The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-01-30
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NEWS.

HisCoNSlN sends Matt. Carpenter ID the
United States Senate
By the crumbling of the wall of the Will
son building, on Main-street, Cincinnati,
recently injured by fire, two workmen were
killed.
FISH are so numerous in the Sioux River
at Dell Rapids, Dakota, that they sometimes
choke the turbine wheel of the mill as they
are carried through.
THE report of the Louisville Clearing
house Association shows that Louisville's
contribution for the relief of the yellow
fever sufferers amounted to s14,31016.
HENRY MoRRIssEY, who fought on the
Victory, at Trafalgar, saw Nelson fall, and,
subsequently, had his own leg broken by
shot, has just died at Halifax, aged ninety
four years.
JUDGE JAMES s. MCKEAN, who fought
polygamy, refused the right of citizenship
to Mormons and granted alimony to Anna
Eliza Young, died at Salt Lake City the
other day.
A NEW sort of French leave. Captain
French, OF Bismarck, D. T., was TO be court
martialed the other day, but the gallant
captain was too drunk to attend the trial,
and it had 10 be postponed.
DANIELVooRHEEs has been elected United
States Senator by the Indiana Legislature.
Godlove Orth was his principal opponent.
The Illinois Legislature sends John A,
Logan to the Senate, and Don Cameron has
been returned by Pennsylvania.
AN attempt to thaw out some dynamite
or ha far rkc
in Baltimore, Md, resulted in killing John
Hobson and Michael Burke, the demolition
OF the boiler-house, and the carrying of the
boiler some fifty feet.
THE remnant of the Cheyennes who made
their escape from Fort Robinson few
weeks ago, and have since been wandering
in the SHOWS, have been captured after
bloody fight, in which seventeen of the
Indians were killed, and nine wounded, and
several soldiers killed and wounded.
A SPECIAL from Jefferson City, Mo-, says
Horace l.. Hyde, brother of VIM. Hyde,
managing editor of the st. Louis Republican,
was run over by railroad train on the
Missouri Pacific road, near Bonner's Mill,
about seventeen miles east ef Jefferson
City, and was instantly killed. Mr.. Hyde
was well-known journalist.
THE Louisville Courier-Jour7,oPs special
from Riverton, KY, says Solomon Johnson,
young school teacher, was probably muir
dered near Robinson's Greek, in Pike Coun-
| ty, by James Bentley, who, failing to incite
him into a quarrel smashed his skull with
a heavy club. Bentley escaped. large
number of country people started in pur-
suit, and it was thought that he would be
lynched if caught.
| The President, on Saturday, the 25th inst,
signed the Arrears of Pensions Bill. Con-
sidering the emphatic majority by which it
passed both houses, he felt that he could
| not do O. herwise. Not dollar will be paid
out, however, on these claims, until spe.
cific appropriation is made. This Congress
will make no appropriation, and the claims
will simply remain on file.
AT Centre Point, Iowa, George Daven-
port, while out rabbit-hunting, was stand
ing on stump waiting for companion to
scare rabbit out of bush, when his gun
slipped down and the trigger striking the
stump the contents were discharged, pass
ing upward through his chin and out Of
the top of his head, killing him instantly.
The wound was CHASTITY one, blood and
brains being scattered in all directions.
AT a meeting of the Potter Committee.
on the 22d, Ben. Butler stated that he has
six hundred and forty of the cipher dis
patches. How he came into possession OF
them he does not know; how the Tribune
got them he does not know. He found
them ON his desk; then they disappeared
from his desk; then they were returned tc
his desk. That is all he knows, he says
He opposed investigation in regard to them
AMONG the recent disasters by fire are
the woolen mills of John Brown & Sons, a
Eighth and Tasker streets, Philadelphia
Kedder, at Geneseo, ILL.,, with loss O
Sal 900, including $4,000 in stock; thu
Emanuel Congregational Church at BostoI
, Highlands, Boston, loss $4,000; AMI tn,
Occidental Hotel, with adjoining fran,
buildings, at Omaha, loss $4,000.
Mrs. MARY HYsLoP, the wife of Rober
Hyslop, well known farmer of Norfoll
, County, N. Y, who resides between Provi
Z dence Church and Great Bridge, wa
( frightened to death by being chased by
fhorse. The horse had been turned loos
in lot near the dwelling, and was amusin
himself chasing small calf. Mrs. Hyslo
3 went out in the yard after the animal wit
{ a stick to drive him away from the cal
\ when he turned and chased her. She de
back into the house overwhelmed wit
fright, and fell on the floor in convulsiop
:, A few hours afterward she expired from tn
effects of the fright.
BEFoBE the Representatives appointe
.s by the Teller Committee, NJ. J. Cunning
= ham, member of the Louisiana Legislatul
from Natchitoches, testified at New o
IS leans; The general tenor of the testimon
of witnesses on the Republican side is I
the effect that there was conspiracy @
the part of the Democrats to break U
negro meetings for political effect. Sue
{. testimony was unqualifedly false. The
II was no organized band such as Blount d
scribed. Our action against Blount an
others was taken for protection, they ha
y ing threatened to get the negroes t
A gether and burn the town. 1t was reporte
"a that Blount had ten or twelve armed n
II groes in his house. After consultation
10 we concluded it would not be safe to allo
, him to remain there. Witness was acting
K Chief of Police. The affair was quietly ma
If aged. No violence or banishment was CO
is templated. 1t was solely for the purpo
er of preserving peace that we determined
le arrest him. No violent threats were mad
s. as stated, by Blount and wife. Witne
re considered the Bredis witnesses the mo
o. bloodthirsty men he ever saw. VIII
I'd they were acting with the Democra
re they proposed to kill the Republic,
ne leaders. 1t was natural for us to thin
q. when they turned over to the 9th
m side that they proposed to kill
Oh The testimony of the witness througho
or was contradictory of the Republics
~ witnesses, except as to Blount, Bredis, al
he others being advised to leave the paris
uuo but witness said the cause was not polite
Ao He declined to express an opinion as