The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-02-06
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NEWS.

A. LANDoN SNowDoN, of Philadelphia
has accepted the position of Superintendent
of the Mint Bureau, in place of DR.. Linder-
man, deceased.
AT Mortville, Maine, John Mcfarland,
wife and granddaughter, were killed by an
insane man named Rowel, who was later
shot dead by neighbor whom he had at
tackled.
AN elderly lady, named Mrs. Chrismore,
was struck by an engine and Instantly
killed, six miles norih of Orrville, o., in
attempting to cross the railroad track ahead
of the approaching north-bound express on
the c., Mt. v. & c. R. R.
THE Louisville Alms.house has been de
stroy ed by fire. Four inmates were killed
by jumping from the burning building, and
a number injured. The alms-house was the
finest in America, and was built six years
ago at a cost of $16O,O0o. ~ -
MRS. MARTHA CRIsMEYER, sixty years
old, was killed by Cleveland and Pitts
burg train, near Smithville, Ohio. The
deceased was returning home from days
labor, and in rou pding q curve the train hit
her before she had timefo get off the track.
THE reports of a hostile invasion by
Sitting Bull, and of the gathering of dis
affected Indians in his vicinity with the
intention of waging bloody Indian war,
was confirmed by information received at
the Interior Department at Washington.
Some of the strongest of the Indian tribes
are in an ugly mood.
DESTRUCTIVE prairie fire swept over
the valley twenty miles north of Deadwood,
recently, burning 1--WE hundred tons of
hay and leveling several ranches to the
ground. A heavy gale of wind prevailed,
doing much damage in Deadwood Gulch,
unroodng houses, uprooting trees, and
blowing down fences.
GENERAL JAMES A. EKIN, Deputy Quar-
termaster General, burned in the Roane
furnace, at Chattanooga, Tom, seventy
Government tents used at that point during
the prevalence of yellow fever. He also
burned four thousand at Memphis, and
nearly as many at Vicksburg, all having
been used during the plague.
The oldest inhabitants in Texas and
| Louisiana do not recollect a Winter in
| which. such an amount of snow has fallen
as during the present. There have been
several weeks of skating around Dallas
Texas, and sleighs have beens run for the
accommodation of the public at Shreve-
port, La, while the telegraph wires have
been down for d week near Galveston
under the loads of sleet that coated them
THE oyster schooner Adamantine has
been found sunk in the bay at Baltimore.
Her captain, Horace Baker, of Philadelphia,
/ To- 81 80 I'D <hah hDd Of
nine men, composing the crew, were lashed
to the deck, which was several feet under
water. The inhabitants of Smiths Island
saw the wreck on the morning of January
2, but, owing to the rough weather, were
unable to get out to it, although the captain
was seen signaling from the topmast, where
| he was lashed.
THE President has sent a message to
Congress in reference to his nominations
of Custom house officers in New York City.
He says the Custom-ho there has
been used to manage and control
political affairs, and he proposes
to run it as business in
stitution. Convinced" he says that
the people of New York, and of the
country generally, wish the New York
|
with view to public interest, it is my
purpose to do all in my power to introduce
into this great Office reforms which ths
4 country DESIRES" "a "
j A MEETING of Southern congressman
representing districts stricken by the vel
low fever, and members of the Nationa
Relief Union, was held at Willard's Hotel
Washington, to consider the plan proposed
for the immediate relief of the orphans o
victims Of the late epidemic, of establishing
a Central Orphan Asylum. Ex-Governo
b Shepherd, Chairman of the Relic
Committee, presided. The plan presented
{ was discussed by Representatives, Case.
Young, J. r. Chalmers, VA. Manning, Il
J.. Muldrow, and others, and Committee
were appointed to secure charter IRON
Congress for the establishment of
National Asylum, and to perfect perma
nent organization. 5r~aa.
A PHILADELPHIA dispatch says tha
! Captain Robert Grace, who had = jus
returned from a sea voyage retired TO be-
early, he and his family, leaving hi
lnother-in-law, Mrs. Baker, who is il
delicate health, sitting up. Late at. nigh
! Captain Grace was aroused and the neigh
/ borhood startled by piercing cry c
, "murder" coming from the room wher
! Mrs. Baker was sitting. Rushing dow
stairs, without waiting to dres
Captain Grace found the old lad
ON her hands and knees nes
the dining-room door, where she had mai
! aged to crawl, and enveloped in fame
3 The sailor worked heroically in trying t
I save his wife's mother, but the fire had a
h ready done its work, and in less than a mil
;, ute she was dead. Her clothes were el
! tireiy burned off, and her body burned to
crisp and turned to the color of walnu
The Captain was badly burned in trying I
: rescue her. "a II = t4E EAF -
AFTER a brief illness, John B. Dillon, Il
u dianas historian, died lately at Indianap oil
o of old age. His early history is unknow
= to even his most intimate friends, and
is not known where he was born. 1t
20 thought he was seventy-one years old.
A 1925 he emigrated to Cincinnati from Il
! East, and worked at the case. Eight yea
i' later he went to Logansport, Ind, al
re started the first paper in that part of Il
lr State, the Wabash Telegraph. The Leg
n ldture elected him State Libraria
es and in 1s43 and 1s45 he was fiji
il Secretary of the State Board of Agricultul
10 Of recent years he went to Washingto
a where he was Librarian to the, Senat
:. Since then he has Lived q hermit's life,
~ most, in an upper room in a business bloc
le In 1850 he published q history Of Indiar
lie and in 1858 q corrected and extended e,
,e tion appeared. He left manuscript of t
le history of colonial times, OF matters CO
re- nected with colonial and Indian ahistol
n He possessed much information, and W
~ authority on all such questions Wv
a. THE Potter COMMITTEES metat Washingt
= onthe 9Th, and long discussion ensued
!. to the scope OF the investigation, a
~ whether the Tribune ciphers onlywere to
re examined into, or all cipher kilograms,
i hxy uhavr IA g.