The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-06-01
CURRENT NEWS.

CURRENT NEWS.
TIE Chicago May Festival closed with de-
fcit of $4,000.
EDMOND HoLKER, the eminent German
novelist, is dead.
ADA C. SWEET has been confirmed Pension
Agent at Chicago.
FRosT, snow and ice have damaged fruit
considerably in Iowa.
GEN. CURTIS, Special Treasury Agent, has
been convicted of fraud.
Or 15o deaths in Cincinnati during the week,
ffty-one were from smallpox.
Four hundred houses belonging to Jews were
recently burned at Vasilishki, Russia.
The report is current that the assassin of
Lord Cavendish committed suicide at sea.
THREE children Of Jacob Davitte, Polk
County, Ga, perished in q burning dwelling.
PRINCESS LOUISE sailed from London last
week on the steamship Sarmatian for Canada
THREE laborers were killed by the caving of
the new tunnel on the New York, Ontario and
Western Railway.
MRS. KATE CHASE SPRAauE has been granted
q divorce from her husband and given charge
of her three daughters.
THE Governor of Tennessee has signed the
bill to fund the State debt at sixty cents, with
interest at 8, 4, 5 and per cent.
The Globe Hotel, Methodist parsonage, two
residences, and Gould L Scott's block, at Col
borne, Ontario, were destroyed by fire.
GEORGE A. Comfy, well-known basso operate
singer, and Herman Reitzel, pianist, were
drowned in Lake Spofford, New Hampshire.
Ar RICHMOND, Ind, one of Evangelist Har-
rison's converts has confessed to being one Of
the Secret Ten," band of house burners.
RICHTER, editor of . Socialist paper in
Vienna, has been sentenced to twelve years
imprisonment at hard labor, for high treason.
A SALT LAKE dispatch states that about
twenty thousand votes were cast for the Utah
Constitution, and not one hundred against it.
LEWIS F. FRYE, the champion bicycle rider
Of the United States, was thrown from BIZ
cycle at Marlboro, Mass, and fatally injured.
THE Grant Company's Smelling Works, at
Leadville, Colorado, the largest of the kind in
the world, have been completely destroyed by
FIRE.
AT WILMINGTON, Delaware, James Redden,
colored, was convicted OF criminally assaulting
young white girl, and sentenced to be
hanged.
A SMALL expedition, well equipped, leaves
San Francisco in q few days for a prospecting
tour in Alaska. The party expect to be absent
about three years.
THE latest advices from the wreck Of the
steamer Manitoulin, burned near Killarney,
Ont, places the number Of persons lost from
twenty to twenty-five.
NEAR Milford, 200 miles southwest of Salt
Lake City, an old ranchman killed his wife,
fired seven navy bullets from q shotgun into
bis liver and died himself.
DURING q fire in the cellar of q grocery in
Philadelphia, an explosion of coal oil occurred,
shattering the building. and seriously burning
about twenty-five persons.
THE crank Albert Young, who was arrested
in London for writing a letter threatening the
ten years penal servitude.
As THE result of a neighborhood feud at
Benefits Mill, near Lebanon, Mo-, two broth
ers were shot and killed from ambush on their
way home, and two friends wounded.
THE steamship Celtic, bearing Lieutenant
Danenhower, DR.. Newcomb, Jack Cole and
the Chinese steward, survivors of the Arctic
steamer Jeannette. arrived at New York May 28.
THE Michigan Convention of the woman's
Christian Temperance Union voted, the past
week, in favor Of action looking toward female
suffrage. The vote stood sixty-six to forty
seven.
T~y T~sk~ IS r..
joint resolution appropriating $16, ,000, 600 to
supply the deficiency in appropriations for
army pensions for the current fiscal year, was
passed.
THERE is great excitement in Egypt and the
crisis is reported as having assumed alarming
proportions. The latest intelligence says the
Khedive has been induced finally to reinstate
Arabi Bey.
SECRETARY FoLaER denies that he has dis
covered enormous frauds in the matter Of
bonds given by distillers for whisky in bond,
and that his relations with Commissioner Raum
are unpleasant.
SENATOR BEN HILL, now at Eureka Springs,
Arkansas, il reported az much improved in
health. His physicians say there>is strong
hope Of . cure, and that his life will certainly
be greatly prolonged.
EUGENE v. CLAD was found guilty, in Phila-
delphia, Of mutilating coin, taking two dollars
and half of gold from fve-dollar gold pieces,
and from others in proportion, substituting
platinum for the gold taken.
In fight between American railroad labor
ers and Mexican smugglers, near Igos Ranch,
Arizona, few days ago, seven MeXicans were
killed and q number on both sides wounded.
1t is expected that three of tho Americans will
die.
DISPATCHES from Fargo and Grand Forks,
d. T., say there is great excitement there over
the decision Of Secretary Teller, opening to i'm
migration the Turtle Mountain district, includ-
ing nine million acres Of tho finest land in
Dakota.
The st. Louis Globe Democrat has new
double Hoe perfecting- press, which inserts and
pastes supplement Of two or four pages, and
delivers complete papers Of either ten or twelve
folios at the rate of twenty-four thousand
copies per hour.
IT Is now stated that Payne and twenty-nine
| other colonists, while attempting to invade the
Indian Territory, were captured by troops sent
out from Fort Reno, and taken back to Kansas.
Tho authorities have not decided what disposi-
| ton to make Of them.
MEETINa-HousK of the Dunkard denomi-
nation, in the course of construction at Mas
tersonvllle, Lancaster County, Pa, suddenly
fell, burying about dozen persons under ita
ruins, including some Of the wealthiest farm
ers in the district. Three died Of injuries.
TIE Attorney General of the United States
decides in the case of refunding certificates Of
the issue Of 1879 convertible into per cent
bonds still outstanding, where accrued interest
amounts to fifty dollars, or multiplies of that
sum, owners are entitled to receive bonds fol
interest - well - principal.
DISASTROUS results arc inevitable in Egypl
from the absence of an administrative govern