The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-28
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NEWS.

In Memphis, on the night of the 18th of
November, at II 55, running north and
south.
Miss JENNIE TABER, young lady -of
Christiansburg, Brown County, Ind, COM
mitted suicide lately by shooting herself
through the heart with pistol. Cause not
stated.
PAT. FARRAHAR, of Salem, West Vir-
ginia, aged twenty-three years, employed as
an extra watchman, sat down on the track
the other night and fell asleep. The cars
finished him.
CoRYDoN HATCH, at Grand Blame, Mich,
tried to fill a powder-horn from a canister
while smoking cigar. He is alive yet, but
both eyes are destroyed, and in other ways
he is a total wreck.
Poster, was found hanging by the neck,
dead, near Gallon, Ohio, to a low rail fence,
back of straw stack on his farm. He was
in great trouble for some weeks about
tramps and his money.
A PROVIDENCE, r. l., special says: Thos.
Kenner, his wife, and Lizzie Callahan, of
Pawtucket, were drowned a few evenings
they were driving being plunged into
ditch forty feet wide and containing nine
feet of water.
LUTHER BISHOP, wealthy farmer living
seven miles from Bloomington, Ill, suicided
by shooting himself with a revolver. The
ball entered the brain, producing death al
most instantly. Mr.. Bishop was connected
with some of the first families in the State,
and leaves wife and one child.
Tallahassee, Ga, Nov. 81 The Supreme
Court decides the three precinct returns re-
jected by the Alachua County Canvassing
Board are good and valid, and has issued
Deremptory writ to the board to canvass
them. These precincts gave Bisbee a ma
jority of 450, and by their rejection the Can
vassing Board elected Hull, Democrat. Bis
bees majority now stands about 200 in the
district.
The committee of the National Health
Association to which was referred the re-
port of the Yellow Fever Commission take
exception to that portion of the report
which declares the use of disinfectants
failure. The committee recommends further
that the investigation into the causes and
course of the late epidemic be given a much
wider range, and suggests that the field of
inquiry be transferred to Havana.
A FEW nights since, at Terre Haute, Ind,
Edward Frees was instantly killed by the
accidental discharge of a shotgun that he
was holding in front of him. He was riding
in a wagon with party of hunters, going
north for Sunday hunt. The full charge
entered the forehead, blowing the top of his
head clean off-a sickening sight. He was
a very worthy and industrious man, forty
six years old; foreman of the nail-works.
He leaves wife and four children.
A SENSATION was created in Lima, Ohio,
lately, by the arrival of man named Deaf
rick, from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania,
who lays claim to one thousand acres of
land, part of it being where the city of Lima
now stands. He says his father had good
title to all of it several years ago, and that
the parties owning it now have only tax
title. He has employed Hon. I. E. Gun
ningham to prosecute his claims, and pro-
poses to fight it out on business line if it
takes all winter.
A SPECIAL dispatch from Mt. Sterling,
KY, to the Courier-JoNrndl, says riot
took place there on the 18th, in which
from twenty to thirty shots were fired, and
two men instantly killed and three
wounded. Marshal Young, in attempting to
quiet the disturbance, was mortally
wounded. Two of the rioters, George and
| William Howard, were wounded, one dan
gerously. John Thompson, clerk, and q
disinterested party, was shot and instantly
killed by shot fred through the window
of the store in which he was employed
Three of the rioters were arrested. The
Sheriff and posse went on the trail of the
rest.
THE New York express and the Chicago
express collided at Winona Station, twelve
miles from Hamilton, Ont on the morning
of the oath of November. The engine was
fearfully wrecked, as was also the baggage
car, telescoping with the smoking car ane
killing one man, an emigrant, outright
Another emigrant had his skull fractured
and thigh broken, and another had his lie:
torn to pieces. Five other emigrants were
badly injured. The engine driver of tn
express which ran into the train shunting
had his arm and leg fractured, and the fire
man was very badly scalded. The othe
passengers went forward, and it suppose
were uninj jured.
WE have reports of the earthquake shoe
on the night of the 18th, from Memphis
Little Rock, Cairo and st. Louis. A lette
from Memphis to the Cincinnati Commercie
says the earthquake occurred within fe
minutes of twelve O'Clock, the vibration
being from west to east, and lasting nearl
ten minutes. House bells were rung, ham,
, ing pictures slapped back and forth again
n walls, and houses rocked to and fro ik
i, ocean vessels in rough water. People
some cases were aroused from their slur
> bers, thinking that robbers were trying
enter the house by force. Several old bull
I ings show rents and assures in their out
q walls. 1t was the heaviest shock known
8 that locality since 1911.
J. A terrible coal mine explosion occurrt
t at the Sullivan Coal Mine, in Sullivan, Int
e November q. The explosion was caus,
q by the ignition of a lamps flames with ga
q a terrific velocity was added by Il
fact of their being eight kegs
,. powder below. There were thir
u men in the mines at the time. T.
/ scene beggars description. There we
l. thirteen killed outright, eight or t.
g. wounded, and many of the others suffer-
e SO from suffocation that their lives hung
It a thread. Tom and Sam landlord, two
Il the proprietors, were killed. A gre
crowd of relatives, consisting mostly of "
men, gathered around the ill-fated mir
and their lamentations were pitiful.
THE long list of murders which have d
= graced and shocked Marion County, Indial
Il received another addition on the afterno
- - of November 10. Warren Tate, VIC
-, known and notorious, but wealthy citize
~ shot William Love, prominent real est,
,a broker, under circumstances of a peculiar
exciting and tragic character. Love h
been testifying in the Supreme Court