The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-07
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NEWS.

tion, setting apart Thursday, November IS,
as day of National thanksgiving.
AT the burning of the refinery of the
Baltimore United Coal Oil Company, in the
suburbs of Baltimore, Nd, two men per-
ished, and one was fatally injured.
A MAN named Wheeler, who lived near
Liberty, Casey County, KY, while out COON
hunting, dropped his pistol, which was dis
charged, and the ball ranging upward,
lodged in his heart, killing MIN instantly.
A GERMAN from the Soldiers Home, at
Dayton, Ohio, deliberately committed sui
eide at railroad crossing near that city, by
throwing himself under passing loco
motive. His head was severed from his
body.
A GERMAN named David Barnhart was
found dead a few mornings since, on the
railroad track, near Canal Fulton, Ohio.
From the position of the body it is thought
he committed suicide, as he was known to
be laboring under mental arrangement.
Two pl#terers, NJ. Murphy, married, and
Patrick Conley, single, working in the new
Produce Exchange Building, at Toledo, Sat
urday, stepped upon the end of a swinging
scaffoId, and fell eighty feet to the cellar.
Conley was instantly killed and Murphy
will die.
FRIDAY night Flory Sullivan and Hugh
Early, two desperate characters Lafayette,
Ind, became intoxicated, and in their
drunken spree committed an assault upon
W. S. Berry, of Logan, Ohio, and inflicted
| injuries that will, it is thought, result in his
death.
AT Boyertown, Penn, three men lost
their lives and one was badly injured, as
they were about going down into the coal
mine to work. A pinion-wheel broke and
precipitated them to the bottom of the
shaft, distance of three hundred and
fifty feet.
JAMES BUNDY, farmer living near Terre
Haute, Ind, was called from his freside
Friday night, by four colored men in
wagon outside, and shot in the leg and alb.
domen. He was carried into the house and
| died in a few hours without giving any ac-
count of the affair. The murderers were
traced next day, and arrested.
IT seems that Provost, the murderer of
the Vacelet family, at Vincennes, Ind, was
not allowed to rest in peace after his body
was deposited in the grave, Sunday after
noon. At any rate, it is claimed by those
who profess to know, that he was resur-
rected Monday night, and his body will
contribute to medical science. He will be
carved up more skillfully than his victims
| were.
THE dead body of a tramp was found in a
corn-feld near West Jefferson, Ohio, last
Thursday. An inquest was held and the
body given in charge of Township Trustees
for burial. On the arrival at the grave
yard they left the body above ground, while
they went to neighboring house to warm.
On their return they found the coffin
broken open and the body gone.
Miss KAPHAN, aged twenty, daughter of
NJ. Kaphan, met with horrible death at
Nashville, Tennessee, recently. Her dress
caught fire from candle while she was
alone in the room, and throwing herself
upon the bed she communicated the flames
to it. Before assistance was rendered, Miss
Kaphan was seriously burned, and inhaled
heat to such an extent that death ensued
several hours afterward.
SATURDAY evening a negro named Hol.
land, at Windsor, Ontario, made murder.
Gus assault upon his employer, a contractor
named Bushell, when young farmer
named Dumanchelle rushed to Bushels
rescue. Holland turned and grasped an
ak which he had been carrying, and struck
Dumanchelle terrific blow on the side OF
the head. As the man fell to the ground
like one dead, the negro fed.
w. w. SMITH, who fell into a well al
Lees Summit, NO., was taken out appar
emily dead. Preparations were made fol
his funeral, the coffin was purchased, an6
just as his body was being put into it he
showed signs of life. He recovered full
consciousness within the next hour, and il
! now in fair way to recover. His family
and friends were Mortified to think how
near they had come to burying him alive
/ The jury in the case of jeremiah Ken
nedy, of Chicago, who has been on trial fol
, a week for the murder of his wife last Au
gust, found verdict that defendant wa
: guilty, and fixed his punishment at dealt
by hanging, but also found that since tn
murder he has become insane. The unusua
verdict created a sensation in Court. Ken
nedy will be sent to the Insane Asylum
and whenever he is discharged will receiv
his punishment.
Q AT the Methodist Missionary Society il
! New York, Saturday, the question of maxim
! appropriations for foreign missions wa
taken up, and the following appropriated
Denmark, $S, 900; Norway, $11 900; Sweder
: ,Oe0; Northern India. 100000; South er
i India, $1,000; Bulgaria, $1,000; Ital,
J. s22, 900; Mexico, $4,000. With a view {
: building new school-house and payin
# another missionary, motion was carrie
. to appropriate $25,957 for missionary wor
in Japan for the ensuing year.
> A KEoKUK, Iowa, special says it has bee
q discovered that A. Mackey, of that city ha
y been receiving the bodies of recently burie
( people, graves having been robbed at Be
It con, Iowa: the bodies barreled anu shippe
,e Two barrels were consigned to Mackey O
% Thursday, but the railroad agent becomir
IT. suspicious, and opening one of them foun
u, the body of John Hynes, who has bee
recently buried near Beacon. Mackey h
;" been arrested, but declares he is inn
III cent, declaration which is discredited,
n under his direction the first barrel W
d, taken to the Medical College of Keokuk al
a is still there.
of UNITED STATES Treasurer GilfilIan sa,
IS in reference to the recent opinion of the
al torney General as to the method of compl
a ing taxable capital to national bank
=. "National banks will hereafter be require
~ in making up their capital stock subject
he taxation, to deduct, not the face value, b
g the price paid for U. S. bonds owned
lis them, less interest accrued to date of p,
he chase; and for the purpose of verifcati
N will be required to specify said bon
no by loan and dates of purchase
=. making return thereof to this off
IS No application, made in consequence of I
III opinion in question for the refund of a
TX tax upon bank capital heretofore assess
>" and collected, will be entertained by Il
lg. Office"
is HOWARD II. WILLIAMS, member of