The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-05-25
CURRENT NEWS.

HELEN NJ sIocuH, woman's suffrage ssstsr,
is dead.
THE pronered peace Of Chilli has been re-
jected by Peru. .s a
THE execution of the Presidents assassin
will not be public.
Ten stores snd dwellings, wore burned at
Pampiin, Virginia '
SOUTHWESTERN Arkansas has been visited by
destructive tornado.
LHUrKxxsr wALxEn, q. 9. A., Chief Of tho
Life Saving Service. y dead.
FoUR Chicago Fiahermen were drowned in
Wolf Lake, near Sheffield, Indiana.
AYrzH loss Of s45,oOo by idleness, the car
penters' strike in Cincinnati has collapsed.
TEE Trades Assembly Of Cincinnati has ex-
pressed disproval of the carpenters strike.
4 ooILIKRI explosion near shamokin, Pa,
killed three men and fatally burned fourth.
The burning of Gleason's knitting mills at
Seneca Falls, N. Y, entailed loss Of e100, 600.
ELECTIONS of tenants for non-payment of
rent have been resumed in many parts Of
Ireland.
A STEAMER burned in the River st. Lawrence,
opposite Green Island, and three of the crew
persisted. #l
ImnIonANrs arrived during April, l0s. .s2a.
During ten months ending the 80th Of April,
544. 500.
In THE Northwest, May ~, snow was re-
ported in several localities, and very cold
weather prevailed.
Mrs. BELLE HoovxR, Of West Milton, Ohio,
\ - Ill L. h<,r~ lrzk krxT,
that her life is despaired Of.
JAMES vIcK, well-known florist, of Rochester,
N. Y, and the largest dealer in flowers in the
world, is dead, aged sixty-three.
MRS. SERGEANT MASON has received from
the Philadelphia Press $3,52, collected
through the efforts Of the Press.
The steamer Manitoulin burned on Lake
Superior. Two persons are known to have
been drowned, and others are missing.
FoUR unsuccessful attempts were made to
burn the Daily World newspaper Office, Louis
vile, during one evening the past week.
FATHER HAYES, of Charlton, Iowa, defended
the assassins of Cavendish and Burke from his
pulpit in the Catholic Church last Sunday.
The Democrats Of Indiana will hold their
State Convention at Indianapolis, August p
one week prior to that Of the Republicans.
STEwARTsvILIE, Mo-, twenty miles east of
st. Joe, is in ashes. Thirty-seven houses, in
cluding every business houses, are burned.
TEE assassins of Cavendish and Burke are
said to have escaped in the garb of priests,
and are supposed to be en- route for the United
States.
On stoves have begun exploding. Mrs. John
Martinique was fatally, and her two children
seriously, burned at Chicago by the explosion OF
IN oil stove.
JOHN W. DORSEY, Star Reuter-, was arrested
and arraigned in court at Washington May 1f
and pleaded not guilty. He gave bail in ter
thousand dollars.
AT Edwardsville, H., tght-rope walker and
. dismantled chimney fell on and injured siz
boys-two fatally. The Snowman, though
badly hurt, left town.
TITS reported that riots have broken our
among the peasants in Southern Russia. They
demand redistribution of land. Two man
sions have been sacked. 80 yitFs4'Ti' ~
In THE case Of the Ring Theatre fire, Wen
na, Director Jauner, Herr Nitsche and Her
Geringer were found guilty, Of negligence
The others were acquitted. Y -. -,.--..-
LIEUTENANT DANENHowER, Mr.. Newcomb
naturalist, Jack Cole, the insane seaman, ant
Long Sing, survivors of the Jeannette Arcti
Expedition, are en- route for New York. ts-a
AT HANCOCK, Mich, Anton Schewamper,
brewer, shot his wife, as she lay asleep witt
her mother, then shot himself through tn
forehead. Both are dead. Jealousy the cause
THERE are reports Of arrangements for tn
marriage of Princess Beatrice, Queen Victoria
youngest daughter, to Prince Frederic
William, eldest son Of the Landgrave of Baden
A NEGRO woman at Amissville, Rappahan
mock County, Va, tied her son, nine years old
hand and foot, to her cabin floor, made q fir
over him with splinters and burned him t
death.
drowned while attempting to cross the rive
to plant corn, near Port Washington, Ohio
Three other children were in the wagon, bu
were saved.
Prominent members Of DR.. Lotions church
| Bt. Louis, say in extenuation Of his recent in
| discretion, that his mental condition has bee
| such for some time as to render him irrespons
BILE for his acts.
CRoP reports from all portions Of Arkansa
confirm previous reports Of heavy fruit Gro
in all quarters. Cotton and wheat have bee
considerably damaged in localities visited b
the recent storms. ~
REPORTS from Egypt Of the eclipse Of th
sun on the 18th report q fine comet near th
orb OF day. Valuable photographs o9 u
eclipse were taken. There were indications
lunar atmosphere.
| LEADv1LLE, COL, has had e200, 900 FIRE, Il
cluding the loss Of the Windsor Hotel, Aca.
emy Of Music and Palace of Fashions, lart
dry goods house. One dead body was foun'
Other persons are missing.
An Austrian physician, who visited the Jew
Hospital, at Odessa, states that there are OF
hundred and twenty-five horribly mutflats
persons theEes the Russians having pour
petroleum into their wounds.