The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-17
REHzEW OF DOMESTIC NEWS.

THE Barker,s wool warehouse at Troy, n.
r., was burned on the morning of the 18th
by an incendiary. Loss, $137 600; insur.
ance, $106,0 900.
A LITTLE Rock (Ark.) Democrat special
says the boilers of Burns Mill, near Hope,
exploded a few evenings since, killing
Edward Reem and Sam Langston. Reem
was from Louisville, Ohio. Several others
were seriously injured.
GEN. LEW. WALLACE, the recently ap.
pointed Governor of New Mexico, has
notified the President of continued disturb.
ances and lawlessness in Lincoln County, in
that Territory, and requested the aid of the
army of the United States to preserve the
peace. The President will therefore issue
his proclamation commanding all riotous
bands to disperse within five days.
A SHOOTING affray occurred at Deadwood,
D. T., recently, between Mrs. Lowell, no.
torious character, and Johu Rogers, an en-
ployee of Gregory's restaurant, which re-
suited in the death of the former and
fatally wounding of the latter. The trouble
arose over disputed ground and had been
going On for some time. The assault was
made by Mrs. Lowell at Rogers's House.
A FEW nights ago, while four miners
named Jenkins Lewis, George Tasker, John
William and James Ruane, were endeavor-
ing to disperse an accumulation of gas in
the shafts of the Lehigh Valley Coal Com
pany, near WiIkesbarre, Pa, one of them
made his appearance with a naked lamp.
An explosion instantly followed, inficting
injuries which resulted in the death of the
entire party.
A SERIOUS accident occurred a few even
ings ago, ON the Old Colony Railroad. to a
crowded excursion train, which was return
ing from the Silver Lake rowing match, be-
tween Reagan, of Boston, and Davis, of
Portland. The train of twenty cars went
off the track. A dispatch Just received at
the police headquarters, Boston, places
the number at ten killed and one hundred
and fifty injured.
FORTY or fifty men, convicted at Malad,
Idaho, for cutting timber for the Utah
Northern Railroad, on the Bannock Reser-
vatlon, have been sentenced to aggregate
fines of about $4,000 and six months i'm
prisonment. This action delays the progress
of the railroad. Old Indians, squaws, and
| papooses of this Bannock tribe have been
maintained on the reservation this summer
while the young Indians have been on the
war path.
FRANK REILLY, young railroader from
Richmond, Ind, met with tragic death
near Chillicothe, the other morning. He
was the news agent on the mail train on the
NJ. & C. Railroad. The train is due in that
city at 1885 a. m, going east. Just as they
were crossing Bridge-street Reilly thrust
his head out of the baggage car door to
speak to friend, and was struck by tel
egraph pole, which fractured his skull and
knocked him senseless to the ground. He
lived about one hour. His body was sent
to Richmond on the afternoon train.
A HALIFAX dispatch of the nth of Oc.
tober says: The Merchants Bank of Prince
Edwards Island, at Charlottetown, closed its
doors yesterday, and probably will be
wound up. Gross liabilities 1886. 900; cap
ital, $4,000. Total assets, $685., 500. James
Duncan & Co. owe the bank $4,000, oi
which $32, 900 is secured. The Duncan
estate will only pay fifty or sixty cents or
the dollar to unsecured creditors. The
bank loses by this firm $4,000, in addition
to losses by firms involved through Duncan
TWENTY or more prisoners escaped from
the Jail on the 18th, at Rochester, by Dor
ing through the wall and scaling thu
, inclosure. The gang includes the wors
burglars in the country. The police startet
out in all directions, and the people wer
greatly excited. s. g. Sloan, prisone
committed for perjury, dug through wal
from under his bed. The hole led into tn
Jail yard, from which there was only
, low wall to scale. At the time of the deliv
cry the jailer was sick in bed and the guard
were at dinner.
A SPECIAL from Edinburg, Pa, to tn
Pittsburg Commercial Gazette gives the pal
i ticulars of the destruction of that place b
fire on the morning of the 18th. The fir
broke out at half past three o'clock, nea
Wilber's livery stable, Main-street, spread
ing rapidly, and soon swept over an entir
: block. The fremen were promptly on hant
= but their efforts were paralyzed by the il
4 suficiency of water. Total loss estimate
v at from $3.50, to 100000, largely insured
Two hundred and twenty-five building
, were burned, and the town almost con
: pletely destroyed. Much suffering anon
>. .. the losers. A relief committee was orgal
L lied, and the contributions of food frol
= adjacent towns and farmers in the vicinit
t was distributed to the homeless.
e THE intense curiosity which prevaile
e in st. Louis for month as to who an
" what were the Yelled Prophets, abol
= whom SO much has been said and write
in very mysterious way, was gratifed G
! fho irhf of fho hu 81 %1o
magnificent street spectacles ever pr
N sented in this country outside of Ne
e Orleans and other Southern cities. I'll
e pageant consisted of seventeen float
,r each presenting separate tableau, Il
"a whole illustrating festival of Ceres and
=, visit of Demeter, Grecian Goddess of Ag
!. !. culture, to the Yelled Prophets. The pr
W cession passed through the principal bu
IL ness streets, and under brilliant lights
a. various colors thrown upon it, and the gla
ID from Illuminated buildings along the rou
Or presented one of the most gorgeous sigh
imaginable, and elected almost deafeni
and continuous applause from the create
o. crowd of people ever seen in st. Louis.
er On the morning of October 9, a misls
III switch caused freighttrain No. 9, Louisvil
- NASHVILLE q Great Southern Railroad,
70 be thrown down an embankment, a distan
= of thirty-fve feet, near Saundersville, nil
VI teen miles north of Nashville. The trs
=. :. at the time was running at the rate
30 twenty miles an hour, and the moment,
II caused it to plunge from the track W
~, terrible velocity. The locomotive ups
he quickly followed by six cars. Ere Thon
Streether, engineer, could make an eff
to escape, he was buried beneath [
,ls ponderous engine, amid broken machine
al and kissing steam that literally cooked hi
,u- Michael O'Barr, fireman, became entang
ed in the machinery of the locomotive, and
d. though he screamed loudly for assistal
es, none could be rendered, and he d
ke most horrible death In the same m
ig- ner as the engineer. One of the G
pi- fell on the cab, and cutting through