The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-05-01
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NEWS.

A FIRE at Anna, ILL.,, destroyed twelve |
frame buildings. Loss, $50, 600; insurance,
$2O, 900.
GENERAL JOHN A. DIX died on the night |
of April 81, at the residence of his son-in. |
law, in New York City.
AT the Louisiana Constitutional Conven /
ton, resolution that members take the |
oath to support the Constitution of the |
United States was tabled-64 to As.
ATwELvE year old Texas boy, who read
the life of Sam. Bass and wanted to be |
robber, has been captured by his father
in Illinois, after an absence of three |
months.
In the Michigan House of Representa-
tives, bill which proposed to regulate the
sale of liquor in the State, being in sub
stance the same as to the Maine liquor law,
was defeated by vote of "a TO SO.
PENNSYLVANIA is suffering greatly from
the tramp nuisance. The papers complain
that the stringent laws of New England
have driven the vagraDts into Pennsylvania,
and call for corresponding legislation in
that State.
AT Fairfield. ILL.,, ten year old son of W.
A. Albert was playing in corn bin in an
elevator while car was being loaded, and
was drawn down and drowned in the corn.
His gasping could be heard, but no efforts
could reach him in time.
A sTAvE-sAw burst in a shingle factory
at Evansville, Ind, while revolving rapidly.
Two pieces struck James Allison, who hap
pened to be seeking employment. One tore
odb r;rbf md III 9TH 1op ad hic
thigh in a fearful manner. His arm was
amputated.
AN act granting an annual pension of
seventy.fve dollars to the surviving veter-
ans of the Mexican war from Pennsylvania,
who resided in the State for more than
twenty years prior to the passage of the
bill, and also to the widows of deceased SOL
diers and sailors of said war, passed both
branches Of the Legislature.
EXTRAORDINARY heavy rains throughout
Texas caused streams to overflow, and rail
roads to be washed. Traffic is entirely sus-
pended. At Houston the water rose
eighteen feet in three hours, and carried
away all the railroad bridges and many
warehouses along the banks of Buffalo
Bayou. The damage is great.
| JUDGE JOSEPH JOHNSON died at Zanes-
vile, Ohio, Saturday,, April &c. He was a
prominent politician of Guernsey County
| up to 1872, and served two terms there as
Probate Judge, when he moved to Zanes-
vile and embarked in the drug business.
He was leading member of The National
Greenback par ty there.
BISHOP EDWARD R. AMEs, of the Metho
dist Episcopal Church, died at his residence
in Baltimore, on Friday morning, April "a.
He was graduated from Ohio University, at
Athens, over fifty years ago, and afterward
founded the school that became McKendree
College. He was known and loved by
Methodists in ali parts of the United States
A HORRIBLE accident occurred at Monti-
cello, ILL.,, TO "a little four year old daughter
of J. w. Roberts. She had crawled under
the wheels of a standing freight train on
the Chicago Il Paducah road, when the train
moved up, catching her on the rail. She
was cut in two, from the left shoulder to the
right hip, and ber left leg was cut off. She
expired instantly.
THE residences of Mr.. Joseph Mirgen and
James McSweeny, lancaster, Ohio, were
totally destroyed by fire the other night,
the work of an incendiary. In addition to
the total loss sustained by Mr.. Mirgen, one
of his children, Aggie, bright little child
of eight years, was suffocated to death, and
another one, John, a young man, seriously
burned.
ST. LOUIS Oddfellows celebrated the
sixtieth anniversary of the Order, Saturday,
by assembling at Mercantile Hall and listen
| fo -droecoc hrr in ont
st. Charles, Mo-, number of Lodges met
and dedicated a new hall at that place
kilograms from different portions of the
State announce that the day was observed
in almost every town.
A CINCINNATI lady, Mrs. Emma Tryon
committed suicide at the Commercial
Hotel, Albany, Ind, few mornings ago
The day previous, she purchased two
ounces of laudanum and dimes worth oi
morphine, all of which she took some time
during the night, expiring about six O'Clock
in the morning. 1t was not known that she
had taken the drugs until the Coroner't
inquest was in progress. Financial failure
of her husband in the show business wal
the cause.
JAMES FREER, merchant from Niles
; was run oyer and instantly killed at Ma
honing Depot, Warren, Ohio. Two car
had been switched on the siding, and wer,
, running free with one brakeman on top
: when Freer went in front of the runnin,
, cars. He was warned by bystanders, ant
efforts were made to save him, but he evi
IDENTIFY did not realize the danger. Th
trucks passed over his chest and lower Jaw
nearly severing the head from the body
s He was about forty years of age, and leave
3 a wife and one child.
GENERAL CONWAY, of New Jersey, ha
r received from General Butler the offer of
= gift of twenty thousand acres of good farm
f ing land in Wisconsin, to be divided lint
e small farms and transferred to freedme
. refugees from the South. General Butle
claims that it is all nonsense that colore
men can not prosper in a cold country
that no people, black or white, can prosps
10 well in all respects in a warm as in
r cold climate, and that the highest degree
t civilization is reached by people living, nj
C under the tropical sun, but where there
: an abundance of ice and snow.
:. GEORGE w. MCDARGH, Councilman fro
y the Eighth Ward, Dayton, Ohio, was SUI
. denly killed at the foundry of VIM. P. Ca
lahan, East Third-street. MIR. McDargh W,
= assisting a workman to raise the larg
4 heavy front door to the foundry, when q
!. iron kettle filled with bits of castings, use
= as q weight, caught on an obstruction at IL
n wall. 1t took quite an effort to detach Il
4 kettle, and when it swung clear it title
r and piece OF casting, weighing about fif
l. pounds, fell from it, striking Mr.. McDart
'. on the head, fracturing his skull, and prea
, ing his neck. He gasped few times al
n was dead.
K, MARK GRAY, who attempted to sho