The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-07-04
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NE WS.


OLD Stark County, Ohio, is in trouble,
the Treasurer having absconded with about
S65, 900. A reward of 81 900 was offered for
his apprehension.
DAVID THOMAS was fatally stabbed by
J. Gathey, at Fillmore, KY, on Wednesday
afternoon. Gathey escaped. Botn were
negroes.
A BISMARCK special announces the dis
covery of rich gold field in Bearpaw
Mountain, Montana, and great excitement at
Ft. Benton.
THEODORE HENDERER, proprietor OF
Ferny Brae Hotel, Milwaukee, was shot and
killed on Wednesday, by Russell Wheeler,
a noted gambler of that ci y.
SANGER CHACE, defaulting treasurer of
Fall River Mills, has pleaded guilty, and was
sentenced to Twelve years in the State
Prison and two days solitary confinement.
BOAT containing eight young men was
capsized by a sudden squall, in chester
Basin at Halifax, Sunday evening. -Four
were drowned. Their names are Schaffer,
Dessauson, Eisenhauer. and Dimm.
AGALvEsToN Ne,cs special from Fairfield,
Texas, says George Solomon, colored, was
executed on June %, for the murder of his
wife and step-daughter last June. Two
thousand people witnessed the hanging.
JOHN FINN, James Shea, Hattie Sands,
and Mary Welsh, of Oswego, were drowned
on Tuesday, at Pleasant Point Lake, Ontario.
They belonged to the St. Johns Church ex-
cursion par y which left Oswego on pleas
ure trip.
The Postmaster General is in receipt of
dispatches announcing that The Indians at
several points in the Northwest have inter-
rupted the mails. 1t is surmised, however,
that frightened contract RS are giving the
case sensational coloring.
AT Smithville, Ind, band of masked
men broke in the door of Charles fastener,
at midnight, when his family was abed, and
demanded that fastener should follow
them. They took him from the house, and
beat him nearly to death. No reason is
known for the act.
AT Bronson, Michigan, Tuesday night,
Samuel Whitaker shot his wife dead and
afterward killed himself. Domestic trouble
was the cause. Whitaker endeavored to
commit suicide by poison two years ago.
The parties are respectable, and the affair
has cast gloom over the entire community
GEORGE HoELzLE, an inma of the
Soldiers Home, at Dayton, Ohio, fell from
the balcony of the hospital at tina place, the
other morning, and broke his neck
Hoelzle was a German, and was aged abou
forty years. No one saw him fall, bu
from all appearances it was thought to bs
accidental.
} Two only sons of James Maxwell, aget
respectively eight and ten years, wer'
, drowned in Montgomery's Creek, a
Knightstown, Ind, while bathing. Thei
bodies were Immediately rec vered, bu
life was entirely extinct. The grief f th
: parents was painful to wit ess, as the.
are left but one of household of thre
children.
JUDGE SIDNEY BREEZE, of the Illinoi
5 Supreme Bench, died June q, at Pinckney
4 Vile, Illinois. He is said to have been tn
v oldest Judge in the country, being owe
r eighty years of age. A dispatch fror
:, Carlyle, Illinois, his home for nearly fift
years, says the intelligence of his death ha
caused deep sorrow throughout the entir
community.
AT Savannah, Ca, Frank Perrin
(colored), was hung Wednesday afternoo
for the murder of ]. F. Lee, white farme
'. in April last. The execution was publi
and near the spot where the murder ws
IS committed, just outside the city. Fiy
! thousand people witnessed the hangin
The criminal died acknowledging his gull
: and telling all present to take warning /
his fate.
!. On Tuesday young man was taken Of
u of the canal at Cincinnati, where it
y tho ught he had attempted suicide. Evel
n effort was made to restore him to life, b
at without success, and in short time Il
d, limbs had grown rigid in death. The
]. ceased was evidently about twenty-five yea
q of age, and was finely dressed. He wore
- ring, within which the letters 81. R." a
:" engraved, and love letter was found
" one of his pockets from Montgomery, OH
al addressed to Valentine Rees. He was Sc
nd sitting on lumber pile near by sht
ot time before the fatal occurrence.
ed A TERRIBLE murder occurred, a f
ho mornings since, at Swinten, short distar
or from Freeport, Illinois. For some til
ed past young man named Albert Furbu
&c had been paying attention to a beauti
- and accomplished young girl, daughter
III Mr.. Thomas r. Blair, a well-known citiz
no of the county, and succeeded in causi
lie her ruin. The information of Miss Blai
zes ruin soon reached the ears of her broth
on who is engaged in business in Chicago.
nd started at once for Swinton, and on his
90 rival there, met Furbush on the street, &
49,, drawing a revolver shot him dead in
" tracks. He then gave himself
no' The affair causes the greatest exc
roy ment in that section of Illinois.
OK OwENsvILLE, Gibson County, ind,
g of late been the scene of several terr
hat conflicts between outlaws and citizens,
e." last occurring on the night of June
nv. The attempt was upon the life of Andre'
os. Montgomery, who has taken a promir
,tIu part in exposing and bringing to pun
Wy ment members of the lawless band. M
wv" gomery had been in Owensville, and
Us IL returning to his farm, when he was attac
urn by several masked men. He was arr
The and succeeded in wounding one of
fire assailants. A dozen bullets entered M
,er;- gomery's clothing, and one Clipped
oro skin from his hips, but he escaped uni
The whole neighborhood was aroused,
one hundred men began securing
ISL country in search of the outlaws.
two
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