The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-01
LATEST NEWS.

kDlANAPOLIS enforces her Sunday laws.
The bimetalic agitation has been renewed in
England, owing to the scarcity of gold.
AroRNApo damaged property to the value Of
el40, 600 at Charleston, 8. G.
PRECAUTIONS have been taken by the author
tiles, at Washington, to protect Guiteau against
mob violence, should the President die.
Rev. E. W. BEAMAN, Of the Church of New
Jerusalem, Cincinnati, declares the story of
Samson's strength to be ga symholical myth"
Ar PLANO, Texas, fifty-one buildings were
Destroyed by fire in the business part of town
in..tWo hours. The loss is expected to reach
$1D0,0O0.
PARLIAMENT was prorogued August n, and
the principal feature in the Queens address
washer hope that the recent legislation in re-
gaa&to ireland would prove beneficial.
MUsaRAvE, of the lfmsrave Alpaca Com
pany, at Chicopee, Mass, has swindled his
partners, Anderton and Dunn, out of $685.
900 by his transactions and decamped.
TOMBSTONE (Arizona Territory dispatch
says Indians attacked the town of Eureka,
New Mexico, on the 2eth of August and killed
number.
EIGHT thousand acres of land in the vicinity
of Lake Calumet, South Chicago, has been pur-
chased by q single syndicate for 81, 600, ,000
The purchasers are leading spirits in the New
York, Chicago and st. Louis Railway, the
Western Indiana, and the projected Belt Rail-
way.
Mrs. SMITH, widow, living near Kaufman,
Texas, and several members of her family and
some tenants-ten in all-were poisoned by
eating cooked peaches containing arsenic.
Medical assistance was summoned, but at last
report there was but little hope of the recovery
of any of the injured parties.
l. The National Prohibition Alliance, through
it's President, Rev. Il. A. Thompson, D. D.,
late candidate for Vice President on the Prohi-
bition ticket, and the Secretary, Mrs. NJ. Nc
Clelland Brown, of Pittsburg, Pa, have issued
q call for National Conference of Prohibition
lists in New York City the 18th and 18th inst
NEAR Carter's Creek Station, Tennessee,
Sarah Prewitt, colored, left her house in charge
of three small children, and two grandchildren,
while she went to do some washing for neigh
bor. In her absence the house took fire, burn
ing the three children to death, and the other
two died shortly afterward from their injuries.
The following warning was. published in the
Chicago papers the 9th of August, signed
"Central Committee - "Americans and friends
of Ireland are hereby warned against embarking
upon any vessel flying the British flag after
Thursday, September 1. Many may reach their
| destination, but none are safe"
DURING fire at 40 and AZ Court street, Gin
cinnati, Robert Allen of Nashville, Tennessee,
jumped from fourth-story window and was
| instantly killed. A roommate of Aliens
| jumped from the same window and was only
| slightly bruised. Others were seriously injured
| among them woman and her child, who was
| almost suhocated an old man was badly
| burned. '' "
"BRIaHrER." g. -.
| AUGUST 29.-News from the White House ID
encouraging. The alarming symptoms Of the
past few days have given way to brighter pros
| poets, and the surgeons now all express the be
lief that there is yet q chance for the Presiden'
| to get well. There are three favorable points
in the news at this date: /. The wound looki
better. Its appearance during the period Of
greatest depression was discouraging. 2. The
stomach is doing its work fairly well. It is moi
crowded with solid food, but disposes of tn,
meat juices and other liquids and the tongu,
and skin look well. 8. The violence of thu
swelling in the neck has evidently subsidized, be
cause the Presidents head is clear and it waf
the reappearance of his mind that helped tn.
body. Taking all things into consideration, il
does not seem to be too much to say that thu
President has wonderfully rallied again, and hal
gained ground.
| H. N. WHEELER is the editor of the Quinc,
| I'll. Herald. Since the shooting of Presiden
Garfield he has repeatedly assailed the Presi
dent in bis columns and sustained the act OF
Guiteau. As specimen, we take the follow
ing from the columns of the Herald of recent
date: "We believe Guiteau to be just Al
honorable as the man he shot, and might,
sight less dangerous to the country at large
than that plausible, smooth-tongued, unprin
cipled man, who, with snif1e and . pioul
groan, will turn from prsyer to take bribe
commit perjury, or steal Presidency" Sc
indignant had the citizens of both parties be
come at such q calumy on dying man that Oh
the night of the 28th the editor of the Herald
and Guiteau as bis companion, were burned
in efigy in the street near the Herald Office
Excitement was at fever heat, and for time
it was feared that the editor would be mobbed