The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-05-30
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NE WS.

resolution against reduction of the stand
ing army.
A nnDDLE-AGED lady, named Wonderly,
was drowned in cistern about four miles
from Fostoria, o.
PRESIDENT HAYES, two of bis Cabinet
and party of friends attended the gradu-
ating exercises of the Hampton Normal
Academy at Fortress Monroe.
REV. SAMUEL S. IsAACs, editor of the
Jeucish Messenger, of New York, and the
oldest Jewish minister in the country, died
May 20, aged seventy-four.
CHAs. BUCHANAN, brakeman on the l. c.
and L. Railroad, fell from the local freight
while running rapidly a short distance east
of Shelbyville, Indiana, and was run over
and killed.
SPECIAL from Rio Grande City says the
town of Reynosa was captured Wednesday
by Lerdo Revolutionists, and a ransom of
$4,000 levied. The party has since moved
southwest.
JOHN WHITE, blacksmith, living near
Henderson, KY, was instantly killed Friday
evening by being caught in the belt of fly
whee', which crushed and mangled him in
horrible manner.
In the Senate the bill to restore General
Shields to the army, on the retired list, was
amended by placing General Grant on the
retired list, with full rank pay, and allow
ances of the General. e., the highest rank.
IT is said that the Stewart Hotel for wo.
men will soon be turned into a general
hotel. 1t now contains less than two score
| of boarders, and the Stewart estate is out
of pocket about 5000 daily to support the
institution.
THE following Fall River mills have
stopped for one week: Flint, Wampanoag,
Robson, Stafford, Chace, Tecumseh and
Wectomore. In the course of few weeks
the movement will be practically unanimous
| for half time.
THE House Committee on Elections has
agreed to report favorably the bill to allow
West Virginia to hold its Congressional
election this fall, on October %, the time
at which, under the Safe law, the State
election is held.
THE following committee has been ap-
pointed for investigating the Presidential
election frauds: Messrs. Potter, Morrison,
Hunton, Stenger, Mcmahon, Cobb, of In
diana, Blackburn, Cox, of Ohio, Reed, of
Maine, and Hiscock.
THE Vermont Republican Convention
nominated Colonel Proctor Redfeld, of
Rutland, for Governor. The resolutions in.
dorse President Hayes, and reprove the
House of Representatives for reopening the
Presidential question.
WHILE switching cars at Howard City
| d r scl,% hrol lrnv
the G. R. & 1. R. R., slipped and fell, and be
fore he could raise himself car ran over
him, cutting him in two, causing instant
death. His remains were sent to his home
at Plymouth, Indiana.
The pleasure steamer Empress of India
with a party of about eighteen persons or
board became unmanageable and capsizet
over dam on Grand River, at Gait, Onta
rio, on the 22d. All the passengers plunged
, into the river below. Eighteen lives ar,
reported lost.
DANIEL s. MYERS, an old resident o
Lima, Ohio, and extensively known amonl
horsemen, was driving near the depot, il
: that city, when his horse ran away, throw
= ing him from the buggy with great violenc
: against hitching-post, inflicting injurie
from which he died in half an hour.
+ The military headquarters have report
(, from Poplar Creek, Montana, which stat
that ammunition is being sold by traders il
the British Possessions to the Indians, wit
/ the consent of the authorities. The Yank
S tonians and friendly Tetons residing at tn
, Poplar Creek Agency, testify strongly to thi
s fact.
d THE death of the Hon. John Scott Hal
y rison is announced. He was the son &
! President Harrison, and the father of Ger
e eral Benjamin Harrison, of Indiana. Fl
represented the First Ohio Congressions
y District in Congress from 1853 to 1857. HI
10 age at the time of his death was not far frol
1t seventy years.
7, J. WESLEY WILSON, farmer living aboy
q four miles east of Newark, Ohio, in Madiso
l. Township, committed suicide, recently, b
lie shooting himself through the heart. =
it had been i'll a few days, but no reason
# known for the act. Mr.. Wilson was fort
,e years of age, the proprietor of an excellel
- farm, and out of debt.
y REVENUE collections in Nebraska f,
IL April are over $4,000, the largest of ar
month in the history of the State. The ct
Id lections in eighteen States and nine Te
ID ritories are less annually than in Nebrask
We the next youngest State in the Union. tt
IN collections in 1877 were over 5000, 900, at
~, expense of less than $15, 900.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Associate
! Press lately visited several of the princip
~ towns on the Canadian border, and fin
& everywhere the most intense exciteme
It, prevailing. The Dominian militia are su
b. piled with arms and ammunition, and a
We ready at an hours notice to concentra
or forces to repel an invasion on the Cana
n border.
n. THE Executive Committee of the Pen
so sylvania National party met recently
- Harrisburg. and accepted the declinatio
IL of Benjamin s. Bentley, nominee for s
H. preme Judge, and Christopher Shearer,
sr- Lieutenant-Governor, were accepted. Jud
he Daniel Agnew was then unanimously no
ct mated for Supreme Judge, and Daniel
lis Streck, of Lycoming County, for Lieutena
m Governor.
ge A LATE dispatch from Toronto says Il
M the little steamer Empress of India, wbi
no was carried over Blaine's Dam, Grand Riy
-. had seventeen passengers on board,
whom nine were rescued. The names
NC the lost are: Ell. J. Jaffray, proprietor of
ne Gait Reporter; James Montgomery, ]
ur ward Wren, Andrew Jackson, John Fra2
tie Frederick Cane, Robert Elliott and Da,
an Scott.
CONSIDERABLE excitement is occasion
on the farm of Joe Wright, below Lane
ter, Ohio, by the throwing of stones 6
ue- powders by unseen hands at a boy liy
ing on the place. Huge stones struck tho
on. repeatedly. without produc;po tho sl;ol
on effect. The window n.nes 2, 49,
ain were shattered. and on diffsrant ao.aa: @
on the missiles fell with rackIass -.t'-'
on Hundreds of neonle vis;ted tho g..
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