The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-01-16
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NEWS.

States Supreme Court.
Two children named Nolan were found
frozen to death in bed at Beckville, Ind.
Their brutal father came home intoxicated
the night before and threw the covers from
their bed.
IL Garrard County, KY, an infant was
frozen to death in is mothers arms while
the parents were on their way home from
burial. The fact was not known until they
reached home an ! unwrapped the child to
find 1t frozen.
A TENEMENT house and a beer saloon Of
John Odendorfer, Jamaica Plain District,
Boston, burned the other night. Mrs
Odendorfer and her son, ten years of age,
perished in the flames.
THE seventy-seventh call for the redemp-
ton of $40 bonds of 1865, consols of 1867,
has been issued. The call is for $40 1000 900,
1t, ,O0O, 900 of coupons and 100000 regis
tered bonds. The principal and interest
are to be paid on and after the 4th of April
| next
Eight stills have been seized in Stanley
County, N. g., and eight distillers arrested.
One of the raiding party was shot. Seizures
we're also made at Bennettsville and Wal.
halls, y. c., but the property taken at the
latter place was recaptared by band of
Georgians.
The President has ordered certain lands
| op Salt River set apart for the Pima and
Marecopa Indians, Of Arizona. The settle
ment of whites on the Upper Gila river,
above the lands reserved for these Indians,
has so reduced the water supply that they
are no longer able to irrigate their lands.
| THE Yellow Fever Commission at New
| ORLEANS examined Colonel D. B. Robinson,
Superintendent of the Mobile New Or
leans Railroad in relation to the losses
of that road by the quarantine and cpl
demic. He estimates the loss from three to
| five hundred thousand dollars.
WHILE the fire department was working
early in the morning, recently, at burning
buildings, from IS to 70 Vesey street, New
York, the east wall of No. 75 fell, killing
John Irving, fireman, and injuring Chief
Rowe, Foremen Reeves and Van Horn, land
fremen McCune, Ryan, Jones, and Hagan.
A DELEGATION of Indians from the Cher
okee Nation called on the President lew
davs ago. Brief speeches were made on
the red mems side, stating that their people
are in a prosperous condition, and were
onposed to a transfer Of the Indians to the
War Department. The President made a
satisfactory response.
SEVERAL members of the Slate Board OF
Agriculture frD m the southern portion OF
the State of Illinois, report peach trees
greatly injured by the recent cold snap.
The prospects for crop are exceedingly
unfayorable. Other fruit is not serious
injured. Winter grain is reported by them
in excellent condition.
The Minister of Finances of Spain, in a
telegram to Captain General Capisos, says
the Madrid Government will in March con-
tract for Is, 800, 600 kilogrammes Of Virginia
and Kentucky tobacco, of which 10 per
cent is to he medium leaf and 60 FER cent.
lugs, deliverable in tweuty's1 mohths'
beginning at the end of May next and con-
tinuing until the last of July, 1881.
IUE gorges began to move in Kanawha,
, Guyandoue and Big Sandy Rivers on the
. 10th. Seventy-two barges were sunk or
carried away by the ice at Charleston, West
, Virginia, the steamer Tom Farrow sno
twenty-five barges were sunk at Coalsburgl
the steamer Crossley was destroyed in the
E Guyandotte, and the s. 7. Moore at Catletts
burg. Other damages are reported, and the
, losses are very heavy.
SECRETARY SHERMAN has asked the Ap
preparation Committee for $4,000 for ex
penses of the transporting of silver bullion
from the Pacific coast to New, York, for tb'
t remainder of the fiscal year. The Secretar!
: also asked an annual appropriation of $3.50,
e 600 for the same purpose. In the course o
: his remarks, the Secretary said the railroad
r companies were ch harging exorbitant rate
for services, and suggested that the com
mittee recommend legislation limiting tn
freightage, and compelling a reduction o
/ the rates.
!, THE hostile Indians confined at For
Robinson, Nebraska, hearing that they wer
: to be taken back to their Agency in tn
Is Indian Territory, made their escape fror
the fort a. midnight, firing upon and ovel
whelming the guard, dangerously woundin
T. four of them. The alarm was at once giveI
l. and the main guard started in pursuit. Owe
a forty of the savages were shot and kille
"a or wounded, and thirty-seven captured
\. most of whom were women and children.
r The eleventh annual Convention of tn
Of Woman Suffrage Association assembled
sr Washington on the 9th. Many ladies pror
es inent in the advocacy of female suffras
= were on the platform, but the audience W,
- small Addresses were made, paper rea
o. and a committee of three appointed to wa
e. on the President and inform him that the
e, were twenty million of women in Il
y United States Che having ignored that ia
sh in his recent messagel and that it wou
be wise to make some mention of this
future messages. So.
er- ALoNZo GARCELoN was elected Govern
M of Maine by the Legislature, receivi
er twenty-one votes to ten for Joseph L. Smit
az Every Republican Senator voted for G.,
of celon. The vote in the House stood
follows: Alonzo Garcelon, eighty-fy
$, Joseph L. Smith, eighty-fve Seld
III Conner, sixty-four; Frederick Roble, six
an four One absent ON each side. At I
The convention of both branches for the ell
iry ton of State officers, nominees Of [
1at Democratic -Greenback caucus were elect
,on as follows: Secretary Of State, Edward
g Grove; State Treasurer, Charles A. Viii
Attorney General, VIM. A. Mcclellan; !
hu jutant General, Samuel D. Leavitt.
HORACE E. TAYLOR, banker, who fai
some time ago and was subsequently,
ian rested, was lately arraigned before
CON Criminal Court, at Williamsport, Pa,
~, charge of embezzling some $4,000. The
on' fense claimed that the money on dep,
,er' ceased to be the property of the defends
piy and therefore he could not embezzle
en- own funds. The prosecution attempted
rge prove by depositors that they had pla
ing money in his bank, when Judge Ma
Yen ruled that under the act of the Assembl
on. 1862 the evidence of depositors could moi
les, mon. 1ro.ed and Tav,or vas a;sohsraa,
DIR. A. w. sMYTHE, prominent prae
a ing physician of New Orleans, testified
.o fore the Congressional Commission thai
and believed yellow fever, wherever it exi