The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-02-13
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NE WS.

Centennial grounds, which origl nally cost
$500, 1000, sold at auction recently to W. c.
Allison & Co., for $4,000. .-f.
PATRICK CARRoLLoN died from the
effects of wrestling with James Sherry, of
Williamsburg, N. Y. Carrollon's skull was
fractured and Sherry's leg broken.
Mr.. A. D. OSBORNE, of Palmyra, Harrison
County, Indiana, committed suicide by
shooting himself in the head. Deceased
was sixty years of age. Cause, financial
trouble.
ARRANGEMENTS have been completed in
New York for a six days pedestri an tour
nament, to take place in that city in May,
only open to lady pedestrians. One thou
sand dollars and silver belt will be given
THE recent order in the Canadian Coun-
Gil, forbidding the admission of United
States cattle into Canada, is having bad
effect in Manitoba, which is almost entirely
dependent upon the w estern States for its
beef supply, ,s.' s=- go islaas-. .5sz5 4
CAPTAIN vRooM, with detachment of
the Third Cavalry, arrived at Sidney, Neb,
on Friday, with the Cheyenne Indian pris-
oners from Fort Robinson. The prisoners
were sent under guard to Fort Leaven-
worth, Kas., in special car. .- ,,-r ...t ..-
HARVEY JONES, prominent trader and
farmer of Mercer County, KY, committed
suicide without any known cause. Mr..
Jones was about sixty years old, and stood
well in the county, where he had lived for
many years. He was very respectfully
connected, and his strange suicide aston
I ishes all of his neighbors and friends. No
one anticipated such rash act on his part
THE village of Fairburg, New, has suf--
fered greatly from scarlet fever and
diphrheria, and there is great alarm over he
rapid spread of smallpox. A recent report
says there are thirty cases, and number
of patients have died. Stores, and schools,
and churches are closed. Business. is al
most suspended, families not exposed going
oni tthe strictest seclusion. o.. 3
AN Omaha dispatch says: Citizens Of
Omaha and vicinity have shipped carload
of flour to Glasgow, Scotland, for the relief
of the Unemployed and distressed in that
| CITY, Free transportation. was furnished
to New York. by the railroads, and by the
Anchor Line of steamships thence to Scot,
| land. s.. ssv Il f'.+-s .tyf. -..:-,.,. 81.
MISS MINNIE LOMBARD, nineteen years
of age, of Wilmington, Delaware, was left in
a sightless condition two years ago by an
attack of typhoid fever. She is member
of st. PauPs ME-. Church, which church.
has made her case the subject of prayer On
Tuesday night she retired, and awoke with
her sight completely restored, which she
attributes to Divine dispensation. -.-.-s -,
Ina quarrel between George Ward and
4 his two sons, George and Frank, living on
farm near Columbia City, Ind, the father
seized an ak and dealt his SON George
blow, splitting his head open, killing him
instantly. Realizing what he had done,
he sank down over the bleeding corpse and
cried like baby. He was arrested shortly
afterward and incarcerated in the jail.
/ George was twenty-one years Of age, the
| younger and favorite son. Ward is about
fifty, and well of. -''. .-f+' - 1858 .a
A TERRIBLE double tragedy occurred
at Wrightsville, village in Southern
Illinois, on Monday night. Charles E.
McAu'iffe a physician, invited his wife and
i her brother, Mr.. Heayener, into his drug
store, and, after drinking with him, shot
him dead with a shotgun. The doctor fled,
but was found by constables, but before
tthey cou'd get him to jail an infuriated
Imob of sixty persons seized him and hung
4 him to tie limb of a tree. 3E1 - -s.t
THE House Committee on Invalid Pen.
siong has authorized report.to the House
with favorable recommen dation of a bill
restoring all invalid pensioners dropped
from the rolls on account of residence dur
ing the rebellion, and providing for theil
payment from the passage of the bill. The
bill enables Mexican War pensioners, resi-
dents in the South during the rebellion, tt
Il receive their pensions as before the war
IL AN agricultural report, just issued, give
the average price of the cotton crop for th'
Iwhole country at Sk cents a pound; valu
of crop for 1873, $194 100000. Average
A 4-price of tobacco, 5 8-10c.; total crop TO
st1S7S, estimated at 393,000,0OO. Horses ha 2
increased three per cent, but the price yer,
II materially decreased. Cows show an in
t 1crease in nearly all the States, and sheep in
:, creased about five per cent. Price TO
Il hogs are ruinously low, while the increas
=. is about five per cent. Mules increase
: about two per cent yl.--..... ~. ~
A ST. LOUIS Globe Democrat special fre1
: :, shabonier, ILL.,, says about eight o'clock a
night, recently, Fred. Macho went to tn
u residence of August Rubin, about six mile
d from Shabonier, and after compelling tn
b 4latter to take drink, shot and Instant
IL killed him. The family ran up stairs fc
,Asafety, but Malcho followed and fired thre
= balls into the body of the eldest daughte
Iytmortally wounding her. He fled, and at La
gpaccounts had not been captured. No caus
% is assigned for the act All the parties al
I, highly respectable.
a. A BODY of men, about thirty in numbe
to approached quietly the Jail at Seymou
pS.1 Indiana, the other night, got the turnkt
s. out, took possession of the. jail keys and 6
h the handouts available, entered the Jail al
,d handcuffed six prisoners, and march
ia them to Shields Grove north of town, abo
half mile distant. Upon arrival the
n' they divested the prisoners of their clothi
TO the waist, gave each except one a seve
lr. whipping, and then let them free, with
ar warning to leave or their fate would
is worse should they linger in the neighb
w hood. There was but little. exciteme
IN and the vigilants worked like clock-wol
.ee ! THE Vienna Presse says: Austria
IA about to issue an order forbidding trav
- ers from Russia to cross the frontier uni
provided with passes from the sanitary
thorities. The Porte announces that R
sian ports will be quarantined against
tu- fagmen at Turkish ports on
to European coast of the Black Sc
The East -Roumelian Commission
re- proposed same measure along the co
ca from Kustinje to Bourgas. Roumania
tor decided ON a similar course in the delta
OF the Danube, and on the coast of the d
rst rudscha, and has issued regulations idel
tne cal with those put in force by Austria
Ok OK regard to traffic and importation Of go
IN, me across the Russian frontier. no
ers THE origin Of the plagqein in Russia is t
ing given A Cossack returning from the
ich to- Wetlinska, brought his lady Low,
de- shawl, which she wore two days and t.
out sickened with all the symptoms of
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