The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-04-01

PENNSYLVANIA held a Greeback- k-Labor Con-
venvion at Harrisburg on the 23d inst, and
elected delegates to the National Convention as
follows: W. F. Hughes, Schuylkill; W. H.
Hines, Luzerne; Samuel Calvin, Blair; j. B.
White, Warren. The conv vention instructed
for Congressman Hendrick B. Wright, OF
Wilkes Barre, Pa, for President without op
position.
CATHERINE McGRAw, of Philadelphia, was
so severely burned that she died. Her dying
statement was that her husband took her money
away from her, beat her and then threw a coal
oil lamp at her from which her clothing ignited.
The inmates of the house modify this statement
by saying she was drunk and sitting too close
to the fire.
The Pennsylvania Board of Pardons had a
protracted session to consider applications for
the pardon of Kemble, Petrof, Saiter, Craw-
ford and Bumburger, recently. convicted on
pleading guilty of eorruptly soliciting votes OF
members of the Legislature in connection with
the Riot Claims Bill. After hearing counsel
ON both sides, the Board consulted for an hour,
| and refused the pardons asked for.
DANIEL CoURAY, a stone-cutter, at Erie,
Penn, has become raving maniac from at
tempting to solve the Is puzzle. He gave up
his business and worked night and day on it,
and finally, in frenzy, attempted to place
his infant child on a red-hot stove: He has
been placed in an asylum, where he spends his
time drawing diagrams of the puzzle on the
wall and repeating "13, Is, IA"
SPECIAL from Alma, COL, relates that W.
I J. Porter, a hard character, shot and killed
4 Tl fior,
/, whatever, and that an hour after fifty unmasked
| citizens collected at the Jail and hung Porter
| within its walls. Porter swore at the men
until they put the rope around his neck, when,
after making few remarks, he said, "Pull up
he rope, boys"
! EUGENE FAIRFAX WILLIAMSON has been az
rested on the charge of attempting to levy
| blackmal on Rev. DIR. Dix, of New York. He
confesses to the crime, but says he had no
motive and did not know why he had written
the letters. He comes from excellent family,
and in Pittsburg, where he is best known, his
arrest has created considerable excitement
Those who best know him regard his action as
an "insane impulse"
4 THREE demons called at the house of Nor
! wegian in Clay County, Ia, cloroformed his
| wife, violated her person, stole what money
there was in the house (thirty dollars and then
set the house fire. A little dog belonging
to the family scratched the woman's face until
she came to, and by an effort she managed to
crawl from the house before the flames reached
her. The three men have been arrested and
| are in Jail, and from the statement of a cor
respondent, probably lynched by this
time.
CArrLEsBURG, (Ky.) correspondent makes
this statement: There is Mormon colony on
Georges Creek, thirty-seven miles from here,
and during the past ten days parties from here,
numbering perhaps in all twenty persons, have
been passing through Cattlesburg on their way
| ro Utah. Nearly all these converts are native
Kentuckians. Twelve went through town yes
terday. This truly remarkable state of affairs
has resulted from the labors of missionaries
from Salt Lake City, who have been expound-
ing their doctrines to the citizens of Lawrence
and johnson Counties for year past. Among
those starting yesterday pretty young
woman, whose husband was left behind
A BODY -sNATcnER named Gordon Truesdale
has met with horrible death at South Bend
Ind. His entire system became inoculated
with poison resulting from contact with dead
bodies, and he died mass of putrefaction
The coffin burst open three times before il
could be gotten in:o the grave from the case;
generated, and the stencil was Overwhelm-
ing that people were forced to run away. Be.
| fore he died he confessed to having opened the
grave Of q young lady, who had died of con-
sumption, cutting her neck around with 9
knife, and then, placing foot on her breast
twisted the head off. He was an amateur
, phrenologist, and his object was to secure hel
: skull.
| THE Cincinnati Times of the 22d inst, says
The cigar makers strike virtually ended to-
r day, having lost 100000 to the manufacturers
S125 900 to the employees and 900 to th'
Government in the way Of taxes. The resul
d is virtual triumph for the employees, and the,
are to be praised for their manly and respectful
, bearing during the strike, and for the skill il
which it was conducted. At the same time tn
manufacturers have obtained assurances that
= put aside some of their fears as to the inten
tions of the union, especially in regard to tn
employment of women and girls; and bot
sides have come to such an understanding tina
similar difficulties are not likely to arise 70
some time to come.
). CONVENTIONS to appoint delegates to Chicag
and Cincinnati will be held follows:
REPUBLICAN.
: Kentucky, April IA. Virginia, April 81
Is Missouri, April IA. Georgia, April Il.
| Arkansas, April %. South Carolina, April 49,
- Ohio. April %. Tennessee, May 5.
California, April 49, wisconsin, May
- Alabama. Nav 20. New Hampshire, NAV 6.