The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-02-20
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NEWS.


SENATOR CHRIsTIANCY has resigned, and
goes to Peru to represent the United States
Government.
THE President has nominated Alexander
L. Russell, of Pennsylvania, United States
Consul at Montevideo.
THE President has approved the act to al
low women to practice before the Supreme
Court; also the Naval Appropriation Bill.
THE Sheriff of Washington County, Pa,
has arrested between sixty ald eighty riot
ing strikers. The commandant of the
militia of the district has been instructed
to aid the Sheriff if necessary.
A DESTRUCTIVE fire occurred on the
morning of the 18th inst, in Bedford, vii
lage six miles from Cleveland, burning all
the business portion of the place. Loss
about $500
Mrs. PATIENCE FINLEY, a widow, aged
eighty, living with her only daughter, Mrs.
Buckley, aged sixty, was burned to death at
Delaware. Ohio, by tottering int, an open
fireplace.
SENATOR BRUCE was called to the chair
of the United States Senate and presided
over the deliberations portion of the aft
ernoon, the first time in the history of the
Government that a colored man has occu
pied the chair.
BY the caving in of a deep cut for rail-
road at Kansas City, No., running parallel
with high bluff of the river, the workmen
and teams engaged were buried alive. The
bodies of six victims were taken out dead.
Two men were slightly wounded, and an
other was injured mortally.
The Court of Appeals, at St. Louis, in the
case of an application for an injunction to
restrain the Board Of Public Schools from
teaching foreign languages and ornamental
branches in the public schools, has decided
that the whole matter is in the hands of the
Legislature, and that the Courts have no
powers in the premises.
WILLIAM SIEaLER, boy eleven years
old, locked himself into his grandmother's
house, in Philadelphia, and going to the
cellar piled up some Dloc ocks, attached rope
to hook, and putting moose around his
neck, kicked the blocks away, and hanged
himself. He was laboring under religious
excitement.
In the town of Somerville, Me-, thirty
the parents, three children of Ephraim
Hyster, aged four and two and half years
and an infant eight months old, were
burned to death. The house caught fire,
and before aid arrived was destroyed. and
the poor children were burned to crisp.
OF the $45, ,OOO, 900 of fractional currency
issued, there remains outstanding about
SIG 900, 900, of which amount about So ,000,-
900 are in three and five cents. 1t is now
estimated that there will ultimately be re.
deemed only s., 100000 of the $16,O00,o0O,
leaving $12,000000 as profit to the Govern.
ment, that amount being lost or destroyed.
HENRY BOWERS, judge of the late Con-
gressional election at Baltimore, for refusing
permission to a United States Supervisor to
inspect ballot box before voting began,
was sentenced to twelve months imprison-
ment and fined. Six other election officers,
for violation of the Election Law, were also
sentenced, by United States Judge Bond, to
terms of Imprisonment, and fined.
The bill introduced in the National
House by Representative Foster, to dis
courage usury and promote legitimate rates
of interest, makes it unlawful for banks to-
allow interest upon deposits of any char
acter. 1t further provides a tax of five per
cent, upon the gross amount of deposit In
each year, such tax to be remitted on proper
affidavit being made that no interest has
been allowed on deposits by the bank.
THE State Department at Washington
Io1 rlaf
avert the unjust discrimination by the
British Government against American cat
tie, founded on baseless rumors of sickness.
and adds that if, as is said. Canadian cattle
are exempted from this harsh order of the
Privy Council, the measure will seem even
more unfriendly to our commerce than it
would appear in its best aspect.
MRS. GEORGE ADAMS, residing on the
farm of Mr.. Argus Dean, near Madison,
Ind, was burned to death some days ago, in
the following manner: She was subject to
fits, and during the absence of her husband
she took some Goals from the fireplace
with shovel, and in carrying them TO the
stove is supposed to have fallen in one of
these spells, when her clothing took fire.
When her husband got home he found her
entirely dead, her body being burned almost
to crisp.
A FEW mornings since, between nine and
ten o'clock, the steamer L. C. Mccormick,
running between Marietta and GAINESVILLE
on the Ohio River, when about two miles
below Beverly, on her upward trip, ex
ploded her boilers, killing her fireman
Mike Hevemeyer, of Morgan County, and
scalding six other persons. Only three pas
sengers were on board. These were al
scalded, but not seriously.--one, Mr.. Scott
receiving the worst scald. Captain Martir
was also scalded. Two of the crew wer,
blown overheard, and SWAN ashore.
A WHEELING, w. Va, dispatch says tina
a farmer named Henry Smith, with severa
others, was returning home from the city il
a wagon, and when at the B. & o. r. r
crossing, near Littleton, the horses tool
fright at an approaching train and becam
unmanageable. Jane Smith, aged twenty
one, became frightened and jumped fror
the wagon, alighting on the track, whe
she was struck by the engine and instantl
killed, the body being dragged distanc
of sixty feet and shockingly mangled. Th
| wagon Will the obucF occupants crossed I'd
track in safety.
A coLD-BLooDED murder was committe
on the farm of Thomas Stonebraker, abo,
ten miles from st. Charles, Mo. 1t appear
that Stonebraker had gone to visit relati,
some miles away, and left the farm
charge of two hired men, James Matson,
Swede, and a mulatto man called Tor
During the morning the men had an alte
cation about feeding the hogs, and To
: went away, but soon returned with a sh
gun, and put a charge of buckshot in
+ Matson's head, killing him instantly. !
last accounts the murderer had not be,
arrested.
Ex-AUDIToR WILLIAM II. HEATH, wi
/. has been found guilty in st. Louis, of el
: bezzIing school funds to the amount of Of
2 hundred and forty-two thousand dollaI
: and his punishment fixed at ten years
: the Penitentiary, has made a confession.
y says he was induced to play poker
!. prominent politicians who afterwards