The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-04-03
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NEWS,

White, of New York, Minister to Germany.
AN Eastport, Maine, dispatch says that
five seamen rowing ashore in Bliss Harbor,
were drowned by the upsetting of the boat.
THE Licking County Courthouse, at
Newark, Ohio, was severely damaged by
fire and water, few days ago. The loss is
estimated at about $50 600, with s25, 900 in.
surance. The county records were saved.
GEORGE W. c. JOHNSTON, prominent
and well-known politician, and for two
terms Mayor of Cincinnati, died, few days
ago, after lingering illness of a compli.
Gated character.
LITTLE WOLF and MS band of Cheyenne
Indians, numbering thirty-fve lodges, with
two hundred and fifty ponies, were captured
by Lieutenant clarke, second cavalry,
with eighty-fve men, on Rox Elder Creek,
near Yellowstone River.
PATRICK SMITH and Julius Christian,
negroes, convicted of the murder of John
C. Lacy, on the 18th of January last, were
hanged at New Kent Courthouse, Virginia,
on the 25ih of March. Two thousand peo-
pie were present, including a number of
colored women.
LATELY, at Indianapolis, the wife of John
Bohl left their two-year old son at home
alone, and, when she returned, found the
charred remains of the boy in the fire.
place. Either in fit or play he had fallen
into the flames, and, being unable to rise,
was literally roasted to a crisp.
A DISPATCH from Moberly, Mo-, says:
l. 4 Isl laA = ,u fo xuhi lie
she was asleep. He claims it was acci-
dental. He thought the pistol empty;
expected to wake his wife by swapping a
cap. They had been married only three
weeks. Daily was Jailed.
MRS. HALEY, widow of the late Captain
Patrick Haley, of the Fire Department,
Memphis, committed suicide, on Wednes-
day morning, by shooting herself with q
pistol. Grief over the death OF her hus-
band, which occurred during the epidemic,
is the cause assigned.
COLONEL Tom BUFoRD, who killed Judge
Elliott in Frankfort, KY. guarded by an
,ficer and six men of the McCreary Guards,
was put aboard train and sent for safe
keeping to the Louisville Jail. The an'
thorities kept the matter close secret to
the last moment for fear of a mob in Frank
fort and accidents along the route.
CAPTAIN ED. O'MEAeHER CONDOR, who,
it will be remembered, was incarcerated in
a British prison for eleven years for Fenian.
ism, and was released last year by the re.
quest of President Hayes and Minister
Welsh, has been appointed clerk in the
Treasury Department, through the influ-
ence of Stanley Matthews and Ex-Governor
Tom Young.
THE will of Joseph Drake, late of Brook.
lyn, New York, who left an estate of $780,
900 to his wife and eight children, and to
Ann Campbell and her two children, is being
contested on the ground that the testatol
was insane Among his eccentricities were
his refusal TO shake hands with any one, tn Z
habit of throwing pennies to boys, and
firing pistols out of the windows.
AT Newburg, Ind, two white men, named
John Bell and Daniel Frame, entered {
church where colored festival and supper
was in progress, and, after eating as mucf
as they desired, demand was made upoI
them for payment by Charles Thomas, {
colored man. One of the men drew a razol
and cut Thomas's throat from ear to ear
killing him instantly. Both men wer'
placed in Jail.
A DEAD body was found in Ziegler'
woods, near Tifin, Ohio. Subsequent in
vestigation proved it to be the body of I
suicide, man about fifty years old. Hi
throat was cut from ear to ear, razor bein.
tightly clutched in the right hand. A let
ter found in his pocket led to the belief tina
his name was Jacob Wirtmiller, a shoe
maker. Dependency and poverty il
thought to be the cause of suicide.
SATURDAY afternoon at Madison, Wis.
fire broke out in the Fairchi1d Block
The fremen were promptly on hand. Al
explosion of heated air occurred, badly in
juring a number of them. Among thos'
most severely burned were Albert Cheney
| foreman, and A. M. Doggett, Secretary o
the Sack Company; Jake Manetta, proprie
tor of the Villas House; Thomas Hughes
| Thomas Morgan and Rober. Wooton.
As a passenger train on the 1. C. & L
R. R. was passing West Riverside, nea
Cincinnati, little three-year-old child, VIII
was playing on the track, became confuse'
| in its efforts to seek a place of safety, an,
ran directly in front of the rapidly
| approaching engine. The child's mother
Mrs. Cork, on seeing the danger, dashe
forward with parents devotion, pushe
the little one out of harms way, and wa
at the same instant struck by the engin
| pilot and killed outright She leaves
husband and two daughters.
GUsTAvE NocKLEs, gardener in the en-
ploy of James Siler, was run over nea
Delhi, near Cincinnati, by freight trail
! When the unfortunate man was picked u
it was found that the wheels had passed owe
both hips, crushing the pelvic bones, &
well as featuring the right thigh and seve
ing the leg on that side so that it was onl
held by strip of skin. The lower porto
Of the body was cut open, exposing th
bowels. Despite these injuries Nockles live
for one hour and half, and then expire
in great agony.
NEARLY the entire business portion
Seneca, ILL.,, has been destroyed by fir
The fire originated in Underhill's Hall, an
quickly communicated to other building
as the town was without fire apparatus, a
efforts to stay the flames were powerles
Among the losers were G. 81. FIickinge
druggist; C. A. Thomas, dry goods; d.
Underhill, groceries; Mark Taylor, har
ware, and H. BiIlbarz, dry goods and gr
ceries. In all about twenty buildings wei
burned, including sixteen business house
The loss is placed at $4,000; insuran'
$4,000.
KNOX MARTIN, for the murder of Jot
Whittemeyer and wife, was hanged at Mas
vile, on Friday. in the presence of an il
mense throng of people. He made co
fession, saying that he and George Berr
who had him arrested, had made up the
minds to kill Whit emeyer; met in WOO
land near his house on the night of Il
murder, and went to the house togethe
Berry going in first. Berry struck him wi
alstone, and then he struck Berry, knoc
: ing him senseless the first blow. When
had struck Mrs. Whittemeyer the first tim
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