The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-04-27
CURRENT NEWS.

The Virginia Legislature has adjourned.
KING THEEBAw has been butchering more of
his relatives.
sNowsToRM visited Washington City the
23d of April.
The reyiyalist Harrison has gone to Boston
to take q rest
JUDGE TAFT, of Cincinnati, has been noml-
mated Minister to Austria
Four laborers were drowned from capsized
boat at Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
LIaoNIER VALLEY, Penn, was visited with
destructive toranado on the 20th.
THE breaking Of sewer at st. Louis did
damage to the extent of $200, 900.
The death Of J. Il. Haverly, theatrical
manager, Is announced from London.
THE towboat Little Eagle was wrecked at
Hannibal No., and three persons drowned.
The revenue steamer Corwin is to be sent
to the rescue of the crew of the Rodgers.
THE business portion of Lake City, Michigan,
has been destroyed by fire. Loss, $350,00o
The heaviest snow storm of the season was
reported from Michigan Peninsula, April 20.
GEORGE ScovnLx has formally withdrawn
nlb INlCcb 40 COuAbcA Va Na1hOA AkAuloSAoAs
ABOUT $50 Mormon converts have arrived at
San Francisco from Australia en- route for Salt
Lake.
OSE-THmp Of all the horses in Chicago are
said to be affected with form Of epizootic or
pinkeye.
The Court Of Appeals at Louisville decides
that an atheist can not be deprived Of the right
to testify.
A HURRICANE at Cairo, Illinois, destroyed a
number Of light buildings and injured several
people, none fatally.
MAcLEAN, who fired at Queen Victoria, at
Windsor, recently, has been acquitted on the
ground Of insanity.
CHARLES READE, in long letter undertakes
to prove that DR.. Lamson was not responsible
for his murderous act.
WARN SPRING Indians, ct Gila River, Ari-
zona, burned number Of ranches and muir
dered eight of the settlers.
HENRY ENaELK1Na, Of st. Louis, went to the
cemetery and shot himself upon q lot in which
he had six children buried.
A SCHOONER with fifteen Chinese passengers
for Southern California was abandoned in a
recent gale and all hands lost.
A TIRE at Depere, Wisconsin, burned sixty
buildings, including thirty-two business houses.
One life lost. Estimated loss, $120, 1000.
SEVEN hundred and thirty-four families,
consisting of 1892 persons, were evicted in
Ireland during the first quarter of 1882.
AN EXPLOSION occurred in the Black Horse
Colliery, England, and thirty-fve persons are
reported killed. Many were badly burned.
For the week ending April %, there were 2O2
cases of smallpox reported in Cincinnati, and
81 deaths number of cases under treatment,
S29
REV. DANIEL s. HEALEY, pastor Of st. Pat
ricks Catholic Church, Lawrence, Mass, has
disappeared with money belonging to the insti-
tuition.
At MILFORD, Delaware, James B. Deputy
saluted young lady whom he supposed to be
his cousin, and was killed by her companion,
one Hallett.
The French Cabinet Council has approved
DIR. Lesseps' scheme to drain water from the
Mediterranean Sea into the Desert Of Sahara,
south of Tunis.
Mrs. ScovILLE's application for appoint
ment as conservator of the body and estate OF
the murderer of President Garfield has been
denied by the Court.
THE Providence Or. L. Tool Company has
failed with liabilities at 100000; assets
90, 69O, 900 of which s313 900 is real estate and
s1, SOC, 900 machinery.
Rev. RALPH FoTHERaILL, a Fall River
MASS Methodist pastor, was opposed to vac.
ain uo hoa iol ~ nj
of bis five children have it.
FREDERICKSBURG, Texas, on the 21st OF
April, experienced severe shock of earth.
quake, accompanied by a succession of sounds
similar to dynamite explosions.
Mr.. =. J. TILDEN is achieving notoriety as
dog fancier. In the New York bench show
in which /, ,260 dogs were ON exhibition, he tool
first prize on his st. Bernard "Leo."
As A rule the Smith Sunday closing law wal
observed by saloonists in Ohio on last Sunday
Cincinnati, however, was an exception to the
rule some 400 saloons in that city remaining
open.
A SAFE in the residence of Samuel G
Holmes, in New York City, was robbed of ovel
$4,000 in bonds, by . man who represented
that ne had been sent to the house to repair
the furniture.
An INDIAN outbreak has occurred at Sar
Carlos Agency, Arizona. Chief Shreve, foul
bucks, thirty squaws and children have left th,
reservation. John Sterling, Chief Of the Indiar
Police, was killed.
AGAIN We hear from that wonderful family.
Mrs. Scoville is going into the lecture field at
once, and expects to earn enough money and
get long enough petition to the President to
save the assassin's life.
POLITICAL massacres have been recon-
menced in Mandslay. King Theebaw, the
Ashanta butcherer, put to death an inferio,
wife, two half-sisters, the Chancellor of the
EIchequer, and fifty of their relatives.
THE long contest waged with the House Of
Representatives by Hallett Kilbourne came to Q
conclusion by verdict Of 100000 in favor Of
Kilbourne against John G.. Thompson, Ser.
geant-at-arms, for false imprisonment.
The members of the Salvation Army-that
band who created 80 much attention q yeal
ago-seem to be going to the dogs. james
Stevens, of indianapolis, who was formerly G
member Of it, became disappointed in a love
affair and attempted suicide by the strychnint
route.
CONTRARY to former reports, in the vicinity
| Of New Albany, Ind, and southwest in tht
counties of Floyd, Harrison, Crawford, Dubois
Perry, Warrick and Spencer, the great peacl
section, there will be large yield of peaches
pears and apples, unless hereafter killed. Th'
wheat is uninjured.
VIM. HEWLETT, Marshal of Nortonville, KY.
shot and mortally wounded one Menser ant
killed his son. The Marshal recently arrested
the men on the charge Of gambling, and tn
parties, meeting at place called Tradewater
the father and son attacked Hewlett, who sho
| them In self-defense.
MRS. WIN. J. GRAY, wife of a colored min
lister Of Lexington, KY, has obtained verdic
OF o., 900 in the United States Court Of tn
Southern District Of Ohio against the Cincin
natl Southern Railroad, for the refusal to per
| init her to ride in o first-class passenger coach