The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-06-20
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NEWS.

THE President and suite visited West
Point on the 18th.
THE venerable widow of Thomas Corwin
died at Lebanon. Ohio, on June 10.
PRESIDENT Hayes delivered an address to
the graduating class at West Point on the
18th.
Hon. E. F. MOVES arrived home on the
18th of June, to give testimony in the Pot.
ter investigation.
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT died at his
residence in New York City on the morning
Of the 18th, of paralysis.
AT SomervilIe, near B ,ston, a fire de.
stroyed four acres of buildings. 1t broke
out in the pork .slaughtering house of
Chales Fl. North & Co.
United States to hold an International Con-
ference on the subject of metallic money
standards. Italy has done the same. This
settles the fact of the Conference.
THERE was riot in Quebec on June II,
and -four store was plundered. The gov
ernment troops fred upon the mob, killing
one man and wounding others. The rioters
declared that they must have bread or die.
THE Michigan Republican State Conven-
ton renominated Governor Croswen and
Lieutenant Governor Sessions by acclama-
ton. A p atform was adopted sustaining
the Presidents title, and in favor of sound
currency.
THE Woman Suffragists of Indiana have
held a convention in Richmond, and passed
resolutions asking the Legislature to take
the necessary steps to procure an amend
lot on " the sex"
JOHN MILTON PARKER (colored) was
hanged at Somerset, KY, June 12, for the
murder of George Franklin on the 5th of
last March. He mounted the scaffold
bravely, and died apparently without fear.
He was only seventeen years old.
THE Socialist labor party, of New York,
in mass meeting, passed resolutions re-
pudiating every endeavor to make the
sassinations; denouncing the attempted as.
sassination of-the Emperor of Germany,
and condemning the capitalistic press
of the country as inimical to culture and
progress as against the spirit of the public.
DENNIS DoNNELLY, Mollie Mcguire, suf-
fered the death penalty at Pottsville, Pa,
on the 11th of June, for the murder of
Thomas Sanger, mine boss, in 1875. The
execution had twice been postponed by the
Governor. As the drop fell, Donnelly strug-
gled horribly, and slowly strangled to death.
The body was taken in charge by a brother
of the deceased. The execution was COM
paratively private.
JAMES MURPHY, a farmer, who had been
missing from his home, near Burlington,
Ind, about week, was found after con-
tinued search and seining in Wild Cat
Creek, with his head mashed IN, and all his
valuables gone. He had, when he left
home about one hundred dollars and gold
watch and chain. He left home in search
of his sheep, which it is proved were taken
by two young men named Shaffer and Lape,
and sold.
ALEXANDER STEPHENS has addressed q
| letter to the Chairman of the Democratic
Committee in his district, telling him he
intends to stand for reelection, whether the
Democrats renominate him or not. The
letter is called out by attacks made on him
/ for his position in regard to the Potter reso
| luton. He says he does not intend to vol
unfairly retire from his position in this hour
of renewed threatening; that in the event
the convention shallrepudiate him, because
of anything connected with his recent sen
timents, he desires to be plainly understood
that he shall regard their edict as but 8
brutum fulmen, and he will stand for re
election in his district in spite of sucI
action.