The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-04-11
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NEWS.

clan at the Insane Asylum, situated several !
miles from st. Louis, was run over by a |
train of cars about ten o'clock, a few night |
ago, and instantly killed, his body being !
horribly mangled.
A LARGE vat on the fifth floor of the
Buffalo Grape Sugar-works, containing fifty
tons of wet corn, burst the other day, carry
ing the corn and portion of the vat to the
ground floor through a hopper, crushing to
death Henry Bast, two others nar1 owly es-
Gaping death. The vat was being tried for
the first time.
WHEN No. 6 fast mail on the Pan Handle
road was just west of New Comerstown,
Sunday morning, an old gentleman at
tempted to pass from one car to the other.
He lost his balance, and was thrown some
thirty feet violently against fence, and, it
is supposed, instantly killed. His papers
and money were found intact.
A FIFTY horse power boiler in the en-
gine room of the Boston stamping manufac-
tory of Zarey & Co., Third-street, Cambridge,
Mass, exploded, and three men were killed,
another was fatally injured, and six others
more or less wounded. The boiler was hurled
through the brick walls of the engine room
and the wooden walls of the building in
closing it, one hundred and thirty feet
across the canal.
A STRANGE man fell under the wheels of
the Illinois Central freight train on the T.,
P. & w. Road, one mile from Gilman, ILL.,,
few nights ago, and his head, body, and
clothes were so ground to pieces that no
part could be identified except his dark
plaid pantaloons and good pair of shoes.
The train had been waiting on the track,
and starting up the caboose ran roughly or
jumped, whereupon search was made, with
the result as stated.
| THE oil train ran into a freight train on
the Lehigh Valley Railroad, near Slatington,
Pa, few mornings since, exploding the en-
| CINE of the oil train, and burning several oil
cars, and small iron bridge on which the
cars were standing. Soon afterward the oil
tank exploded, scattering the oil in all di-
rections, and burning three men fatally
and ten severely. The wind carried the
flames to the depot and a wooden bridge,
which were also burned.
WILLIAM C. Poor, formerly prominent
wholesale grocer of Cincinnati, but for the
last two years engaged in the wholesale and
| ICtdu JOUdCCc UuolACSS, ot ANo' LOO 3AouiSoA1-
street, Chicago, shot himself, at an early
hour in the morning, lately, at his residence,
No. 396 West Washington-street, and died
within short time. 1t was one of those
mysterious, melancholy suicides for which
no reason can be assigned. The remains
were taken to Cincinnati.
Col. C. L. SHEPHERD, of Newport r. L.,
retired officer of the army, has been
tried by court martial for neglecting to pay
over fund contributed by brother officers
in 1864 for monument on Stone River
battle-ground, and President Hayes has
approved the sentence, which is that
Shepherd be confined within the limits of
the post at Fort Adams for one year, and
thereafter, until the money, one thousand
nine hundred and three dollars with interest
from 1864, shall be paid. Col. Shepherd was
put under arrest.
THE firm of Holt & Bugbee, lumber deal
ers of Boston, have suspended. Liabilities
$150,000, due mostly in Boston. The failure
of the firm, it is stated, is caused by the
fraudulent action of Mr.. Bugbee, brother ot
the Junior member of the firm, using as col
lateral notes of parties in the West, whose
signatures are admitted to be forgeries
Bugbee confesses issuing $4,000 of these
notes, now largely in the hands of Bosto1
banks, but made payable in Indianapolis
1t is believed that apart from the forgeries
, the firm is solvent and will be able to re
, sumo.
Mr.. FREDERICK K. DUMoNT, adopted sol
of Charles T. Dumont, Esq, of Cincinnati
} shot himself fatally with pistol few day
ago. The act was done in his room, No. Q
5 Pike Street, where he resided with hi
q wife. Mr.. Dumont was in the thirty-fourtl
year of his age, and was the book-keepe
' and confidential financial manager of hi
L fathers business. He was married on tn
11th day of February. No reason was as
!, signed by Mr. Dnmont for the act. MI
) Dumont, ST., says Frederick was of an ur
# happy disposition, and has had troubl
q with his head.
b ONE of the buildings of the Bath Count
9 Poor-house, near New York, was burne
NJ late at night, and fifteen inmates persisted
:, The fire was set by an insane pauper. Th
- building was of brick, with iron CRATE
u windows and doors, and the inmates wei
unable to escape. There were sixty
seventy inmates altogether. The details
the terrible accident are blood-curdlin
Over forty were rescued, several escape
y and one man badly injured. The scene
&c the ruins was sickening in the extreme.
If c. Ford who fred the place and was burnt
~ with the others, was thought safe enough
h. be trusted.
in A VARIETY company from Mozart's Ga
ar den, Brooklyn, New York, was playing
"A the Opera-house at Pawtucket, R. 1. o.
- feat was shooting an apple from the head
=, !, hand of performer. Mile Volante,
u trapeze performer, held an apple on b
OF head, and Miss Jennie Fowler, known on t
ed stage as Franklyn, was to shoot the app
ty With uncommon recklessness, the shoot
tic stood with her back to the mark, and TAXI
le- aim by reflection in mirror. The rifle W
ho discharged, and Mile Volante fell dead
~ the stage, shot through the Torches
'0' Nothing can be learned of the victim, W
es' had been on the public stage but five weel
em Mrs. Franklyn was taken into custody
tu- the police.
Ca THE Rochester oven for baking Japann
an tin cases in the thermometer factory, toul
his story, over Graves & Co.'s candy manuf
ib- tory, Rochester, New York, explod
sal shortly before six o'clock in the eveni1
rlv luz io"A ""e eh'iIeiy pio"n on a Wo
r. man named John Prescott, shaking The
!" ,no in the oven at the time, was carried to
ies floor below by the debris, and slowly burr
MS to death before those endeavoring Co
ed. rescue him. Frank Macdonald, while car
ter ing out goods in the floor below, was carr
red by the falling debris to the cellar, where
I'M remained three hours covered with timb
of He was finally rescued, unhurt. Loss
,ro- the building and adjacent Offices is 0
-. $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
.en- THE vicinity of Louisville, KY, has ad
+so one of the most fiendish crimes yet chr
- cled on Kentucky's black list of dark de
s At daybreak recently persons resid
anu around "Lost Island" in what are kn,
as the "Wet Woods" discovered