The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-01-19
LATER NEWS.

TIE loss, by fire, 1t Galvestos, Texas, the
past week, is put at $1, ,00O, 900.
THREE boys were killed in Brooklyn by the
falling Of an unoccupied house.
GurrEAu has been denied the privilege, by
Judge Cox, Of addressing the jury.
MANY soldiers and hundreds Of camels have
perished Of cold on tho Sahara frontier.
Mns. LINCOLN ID in New York undergoing
treatment for complication Of diseases.
RANoHxrr in Texas are suffering from .
deadly disease similar to the Asiatic plague.
TIE mother Of the late General Custer Is
dead, her death occurring at Monroe, Mich. Y
a NATIONAL FORESTRY CONVENTION win bs
held in Cincinnati on the 18th Of April next
SIBLEY, eDuDLEr & Co., Wholesale grocers,
Chicago. have made an assignment; liabilities,
$3.50, 900. 49,
The principal business block at Albion, N.
Y, has been destroyed by fire, entailing loss
Of $3.50, 900. Ia ~
FIFTEEN of the seventeen Brooklyn Alder
men were fined and sent to the County jail for
from ten to fifteen days for defying the Court
by passing . resolution over the veto Of the
Mayor, contrary to the Courts order. - ,
SNALLpox is gradually spreading through.
out the State Of Illinois, following the Missis-
sippi River southwark, and the main lines Of
railroad travel from Chicago to st. Louis. The
disease existed at eighty-two points in the
States ~
The wife and two sons of David Smith,
farmer near Washington, Wayne County, Ind,
have been lodged in jail on strong suspicion Of
having shot and killed the old man, thrown his
body down well and piled two loads Of stone
on it.
PROMINENT churchmen Of England arc said
to be initiating an organization for raising q
public fund for the relief of homeless Jewish
families in Russia. A prominent Israelite has
promised to ihesd the list with f10, 900, and
considers E1, ,0O0, 900 necessary. si'l % y Z
SoME time ago the Chicago Herald published
an article alleging to be review Of Scoville's
business career in that city, which has been
rather extensively copied, and Mr.. Scovilie now
brings libel suit against the Herald The arti-
Gle, as whole, charged Mr.. Scoyllle with being
; common swindler.
JOHN JOHNSON, a Randolph County Qndi-
ana) farmer, received an anonymous letter
from Cincinnati containing two smallpox scabs,
and an invitation to take the disease and die.
The advent of the two scabs threw the whole
neighborhood into great terror. js EsN-
THE Government Inspector Of one Of the
fraudulent postal routes in Nevada, reported
that in journey of 200 miles, the only living
creatures he saw, except at q few stations and
mining camps, were seven sage hens, one
! coyote, two jack rabbits, and few larks and
/ ground squirrels. a se
| The physicians who have made an examin-
| alton of Mrs. Abraham Lincoln's case, find her
suffering from chronic Inflammation of the
| spinal cord, chronic disease of the kidneys and
commencing cataract Of both eyes. They say
"the sight will gradually grow worse. Thore
is no probability that there will be any perma-
manent improvement in her condition, con-
sidering the nature of her disease, and her
age"
THE dead by the railroad wreck on the Hud-
son River Road are as follows: State Senator
Wagner, well known in connection Of the rail-
road palace cars which bear his name, and in
one Of which he was killed Park Valentine and
bride, of Bennington and North Adams, YER
mont Oliver B. Kelley, Spring City, Pa; D. L.
Ransom, prominent citizen of Massina, N. T.;
Rev. F. Marichal, Catholic priest, of New York
City; Miss Maud Brown, New York City. Mr..
Valentine and wife had just been married and
were starting on their wedding tour. The
clergyman who oficiated at their wedding at
North Adams, conducted their funeral services.