The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-10-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AhSJ """e moic wages anu AeWeI HouIs VI
labor.
THE reunion of veterans at Vincennes,
Indiana, few days ago, was attended by
$4,000 people.
A PARIS dispatch reports that 1000 emf
grants embarked at Genoa for the United
States on Friday, and 200 on Sunday.
CORRESPONDENT at MiIlersburg, Ohio, says
that on the 9th instant mercury there arose to
SO degrees in the shade and 120 degrees in the
sun. That reminds one of July weather.
CHATTANOOGA reports the lynching of two
negroes, Tom Jones and Bill Pearson, for the
confessed murder Of a grocer named Dick
Wood.
The moulders at Cincinnati, New Albany
and Louisville are all on strike. The demand
is Is per cent. on present wages. The en-
ployees are resisting the strike.
In THE case of Rev. S. Ii. Hayden, at New
Haven, Ct, charged with the murder of Mary
stannard, the indictment was squashed owing
to flaw. The reverend gentleman has been
rearre5ted. .. t
A RAILROAD collision on the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad east of Wheeling a few days ago
resulted in the killing of three persons, the
oneiheer' nfeman anu iad VINO was steaiing
ride.
NEWS from the frontier reports that Mer-
ritt's command has been in an engagement
with the Ute Indians for a week or more. This
scarcely strengthens the statement tnat the
Utes are a cowardly nation.
IT is stated that the Spanish Government
will introduce bill in the November sessions
OF the Cortez emancipating the slaves in Cuba
immediately, with five years compulsory service
VI compensate 'ne o"hers'
"CoRA PEARL" more widely known beauty
than whom perhaps never lived, is dead. We
may add that no more famous beauty ever
ruined as many men as she did in her time.
She was Venus with heart of stone. All
Paris was mad over her for decade or more.
THE past week has had tendency to in
crease the ravages of the fever at Memphis
owing to the warm temperature of the weather.
1t is doubtful whether the disease will abate
until actual cold weather sets in. The num-
ber of new cases and deaths remains about
the same right along. f4at .
SPECIAL from Kansas City reports the rob
| bing of an express train on the Chicago and
Alton railroad, near that city, of $50 900 by
."eh.y nashea snen. Ahey kept up con-
,r'u"' ~, niii's "ni'o INC "orA was D'ins u"ne
.no ,n0s'ensei was Ano'Aeo uo"n' "u' HUI ST.
'"usy n"i''
LONDON cable says that MIR. Parneli and
such OF MS colleagues among the advanced
Home Rulers, as have seat in Parliament
and are now engaged in the anti-rent agita-
| ton, have forwarded an appeal to the Ameri-
,,;1, tl,o s,,,,,,ort e,f 49, ,,h,,a a.
of the Moile Magulre murderers, who killed
Coroner Hesser IN 1874, a respite was granted
John ONeli to the 9th OF November. Nc
Manus, who was hanged, as his dying statement
on the scaffoid, exonerated o'Neil and professed
his own innocence, AID Implicated Canning and
Rhodes, VINO were witnesses Tor the Common
wealth. as the murderers.
AN investigation into the Adrian disaster
shows that the structure which fell with two
thousand people, was built in botchy manner
| by an unskilled workman, and that ne had
been warned by mechanics that it would not
hoia d crown. Inc exact ngures Oh tne INJURY
rehuoieu Dy 'ne uisas'er mas oeen ascer liiheo'
giving ,our'een as Inc NUMBER kiiieu' anu one
hunureo anu SIX -'nree wounoeu'
| No NEWS has yet been received from Capt.
Payne's command, in the Ute country. On
the 9Th two companies of the Sd Cavalry, under
Capt Henry, and six companies of the 7th
Infantry, under Col. Gilbert, left for the Ute
| country Three companies of the 5tt Cavalry
three companies Of the Sd Cavalry, and two
companies Of the 4th Infantry are also on their
way..
s,rc,,,s d;svsatohas ath .r,n, Afxh.n;.t. uo-,
,h,. NJ ono t;r,e d,,r;,o Tho .,taoL of +ho e,h on
| tho nr;pe;noI ba;cbts bof,re cah,I +,vr nor,
nan;es of U;chlanders were onnosed to- ia OoC
Afobans The latter hold tbeir crorrd mt;
the H;cbIanders were within twantv Yards
Il l4Tbs total, AFGHAN forcs ia s,;d 70 have hoor
eleven regiments. with artillery and a n immens,
number Of hill mon The ba.kbone Of ros;st
.nce - broker for tho nresent but tho whoI,
n,,,,. = soo.h;, ,,;.L .;..vo,,t o.s ~,
o,,,o would r;se a, Tho .,;ohtost r.ar,o ., N,
Rr;tisb The whole british force was to b,
within striking distance of cabuI ON tho ri
inst
!
ALMOST .he entire population OIL the south
western eno oi %. Lawrence islana, In behrihI
,;on "'e porteu .rt 70 nave perSaea ,rom s'arva
were horrified to find $50 corpses in one field
The living had carried the dead ow.v from N
buts until Mt length overcome themselves the
! in turn died in the huts and so remained
, Everywhere the scene was frirhtful. 1t is sal
that this terrible condition has been broup oh
, about from tho use of rum. Nearly every trade
. ooes m the Arctic loaded with If and as ion
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