The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-06-15
CURRENT NEWS.

NEW York reported two cases OF sunstroke
on the 9th inst.
CINCINNATI last week reported fifty-two
deaths from smallpox.
HAnsroNEs as large as hens eggs are the
delights Of Southern Texas.
THE Brookfield QSev.) bank was robbed Of
&c, 900 by mounted highwaymen-
z. A. O'NEAL has been nominated for Gov
ernor by the Alabama Democracy.
INSURGENTS defeated an Austrian battalion
near Marine, killing ninety-fve men.
THE Brookfeld (Mo.) Bank robbers, four in
number, were arrested near Kirksville.
The family Of General Garibaldi decided to
the cremation of his remains.
MArERNA, the vocalist, has received an offer
Of $50, 600 for a concert tour in America
THE public schools of vicksburg we're COM
PEELED to close on account of scarlet fever.
AT DuNsDALE, N. c., three little children
left at home by their mother, were burned to
death.
By THE change through the last election in
Oregon, the Legislature will be tie on JOINT
ballot.
WALTER M. BoURKE, . Galway Qreland)
landlord, and his escort, soldier, have been
shot and killed.
NEITHER Republicans nor Democrats in the
Senate are pleased with the Tariff Commmis-
sion nominations.
THREE murderers were taken from jail at
Lawrence, Kansas, at an early hour, and hanged
from railroad bridge.
THE Irish constabulary report 1896 outrages
during May, and two murders besides the
Phoenix Park assassinations.
Ex-GovERNoR MOSES, of South Carolina,
has been sent to the New York Penitentiaryf for
six months, for petit larceny.
The United States Senate has passed the
District Of Columbia appropriation bill, and
the House the deficiency bill.
CHARLES J. GUNNER, receiving teller of a
San Francisco bank, killed himself, the act be-
ing attributed 10 losses in stocks.
THREE workmen were killed and five
wounded by the explosion of $50 kegs of
powder in Texas railroad tunnel
In ARREsT1Na circus proprietor at South
west City, No., a performer Was shot and
killed, and two other men injured.
IT is reported that five thousand people in
Patrick County, Va, are actually starving, the
crops of last year having failed on account of
drouth.
JOHN 8. PRINCE rode fifty miles on bicycle
in two hours, fifty-nine minutes and fifteen
seconds, at Boston, making the best time on
record.
J. A.. WEST, Cincinnati Board Of Trade
-xulA hou haar ar,orafipo
several weeks, committed suicide by means of
chloroform in Chicago.
Ex-CHIEF ENGINEER DRAKE, Of the Cold
water CMich.) Fire Department, is held for trial
charged with burning buildings, to prove the
efficiency Of his department.
The British steamship Penedo foundered
May 8, twenty miles northeast of Porto Santo
one of the Madeira Islands. Twenty-Five of a
crew of twenty-six were drowned.
THE Wool Growers Association, Of Texas,
has passed resolution to support no man for
Office who is not distinctly pledged to advocate
protection against foreign importations.
A SQUAD of the Salvation Army, who sang a
song, one line of which was "The Lord is
right and the devil is left" in Paterson, N. j.,
have been arrested for disorderly conduct.
W. J. HUTcHINs has been expelled from the
New York Stock Exchanges 1t is charged that
he swindled John R. Duff, of Boston, whose
broker and attorney he was, out of "a. 00O. 900.
Iowa has placed the following Greenback
ticket in the field: Treasurer, George Dorr
Auditor, g. W. Wyant; Attorney General, J.
b. Rice; Judge Of the Jupreme Court, M. II.
Jones.
The Republicans have1swept Oregon by an
average majority on the State ticket of /. .8O0
George, for Congress, receiving not less than
$500. The Legislature will be Republican by
good majority.
MAY MAM1LroN and Tillie Kruger, two schoo
girls, while on a school picnic at Bodeman'i
Grove, near st. Louis, went out in skiff witt
two young lads, and were precipitated in thu
water and drowned.
IT Is reported from Ell Paso CTexas) that
party of American railroad hands were attacked
by q number Of Mexicans in camp at Iagc
Rancho. Three Americans and number o
Mexicans were killed.
The Ancient Order of United workmen il
annual session in Cincinnati the past weel
had net increase of $40 lodges the past year
and net increase Of 1876 members. Tn,
total membership is now 101, 665. .r4
TIE United States House has passed bill
Of great importance to soldiers of the late war.
1t provides for an increase to $40 month Of
the pensions Of those who have suffered injury
tantamount to the loss of a limb.
The boy John Curtis, who eloped with Mrs
Jennie Dixon, mention of which was made
some time ago, has returned to his parents il
st. Louis. Mrs. Dixon wants to go home, too
Her husband has applied for q divorce.
AT LITTLE Rock, Arkansas, the Fedora
Court awarded Charles Gallino "a, 800 dam
| ages against the Hot Springs Railroad for put
ting him OF a train last summer, because tn
| time Of his excursion ticket had expired.
NEAR Harris Station, Mo-, John Jackson ant
wife went to church, leaving their four children
the eldest fourteen, the youngest two year
old, locked in the house. The house caugh
fire, and the children were burned to crisp.
AT GLADwH, Mich, VIM. Stevenson wen
homo late and his wife refused to let him in
He hung around an hour and attempted t
crawl in through window, when his wife plug
ged his head with q revolver bullet and kille
him.
A LARGE number of the Russian Jewis
refugees are to be located at vineland, N. J.
whore land has been purchased for them. Th
United States House has passed . resolutio
loaning them 1000 army tents for temporar
shelter.
BURGLARS entered the postofice at Colun
bns, Illinois, by the use of skeleton keys, ble
the safe open with powder, and secured abou
$4,000 in Government checks and . sma
amount Of postage stamps also, $50 or &c
Watches.
ALL the Chicago landlords arrested for rem
ing room to gamblers have been discharged
together with nearly all the gamblers then
selves, 1t being said in court there was no ev
dence To be obtained that would make cat
against them.
AT TEE international Typographical Unio
Convention at 81. Louis, the President state
in his report that there are too many printer
outside of the Union, and makes suggestion
| looking fo tho adontion of aOme means