The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-06-12
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NEWS

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MANY farmers of Clarke County, Ohio
complain that they have been compelled to
plant corn three times this season.
DURING storm Saturday afternoon the
house of Rev. George Clark, at Asbury, N.
j., was struck by lightning and two painters
killed.
An old project fer the erection of an i'm
mense Protestant Episcopal Cathedral in
New York is being revived, and will prob
ably take definite shape this summer.
In New York, on Saturday, in a made-up
test case, Judge Blatchford gave a decision
sustaining the validity ef the reissue of
United States lesal-tender notes in the time
Of peace.
Miss CELIA MCCARTY. of Ironton, Ohio,
was seriously and fatally burned by putting
mixture of bees wax and turpentine on the
stove to heat, which ignited and commHni-
Gated the flames to her clothing. --f
PUTNAM, oldest son of A. Norton, Presi-
dent of the National Bank at Athens, Ohio,
was drowned while bathing in the Hooking
River. Much sympathy is felt for the be-
reaved parents.
HARGIs' official majority for Judge of the
Court of Appeals, in the First District OF
Kentucky, to supply the vacancy caused by
the assassination of John NJ. Elliott, is 8, ,557
in the thirty-nine counties composing the
district.
In Leavenworth, Kansas, two boys named
Oan Il Hubbell were killed by the cavlng
in of bank. The lads had been playing,
and had dug into the bank, which caved in,
the dirt smotherfng them before the alarm
could be given and they could be extricated.
A TRAMP attacked the widow of Farmer
Vinegar, near Millerton, Dutchess, County,
N. Y, and she was SO frightened that she
died instantly. She was between sixty and
seventy years of age. A lynching party
went in pursuit of the tramp.
BY the explosion of boiler, at Bryanfs
brick-yard, at Freedom, Pa. John Bryan
and Frank Matheny were instantly killed /;
John Powell and Frank Bryan fatally, and
d. Green, w. Erwin, and Joseph McDer.
mott seriously injured. Low water caused
the accident.
THE casualties resulting from the cyclone
at Irving, Kansas, are now reported at
thirty persons killed, and fifty-tbree badly
injured. Much suffering prevails among
families who have been left houseless and
destitute in the path of the storm, and ap-
pesls for aid come from several localities.
PATRICK MCCABE was overcome by the
dampness in a well near Beallsville, Ohio.
He signaled his comrades to draw him up,
but, when within five feet OF the surface, he
became unconscious, and fell from the
bucket to the bottom of the well, and was
instantly killed.
HARRY A HANSON and Carl Wilson
! while carrying $4,000 to the Loan and
Trust Company Bank in Chicago, for the
cashier of the Illinois Central Railroad
Company, were assaulted by two men, who
threw red pepper in their eyes, got posses
sion of the money and escaped.
| A LARGE rotary chemical boiler, used for
subduing straw at the paper mills at Mas
sillon, Ohio, exploded the other night
as to cause his death. The boiler, weighing
nearly three tons, was blown out through
the walls of the building, landing some fou
hundred feet from the mill.
WEDNESDAY night, at Las Vegas, New
Mexico, an Italian, who had last fal
murdered Frenchman and a Mexican
woman, and was sentenced to be hanged
but was allowed new trial, and a Mexican
who on Wednesday murdered man ). wer,
taken from the Jail and hanged in the public
square by citizens. The bodies were still
hanging Friday morning.
! GEN JAMES HIELDs, late United State
Senator from Missouri, died suddenly il
Ottumwa, Iowa, on the I'd of June. Oh
Sabbath day he had appeared in usua
health, ate a hearty supper, and wrote sew
eral letters, but just before retiring com
planned OF pain in the chest, aud soon there
after said to his niece that he was dying
and in thirty minutes expired, sitting in hi
chair remaining conscious to the last.
4 IN scuffie between Henry and job
Hevling, brothers, of Covington. KY, Joh
drew a knife and made slash at hi
brothers neck, severing the jugular veir
The unfortunate young man died in fe'
minutes. There was no ill-wiil between th
brothers, and this tragedy is regarded as th
result of accident. The brothers bad bee
drinking with some friends who witnesse
the scene.
THREE renegade Cheyennes, who sht
and killed Private Bader, and wounde
Signal Sergeant Kennedy, while en- route ft
Fort Keogh, Montana, and who were turne
over to the civil authorities at Miles Cit
) Montana, to answer to the charge of murde
were sentenced to be hung on the 7th
, July. The evening of their sentence two
: them committed suicide by hanging ther
: selves in the cell of the guard house at Fo
, Keogh. .t.tft.st
: FELIX MCCAIN was hanged at Newar
N. j., for the murder of j. Morris Hatch,
Niger Hollow, Sherburne, December
1878. His dying words we're asking forgiv
ness for all his sins and forgiving all b
. enemies. After hanging sixteen minut
! McCann was pronounced dead. On
, thirty-one persons, including Sheriff Hi
and other officials, were present. The
were ten thousand persons in town, al
most of them surrounded the Court-hou
. green.
} AT Ottawa, H., bloody double traget
| resulted from long-standing feud betwe
: the White and Connors families of tn
4 city and vicinity. Lawrence White W
!, shot dead by revolver in the hands of
I 7. Connors, and Connors himself was il
q mediately thereafter killed by bull
a from some unknown hand. Revolvers we
:. freely drawn and used among the renal
= ing parties to the quarrel, but no furth
u deaths resulted. 100
a REPORTS received from the interior
e Wisconsin indicate that the frost which
l. Friday night was quite general throughc
3 the State and was of seriously dsmagi
character. Corn, potatoes, vines a
vegetables were cut to the ground, a
either wholly destroyed or so seriously
jured as to insure material reduction
!. yield. At Forest Home Cemetery, n,
:. Milwaukee, the damage to flowers and 1
:, = iage-beds is estimated as high as two tho
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