The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-01-29
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

EIGHTY-Two OF Edison's lamps are still
aglow in Menlo Park.
The nominations recently made by the Presi-
| dent to foreign missions have been confirmed by
| the Senate.
ONE hundred and seven is the number of con-
victs pardoned out of the Kentucky Peni-
tentiary last week.
CHAs. H. HARDIN was hanged at Delaesus,
Mo-, on the 23d, for the murder of Robert Fer
guson on the goth of October last.
J. z. GEORGE, on the 49th ballot, was elected
United States Senator by the Mississippi Leg
islature. @f
The Indian Appropriation Bill, as agreed
upon by the subcommittee, appropriates $4,-
| 692 900.
The winter wheat acreage now sown in the
State of Illinois is 1855, 1926, or % per cent.
| greater than that of last year.
WESTERN Colorado and Utah will be the fu-
ture home of the Utes. They are to be removed
from their present reservation.
The Molly Maguires, of Pittston, Pa, are
| getting in their work. railroad watchman,
John Day, has been found murdered.
GENERAL R. L. GIBSON has been nominated
to the United States Senatorship to succeed
Kellogg, whose term expires in 1883.
The President has withdrawn the nomina-
tion of WIN. P. Seymour as Census Super
visor of the Sixth District of Indiana.
| A SPECIAL from Ft. Reno says that Major
Brownhead, Paymaster U. S. A, was robbed
en- route from Ft. Leavenworth to Fit. Reno
| of the sum of $20, 900. --,---...-
The shoe establishment of the Brooklyn Peni-
tentiary (Kings County, New York, has been
destroyed by fire. The loss is placed at $780,
| 900.
| ELI CUNNINGHAM, the murderer Of George
Beard, at Pennington, Mo-, has saved the
hangman an unpleasant job by taking his own
life in his CELL
The Union Pacific, Kansas Pacific, and
Denver Pacific railroad companies have been
consolidated and will be known hereafter as
the Union Pacific Railroad Company.
A GANG of thirteen counterfeiters were cap
tured the other day near Oswego, N. Y, to-
gether with counterfeiting implements and a
lot of spurious coin.
PoTTsrowN, Pa, is greatly excited over TIE
1t has taken the third drop, and now real estate
in that burg is on the decline.
SIxTY-sEvEN convicts were discharged from
the Kentucky Penitentiary on Friday, on ac-
count of health and the bad sanitary con-
aition of that institution.
The friends of Charles W. Angel, who is in
Joliet lIll.) Penitentiary for robbing the Pull
man Car Company of $4,000, are at work
trying to secure his pardon.
Tur aI ranorfs fro,, Ma;na rarxo II
ing warlike preparations are contradicted. In
fact every thing connected with that State just
now seems to rest upon contradictions.
WoNG FooK, a Chinaman, who was to have
been hanged at Portland, Oregon, a few days
since, took the law in his own hands and
strangled himself to death.
Il E. G. HENDERSON, foreman, and VIM. Nc
Claim, printer, both attaches of the Globe print.
ing Office, at Cherryvale, Kansas, were burned
to a crisp in the destruction by fire of that es-
tablishment the past week.
DANIEL SEARLEs was hanged the past weel
at 0swego, n. Y, for the murder of an ole
) farmer named EIdridge Rewey, the 25th o
June last, at a small village near that plac'
named Newark Valley.
, NEWS from Panama says that De Lesseps ant
party are enthusiastic over the success of tn,
first of their practical experiments in cana
building on the Isthmus. The daughter of d.
Lesseps, aged seven years, fired the first blast
THERE was a general response throughou
the country to the call from Ireland for sub
stantial aid. Meetings are being held every
where with view to raising funds for tn
8 starving people. s-,----
I THE house of Mr.. Webber, at Danforth
|. ILL.,, was entered by four masked robbers VIII
8 gagged the old gentleman, and then blew opel
: his safe, securing thereby $4,000 in cas-
money.
THERE has beeH an investigation in progres
in New York of what is called the " Shepherd
4 | Fold" It is home for little children. De
/ velopments show that horrible cruelty has bee
, practiced in that institution for long time.
Q The report of the supervising Inspector g
Q New Orleans for the past year shows that n
q deaths have occurred from steamboat boile
3 explosions on the Mississippi Rivera fact un
precedented in river navigation.
LITTLE John Kale, twelve year old bo
!, residing in Philadelphia, who was bitten by
4 dog on Halloween, is dying from hydrophobi,
. His symptoms are described being simila
+. to those of an angry dog-biting, swapping an
:. snarling.
:. PROCLAMATION is to be issued that yer
!: geance for the massacre of the British En-
= bassy at Cabul being satisfied, the Brits
/: army will Withdraw to Jellalabad, leavin
,, the Afghans to live under such sovereig
l. as they may elect.
= EVERY morning the dispatches from Irelar
Il. tb,t he ~ hat Gov ol-r
L country is increasing Numerous deaths fro
% starvation are reported. This, connected wi
the fact that fuel is very scarce-some distric
utterly destitute of it-presents an appallir
state of affairs.
FoR beating up comrade, named FORE
a ter, at Alpine. COL, Daniel Pickett, jam
re- Loueh and Daniel Dennison resisted an ofic
D. who held a warrant for their arrest. Obse
Ie wing that they showed fight, the officer begs
e shooting, killing all three Of the men. T.
re trouble arose about gill whom Forester hi
)t accompanied to a dance.
ze The Grand Jury at Harrisburg, Pa. hs
n found true bills against Representatives Run
N berger and Petrof, and ex-State Treasur
VI Kemble, e. K. Shoemaker, Christopher Lon
"a Jesse R. Crawford, and Ed. McCune on charg
:. of corrupt solicitation of members of the lie
- islature.
al TWENTY members of the Brooklyn Presb
4. terry arc fighting now because of the refusal
be that body to investigate itself under the Ia
A. charge of "moral rottenness" preferred
a DR.. Talmage. The war in Presbyterian o
~ Giles in Brooklyn has every prospect of 10
siege. g.f f.orr .r5.,
MRS. RIGNEY, relict of a wealty merchant
Springfield, H., has been united in maria
10 to Rev. G. w. Raymond, colored minister,
=. Baptist persuasion. Mrs. Rigney has alwa
- moved in the best society, and Of course Il
sis denouement has considerably unsettled soci,
he matters in that Capital.
lie. DISPATCHES announce that the Parnell Co
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