The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-09-25

Benjamin, near Macarthur, September 8th, has
been captured lurking in grove of dense
underbrush.
calling for more troops to put down the " un-g
tanned Indians. He reports their atrocities
on the whites as something horrible.
CONTROLLER GoLDscHMIDT, at Atlanta, Ga,
has been impreached and disfranchised. The
trial of Treasurer Renfree is in progress, and
others are to follow.
THE school board of st. Louis are having
trouble with the German element. They are
not teaching enough German in the public
schools. ~ --.
The Ute Indians are becoming unmanage-
able. They don't like farming and assert by
concerted action that they do not mean to do
any more oft. They have made a raid on the
agency buildings and destroyed them.
REV. J. P. THOMPSON, whose name was re-
Gently mixed up with that of Mrs. De Land, in a
scandal, is dead. 1t is said that this cruel
report had much to do in hurrying his death.
He very old and feeble at best.
CHARLES GLASS, the murderer of Carter
Newman, last March, was hanged at Cairo,
Ill.,. last week. "Not a tremor, not move
ment of the lips, not word, not struggle
and he was dead.
A TENEMANT in Boston destroyed by fire
on the 18th, in which several persons persisted,
besides three who were fatally injured by
jumping from the windows and roof to escape
the flames.
| ONE of those horrible accidents resulting
| from careessness, occurred at Wheeling, W.
Va, the ether day. John Altmeyer, while
! feeding nail machine, was caught by it and
| literally torn to pieces.
-. BEN MORGAN, living three miles southeast of
Knghtstown, Ind, has been arrested upon
charge of numbering one Henderson in Scott
county Kentucky, nearly two years ago.. He.
was taken to Scott county for trial.
| BASE BALL contributes its " flies to eternity
as well as good physique. Willie Harvey
struck Hannie Grimm over the head with a bat
at Brunson, S. c., the other day, and dis
patched him instantly.
ANOTHER killing in Kentucky, at Millers-
burg. One brother named Still killed another
at the breakfast table, sons of banker.
George, teller in the bank, became blasphemous.
His brother asked him to desist, to which he
replied by hurting plates and goblets at him
| then with a knife well, he got shot, and that
ended it.
WIN. LENANEAR, at Martinsville, Ind, shot
and killed his drunken prosecutor, Flora Flutz,
who, not satisfied by using insulting. language
toward Lenanear, followed and pelted him
with stones. One incentive which lead Lena
near to commit the rash act was the fact that
Flutz often boasted in public of running Lena
near's sister. Lenanear has the popular SYM
pathy.
The dsgraceful conduct of the strikers at
Fall River during the past week will evidently
not rebound to the benefit Of labor. While four
families of French Canadians were passing from
their homes to the mill, where they have
recently been employed, they were set upon by
an infuriated mob of strikers and roughly
stoned. One was knocked down and
terribly beaten. woman with babe in her
arms was knocked down and brutally kicked.
TERRIBLE suffering is reported from the
west. A telegram from Denver says that about
sixty families were rendered homeless by the
Caribou fire, which was more extensive than at
first reported. The loss is not less than ST. ,000
Fires are raging all through the mountains,
and the sky and sun are hidden by smoke. The
Ute Indians have started most of the fires for
spite. -a5.sE 84.s- -slI..,s.t
A DISPATCH from Madrid says: "The
Spanish Government is rather embarrassed by
the increasing agitation in Cuba. General
MartineE Compel has proposed to his colleagues
to make ., clear statementsof his reform policy
as soon aslthe Cortes meets, but the Ministers
and Conservative leaders want to defer the
marriage of King Alfonso i'i-'-'5f feti'i'
ENGLAND is experiencing the greatest trouble
between labor and capital. The mills are
either closing altogether or running on short
time, and thousands of workmen are thrown
outof employment. At Messley, the number
of strikes is increasing daily, and it is expected
that within week every mill in that district
will be stopped. At Glossop, two mills have
closed, each throwing into idleness three thous-
and men and women.
THIS bit of news is telegraphed from Wash
ngton to the Cincinnati Commercial: Next
week anybody get gold who wants it, as
Secretary Sherman has no longer any doubt
that resumption is permanent, and will not
hereafter attempt to hoard his gold. Hereto
fore gold could only be obtained at the Sub
Treasury at New York. The record of eight
months and half shows that people prefer
greenbacks to gold, and instead of being called
for to redeem legal tenders, gold has beer
brought to the Treasury and legal tenders
asked in exchange - ~'-.'''8''
REPORTS froral Me,pphis are of. an eneonrag-
ing nature-. Thanks to the continued cooler
weather, the existence Of yellow fever is no
longer regarded with that abject terror that has
attended it throughout the hotter months The
mortality has diminished TO from three to five
deaths o day, most of those who become afflicted
with the disease, recovering. The board OF
health of Memphis have published n circular
warning refugees who have not had the fever in
former " ears not to return until eight or ten
days Afterfrost. Those who have had the fever
WI now be permitted 70 return The total
number of cases to date are ,216 deaths, 346.
, THE last session of Congress appropriated
$25,ooO,O 600 to pay arrears, Of pensions. It i,
! said that more than two Thirds of this has al.
ready been paid out, and that all of il will hay,