The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-01-03
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NE WS.

FIVE Mexican horse-thleves were Iynched |
at Bakersfield, California, Friday.
WILLIS RuTAN, residing near Shelby,
Ohio, suicided, Saturday, by shooting.
HENRY PINcHBECK, architect and builder,
of Manchester, England, has failed. Liza
bilities, $4,000.
The Union League Club of New York City
gave President Hayes an elegant reception
on the night of December 81.
THE trial of Abe Rothschild, for the
murder of Diamond Bessie, at Jefferson,
Texas, has been postponed till April.
PRESIDENT HAYES ON Saturday took part
in the formal opening of the new American
Museum of Natural History, in New York.
In consequence of the proposed reduction
of wages after the holidays, one thousand
iron-workers at Sheffield, England, have
struck.
REED MALLORY, brakeman on the Lake
shore read, lost his life at Osceola, recently,
by falling from car, and the train passing
over him.
Hon. w. W. HEAToN, of Dixon, Illinois,
Chief Justice of the new Appellate Court
for district, died very suddenly at Chicago,
of heart disease.
VIM. CoBURN. young man of Ripley, o.,
was accidentally killed by shot from
pistol in the hands of boy, named Young,
in Higginsport, Christmas afternoon.
| JAMES BOYD, member of the Pittsburg
City Council and foreman of Mcintosh,
Hemphill & Co.'s foundry, was killed at the
foundry lately by crane falling on him.
The three Greenebaums, David, Elias
and Henry, bankers, Chicago and New
York, are all in bankruptcy. Elias has
filed his petition. Liabilities 100000;
assets $4,000.
On the Columbus and Muskingum
Isaac Mills, while trying to save dog, was
frightfully mangled and killed by an
engine No blame is attached to the en-
gineer.
1 THE crisped remains of Philip Herzberger,
the engineer of the New York candy fac
tory, which was burned few days ago, has
been found. No additional bodies have
been recovered, although about twenty are
still missing.
GEORGE w. maxwell, leading farmer
of. Wayne Township, Jefferson County,
Ohio, was run over by train ON the Pan
Handle Railroad at Bloomfield Station, a
few days ago, and killed, the body being
terribly mangled.
Mr.. IRWIN, of the firm Jones & Irwin.
Greenville, KY, was waylaid and killed by
footpads the other night as he was going
home from the store. He was in the habit
of carrying home the money taken in at the
store, and this was the object of the robbers
He was gentleman of high social and bus
mess standing, and well known all over the
State.
HUNDREDS of the families of those who gt
down to the sea in ships will have abundan
J reason for sad memories of the CLOSING
months of 1877. The majority of the vessels
, lost were European, but the fate of th'
, Huron gives our country place among th'
mariners. Our latest dispatches record tn,
wreck of the Dutch steamer Friesland, will
great loss of life.
THE French Government will keep wei
out of the Eastern muddle. 1t has JUS
l settled an important political crisis a
2 home, and has invitations out for an Inter
, national Exhibition to take place in fou
months. The carving up of the Ottoman
, Empire concerns other nations more thai
. France, and France is willing that othe
nations should superintend the job.
A FEW nights ago negro entered tn
store of J. Denton, at East Hickman, Fay
: ette County, Kentucky, and called for
7 pound of sugar. Mr.. Denton stopped owe
S a barrel to serve his supposed customer
r when the negro struck him on the hea
] with an ak, inficting fatal wound. E.
| oitorpapt ran hiOh opd tho uuh
and hung by a mob of citizens of that place
In Granger County, Tennessee, few day
since, two desperadoes, James and Willial
. Leger, attacked Pierce and Gabriel LIE,
Z father and son, without provocation. Sewers
o shots were fred by the Legers, one of whic
: wounded Gabriel Lee, whereupon the eide
t. Lee fired at William Leger, killing him il
|. stantly. James then made his escape. Th
-s next day he was shot by an officer while r
= sisting arrest.
e Mr.. KICHBUsH, resident of Danvill
:, Illinois, was accidentally run over and il
u stantly killed by freight train on the
~ E. l. Railroad, at the Danville Junctio
8. Kichbush was a good and respectable eli
K zen, and had just been returning home Wi
w some purchases he had made for Christina
! He leaves a wife and one daughter seve
a teen years of age, little above destitute ci
cumstances.
- A Tucson dispatch says about one hu
- dred and thirty Indians camped near Jane
ie Sonora, recently. The Sonora troops
IN tackled them, losing twenty-seven kill
OF and a number wounded. The Indi
IN casualties are not stated. The India
is were apparently victorious, as they SUBJ
re quently stripped the country in the vicini
- of Janos of stock. The Indians have be
~ robbing trains in San Simon Valley. T
~ troops are in pursuit.
% THE famous mare Flora Temple, knoy
~ for many years as the Queen of the Tu
ne died at the farm of A. WeIch, at Chestn
it Hill, near Philadelphia, few days az
aged thirty-two years. The last time Fle
Temple appeared in public was when Gt
eral Grant reviewed the trotters at Dub,
track, Harlem Lane, New York. For I
last six years Flora has been gradua
,, wasting away, and was treated kindly te
Il box-stall and every comfort.
Mr.. WILLIS RUTAN, aged twenty-thl
tn years, eldest son of E. A. Rutan, farm
nd residing eight miles west of Shelby, Oh
en- committed suicide about midnight on Frio
no by shooting himself with rifle in the alb
men. The mother of the young man be-
ts very sick, expressed a desire for squir
the evening before. He got the rifle q
ou proceeded to load the same ready for n
ou morning. About midnight he got up, W
me out and shot himself as above stated.
lu' THE Passaic County Savings Bank,
~ ~, Patterson, N j., has suspended. Ex-Ma,
'Is Js VIM G. Watson, while President, borrow
ia $4,000 on worthless securities, and fai
~. soon after. Edwin r. Mason, lead
~ ~ Director, borrowed $4,000, mostly
na "a secured, and failed last spring. ST. 900 n
on on Jersey Midland Railway bonds and no
rd are among the assets, and the capital is
ON gone, and $4,000 more. The Direct
Ise promise to secure the depositors agai
-, loss.