The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-12

| Dolly Warden Mine, and at q depth of twenty
feet. An assay obtained gives the value of the
ore at s21 ,1ss per ton, $2l JIG being gold.
TIE body of John G. F. Brown, of Irving
ton, Ind, was found dead 1ear q railroad
| track, with & bullet wound in the head. 1t
transpires that he was assassipated by one
Joseph Wade, who had been cohabiting with
Browns wife, and his body placed near the
railroad track to indicate that he had been
killed by the cars.
! LOUISVILLE special says that the second
| trial of the notorious Grove Kennedy, who
killed his uncle at Richmond in 1875, has ter
minated at Mt. Vernon in a verdict Of guilty
of manslaughter, and sentenced to the peniten-
tiary for twenty years. At the former trial
the sentence was for life. Notice of an appeal
| was given.
In the House of Commons, British ParIia-
ment, Mitchell Henry, Homo Rule member for
Galway, condemned the government for their
inaction in Ireland, and suggested that a vote
of f10 900 900 or els 900 900 be used in build
ing railways in different parts of Ireland and
the commencement of a systematic reclamation
of the waste lands.
| CHARLES BROWN, of Philadelphia, the So
called magnetic physician, was sentenced to
the Penitentiary for two years and to pay
fine OF $1,000. He took advantages of the
liberties with young ladies afforded him by his
manner Of practice, by which means he sue
ceedod in accomplishing his designs with
doze. or more who had intrusted themselves
to his treatment.
THERE is the greatest probability in the
world that a strike will occur among the
mines at the Connellsville regions, near Pitts
] burg. The miners are determined, as they
say they are compelled to pay large advances
chase of their employers. Should the strike
be inaugurated it will throw IL, 900 men out OF
employment.
| YOUNG man, John Campbell, aged seven
teen, at South Charleston, Ohio, shot his sister
Hulda, aged nineteen, because che didn't
know it was loaded" They were both stand
ing by the stove. He had an old pistol in his
hand, and raising it, said, "Your money or
your life." She replied, ''Neither one." The
pistol was discharged. She pressed her hands
to her chest and said "Oh 70 and fell dead.
THE First National Bank of Knoxville, Knox
| County, ILL.,, was entered and robbed of IS 900.
| The burglars maltreated Mr.. Runkle, the
President of the bank, in a shocking manner.
He was sleeping in the building. They roasted
his feet and hung him up by the chin, but he
could not open the safe, as it was a time-lock.
So they did not get as much as they expected.
| There is clew yet.
| AFTER speaking in Chicago, Parnell and
Dillon have the following appointments {:
| II A. 0E3l.
St. Paul and Minneapolis, 26th; Davenport,
9th Dubuque and Clinton, 2sth ; Des Moines,
March 1st: Peoria and Bloomington, I'd /;
Springfield and Joliet, Sd; St. Louis, 4th.
Further Western appointments will be made
later. On some of tho above dates Parnell
speaks in one city and Dillon in another.
| Mr.. ASHLEY BROWN, cashier of the United
States Internal Revenue Office at Dayton, o.,
under Collector Williams, has suddenly disap-
peared. He leaves behind him interesting
family, consisting of wife, several sons and
daughters. The |" Irregularities - amount to
$4,000 and will probably go several thousand
beyond that. He one of the oldest and
most trusted men in the Office. Dissipation
whisky, women, fast horses and all that sort Of
thing are at the bottom Of it.
A COLD blooded murder occurred at Howth
| Stallion, Texas, on the Central Railway. A
man named Pierce Calhoun, for what purpose
is unknown, deliberately shot and killed Jerry
Smith, and persons WHO saw it say the murder
was totally without provocation, Smith not
giving his murderer any reason whatever.
Immediately after the assassination Calhoun
mounted his horse and escaped, pursued by
officers.
THE investigation Of the Committee appointed
by the Kentucky Legislature into the causes of
disease and death which has prevailed to such
an alarming extent in the Kentucky Peniten-
tiary, returns a report that calls for the speedy
discharge of that institutions present keeper,
J. W. South. During the summer Of 1870, TIL
prisoners out of 1000 suffered with scurvy,
which, the committee say, was caused by the
failure of the keeper to provide them with
proper food.
THE substance of certain official reports
which have been made to the authorities al
Vienna. by their agents at St. Petersburg has
leaked out, and is in progress Of circulation il
society. The reports give in great detail facts
representing the mental condition of the Czar
and lead to the conclusion hat he is at times
quite insane. He is represented as subject te
prolonged fits of depression, remaining fol
hours and even days, in state of almost uncon.
scious lethargy.
Mr.. ADAMS, U. s. Consul at Geneva, in hi
dispatch to the Department of State, reports
large importations of anthracite coal int
. Switzerland from the United States. It sell
well at the present low prices, but 1t is yer,
doubtful if it permanently c5mpe.e will
French coal. The introduction of anthraeit,
coal has taken with it American stoves
Q which find ready sale. The trade, however
/ is yet in its infancy.
ONE of the most brutal crimes it has bee,
our displeasure to chronicle has just oecurre,
f in the vicinity Of Lucan, Ont. party o
D masked men entered the house of famil,
named Donnelly at midnight and murdered th
J. ther mother, a son, and girl, niece. An
other son escaped by secreting himself under
8 bed. They then set FIRE to the house, which
!, with its dead, was soon consumed. Then the,
]. called at the house of another son, residin
8 three miles away, whom they called to tn
d door and shot down. Great excitement pre-
walls.
= A NITRo-GLYcERINE explosion near Bradford
g Penn, resulted in the death of one man, How
n ard Tackett, and the complete demolition O
: two horses, n sleigh, and two houses and bar
n that stood near. james Feeny, who was on tn
sleigh, seeing that they were about to upse
a with the deadly explosives, jumped backwar
II about ten feet, alighting on his face. The ex
; plosion produced q hole in the ground Eve fee
!; deep by nine in width, and so great was tn
a conclusion that 1t started the blood fror
Feeny's mouth, ears and eyes. He will prob
ably also die.
Ar Spring Lick, KY, considerable exotic
meat prevails just now. About two week
: since few men in Ohio County banded them
!, selves together for the purpose of correctin