The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-07-17
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NEWS

REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NEWS
The Arctic exploring yacht Jeaunette
sailed from San Francisco on the Sth OF
July.
MRS. ELLEN McDERxorr, residing in
Hcrrison County, Ind, was bitten on the
arm by large black spider and died in
great agony from the wound few days
afterward.
THE great Brooklyn bridge has cost so far
SIC, 100000 The trustees hope, with good
luck, to have 1t completed by the 1st of
January, 1881. IL will be the bridge of the
world.
HENRY SCHIRE, aged nine, Q New York
youth, iell from the roof of six-story tene-
ment to the sidewalk, a distance of eighty
feet. His physician said that no bones
were broken and his injnries are trifing.
JAMES II. CROFT and Chas. G. Wooroth,
arrested for the murder of VIM. Lyocks ON
the 27th of june, in New Mexico, were taken
from Jail at Deadwood, lately, by one hun
dred citizens and hanged to a cottonwood
tree. They had confessed. -s-.esr(
A BOY about twelve years of age was seen
heroically trying to rescue companion
from drowning in the bayou, at the foot of
Sixtesnth-street,C chi cago,. and in doing SO
fell in himself and was drowned. The body
was recovered and taken to the mergue.
A SPECIAL from Greenville, Miss, tells of
a " difficulty" at Providence, Louisiana, in
which the Postmaster was shot through the
hoo and tc ~;ck@
mortally wounded. In the course of the
I" difficulty" stray shot killed negro.
A LITTLE fveyear-oid son Of James
Cramie was playing in the field near Utica,
Mich, and ran in front of the moving ma
chine and struck one of the horses, starting
them up. Before he could get away the
knives caught and literally cut him in two.
He died in q few minutes. %
JOSEPH B. BUZzELL was hanged OF Con-
cord, N. H., on Thursday, for the murder of
Miss Susan A. Hanson, pearly five years
ago in Carroll, N. II. The prisoner was once
acquitted of the same crime, but fresh evil
denee finally convicted him. The lady
whom he murdered had brought suit against
him for breach of PROMISE s1o.ssl1 iz.it us..
THE explosion of boiler in the box fac
tory of Adams & Sether, Low-street, Balt,.
more, demolished the boiler:h ouse, three.
story building and the rear walIof the fac.
tory, wreoking toe contents. A portion of
the boiler fell two squares away. August
Sithers, one of the proprietors, Henry
Ulrich, engineer, and several others, were
killed. -
GREAT storms are reported as having oc-
Cured in all parts of the country on Friday.
Many houses were unroofed in the cities,
streams overhowed, and crops were leveled
to the ground. These storms extended from
Minnesota to the State of New York. They
were followed By insufferable heat
and many cases of sunstroke. Those who
were aged and feeble were specially unable
to resist the torrid severity. ..-'.-. E. ..i ~
Two negroes, John Williams, who mur
dered Howard Holtzelaw, railroad agent
aud telegraph operator at Warrenton June
tion in February last, and Winter Payne
for killing an old negro named james
Adams, near Salem, Fauquier County, in
April, were hanged in the Jail yard at War
| renton, Va, in the presence of about
! twenty-five persons, the new law requiring
THE remains of the late French Prime,
Imperial were on Saturday committed t.
their final resting place beside those of hi
illustrious father at Chiselhurst. The oere
monies were very impressive, and lwer'
participated in by Queen Victoria, and tn,
members of the Royal Family, of England
as well as many prominent French Bona
partists. The Ex Empress Eugene is nearl,
erazed with grief.
JOSEPH ATKINS, fruit gardener, a few
miles from Greensburg, Westmorelant
County, Pa, shot and instantly killed hi
wife, and after telling his nearest neighbo
that he had killed the old woman, place'
1 the muzzle of the gun under his chin an
fred and killed himself. The trouble is be
4 jilieved to have arisen from quarrel abou
4 a little piece of property where they lived
4 diAtkins had decided this land to his wifi
some time ago, and afterwards wished t
get it back again, bnt this the old lad
always refused, and the matter was tn
cause OF frequent alterations. Atkins wa
seventy-one and his wife seventy thre
II years of age. t
IdSoA DEADwooD dispatch says that fe'
months ago three Indians were tried an
convicted of the murder of private LIE
Bader, of the Second Cavalry. They wer
to have been hanged July z, at Miles Cit.
u also the fourth Indian who killed rancl
man about month ago at Terry's Landing
But all escaped the gallows. Two of thel
hanged themselves in their cells on the da
of sentence, the third was pardoned by tt
Governor, and the fourth hanged himself
his cell Oh the Sunday before the time
execution.
J "a FIRE in Cleveland commencing in Dul
hams planning mill. on Scranton-avenu
! destroyed the Variety Iron Works, the A
Z t1aptic & Great Western Freight Depot, IL
I two story building occupied by Rust, XIII
s-i&9 Clint, lumber dealers. and a lar,
! quantity of rough and unhnisbsd lqmb
/, belonging to different yards. A brisk, wiz
! was blowing, and only by great exertion "
the fire gotten under control. at one tin
it bid fair to burn both sides of Scranto
: avenue, from the swing bridge to the A
lantic Passenger Depot. The losses a
I eAtimated at about one hundred thousaI
! dollars. :" q a5i .'ta Z % ~. (. f' -. II
4 THE largest number of Mormons whi
s has arrived this year was landed at Cast
f Garden on Wednesday from the steam
J. Wyoming. There were six hundred al
: seven adults, who came in the steerae
]. and seyenty.six in the second cabin. 1
It this number three Hundred and eighty O
> came from Scandinavia, eighty fro
8 Switzerland and Germany, and The otht
n from England and Scotland. They at on
started for Utah. Among the number "
young man twenty-five years of age, W
3 gave his name as Brigham Young. He Sc
y b was no relation Of the late head Of t
q church at Salt Lake City, Most of the m
~ were farmers got 'o'.4 n-',l 'i itF
Al EX-GOVERNOR WILLIAM ALLEN died
n heart disease on Friday morning, July
10 at half past one O'Clock. He had not be
! feeling well during the afternoon of Thu