The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-11-27
NEWS or THE WEEK.

IHE latest adv1ces from Yokohama, Japan,
reports 90, 900 deaths from cholera.
CHIEF OuRAY wants Gen. Adams to go with
him to Washington and lay the natter before
Secretary Schurz.
The Republican party in Maine will probably
appeal to the courts to settle the troubles result
ing from the late election in that State.
THE lottery men of New York have begun an
action against Postmaster James of that city
| for the detention of mail matter.
Rose MEEKER is now on a lecturing tour.
She is coming East-that is, east from the ex
treme West. Her subject is "The Indian
| Question:
The widow of Charles Dickens died at her
residence, Gloucester, Crescent, Regent Park,
| on the 21st, after an illness of eighteen
| months.
DISASTERS on the lakes are numerous. High
winds destroyed a number of schooners and
tugs at Cleveland, Detroit, Port Huron,
Oswego, N. Y, and at other points.
The feeling against the Hebrews is increas-
| ing in Germany, but one of the leaders of the
| Liberal Democracy there said the other day
that "Bsmarck knows who holds the purse
strings and he is a great lover or power"
THrRTY-oNE lives are reported to have been
lost on Lake Ontario, few days ago in storm,
facilitated persons belonging to the crew of the
tug Seymour, of Ogdensburg. Four tugs, three
dregs and eight scows were sunk.
PREMIER CANPos has declared the Govern
ment is determined to stamp out the Cuban
insurrection, and to this end, with the au-
thorization of the Cortes, to send thither rein
forcements to the number of 10 900 troops.
The appointments Hon. F. C. Beamen to
fill the vacancy in the Senate occurring from
the death of Chandler, of which we made
mention, has been declined, and Ex-Governor
Baldwin, of Michigan, has been appointed in
his stead.
FoUR-FIFTHs of the business portion of the
town of Pennington, Minn., has been de-
stroyed by fire, and the FIRE was brought under
control only after fire engines from St. Paul
and Minneapolis reached the scene. The loss
is estimated at $3.50, 200.
The report is current that Jay Gould, Cyrus
w. Field, Russell Sage and the friends of
the Wabash and Union Pacific system of
railroads have purchased the New York Gen.
trail from VIM. II. Vanderbi for the snug sum
of 0,000, 900.
FRENCH company was organized year
ago to work in opposition to the Western Union
Telegraph Company by laying a cable line.
The steamship Faraday has reached the inner
bend of Cape Cod bearing with her the new
cable which il to connect with the American
Union line.
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49,. uh. % o,;o 80 - aomnsnu ~ r;.h r. two o.bsrs
after a desnerate fight. were lodged in Jail for
crave robbery. Thew were detected in the
ect II now Turns ont that this DIR. Neil has
bes, engaged in the business for several
vears.
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tho su,tan to .rsm;t the whole of the war in
demnitv nrovided for in the Treaty of Salonica
| on the condition that the Sublime Porte should
| adopt the advice Of the Russian Government
resnectinp the further execution of the pro-
visions of the Treaty of Berlin.
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bv Her Ma;esk1ss - (56vernment.
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new railroad from Pittsburg to the East, via
EBzabetbtovn and the Connelsyille Coke Line,
is a fixed fact. The Pittsburg and Lake Erie,
the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Rail-
road and Vanderbilt, who, it is said, gave
three -fourths of the amount needed, are all in
terested in the new venture.
ruv,v ia oon.;aer.b,e s.c;tsment in Maine
ov.r ~. count Of the recent election. IT ;s
alleged that in some Republican districts that
the notices of election were not posted up a
sufficient length of time prior to that event to
make the election legal, and if votes in those
districts are thrown out, the Democracy will
hold the power in the Senate. The excitement
over the matter is increasing to an alarming
degree.
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Tn the small district of Mirorod. in 1875 and
1877 ! aos ner,ons died from the disease. Tn
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