The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-22
LATEST NEWS.

WHITE frost in the vicinity OF st. Louis on
the night Of the 18th.
The Pennsylvania State fair ct Pittsburg
was a financial failure.
EXTENSIVE ferest fires were reported on the
18th near Carthage. N. Y.
The effort by the stalwarts to secure the New
Sc to Is.
The Jeffersonian Democracy Of New York
will issue call for q State Convention in New
York City, October 10.
JOHN KELLEY thinks Tammany has an even
chance of being recognized by the New York
State Democratic Convention.
AT CHESTER, Pa, Thomas Stinson. aged
ffty-three years. while drunk, murdered his
wife, aged sixty-two, and then fatally stabbed
himself.
FIVE men, employed on the rcilroad near
Mulworah Falls, Columbia River, Oregon,
, were drowned on the 18th. Their boat
swamped in the river.
Two freight trains on the Erie Railroad COL
hded Lear Eimira, N. Y, killing engineer Ful-
fr and two brakemen named Bornt and
Pomeroy, Jones, conductor, and Asa Dunham,
were fatally injured.
Up TO the 17th inst, Boston had contributed
$26, 1T to the Michigan sufferers. Boston should
have credit for doing well. New Yors, howev-
er, has done better. Up to the same date she
had raised S44, $50.
CHARLES SMITH. q laborer at Rockland, Me-,
shot and killed his wife, infant son, and
mother-in-law, and attempted to kill Mrs. Met
calf, an old lady living in the house. but she
with her two children escaped. Cause, jealousy.
WHILE the recent and second operat On per-
formed on Senator Hill, in Philadelphia, for an
affection of the tongue, afforded temporary re-
lief, there has since been chang, for the
worse, and there is danger that the Senator will
lose the power Of speech.
The Presidents speech at the opening of
the Mexican Congress September II, congrat-
ulated the natio, on the peace and prosperity
enjoyed, and on the friendly relations existing
with all foreign countries, and referred to the
wounding of President Garfield as a deplora-
BILE misfortune.
NEWS is received of tragic affair which oc-
Cured near Dykes Mill, La, not far from the
line Of Columbia County, Arkansas. negro
VIZ man named Jane Campbell lived in the vi
cinity, SD, porting herself and two children by
washing and cotton picking. The other day
she became angry with the children because
they disobeyed her in some trivial matter, an
taking a pine knot, beat out their brains
An inquest was held over the remains,
the jury finding that the children
came to their deaths from wounds caused by
a club in the hands of the unnatural mother.
After the verdict was announced, and the
cause of death of the two children became gen.
orally known, mob composed of blacks and
whites, gathered, seized Mrs. Campbell. tied
her to q stake, and, despite her screams and
cries for mercy, literally roasted her alive
The crime and punishment are without par
allel in the criminal annals of the history Of
that country.
On THE 18th the President had a chill, lasting
about 20 minutes, during which time his pulse
ran up to 1877. After the rigor passed off the
President vomited. DR.. Boynton, in answer to
inquiries shortly after the rigor became known,
said it was one of many unfavorable symptoms
which must be looked for at this stage of the
case, at the same time repeating remarks made
heretofore. to the effect that everything terrible
follows the existence of chronic py@mia. After
the rigor passed off the President COM
menced perspiring freely. During the prev
alence of the rigor the President was delirious
On the 18th Attorney General McVeagh sent
the following cablegram to Minister Lowell,
London:
To Lo,peu London:
and comfortable day, but this evening he had
another chill, of less duration than that of
yesterday, but sufficient to increase the
very great anxiety already existing. He
has also been slowly growing weaker, and his
present condition excites the gravest appre-
hensions MACVEkGH