The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-06-05
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NEWS


Fork of Salmon River. Troops have been
sent after the murderers.
THE New York Times publishes crop re-
ports from about one hundred places, GOV.
ering more than one thousand points in
thirty-four States and one Territory. The
general average indicates an abundant har-
vest throughout almost every State.
JOSEPH FURsT, twelve years old, while
bathing in st. Joe River, near Fort Wayne,
Ind, Saturday afternoon, with some COM
panions, got beyond his depth and was
drowned. The Dody was recovered shortly
after.
AT Silver Reef, Utah, the Harrison House,
Pioneer Restaurant, the stores of Histen.
burg & Ponjade, Jacobs & Sutton, Seigle l.
Marks, l. Schwartz, John N. Cassidy's saloon
and the new Post-ofice were consumed by
fire. Some twenty residences we're also de-
stroyed.
THE Treasurer of the United States has
decided that the four per cent. refunding
certificates may be deducted by National
Banks in making up their semi-annual
return of the average capital subject to duty
the same as the law authorizes in the case
of United States bonds.
AT Kewaskum, Wisconsin, farmer
named Nicholas Altenhafer beat the brains
out of a six weeks old infant by knocking
its head against the wall and cutting the
scalp open with a picture-frame. He then
carried the dead infant two miles to priest
and acknowledged his crime.
VIM. FERGUSON, planter at Pendleton,
s. c., near the Georgia line, went to the field
where Hattie Patton, a colored girl, worked,
and demanded that she retract story of
his attempt to outrage her. She refused,
and Ferguson deliberately leyeled shot
gun at her and fred both barrels, literally
tearing her head off.
AFFAIRS look warlike in Greece, for a
measure of an exceptionally important
character has just been taken by the Gov
ernment. In European countries indeed it
is only in times of extreme emergency that
the militia are enrolled, and the cable re-
ports that the embodiment of contingent
of six thousand Greek National Guards
has been ordered.
THE European dispatches are busily re-
porting new features in the war waged by
conspirators have been sentenced to be shot
at Kieff. Many women were also sentenced
to various terms of penal servitude, and
the Berlin Post adds that several female
Nihilists will also be executed at Kieff.
DURING severe thunder storm in Della
ware County, Ohio, the residence of Lewis
Ross, 81 uated near Bellpoint,was struck by
| lightning. and demolished the furniture in
the house without in the least hurting the
! inmates of the house. A valuable span of
horses belonging to DR.. Hubbard, residing
east of Delaware, was struck Ey lightning
and instantly killed while in an open field
| DURING thunder storm Edward Smith,
about thirty years of age, living near Mas
terville, Ohio, was struck by lightning while
out attending to some sheep, killing him
instantly, and also several sheep. His
clothing was somewhat burned, and his
body somewhat mutilated. He leaves 8
wife and two children and many friends tc
mourn;h loss.
OVER one hundred letters, received from
different points situated in Northwestern
Iowa in regard to the condition of the crops
say the small grains in some places are be
hind on account of the dry soil. The acre
age of wheat exceeds that of last year. Oatl
and grass suffer most on account of the dry
weather. Corn looks well, and in som'
places better than it has for seven years. o.
the whole, everything is looking excellen
for good harvest.
PIE WALKER, in attempting to pass il
a boat from Port Day to Goat Island, OF
Al: %Ia {Iar lox r1,f 3,
the Trap Rapids, just above Goat Island
and carried over the Falls. He had crosse,
the river at the same place many times be
fore, but a correspondent states that on tn
day of his failure and death he was intoxi
Gated and unable to manage the boat. Hun
dreds of Mortified spectators witnessed tn
catastrophe, without the capacity to affor
relief.
No less than twenty-seven children hav
been poisoned at Newark, Vermont, b
drinking water out of brook, near a schoo
house, into which dead horse and sewers
sheep had been thrown. At last reports, te
children were already dead, and it wa
feared that the other seventeen would nc
recover. 1t is reported that farmer VIII
lives near by, and who allowed the carcasse
to be thrown into the brook, is to be al
rested. Great excitement prevails. Th
bodies of the dead children soon becam
decompo.ed, and had TO be buried forthwith
, A CORRESPONDENT writes to the Clncil
, matt Commercial that the Superintendent {
the Indianapolis Hospital states that thel
have been in that city this spring five case
three fatal, of disease much mblin
, yellow fever, and the treatment for it hi
+ been the same as for yellow fever. Thel
were two or three cases of yellow fever thel
last summer, imported from the South, an
it is feared that the fever germs are ther
. and will be liable to develop under h.
weather, particularly if June should be W
, and hot.
t A SINGULAR accident happened at Swift
i mills, about eight miles from Detroit, Micl
4 resulting in the death of lad name
7 Tommy Schultz, sixteen years old. Your
Schultz was engaged in replacing be
which had got out of its course, and Whit
e was so high up, near the ceiling, that he h,
8 to reach for it with a pole. In order to ma
k age the pole more easily, he rested the Ell
y on his hip, and while in this position Il
d wheel started, and struck the top of the pc
Q with such force that it was driven Gle
!: through his body. Death result
q Immediately.
% THE twenty-fifth annual session of t
Right Worthy Grand Lodge of Good Te
plars closed Saturday, at Detroit, with
n immense mass meeting at Belle Isle, OPT
! site the city. The Lodge was in sessi
4 nearly all of Friday night, closing up
4 business. The resolution substiting bade
N for regalia was lost. The subject of inc
n porating mutual benefit insurance featur
" with the objects of the Order, was referr
T. to each Grand Lodge. After disposing
large numbers of appeals, they adjourn
to meet in New York next May.
ID The seventy-hve.hour walking tour
IN | ment at Chicago for the O'Leary champ