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

Is Philadelphia, Patrick Hayes killed his
wife and then himself.
In San Domingo peace has been restored and
business is brisk.
CARL monk, of Buffalo, sentenced to be
hanged April 2, has been granted reprieye of
six weeks.
RAIDING force just returned to Atlanta,
Ga, bring in with them seven workmen and
report the capture of nine illicit distilleries.
BY command of the Queen of England
stone cross has been erected on the spot where
the Prince Imperial lost his life in Zululand.
REDPATH writes to the New York World from
Ireland that he saw one landlord turn eleven
families out into q binding storm.
Per concurrent resolution passed by both
branches of the Iowa Legislature, that body
made final adjournment on the 9th.
THE relief ship Constellation sailed tor
Ireland, the 9th, having on board 3,O5S ar
rels of provisions and four cases of clothing.
AT Lawrenceville, Pa, Sidney Green killed
his wife, and being pursued, shot himself dead.
The wife had only recently returned from the
West. Hra
TEE long talked-of race between~the Oxford
and Cambridge crews took place on the Thames.
The Oxfords were the winners by three boat
lengths.
NINETEEN sanitary detachments of doctors
and nurses have been set to work in the Prov
ince OF kharkof to combat the ravages of
diphtheria. -
NEAR Atlanta, Ca, John Foster, one of the
leaders of the moonshiners, shot and killed a
man named Cowart, an important witness
against him.
TEE birthday of William l., Emperor of
Germany, was celebrated on the 29th of March
The Emperor is eighty-three years old, and
is hale and hearty.
The lockout of the piano manufacturing
firms in New York is about over. Nearly all
the establishments have opened up and work
has been rssamed.s s.I4essW
JACOB Frey, sixty mine years old, at St.
Louis, cut his wife's throat, and thep severed
his own windpips. The affair grew on. of a
quarrel about money.
THE New York Tammanyitss have engaged
$50 rooms at the Burnst House, and 1870 at the
st. James, Cincinnati, for their accommodation
during the Cincinnati Convention.
PoLIricAL matters are reported as particu-
larly lively in ireland, and Mr.. Parnell work.
ing vigorously. Parnell and Bigger, (Home
Rule) have decided to run in Mayo.
THE appropriations to be awarded to COM
peti:ive military companies during the mill
tary week of the Centennial Exposition at
Nashville, Tennessee, have been increased to
81, 500.
THE difficulty between the Governments Of
Russia and China is not in very fair way Of
reopen the Kuldja treaty on the basis of the
Chinese proposals.
The Greenback- Labor Party of New York
State held a convention at Albany and elected
Patrick e. Ford, George o. Jones, Jas. E,
Wright and Samuel Lowell delegates at large
to the Chicago Convention.
BUILDING in course Of construction by tbs
ieet square, fell with a frightful crash, buryint
three of the workmen in the debris. John W
Burzee and John Bushey were fatally injured
Tp2 ex-Sheriff of Shelby County, Ohio
Alex Ramsay, has absconded, and is a defaulte
to the amount of $4,000. Ramsey's bond wa
$I3 900, and S. A. Leckey, d. V. Dingman anc
Geo. Ackerly of Sidney, were his bondsmen.
Col. o. F. LockwooD, convicted of EN-
bezzling $4,000 from the Citizens Nationa
Bank of Flint, Mich, was sentenced in tn
United States Court to five years imprison
ment.
| TEE late Gen. VIM. Badger Tibbitts, o
Troy, N. Y, bequeathed $lOo,oeo with whicl
| to build the Soldiers Home, in Troy, con
ditioned upon $50 900 additional being secure
within fye years.
NEWS from France says that the past winte
has injured grape vines so severely that thi
years crop must again be necessarily poor
Vines in Burgundy, and more especially i
Champagne, suffered unusually.
The Postofice Department has advertise
for the miscellaneous Star routes througheu
the United States, numbering, in all AL
Contracts win be let in May, and go into effet
the 1st of July.
AT horse sale of blooded stock at the Amer
| ican Institute Building, New York, the 9th.
day, Judge Fullerton, rscord 2 :18, was pur
chased by Arthur Dillender for $1,000; Vol
taire, record 2 :21, to John w. Conley, Chicag
for S., 200.
Dion BoUcIcAULT, the great actor, has bee
arrested in New York at the instance of
wife in divorce suit and held in 50 900 bond
his wife (known as Agnes Robertson, a
actressJ making affidavit that he was abo
to leave.the country.
THE Interior Department has been inform,
that large numbers of Sitting Bulls band ha'
applied at Fort Peck for rations, offering
surrender their arms and ponies. These su
renders, Secretary schurz says, will have to
made to the military posts.
The President nominated James B. Ange,
| Michigan, Envoy Extraordinary and Minist
, Plenipotentiary of the United States to Chin
uice Geo. r. Seward, recalled; John F. Swi
of California, and Wm. H. Trescot, of Sou
!, Carolina, Commissioners of China, to negotia
a treaty
SufERINrEsDESr SPICE, of the Allen Coun
+ Asylum, Ind, against whom grand iu
4 found an Indictment for starving and bruta
4 treating the paupers under his care,
Z brought suit against the said Grand Jury
damages in the sum Of $40 900.
q DUBLIN, Q small village north Of Columb
q Ohio, after the manner Of Westerville, oh
!. has had saloon explosion. The little shar
was blown to atoms by keg ofpowder, pla
in the cellar for that purpose. The deed
charged to an organization known as the ar
: whisky Ku-Klux.
HAwLIsH wAMro, Chief of the Cayrse
- dians, on Umatilla Reservation, Wyom
d Territory, who died last week, was buried "
E. great honors. Over Thousand persons atten
d his funeral. In the earlier days he was
" means of saving the lives of all the wi
It settlers in that valley.
], A SANTA FE, N. NJ, dispatch says that
"a dians attacked party of six men near Sa
Z, Barbara, killing all. The names Of only
of the murdered men are known-Green VIII
= Icy and Domingo Martinez. The Indians
n, attacked the village of San Jose, bat "
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