The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-01-02
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NE us


THREE engines and a snow-plow ran off
the track of the New York & Oswego Mid
land Railroad, near Fulton, N. Y, and
killed two employees.
A NEGRO named Davidson, charged with
murder in North Carolina, while on the
way to Statesville Jail, was taken from the
officers by a mob and hanged.
ABE RoTHsCHILD, The murderer of Bessie
Moore, has been convicted, in Marshall,
Texas, of murder in tue first degree. His
counsel gave notice of an appeal.
GENERAL ALPHEUs S. WILLIAMS, Repre-
sentative from the Detroit (Afich.) District,
died shortly after four o'clock Saturday
morning, December %, at Washington
City.
THE Criminal Court, at Indianapolis,
overruled the motion for new trial in the
case of John Achey, the murderer of George
Leggett, and he was sentenced to be hanged
January %, 1879.
CLEVELAND has completed and dedicated
the new viaduct connecting the east and
west portions of the city. The work is over
half mile long, sixty feet wide, and cost
two and quarter millions.
AN engine on the Lehigh Valley Road,
while rounding curve hear Hazleton, Pa.
jumped the track, killing the fireman and
brak kemap, and badly scalding the engineer
and trackman.
GREEN JOHNSON, colored, formerly a
soldier, was hanged at Menardville, La, for
l., 81 Col fa,l Id -
break his neck, and he was ten minutes
dying, but was very calm.
AT Newcastle, Delaware, George Draper,
(colored), convicted of murder in the Sec
ond degree, was placed in the pillory, in a
binding snow storm, afterwards received
sixty lashes, and goes to prison for life.
THE Secretary OF the Treasury has issued
a circular to Custom officers authorizing
them to receive, after the 1st of January,
United States notes as well as gold coin and
standard silver dollars in payment of duties
on imports.
AT Louisville, the trial of the negro
George Washington, charged with brutally
| committing an outrage on the person OF a
little girl under twelve years of age, has
been closed, and the accused sentenced to
| be hanged.
A NEW YORK dispatch states that the old
Dongan mansion, built for his residence
BY Colonial Governor Thomas Dongan in
1868, was burned Christmas day. 1t was a
two.story and attic frame building, and
stood at Brighton, L. l.
The Committee of the Senate, appointed
under the Blaine reso utien, adjourned
until the reassembling of Congress, wher
the Senate will be asked to authorize the
use of the invest eating fund now declared
unavailable by the treasury officers.
| FRED. HUssoNG, an old resident of Day
ton, Ohio, was fatally injured by the acci
dental discharge Of pistol. He was CON
ing down a flight of stairs carrying a clocl
and pistol, and slipping, fell. The weapon
exploded and the ball passed through h1
lungs.
| A PORTLAND, Oregon, dispatch, say
Moses with ten of his principal men hav'
been taken. Moses and three men are nov
at Yakima in confinement Seatterin;
bands are fastening on to the reservation
they say for protection. Not gun has beel
fired.
THE St. Louis Globe Democrats speeia
says the Courthouse at Maysville, Dekal
County, Mo-, was burned, and all tn
county records, excepting those of the Cir
cult Clerk and Treasurer, we're destroyed
The value of the property consumed 1
said to be worth 100000.
MOST of the members of the Nationa
Yellow Fever and Cholera Commission al
rived in Memphis ON the 26th of December
and at once commenced arranging the dc
tails of their important work. Surgeo
General Woodwork is, by the terms of tn
Congressional resolution, President of tn
Board of Experts.
THE Governor of Kansas had a confer
ence with General Sherman, and is d.
sirous that strong military force be ST.
toned on the southern border of Kansas
hold the Indians in check on the reserv'
t ons. The General VII comply with tn
desire of the Governor as far as the cond
ton of the army will permif.
!, SPECIAL Deputy Collector James N
Davis arrived at Nashville, al few days sine
from the recent raids along the Kentuck
, lines, further progress having been pr
, vented by heavy snow storms in the n oul
| tains, through which they travelled with tt
, utmost difficulty, and attended with dang
: They report the destruction of six MOI
5 illicit distilleries and the arrest of twent
. men, capturing among the number Harl
Beattie, who had de6el the laws of tt
| United States and the State, and bringiI
l him to Nashville.
A PORTLAND dispatch says: Govern
! Terry, of Washington Territory, has BET
! closeted with Genral Howard. in Portlan
= considering the alarming state of a fairs
the eastern part of the Territory, and Il
: suspicious attitude of Chief Moses and h
, band. Steps have been taken to secure Il
;, safety of settlers. Two companies of
q fsntry and two of cavalry will be dispatch
=. to the Kittitas Valley as soon as possible.
Il post will be established near Eitensbul
q Camp Harvey will be abandoned, and
# troops there stationed at the new post.
+ MRS. ANN HOGAN, living in an old ter
e ment on Ashley-street, on the southern o.
u skirts of the city of Dayton, Ohio, W
y found dead in her bed few mornin
!. since She lay with her tongue pfotrud'
10 from her mouth, and her face and ne
=, marked with bruises, indicating that des
had ensued from violence. The apartmt
was in a terrible state of confusion,
n chairs, stove, floor and bedstead sprinkl
of with blood, and showing that terri1
a struggle had taken place. Her husband
ns laborer in a stone quarry, and who h
d. lived uuhappiiy with his wife, was arrest
al for the murder.
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