The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-10-09
NEWS OF THE KEEK.

pating a troublesome strike.
4 WEST ORANGE, n. J.--Father-in-la refused
i son in law $50-shot him-suicidcd.
GTHE impeachments in Georgia proceed. The
EPsnitcntiary Keepers case is in the hands of
he Governor. The Agricultural Commissioner
has resigned.
President HAYES and party are still
l"swinging round the CIRCLE" They have re-
turned from the far West.
NINE bold and desperate bandits have been
killed in Indian territory during the past week,
4 nd their leader captured.
, 4r is now rumored that about one of the first
acts of Congress on resssembling will be that
of abolishing the National Board of Health.
I~s The new steamer Natchez came near being
destroyed BY fire in sight of New Orleans, but
through great exertion, was saved with a loss
OF but 81 500.
THE O'Leary belt is now being contested in
New York. There thirty five contestants.
The start was made on the 5th, at midnight,
in the presence of 5000 people. q -
q THE Supreme Court of Rhode Island has ap-
pointed Robert Thompson trustee of the prop
erty of Mrs. William sprague. Thompson was
Mrs. Sprague's selection.
The Spanish Government is contemplating
the immediate abolition of slavery in Cuba.
bill will shortly be introduced in the Cortes
providing for such abolition, with no provision
for compensation of the owners.
FIRsr ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL TY-
NER and company, who are travelling in the Ute
| Indian country, report to the War Department
that they in imminent danger, and want
aid. =
AHoRRrBLE murder is reported from Dowa
giac, Mich, in which young and well-to-do
married couple named Morris, were foully mur
rdered in their beds. The murderers, who made
their escape by horses stolen from the premises,
have not been apprehended.
The cabinet makers of Cincinnati have en-
tered upon q general strike. They demand an
advance Of fifteen per cent, which their en-
Iployers refuse to pay. Every workshop in the
city now stands idle in consequence, and con-
siderable excitement prevails over the affair.
JOE KExr hes Just paid the penalty of the
rerimc of murder, at Evening Shade, Ark.
Marion Huisey was murdered ten years ago
4 and ten years after, Joe Kemp stands upon the
seaffold and says, al die to-day for crime for
4 which deserve the punishment.
A. DURIsG the past week John Fred Will, of In
dianapolis, Indiana, killed his divorced wife by
4 stabbing her fifteen or twenty times. He then
shot himself Upon the same day John Shee-
nan, in New York, shot his wife's paramOur
and then shot himself.
TIE journeymen tanners at Pittsburg, num-
bering about one hundred and fifty men, have
hstruck for advance of wages of twenty five
cents day. The molders employed at the
Pittsburg Locomotive Works, have also struck
i for an advance of wages.
IT is predicted that there will be genera
strike among the coal mirers of Indiana and
Illinois during the, fore part of the present
month. The miners atLogan, Ohio, demanded
an increase often cents extra per ton and got
it. - > a = = -
THE Ingalls, investigation at Topeka, Kan,
is in progress. Some damaging testimony has
been offered. James A. Hosack states that
he voted for ingalls, under Instructions, and
that for his vote he was promised tho Atcbison
postoffce. This testimony covers the ground
upon which the investigation was brought.
IRELAND is expecting trouble. The Pail
Mall Gazette says that popular politician
amed Parnell has exhofted tenants not to pay
their rents and to stick to their homesteads at
whatever consequence It says that whole-
sale eviction will be tho consequence, and that
followed perhaps by a terrible civil war.
BosroN telegram says: company has
been organized of Boston capitalists to extend
the Atchson, Topeka 4 Santa Fe R. R.
through Mexico to Gtaymas, port on the Gulf
of California. The company is organized under
the new law, authorizing state corporation
to build in foreign countries.
FEARS are now entertained for the safety Of
Capt. Payne whose command has gone to the
front, the opinion prevailing that perhaps he
has met the same fate Of Custer at the hand Of
the Ute Indians. No tidings have been re-
ceived since the attack on Thornburg's com,
mand. sEaEH - saH 50
III The Bank OF Commerce of New York Friday
made its last payment to the Treasury on ac-
count of United States four per cent. bonds, and
Saturday the First National Bank of the same
city made its last payment on the same account
The latter is the final settlement of all transac
l tions in United States four per cent on domes
III tic accounts. A9V tE.t cTts.liT5
The pedestrian Weston is evide ntly in a bad
row of luck. In anticipation of his success
s creditors in advance attached the Ashley belt
, on exhibition at Tiffany's, New York. Westor
did not come off winner in the match, as wa,
. | expected, and now Rowell, the successful con
, estant, is experiencing considerable lega
trouble in gaining possession Of the property. 7
A ST.. PErERsBuRe cablegram says that dur
$ ing the pastsmnmer 1850 prisoners have beer
o incarceratcd in the Central Prison at Moscow
Q 10,477 Of whom were condemned to exile il
d Siberia. Those informed upon the manner o
n treatment that prisoners receive in Siberia say
that death is far preferable to the misery Their
= to obo'undergone' by hecondcmned.
!, The tidal of WIN. Lydia, at Asheville, Nortl
Carolina, for the remarkable crime of castratin,
: a young man named Chas. Morris, has jus
closed, and sentence pronounced upon tn
culprt of sixty years in tho ,penintcntiary
I'll The cause ieaditg to the Preparation Of thi
!, terribe deed was jealousy. Young Morris wa
!. engaged to marry young lady who had re
: jected Lydia. l. t.si.. tt94
THE wicked are bound to meet their fate a
. : some time. Moody and Sankey and Josepl
7 = Cook, have all descended in a heap OIL
cleveland, Ohio, and during this month ther
}, will be weeping and gnashing of teeth anon
IS the wayward children of that /" borough.
p Aside from religious point Of view, as som
profane cotemporary might remark, its tn
biggest show Cleveland ever had,", ,i-l..f
a A PERSONAL encounter between two Of Lon
don's famous jourtasf4s, Ma Heary Labou
cherc, the editor Ia9d .prppEistos Of the socies
70 Journal called Truth, and Mr. Levy Lawson
editor and proprietor of the London Daily Tele
has produced q great sensation in Lon
y don society i Iir. Lawson made the attack q
!. 10 o'clock at might because of some insult b