The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-11-13

| railroad accident. span of the railroad
bridge over the Missouri River at St. Charles
| gave way beneath stock train. wind
storm was raging at the time. The train,
which was from Kansas City, contained seven
teen cars, and had on board conductor, en-
| gineer, five stockmen and two brakemen. The
train fell eighty feet into the river. The en-
| gine and one car, with the conductor, engineer
and iremen, were saved by the breaking of the
| connection between the cars. Three dead
bodies and three badly injured men have been
| recovered from the river.
LATER reports on the election in New York
makes it a question as to who is elected ON the
State ticket. The SIN publishes revised returns
| from MANY counties in the State, which show
the following result Potter (Dem.) Lieutenant
| Governor, 1881 majority Mackin (Dem.)
Treasurer, ,202 majority Horatio Seymour,
| jr., (Dem.) Engineer and Surveyor, 9,139
majority Carr, (Rep.) Secretary of State, 81"
majority; Ward (Rep,) Attorney General,
| 2,645 majority, and Wadsworth (Rep.) Con-
troller, 3,O95 majority. The Sun adds that 1t
has been impossible to get the exact figures
from several counties, and from the closeness OF
some of the results, it is plain the official can
yass alone can determine who are elected
| AT Muncie, Ind, the recent arrest and trial
of two young men for robbing, resulted in one
of them being sentenced to the penitentiary for
| two years. After his sentence he made con-
fession duplicating a DR.. E. c. McCrillus,
highly respectable and wealthy physician OF
| the town. A detective was set to work on the
| case which resulted in the arrest of McCrillus.
| At his house was found a quantity of stolen
goods, and it appears that he had long
| been the adviser of gang OF robbers operating
| in Ohio and Indiana. wealthy farmer
named Burt Gates, at Centervllle, 1nd., mas
also been implicated operating with the
gang.
| THE trial of Mrs. Adelaide Roberts for the
murder last May of Theodore B. Weber, at
Chicago has begun. Mrs. Roberts, it will be
remembered, shot Weber in the law Office of her
attorney. Weber had taken care of her boy,
and as an expression of his appreciation of the
boy, had made will in which he bequeathed
him an amount of money. Two years ago the
boy was drowned in the lake, which resulted
| in a controversy between her and Weber to
the boys portion. Under the impression that
| Weber was endeavoring to swindle her out of
the money, she shot him in the abdomen, from
which he died upon the following day. Before
he died, however, he revoked the will so far as
Mrs. Roberts was concerned. The case is ex-
| citing some attention.
THERE is considerable excitement among the
of priest by the name of Scully. Father
Scully for some time past has been refusing to
| administer the sacrament to Catholics who do
| ol..y ii a.
Many Catholics object to sending their children
to that school first, because it is inferior to the
public schools, and second, account of the
brutality that is complained of. woman tes
tilted that Fathers Scully and Mundy, and two
other full grown men, whipped her thirteen
year-old son for truancy. They stripped off
his clothing, laid him on the table, and f1ogged
him with heavy rattan, and when he came
home his shirt soaked in blood from the
blows. For two weeks he unable to sit on
chairs or lie on his back in bed. She took him
and his brother from the parochial school.
Soon after her husband was very ill and wanted
the priest, but when he found the children
were going to the public school he refused to
administer the sacrament.
THE obsequies of Zachariah Chandler, at
1
largely attended by prominent men of both
political parties of the nation. People 1ocked
by thousands to view the dead Senator. His
remains were encased in magnificent casket,
upon and surrounding which were beautiful
floral tributes. At the head of the casket was
beautiful cross and crown, made of tube roses,
camelias, La Marque and Marshal Mel rose
buds. 1t rested upon base of evergreens. Up
on the lid of the casket was star, underneath
which was the word, in rosebuds, "Stalwart.' ~
On the lid in solid silver, inscribed the
words, " Zachariah Chandler, born December
/ 10, 1873 died November, l, 1S79.' Rev. DIR.
Pierson, ofth Fort Street Presby yterian Church
Detroit, delivered a short and impressive ad
Dress after which the remains were lifted and
carried to the hearse in waiting by policemen
in winter uniform, being preceded by twenty
five pall-bearers. The funeral cortege was
headed by detachment of police, which, al
4 20, reached Elmwood Cemetery, where the
Senator was laid away to rest.
THE American Woman's Suffrage Association
have been holding two days convention al
Cincinnati. Dr.. Wendte, of Cincinnati, de-
livered the welcome address, in which he said
that for the first time, he then confessed the
| ldlLn Ill Hlul. n nuihuoi VI duuiooooo WClt
presented, some of them very able, by member:
of the association. The work by the delegates
in the different States reported satisfactory
The following officers were elected for the
ensuing year. President, Henry B. Black
well, of Boston. Vice Presidents, T. w. Hig-
ginson, Rhode Island; Mrs. W. 7. Hazard
Missouri; Mary A. Livermore, Illinois George
W. Curtis, New York; George W. Julian
5 Indiana Theodore D. Weld, Massachusetts
Celia Burleigh, New York; Margaret V
Longley, Cincinnati. Chairman Executive
< Committee, Mrs. Lucy Stone, New Jersey
Foreign Corresponding Secretary, Myra Brad
t well, Illinois; Recording Secretaries, Miss
Matilda Hindman. New Jersey, and Amanda
Way, Indiana Treasurer, Frank B. Sanborn
Y Massachusetts. The convention adjourned tc
meet in Washington, d. c., December 2, 1880
r In Elliott County, KY, the regulators are OK
s pected to do some work shortly. They served the
following notice on the Judge of the Circuit
Court: d" Behold we come again not with fire
s and blood in tracks, but come to this cour
l as suppIiants at the throne of mercy, begging
, and pleading that they will not continue any
1 of the cases of felony that on the docket
g or that may come to it during this term OF
n mere legal tochnicalties, but give them wha
the law provides for, viz: speedy trial. Beal
this in mind. The country, justice and Goo
G demand it, and we, band of over two
y thousand in three counties, say that we will
give it to them in three days after this cour
), adjourns, if you don't. We don't want t.
g threaten this court, or any part of it, becaus,
S they are perfectly safe so far as we are con
g cerned, but we want thieves, robbers, house
9 burners, and men who slay their wives and ar,
G so handy with pistols, to distinctly understand
= that we mean business. We don't like to d,
n this. 1t is no pleasure to us, but "A stern hare
duty that we can perform if necessary. Anc
n all such aforesaid had better be triet