The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-04-10


Compton, at the time he was killed, on the
9th of January, kept a store at Highland,
and the cause of the murder was an error in
charging WATSON for twenty-five cent cake
| of soap purchased by Watson's brother.
Compton offered to refund, but Watson was
quarrelsome, and a fight ensued. in which
Watson put bullet in Compton's abdo-
men, from which death resulted.
SENATORS and members of Congress and
persons of all grades of official life are re.
ceiving quantities of letters of inquiry as to
waen the payment of arrears of pension was
to commence. Applications have been
coming in with great rapidity since the bill
passed. and clerks have been at work examin-
ing them. Some are all ready Tor payment,
and each day sees the approval of more. In
| answer 10 an inquiry Commissioner
BentIy said he hoped to begin paying claims
under the arrears bill about the 10th of
April, and continue to pay them from that
date on as fast as they were examined and
approved. These claims will be paid by a
check on the Treasurer of the United States,
payable to the order of the pensioner HIM
self, and will be sent to the post-office ad-
dress of the pensioner by mail. No at
torney or claim agent will be recognized in
the matter.
MRS. REBECCA ANDERSON, colored, died
lately at Shelbyville, Ind, having, at the
time of her death, reached the advanced
aged of one hundred and eleven years.
Deceased was a native Of Buckingham
County, Virginia, whence she removed in
ri ri Of ho ha
longed to a man who served in the Revolu.
tionary War, and Aunt Becky, as she was
Familiarity called, was an eyewitness to
many stirring events OF that period. She
heard the first gun fired at Yorktown, and
was in the neighborhood of Cornwalliss
capitulation, at the time he surrendered his
sword to Washington. This old lady
never claimed to have been one of the in
Vulnerable nurses of the immortal first
President, but had many stories to relate
concerning occurrences which took place
during the time of the great revolution.
The Buffalo and Western express train
met with serious accident, few days ago,
near Wilkesbarre, Pa. The train was going
through a cut, when the engine suddenly
flew the track, and plunged into the bank
at the side of the cut. The engine tender
doubled over upon top OF the engine.house
and buried in the ruins were the engineer,
Nicholas ShiIlinger, and Henry Stevenson,
the fireman. The pipes, filed with scalding
water and steam, were broken, and their
contents turned upon the poor unfortu-
mates lying under the engine. The baggage
car of the train alone left the track, but the
Il off fbao pc;o off
duced several severe contusions and great
fright. Ladies tainted, and men were
thrown over backs of seats upon the floor.
The engineer was scalded to death on the
spot; the fireman was extricated from the
engine, but died in the evening.
IT is reported that tramps are carrying
fire and desolation into the mountain re-
gions of Pennsylvania. Recently, in Leb-
anon County, the Blue.Mountain range was
fred by these miscreants, and the flames
ragged with fury, having destroyed several
thousand dollars worth of property, such
as timber, sheds, barns, etc. The large barn
of Peter Click, on Mount Zion, near Leb-
anon, was set on fire and totally destroyed,
together with the contents, excepting the
livestock. Mr.. Click several weeks ago
found letter, in which he was threatened
that his house and barn would be laid in
ashes, which was partly carried into effect.
This property was insured in the Sinking
Spring Company of Pennsylvania. The
borough of Lebanon had fire every night
for ten days which were all incendiary. A
fire occurred in the eastern part of the city
on Monday night, by which four dwellings
and a school-house were destroyed. Sup
posed incendiarism. Loss about So 600.
ELIZABETH PATTERSON BoNAPARTE widow
of Napoleon's brother Jerome, died in Balti-
more April A, at the age of ninety-fve. Her
departure had been imminent for some
days, and her health had been declining
for several weeks. Until year ago her
health was excellent for SO old a person,
and her belief that she would complete q
century did not seem ill founded. Growing
weakness and an inability to swallow any
thing but liquids were followed by sue
cessive attacks of paralysis, to which she
finally succumbed. Her history is as ro-
mantle as sad. The daughter of rich
merchant of Baltimore, her beauty and
liveliness won the heart of Jerome Bona.
parte, then French naval officer in his
nineteenth year. He was equally handsome,
and his relationship to the First Consul no
doubt added to his attractions. Her parents
were not anxious for the union, for they
sent her out of the city to check his pursuit.
Their mutual love proved too strong, how
ever, and on the 9th of December, 1903,
they were married by Bishop Carroll.