The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-19
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

loss, Slfo,VVV.
JAS. C. FLOOD gives ireland s25 900 hard
cash.
TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH, New York,
burned loss, $l25 900 organ, $40, 900.
News from Shanghai reports that 5000
houses have been burned up in Toxic.
S. LoSGFELLow, the poets dissolute nephew,
has been indicted for forgery in Boston.
The Baroness Burdett-Cou donates 5OO,-
900 to Ireland.
The new city directory of Louisville places
the population of that city at 174 1000.
NJ. FEsbIxAxD DE LEssEPs and his party
have sailed for New York.
The State Normal School at San Jose, Cali
fornia, burned up. Loss, s250,oOo.
Ex-SEcRKTARY BoRIE bequeathed to General
Grant s1O, 900.
MAYOR KALLocH addressed unemployed
workingmen at San Francisco, stating that
Chinatown would be declared legal nuisance.
The New York Legislature has passed the
bill in the Senate declaring women eligible to
serve as School Trustees.
THE bill tor tie .prolongation of the Anti
Socialist Law in Germany extends its opera
ton to the 31st of March, 1886.
ENGLAND, France and Germany will prob
ably recognize Roumanian independence
simultaneously in a few days.
THE laboring men of California are making
it hot for John Chinaman. Evidently John
will have to go.
INTELLIGENCE from London says the French
steamer Valentine, from Cardiff, for Dieppe,
has foundered. Sixteen persons drowned.
TIE operatives at Burley, England, give
notice that they will strike on the 25th. There
are now twenty five mills idle.
THE London Times says that England re-
CARDS Americas generosity to Ireland as good
will to England, also.
WHILE ball and concert were in progress,
in an opera house at Central City, D. T.,
heavy wind carried away the front end of the
building. Fortunately n o one was killed.
The City Hall of Albany, N. Y, has
burned; loss over 100000. One man was
killed by the falling of the dome, and six
others fatally hurt.
AN explosion in the Canada Paper Company's
mill, at Windsor, Quebec, killed two men and
probably fatally injured three others. The
pulp mills burned.
THE smallpox is said to have broken out
among the Indians of the Rosebud Agency,
Dakota, in malignant form. They number
| about 5000.
THE man John KENNEL, who killed his
three children at Holyoke, Mass, last June,
has been adjudged insane and placed in an
asylum.
| THE Governors of Colorado and New Mexico
have asked the President to furnish them with
additional troops as means of protection
| against Indian raids.
A YOUNG man named Frank Lawrence has
been arrested in Nebraska for killing his father
some time ago at Chicago in order to realize
| the insurance on his life, which amounts to
| $4,000.
THE donations to the Irish Relief Fund,
which was opened by the New York Herald,
amount to an average of $1,000 daily. The
police force of New York City propose to raise
| 81 900 for this fund, each member giving one
| days pay.
John Benson, Jr., Fusion Deputy Secretary
of the State of Maine and member of
| Governor Smiths staff, has been arraigned,
| charged with the larceny of the manuscript
tabulation of the legislative returns from E. C.
Moody, on January 20, 1880. The defendant
gave bail in the sum of $500 to appear in the
April term of the Supreme Court.
| WE have information from Abingdon, Va,
Of great tragedy in Carroll County, just
across the mountains. Three colorea men in
cabin had quarrel. The matter was ap-
1 q A.
While two of the party were asleep the third
one got an ak and nearly severed the head off
one of the sleepers, and mortally wounded the
other in the neck. The double murderer then
fed and has not yet been captured.
ANTHONY CoMsTocK is on the warpath again.
This time he has trapped Edward F. Williams,
President Of the Greenpoint Savings Bank,
Brooklyn, who, as it appears, has been in the
habit of sending obscene and indecent letters
to the wives and daughters of prominent men
against whom he happened to have spite.
Henry Hilton, A. T. Stewards partner, was
one of the many to whom these offensive letters
were sent.
GARLAND WILLIAMS, who, with Rial Patter-
son, was arrested short time since in Gin
cinnati charged with the murder of Darby
Martin, in Kentucky, in 1868, after trial, has
been discharged. Patterson is held. 1t is now
suspected that George Price, the negro who
has been convicted of the murder of Willie
Black, at Cincinnati, and who, because Will
liams in that trial, testified against him, caused
his arrest, is himself one Of the guilty parties
in the Martin murder.
HEAVY rain fall and wind storm in the
Southern States, principally in Tennessee and
Kentucky, has done much damage to property
Many parts Of the country are inundated by
the swelling of streams. At Nashville, where
the windstorm was the hercest, property was
damaged to the extent of a 500 900 or more
At that point the rainfall was over seven inches
and the entire country is flooded. But the
rainfall was of destructive character through
out both States named, and at the present
writing it is impossible to estimate the los.
sustained.
julius MATE and his cousin, Amelia Matz
were found dead in their room at the City
Hotel, Syracuse, N. Y. Amelia had loved he
cousin passiona,ely, but he, having, it is said
ruined her, refused to marry her. They hat
stopped at the hotel named and registered OF
the day before man and wife. When they
were found, he was lying on the bed, disrobed
with bullet hole in his head. She was lying
: on the floor, also with bullet hole in he
temple and holding a small hand-gla in on'
hand and pistol in the other. They had betl
been highly respected.
The greatest difficulty which the Govern
ment is meeting in reaching q satisfactor.
!. adjustment with the Ute Indians exists in tn
conduct of white men in Colorado, who, it ap
, pears, have pledged themselves to drive tn
III Utes from their reservation. The Indians claim
J that if the Government cannot protect them il
, the peaccable possession of their present reser
vition it would be as powerless to protect then