The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-02-27
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NEWS.

Ex-Governor Boggs, OF California, committed
suicide by cutting his throat.
MRS GRANGER, widow of the late General
Gorden Granger, has begun legal proceed.
ings to annul her marriage with Captain
Thomas Blair, Fifteenth Infantry, United
States Army, who pleaded guilty to the
specifications of the charge of forgery and
bigamy before the Courtmartial.
In the Michigan Legislature Zachariah
Chandler has been elected United States
Senator, to fill the unexpired term of Sen.
ator Christiancy, receiving eighty-eicht
votes. The Democrats voted for Barnes,
late candidate for Governor. The Green
hackers supported Henry Chamberlain.
r. Fl. CLINTON, Adjutant-General of Gen
eral Lee, and since the war President of the
Columbus Manufacturing Company, at Co
lumbus, Ga, fell dead at his desk, aged over
sixty. He was graduated at West Point
from Virginia, promoted Major in the Mex
lean War, and was Paymaster in Texas be-
fore fhe war.
NEWS by way of Washington gives the
information that Secretary Sherman has
ordered the revenue cutter Oliver Wolcott,
from Port Townsend, to Sitka, to preserve
the peace. The British man-of-war Osprey
has lest Victoria, B. c., for Sitka, at the
earnest request of citizens, who represented
that they feared an indiscriminate massacre
| by the Indians.
AFTER weary tramp, lasting nearly
| month, Miss Exilda La Chappele, at Chi
cago, Saturday night, finished her under
taking of walking twenty-seven hundred
quarter miles in twenty-seven hundred con-
secutive quarter hours. She continued
walking, with the intention of completing
three hundred quarter miles in the next
consecutive three hundred ten minutes.
| INTELLIGENCE is received at military
headquarters at Chicago that teamsters re-
turning to Crow Creek Agency, Dakota, saw
eighty Indians, supposed to be Cheyennes,
who surrounded them and closed in with.
out firing shot, took their provisions and
clothing, and gave them in exchange silver
watch. They were armed with Winchester
rifles, well supplied with ammunition, and
were war party bound for Canada.
EARLY Saturday morning, at the Apple
gate Coal Mines, in Hubbard Township,
some eight miles from Youngstown, o., one
of the boilers that supplies the steam to the
engine for pumping the water out of the
bank exploded, killing and mangling the
engineer, John Beatty, and fatally injuring
David Ferry, the only persons near, and
demolishing the engine.house and throwing
the thirty-fve foot boiler three hundred
feet.
AT a conference between the Illinois
Central Railway authorities and Southern
fruit-growers, at Crystal Springs, Miss, it
was arranged that when the fruit season ar
rived fruit-cars shall be taken to Chicago on
fast freight schedule, making the run in
sixty hours. The distance from Chicago to
Crystal Springs is about eight hundred
miles. The strawberry crop in that vicinity
is gathered between the 10th and 10th OF
April, or about three weeks earlier than
that of Southern Illinois.
A SAN DIEGO, CAL, dispatch says: A
Union special from Tucson says pri
!; vate letter from reliable citizen OF Sonora
dated Magdalena, January 10, says: 81
have returned from Ures this week and an
perfectly satisfied that revolution has
.. commenced. We know that Serena has
pronounced in Alamas, but no further news
has reached here. We are in hopes that the
/ Federal troops will interfere and stop tht
, revolution
{ THERE was mistake in the report, widely
circulated, that the Senate had removed thu
tax on friction matches. It failed by on'
vote. Commissioner Raum says the Treas
ury, with heavy demands upon it, canno
afford to have the tax on matches abolished
l but that if any taxation is abolished thi
r should be, as matches are a necessity, ant
{ the tax burdensome. With the tax re
{ moved, matches would fall forty per cent
4 Every dollars worth consumed is subjecte'
:, to tax of forty cents. The amount real
lied is So, 100000 per annum.
Il SENATOR ARCHER has introduced reso
/ luton in the Illinois Legislature, that ou
Senators and Representatives in Congress
are hereby requested and instructed by al
!. proper means, and by their votes, to pre-
cure, if possible, such appropriation Q
money by Congress as shall be sufficient fo
T. the Improvement of the Mississippi Rive
d to capacity sufficient for ocean steame
l. navigation from st. Louis to the Gulf c
(, Mexico, and ship-canal from Chicago t
is the Mississippi River by way of the Ill
Il nois and Michigan Canal.
r AT Stockton, California, a threshing 'e
O. CINE boiler, used in connection with th
~ test of a new propeller pump set in
: slough, exploded, blowing the engine tt
80 distance of one hundred and fifty fee
is through a crowd collected to witness tt
70 test. So far as learned sixteen perso1
ly were killed outright and twenty-si
k wounded. The explosion was due to Il
ne recklessness of the engineer, who is amor
70 the killed. The accident caused gre
" gloom at Stockton, and flags flying in hon
. of washington's birthday were lowered
"a half mast.
~ THE Opera-house Block, at Columbu
ne Ind, was totally destroyed by fire a fe
IL nights ago. Loss estimated at $500
ur partly covered by insurance. Among t
he sufferers are Lee Joseph, dry goods; To-
tn $1,000; insured for $4,000 in the Que
of National, of Hartford, and Home, of NJ
IN York; George Carruthers, furniture; 10
- So, 500; insured for 81 100 in the Home a
Phoenix of New York. The building "
ne insured in the Western Assurance, Roy
Pc Canadian, of British America; Royal of
nd gland North American Fire Associate
in Manhattan, and Howard, of Buffalo. Car
.ed of fire unknown.
,od A CoLD-BLooDED murder occurred T
the day at Hartford, a village twenty-five mi
northwest of Newark, o. AS far as can
:, learned, the facts are these: For SO
lly time a man named Noble Patterson /
led been charging his wife with criminal il
lalf macy with DIR. Thurston, druggist of
ue, village, and that some two weeks since
by had told her to leave with the doctor, VIII
ev he threatened to kill if he did not lea
;on Both, it is said, did leave, and were abs
some days. Thurston returned, howe1
O'o and the parties meeting an alteration
the sued, when Patterson shot Thurston thro1
ems the heart, killing him instantly.
pe- A SENSATION was produced at Nashvi
lth Thursday morning, by the discovery of