The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-11-17
LATER NEWS.
GuirEAU's trial is in progress.

GUiTEAU's trial is in progress.
Snow is twenty inches deep in places in Col
orado.
FORTY persons were killed and forty-one
wounded by an explosion Of gas in o gulphur
mine at Gossolungo, in Italy.
GUITEAU has made q statement for the Court,
which, through fear that the Court will not
listen to him, he has given to the newspapers.
In the course of the document he affirms that
President Garfield was shot by an insane man,
and killed by his physicians.
GILES LEROY, ferryman, and son Henry,
Francis Kelley, teamster, Thomas Manor,
blacksmith, John Keyes, laborer, George Hoy,
James DEMON, and three others were drowned
at Troy, N. Y, by the upsetting Of ferry.
skiff. Nearly all leave families
MARY FRANCES Mcv1cKEn, wife of Edwin
Booth, the actor, died at the residence Of her
parents, No. IS West Fifty third street, New
York, on the 18th inst. The remains were
taken to Chicago for interment. Mrs. Booth
had been i'll for several months.
BILLS amounting to $500, coo have been re-
ceived at the Treasury Department for mourn
ing decorations on public buildings through
out the country in memory of the late Presi-
dent. There being no appropriation from
which such expenses can be paid, the matter
will be laid before Congress.
The cholera at Mecca has increased. Tho
mortality on the Sd, 4th and 5th was IS, 215
md 214 respectively Caravans comprising
o, 600 pilgrims left Mecca on the 9Th, and it is
feared that the Egyptian troops stationed At
El Wadi will be unwilling or unable to prevent
them from entering the town.
A PRIZE fight of the most brutal character
took place near East st. Louis, H., between
Joseph O'Neil, of Vandalia, ILL.,, and Billy
Lynch, of East St. Louis. Nineteen rounds
we're fought, when ONeil failed to respond to
the call of time, and Lynch was declared win
ner. The sight was most disgusting one and
many spectators left before the conclusion.
The principals escaped arrest.
TEN boilers at the extensive lumber and salt
manufactory Of Hamilton Mcclure, six miles
below East Saginaw, Mich, exploded . few
days ago, wrecking the property to the extent
of S25, 200, and killing four fremen, Michael
and Joseph Leban, Frank Blanchard and
larles Carpenter. Low water caused the ex-
plosion. The brick boiler-house and brick
chimney were leveled to the ground, and the
mill AMI salt block badly damaged. The debris
was blown in every direction, pieces coming
down half mile distant.
The State Department at Washington has
issued an exhaustive statement Of the cotton
goods trade of the world, giving the reports Of
forty-six Consuls. The raw cotton Of the
several countries is estimated at $500, ,000, 900
pounds, OF which 2, 77O. .000 900 is grown in the
United States 400, ,0O0, 600 in the East Indies,
$50, 900, 900 in Egypt and the balance divided
between Brazil and the West Indies. The value
Of the cotton manufactures of the world is
put at 81, ,S4S 900, ,0O0 Of which 1851, l70 900 ID
manufactured in Great Britain, $2ss, $50, 900 in
the United States e106, 92o, 900 in Germany,
S102, ,060, 900 in Russia, and the remainder
divided among other countries.
Col. J. HOWARD wELLEs, resident of New
York, aged about sixty years, has been arrested
for an attempted blackmsii on Jay Gould.
Welles wrote Mr.. Gould a letter saying he had
been commissioned by God to kill him, but on
condition Of certain ''pointers" in the stock
market, would forego the job. Fifty
detectives and fifty letter carriers we're put to
work at once to apprehend the writer,
each box in precinct being watched for
the writer to mail his replies in correspon-
dence which had at once been begun, and
Welles was arrested. He proved to be .
man of fine bearing, and well educated, and
when arrested, nearly tainted. He declares
that he will snicide if Mr.. Gould prosecutes
him, and Gould says he will prosecute him to
the full extent Of the law.