The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-05-22
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NEWS

loss is estimated at 100000.
ALF BURNETT, the humorist, had an arm
and aleg broken by falling with steamboat
scafolding at the marine railway docks,
Cincinnati.
ALoNzo DAVIS and Henry Andrews,
white, and Lewis Carlton, colored, were
hung at Hillsboro. N. c., for burglary COM
mitted in Chapel Hill. Five thousand
people witnessed the execution.
The New Orleans TGmes's Plaquemine,
Iberville Parish, special says: Robert
Cheney, eolored, was hanged here to-day
for ravishing Amelia Voeght, in June, 1873.
The execution passed off quietly.
SEVERAL cases of houses struck by light
ming are reported throughout Min nesota
The most important was the Custom-house
at Pembina, Canada border, which was
wholly burned. The records were saved.
The steamer Robert PEBBLES ran down
skiff, at the foot of Goodman street, New.
port, KY, On Sunday morning, and two
brothers IN the skif, William and George
Morgan, were drowned.
Two German American citizens, born in
this country and residents of st. Louis, but
whose father has returned to Germany, have
appealed to the Secretary of State for pro-
lection against the demands of the Prussian
Government, which claims military service
of them.
GENERAL SHERIDAN is in recefSt of dis
| patches from army officers which indicate
that emigration into the Indian Territory is
by no means formidable, but confined
Il; 70, NH
of a rowing disposition, seeking homes.
MADAME ANDERSON accomplished at Gin
| cinnati, the wonderful feat of walking eight
| hundred and four miles in five hundred and
| thirty.six consecutive hours, walking one
and one-half mile at the beginning of each
| hour.
A SHERMAN, Texas, dispatch says: 1t is
rumored that duel was fought between
two men named Wiley and Jacobs. Ten
PAGES were stepped off. Both began firing
revolvers. Wiley fell mortally wounded at
the third shot. He raised himself on his
elbow and sent ball through Jacobs brain,
killing him instantly. Both were cattle
thieves and quarreled over a division of
the spoils.
| WHILE severe thunder storm WAS raging
near Fredericksburg, Indiana: two young
men named Samuel Durrin and Josiah
Mourning, who were at work in field
close to Blue River, left it and went to
the bank, and sat down under a sycamore
tree. A bolt hit the tree, killing both
instantly. Mourning was knocked into the
river, and Durrill was found sitting up
against the tree.
A RECENT dispatch from Princeton, KY,
says that all through that section of the
State destructive rain and hail showers are
being reported. In the country about
Princeton trees were entirely stripped of
their leaves and uprooted. Hailstones as
large as walnuts fell. Farmers report gar.
dens beaten down, tobacco plants badly
greatly injured.
NEAR Elrod, Ind, middle-aged German
farm hand named J. A. Habermann, while
plowing for farmer named w. B. Meyer,
| for some unknown cause became enraged at
the horses, and while beating them was re.
primanded by his. employer. He left the field,
proceeded to the house, and wrote note in
the German language, stating that he could
not please his master, but that he could xiii
himself. He then procured a rifle, which
he placed to his forehead, killing himself
instantly.
JOHN l. WEST was hanged at Bonneville
Mo-, for the murder of a tramp. When the
doomed man dropped, the faithless rope
gave way, and the poor wretch fell to the
ground. He a&ighted upon his back
gfasped convulsively at the air, and writhed
in such a manner as to turn over on his face
He was hastily hoisted up through the trap
the broken rope attached to the beam
above, aud the body again dropped. In
fourteen minutes respiration ceased, and al
twenty minutes the heart beat its last.
The buildings of the County Infrmary Al
Geeencastle Ind, were burned the othel
night, and of ifty-three inmates all escaped
but two insane men, Stephen link ant
Thomas Sutherland, who were burned te
death. Superintendent Shoptaugh wal
badly burned in his efforts to save the in
mates. The fire originated in the room O.
Sutherland. sent there from the Stat,
Asylum at indianapolis three weeks before
incurablv insane. This is the third tim,
the buildings have burned within twent,
years.
FROM Winchester KY, we have the fol
lowing in regard to the election of Judge i,
the First District: Reports from thirty o
J the forty counties in the First Appellat
District give aggregate majorities for Judg
J Hargis Dem. of over $500, and while tn
majorities of Holt, the Republican candi
date, are less than 1000 the remainin
counties will probably increase Hollis vote
but will still leave majority of about 800
for Judge Hargis. The Republicans genes
ally concede his election by at least 200
majority. Hargis gains largely in tn
mountain counties.
A SPECIAL dispatch from Paducah to tn
! Louisville Courier-JournaIsays: Two year
: ago a man named Dan Edmunds, who live
} in Livingston County, KY, ran off t
J Arkansas with neighbours daughter, lea,
ing wife and family behind. short tim
: ago he started back to his former hom
with a woman and child, and when nea
, the Mississippi River killed and buried botl
; On returning he took up with his lawfr
6 wife. The bodies of the murdered woma
} and child were found and identified, an
: search was instituted for Edmunds. A
, officer from Arkansas arrived at the hom
of the murderer, and arrested and took hi1
back to the scene of his crimes.
CROP reports from over one hundre
points in Iowa show an increased acreag
Of wheat and corn and that both of thos
crops are in excellent condition. The Sc,
son has been dry, which has enabled farm
: ers to plow lands that were not tillable i
o wet season. In a few localities tn
draught has done some damage, but, as
J, rule, the recent rains came in time to leav
! the crops in good shape; but in most Sc,
= tions more rains will be needed within
4 week or ten days to keep the crops in goo
: condition. Oats and hay will fall short {
the yield of last year owing to decrease
9 acreage of oats sown and the dry season