The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-09-11
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

ST. LOUIS aristocrats have caught the pedes-
trian fever.
BALTIMORE is making an unsuccessful at
tempt to enforce her Sunday laws.
RUSSIA is also having some violent storms in
the shape of destructive hurricanes.
JOHN WAGNER, of Indianapolis, has sued the
Catholic church for baptising his child.
ADDITIONAL confessions are being made by
the murderers of old man Raber, in Pennsyl-
vania.
GENERAL SHERMAN and President Hayes at
tend the opening exercises at the Cincinnati
Exposition on the 10th.
THE President of Mexico has ordered the
national treasury to set aside 81 900 daily to
pay the American debt.
The marriage of Carlotta Patti and Ernest
De Munck soemnized at Marie du Neu-
vieme ACCOMPLISHMENT on the Sd inst.
SAN Francisco lost another politician last
Tuesday. He was shot, but the shooting was
of no political significance.
STATE TREASURER Polk, of Tennessee.
earnestly urges the President and Secretary of
War to issue rations to the destitute Of Memphis,
NEWS from alabama gives an account of
horsewhipping being administered to two men
who, some time ago, testified againt Moon
sinners"
A. B. CORNELL has been nominated by the
New York Republican State Convention for
Governor, and George G. Hoskins, for Lieuten-
ant Governor.
NEW ALBANY, Ind, is to have another large
ship yard. Steamboat building on the Ohio
is booming, and particularly is this the case at
New Albany.
CHAs. Desmond, ex-treasurer of the Massa-
| chusetts Home Missionary Society, in default
| of bail, has been committed to Jail for the en-
bezzlement of IS, 900.
"SEvERE storms is the echo constantly
coming up from all quarters of the globe. like
| season for cyclones has not been witnessed for
years.
KALLocH is probably elected Mayor of San
| Francisco. He ran ahead of his ticket, it is
thought, considerably; the Republicans, in all
| probability, carried the remainder of the ticket
in the city.
JAY GOULD has sent S., 900 to the Towards,
at Memphis, and says in his special to the pres
| ident of that association Keep on at your
noble work till I tell you to stop, and 1 will
| foot the bill.'
The excursion steamer Alaska, on Lake
Erie, exploded her boilers last Friday, killing
four men and seriously scalding eight others.
| The steamer City of Detroit was close at hand
and went to the assistance of the excursionists.
IT is said that the opposition in Spain to the
| marriage of King Alfonso with Archduchess
Marie of Austria is assuming serious proportions.
1 Te, hall ;s h. I,
wedding.
| Mrs. EX-SENATOR SPRAGUE has finally sue
ceeded in getting herself and three daughters
away from her husband. The Senator had
been doubly severe in his surveillance, but fall
ing asleep, they stole silently away.
The Lake Shore railroad have advanced the
price on skilled labor one dollar per week and
on common labor, fifteen cents per day. Blast
furnaces in Ohio have advanced wages ten per
cent.
HORSE thief by the name of Godfrey, ar
rested at Columbus, Ind, claims to know who
the murderer of policeman Gunkel was, who
was killed mysteriously at Cincinnati som
time ago. However, he desires to be liberated
before he will tell.
AT GAINESVILLE, Ohio, last Monday, a young
lady named Miss Crook, was knocked insensible
with bludgeon by some unknown person, and
shorn Of luxuriant growth of hair. The at
tack was made from behind and without he,
knowledge of any ones presence.
THE differences between capital and labor a,
St. Louis are speedily drawing to close, the
strikes being about all over. The cigar maker:
who struck recently have deem successful in
their demands.
AN old miser named VIM. Praigg, has just
died of starvation at Jeffersonville, Ind. leav-
ing money to the amount of $15 200. He leave.
two daughters, whom he had driven from home
and who have long suffered from want, who car
now enjoy themselves.
TERRIFIC storm is reported on the Lower
Mississippi, the value of loaded coal barge:
amounting alone to $237 900. The damage tc
property cannot yet be estimated, but it is con
siderable. Buildings were unroofed and scat.
tered like SO much kindling wood.
NUMBER of persons were bitten by rabit
dogs in Chicago last Tuesday. One large
coach dog made raid on Lincoln Park, at.
tacking every person with whom he met, and
successfully biting number. The affair pro-
duced considerable excitement.
News from ST. Louis state that the colored
refugee board of that city have held meeting
at which reports were made going to show
thas there has been but little falling off in che
negro immigration northward, and that the
numbers may be expected to increase after the
crops gathered.
HERE is the Of woman who must starv.
to death. She is the wife of Isaac Drissbaugh
of No. SO Cincinnati street, Indianapolis, ant
has been suffering with what the physicians
call an ulcerous stomach, but investigation
has proved it to be cancer, with the additiona
complication of scaled entrance to thu
stomach, admitting of the passage of no food
She must therefore starve to death, her condi
2 ton being beyond human skill.
THE recent storm on the lower Mississippi
has worked great damage to property. Aspecia
a dispatch from New Orleans says the matter i
already beginning to attract the attention O
merchants, and they unhesitatingly assert tha
every citizen must suffer to some extent from
the disaster. The sugar crop and molasses alon
will suffer an aggregate loss of $4,000 900
New Orleans alone will sustain loss OF SIS,
000, 900.
JAMES W. SMITH, who died under rather sus
: picious circumstances at Coshocton, Ohio, fe,
7 days ago, it now turns out, was poisoned b.
his wife. At the time, the Coroners jury rem
E dered verdict: :" died from typhoid fever, super
r induced by an internal injury" An analysis q
the stomach of the deceased has revealed the fac
that he was poisoned, and the evidence of Mrs
Smiths little boy in connection with other testi
mony, goes to show that the wife had been al
, foctionately dealing out poison to her bette
y half fully ivo weeks before his death. Th
paramour-and there is in this casc--h ha
, fed, and Mrs. Smith lios sick in Jail. A
, through her husbands sickness, the wife nurse
p him with tho greatest tenderness, as it seemed
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