The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-08-08
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NEWS.

w. STRAIN, of Salem, Ohio, committed
suicide, Thursday night, at the Phillips
House, Fort Wayne, by hanging.
TIE firm of R. N. Bishop Co., Cincin-
natl, suspended on July s. Liabilities,
$3.50 600. Cause, shrinkage in real estate.
RARUs, the feet horse, ON tie Buffalo
track, Saturday, trotted one mile in har-
ness in 2:13N, the fastest trotting time on
record.
RICHARD MoRaAN's barn at Strathroy,
Conn.,, was burned recently, and his little
daughter, who was playing therein. perished
in the flames.
JOHN McCANN was suffocated at Troy, n.
Y, while attempting to save some books
and papers from his burning paint shop.
He leaves a wife and five small children.
The Maine Republicans, in their late
State Convention, unanimously renominated
Governor Connor, and among other resolu-
tions was one demanding honest money
for the people" and NO step backward in
resumption.
on Saturday night band of SO called
regulators, of Robertson County, KY, thirty
in number, visited the house John Dayton,
a respectable farmer, and killed him, and
also burned the house of the Town Marshal,
at Mount Olivet.
The towboat Brilliant exploded her mid
die boiler at six p. m. Saturday, opposite
Gal ipolis, Ohio, instantly killing Captain
Shumaker and cabin boy named Zehler.
John Guyer has since died. One barge Of
coal or salt sunk below the Gallipolis wharf
boat.
A BRIDGE near Clarksville, on the Little
Rock and Fl. Smith Railway, was under
mined by heavy rains, and gave way few
mornings since, and the rear passenger
coach going west was ditched. Nobody
killed, but several wounded, among them
Capt. Jack Herne and John Rice, of St.
Louis, lightly; one lady dangerously.
A TRAMP named McCune stopped at the
residence of J. D. Clark, eight miles north
of Frankfort, Ind, Saturday, and asked for
something to eat. Clark was just recovering
from a spree, and began to curse and abuse
him. McCune became irate, and turned
and stabbed him seven times in the abdo-
men with large knife. McCune was put
in Jail.
A NEW YORK Herald dispatch from Port
land, Me :, says: cat a meeting OF the Re-
publican State Committee, james g. Blaine
urged that in any resolution about currency
the word coin should be substituted for
gold but he was overruled, and the party
will go into the campaign to try conclusions
with the Greenbackers on an out and out
gold platform"
ABOUT midnight Monday night, Isaac
Hammil rode up to John Angeles farm
house, a few miles south of Jacksonville,
ILL.,, and asked to see Angeles daughters.
Angelo refused permission, at the same
time ordering his son Jason, aged fourteen,
to shoot Hammil. The son took down an
old shotgun loaded with slugs, and dis
charged the contents into HammiPs head,
killing him instantly. The father and son
were arrested.
THE mystery in the explosion in the
Greenfield, N. Y, candy factory six months
ago, by which several persons were killed,
is still unexplained, but it is now found
that the inventor of singularly destructive
powder, the comp position of which is Sc
cret, and which is manufactured solely for
the Russian G vernment, had an Office in
Greenfeld's building at the time of the ex-
plosion, and it is thought the presence of
this compound may account for the disaster.
Henry Raresheid, a prominent citizen OF
| Cambridge City, Ind, with his little
daughter, aged eight, sailed in July for Ger.
many. When three days out, he was taken
sick and became temporarily insane. He
was removed to the hospital department.
and his movements watched. He set fire
to the vessel, and during the excitement he
| jumped overheard and was drowned. His
child was delivered to the Consul at Rotter
dam. He leaves q wife and one other little
daughter.
A sTABBINe affray occurred in South
Baltimore, Maryland, a few minutes before
twelve o'clock, Saturday night, which
promises to end in tragedy. Martin Cog
gins and Thomas Welsh quarreled over I
trifiing matter, and Welsh finally applied
an offensive epithet to Goggins, and tn
latter drew a small dirk and plunged i
into the abdomen of Welsh, penetrating t.
the depth of five inches. Internal hemor
rhage ensued, and the man will probabl,
die. EE
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the last O
July says that the Postofice Departmen
was advised by a telegram that the author
tiles of Galveston have refused to allo1
mails or passengers to land from the Ne'
Orleans steamer, and both were detained i
, Galveston. Measures were taken to disi1
) feet the mails and land them, but the pa.
sengers and freight were sent back to Ne
Orleans. Arrangements were made to sen
the Texas mails from the North by Ian.
thus avoiding New Orleans during the pre-,
alence of yellow fever.
, A LATE Portland, Oregon, dispatch r.
ceived by the News from Malheur City state
that two of Howard's scouts arrived thel
with dispatches. The scouts left Howard
. command about ten miles north of Malher
. Agency. The soldiers were entirely out
7 rations. The scouts crossed several fres
a Indian trails leading direct to Malhe,
y Agency. It was thought the hOstiles we
either going to the agency to surrend
i or making toward Stein Mountain. Sc
: eral hostiles passed through near Malheu
= cleaning out a few houses and shooting Il
citizens.
FRIDAY amurderous meeting occurred
, a tournamentin Mitchell County, Virgini
about six miles from Bakersville, the coun
J. seat. During the intermssion between t
n riding three or four men became involv
in a dispute, and in few minutes the n
became general. Knives and pistols we
,e brought into requisition, and terril
II scene presented itself. In the melee you
.s gentleman named Spencer Harroll 81
- John Knox in the stomach, from the effe
- of which he shortly afterward died. Harr
II was arrested.
y" A SERIOUS accident occurred at Cunni
'g hams fouring-mill, in Tifin, Ohio, Sat
IN day morning, in which the proprietor, G..
re Cunningham, was, it is feared, fatally
n. jured. He was in the basement examin
ID the machinery to see if every thing was r
:, ming right, and probably attempted to
- the core-wheels bearings, when a cog VIII
q running sixty-two revolutions per min
Ut struck him on the head, tearing the SC