The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-09-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

lHE golu lnlnss IN tennessee are being
worked with considerable profit.
HENRY EvERDELL, a printer, in New York,
has failed. Liabilities S142, 900; assets 81 ,295
Medina, Ohio, has the fastest runner on re-
cord. Time, twenty miles in two hours and
twenty minutes.
The latest from Maine says: "Dri. po
publican, lacks 321 of major % ~, y roruIor
vote with fifty-six towns 90 be heard from"
JAMES A. GRAY Of Howard courtv MARY
i"na' mas -en nominated by the Republican
i' ii that state for Governor.
SAN FRAScIsco lost another politician last
Tuesday He was shot, but the shooting was
of no political significance.
The Cincinnati Industrial Exposition is evil
IDENTIFY very big thing. The dailies of that
city devote FROM ten to twenty columns to de-
tails Of the opening exercises.
The Grand Lodge of the United States l. Q.
o. f. commences its session at Baltimore on
the 18th, and the Grand Encampment of the
Order meets the same day, also, at Baltimore.
A YOUNG man at Liberty, Ind, has hung
himself because he wanted to pay his rela
tion his board, but they refused, then accused
him of living off of them Don't sponge"
off of relations.
The assistant Cashier in the Northwestern
National Bank, at Minneapolis, has confessed
to the embezzement of Sl35,0OO. His name
is w. W. Keene. Mr.. keene is worthy of
promotion.
The old Underwood war in Kentucky is
still raging. Two or three more persons have
been assassinated during the past week. This
is only nine of one family who have been
slaughtered.
AN Indian suspended, according to law,
between heaven and earth, at Galveston, Texas,
last week for the murder of negro named
Frank Edwards. The Indian died during the
suspension, strange to say.
Hon. ALEXANDER MITCHELL, nomination by
the Wisconsin Democracy for Governor, sends
the following as his final and absolute decision
from across the " briny deep" " Declination
absolute. Will not serve if elected"
"ToADsTooLs for mushrooms - has been mis-
taken by another family, Samuel Walders, in
Scott County, Ind. Two of the children are
dead, and two others and Mr.. Walders and his
wife reported dangerously i'll.
THERE are numerous cases reported of innO-
cent persons being shot and instantly killed or
mortally wounded in melon patches-persons
who, perhaps, entered the patches only to get
melons. Greater care should be taken when
the lives of these innocent parties are at stake.
IT is reported that the Prince of Wales has
acceded to the proposal to make arrangements
for the conduct of the Government in the event
toFt tha 20 Jui bofor ratu =
projected Australian trip, and there are rumors
that provincial regency bill will be introduced
at the next session of Parliament.
| DR.. ANDERSON, the father of the boy Willie
Anderson, who it is supposed murdered his
mother, his cousin and his aunt, at Waynes-
| vile, Ohio, has been examined and honorably
discharged. There is still no satisfactory So
luton of the mystery offered, but that young
Anderson had an accomplice is daily growing
into a stronger belief.
AT Seymour, Ind, a few nights ago, an old
man named Everetts and his three were
| taken from their beds, and, being tied to trees,
were whipped numerically. The boys have the
reputation of being thieves, and the old man, a
pronounced wife -beater and farther, the boys
recently have made it is said-several un-
successful attempts to commit rapes.
BIN BUTLER, man we believe who is some
what known in this country, has just been
nominated for Governor of Massachusetts, by
the Greenback party of that state. The follow
ing is the ticket placed in nomination Fol
Governor, BENZ. F. Butler; Lieutenant Gov
ernor, Wendell Phillips; Secretary of State
Jonathan Arnold; Treasurer, Wilbur F. Whit
| 7 IL,
eral Horace b. Sargent.
ENGLAND is getting her hands full. 1t is
now feared that other tribes may follow the
Afghan trouble, and Russia stands charged
with melting the outbreak. dispatch from
Calcutta says the British Embassy to Burmaf
have quilted Mandalay and taken refuge al
Rangoon, fearing that King Thebaw, who has
been for some time in an irresponsible condition
would follow the example set at Cabul ant
instigate their massacre.
AT Athens, Ala, after sentence had beer
pronounced upon named Bales to b.
hanged, and his counsel made appeal to thu
Supreme Court, three thousand people collected
at the Jail, broke in the iron doors and took th
prisoner to the woods to hang him according u
Judge Lynch. The rope was thrown over
anu eNel IiiHS BOtteH III ItdulIlcSs, Uu
as no one in the three thousand had the nerv
to tie the knot, the Sheriff was permitted t
take Bales back to Jail.
JOHN W. GULLY, who was charged with tn
murder of Cornelia Chisholm near De Kalb
Miss, has been acquitted. The details of tn
testimony of Mrs. Chisholm of the murder O
her daughter and husband, have been almos
, too revolving to read. Her story is certainly
one of woe. The acquittal is based upon tn
: assumption that Gully was endeavoring to max
the arrest of person whom he thought wa
guilty of aiding in the killing of his brother.
will be remembered, however, that both fathe
r and daughter were killed after they had gotte
within the Jail.
; THE following is correct list of the Stat
officers elected at the recent election in Cali
fornia: Governor, George G.. Perkins, Republi
can; Lieutenant Governor, John Mansfield
Republican; Secretary of State, Daniel N
Burns, Republican Comptroller, D. M. Ken
field, Republican; Treasurer, John We'll, Re
r publican; Attorney General, A. L. Hart, Re
t publican Surveyor General, J. W. Shankil
!. Republican /; Clerk of the Supreme Court, Fran
r W. Gross, Republican Superintendens
Public Instruction, +. M. Campbell, Republ
lcan Chief Justice, Robert F. Morrison, Den
. ocrat and Workingman.
PROFESSOR HARPER, of the Danville Norm
school, twenty miles from Indianapolis, sue
denly disappeared from home last Novembe
having in his possession considerable sum
0 money. His wife clung to the plea that he ha
= been foully murdered. Nothing was heard
3 him until few days ago, when letter W,
a received from him by his wife, post marle
Cheyenne. The poor woman could hardly b,
J, lieve her senses, and it with difficulty th
= she could realize that he was still living. Il
:, stated that he had foolishly exposed his none
? while in Indianapolis, knocked down, M
y that was all he knew about it until about thr
u weeks ago, when full consciousness return,