The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-05-01

1t was made twenty thousand collars, ana
the would.be assassin went to Jail. The
penalty for the crime is from one to four
teen years ia the penitentiary.
AT Detroit, Michigan, William Mackey,
a laborer, aged fifty years, while walking
down Randolph-street, approaching the
dock, suddenly fell in a MT aud lay on the
sidewalk apparently in great agony. In
this condition he was discovered by PATROL
man Moynahan, who assisted him to his
feet when he started to walk away. To the
surprise of himself as well as the officer, he
stumbled and fell again. Thinking the
man had not fully recovered, the officer
questioned him and found that the poor fell
low had been stricken with total blindness.
The man was assisted to his residence, and
at last accounts had not recovered sight.
Previous to his attack Mackey was in
possession of excellent eyesight.
THE Secret Service has come into posses
sion of mos remarkable counterfeit. 1t is
a counterfeit twenty dollars United States
legal.tender note, and is calculated to
deceive even persons accustomed to hand
ling notes of that denomination. What
makes it more remarkable is the fact that
the work on the note was executed with a
pen and ink. Ali the intricate figures and
curves, all the heads, the seal, the fine
engraving work, and even the fiber in the
paper, are almost perfectly counterfeited by
pen and ink. The signature of John
Allison, formerly Register of the Treasury,
formerly Treasurer, is perfect. The whole
bill, back and face, is a wonderful piece of
pen work. The bill was detected at the
Sub Treasury in New Orleans.
THE following order was issued from the
Executive Mansion, signed by Rutherford
B.Hayes: The President, in making public
the announcement of the death of Major
General John A. Dix, which occurred in
the City of New York, desires to commend
to the attention of the people of the country
the great public services, through long
and eventful life, of this eminent citizen,
and the patriotic record of his military ser
vices, both in his early youth and at an ad-
vanced age. Appropriate honors will be
paid to his memory under the direction OF
the War Department and of the Treasury
Department, of which he was, at an import
ant period, the head, and it is recommended
to his fellow.citizens to participate in 9
general token of respect to his worth as 9
private citizen, and to his eminent service
as Senator of the United States, Minister te
France AID Governor of the State of New
York.
| THE Notre Dame Catholic University
near South Bend, Ind, has been destroyed
by fire. The College building-six stories
high-the In6rmary, Old Mems House
Music Hall, and Minim's Hall were all en-
tirely destroyed. Loss estimated at 5000,
900; insurance, $50, 900. No lives were lost
A student named P. ]. Daugherty wa
seriously injured by jumping from tn
second story. The origin of the fire is il
doubt, but is supposed to have been cause'
by spontaneous combustion. The circulat
ing library of twenty-five thousand volumes
valued at $4,000; seventeen pianos AM
other musical instruments in the Musi
Hall were burned. The institution was on
of the largest of the kind in the West, an
was founded by Father Sorin, Chief of tn
Order of Brothers of the Sacred Heart
headquarters Paris. Emperor Napoleon
was a warm friend of the institution, an
made it several fine presents, including
chime of bells, one of the largest on tn
continent
THE particulars of terrible catastroph
which befell the family of Henry Olt, resid
ing near Stringtown, village some twelv
miles north of Dayton Ohio, has bee
published. On Thursday evening Mrs. OIL
who was at work in the garden, had he
attention called to the barn by the cries G
her fvur-year. old son issuing therefron
and to her horror discovered the buildin
to be on fire. She at once ran to the bar
and endeavored to rescue her child, bu
too late. The flames had gained the ma
terry, and while consuming the body of he
child seemed to mock her screams q
anguish. The fire soon communicated I
an adjoining tobacco-shed and able, an
they were soon enveloped in flames, and
was but short time ere the three structure
with their contents, were entirely col
sumed. 1t was some time after tn
subsistence of the fire that search could
made for the remains of the child, whe
nothing but the charred trunk of the unfo
tunate little victim could be found, the r
mainder of his person being entirely col
sumed.
RICHARDS, q Nebraska murderer, W,
hanged at Minden, Kearney County, N
braska, recently. He mounted the scafol
with a steady step, and stood facing tt
crowd of twenty-five hundred people. A
inclosure had been erected on the publ
square, pen made of pine boards sixtee
feet square, in which the execution was
be held, the law of Nebraska making a pl
vate execution necessary. A mob tore th
shed down, and the execution was publ
! After mounting the scaffold the prison
spoke to the crowd for five minntes, sayil
he was not guilty of the crime under whi
he was convicted. He spoke with amazi
frmness, and astonished everybody vi
heard him. When he finished, praye
were made, and to the astonishment
everybody, Richards's spiritual advis
said Richards requested everybody to jo
him in singing
4 "There is a fountain filled with blood"
: Two verses of this by mn were sung. II
o man was then tied with a rope and straI
n continuing talking all the time. VIII
r the moose was adjusted and the black C
d drawn, he still talked until the Shel
f; kicked the lever. He fell six feet. T
r neck was dislocated and only a nervo
a twitching Of the legs showed any or
# least sensibility. The man died in
Il minutes. The crowd was we'll behaved. 8.
is Richards was convicted on the 10th of j,
uary of the murder of Peter Anderson, n,
n Lowell, on the 10th of last December.
!. claims also to have killed several otl
I. persons, but has not clearly defined tn
IS facts, for the reason that when upon
point of making confession he sold to a c
n tain politician of the State his whole c.
d fession, to be published after his death, a
"a then refused to reveal further facts.
j, FOREIGN SUMMARY
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