The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-09-12
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NEWS.

fer Governor of Vermont is about twenty
three thousand.
Hon. FRANK WEIGH, member of Con-
gress from Nevada, died at Neigh, Antelope
County, on the night of the 4th.
PRESIDENT HAYES had a grand reception
at st. Paul on the 5th, and made speech
on the state of the country at the fair
grounds.
AT the Reunion of the Blue and the Gray
at Marietta, Ohio, twenty thousand people
were present. Governor Bishop made a
speech to the boys"
PRESIDENT HAYES arrived in Chicago On
September 3, and had public reception.
Parades and speeches were in orner. He
left next morning for st. Paul, MINI.
AS the result of a quarrel over game of
pin-pool, at Omaha, James G. Burke,
gambler, shot Morris We'll, Texas cattle
man, in the heart, killing him almost in
stan)y.
THE Minnesota Republicans recently met
in Convention and nominated State ticket.
Among the resolutions passed was one
heartily indorsing the Presidents admins
trative policy.
The Salmon River Idaho) stage was
captured by Indians, near Birch Creek
Station. The mail and everything else was
burned. The driver made his escape and
reached Sand Hole Station, near Snake
River.
AN old man named Gaines Gray at
tempted to drive his tobacco-wagon across
Mt. Zion crossing, at Liberty, Virginia, Sa--
urday, when the mule got resrive and re-
fused to go off the track, and the train ran
into the wagon, killing Mr.. Gray and the
mule.
MRS. EDWARD LEWIS, a buxom young
widow of Winchester, Virginia, and her
two children were poisoned recently by
eating toad-stools, which they mistook for
edible mushrooms. Both children are dead,
and the lady, at last accounts, was not ex-
pected to live.
TIE House of Bishops of the Protestant
Episcopal Church has deposed DIR. McCos-
kry, formerly Bishop of Michigan. The
criminal charges against the deposed Bishop
have not been met, and the House of Bisb-
ops made no attempt to whitewash the
! character of one who failed TO offer any
defense.
| FRED. A. ZEAK and Carrie E. Meyers, two
| lovers, committed suicide in Muscatine,
Iowa, Saturday noon, the cause as assigned
! by Fred, being his failure to obtain a
| divorce from his wife in order to marry
Carrie. Two shots, one in each head,
ended their earthly troubles and united
them In dea,h.
! THE Grand Central Hotel at Omaha was
burned down on the night of the 4th. The
| h,rs1l oil NJ h.
furniture at So, 5000 total loss. John q.
Lee, Louis Wilson, Alonzo Randall and
Billy Mcnamara were buried under
division wall, which fell upon them, and
taken out next day In an unrecognizable
condition. -sr7--'.- - -, r.
| THE Kansas Democrats in State Conven-
| ton passed resolutions declaring I" the
induction of Rutherford B. Hayes into the
office of President, notwithstanding the
election of Samuel J. Tilden thereto, a
high crime against free government,
which has not been eondoned and will not
be forgotten. The same spirit OF patriot
ism which forbOre contest upon the first
ofiense will resist and punish any attempt
at a second.
VIM. TAYLOR, a colored man, was dragged
furiated mob, few days since, with a rope
around his neck, and finally hanged to a
lamp-post His ofense was the outrage and
murder of a serving girl in the same family
with himself. He murdered the girl during
the absence of the family, and taking her
body in a buggy from his employers
stable at night, concealed it in the woods
The girl being missed, search revealed the
above facts.
LOUIS LEBLANC, colored Cuban, and a
tailor by occupation, was found foully muir
dered in the room back of his shop about
noon Sunday, with two terrible gashes on
either side of the throat, and surro unded
by all the CHASTITY marks of most desper-
ate sanguinary struggle with his assassin
before he had been overpowered and
slaughtered. Suarez, Cuban who was
staying with the murdered man as a friend,
is supposed to have been the murderer.
Plunder is supposed to have been the
object.
On Wednesday party of seven men,
mounted and well armed, came into the
mining camp of Cariboo, Idaho, forty-fve
miles from SodaSprings, Idaho, where some
twenty or thirty miners were at work on
, scattered claims. They robbed all of them
, in details; also the store at the camp, took
all the good horses with them, shot the
poorest ones, and left. They got about six.
teen thousand dollars, mos ly in gold dust
from the miners. 1t is supposed this is the
, same party that lately took up the rail on
the Union Pacific Railroad at Medicine
Bow.
ANDERSON BROOKS, a small truck farmer
living near Orange Courthouse, Virgi mia
caught his wife stealing lot of his cl thins
and selling it. He Immediately arrested
her and took her to the Jail, and preferred
7 charges against her. She was carried be
; fore Squire Boutware and ordered to re
, ceive ten lashes and have six days confine
ment in Jail. When the Sheriff began t.
whip the woman, and laid ouly one lash OF
her hack, the husband rushed ON the officer
and telling him with stick, took the cat
: o'.nine tails from him, saying as he did SO
/ "No man shall whip my wife but me-" H.
8 was put in Jail for assaulting the officer.
J. SECRETARY SHERMAN has prepared
o letter for transmission to an Ohio banker
y which reafhrms in substance certain state
l. ments as to trade dollars which were mad
~ in q recent circular of the Director of tn
Mint. Secretary Sherman thinks tina
ultimately a market in China will be foun
for the trade dollar at their fac
q value. Complaints still continue t
reach the Treasury of the depreciation
in trade dollars, and the Treasur
:. officials think that such pressure will b
brought to bear upon Congress that som
= legislation will be enacted for the relief G
!. holders. In anticipation of such Legislation
- the Treasury officials think that create
= proportion of trade dollars will find thei
- way to the vaults of spectators an
>, bankers.
d Our city is at present tsays a Memphis di
as patch of late date) one vast charnel hous
m The undertakers report ninety-six inte