The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-05-16

| Grifenberg, who is in command of the Rus
slams on board the Cimbria. 1t is stated
their visit to this country is to select im-
mediately fast vessels suitable as cruisers.
THE Nationals held a Convention in
Philadelphia, on the sth. They cut loose
from both parties, and presented State
ticket of respectable men, and platform
which, among other reforms, demands
National paper money, or greenbacks,
| based not alone on two metals, silver and
| gold, but upon the entire wealth and in
tegrity of the nation, which should be
issued in sufficient quantities to revive
our PROSTATE industries by enabling the
people to associate freely with each other
in the exchange of services, commodities
and ideas, and thereby ending the suffering
! and ruin of our people; this money should
be legal tender for.all debts, public or
private.
A NUMBER of city elections were held
| throughout the State of California, on the
| 7th. At Redwood City, Nevada City and
San Leandro, the Workingmen made a clean
sweep and elected their ticket. At Hay
| wards, and Alamenda, Gilroy, Stockton,
and Woodland the Citizens ticket was
mostly suscessful, the Workingmen elect
ing one or two candidates only. The State
Central Committee of the Workingmen
party issued an address to the people of the
State, deposing Kearney from the chairman
ship of the committee, reciting charges of
fraud, corruption, Casarism, and insanity
against him, and calling upon the Working
men to renounce their allegiance to the arch
agitator, in favor of proper organization
of the party.
SHORTLY after seven o'clock, on the
morning of May g. a portable engine stand
ing in front of Bohlen, Huse & Co.'s ice
house, foot of Jefferson-street, Memphis, ex
ploded with terrific force, instantly killing
rom Hoist, the engineer, and probably fa-
tally injuring Jim Kenneday, fireman. The
following laborers were also wounded: ::
Barney Burns, leg broken; Tom Steede, arm
broken and scalded James Zeanone, arm
broken and severely scalded; Friday Gillin,
colored, who was passing the spot on the
way to his work, was severely scalded. The
engine was used In hoisting ice out of a
barge into the ice house, and fire had been
built under it with little or no water in the
boiler, which was discovered at the moment
of tbs explosion. A piece of boiler was
driven through the wall of Latta's soap fac
tory, and another piece into Glenn's wharf
boat, a block away.
AT Dayton, Ohio, Saturday morning,
Peter Hafer, with his wife and Miss Riley,
who resides six miles west of Dayton, on
| the Western pike, came to the city in a
spring wagon, with a fractions horse. When
the party were approaching the West Third
Street crossing of the railway the early train
for Union City came up, and the horse, get
ting frightened, ran away down towards the
train. When it got up to within few feet
of the road it suddenly whirled around, cap
sizing the vehicle, throwing out the occu-
pants, almost under the passing train. Miss
Riley jumped from the wagon, getting
several bruises, but escaping serious injury.
Mrs Hafer was struck by one of the trucks
of car, and terribly crushed. Soe fingered
in an unconscious condition for couple OF
hours, when she died. Mr.. Hafer had a
portion of one of his feet cut off by wheel
of the passing car, and he WIS otherwise
bruised. The wagon was wrecked but the
horse escaped.
A LARGE number of laborers on extension
of the Chicago & Alton Railroad, between
Mexico and Marshall, Mo-, struck on the 9th
|
Several hundred of them congregated al
Glasgow, where one of them was killed Oh
Monday, and another badly wounded. The
Sheriff of Howard County, with a strong
posse of citizens failed to quell the distur
bance. The strike by laborers on the
Chicago & Alton Railroad extension seems
to have been for back wages, the men moi
having been paid for four weeks. They also
: demanded $1,50 per day, being an advance
of twenty-five cents per day. About one
hundred of them went to the office of MIR
Timothy Monaghan, one of the contractors
and notified him of their wants and asked
him what he was willing to do. Whereupo1
t he drew revolver and fred one shot int
the crowd, hitting John German in thu
j temple, inficting a dangerous wound
Monaghan gave himself up to the author
tiles, and was released by Squire Mitchell