The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-03-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


TIE colored physicians of Tennessee have or
ganized q State Medical Association.
FIRE in Albany, N. Y, resulted in the de-
struction of property to the value of $780,
900.
TIE President has nominated Henry
sterne, of Indiana, United States Consul at
Pesth.
FIvEmen, among them q priest, have been
arrested at Pickanock, Ontario, charged with
incendiarism.
GREENFIKLD, sentenced to hang at Syracuse,
N. Y, has again been respited by the Cover
nor to April %.
The town Of Urfa, Asiatic Turkey, the sup
posed seat of /" Ur of the Chaldess,' y has been
nearly destroyed by ere.
WITH all the material aid rendered to the
suffering of famine stricken Ireland, the num-
Dor of destitute continues to increase daily.
ANOTHER slight oscillatory movement has
been felt at Havana, accompanied by noise
like an explosion.
The Louisiana Senate has suspended sena-
tors Demas. Simms and Stewart, charged with
contempt in signing the Kellogg memorial.
TIE Greenbackers of Michigan have called
State Convention at jackson for March IL, to
select delegates to the Greenback National Con-
vention at Chicago june 9.
ADDISON G. Brown, of Seymour, Ind, shot
and instantly killed William Postlethwait. The
difficulty was the result of a quarrel at a mas
querAde ball in progress at the time.
4 lTH1RTY -FOUR indictments have been found
against the Comptroller, Treasurer and Clerk
of Elizabeth, N. j., for conspiracy to defraud
the city.
J. LLOYD HArGH, wine manufacturer, of New
York, whose operations mainly caused the
for forgery.
A PRIVATE telegram from TiHis reports that
Persia is actively assembling troops, and trust
worthy information has been received that the
Persian army will march on Herat.
A BERLIN dispatch says that by the dissemina-
ton of news from the United States that trade
here is reviving, emigration from Germany has
recommended on an appreciable scale.
The Iowa Democrats will hold their State
Convention for the selection of delegates to the
National Convention at Burlington, Wednes-
day, April 18th.
REPUBLICAN CONVENTIONS were held in all
the Congressional Districts of Indiana on the
25th for the purpose of selecting delegates to
the Chicago Convention, and with an occasional
exception, delegates were not instructed.
Two men, Curly Wood and his son Charles,
were hanged by vigilants, near Deadwood the
past week for cattle stealing. Two others, Gus
johnson and Bad Land Charley, guilty of the
Same offense, fed, were pursued and shot.
MRS. ENeELMAN, of Chicago, has recovered a
judgment of 81, 900 against the estate of Solo
mon Sem. Sem murdered her husband and
Immediately afterward killed himself, and she
sued the estate for 900 damages.
A BAPTIST minister pamed Mark Sumner
has been found guilty in the United States
District Court of forging pension papers, and
sentenced to six years in the Albany, IN. Y. y
Penitentiary.
The Secretary of the Navy, has ordered a
survey of the United States ship Con stellation
at the Brooklyn Navy-yard, preparatory to
! putting that vessel into commission for carry
ing supplies to Ireland.
| ROBERT VINT, pedestrian, the little Brooklyn
shoemaker, at Cincinnati last week made the
best time ON record in the eighty four hour 60
| as you please match. He scored 432 miles and
five laps. Harriman's score was 421 miles
Guyon, AIS; 0'Brien, 406.
In Cass County, Texas, three men were ar
rested for outraging and then numbering re-
spectacle married lady. One Of them confessed
the crime. A mob collected, and after horribly
mutilating him, saturated his clothing with
coal oil and applied torch to him. This over
they hanged him.
A FIRST cousin of the late President Lincoln
Jacob Lincoln, a wealthy citizen of Harrison.
burg, Va, was brutally murdered for hi
money last week by two notorious character
named Reed and Woods. They have been ar
rested and lodged in Jail.
HEAVY and disastrous snow storms hav,
been prevailing in the Northwest for the pas
two months. The most extensive snow storm
ever known occurred there last week. Trave
on the Northern Pacific is almost impracti
cable.
TIT is announced that the Government o
Germany has resolved so far to retrace its step
on the question of reconciliation of silver as t
increase silver circulation to twelve marks pc
! head for the entire population of the Empire
J or to about the gross amount of $129, ,OO0, 900.
NEWS from Havana states that the Insur
gent Chiefs Rojas, Cayos, Perez and Vasque1
surrendered, with more than two hundre
: armed men and several families and freedmen
The remaining insurgents are closely pursue
by the Government troops.
The Rev. Henry W. Richardson, Methc
t, dist clergyman of Sea Cliff, near Glencov,
! Long Islaud, eloped with his wife's sister,
Lizzie Louther. They were captured just
, they were in the act of sailing for Texas.
A GENERAL fight occurred on the turnpil
near Murfreesboro, Tenn, between eigl
negroes and three white men, about giving Il
1 road, which resulted in the death of one whi
q man and one negro. The entire party we
e pretty badly bruised up.
y GENERAL HENRY DARNELL has just died
Madrid Bend, Lake County, Tenn, from Il
effects of two pistol wounds received at d
hands of Albert Nail in 1878. General Da
nell makes the third who received fatal woun
in that difficulty, and the fourth member of /
family who has been killed.
d A TEysEssEEAS, E. R. Hayes, for fve yea
70 q clerk in the Dead Letter Office, at washin
It ton, has confessed to having stolen $so2 fre
l. letters passing through his hands. He sa
a his object was to pay of debts he owed
v Tennessee, and that he expected later to
Q, place the money from his salary.
- DE LEssErs, his wife, three chhdron and
m number of his engineers have arrived in N
- York. They now figure up the cost of bui
Il ing the Panama Canal at $160, 800 900,
: perhaps may be able to reduce that to '$15
y 10000. twill require eight years to do I
~ work.
AZ MRS. CArHARrNE ZELL, Of Carlisle, Pom
p. sentenced to be hanged for the alleged ia