The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-03-25
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The Office of the Boston Journal has been
destroyed by fire.
The Ontario Legislature has voted $20, 900
for the Irish sufferers.
The walking match in San Francisco re-
suited, O'Leary, SIG miles; Weston, AGO.
The Democrats of Pennsylvania will hold
State Convention at Harrisburg ON the 2Sth Of
April.
ALTHOUGH the Pope does not approve of the
expulsion of the Jesuits from France, he will
submit to it.
CHICAGO has sentenced a lawyer, John c.
Gribler, to six months imprisonment, for at
tempting to bribe a juror.
The Anglo American Cable Company are
negotiating a contract for new ocean cable, to
be laid the present summer.
The Russian Minister Of the Interior ha
again prohibited the Golos from publ shing ad-
| vertisements for two months.
News from Dublin, Ireland, says that dis
tress in the famine districts is increasing daily.
Grants of money by the Mansion House Com
mittee exceed the receipts.
TENNESSEE has been suffering severely from,
Il uedNy Ialus. III NdSnNitlo over tWO uunuIeQ
and fifty families were driven from their homes
| on account Of the rise in the Cumberland
River.
| The President of the Louisiana Bank, Ed
ward c. Palmer, convicted Of embezzlement,
has been sentenced to three years in the ,ni-
/, tentiary. O. rz 80 O.
| ST. PATRIcK's Day was not the jolly, roliek-
/ srv lax l.. Al
celebration. There was NO parading, no
music, nor no merry making. In all the
large cities entertainment, were given and the
proceeds devoted to the relief of the suffering
in Ireland.
| SINCE the 1st Of January the rainfall in
| Tennessee has reached 80 80-100 inches, out
| of an annual average of So inches. IL 37.l0O
inches of the total amount fell during the last
month, and 6 So 100 inches during the present
month. The rainfall, indeed, is considered
phenomenal.
AGITAToR CANNON, who was also arrested in
San Francisco for incendiary utterances, with
Kearney, has received sentence in the Police
Court of six months imprisonment and 81 200
fine. In default of SO 900 bail he was sent to
the House of Correction.
The wives of Clarence E. Davis, in Jail at
Chicago on a charge Of bigamy, continue to
turn up. We believe at this writing five have
reported at headquarters. Still, his last wife,
the Quincy girl, clings to the belief tfat he is
innocent, or victim to circumstances. Oh,
silly confding woman.
REPORTS from New Orleans says that negro
laborers are on strike in st. Charles Parish.
The Governor, on application of the whites or
dered the Louisiana Field Artillery to the
parish. The whites report that the negroes
threaten to burn the sugar houses if their de-
Inands ar, not complied with.
A GANG of tramps-eleven in number
boarded train at Vincennes, Ind, and at
tempted to put the conductor and engineer to
fight, in an effort to intimidate them with re-
volvers. The police appeared upon the scene
and the entire gang were arrested. They were
all armed with revolvers ami razors.
FLOOR in the second story of hall, al
! Lincoln, Lancaster County, Penn, in which q
public school entertainment was being given,
gave way last week with most fatal results
Fully 500 people were in the hall. Five or si1
, were killed outright and not less than twenty
| ufc vi thirty WCIC eOF ch di idtahy.
THE news comes from Ottawa that a very i'm
portant concession has been obtained from the
British Government, and that American cattle
will be permitted the privilege of transit
through Canada from one American port t.
another, with the privilege, also, of stopping
for rest and other accommodations at som,
place in Canada. 49, E-s
THE House Committee on IAdian affairs ar,
having poor success examining witnesses
: Ouray and his wife were both on-committal
E | declaring that they knew nothing whatever Of
, the Thornburg fight or Meeker massacre. Jacl
also refused to say anything that would proba
, bly, convict anybody. he didn't know any
thing about the matter at all. ..-..
MINISTERS making pastoral calls get into al
sorts of trouble. At Custer City, Penn, Rev
Thomas Evans, Methodist preacher who wa
making one of these calls at the house of
member of his congregation named Inglesby
: was accidentally shot by Inglesby's son, tn
, ball taking effect in the abdomen, from whicl
it is thought he cannot recover.
The Mollie Maguires getting in goo
! | work at the coal mines of Rapids City, III
= One man, Taylor Williams, was last week sho
l through the heart in his own house, and, o
$ course, instantly killed. Those of the strikers
d work, are receiving letters of warning-sku
e and cross-bones-signed Mollie Mcguire.
e TEE Central News Association of London re
q ports that it has received a communicate
q from Hartmann acknowledging that he wa
chosen by the Nihilist Committee to assassinat
the Gear, and giving q detailed account of h
attempt at Moscow. Hartmann concludes b
saying that he intends to emigrate to Americ
in a few days.
D, SOME weeks ago the city of Louisville r.
10 ceved from the contractors to whom had bee
= II given the work, the Crescent Hill Reservoi
II The cost amounted to 81 zoo, 900, and the ou
- ward signs and newspaper descriptions ga,
- the impression that magnificent job had be,
C successfully completed. The work is now r
~ ported in q very bad condition from slidiI
Il banks and insecure foundations.
of A SPECIAL from Rochester, N. Y, says tn
n Parson, known as the Avon murderer, entire
0. broke down, fainting and vometing while beil
ne shaved, and continually raving about his inn
,h cence. He charged the crime of killing With
Id upon Mrs. Whitney. After breakfast he becar
;e. calmer, but his cries could be heard outside t
to Jail. The execution took place at IL 40.
ne claimed innocence on the scafold.
Two citizens living in close proximity to t
ID. Pilgrim Congregational Church, in St. Lou
Is applied to the Circuit Court for tempora
06 injunction to restrain the ringing of the chim
'o4 The allegation was that the ringing disturb
,os os their rest both day and night, and made sic
m ness doubly miserable. The injunction "
nf denied upon the ground that the applicati
of was not signed by sufficient number Of. re
he dents.
80 CONRAD hiEMASS' OF st. Louis, got era
i'm drunk. Procuring large knife, he assault
raa his wife and child, stabbing them both
NJ death A brother ATTEMPTED to seize the