The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-05-25
ADDITIONAL NEWS.
HIaH water in Lower Mississippi tributaries.
MExIcANs are driving the fugitive Indians

HIGH water in Lower Mississippi tributaries.
MExIcANs are driving the fugitive Indians
back into Arizona.
II Is just probable that Congress will mot
adjourn before the middle of July.
A LUMBER and saw-mill fire at Wyman, Mich,
destroyed 100000 worth of property.
FIVE man attempted to burn . Mexican rail-
road bridge. They were captured and immedi-
ately shot, by order Of the Governor.
Ar Stafford, N. H., Eli Faye, aged fifty, shot
his wife from whom he had been separated,
while returning from her mothers grave.
INA partition sale Of tho Bennett estate, IN
New York City, James Gordon Bennett bought
in all the property, the amount realized being
e1, 361 200.
IT pEvELorEs in the McMinoman tragedy
near Muscatine, Iowa, the father was nur-
dered by his SON, in order that he and two
sisters might have their own way at home.
WE ARE informed by telegraph that at 8
council of the Russian imperial family. at tho
Peterhof Palace, it was decided to postpone
the coronation of the Czar one year. Nihilistic
bombs are the incentive.
Ar VIENNA, Dooly County, Ga, man named
Elken beat his wife numerically, and then
hung her to the joists Of the house. Friends
arrived and cut her down before life was ex-
tinct, but she died in little while. It'll prob
able the fend will be lynched.
TIE Oklahoma district has been thoroughly
secured at intervals Of ten days during the
past six months, and only one party Of six men
we're discovered in the district. They were
arrested and sent out of the Indian Territory.
49, n. a~l 70 HoIt
are in the district must be mistake.
The Supreme Court Of Missouri has de-
clared the law making gambling felony con-
stltutional. the war on gambling in st. Louis
now promises to be active. There are over
eight hundred cases altogether on the docket
against lottery men and gamblers, and the act
ing Circuit Attorney says they will be pushed.
Hon. ]. W. TRurrT. Of the Texas Legisla-
ture, has secured the arrest of Jim Martin and
Bill Mcdonald, leaders of the dashing band of
train robbers. Martin is . nephew Of Truitt,
and went to his uncle's house, broken down
from hard riding. Truitt "took him in, " and
with the assistance Of the Sheriff also cap
tured Mcdonald.
Two young people Of Indianapolis, Ind,
Henry Helgermeyer and Ella Wenning, both
in their teens loved each other to desperation,
and resolved to die. They left home Sunday
morning, going into the country and At
tending picnic, after which they sought
q secluded place whereat to end their worldly
troubles The girl tells the rest IS fol-
lows: "Henry and I then sat down in .
fence-corner to die, and We divided the lauda-
mum between us, each swallowing half of it and
then waited for death to come. We passed the
night in the open air, and in the morning we
walked back to Greenwood, where we purchased
| . quarters worth of laudanum. We then
walked ON toward the city, until we reached
| another. piece of woods, where we sat down
| and again divided the poison. Both still
being determined to end our lives, each
swallowed half of the poison, and then we
| sat down behind . cord Of wood, and there
| Henry died shortly afterward in my arms. His
| last words were kiss me- When saw he Was
| dead I left him lying behind the wood, and
walked to the city," When questioned whether
she was induced by her lover to take the poison
against her will, she answered that such was
| not the case, and that she took the poison Of
| her own free will. She still lives. sa
On THE 22d inst. Justice James announced
| the decision Of the court in banc upon the ex-
| ceptions in the Guiteau case, denying q new
| trial and affirming tho judgment below. JUS
| tice Hagner, in Q separate opinion, discussed
| the bearings Of the old Maryland law, and held
| that even under the Maryland act of 1875 the
indictment would have been good in the
| District of Columbia, and Judge Cartier stated
| that the opinions given were the unanimous
| opinions of the court As to the expert testi-
| mony the court decided it was no error to allow
answers to the question rs to whether Guiteau
knew the differences between right and wrong.