The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-08-28

looking boy," his wife, is an ex-variety actress
named Raymond. Since their detection they
will now pass for man and wife instead of !" two
boys"
A ST. PETERSBURG telegram says that three
of the FIVE male Nihilists sentenced by the mill
tary tribunal at Odessa to be hanged were
execut ed. woman sentenced to exile in
Siberia. is only fifteen years old. The execution
was lsublic, and was witnessed by large num-
ber OF inhabitants of the town. strong mill
tary force kept back the populace in the vicin-
ity of the gallows, and prevented any mani
festations of sympathy for the condemned.
SIR GARNET WoLsELEY teegraphs as follows ::
Five thousand swazies are ready to attack
I King Cetywayo, and this number will be in
creased to ten thousand before entering Zulu
land. The British operating with these or
another composite force coming from
the direction of Lunenburg, should either cap.
/ ture Cetywayo drive him toward Colonel
| Clarke and the column which is moving from
| the southwark. There have been further sub.
| missions of Zulus.
| NEWS from London says that representatives
of the Syndicate of American Ship builders have
| been for some time conducting important ncgo-
! tiations with the Russian Government, which
| has now reached its elimination. Admiral
| Lessowsky, Russian Minister of Marine, has
| signed contract with these American ship
building firms for the construction of number
| of ocean corvette cruisers, which will cost
$4,000 goo golden roubles, about $l7 900 ,000
| This contract has been awarded to American
| bidders after proposals had been received from
the ship builders of Birkenhead and Clyde.
CoNeERs1NG the troubles among the strikers
at Eureka, New, telegram says: portion
| of the SherifFs posse just returned from the
scene of the Fish Creek fight corrobate the
statement that the coal-burners opened the
1 fight, firing the first shot. Net half of the
burners were armed. After the first volley
from the officers the rioters fed precipitatcly
Three were killed outright and two badly
wounded that they expired after few hours
Fourteen prisoners were taken, but only three
| were brought to town, the sest were un-
armed. Deputy Sheriff Simpson was in the ac
| of serving a warrant on one of the ringleader!
when the conflict began.
REroRrs of heavy storms continue TO come
from England. Heavy rains are reported along
the valley of the lower Avon, which is over.
flowing and doing much damage to the hay
The Trent has also overiowed, and has swep
everything movable away. Many tons ofhay art
to be seen floating down the river, and the peo
pie are beginning to be much alarmed
Great fears are entertained at Benton on Tren
on account of the water rising rapidly. Many
acres of land are under water in the vicinity o
| Nottingham. The rivers have overfowed the
banks in many parts of Warwickshire, Leices
tershire and Stafordshire, inundating the low
lying lands and rendering footpaths and turn
pike roads impossible for pedestrians.
? The trouble at Yazoo, Mississippi, does no
appear to settle down very speedily. Will
this trouble, as with all others of q politica
nature in the Southern States at present, it i
. difficult to know just what news to credit. TIL
, news from two different correspondent
at the same place is contradictory; yet tina
there is a difference and wide diferenc
prolitically at Yazeo City--and that severa
have recently lost their lives in consequence
an undeniable fact. The struggle is for politi
cal supremacy, the reports charging both partie
with bulldoLing; yet when it is considered tina
Capt. Dixon, one of the murdered, was an in
dependent candidate on the county ticket, it
somewhat difficult to arrive at conclusion
--latest dispatches from that point charge tn
murder of Dixon up to one j. H. Barksdale,
| democratic candidate.