The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-03-21
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NEWS.

LARGE protective tariff demonstration
was made at Allentown, Pa, Saturday.
The Fall River (Mass.) manufacturers
have voted fifteen per. cent reduction in
wages, beginning April 1.
TYPHUs fever RACES at Adrianople and
Philipoppolis, and there is much sickness
at Constantinople and Erzeroum.
A RESOLUTION in the Iowa Legislature to
amend the Constitution SO as to allow wo-
men to vote, was lost-yeas, As; nays, 81.
JAMES COLLINS, aged fifty, a farmer,
residing at Antioch, Tenn, was run over
and killed by runaway horse, Saturday
night.
THERE is a business crisis In SPAIN
Factories are closing, and large numbers
of workmen are being thrown out of en-
ployment.
JOHN FOLEY, aged eleven years, died
Saturday night, of hydrophobia, at his home
in Brooklyn, N. Y. The boy was bitten by
a dog six week ago.
NEW HAMPSHIRE went Republican at the
late election, Prescott, the Republican can
didate for Governor, being elected by about
two thousand majority.
THE Treasury now holds $345, ,637, $50 in
United States bonds to secure the National
bank circulation, and $13,464,O 900 in bonds
to secure public deposits.
IT is reported that the private bank of J.
S. Trimble, of Mt. Gilead, Ohio, which sus-
pended lately, will pay fifty cents on the
dollar. His liabilities are large.
THE funeral of Peter Vernon, member of
the Franciscan Order, who hanged himself
in Louisville, took place Saturday. He
went to Louisville from Cincinnati.
THE funeral of Professor j. Brainard,
late OF the United States Patent Office, who
died suddenly in Washington, was very
largely attended in Cleveland, frome Grace
| Church.
The insurgent Chief Aguirro, with one
| hundred and fifty persons with sixty arms
belonging to the Gallon and sagua Districts
capitulated on the 10th inst. at La Encruci.
jada, In Cuba.
! SATURDAY the Bank at East Cambridge,
Massachusetts,, was robbed of $1,000 in cash
and SAT 900 in United States bonds and
other securities, after business hours, while
PETER Z. VAN PRbr, #ell-known
business man of Joliet, Illinois, committed
suicide by shooting himself with a revolver.
Financial trouble and domestic unhappiness
is said to be the cause of his self-destruc-
ton.
SPECIFIC charges were lodged with the
United States Secretary of State, recently,
against Writ Sykes, husband of Olive
Logan, intended to prove that he has col
chants at Callao.
Mrs. SMITH, living near cambridge, O.,
met with horrible death recently. She
was preparing dinner when her clothes &C
cidentaly ly caught hre from the Btove, and
before assistance reached the house her
body was burned nearly to a crisp.
The sub-committe of the Senate Railroad
Committee, Saturday, made aunanimous re.
port to the full committee in favor oi
Senator Mitehel's bill extending the time
for the completion of the main line of the
Northern Pacific Railroad to eight years.
JOHN SANDERN, aged sixty-fve, living in
Lafayette Township, near Fort Wayne
Ind, committed suicide by hanging himself
in bis barn on Sunday. Deceased wa,
! wealthy, and bore high character. The
rash act is acribed to ill health and partia
arrangement of mind.
DR.. LINDERMAN has stated he does NO
think the establishment of any new mint
necessary for the fullest execution of tn,
silver dollar, yet the reopening of the New
Orleans Mint would afford ample facilitie
for carrying out the law, with an expendi
ture of one hundred thousand dollars.
JOSEPH LAPAIGE, alias Joseph Parish
was executed. in the State Prison at Con
cord, N. H., March IL, for the murder Q
, Josie A. Langmaid, aged seventeen, at Penn
broke, on the 4th of October, 1875. LaPaig
confessed the murder of Miss Langmaid an
Miss Ball, a school teacher, at st. Albans, i
: 1874.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY BLISS has asked Pc
q mission of the United States District Coul
e at St. Louis to enter a nolle prosequi in th
: case of the United States against John ]
n Hogue, in accordance with instruction
: from the United States Attorney-Genera
q Leave has been granted, and the mol
prosequi entered.
BILL has been introduced in the PEN
: sylvania House of Representatives, whie
makes the cremation of the human body
misdemeanor, and provides for fine of NJ
IS less that $500 nor more than 81 900, with il
k prisonment, and makes it the duty of CO
y stables, sheriffs and other officers to enfor
d the act, under penalty of prosecution.
le ROBERT McADAMs, twelve years old, al
n Charles Patton, of the same age, quarrel,
70 at Philadelphia over the possession of
= stick of candy. Patton threatened to sho
~ McAdams if he did not divide with him:
d. the latter still refused, Patton drew a pist
y, and shot McAdams through the head, kill
al him almost instantly. The young murder
10 then fed.
a JERRY TULLIs, an old gentleman wor
lis over three million dollars, died lately
in Cincinnati from actual want, it is stated ]
- fondness for boarding overcoming his ,
- sire for food. He died in a wretched I
=" stairs room in a back alley. His relatio
es buried him respectfully, and are now Wa
ing with some anxiety for the contents
his will.
4p- The house of Henry Grazer, four mi
lrt west of Fort Madison, Iowa, was burnet
IN few nights ago, about midnight Neighb
L SOSih6 WIG III AuolCu w 1uC IcbCu6, DuL
ch late to save Mr.. and Mrs. Grazer, VIII
is bodies were almost burned.to crisp. FIR
'ct all the evidence, they had both been m
OF dered, which was the verdict of the {
~ oner's jury.
nd The New Orleans Picayune says: "
ost private advices from Key West, we lie
ard that mass meeting of Cuban Republics
lad held recently in that city, had solemn !
er- test entered against all negotiations "
ith the government of Spain, not based on
md independence of the Island of Cuba. 7
it hundred men, fully armed and equipI
were to have left for the ill fated isle."
THE heaviest storm ever experience,
.o West Virginia, passed over Jefferson Cou
a., 80 on Monday night, March IL. Hail ste
he larger than hens eggs fell for an hour,
low roofing houses, breaking glass and Kill