The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-05-29
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NE RS

The Contagious Diseases. Bill was warmly
debated on Friday: the 23d, and finally
passed the Senate by vote of "a to IL.
THE Broadway Savings Bank of st. Louis
has suspended. Liabilities are put at about
$7OO,OO0. Assets not stated.
THE settlers who had squatted near the
Sac and Fox agency are leaving with great
rapidity, in front of three squadrons of
cavalry.
A SPECIAL dispatch to the Savannah (Ga.)
Morning NeTs, says: Shelby (white) was
hanged at Blackshear, Ga, for the murder
of his wife. He confessed his guilt and
said the man who caused him to kill her
was present. About fifteen hundred people
witnessed the execution. He was calm
and appeared unconcerned.
FIRE started about noon the other day,
in Lamb e. Sons dry-bouse, at Clinton,
Iowa, burning their lumber yard and that
of ]. Young & Co., together with several mil
lion feet of lumber. One million six hun
dred Thousand feet of lumber, owned by
Curtis Brothers, was burned; also fifteen
houses. Loss estimated at nearly two hun
dred thousand dollars.
AT the nail mill Of the Belfont Iron
Works Company, at Ironton, Ohio, Samuel
Mountain, aged forty-fve, a nail plate
shearer, was grinding shear knife at
large grindstone, when it exploded, break
ing into four pieces, one of which struck
him upon the side of the head, breaking
his neck and killing him instantly. De-
ceased was an industrious and respected
citizen. He leaves wife and four children
to mourn the loss of kind father.
A RECENT special from Fostoria, Ohio,
says: At two o'clock in the afternoon the
boiler exploded in the Risdon Grist Mills,
owned by Ebersole & Noble, instantly kill
ing a young man named Carl Headly, an
employee of the mill, and seriously injur.
ing J. Il. Arnold, a carpenter, Frank Rey-
nolds, citizen, Young, the fireman, and B.
Overmeyer, farmer. The shock of the
explosion was very severe, demolishing the
machinery and walls of the mill.
A CINCINNATI Commercial Washington
correspondent says that while Senator
Vance was making a speech in the Senate
Chamber, DIR. Mary Walker, conspicuously
seated in the ladies' gallery, enthusiastically
applauded by humping on the floor with an
umbrella. At first no notice was taken of
the interruption, but when Vance told
particularly good stories the Doctor became
so noisy that the President pro tenn. ordered
her to be put out. Three doorkeepers and
a policeman surrounded her, but she re.
fused to go, saying she had come to hear
the speeches and proposed TO stay; and
stay she did.
A LITTLE child of 81. L. Skinner, Secretary
OF the American Emigration Company, at
Des Moines, Iowa, fell into the cistern be-
meath the floor, momentarily left open. Its
mother plunged in to save it, and both dis.
appeared, the water being eight or ten feet
deep. She sosn came up with the little one
in her arms, exclsiming, al have saved it ~
Her son, seventeen years of age, then
arrived at the scene and jumped in to rescue
them. He succeeded in getting the child
out and it was resuscitated, but the mother +
sank and was drowned. The son with diff
fculty was saved.
A CALIFORNIA dispatch says that Indian
Jack was hanged recently at Shasta for the
murder of a Chinaman last September.
The murder was committed out of pure
v,
gain or revenge. The execution was wit
messed by some fifty Indian friends of the
condemned, besides O number of white
spectators-between two hundred and three
hundred. The Indians congregated outside
the courtyard, and kept up fearful howl
ing and tearing of hair during the execu-
ton, but no hostile demonstration occurred.
Jack preserved Indian stolidity, and died
without a struggle.
H. P. PEER, Canadian sailor, made ter.
rible leap from the new suspension bridge
into Niagara River at the Falls few days
ago. The distance was one hundred and
ninety-two feet, beating the famous leap Of
Sam Patch, which was one hundred and
fUrty-two feet. Fitting tightly about his
hips and close to his body and passing up
just under his armpits was funnel shaped,
inflated rubber life preserver, constructed
after an arrangements perfected by and
known only to himself. Strips of cotton
cloth were tightly banded around his hips
and loins. A broad sponge covered his mouth
and nostrils and his ears we're filled with the
material, the sponge being first moistend
with spirits. He came out safely.
AFEw days ago, in the Caleasieu River,
| little below Lake Charles, Louisiana, during
| thunder storm, a whirlwind struck the
small mail propeller Ramos, capsizing it
and causing it to sink instantly in abou
thirty feet of water. There were on board
besides the Captain and engineer, si1
passengers, named Lucien Deuaine, o
Galveston; ]. c. Bird, of Cameron Parish
two little sisters, Fora and Medora Pithon
aged ten and twelve years, of Coleasieu Par
ish, and colored woman named Josephine
Hawkins, and her child aged two years
None of the passengers could swim. Th
captain and engineer swan ashore; but al
the passengers were drowned. All tn
bodies were recovered except Josephine.
THE Democrats of Iowa, in Convention
nominated H. H. Trimble for Governor b
acclamation. In their resolutions the low
Democrats hail Democratic Congressman a
worthy of the ancestors who revolte
against despotism. They ask universal di
sent from the Republican idea of substitu
ing the will of one man for that of majorit
of the people. They favor the substitute
of Treasury notes for the national ban
notes, and the abolition of national banh
of issue; favor reduction of the bonde
debt as fast as possible by the use of tn
money in the Treasury; favor unlimite
coinage of the 412k grain silver dollar, an
the making of certificates for silver bullio
deposited in the Treasury legal tender;
tariff for revenue only; economy and tt
reduction of the salaries and the number
officials; the party being opposed to frt
! whisky, favors jpdicious license law d
mands a strict account from public sc
wants, and the punishment of defaulters.
THERE was a terrible tragedy on Il
bluffs above Corwin, Ohio, a few days ag
in which Captain w. r. Hoel, of the Unite
States beacon light steamer Lily, killt
/ himself, and seriously wounded DIR. j.
Hough, prominent physician there. I'll
J cause was the jealousy of Hoel in regard
, his wife, whom he accused of being unfait
/ full to him. The night before the traget