The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-10-30
NEWS or TIVE WEEK.

THE Pennsylvania coal region is experience
ing severe drought.
THE Southern Utes have held council, and
now proclaim their unanimous desire for peace.
AsAD condition is reported from Hungary.
Hundreds of people are starving death.
The walking mania is driving the public
mad 1t is even something to be tramp.
The anniversary of the surrender OF Corn
wallis, at Yorktown, Va, was celebrated on the
23rd.
A NOTORIOUS gang of counterfeiters have just
been captured at St. Louis by Capt. P. D.
Tyrrell, ofthe Government Secret Service.
The molder's strike at New Albany, Indiana,
is ended, and the men gone to work at the Is
per cent. advance asked for.
The Lower Ohio is said to be lower at the
present time than it has been for the past thirty
years. Navigation at some points is almost
impossible.
AT LANCASTER, KY, a livery stable keeper
who ordered some colored men to desist playing
cards in the loft of his stable, was set upon
by them and pounded to death, and then
thrown from the loft window.
boasts of a gang Of outlaws and midnight
sassins. An attempt was made a few nights
ago to assasinate man named Ritter by calling
him to his door.
THE Utes invite full investigation of the
White River massacre. They have restored
the women and children unharmed who were
missing, and whom were taken prisoners by
them. They desire peace.
JAMES II. RIDDLE and son George d. Riddle,
President and Cashier of the Franklin Saving
Bank, of Pittsburg, have been found guilty of
embezzling funds to the amount of 500, 900 in
round numbers.
WM. HALE, young married man at Lexing
ton, Kentucky, another victim of arsenical
poison being placed in an aching tooth, has
just died. The process was similar to that of
the Gardner case--gangrene.
THE work of an incendiary at Nashville,
Tenn, caused the destruction of the McKen-
drick NJ. E. Church and other valuable s-op
erty. Dresden, Ohio, reports the burning of
one of its best blocks.
The steamer Pajora with sixty passengers
aboard, burned in the Bahama Channel. Seven
teen of the survivors were picked up by the
Louis H. in passing through Bahama Tunnel
who were clinging to frai raft in an almost
starved condition.
The past few days has been cold that dis
patches frem Memphis declare that the fever
has ended, nurses been discharged and that
business has again been resumed. That is the
kind of news we have been wanting to hear
from that unfortunate city for long time.
COAL famine is threatened in the Ohio
Valley. 1t is estimated that there is not
enough coal in Cincinnati to last two weeks
more, and unless the Ohio River raises, there
is prospect of great suffering. At the present
time, on account of its scarcity, coal is just
double its usual price.
THE crime of cutting the ear off fine horse
is about the meanest thing it is possible to con-
ceive. Henry Berger, near Shelbyville, Ind,
had one of his best horses treated in that man
ner by some sneak, to whom we imagine the
old whipping post and lash would prove sub
lime blessing.
The Postmistress at Louisville, KY, has de-
tanned quantity of letters addressed to lottery
companies in that city. She does this upon ad-
vices from the Postmaster General. The lottery
companies declare they will bring suit, and the
| Postmaster General tells the postmistress that
the Government will defend the suit.
THE official vote for Governor in Ohio IRE
turns all in) is as follows:
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