The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-06-08
CURRENT NEWS.

The general deficiency bill appropriates
nearly %, 10000
IS THE burning of . poor-house in Sweden.
twenty persons persisted.
TEE American horse wallenstein won the
Manchester cup in England.
The Wyoming Valley Hotel at Wilkesbarre,
Pa, burned. Loss, 100000.
Ar LANCASTER, Pa, miscreants defaced and
ruined the soldiers monument
The Knights Of Labor of Pennsylvania have
repudiated the Greenback ticket. --..
BRENNAN, Secretary Of the Land League, has
been released at Kilkenny, ireland.
TEE French troops have captured the capital
Of the province of Tonquin, China.
THREE hundred Mormons arrived at New
York few days ago from Europe, en- route for
Utah.
sLoArs VAN sANTvooRD, aged nmery-Jwo,
oldest Reformed Church clergyman in America,
is dead.
The q. s. Fish Commissioner is placing
and Texas.
AT blooded cattle sale at Harristown, ILL.,,
sixty-nine head sold for S16, 1886, or an average
Of $244 each.
JAMES E. HARVEY, white, was hanged at Car
rollton, Ga, for the murder of Arthur McMul-
len in July last.
THE Napoleon organ of Prince jerome
Napoleon, in Paris, has suspended for lack OF
popular support.
The remains of Thomas Jefferson will be
removed from Monticello to Glenwood Gene
terry, Washington
The iron strike on the LIST Of June was gen.
eral at Pittsburg, Wheeling, Youngstown, st.
Louis and Cleveland.
SAYS . London dispatch "England has
right to ask America to strangle Fenianism in
the place of its BIRTH"
NEARLY the entire business portion of Will
lows, Colusa County, California, was destroyed
by fire. Loss, $175,ooo.
The Ohio Electric Light and Power Com
pany, of Cleveland, has been Incorporated;
eapital stock $1,000 900.
BY THE close of iron and nail mills of Wheel
ing, W. Va, and vicinity, five thousand men
are thrown out Of employment.
INA collision of railway trains between Man.
helm and Heidelberg, Germany, eight persons
were killed and twenty wounded.
WILLIAM BRooKwAY, the elegant and accom-
plished old counterfeiter, has been arrested in
New York and taken to Washington.
THE United States House seated Lowe,
Greenbacker, of the Eighth Alabama District,
unseating Fighting Joe" Wheeler.
The coinage of the Philadelphia Mint during
May amounted to s6,6s2, 400, which included
l36, 600 eagles and s0O, 900 silver dollars.
THE Attorney General of the United States
has ascertained that the Eight-hour law can
not be enforced without further legislation.
An ovarian tumor weighing sixty-four
pounds was successfully removed from Mrs.
Brenbsrger, Of Ithaca, Ohio, the past week.
In THE United States House, in the Bisbee-
Finley contested election case, a resolution was
adopted declaring Mr.. Bisbee entitled to his
seat.
The libel suit of United States Senator Nc
Pherson against the New York Herald, resulted
in verdict for the plaintiff and $1, 900 dam
ages.
NEAR Bellaire, Ohio, three acres of land slip
ped into valley, carrying about fifty large
trees with it. and effectually blocking apublic
road.
The Standard Coal and Iron Company has
fled for record in Hooking County, Ohio, deeds
for furnaces and mineral lands valued at $23,
0OO,O
The story comes from Sandusky, Ohio, that
General Sherman is about to retire from SER
vice, Sheridan succeeding him as General of
the Army.
INTERNAL revenue receipts for May, s1s,-
s47, ,273, being more than was collected in any
one month since the bulk of the war taxes was
abolished.
TIE Ohio Supreme Court has given out an
elaborate decision declaring the Pond liquor
tax law unconstitutional on the ground that il
wss in effect license. tF.s0
NEARLY hundred thousand head of cattle
have passed through Fort Worth, Texas, for
the North and East this spring, with lots more
where they came from.
A MEXICAN and his horse were hilled by
lightning on Wichita River. Indian Territory.
size Of . silver half-dollar.
A DRUNKEN man at Piney Creek, N. c., or
being told that his fve-year-old daughter had
taken some Of his whisky, pulled her out OF
bed and kicked her to death.
NEAR Itasca, Texas, Samuel Martin and
Samuel Watson fought duel, in which Watson
was killed and Martin wounded. Martin used
| q shotgun AMI Watson pistol.
REED, counsel for President Garfield's muir.
derer, has presented q petition to the District
| Supreme Court in general term, asking q re-
| hearing Of the case of his client.
In THE contested seat from South Carolina
the United States House, on the s1st ult
seated E. W. M. Mackey, of Charleston, un.
seating for that purpose lawyer Dibble.
| POSTMASTER GENERAL HOWE promises te
| give immediate attention to the subjects Of
Sunday delivery in letter-carrier cities ani
reduction Of letter postage to one cent.
NEWS from Egypt, under date of May 80
says: Arab Bey has privately informed tn,
Khedive that he is already deposed, and thai
it is arranged that Price Hahn viii succeed
| him.
TnooPs in different parts of Arizona and New
Mexico have been ordered to concentrate q
San Carlos Agency, in anticipation of trouble
over the proposed disarming Of the Indians a
that post.
THREE separate attempts were made in on
night by incendisries to burn the city of Joliet
ILL.,, all at about the same time. The only los
incurred il that Of Hamland Clark, liver
men, $4,000. Z
CHEZ BIG BEAR is preparing to Cross th
border early in june with fve hundred lodge
to hunt in United States territory. He IN
nounces II let alone he would hurt nobody, bu
II attacked he would fight to the last.
TEE American Tract society:has elected WIN
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