The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-03-07
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NEWS.

A GRANDSON of Commodore Vanderbilt is
authority for saying that William a. Van
derbilt will settle the suit between himself
and his brother Cornelius, by paying the
latter 81, 600, 900.
CASPER BECK, aged eighteen, accidentally
shot himself while hunting few days since,
five miles from Fort Wayne, producing
instant death. He was the son of F. ].
Beck, wealthy brewer of that city.
BY a collision of freight trains On the
New York Central Railroad, eaboose was
wrecked, two cars pitched into the river,
and Curtis A. Kellogg, of the firm of
Kellogg, Clark & Co., produce dealers, Pitts
ford, was killed.
Col. ELLSWORTH FEAeLER accidentally
shot himself in the campus of the Wabash
College, at Charlottesville, Ind, and died
almost instantly. He was aged sixteen, and
was tie best scholar in the junior class of the
City High School.
&. w. TAYLOR, First Controller of the
Treasury, was striken with paralysis on the
morning of February %, while at his desk,
and died at home two hours afterward. Mr..
Taylor was appointed by President Lincoln,
during the administration of Secretary
Chase.
COMMODORE d. CURTIS, a farmer, Fifty
years old, was shot through the head and
killed, at his house near Mount Vernon,
Ind, recently, by his stepson, aged thir-
teen. Curtis was trying to murder his wife,
in a drunken spree, and the boy got gun
and shot him.
THE latest sensation at Washington is a
bill to create Supreme Executive Council
of Three, by dividing the United States
into three districts, and electing three Pres
idents, to serve respectively two, four, and
six years; after that an election to take
place every two years.
A SUIT of Gen. G. w. Curtis Lee against
Frederick Kaufman and others, for the
recovery of the Arlington estate, bought in
under direct tax sale by the government,
was begun in the United States District
Court, before Judge Hughes, of Alexandria,
Va, few days since.
Two hangings for murder took place ON
Friday, the 1st of March. John William
Daniels, for the murder of Jesse r. Miller,
in February, 1877, stretched hemp at War
rensburg, Missouri and Richard Green, for
taking the life of Deputy Marshal Hughes,
expiated his crime at Kansas City. The
executions in both cases passed off without
accident.
In railroad accident the other night on
the R. and P. Railroad, w. C. Mainwaring,
| of Baltimore, was killed; Fred. Faulkner,
| of Richmond, Va, had his leg amputated
| below the knee; L. F. Donnelly, of Charles
ton, w. Va, both legs crushed and am.
putated, and John w. Aldridge, of Freder-
| icksburg, injuries not known. No others
were seriously hurt.
morning, March 2, ex-senator Benjamin F.
Wade breathed his last, at Jefferson, Ohio,
| passing peacefully away. His last illness
was of months duration; his disease
typhoid fever. During most of the time he
had been conscious, and until within week
| took an interest in the papers, which were
read to him daily. During his last night on
earth his wife and youngest son, Captain
FL. P. Wac ;, watched with him, and when
death came he met the grim monster with.
out struggle. Owing to the condition OF
his throat, he could not talk, but he knew
his wife, and held her hand much of the
night, and a few hours before his death
drew her face to his.
| THOMAS C. ANDERSON. of the Returning
Board, was called before the bar at New
Orleans, on February 25. The motion to
default judgment was overruled, and when
asked if he had anything to offer before sen
tence, Anderson said that he considered his
case cruel persecution under the forms Of
law; that he was in the power of the Court
and ready to receive sentence. Judge
Whitaker answered that the accused had
had fair trial before an impartial jury
and that the verdict was fully justified by
the evidence. He then sentenced Ander
| son, in consequence of the recommends
ton of the jury to the mercy of the Court
to the lowest term under the law, to two
years at hard labor in the State Peni
teniary, and costs. A suspensive appea
wrs granted, returnable on Wednesday.
motion to transfer the case of Wells
Kenner and Casanave to the United States
Court was filed, to be heard on Wednesday
March 6.