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

was learned that the COMMITTEES had agreed to
dispense with his further attendance, he
showed himself very anxious to get in . lot Of
evidence which he claimed to have.
OK THE night of the LIST Of May the ship
Western Belle, from Greenock, ran into an ice
berg and was sunk. Captain Frew and thirteen
Of the crew went down with the vessel. The
schooner President, from Antwerp, picked up
six of the survivors, after they were nearly
frozen, and has just landed them at Quebec.
E1-GovERNoR wAsHBURs's estate amounts
to about 2,5O0, 900. Among bequests is ons
Of $50, 900 for . public library at La Crosse,
and S375, 900 for q memorial orphan asylum at
Minneapolis. These two bequests, with gift
to the Observatory at Madison, and his coun-
try seat at Edgewood to the Dominican Sisters,
make his bequests and gifts moro than half
million dollars.
WHILE silas Rayl, his wife, two children, and
hired man were fording the North branch of
the vermilion River, near Danville, Illinois,
tho wagon was overturned by the force Of the
water, and Mrs. Rayl and one Of the children
were carried down the stream and drowned.
The father succeeded in reaching shore with
the other child. The hired man was rescued in
q very exhausted condition.
AREIIa1oUs lunatic at Sandwich, Ill, became
possessed of the idea that she was to give birth
to q second Jesus, and was directed in dream
to abstain from food and drink until the child
should be born. She tasted four weeks and
died Of starvation, without promise, Is was
shown at the inquest, of . birth, human or
divine. The poor woman was encouraged in
what she did by her husband and son, both Of
whom are thought to be insane.
TIE boiler of the passenger steamer American
Eagle plying between Kelly's Island and Put
in-Bay, on Lake Erie exploded her
boiler while racing with the steamer Cooke.
Frank Bittle, fireman, of Sandusky, Lawrence
Nielsen, deck hand, Of Put-in-Bay, and Frank
Walter, deck hand, of Sandusky, were killed.
Engineer J. W. johnson was scalded 80 badly
that he can not live; J. W. Lutte, wife and
daughter, of Middle Bass, and J. W. Gilbert
and William Dilger, of Sandusky, passengers,
were all pretty badly scalded.
OK A train near GAINESVILLE, Ohio, was .
drunken farmer, Jack Brummage, of Roseville.
He picked q quarrel with young man named
Charles Axline and buried knife in his breast
He struck at him q second time, when Axline,
in self-defense, struck Brummage q terrific
blow in the face, knocking him of the car. In
the fall his head struck q telegraph pole, knock
ing his brains out. He died in . short time
Axline is not expected to recover.
AT st. Martinsrille, Louisiana, three hundred
men took Joseph E. Jenkins, who murdered
his brother-in-law, Raphael Castillo, q few
nights before, to the place Of the murder, near
Breaux Bridge, and hanged him. On the way
from st. Martinsville they came across colored
man, Eugene Azar, who killed young man
January last, and Azar was hanged on the same
tree with Jenkins. The Governor offers =
reward of o. 900 for the arrest and conviction Of
the persons engaged in the lynching.
SAYS Washington dispatch concerning the
treatment of Shipherd by the Investigating
Committee: "The House Committee on For
eign Affairs finds itself the object of general
talk and most of it is to the effect that, in dis
missing Shipherd without taking any step to-
ward finding out what papers he had produced
and laid on the table before them in obedience
to the last order of the committee, it has placed
itself in very awkward and embarrassing sit
uation. There has been considerable informal
consultation among the members Of the COM
mittee in regard to the natter
THE "Garfeld House," home for working
giris, has been opened on Brixton road, Lon
don. Alarge assemblase was present, includ-
ing the Countess OF Jersey, Lord Kinnaird,
VIM. h. Gladstone, and Canon Spencer. Mr..
Lowell said he had been drawn to the opening
of the home, hrst, BY the name Of Garfield,
second, by his own real interest in the object
of the institution. He referred to the good
the Peabody buildings have done in London.
He announced that he had subscribed ESQ to
the home. Letters Of regret at their inability
to be present were read from Spurgeon, Lord
Salisbury, Lord Cairus, and the Lord Mayor Of
London. ...-s ..
WHILE workmen were rebuilding Mail-car
No. 81 Of the Illinois Central Railway ut the
shops Of that company, about the LIST OF May,
| they discovered between the castings of the
| wall q letter which had worked its way through
some small crevice and from its appearance,
at date very remote. The postmark was
obliterated and the address very indistinct, but
it was finally deciphered as ''Miss Mahala Casey,
Joliet, Ill. >" and the letter was consequently
forwarded to the postmaster at that place, with
instructions to deliver it if tbs owner could be
| found, and word was received by the post
| Office authorities that the proper owner Of the
| letter had been found. The missive was
mailed seventeen years ago.
THIS is the latest from the pen Of Garfeld'l
assassin; az tell the American people and iti
officials from the Executive down to the court
in banc, who are reviewing my case, that tell
the truth, and lie not, when say am Gods
| man in the matter of President Garfeld'i
removal, and that If . hair of my head il
harmed the Almighty will make the oficiall
that do it pay well for 1t. II my time has CONT
| to leave this world am willing, but want thu
| officials that murder me on the gallows to nm
derstand the issue. want an unconditiona
| pardon OF nothing, and want the Executive
/ to 30 understand it. If the honorable juristl
j representing the Washington Court in banc de
eide this case according to law there is only ONT
4 decision they can make, and that In that the.
have no Jurisdiction. II they decide contrar.
i to law, the matter will rest with President Ar
thur, and they will have incurred the wrath o
Almighty God"
W. W. RHEA was hanged at Pulaski, Tennes
see, for the cold-blooded murder Of James I
Goodman, q clerk in the store Of J. K. Trigg
in Giles County, the 31st Of July, 1881. Tn
Sheriff was bungling hand, and when tn
trap was sprung the moose slipped nearl
up to the fellows eyes, disclosing q hor
rifying expression Of torture on the criminal
face. The laceration was 80 deep that blood
vessels were broken, and the gore streame
down his body. His hands were released il
the drop, and with nervous grabs he clawe
ut his bloody wounds. In his agony he en-
deavored to give the Masonic signal Of distress
He was raised to the scaffold and bega
some piteous appeal, when the rope was agai
adjusted, and the person holding him allowe
his body to drop through the trap-door. Agai
the moose slipped. Many of the people turne
away in horror and left the terrible seen,
He was again raised, and this time the nooi
was rightly adjusted. He was lifted in Il