho
2 Whipple, of Farribault, Mimi, waywar
/ young man, who has caused much trouble t
! his venerable father. Letters on the bod
were from his home, and there seems to b
: : no doubt that the career of the young ma
i is closed. One letter spoke of his havin
: won three thousand dollars at faro i
l Chicago. He may have been robbed an
Y murdered.
r THE schooner Ida Lawrence, Capital
y Alpheus Barrett, from Sagua LIE Grand
n Cuba, fer New York, put in at Delawar
|. Breakwater, on the 10th, with the emit,
q crew, nine in number, either dead or dow
10 with yellow fever. The only passenge
Isaac 81. Warrington, of Camden, N. j., so
> of one of the owners, died at sea. His bod
y is preserved in liquor. The day before tw
le of the crew died, and were buried at Sc
Ie Captain Barrett also died.
s. A KANSAS special says that a great de
has been said about the failure of crops U
in Nebraska, Iowa, and the Northwestel
i, States, but the products of Kansas this yea
are something almost unheard of. tt
. wheat crop is especially fine, and at Il
e present time the Kansas Pacific Railway
u bringing to Kansas City over one hundr
rd carloads daily, all of which has been rails
ne on land adjacent to the railway. 1t grad
ss above the average, and will add millions
20 the wealth of " Drouthy Kansas"
rs. The Einstein Brothers, boot and sh
W. dealers and manufacturers at San Francis,
~ have suspended. Their liabilities were
- timated at 100000, half OF which is due
80 Eastern creditors. The assets consist
's' the stock of goods, factory and outstandi
N accounts. The real estate is supposed to
nix heavily incumbered, The failure is due