The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-08-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

NEWS or THE WEEK.
LOUISVILLE has reduced her quarantine
force.
The maize crop in Bulgaria is reported a
failure.
ERIE, Kas., is experiencing terrible
" spook" sensation.
HEAVY damages by storms continue to be re-
ported from England.
KENTUCKY has just made her official returns.
The Democratic majority is 44,25S.
A FIRE at Carrolton, Mich, on the goth, de-
stroyed property to the amount of $125,ooo.
Couxr KARoLYr viii probably succeed
Andrassy as the Austro- Hungarian Premier. 4
KING CErYwAYo is at the kraal north of the
Black Umvelosi River with small following.
RBAKKsDALE, the murderer of Dixon, at Yazoo
City, Mississippi, has been released on $l5,0 900
bail.
place, near Washington, for rent at $500 pei
month.
A WAR between Russia and China is immi
nent The Russians are about TO cross the
frontier. rars7
In Kentucky, when a man kills his wife-as
instanced i, Rome's case--they place him un-
der $500 bond.
JAMES S. STEVENS, who killed his wife at
Richmond, Va, has done justice to the world
by killing himself.
ORvILLE GRANT, at Chicago, is unpleasantly
mixed up in an unpleasant leather transaction
of a crooked nature.
GEORGE RUTER, the murderer of Pres.
Hawkins at Nashville, indiana, has been ar
rested and placed in jail
SAN MOVES is to become the editor-in chief Of
anew campaign paper to be started in Wash-
ington on the 1st prox.
N The negroes of Georgia and the two Carolinas
are making extensive preparations for gen
eral exodus. They 60 to Kansas.
LEMAIRE LArREMovILBE was hanged at Al
bany, N. Y, on the goth inst, for the murder
of catharine Dunsback, in April last.
CANP- MEETINGS and politics vieing with
each other in boom. Inskip is holding hi,
National amp-meeting at Urbana, o.
FIRE in st. Pierre MiqueIon, N. B., ha:
destroyed the new Government buildings,
| dozen stores, and as many private houses. Loss
heavy.
DESTRUCTIVE wind storm accompanied by
ten-inch fall of rain is reported from the Eastern
coast. Much damage to property was sus.
| tanned.
A DISPATCH from Paris says that the largcs
| French iron-clad ever built, $500 tons burther
and 5000 horse power, has been successfully
launched at L'Orient.
| NJ. DE LEssEPs for the present will abandon
the Panama Canal scheme. The SOC, 900 share
| stock has not been covered, and he says now h
| will come to America to again put the compan
| on its feet.
THERE is now an Independent claim set UP G
$103, 900 damages on account of illegal inter
ference with American fishermen at Forum
Bay, which claim has been presented to tn
British Government.
! A RAILROAD war is waging at Wheeling be
1-tween the Baltimore and Ohio, and the Pitts
burg, Wheeling and Kentucky, roads. TIL
difficulty is concerning the right-of-way upo
certain streets in Wheeling.
DIsPArcHEs from St. Petersburg say that tn
police have, seized large quantity of powde
and other explosives. Schlussetbourg is re
ported to have been blown up. 1t is suppose
to have been the work Of Nihilists.
NEWS from London says that the Court {
Bankruptcy has granted an order restraipin
the Erie Railway Company from further pre-
ceedings relative to the f268, ,9S9 which the
claim from James McHenry, until the 18th ,
September.
The Secretary of War has decided to tur
over the army barracks at Carlise, Penn, ft
school for the education of Indians, and Car
tain Pratt, of the army, who has had charge
the Indian pupils at Hampton University, wi
! be Superintendent.
ADvIcEs from diplomatic representatives. an
special agents in Europe continue to favor tt
opinion that the efforts of this Government
bring about joint reconsideration by Americ
, and leading European Powers of the bi- metal
standard question, will prove successful.
THE third annual Congress of the Nation
3 Liberal League--organized at the Centenni
Congress of Liberals at Philadelphia, Pa
July IA, 1S76--win be held at Pixies Oper,
house, Cincinnati, Ohio, September 13 and L
1879.
? MCGUIRCK, the alleged murderer of Jam
: Needs, who was murdered in Philadelphia, O
tober Z, 1858, was captured on Sunday mig
by the Erie, Pa, police, after desperate resi-
tance and delivered over to Detectives Tryt
, and We'll, Of Philadelphia, who removed him
that city.
Il GENERAL MERRILL, who has just submitted
!. the Chief of Engineers his report for the pa
v year upon the improvement of the Ohio Rive
n says that he thinks $500 900 could be expends
: advantageously during the next year on in
provements exclusive of the completion of Il
Davis Island Dam.
INrELLIaENcE from the West Coast of Afri
: states that dispute arose between Xii
: Amacheree, at New Calabar, and one of
chiefs. As a result, the latter left town wi
" his people, took possession Of the oil market
q biockaded creeks, and stopped all traffic. 1t
ia feared tho break will become general
e Hon. JOHN T. MARTIN, a st. Louis lawy
n noted for his great physical strength, listen
], to a burglar the other night trying to enter
. house He finally opened the door while
= fellow was pushing, let him drop in on the ho
!. and grabbing him up, he gave him an unmer
! full thrashing, and then dragged him out
y the neck. e
WALKER HAMMOND, said to be Peter MEGA
u ney's right bower, considered by the detecti'
r the most expert and dangerous counterfeiter
le the country, has been arrested at Indianapol
f. Indiana and taken from there 10 springfe
n ILL., About $25, 900 Of the " queer " on the d
ferent banks of Illinois and the plates for
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