The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-05-09
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NEWS.

A6b Va moy, dkON AOA y~CAShe.
ARMED and drilled societies of Com
munists are reported in Chicago, st. Louis,
Cincinnati, and other cities.
AMOS INsKEEP, murderer of Deputy
Sheriff Rockwell, of Logan County, O., was
arrested at Plain City, Saturday.
JULIAN DUDDERA, young man twenty
two years old, while fishing in Dix River,
near Stanford, KY, was drowned.
EIGHTEEN persons are ascertained to
have been lost in the Minneapolis Mill fire.
The loss of property was sSoO,o0e; insured
for $500, 1000.
LIE Nord, the Russian organ, denies the
New York statement that Russia has en-.
rolled five thousand Irishmen to invade
Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
Two French lads and young man named
Ward, who went out in a boat on the Chico
pee River at Jenksville, Mass, were swept
over the dam and all three drowned.
THE Adams Express Company are now
bringing merchandise to Cincinnati from
New York in twenty.four and half hours,
the quickest time ever made between the
two cities.
THE people of Cincinnati, by popular
vote, have refused to grant an additional
loan of 100000 for the completion of
their Southern Railroad. The vote for the
| loan was II ,237; against, IL ,456.
THE inquest on the body of young McCue,
who was shot by Luigi Pietro Simoni at
Chicago, resulted in verdict that Simoni
murdered McCue, and in a recommendation
that the Italian be held to the Criminal
/ Court Without hail
| AT Toronto, Canada, four thieves entered
the residence of John johnson and de-
manded his money. Refusing, he was tied
to a bed and beaten fatally with club. All
the money the thieves secured was one dol
lar. Several arrests have been made.
A SPECIAL dispatch to the Atchison
Champion, from Greenleaf, Kansas, an
nounces that Fritz Meyer, a notorious horse
thief, was taken from Jail at Belleville, Re-
public County, a few evenings since, and
hanged by mob of forty men armed and
masked.
MATT. WEAVER, Cashier Citizens Ma
tional Bank at Urbana, Ohio, is reported a
defaulter to the Bank to the amount of
seventy-fve thousand dollars, and to the
members of his family about forty thousand
more. Speculations in wheat margins are
said to be the cause of his ruin.
THE schooner St. Lawrence took fire on
Lake Michigan, twenty-five mics off Mi
waukee from the boiling o-er of a kettle of
pitch, and all efforts to control it were of no
avail A boat lowered with the Captain and
crew capsized, and the Captain, Mart Lar
kins, and passenger were drowned. The
remainder of the crew were picked up by a
passing vessel.
The Detroit Free Press Office was fred by
an explosion of gas on the 2sth April, and
great destruction of types and machinery
was the consequence. The loss is estimated
J at about fifty thousand dollars. There was
a necessary delay in the issue of the papers
but the Detroit offices generously came to
, the help of the Free Press, ami aided them
: in getting out their regular editions.
THE bodies of two men named Holbrook
, of Lowell, Nebraska, and sutton, Iowa, who
had been missing ten weeks, were found re
Gently on Dismal River, twenty-five miles
from the mouth, and about one hundred
and thirty miles northwest of Kearney
Junction. They were hunters, and were
2 probably killed by rival hunting party
Two comrades, also missing, have not beer
| found. One of the suspected parties hai
: jumped the country.
! THE Paris Exposition opened, as per pro
Y CRANE, ON May 1. Paris specials conside
: that the opening was one of the most i'm
pressive popular demonstrations ever wit
messed in Paris, although the official cere
mony was somewhat marred by the Grove
e breaking in upon the rear of the procession
q | do hnp pdr1f
thousand persons congregated at the exi
gate, and cheered the departing dignitaries
Among notabilities present at the openin
were the German and Russian ambassador
a and the Papal Nuncio.
o RECEIPTS from customs for the ten month
&c ending April 80, were, in round numbers
j $109, 100000, as against $110. 100000 for tn
corresponding period last year, being a de
crease of 100000. The internal revenu
u receipts for the same period this year wer
d $sS, 900, as against $95 5,250,000 for tn
r corresponding ten months last year, being
=. decrease of over six and half millions
s. During the same period the expenditure
n were $109, 800, 900, as against 1922, 10000
last year, being decrease of $4,000, 90,
" which exceeds the falling off in receipts b
8, nearly 81 900, 900.
~ AT Prospect Park, Brooklyn, Peralto,
III Mexican, began Saturday morning, th
lie attempt to ride 3o5 miles in fifteen hour
le He made the first hundred miles in fsr
le hours and twenty minutes. He change
r horses every mile. The fastest mile W,
q made in two minutes and thirteen second
= and 159 miles were covered in seven hou
and twenty minutes. Peralto complete
his 3011z miles at seven p. M, whe
'i the fifteen hours had expired, but continue
tie riding until he made the appointed 81
IS, miles at ten minutes past seven o'cloc
1t doing the last mile in two minutes and fort
n one seconds The rain of the afternoc
Ia made the track heavy, or the feat wou
"A doubtless have been accomplished.
w APPREHENsIoNs of party disturbance
n arising out of an Orange entertainment
- Montreal, on the night of April 80, we
y verified. As a section of the Young Brito
ne were proceeding out to the western subur
II. early, they were attacked with pistols
ne some three or four hundred Catholic Unio
he lists at Wellington Bridge, who were lyiI
IN in wait for them. Over one hundred she
re were fired, resulting in the killing of Jol
y. Callahan and serious wounding of johann
=, Mohan and man named Mullin, all Cath
~ lies. A cab containing Jos. Lang, Orane
. man, and young woman, going home fro
ne the concert, was riddled with shot, La
ey being wounded in two places, but his CO.
to panion miraculously escaping. Great G
citement over the affair.
On the afternoon of April 90 the renal
ng of the late Senator Morton were taken FRI
ov- the chapel vault in Crown Hill Cemetel
is near indianapolis, and deposited in gra
to on the lot which the managers of the cen
a terry set apart for it. Fifty or sixty D
ty. sonal friends of the Senator. and the me