The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-01-09
RETLEW OF DoMES7Ie NEWS


lawyer and politician died at NewbuFy-
port, Mass, on the night of January 2.
BUSINESS failures IN Great Britain and
Scotland during 1878 were 15,059, of which
2,64S were in financial, wholesale and man.
ufacturing branches of trade.
NEWS has been received that DR.. Skinner
Post Surgeon at Fort Peck, was hit in the
head and mortal y wounded while witness
ng the killing of cattle for the Indians
NEW ORLEANS quarantine authorities
will fumigate all vessels from South and
Central American and West Indian ports, to-
prevent the Introduction of small pox. 3
IN an af-ay between g. man named
Pollock and his two sons at Williamsburg,
Ohio, the former was struck with an AZ and
his right arm almostseyeyed from his body.
A CoLFAx dispatch says engine II, on
the Central Pacific Railroad, blew up near
Summit, Cal. killing the engineer and fire,
man, and badly wounding the conductor of
the train.
A RECENT fire at Tuscarora, New, de-
stroved nearly a block of buildings ON
Mainstreet, including the Young America
Hoisling Works. Loss about SAC, o,oo0; sup
posed ineendiary. -
AT Sparta, Tennessee, two McPherson
brothers attacked Joe Dibrell, son of Com
gressman Dibrell, when he killed one in.
stantly with shotgun, and dangerously
wounded the other.
J. A. SMITH, Secretary of the Memphis
Howard Association, has complicated his
report, which shows the receipts to have
during the late epidemic s417 1856, and the
disbursements $415, 5,790.53.
DURING the past year nine hundred and
seventeen failures were reported in New
York City, with liabilities of 63,95s, ,4O3,
and assets at S1S,965, ,5S1. This exceeds the
record of any former year.
JUDGE CHARLES T. SHERMAN, formerly
United States Judge of the Cleveland (Ohio)
District, died suddenly on the morniug of
the 1st of January. He was the brother of
Secretary and General Sherman.
RESUMPTION was accomplished on the
first of January without much perceptible
difference in the money movement. The
only change was the suspension of the
payment of interest in gold at the Sub
Treasury. FE "a
FIRE DTOKc OUT IN lOWn DlOCk, COIuci
of Chicago-street and Fountain Square,
Elgin, Illinois, which spread to Schultz &
| Todson's dry goods store, and, aided by a
| high west wind, swept the entire south side
of Chicago-street, causing a total loss es-
timated at 100000; insurance, $4,000.
! FIVE Chiefs of the Ute Indians are en-
route from Colorado to Washington, to con-
suit with the Interior Department relative
| to the sale by them to the Government of
another strip of their reservation, said to
be very valuable as a mineral district. They
are accompanied by Mr.. Kelly, their agent,
and Curtiss, Interpreter. ....-.,
THs new Capitol building of the State
of Michigan was dedicated at Lansing,
January 1, with appropriate ceremonies.
1t is beautiful structure, and has been
completed at the moderate cost of 81 ,500,-
600. The Governor of the State, who will
have his Office in this building, draws the
magnificent salary of 81 900 year.
| GENERAL ORD has received official in
formation of the capture of forty Mescalez
Apache Indians at San Carlos, Mexico, by
| General Ortis of the regular Mexican Army !;
also, Of the killing of number in fight.
These Indians number about three hundred,
and have been terror to the Western Texas
Ifrontiersmen and Mexicans living in North
Eern Coahuila and Chihuahua.
X DR. S. T. BROOKS was found dead in his
room at Greenville, Ill. with one shand
roasted, and a large hole burned in the
floor. Appearances indicated the explosion
of lamp, but the fire had gone out, evi.
IDENTIFY for want of air. The doctor has
numerous friends and relatives in the
East.
JAMES A. DIXON, formerly minister at
New Albany, Ind, attempted to commit
suicide last Friday night, at the Peabody
Hotel, Memphis, by taking strychine. Sew
eral letters were found in his room, written
previously to the attempted self-destruc tior
which gave as cause for his action reports
OF his intimacy with a young lady at New
Albany.
MRS. MORGAN DICKERsoN was dreadfully
burned at Highbridge, KY, few days ago
She was starting fire, and to help it along
threw some powder in the stove, and {
spark falling into the keg beside, her sex
ploded it. One of her children, standing
near, was also badly burned, and loses al
eye. Mrs. Dickerson's suffering was 81
great that she begged her friends to kill her
, and SO end her misery. Physicians regarde'
her injuries as fatal.
GEORGE EINsIG, of York, Pa, owing t.
,, drunkenness, was separated from his wife
!. He called upon her in the evening at he
! home, and, upon her refusing to live wit
him, he cut her throat, and she died 500
!, afterward. sKinsig was seized by Gehrins
, his father-in-law, who carried the infar
: child of the former in his arms, but he mu
4 derer cut both of them in the face and heat
n and then fed. He was subsequently u
4 rested.
). THREE of the twelve boilers at the di
n tillery of Human & Fairbanks at Teri
Haute, Ind, exploded with tremendor
noise, few days since, doing damage
20 the amount of S., 900 or $4,000. VIM. Da
q cvlored, and Frank Hughes, aged abol
O. fifteen, were scalded to death and buri,
II in the ruins, which took fire from the flu
IL mace. One of the cattle sheds in the slo
le yards also caught fire, and the loft full
- hay burned out.
q. DURING, the temporary absence of 9th
n members of the family, the. clothing Of
n. three-year-old daughter Of Emanuel Rot
" of Athens Ohio, became ,ignited at t
in CRATE, when In fright and agony it rush
le to the streetdoorsits clothing in fnllblal
as Mr.. Brashears, editor of the Messen5er, W
is happened to be passing, caught the Chi
ne and rolled it in the snow, and tore
ne clothing from it, but the flesh had been
al badly burned that pieces fell off, and it
RS supposed by the attending physician tt
of the child's injuries are necessarily fatal.
&. A DISPATCH from Dubuque, Iowa, ss
that ten conyicts jim sAnamos Penitentis
.. of broke out Of the stonecutters, shed, a
" made a desperate effort for liberty.
10 yard was inclosed only by board stocka
y; One convict was shot dead by the qua
~, and another shot through the bowels.
~ tally. The remainder escaped from
no ii' yard. Two were shot by guards, both dr.
r. ping with broken legs. Five others W