The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

G40, 900 week is the demand in ireland to
keep starvation away.
The Pennsylvania Greenback Convention
will be held at Harrisburg, March 23d.
An Iowa editor, F. H. Bowan, of Dubuque
committed suicide by imnersing his head in a
bucket of water.
IT is said that General Tom Ewing made
$l00, 900 in a recent venture in a Colorado
mine.
REV. CowLEr, of the shepperd's Fold has
been convicted. He wept bitterly upon the
announcement of the verdict.
BArxsvnLE, Ark, has been almost totally
destroyed by FIRE. Several persons lost their
lives by falling walls.
THE Municipality Of Naples gave splendid
banquet to Professor Nordenskjold and the
members of the Swedish Arctic expedition.
The business men of San Francisco are hold
ing meetings with view to providing some
men in that city.
JAMES THOMPSON, a Louisville business
man, was attacked at midday one of Louis
ville's busiest streets and relieved of $4,000.
The thieves disappeared in the crowd.
GOVERNOR BLACKBURN, of Kentucky, has
signed the death warrant of Robert Anderson
who murdered his wife ut Louisville in April
of 1873. The execution takes place April 2.
FIFTY miles more of extension will be added
to the Texas Pacific Railroad by the LIST of
April, the extension continuing from Weather
ford westward.
A BUENos AYREs dispatch says & The
alliance between Peru and Bolivia has ceased.
An unsuccessful attempt has been made to de-
pose Piero'a as Dictator
The Merchants Exchange of St. Louis have
sent twelve carloads of -four and corn to New
York, intended for re.hipment to the distressed
in ireland.
AT columbus, Ohio, VIM. Theson, who has
been under arrest on several occasions of late,
for cruelty to his divorced wife, finally mur-
dered her on the 10th inst. by shooting her in
the mouth.
FARMER near Americas, Ga, hearing .ow
in the house of negro tenant, vent to see what
was the matter. As he opened the door the
negro struck him on the head with an ak,
The negro fed.
/ MRs. s.ssALLIE CHASE, the leetuIess and mis-
sionary has been arrested at Creston, Iowa, for
inhumanely treating her adopted daughter of
nine years, and held to appear before the Grand
Jury in the sun, of 1000.
| The news from the interior of Russia is to
the effect that famine and diphtheria is rapidly
dopopulating that region. In the Caucasus
the people are selling their children and COM
mitting suicide.
| The working men of San Francisco have
organized themselves into visiting committees
and are going about among establishments in
that city where Cinnamon are employed in an
| effort to secure their discharge. In many cases
they are successful.
| ADvIcEs from Rio de Janerio state that from
eight to ten persons are dying daily from yel-
lew fever. There is also much sickness on ship
board, and vessels are constantly removed from
the docks and dispersed throughout the harbor.
FIFTEEN thousand people witnessed the exc
cution at Murfreesboro, Tenn, of John Hall
and Burrell Smith last Friday. These men
were convicted of the murder of Major Pugh,
in May last.
| 1t is asserted that the weather in the ex-
trcme West is so changeable and stormy that
travel between Fargo and Bismarck costs the
Northern Pacific Railroad fully 500 pas
senger. Travel west of Fargo has been almost
practically abandoned.
Rev. CowLEY has been sentenced to one ycar
in the penitentiary and to pay fine of $3.50
on one indictment There are twenty three
indictments for him yet to answer to. Evi-
IDENTIFY this grave and good man has hard
looking road to travel. -'f +e--lf's
EoUR prominent men of the Miami Indian
Nation have gone to Washington to prevail
upon the authorities to make their tribe citizens
of the United States. They ask that their land
be set apart to them in severalty and that they
be allowed to draw all the money due them
from the Govern ment. @ etft
| INVITATIONS to citizen soldiers of the United
States are out for the centennial celebration tc
be held at Nashville, Tenn, on the oath o.
April. Two thousand dollars in prizes are tc
be given away to the best drilled companies at
tending. 1t is probable that the equestrian
statue of General jackson will be unveiled on
the occasion.
| HIRAM P. ALLEN, residing near Sandwich
ILL.,, was riddled with bullets by two burglar
who had entered his house for plunder. II,
had heard, the noise and was sitting up in et
when they put in an appearance. -Four ball
entered his body, any one of three of which
would have proved fatal. His wife escaped b,
taking refuge in closet.
SPECIAL telegram from Paris says tn
religious journals publish q brief analysis of
doctrinal act which Leo XIII is about to issu
to put down the public agitation in favor o
1 IA
rage, its unity and its indssolubility, and e1
presses its profound contempt of the civil cere
, mony as the work of the enemies of tn
Church.
THERE symptoms of Molly Maguireis1
developing in the West. At Belleville, Ill
Harry Lister, coal mine superintendent, wa
attacked and left for dead by some unknow
person. Robbery was not the object, as moth
ing on his person was disturbed. He and
number of others have recently been receivin
threatening letters having incloscd in them tn
, skull and cross-bones, the insignia of th
Molly Mcguire organization.
q THE Senate passed q joint resolution, intro
duced by General Logan, authorizing the Sec
retary of the Navy to furnish ship to trans
port to Ireland any provisions othor supple
that may be furnished in this country. If ther
is no ship in the navy capable of carrying
. cargo, the Secretary of the Navy is authorize
: : to charter one, and whatever money is nece,
- sary is appropriated by the resolution.
@ QUITE a serious accident has occurred on Il
o Bellaire and Southeastern Railroad nine mill
southwest of Bellaire, Ohio. A passeng
train consisting of two coaches jumped Il
track while crossing what is known as the " S
Y trestle and fell a distance of thirty five feet
the ground, sadly wrecking the train ar
e wounding from fifteen to twenty passenger
Ex-Congressman Danford who was on boal
the train is said to have been fatally injure
:. DISPATCH from st. Petersburg snys the
~ has been an abortiye ATTEMPT made To kill Il