The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-11-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

TERRIFIC wind storms reported from some
portions of the West.
An appropriation of s., $50 900 will be asked
for taking the census.
BILL DAVIS, convicted of the murder of Dolly
Hudspeth, at Lockhart, Texas, Oct. 20, 1878,
was hanged last week.
THE strike among the labors in porkhouses
at Chicago, mentioned, at late reports, has been
brought to close by a compromise.
TIE business portion of Napoleon, Ohio,
was almost entirely consumed by fire last Sun
day.
THERE is a lively struggle now among politi-
clans of Michigan for Chandler's place in the
Senate.
The State ticket in New York is claimed by
both parties, and will be doubtIessly until the
official returns are in.
BILL YoUSG's lynchers, number of whom
were arrested and brought before magistrate
at Luray, Mo-, have been discharged as no one
appeared against them to prosecute.
CHANDLER is said to have been worth $2,-
O00, 900, and enjoyed an annual income of $751;
900. His daughter, Mrs. Eugene Hale, wife
of Congressman from Maine, is the only heir.
THE safe of J. & G. f. Bailey, at Kennett
Square, Pa was robbed of S2O0, 900, mostly in
bonds The robbers threw away the bonds and
kept what cash there was.
GRANT has announced, in conversation with
Hon. J. G. New, that he is not candidate for
the Presidency, and will not accept the posi-
ton if nominated.
sTErrAUER & Co., wholesale dry goods mer-
chants, of Chicago, have suspended, with liza
bilities at 81 ,740 900. They attribute their
barrassment to investments in mining stocks.
THE poor along the Ohio River, and at Gin
cinnati especially, are actually suffering for
want of sufficient fuel. At Cincinnati this now
precious article has reached the enormous price
of forty cents a bu,hel.
One thousand men in Hutchingson's pork
house, Chicago, on On a strike. Armour &
Co., another porkpacking establishment, dis
charged two hundred men for creating dis
turbance. A great many were discharged by
other houses for a similar cause.
A DISPATCH from New York says hat the
board of managers of the Produce Exchange
have refused to grant the request of grain
dealers to drop the GENITAL system, and the cen
tai system goes into operation on and after
January 1st.
GEORGE j, LANGsDALE, editor of the Green
castle (Ind.) Banner, has undertaken to furnish
Southern negroes with homes in Indiana. He
says he will furnish all with homes who come,
and invites and exodus to that State. His
course is creating considerable excitement.
THE coal miners at New Straitsville, Ohio,
have taken advantage of the terrible condition
of the coal trade and demanded an advance.
They were not long in gaining their point, and
the price now paid them is one dollar per ton.
The consumer pays for all this.
THE cracker manufactory of j. F. CowIe &
Co., of Kansas City, Mo-, fell in with terrible
crash, killing seven persons who were en-
gagged in it at the time. 1t Immediately caught
fire and so combustible was the material that
it was impossible to rescue the helpless woun-
ded.
GOVERNOR BIsHoP, of Ohio, has sued the
Cincinnati Gazette for 500 900 for libel. The
action is brought because, in article entitled
"The Sutton, Dorsch, Bishop Conspiracy
Case" the Gazette said, among other things
not complimentary to the Governor, that " hi:
conduct has left no question of the corrupt and
illegal character of his actions.''
A FIRE at Cincinnati few days ago de.
stroyed portion of the cattle stables of Perrin
| Gaff Il Co., in which were l ,233 head of liv,
cattle. Nine hundred and thirty of the pool
| brutes were consumed in the flames. The fir,
is supposed to have been the work of an incen
diary. The insurance the building wa
$14 ,25O on the cattle, $50 900.
AT Newark, Ohio, because some railroad EN-
ployes neglected to close a switch to let freigh
trainpass, it followed the switch, which was no
over hundred and fifty feet long, and ther
| took the sidewalk and made terrible effort t.
enter two houses. Both buildings had thei
fronts completely demolished. The engineer
Frank Dennis, killed, and two of tn
brakeman quite badly injured.
FIVE laborers were fatally injured by an ex
plosion in the Delaware and Hudson mine, il
Pennsylvania, last week. When their bodie
were brought to the surface they presented
horribly mangled condition, and amid tn
weeping and lamentations of their familie
and relatives, the sight was a deplorable one
The explosion was caused by the flames of on
of the miners lamps coming in contact witt
the gas.
THREE men, relatives of the Underwood fam
lily, of Kentucky, according to a correspondent
of the Detroit Free Press, are now in the Under
wood country for the purpose of avenging tn
murder OF Jesse Underwood. They come from
the West, and are the only living relatives 0
the Underwoods. According to this CORES
pondent their presence there is not general
known, and ere their departure their purpos
to cut short the terrors of the Holbrooks.
STEPHEN ZooK, wealthy and highly re
spectacle citizen of Mt. Vernon, Ohio, wa
assaulted by an ex-penitentiary convict name
John Parrott, a few days ago, with dirk an
billy. Two of the Parrott brothers met Zoo
in long iron bridge, and, without provoca
tion, one of them told Zook, with an oath, tina
he was going to kill him. Zook used an oil
penknife, which he had in his pocket, to goo
effect, killing the outlaw almost instantly b
plunging it into his heart.
MICHIGAN is getting up her reputation 70
firstclass murders. A man named Loui
Melzae, maddened to perfect frensy, rushe
upon a neighbor named Moses B. Marsh who
at the request of Melzae's wife, had gone to hi
house to quiet him. The moment the ma
man saw Marsh he made for him. Marsh ran
pursued by the mad man and woman name
Mrs. Legrews. The mad man turned on tn
woman, inflicting eight ftabs her, whe
Marsh returned to her assistance with a hoe
and finally killed the man.
A PASSENGER train consisting of an engin
and one coach, upon which there were twent
male passengers, plunged into Hackensac
River near Hackensack, N. Y, few days agt
resulting in the death of the engineer and tn
, serious injury of two or three of the passenger
and brakeman. The disaster occurred OWN
, to the drawbridge being left open which tn
engineer did not see until it was too late. Th
passengers were rescued through the car win
dows into boats as the coach ioated off upo
the water.
MEXICO anticipates another revolution at a