The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-01-10

peoples suit, in which judgment has been
recovered, and a suit of $4,000 against
Mariner and Tweed, and one for $500, 900
against g. s. Miller and Tweed. The cor
poration counsel has. accepted the offer in
the last two suits.
GEN. GEORGE W. MCCooK died in New
York on the 2sth of December. Deceased
was son of the late Judge Daniel McCook,
of Carrolton, Ohio, who at the outbreak of
the war entered the army with his nine
sons, of whom only three now survive. He
was born in 1922, and graduated at the Ohio
University at Athens, where he early gave
evidence of those talents for which the Nc
Cook family have been long distinguished.
THE Treasurer of the Texas and Califor-
MIA Stage Company is in receipt of tele-
gram from Dan. c. Stevens, Assistant Snper-
intendent in Western Texas, saying the,
Indians in that section seem so full of
hellishness that unless more troops soon
reach there no stage lines can be maintained
nor the people left alive. The Indians at
tackled the coach in Bassey Canon, captured
the four horses and killed both the driver
and Gabe Valdez, the division Superin-
tendent
B. N. FORD, of the distillery firm of Ford,
Oliver Co., Chicago, has gone into bank
ruptcy. Secured debts, $77 900; unsecured,
81, ,440. The United States has claim of
$4,000 for the recovery of which suits
against Ford are still pending. He is also
responsible on accommodation paper to the
amount of $45, 900, and his bills discounted
equal $4,000. He has an open account of
sums due him aggregating $4,000, and unad
Indicated claims, the value of which is un-
known.
CONSIDERABLE excitement has prevailed
in New York by the announcement of the
failure of John Bonner & Co., No. 80 Broad
Street, one of the Oldest houses ON the
street. The firm has made an assignment to
B. W. Griswold. 1t is said that the firm
pursued the same methods charged against
Meter & Co., rehypothecation of securities.
Liabilities are said to be quite heavy, and
several prominent spectators are men
toned as considerable losers. Intelligence
of the failure has had a depressing effect on
the stock market, and some of the leading
shares are down one per cent.
NEWS has been received of horrible ac-
cident in Morgan Township, Crawford
County, Iowa, Carl Mas and wife, farmers,
locked their three children, aged respect
| lively one, two and a half and four years, in
the house on Christmas day and went to
husk corn. They were shortly after ap
prised by neighbor of the fact that their
house was burning When they reached it,
it was wrapped in flames, and the children
burned to crisp. The mother frantically
attempted to rush into the flames, but was
| forcibly prevented. The foggy morning had
prevented them from seeing the fire sooner.
AN ingenious robbery was perpetrated in
| New York, the other day, occasioning the
loss perhaps of 100000 to the Young
estate. A man called at the Office of J. III.
Young, 40 Nassau Street, about noon, and
asked to see directory, He then went out.
Mr.. Young went to lunch, and the stranger
returned and said to the bookkeeper that a
man in carriage at the door desired to see
him. The bookkeeper went down stairs,
after locking the door, and the stranger
forced Mr.. Young's door and stole fifty
Alabama bonds of S1,00o each, and pack.
age of securities, including certificates OF
stock in the name of ]. H. Young. Mr..
| Young thinks his loss will amount to about
100000. sr..
THE message of the Governor of Ken.
lucky is not sensational document, but
is well filled with the business-like discus.
| sion of the affairs of State interest. The
Governor says the State "is crowned with
innumerable essings," and he specifies
"plenteous harvests, decreasing taxation
civil and religious liberty, improved educa
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emption from pestilence and civil commo
ton, friendship and reconciliation between
those heretofore estranged." The State
debt of Kentucky is $1S3,394 She has re-
sources to enable her to bear up under this
burden-$1 ,36s, 1920, to say nothing of 8
claim against the Federal Government Of
$780,, ,5S7.27.
| LEXINGTON, Kentucky, was startled few
days ago by the suicide of William II
Richardson, one of the greatest short-horr
men of the Blue Grass Region. Mr.. Richard
son was some years since SO crippled
financially, by indorsing for the late William
T. Hughes, that he has never been able t.
retrieve his fortunes. Finding that matters
were only getting worse every day, and tina
his Indebtedness was getting beyond hi
assets, he determined upon an assignment
He went to Lexington to have the paper
drawn up, but his spirits were so much de
pressed that ne became thoroughly inca
pacitated. At five o'clock in the afternoon
he ended his troubles by blowing out hi
brains with pistol.
AN explosion of nitro-glycerine in a box
car at the Jackson mine, near Negaunee
Michigan, demolished the car, throwing tn
locomotive fifty feet, and killing seven men
The front of DIR. Cyrus's drug store wa
broken in, and bottles thrown from tn
shelves to the floor. This store is three
fourths of a mile distant. The house G
Senator Breitung, the large high schoc
building, the iron Herald office, Jackso
f House, and iron Cliffs store, all suffered
some severely in this particular. Severe
persons residing in the vicinity were NOR
s or less injured, none it is thought seriousl,
5 1t is believed that about ton of glycerin
q exploded, though exactly how much, G
0 how it happened, will never be defnitel
2 known. Not one of the parties engaged ws
Q left to tell the sad story.
i THE surviving members of the Secon
Ohio Volunteer Infantry met at Urbana, O
8 December 81, in their first annual reunion
e There was great disappointment on accour
/ of the absence of Colonel Anson G. McCool
n who sent his apology, being in attendant
e at the funeral of General George w. NJ
n Cook. S. III. Price, Vice President of tt
G Association, presided. The day was plea
antiy spent in comparing notes and recal
:, ing incidents of army life. The ladies
the city prepared an elegant dinner.
= which reception speech was made by A.
!. Dewel, and responded to by Major T.
. Brand. The remnants of the regimen
= , which appeared on the streets, headed |
their old battle flag, numbering much lie
than did the single company which march,
y from here nearly seventeen years ago, was
solemn reminder of the silent majorit
The day wound up with a grand militia
a ball given by the Urbana Guards
- THE Kentucky Legislature was organic