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

CoTToS operatives have struck at Sprin gfeld,
Mass.
The St. Louis Jockey race-track sold fer
S17 900.
A NAPLES dispatch says that the eruption of
Mount Fesuvius began on the 7th inst.
STATIsTIcs of actual distress in Ireland
reach the enormous number of 2,370 persons.
MRs. HoSoRA SHEA, aged Ill years, died at
Indianapolis on the sth.
The German printers in New York City are
on strike.
wARxKR's Silver Bill has been killed. The
Senate Committee on Finance reported adversely
upon it. #Fta
A BLOODY battle is reported between Unca-
papa, and Gros yentres tribes of Indians in
Dakota Territory.
FREDERICK GRILLE, Of New York, convicted
of the murder of his daughter, will be hanged
on the Sd of April.
NINE negroes-two men, a woman and six
sc.
TIE County Court house burned at Dallas,
Texas, the past week, entaihng a loss of
100000.
TIE bodies of eleven Cinnamon have been
taken out of the burned ruins Of Chinese
wash-house on Pine street, San Francisco.
A Rio JAsEIRo dispatch says private advices
estimate the cotton crop at 1850 900 bales.
The coffee crop is reported good and abundant.
Mr.. E. A. BucK, the editor of the New York
Spirit Of the Times, has contributed 81 900 to
the Irish Relief Fund.
IL a railway collision in France the en-.
gineer, stoker and seven passengers were
killed and forty wounded.
TIE New York Herald has opened Relief
Fund for Ireland, which it starts with a con-
tribution of 500, 900.
THE Bublin Theater Royal burned entailng
a loss OF f2Oo,O Six lives were lost in the
fire.
GENERAL ARTHUR JuLEs NORM. the we'll
known French military officer and mathema-
tician, is dead.
Two white and three colorsd culprits were
publicly whipped at Newcastle, Delaware, on
Saturday.
BY the burning of large building at Fort
Tillie Irwin met their death. Loss on building
$5o, 500.
PATRICK DUSs, Of Chicago, died of hydro
phobia. He was bitten by o neighbor's dog,
and died within eighteen hours from the time
the disease made its appearance.
TIE City of Mexico experienced a severe
shaking up on the same day that the earth
quake is reported to have done such damage at
Havana.
NEAR Londonderry, N. H., Frank Dilling-
ham outraged his aunt, Mrs. E. N. Dilling-
ham, fatally shot her, and made an unsuccess-
full attempt to kill himself.
The young man Ottero, who recently made
pleads hereditary insanity. The Court will
render decision in his case next week.
ACoSsrASTIsoPLE dispatch reports that, dur
ing a fete, a barracks, three stories high, near
that city, suddenly collapsed. Two hundred
soldiers were killed and three hundred wounded.
THE Iowa House, by vote of 56 to "a has
passed resolution providing for Constitu-
tional amendment giving women the right to
vote.
THE strike among the coal miners of Western
Pennsylvania is said to be general. Those
who are the cause of the trouble are reported
to be embarking tor Ohio, Indiana and other
States.
THE Supreme Court of Georgia refused a new
trial to Cox, sentenced to imprisonment for life
for the murder of Colonel Aston. The case
will be carried to the Supreme Court of the
United States.
PRESIDENT HAYES indicates a disposition tt
be merciful toward Major Reno, who has beer
sentenced to dismissal by Court Martial fol
drunkenness and will probably accept hi
resignation to save his record.
CLEVELAND has sent lawyer, John F. Beggs
to the penitentiary for Eve years for embezz.
ling $500, the property Of an orphan girl. Tn,
country is full of attorneys Nho are in DANCE
Of this same justice.
THE House Committee on Public Building
and Grounds have agreed to report favorabl!
on the bill appropriating 900 for the pub
lie building at Maysviile. KY, 200 to b.
expended the first year.
A TELEGRAPH operator at Scranton, Pa, ha
sent the following broadcast: 1t is reported
here that Samuel J. Tilden will be married t
Miss Fanny Rausk of Lewisburg, Pa, in q few
days.
The Secretary of the Treasury has decided
| to purchase S11 900 900 of bonds for the sink
ing fund in the usual manner, bids to b
opened on the I1th inst, no limit being fxet
| as to price.
| THE schooners Daniel Harding and Kat
| Newman collided of Toms River, N. J.
the latter sinking with all but one of tn
crew. Seven dead bodies have been washe
ashore.
| TIE Maine Legislature is inquiring into tn
matter whether the Constitution of the Stat
had not better be amended SO as to limit tn
right of suffrage to those who are able to rea
and write the English language.
LETTER from Havana says the recent earth
quake left all the public buildings and most
the private houses except those of wood, /
San Cristobal, in n heap of ruins. In th
Vuilta Abajo sulphurous erupti0ns took place
| The President nominated George Walker q
Consul General at Paris; James Q. Howard
New York, Appraiser at New York Robert N
| Wallace, of South Carolina, United State
Marshal for the District of South Carolina, an
William Horsuf, Postmaster at Port Huron.
Two negroes, VIM. Garland and Rial Pattel
son, have been arrested in Cincinnati for th
murder of an old man named Derby Martin, 1
Scott County, KY, in the year Of 1868. PAT
terson has confessed himself an aceomplice
the crime.
RUPTURE is expected between Chilli an
the Argentine Confederation. Chilli was to ca
for 1000 men and heavy bountics were o.
fering the Argentines. 1t was said that Chi
had purchased the italian iron -clads Roma nm
Venicia.
Ar old man named Peter Nagle, of Readinl
Pa, aged fifty years, loved Mrs. shoxe
She, however, failed TO love Peter Nagl
Nagle got hatchet and set to work, but b,
ore he succeeded in killing her her cries broug