The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-14
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NEWS

Mrs. ELIZABETH WRIGHT, aged nearly
one hundred and six years, died Sunday
night. She resided three miles south of
Carey, o.
BENJAMIN HUNTER, the murderer of John
NJ. Armstrong, in Camden, n. J., in JAN
uary, 1873, was sentenced Saturday to be
hanged on the 10th of January next.
WHILE Mrs. Gordon A. HarrelI, wife of a
prominent citizen of Harrisonburg, Va
was sitting in her pew at church during a
prayer-meeting Saturday evening, she fell
dead.
A CHILD, daughter of Harry Large, was
drowned in Worthington's Creek, near
Parkersburg, w. Va. The creek is very
shallow, the poor child found the deepest
part to fall into.
GEORGE FEssLEE, the defauIting Treas
urer, came into Court on Monday, at Can
ton, Ohio, and pleaded guilty to the en-
bezzlement of S34 900 county funds, and
taking the same to Canada.
THE United States Grand Jury at Charles
ton, w. Va, have found four hundred and
fifty indictments against the moonshiners
ell, Raleigh and Mercer Counties.
SATURDAY James Biggs, q negro, who has
been on trial at Fort Smith, Ark, was con-
victed and sentenced to be hanged, for the
murder of j. C. Gould, a cattle drover, in
the Indian Territory in August, 1873.
SATURDAY there was one fever death at
Memphis, one at Jackson. Miss one at New
Orleans, and none at Vicksburg. 1t is esti-
mated that the total number of cases in
New Orleans will reach forty thousand.
HIRAM LEvIssY, miner, eighteen years
old, unmarried, was crushed to death, on
Monday, by falling ore-bank, while at
work near the Monitor Furnaces, five miles
above Ironton, O. The body was recov-
ered
A COLORED tramp was run over Saturday
night by several trains on the Fort Wayne
Road, four miles east of Delphos, o. The
body was horribly mangled, and was buried
by the township. No clue as to his name
or residence could be found.
The five o'clock evening express, while
passing through Caledonia, Ohio, struck
and instantly killed an old lady named
Bridget Mireing, while walking on the
Cleveland Columbus, Cincinnati and Indi-
annapolis track. She was about sixty years
OF age.
Mr.. BENJAMIN SAWYER, of Decatur, ILL.,,
who was shot by his brother William on
Monday, died of his wounds on the follow
ing Saturday. He was a butcher, sixty
years of age. He leaves property of about
$4,000, which he disposed of by will on
the night of the shooting.
AN old lady named Best, living two miles
from Port Washington, was found dead re-
Gently. She left home to visit~her son near
by, but was not missed until the next day.
when found in a contrary direction, with
her neck dislocated and signs of foul play.
No coroner's inquest was held.
WHILE Governor Hampton, of South
Carolina, was hunting, recently, his mule
became frightened, and, the bride break
ing, the Governor leaped from the saddle.
By the fall the Governors right leg was
broken in two places, the bones protruding,
| and his ankle was badly hurt.
| CAPT. CONDOR, Fenian, on Wednesday
thanked the President for securing his re.
lease from prison. The President expressed
himself pleased to meet the Captain, hoped
| he would soon recover his health, and in.
quired about the members of his family
Capt. Condor also called on the Secretary
of State.
THE body of John Ling, of Quincy, Ill.
Chinese laun dryman, was found in his
place of business, at midnight recently
literally cut to pieces with knife or cleaver
His Chinese employee was arrested next
morning, and after declaring that two col
ored men did the deed, finally confessed
"John had liquor and me killee him."
THOMAS SUTTON, of Akron. Ohio, wal
killed recently in Norton Township by
Train No. 5, on the A. & G. w. Railroad
He was intoxicated at the time, and wa
caught by the engine and whirled unde
the driving-wheel and rolled along unde
the train for forty yards, until LITERAL.
ground to pieces, retaining no semblance o
a human being.
SATURDAY afternoon while the watts wer
being vanished in Bergner & Engle'
brewery, near Girard-avenue bridge, Phil
adelphia, candle fell into the varnish. /
fire started that in three hours burned tn
two principal buildings and ten thousan
barrels of beer. Total loss about 100000
Fully insured. Two hundred hands ar
thrown out of employment.
THERE was a murder Wednesday night q
Hagerstown, Ill.,, on the Vandalia Road, bu
, the names were not ascertained. One ma
, employed by farmer killed another hire
man with a coupling-pin as he lay asleep i
bed, and then took his money from a trunk
He pretended next morning to have ju;
discovered the murder, but the dead man
money was missing, and on search bein
made it was found on the person of th
other.
AT Memphis, Ben. Surratt, Rose Whi
man and Felix Surratt, three negroes, wei
; arrested Friday morning for alleged con
? plicity in the killing of II. C. Baird at Cub
: Tennessee, fifteen miles north of the cit,
! The killing occurred about three week
since. Baird was shot as he lay asleep on tt
front porch of a grocery-store at Cuba. Th
party engaged in shooting mistook him fc
a muir derer who the day previous had r.
sisted arrest.
AT an enthusiastic meeting of Harval
r men, the subject of challenge from En-
lduu was COuolucICu. IHSy nave
accepted the challenge, although n
formally, as there are preliminaries to
arranged which will be completed at
future day. The undergraduates have c
fered to raise fifteen thousand dollars t
ward the purpose. The Harvards have a
cepted the challenge of the Cornells, al
will row a race at New London.
JACOB SCHLUPE, the sexton of the M
0 lersburg (Ohiol Cemetery, lately receiv
an anonymous letter, stating that the he,
c, and arm of John M. Robinson, which W
y taken from the grave about the Goth of Ju
/. last, could be found buried under Ii
l, Judges Stand in the County Fair Groun
lie Mr.. Schlupe made search at the spot, al
there found the head aud arm in q sac
buried about eighteen inches. The renal
were talxau to the cemetery and rapiao