The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-12-26
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NEW

The banking-house of C. F. Adae & Co.,
Cincinnati, have failed. Liabilities re-
ported at 100000; assets, fifty per cent
AT Treichlers, Pa, the clothing, of child
of Mrs. Merriek was aeciden ally set on fire,
and in an attempt to ex:inguish the fames,
the mother and child were burned to death.
BAYARD TAYLOR, United States Minister /
to Berlin, died in that city on September 10.
He had been under medical treatment for |
some time, but on the day of his death was !
supposed to be improving.
SPECIAL agents@rof the Treasury have dis !
covered extensive irregularities in sugar
importatipns in New York, and both inl |
porters and Custom House officials seem to
be involved.
DURING the last fiscal year we exported
merchandise of the value of S694,S05, ,766; |
and imported $437, ,O51 ,532; excess of ex-
ports $257 ,S14,234, In 1876 our excess of
exports was S79, ,643, ,4S1; in 1877, $751;
152. .094.
The daughter Of William Taylor, one of
the imprisoned directors of the City of
Glasgow Bank, recently waited on the Lord
Advocate and begged to be allowed to take
her fathers place in prison until trial OF
course her request cou not be enter
tanned.
THE news has been received at Washing
ton, of the death of Justin E. Colburn, Con-
sui General at the City of Mexico. He died
December 2, at the Consulate, of quick con.
sumption. Mr.. Colburn had long been a
Washington journalist, and sought the City
| of Mexico in hopes of restoring his health.
He was held in very high esteem by large
circle of acluaintances.
JOSHUA WALKER, of Newport, r. l., pur-
chased quantity of pork, and, taking it
home, proceeded to salt it down. His wife
soon discovered that he had been trying to
make brine with white sugar. She was
seized with a fit of laughter, which con.
tinued for several minutes, when she sud
denly expired. Mrs. Walker was only
twenty years old, and had been but recently
married.
A TELEGRAPH dispatch from Nashville,
Tenn, dated the 18th, says: Rumors
reached the city to-day of q terrible fight
near the boundary line of Fintress and
Overton Counties between the heavy reye-
nue. forces operating in that section and
large band of moonshiners, said to be under
the leadership of the notorious chief,
Campbell Morgan. Five or six were re-
ported killed on each side, and the fight
was said to be still in progress at the latest
information from the scene.
THE jury in the case of James E. Whalen
against General Sheridan, on trial in the
United States Circuit Court in New York
City, brought in a verdict for the defend
ant Friday evening. The suit was for the
| e d E.. ~
KilIona Plantation, ST. Charles Parish, La,
in August, 1867, and the ejectment of
Whalen by military order of General Sher-
idan, who was then Military Governor. A
motion was made for a new trial.
IN July, 1871, Hon, L. P. Milligan, of
Huntington, Ind, fled damage suit
against Oliver P. Morton, General Ben
Spooner, General James r. Slack and Others
| for false imprisonment during the wal
times, and recently the jury awarded him
r five dollars and costs, after a long ano
: tedious trial. Milligan caused the judg
4 ment to be entered. AS A. Spooner, one O.
' the defendants, is the United States Mar
: shal and couldn't levy on himself, Judg,
: Gresham appointed Harry C. Adams to en-
force the execution.
1dE SupTcLue SOuTC OF 1uuldnd gave a Qe
= cision which renders void the liquor law o
y that State, SO far as the section orderin,
:, saloons to be closed on legal holidays is con
:. cerned. The court holds that there are n
i legal holidays provided for by the statut
, in Indiana; that the Legislature has brief
!. declared that Christmas, New Years, Fourt
! of July, and Thanksgiving Day are holiday
@ only as to the maturing of notes, ETC., an
a not in general sense. Hereafter, unless
n new law is passed, it will be considered legs
# that the saloons be in full blast on the day
named.
JACK KEHOE, the notorious chief of tn
Moilie Maguires was hanged at Pottsvill
is Penn, at 10: 81, on the morning of the 1871
r. Kehoe went to bed at eleven, fell asleep an
a. slept without wakening for four or fiy
" hours. When the undertaken arrived
le six, Kehoe arose and remarked in answer
le question that he felt "first rate; nevt
ID felt better in his life" Atseven his vii
is visited him, and shortly afterward Father
~ Gallagher and Brennard celebrated mas
le Breakfast followed, and at 10: 25 Kehoe, tt
I'd Sheriff, and the priests marched to the ga
K lows. Standing on the platform, Kehoe sale
A II amnot guilty of the murder of Langdon,
OF never saw the crime committed" Keht
e. was then bound, the black cap and roI
at adjusted, and at precisely half-past ten tt
III drop fell. Death was caused by strangul
oI ton. The body was removed to Shenandos
by a special train, and was "waked
ne two nights. Friday morning the remain
e were taken to Tamaqua and buried.
ne The St. Louis Globe-Democrat's Fo
is Smith, Ark, special says: John Postoak
ty Creek Indian of considerable note, h
We father being member of the Creek Cou
We Gil, and James Diggs, colored, were e1
nd cuted on the same gallows at one o'cloc
nd December 20. Postoak murdered Jol
at Ingley in 1877, and Diggs killed J. G. Gou
zee in August, 1873. Both mounted the scaffc
en- with firm step, and after religious s.
he vices, Diggs made brief speech, warni
Die everybody against whisky and gambling
ire being the vices which brought him to !
ost doom, and Postoak made ten minu
ol prayer in the Creek language. Diggs str,
Sc gled violently, but died in seven minut
while Pastoak did not apparently move
w muscle, but his pulse continued to b.
oi eleven minutes. Both confessed their gu
to their spiritual adviser before leaving I
jail.
ONE of the most sensational robberies q
om attempted murders ever known occurre,
rO- few NIGHTS apo on a Grand Trrnk R.ilro
uIe train, near Ridgeway, Mich. Walter
Ai'- Storms, of Kingston, Ont, passed throu
- y Detroit from Jackson, and took the Grs
ty, lars - manan on his nsrsan nn Az -
lti- l"i' ~ -none' VI ni' pe,'on' VII. Vi
- ~ n
NJ, eral aliases, who pretended to be goinl
avs Moh'feai. a. W.T. oienehs' oraope as'
lch storms 10 take a drink' out storms
nee Pecteo MS acquaintance anu oecliheo.
rec Ridgeway Storms went out on
md platform, and while standing with
back to the door suddenly received two