The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-02-28
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NEWS.

ored), was hanged Saturday in Isle of Wight
County, Va, for committing an outrage on
the person of Margaret A. Stephens, near
Carrsville, August 10, 1877.
COLONEL ROBERT INeERsoLL offers his
property at Peoria, H., for sale. He has
rented a furnished house in Washington,
and will engage there in the practice of law
with his brother, Hon. E. c. IngersoH.
EMMA NEAL, an insane girl, twenty-three
years old, who wandered away from her
home two weeks ago, was found hanging to
tree In cornfeld below Evansville, Ind,
Saturday afternoon. The body had evidently
been hanging some time.
SOME months ago Joseph Brown, of
Carmi, ILL.,, committed suicide, and twenty
days after his father, Eli iah Brown: followed
suit with a shotgun, after having dug his
own grave. Lately Mrs. Brown took laud-
anum, and finished up the family.
A MEETING of the Centennial Ass ociation
of Valley Forge has been held at Valley
Forge, Pa, to arrange for the celebration
of the one hundredth anniversary of the
evacuation by the American army, under
command of General Washington, on June
19, 1873.
The body of Henry Whalen, convicted of
the murder of Max Hugo Hoehne, near
Granger's Encampment, Elm Station, in the
fall of 1876, was found, lately, in his cell at
Morristown, Pennsylvania, with his skull
broken, and hanging to bar of the window
by a rope made from his bedclothes. Suicide.
A LITTLE colored boy in Madison, Indiana,
who was tried for murder, condemned to
death, and hanged, by his playmates, in
sham, in imitation of the Beavers affair, has
since died from the effects of the sham hang
ing, he having been barely cut down in
time by his mother to escape death from the
rope.
A NATIONAL Convention of Greenbackers
met at Toledo, Ohio, on the 22d of Feb
ruary. 1t was largely attended by men of
ability from all parts of the country in
favor Of the Greenback policy. Twenty
eight States were represented. Resolutions
were passed in favor of making greenbacks
legal tonder for all debts public and
private, etc.
FRIDAY evening, J. A. Barron, Treasurer
of the Dexter (Me.) Savings Bank, not re-
turning home, search was made for him, and
he was found locked in the vault, hand
cuffed, gagged and with rope around his
neck. He was senseless, and died Saturday.
The robbers obtained less than 800, and it
| is supposed they murdered the Treasurer
| because he would not open the safe.
DURING dense fog Saturday morning, in
the hay at New York, an outward bound
Spanish steamer eollided with the Staten
Island ferryboat Castleton. Three passen,
gers of the latter were injured. One, Geo
| Carey, of the Castleton, lawyer in Wall
street, afterwards died. The Erie ferry
jas. Fisk, -ir., collided with schooner
Three passengers of the ferry were swept
| overheard and several reported missing.
DR.. HENRY C. Moss was assassinated al
| his home at Venice, Illinois, about one
o'clock in the morning, lately. He had
| arisen to take some medicine when he saw
| two men peering through the window. He
| opened the door thinking they wanted his
professional services, and one of them
Immediately fired, shooting him through
the heart. Several men were arrested or
suspicion, but the mystery is unsolved.
| A NEW YORK Euening Post special say,
a serious shooting affray occurred the othel
night in Princeton IN. J.) College, between
| two sophomores and eight freshmen, il
which one of the sophomores was danger
ous!y shot. The sophomores' room wa
entered by the freshmen, who bound th'
sophomores to chairs, shaved their heads
and left them tied. Other sophomore
changed, and Atterbury, of the sophomor
CLASS, was wounded in the thigh. Grea
excitement prevails.
| A REPORT says: Tuesday evening the in
sane asylum at Winooska, Sheboygal
County Wis, was totally destroyed by fire
and that four inmates, Lucretia Toothakel
Mrs. Mcdonald, August Althrop, and Bill
Doe, an Indian, perished in the flames
For some reasons no attempt has been mad
to remove their bodies, and they still lie i
the smouldering ruins. The property los
is only $4,000 or $4,000 with no insurance
G. S. Jewell, the keeper, owned the built
ing. A defective due was the cause.
AT Fort Wayne, Indiana, the followin
are the incidents and accidents of day
, VIM. Schultz was instantly killed by bein
thrown out of a sled, alighting on his hea
and breaking his neck. Mr.. Andrew Smit
dropped dead at the church door, caused b
heart disease. James Wempf, eighty yeal
old, was strangled to death in bed by a
excessive fit of coughing. Charles Nichol
noted rough, attempted suicide by han,
! ing in his mothers house of ill fame q
was discovered by one of the girls, wh
, alarmed the house. He was cut down ju
, in time to save his life.
JOHN GUMBINGER, accompanied by
: lady, registered at the Linden Hotel, in S
, Louis, few night ago. They ate supp,
and were assigned to room. About Fl,
o'clock on the next afternoon the room W,
, entered and the bodies of the man and W
man were found lying on the bed. I'll
r woman had been shot in the left temple an
e the man in the right. The pistol which hi
e done the work was in the mans hand. I'll
l. man was identified as JOHN Gumbinge
: aged twenty-seven, a barkeeper for Hen
LYDIA, wealthy saloon keeper and brewt
> The woman was Maggie LYDIA, aged ninetee
daughter of Gumbinger's employer. II
father had forbidden marriage betwe
them.
! TIE Indiana Democratic State Conve
| IloA iuCe d1 Oh CUIudEy
Thomas A. Hendricks was elected Chairm
of the Convention, and made speech up
national topics, reviewing Belmon
= letter on the silver question, and pl
posing a plan for retiring the bal
:. .. notes and substituting greenbacks, and
= viewing hard times and election frau,
e A platform was adopted by the Convent
!. in favor of making greenbacks full lei
N tender in payment of all debts, public a
A. private, the restoration of the silver dol
a of 412M grains, and the unconditional
Id peal of the Resumption Act. The nomil
le tions were as follows: For Secretary
r State, John G.. Shanklin, of Vanderbul
it Auditor of State, Mahlon D. Manson,
IN Montgomery County; Treasurer of Sta
I'd VIM. Fleming, of Allen County; Attorr
le General, Thos. w. Woolen, of Johns
e. County; Superintendent of Instruction,
a H. Smart-present incumbeat-of AL
le Nnuntv