The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-03-14
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NEWS.

his recent vacation.
A GRAND banquet in honor to General
Grant was given at Athens, Greece.
AUSTRIA has asked for sixty million
| forins to insure the Government against
danger and surprise"
GREAT snow storms were reported in the
far West in the early part of the month.
The trains were laid up.
HON. CHAs. L. WILSON, proprietor of the
Chicago Evening Journal, died at San
Antonia, Texas, Saturday morning.
GEORGE DEsPERET, wealthy farmer
living north of Saybrook, ILL.,, was instantly
killed by lightning on the morning of the
| 9th inst.
GEORGE A. BALsER, of Cleveland, has
purchased the trotting mare Adelaide, with
arecord of 2 :21H. The price paid is under
stood to be $4,000.
ALoNDoN (England) dispatch states that
! the steamship Kafir struck rock at Cape
Point and was wrecked. Five of the crew
were drowned and mails lost.
In late fire at Hot Springs, Arkansas,
two hundred and fifty buildings were de-
stroyed, and an immense amount of goods.
Loss estimated at between 100000 and
$300,O0O.
A DISPATCH from Trieste says the Austrian
steamer Sphinx, from Cavallo, with $500
Circassians on board caught fire and went
ashore near Cape Ella. Five hundred lives
were lost.
IT is rumored that Lord Lyons is likely to
succeed Lord Derby as Secretary of State
for the Foreign Department, in case affairs
between England and Russia again become
threatening.
AT New Orleans, lately, the propeller
Hope was run down and sunk by the steam
boat Texas. Paul st. Pierre, his wife and
two children were drowned, being in the
cabin of the propeller.
A LARGE fire occurred in Forsyth. Ca,
lately. A hotel, bank and six stores were
burned. The loss is $4,000, covered by in
surance. A falling wall killed negro wo-
man, and seriously injured several others.
Search was made for other bodies in the
debris.
A FIRE at Spartansburg, Pa, small
town near Cory, few mornings since,
destroyed every business house in the
place, including the Masonic Lodge, Post
Office and depot. Loss estimated at $50, 900;
insurance $25,0o0. Supposed to be the work
of an incendiary.
SIX trains passed over mans body on the
Bee Line Railway the other night. His
name was Doggett. He was in Anderson,
Ind, the day before, and had his gun sold
at auction, bought whisky with the money,
became drunk, and started for home, to
meet his fate as above. His family live at
Daleville.
The steamer Turner, with twenty-six
locomotives for the Russian Government,
sailed from Philadelphia Saturday. Each
locomotive is slowed away in pieces, and
will be put together by mechanics who went
out on the steamer. The Wyckhams, with
the remainder of the locomotives to COM
plete the order, sailed Sunday.
AN unknown man, apparently seeking
death, when about three miles west of Dud-
ley, on the Illinois and st. Louis Road, a
few nights ago, walked toward the engine
of passenger train No. A, looking into the
headlight. The engine struck and threw
him high into the air. He fell against the
fence and died. Nothing is known of him.
AYoUNG man, aged twenty, named Unsted,
living at Ada, Ohio, took a shotgun and
started for the woods to hunt, as was sup
posed. About three o'clock in the after
, noon he was discovered lying in the woods
with seven holes in his forehead. His
clothing was almost all burned from his
body. 1t is supposed he committed tn
, deed himself. He was once an inmate of the
Asylum.
, MISS BELLE MADDY, twelve year old
daughter of Hudson Maddy, Esq, farmer
, living four miles above Point Pleasant
8 West Va, on the Ohio side of the river, un
j dertook, in the absence of her parents, to
kindle a fire in the stove with coal oil, with
the usual result. The oil caught from the
1 fire in the stove, exploding the can and
? burning her SO badly that she died in few
r hours, and was buried Sunday.
0 The House Coinage Committee is abour
s to take step designed to increase tht
{: minting facilities. A few mornings ago thu
subcommittee, having the establishment
/. of branch mints under consideration, me
o and decided to ask the full committee tt
v obtain from the House permission to visi
i. the different cities where the location o
d branch mints is desired. The committe,
a. expected to visit Charlotte, North Carolina
is New Orleans, st. Louis, Denver, Helena
If Montana; Quincy and Chicago, Illinois
a. and Cincinnati, if the House grants per
10 mission.
s. A WOMAN who has been known by tn
y name of Jessie Stockton, was shot an,
a killed the other night, in bagnio kept b.
le one Mrs. Bolan, on St. Clair street, Toledo
Is by Louis Altenbaugh. He went to Bolan'
y. place and tried to persuade the woman
sg who, he claims, was his wife, to leave th
~ place. She refused to do so, giving as he
7e reason that he did not provide for her, an
IL that she intended to look out for hersel
1 After some further conversation, Alter
ed baugh drew a revolver and shot her throug
re the left breast, the ball passing through th
te heart. The murderer was captured.
a SEVEN of the crew of the German bar
We Otto George, burned at sea, report that b,
et ing unable to extinguish the flames, the
were obliged to abandon the vessel on th
O. 9Th of last month. While getting into tb
boat Boatswain Frederick Richard fe
'n overheard and was lost, and the painte
l parting, the boat drifted away, leavin
Captain Gempke, mate, and four men on tt
burning vessel. The steamship Chilia
to sighted the bark the next day, and failir
10 in attempts to rescue two men seen O
III board, owing to severe storm prevailin
bore away, leaving them to their fate.
ce A RELIABLE physician of st. Louis, WI
he has returned from Monroe County. IL
gives all the particulars thus far known
shocking tragedy which occurred ne,
. JOY Landing, on the Mississippi River, f
IL teen miles southwest of Waterloo, this W
ne the death OF Moritz Kaiser, his wife al
&c their six children, the burning of the hou
in which they lived, and the almost enti
We consumption of the bodies by the flame
"A, The Coroner visited the scene, viewed Il
no remains, and decided that the deaths we