The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-31
REHIER OF DOMESTIC NEWS.

thc Will uc lulIN dDle W ISsuIuC
on the 1st of January.
A NEW Russian cruiser, named the
america" was launched at Philadelphia
ship-yard a few days ago. !
THE First National Bank of Auburn, Ind,
has suspended because of the alleged de.
falcation of George Hazard, late chashier.
THE banking house of Claubaugh, Nelson
Co., Baltimore, suspended on the 23d.
Liabilities about 100000, of which $50, 900
are secured.
RICHARD P. IsAACs was executed at
Harrison, Mo-, on the 25th of October, for
the killing of Henderson r. Clarke. He
died penitent.
PIERRE Provost, the murderer of the
Nacelet family, near Vincennes, Ind, COM
mitted suicide in the Jail at Vincennes, on
Saturday night, October %.
THE National Narrow Guage Railroad
Convention, opened in Cincinnati on the
23d instant with an attendance of delegates
representing about sixty railroads.
DESTRUCTIVE prairie fires have been
raging along the line of the Omaha Re-
publican Valley Railroad, in Nebraska.
The losses to property have been very great.
The official returns of Indiana show that
for Secretary of State Shanklin, Democrat,
polled 194,99O votes, Moore, Republican,
179,049, and James, National, 1885. DEM
ocratic majority 13,140.
IHFoRMATIoN is received to the effect that
w. w. Early, a Deputy United States Mar
shal, and Nat Williams were killed Satur.
day in Franklin County, Va. They got
into melee and were riddled with balls,
but it is not known which party did the
| shooting. As yet no arrests are reported.
TELEGRAMs from St. Louis announce the
failure of Dodd, Brown & Co., leading
wholesale dry goods merchants of that city.
Their liabilities are estimated in New York
at a million and half of dollars. The only
reason yet assigned for the failure is the
tardiness of country merchants in meeting
bills due the firm.
OUR government and officers on the
Mexican border are watching the move
ments Of the Mexican regular forces toward
the Rio Grande with considerable interest.
They are apprehensive that it may cause an
| uprising among the lawless, and state of
grand disorder which may compel our
forces to interfere.
The petrifed remains of mastadon were
found Friday, seven miles west of Rock
vile, Ind by J. K. Meacham, while work.
ing on the gravel road. One tooth weighed
twelve pounds, fifteen inches long and seven
inches in diameter. The face is fat, covered
with small ridges, one prong is entire, the
others are broken off.
INTELLIGENCE was received at Blooming.
ton, Illinois, from New Orleans, that
! Adolph Bennecke, the defaulting City Treas
urer of Bloomington, had died at the Hotel
! Dieu, of yellow fever. 1t is thought that
Bennecke went to New Orleans with the
view of contracting the disease. His fam
| lily are in this city, in destitute cireum-
! stances. --..-s .s.s..9...
| THE forty-third anniversary of the "Gar.
rison Mob" was observed in Boston on the
21st, by a reception at the Woman's Club
Room. Besides Garrison there were present
Wendell Phillips, A. Bronson, Alcott, Judge
Sewell, Col. F. W. Higginson, Marshal P.
Wildes, Judge Thomas Russell and others.
Speeches were made by Garrison, Phillips,
Alcott and Mayor Buffum, of Lynn.
BISHOP RosECRANs, Catholic Bishop of
Columbus, O., died suddenly on the night
of the 21st of hemorrhage of the lungs, just
as he was about to enter the Cathedral for
vesper services. He had been in his usual
health up to the morning of the 21st, when
a series of hemorrhages commenced which
carried him off before the close of the day.
Deceased was brother of General W. s.
Rosecrans, stationed at San Francisco.
A WHOLE family, consisting of John D.
Vacelet, his wife and two sons, was brutally
butchered with an ak, on their farm Eear
Vincenhes, on the night of October %.
Their hired hand, who slept in the room
with the sons, was suspected of committing
the murder, and was arrested. The object
appears to have been only the theft of two
or three hundred dollars, which the family
had accumulated.
BETWEEN Sunday daylight and church
going time the vaults of the Manhattan Saw
ings Bank were gutted by band of mask ed
burglars, who made away with nearly three
millions of booty, large proportion of
which, fortunately, is not negotiable. The
loss has compelled the bank to temporarily
suspend payments. They gagged and
bound the janitor, aud compelled him to
disclose the combination of the safe.
W. o. AVERY, formerly Chief Clerk of the
Treasury Department, has entered suit in
the Supreme Court of the District of Co
lumbia, against Gen. B. F. Butler, to recover
five hundred dollars. Avery, in his de.
claration, sets forth that at the time of the
whisky fraud trials in st. Louis, in 1875
he gave Butler five hundred dollars as d
retainer, to defend him, but throughout the
trial Butler failed to appear, and be was
obliged to procure other counsel.
A TERRIBLE domestic tragedy took place
near Marietta, Ohio, on the night of the
25th of October. Henry Tyler went to the
residence o. his wife's father, where his
wife was staying, absenting herself from his
bed and board, and fred three shots of re-
volver at her. Supposing he had killed her
he left, and when the officers attempted tc
arrest him, shot himself, and lived but
few hours after. 1t was thought, at lates
) accounts, the wife would recover.
On Friday night, at Plaquemine Court
l house, Parish of Iberville, La, seriou
difficulty occurred between Charles A
Brucle and State Senator B. WALES.
: arose over the receipt of a communication
from 4. e. Zacharie, who, in behalf of tn
State Central Committee, suggested a ratif
e cation of ]. II. AckIen's nomination, an,
9 both men were wounded-Wailes, the bite
, opponent of any indorsement'o Acklen
morta1ly. He contended that the hired al
torney of Acklen had no right to dictate t
Il the people Of IbervilIe.
PRAIRIE fires, extending through col
siderable portion of Iowa, Nebraska, an
Is Kansas, were most destructive twenty mile
southeast of Sioux City, in Iowa, along tn
o North Platte, the Nebraska, and Sout
Is Platte Rivers, in Western Nebraska, and i
le Rush, Ness, Ellis, Trego, Cove, Wallac
'1 Decatur, Graham, and Rocks Counties, j
N Kansas. Many persons have persisted i
y the flames, and an unconfirmed report pr,
y, vailed in Lincoln, Nebraska, Yesterday tn,