The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-04-25
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NE EWs.

Francisco, reported insane.
AT Cincinnati, recently, young married
man, Augustus L. Aull, shot himself
through the heart, in fit of insanity.
AN expedition of troops from Fort Leaven-
worth has been ordered to assist in remov-
ing the Ute Indians to the Indian Territory.
EhIGRANTs are arriving in st. Louis for
the northwest country at the rate of two to
three hundred per day; also, coming in
large numbers by lake to Duluth.
A BILL introduced in the Ohio House
provides an amendment to the act concern
ing Notaries Public, so as that females may
be entitled to appointment to the duties,
dignities and emoiuments of such a posi-
tion.
A SPECIAL train of eight cars, filled with
French families from New England manu-
| featuring villages, passed through Nashua,
New Hampshire, bound to Manitoba, where
each family will receive one hundred and
sixty acres of land from the Canadian Gov
| ernment.
| AT Buffalo, New York, John Ennis, a
Chicago pedestrian, accomplished the feat
of walking 400 miles in 1913 hours, having
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walked in 13 minutes and 21 seconds. At
! Montreal, Storer, the pedestrian, walked
100 miles in % hours.
A SPECIAL from New Iberia, La, reports
the burning of the sugar house and ginnery
| of Devezir Oliver, pear that place, and the
capture and execution by hanging of the
incendiary, a colored man, who ac-
knowledged he had fired Gravemberg &
Fay's sugar houses some months ago.
A FEW mornings ago, at Toledo, Ohio, a
party of boys were playing near the Air
Line Junction Schoolhouse, when one of
them discharged a pistol, the ball taking
effect in the eye of a comrade and passing
into the brain. A physician was at once
summoned, but the wounded boy lived only
ferty-fve minutes.
The Chicago Times, of a recent date,
devotes thirteen columns to a painful
scandal involving the venerable Bishop Nc
Coskrey, of Michigan, who has been accused,
by letters and other evidence, of getting
himself into scrape somewhat similar to
that of Henry Ward Beecher's. 1t is said the
Bishop will resign and go to Europe.
REPORTS have reached San Antonio,
Texas, that the Indian raiders who crossed
from Mexico recently have reached the Fort
Ewell sheep settlements, and are sweeping
the fiocks before them, and several persons
are already reported killed. Troops and
citizens are in pursuit, but are not likely to
overtake them. The river is fordable at all
points near Laredo. These raiders are not
to be confounded with those raiding on the
Northwestern frontier.
AT Norwood, a Cincinnati suburb, Ho.
ratio N. Burgoyne, died by hanging himself
The deceased was man eighty years of age.
His home was at Laurel, Ind, and he was
well known in every part of his State
During most of his life he had been actively
engaged in political affairs, and his ad
dresses and other labors contributed much
ON more than one occasion, to the success
of the Democratic party, of which he was
always stanch partisan.
THE funeral of VIM. NJ. Tweed tool
p ace on the 18th, from the residence of hil
daughter, Mrs:Douglass. Only the persona
friends of the family or of Tweed were ad
mitted to the house, where the burial ser
vice of the Episcopal Church was read b.
the Rev. DR.. Price, the clergyman who off
J ciated at the wedding of Tweed thirty year
ago. After the services the remains wer
taken to Greenwood Cemetery, followed b,
= about dozen coaches, containing tn
mourners.
PEYToN CHRIsTMAN, aged about ffty-fv
years, and son-in-law to old Simon Kenton
of renown in Ohio's early history, com
! mitted suicide at his home in Range Town
ship, Madison County, by taking morphine
Mr.. Christman was about to lose his sigh
4 and seemed to think death preferable
spend ng the balance of his natural life i
+ darkness. He left note to his friends, say
! ing he had taken sufficient morphine t
kill him, and, if it failed, he would try
again.
A TERRIBLE assassination took place {
Richmond, Indiana, recently, in the shoe
/ iug of Charles Maule by his wife's brother
/ He was fairly riddled with bullets. The
l. accused him of seducing his wife's siste
n but on his dying bed the victim, on beir
q told that he could not recover, said: GAS
i hope to meet nay God, they shot the wror
= man. l never wronged my wife's siste
= and it was her constant anxiety on m
~ account, owing to threats against my lif
s that made her crazy"
= THREE negroes, Phil. Cohens, aged si1t
le eight, John Cooper and John Miles, eat
d about twenty-five, were shot dead and Pet
a. Artis wounded, at Coal Creek Mines, on Il
s, nights OF the 10th and 18th. The troub
to can be traced to no immediate cause but
&c doubtless the result of feud existing b
tween the Union miners and black-lee
~ ~ which dates from strike of last spring, al
| fad in fho nj haiu L.
w by the non-Unionists and negroes. The G
Id citement was SO great that it was found nj
p essary to place the militia under orders.
AT st. Louis, August Shattard, a Frens
man, employed in Jos. Abrams tin-shop
IL Broadway, had quarrel with his employ
ie- on the subject of some wages due hi
q, Abrams left Shattard alone in the store wi
eU the formers eighteen-months old boy, W
o0 ao was helping himself to some food from
" pap-bottle. Shattard took the bottle a
~ poured into it a lot of muriatic acid, whi
n is used in soldering. The child drank of
bo and Immediately fell into violent conv
ve sions. Medical attendance was called, |
13 at the latest accounts the child was sufl
he ing terribly, and could not survive the d
of of deadly poison.
Id. IN Middlefork township, Forsyth Coun
N. c., Elias Crew, aged thirteen, shot &
Law killed his young cousin, Jackson Or
rst The story of the sad affair is as folle,
ms. Elias had been playing with some be
the among them Jackson Crew, when he s
Inc denly left them and went to his faith
ol house. He remarked that he would ret
I've presently. He did return, and brou
!, Ier with him pistol, and without word
VI warning he wentup to his cousin Jack
Ilo- a and shot him, the ball entering the ch
up The victim lived a few hours and die,
great agony. When arrested and questio
about the terrible affair he said he had
pal cause for shooting anybody.
~ A TERRIBLE domestic tragedy took n
we'd in Geauga County, Troy Township on
way ,o.n' .ne yio'lls o1,ns Mrs. stroud and