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

the Picayune, fought duel on the morning of
June 7. They stood up and each fired five
shots at the other. At the fifth shot Burke
was shot through the legs. ,i.,,,ili, ..r.-
FRED. W. NEwBURa, forger, who secured
some s20, 900 from the Ohio State Treasury
and against whom ffty-two indictments were
returned, has been taken to the Penitentiary
for term Of six years, he having pleaded
guilty to two indictments only. ~ =
SERIOUS riots occurred Sunday between ma
tives and Europeans, at Alexandria, Egypt.
Several persons were killed and wounded, and
q number Of houses destroyed. The British
Consul was dragged from his carriage and
beaten, ana the engineer Of British man-6f--
war was killed.
LIEUTENANT DANEHowER has received let
ter from Siberia which says that memorandum
was found on Belongs body, the last entry of
| which was made on October Is, nine days after
Ninderman and Noros left. This entry states
that four of the party were then dead and
| Collins was dying.
REV. Mr.. WATKINS, American Missionary in
Jalisco, Mexico, was attacked by a mob and
| taking refuge in his house, with a number Of
friends, made spirited resistance, killing sew
eral. He afterwards surrendered. The Mill
| tary Governor of the district has interposed In
| the prisoners behalf.
NEAR Vienna, H., bachelor, named J. W.
| Bayless, living alone, was found tied to chair
| in bis house, his feet burned to q crisp by
small lamp and his head split open with an Ak.
| Some parties unknown evidently tortured him
to make him tell the whereabouts of supposed
money, but it is thought they found none.
| THE stern-wheel steamer Evansville, bound
from Evansville to Bowling Green, KY, col
| lapsed flue near Calhoun, KY. on Green
| River. Two of her crew were killed and ten
others injured by the disaster. The Evansville
belonged to the Green and Barren River Navl-
| cation Company, and was in her second season.
| ARMsTEAD GRAY, colored, was hanged Fri
day, June g. at Powhatan Court House, Va.
| Quirino Gaitan was hanged at Brownsville,
| Texas. An Indian murderer was hanged in
Indian Territory. John Tribbetts, seventeen
years of age, who murdered two persons q few
days ago. was hanged by a mob at Perham,
| Minnesota.
THE Sheriff has captured at Kirwin, Kan
sas, two counterfeiters, set of dies and un-
finished coins. The prisoners hint strongly of
their connection with gangs operating from st.
Louis, Chicago and New York. Many Kansas
towns have been systematically worked for the
past six months. Thousands of small counter
felt coins are in circulation.
The President has nominated the following
for members of the Tariff Commission VIM.
A. Wheeler, of New York, Chairman John L.
Hayes, of Massachusetts Henry W. Oliver, jr.,
! Of Pennsylvania /; Austin M. Garland, of
Illinois; Jacob Amber, of Ohio; John S.
| of iat
of Columbia John W. H. Underwood, of Geor-
gia Duncan F. Kenner, of Louisiana.
Mr.. E. P. Brown, originally the manager
and subsequently the proprietor of the Aikens
Newspaper Union Establishment, Cincinnati,
has disposed of that concern to the A. n Kel-
logg Newspaper Company. The employees of
the Union attested their appreciation of Mr..
Brown by presenting him with an elegant gold
headed ebony cane and he responded by giving
them banquet. Mr.. Brown retires to his
model farm, at Liberty, Ind.
News from Decatur, Alabama, states that
riot took place few nights since between
colored men and whites at Epes Station,
Sumter County. The whites drove the negroes
from the town. The latter returned ut mid
night set fire to the town, and seven stores
were burned. Four negroes have been arrested
and others are being pursued. There are fears
OF lynching, as the respectable negroes are
very much ineensed, and would not interfer if
the whites took such step.
| DOYLE, convicted in Chicago of having in
his possession counterfeit bonds offers through
counsel to prove conclusively the genuineness
of the 81 900 bond plate, how it was obtained
and all about it, provided the Government will
release him from confinement. Secretary Fol-
ger and other Treasury officials deny, in the
most positive terms, that there are any spurious
bonds in circulation, on the ground that, if
any were in circulation, they certainly would
have known something about it before now.
companies have been entered for the free for
all prizes at the July encampment, at Indian
apolis. Among the infantry companies are the
Barn Zouaves, st. Louis Folger Corps, Gem
eva Luckey Zouaves, Chicago Crescent Ri
ies, New Orleans Porter Rifles, Nashville
Border Guards. Memphis; Yorktown Battalion
/, four companies Quapaw Guards, Little
Rock; Louisiana Rifles, New Orleans Battery
A, Louisville; Washington Artillery, New
Orleans Battery A, st. Louis Battery D,
Chicago. e
The Ohio Republican State Convention was
held at Columbus, Ohio, June Z. General R.
P. Kennedy, of Logan County, presided. For
Secretary of State, Hon. Charles Townsend,
present incumbent, and for Judge of the Su-
preme Court, John 81. Doyle, Of Toledo, were
nominated by acclamation. G. A. Flickinger
of Defiance was nominated for member of the
Board Of Public Works. The platform indorsef
the administration of President Arthur and
Governor Foster, condemns the persecution Of
the Jews in Europe, ,indorses protection of Amer
ican industry, declares that the traffic in liquor
should pay its share of the State taxes, ani
that laws upon the statute books must b
respected until repealed or abrogated. ~
SAYS q cablegram from London, England
"Bourke who was assassinated, recently in
formed the authorities he knew he would b
shot, When news of Bourkes murder reaches
London his brother went into the lobby of tn
Commons and accused ParneIl and Biggar witt
being the cause thereof. The bullet that kille
Bourke entered behind the left ear. The dra
COON received three shots, one behind the righ
ear, another through the right arm and side
penetrating the heart, and third through tn
right wrist. One person saw the assassins, bu
! cannotidentify them. OF the three men arrested
one is named Martin Keene, the others ar
, named Holland. One of the latter is an evicte
tenant. The soldiers rife and Bourke's 81,
3 teen-repeater were stolen by the murderers.
v WHILE Casper Syeboldt, q Chicago bake
was absent at his work his wife dresse
: their four children, aged twelve, seve
v and two and-a-half years, and a baby for
{ months old, in their best white clothes, ga,
L each dose Of strychnine and laid them OF
0 with flowers in their hands. When her hu
band returned home in the morning she M
: him at the door, and told him to come in al
see the children all dead, and gone to heave
, with flowers in their hands for the angel
! One Of the children, the eldest, a daughte
n was still alive, but died during the morl
;uy The p,ofbar who had takan n do