The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-07-10
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NE WS

MIN TO retire temporarily from Dualnese.
THE Sutro Tunnel for the reception of the
water from the Comstock Mines, has been
completed.
In New York Mary Anderson aud infant
were burned to death cause, starting fire
with kerosene
FIVE hundred French Canadians are
making q pilgrimage to the shrine of st.
Anne De Beaupre, near Quebec.
REPUBLICAN Senators who have CO n
versed with the President assert that there
will be an extra session called after the fall
elections.
Miss JESSIE DUNBAR, aged twenty-five,
was burned to death at POughkeepsie, n.
Y, Saturday. some boys having burned her
with fre-crackers.
JONI. SMITH, alias Cooley, alias Goss, an
alleged horse thief, committed suicide by
cutting an artery with a teaspoon handle,
while in Jail at Cleveland, Ohio. ---..
IMMIGRATION statistic at Castle Garden
show 1924 immigrants landed during the
first six months of 1879, an increase of H.
356 over the same period in 1878.
WHILE Captain A. Oaksmith, of Carolina
City, his son and four daughters, were
crossing Brogue Sound, n. c., the boat cap
sized. One daughter was drowned and the
others were not expected to survive.
DURING the session of Congress Just
terminated, 727 bills and 46 joint resolu-
tions were introduced in the Senate, and
2 bills and 1l9 joint resolutions in the
House.
The Democrats of Maine nominated Gov.
ernor Garcelon for Governor by acclama.
tion, and passed series of resolutions in
dorsing the course of the Democrats in
Congress, and favoring an unlimited and
free coinage Of silver.
A YOUNG German girl named Rhetta
Rinza was horribly burned and died Friday
night, at New Castle, Penn, from the effects
of her clothing taking fire from a fire.
cracker, as she was walking along the street
early in the evening.
A DISPATCH from Minneola, Texas, says ::
The negro who outraged Miss Edwards,
near LindaIe, Wednesday, has been cap.
tured. After being identified by the victim,
he was literally hacked to pieces by mob.
The body, when found, was disfgured be
yond recognition.
A SPECIAL from Austin, Texas, says
News has been received of a fight between
State troops and party of Indians at the
head of Conch River. One Indian was
killed and seven wounded; the rest es.
capped. The State troops lost several horses
and pack mules. They are still pursuing
the Indians.
IT is OF current report among the Catho
lies that Bishop Chatard, of Indiana Catholic
diocese, is to be transferred by the Pope to
Cincinnati, as assistant of Archiboship
Purcell. Bishop Chatard is an American,
a man of profound learning, of great busi-
ness sagacity, and exceedingly progressive
in spirit. He has worked many reforms in
the church in his diocese, since he assumed
the Bishopric.
AN incendiary fire at Amherst, Mass,
burned $4,000 to 100000 worth of prop
erty. 1t destroyed the Amherst House,
tie post-office, ssvi ngs bauk, town Offices,
public library, one of the largest livery
stables in western Massachusetts,, two
college secret society lodge rooms, and a
number of mercantile firms. The distance
burned over was about twenty rods in
length.
MORRIS ISLAND, an excursion resort, one
mile below Trenton, n. j., was the scene of
terrible accident recently. As an excur.
sion boat approached the wharf hundreds
of people rushed toward it to get on board,
and when it landed the wharf gave way and
about seyenty.fve persons were thrown
into the river. Several were taken out
injured. Mrs. Andrew Johns on, her son
FIVE years old, and little girl named
Miller, were drowned, and their bodies
recovered.
The debt statement shows the increase
of the debt for June to be S24,7S8; cash in
/ the Treasury, 1858. .152, SIT; gold certificates
$15 Ala, 700; silver certificates, 81, 1885, $50
certificates outstanding, $30,370,000; re
| funding certificates, S12,s4s21O. Lega
tenders outstanding, s346, ,6s1 ,O16; fractions
currency outstanding, $15, 5,s42 ,605; United
States notes held for redemption of frac
tional currency, $S,375,934; called bonds
not matured, for which per cent bond
have been issued, $lO4, ,O72, ,41O, Decrease fo
the fiscal year, S,579,575.
CHAsTINE Cox, murderer of Mrs. Hull
has apparently adopted the insanity dodge
Saturday morning he singed of a portion o
his hair with matches, and when guestione,
why he did so, informed Warden Finn tba
he wanted to relieve himself of headache
By direction of District Attorney Phelps
Cox was examined by DR.. VIM. L. Hardy
City Examiner in Lunacy, who pronounce'
him perfectly sane. DIR. Hardy will ez
anime Cox every day until he is placed o.
trial.
BY an explosion of the Giant Powde
Mills at Mowbray's nitro-glycerine works
North Adams, Mass, Jack Pierce and Wn
Long, workmen, were blown to atoms. The
we're employed at the works considerabl
time, and at the time of the accident wer
packing new kind of 79-giant powder il
the powder.house. The house was blown t
splinters. The mica-horse, glycerine-workt
and wire-house were badly damaged by tn
conclusion. This makes the fourth tim
the works have been blown up.
AS a locomotive was rapidly passin
through Passsic. N. j., the other day, tn
engineer saw a seven-years.old girl sue
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of him. The engine was reversed and tn
brakes applied, but the train could not b
stopped at once, and the girls death SCENE
imminent; but just as escape seemed in
possible, she lifted a baby from betwee
the ties, where it had heretofore been il
visible to men on the locomotive, threw
upon the soft ground outside the tract
and bounded after it, the heavy machin
grazing her dress rs she leaped away. Th
young heroine refused to give her name
residence.
PROFESSOR CoLGRovE and Miss Emm
Allison, of the Graphic, made a balloo
ascension from San Francisco on the Fourt
The balloon came down in the bay, draggs
through the water over two miles in abol
the same number of minutes, struck a pi
of the old wharf on the opposite side of IL
bay, and threw out both occupants, wi
were somewhat cut and bruised, but n
seriously injured COlgroye and Mi