The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-12-25
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
DENNIS kaARNRY is in Boston.

GEORGE PRICE, Vile Blacks murderer, will
hang the 2sth of next May.
THH St. Louis Jockey and Trottng Club
race track is for sale. 'Spect it don't pay.
WIN. MCKEE, ofSt. Louis Globe Democrat, is
dead.
THIRTSES below was recorded at
Syracuse, N. Y, the past week.
PARSsLL has at last taken his departure for
America.
TEE Vatican has congratulated the Irish
clergy on their attitude with reference to the
political agitation in Ireland.
A SourHKRs BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY has
been incorporated in New York with a capital
of 81, 900, 900.
THERE is no improvement in the Afgan situa-
ton, yet hope exists of creating a feeling of
disafection among the tribes.
THERE is to be a Millers' Exposition held at
Cincinnati, in June next, by the Millers' Ma
tional Association.
FRANK BAKER was hanged at Petersburg, Va,
on the 18th inst. for the murder of Henrietta
Thands and her infant child last August.
DREW HOLLOWAY was hanged at Statesboro,
Ga, on the 10th inst, for the murder of Vinson
Brown last spring.
LAST Sunday night the Regulators of Jessa-
mine County, KY, whipped man nearly to
death, his recovery being reported doubtful
THE Tennessee Legislature is holding an OK
ira session. The object Of this is to improve
the sanitary condition of Memphis.
TRAIN on the Columbus and Hooking
Valley road was ditched near Athens and
several persons seriously injured.
SUCCESSFUL double murder near Quincy,
Ill. A man and wife disappear and the bloody
walls the only trace left.
MRS. KRANER and . ysung lady, Miss
Young, were struck by a train and instantly
killed at Reddington, Pa.
TIE weavsrs in England are moving for an
advance in wages owing to the revival in the
cotton trade.
Two hundred more South Carolina negroes
have arrived at indianapolis. A portion of
them went from there to Greencastle and a
portion to Charlottesville.
FLOYD SMITH, who was arrested near De-
catur, Mich, for the murder of Henry Morris
and wife, was rescued from the authorities by
masked men.
FIERCE storm raging on the Atlantic coast
few days since, besides smashing unprotected
tugs generally, cast up the bodies of two sea-
men.
A BOILER explosion in q saw mill at Columbia
City, Ind, few days since, resulted in the
death of i've men. The body of young man
named Glenn was blown a hundred yards.
rKRRIFIc boiler explosion in the saw mill
of Gabbart Curry, near Harrodsburg, KY,
resulted in the death of Gabbart and one son,
and terrible injury to another.
FRANK BoDIE, young rough of Chicago,
undertook to whip his father, a nice old gen.
tlsman, while in a drunken stuper, and was
suddenly dispatched to kingdom come by a pis-
tol in the hands of paterfamilias.
A Mr.. AND MRS. HIGGINs, and their eight
cen year old daughter, while crossing the
railroad track, in a wagon, near Milton, Ind,
was struck by approaching train and in
stantly killed.
MAINE has finally given the majority in both
Houses to the Democrats. The Democrats will
have o majority of nine in the Senate, and q
great enough majority to form quorum in the
House.
NEWS from Madison, Ind, says that the
steamer Little Dick, in the Kentucky River,
run down three men who were in a skif and
drowned them. Their names were John Hale
man, John Roberts and John Davis.
W. W. Winton, President of the Second Ma
tional Bank of Scranton, Pa, his son, son-in
law and brother-in-law have been arrested fol
maliciously conspiring to defraud the bank ou
| of $135, 200. They are out on $4,000 BAIL
| The Democrats of Shelbyville, Ind, are OF
| their "ire' because of the influx of Nortl
Carolina negroes to that settlement. They ar
holding meetings and passing decidedly red
| hot resolutions.
Two of Jos. Frye's murderers, Infantin
and Ardito, in Boston, when brought to trial
pied guilty and were sentenced to imprison
ment for lite. The remaining three, Chivarie
Bandero and Donat, will be tried accessor
les.
THERE is great indignation among the Re
publicans of New England over the counting
out of Republicans and counting in of Democrat
in the State of Maine. The political struggle
from the present aspect of affairs, is not ye
over in that State.
THE son of Mrs. Sarah Mills, at Cincinnati
missing her body from the vault, went on a
investigating tour, and to his horror found he
in nude condition upon the dissecting tabl
of the Pulte Medical College with the top Q
her head cut of, and the students busily a
work with their knives.
Two attempts were made few days since
at Dublin, a small village near Columbus
Ohio, to blow mp two saloons by explodin
powder in them. The damage was not mate
rial, but the risk of life makes the crime
peculiarly henious one, considering that peopl
were sleeping in both buildings.
FOWLER Bros, of Chicago, have discharge
two thousand hands in their packing house, &
non n-union men should work with them. Otht
houses are running very few hands, and tt
number of men now idle is variously estimate
, at from five to eight thousand.
A DISPATCH from Madisonville, Tex, say
that the Sheriff and posse pursued and tried
arrest Gabriel Sweat, murderer, horse-thit
and burglar, who escaped from the Falls Count
Jail. When they surrounded him, he drew
six-shooter and attempted to fire on the GROVE
who shot him dead on the spot. He had brai
ged that he would never be taken alive.
The Duchess of Marlborough has written
the Lord Mayor of London, asking his aid
e induce wealthy citizens of London to contribu
+: to the relief of the starving poor in Irelan
: She expresses fear that distress will be terrib
!; unless private benevolence comes to the assis
) ance of the sufferers. The Lord Mayor h
q announced his readiness to co operate with Il
= Duchess.
> PARTY Of Deputy Marshals shot al
= killed Col. w. r. Cooke, a counterfeiter, ne
4 Nicholasville, KY, few days ago. A fl
- days prior to the event, Cooke disarmed Al
|, kicked FIVE of the men out Of his yard, a
Cooke,s fr;ends sav TINT owing TO this cireul