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


Seay and Lemon Boswell, which resulted in
Seay's killing Boswell with club. Seay
fed.
A WOMAN and child were killed at Tun-
Melton, station on the o. & NJ. R. R., east
of Vincennes, Ind. In attempting to board
the train they fell between the cars and both
were cut in two.
F. P. KELLER, of Washington Heights,
Ohio, in handling gun in his yard, acci-
dentally discharged it, the charge striking
him in the groin, passing upward, and
causing almost instant death.
1T is not generally known, but fact,
nevertheless, that General Lafayette was re-
iniated into the order of Masonry in the
city of Cincinnati. Mr.. George Graham,
now seventy-nine years of age, did it.
| A LITTLE son of James Morrow, who re-
sides at Lock seventeen, in Tuscarawas Co.,
Ohio, fell under freight train Saturday
morning and had both his legs cut off be-
tween the waist and knees. He has since
| died.
The Greenback party met in convention
at Springfield, Ill.,, on the 26th March, and
nominated State officers. A platform of
resolutions was adopted in favor of green
back policy, in the issue of legal-tender cur
rency to the full limit of 81 100000.
SATURDAY Casper Glass, aminer employed
at Rainey's coal works, seven miles north
of Wheeling, W. Va, was crushed by a mass
of soapstone, and SO badly hurt that he
lived only three hours, dying in great agony.
Deceased was about fifty years of age, and
leaves wife and family, who reside at Port
land, Ohio.
THE north-bound train on the Cleveland,
Tuscarawas Valley and Wheeling Railroad,
when between Massillon and Fulton, Ohio,
was struck by lightning, few days ago.
The engineer and brakeman received slight
injuries about the head and lower limbs,
but the passengers escaped without more
than terrible shaking up and sudden
fright.
THOMAS P. FISHER was hanged in the
corridor of the Jail at Mauch Chunk, Pa, on
the morning of March 28, for completely in
the murder of Morgan Powell, mine boss at
Summit Hill, ON the evening of March 2,
1876. Fisher was one of the most inf1u-
ential members of the Molly Mcclure Asso-
citation, and more intelligent man than
most of his companions.
Az an anti-tariff demonstration at Wilkes
barre Pa, delegations we're present from all
parts of Luzerne County. The procession
was mile long, five thousand men being in
line, bearing banners appropriately in
scribed Toe sidewalks were crowded
with spectators. A mass meeting at Lee
Driving Park was addressed by Fl. NJ. Hoyt,
J. B. Smith and many others.
I'm tod
Breed has been lost off Manitowoe, Wis,
with all her crew. She left Chicago on the
22d March, light, on her first trip of the
season, for Escanaby, where she was intend
ing to load with ore and return. The vessel
was owned by Eugene Mathivet, of Cleve
land, whoibelieves she went down in storm
} Captain William Rogers, of Cleveland, com
manded her, but the crew mostly belonged
, in Chicago.
JOSEPH and Teek Brassel brothers, ageG
twenty-three and twenty-one years, respec
lively, were executed in Cookville, Tenn, OF
March 27, for the murder of Russell Allison
The event was witnessed by at least ter
thousand people. The crime which brough
Joseph and Teek Brassel to the gallow
e was the murder on the night of Novembe
8 30, 1875, of another youth about the same ag
t of themselves, named Russell Allison, ivin
, in the vicinity of Cookville.
n A DISASTROUS fire occurred in Phila
delphia on the night of the 25th of March
1t broke out at night in the third floor of tn
paint and drug warehouse of W. H. Wan
z pole & Co., on Fourth. street, above Arch
There was strong wind blowing, and tn
\ fire rapidly spread in all directions, soon be
coming one of the most disastrous confe
y grations that ever visited that city. TIL
's flames rapidly spread in every direction
/ About thirty houses, in all, were more o
st less damaged by fire or water, and the tota
st loss is thought to be about 81: 100000.
10 SEVERAL hundred men are employed O
# the tunnel in the permanent .Waterworkl
i in Baltimore County, Md, and frequen
- blasting is necessary, for which dynamit
~ is used. gang of men had prepared
10 blast near the lake, the fuse connected wit
+ which became prematurely ignited in som
e. unknown way. A terrific explosion el
o. sued. The men were unable to get out
n its reach, and some of them were LITERAL
lie blown to pieces. Two were killed, tw
MORALLY wounded, and fifth seriousl
injured.
10 PORTS, arrested for horse-stealing, broI
n Jail at Mt. Vernon, Indiana, some weel
lg ago. On the 9th of March Deputy Marsh
lie Jones, of Mt: Vernon, and Deputy Marsh
e, w. A. Brokaw, of Shawneetown, arreste
Sc Potts in Kentucky, below Cincinnati Ba
no Jones went back to Mt. Vernon on the lot
- leaving the prisoner hand-cuffed in char,
:. of Brokaw. Both disappeared. Not lol
IL ago, Brokaw's body was found in the riv
ls- one mile below Mt. Vernon, with his he,
re and face badly broken. 1t is supposed tn
er one Davis, brother-in-law of Potts, overtot
20 them and killed Brokaw, releasing Il
We prisoner, and the two throwing the boz
"a into the river.
nd THREE ollie Maguires were hanged
Bloomsbury, Pa, on the 25th of March, t
the murder of Alexander Rea, in Octobt
1868. They met death firmly, and made
confession. In October, 1868, nearly t
years ago, these men, named Hester, Tul
i'll and McHugh, conspired to rob and murd
a one Alexander Rea, Superintendent OF
IN colliery near Mt. Carmel, Pa. Rea W
if- the paymaster of the mines, and h
started, with what his murderers ST.
ill posed to be a large sum of money,
pay the monthly wages of the men un6
I'm ' 6e' ne was Waylalu, roDDe0, a
murdered. In 1876, Hester, Tully, and \
If Hugh We're arrested on information Civ
by Daniel Kelley, who was incarcerated
the the schuylkill County prison for pc
nd offense. They had two trials, and each ii
the jury brought in verdicts of murder
lot the first degree.
AT Columbus, Ohio, recently, a faith
aged sixty-four, shot his son through
der heart, and then blew his own brains O
rec and all on account of a partnership dispu
George Weinman and George M. Weinm
kel his son, had been partners in certain pu
my which the son had invented. They
the been quite successful in the manufactu
Wy but often disagreed as to metho
un- one day they had an unusually Il
as tracted quarrel. The father secreted h