The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-04-27
seriously hurt. Neighboring towns report more

A STORM passed over Carrollton, La, on the
18th inst, blowing down houses, trees, fences,
and carried of the Catholic Church steeple.
A child was taken up by the wind and carried
quite distance, and one woman had her arm
broken by flying timber. The storm dipped
down in the vicinity of Magnolia Garden and
| demolished two houses.
In THE Kentucky Senate, few DAYS ago, q
lively row occurred between Senators George
and Hayes, the latter acting in decidedly dis
orderly manner, calling Mr.. George hard
names and attempting to whip him, but was
taken by the collar by George and was very
violently shaken, when other members inter-
fered and stopped the fight.
A wIND-sToRM at Mt. Vernon, Pennsylvania,
on the 18th inst, wrecked many buildings. Mr.
Wiregroves house was blown down and his
wife killed and seven children injured. Jacob
Glassburner's house was blown down and the
whole family more or less injured. Stoffer's
and Miller's houses were also blown down.
Acres Of timber were leveled
ROBERT FORD, slayer Of Jesse James, is at
Richmond, Ray County, Mo-, to answer to the
| charge of killing Wood Hite, one Of the outlaw
gang. The Ford boys declare that the Gov
ernor promised them pardon of all past crimes,
NLlCu tuc dONcIuOI uculobs puG Will nOL say
that he might not pardon them. The Governor
says he believes Frank James is dead.
CHARLES RoBERs DARWIN, the famous
scientist, born in 1909, is dead. He suffered
for some time from weakness of the heart,
but continued to work to the last He was
taken i'll on Tuesday night with pains in the
chest, faintness and nausea, and died on the
following day, remaining fully conscious until
within quarter of an hour of his death.
FIVE train robbers ditched an express on the
Atchinson, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, in
New Mexico, with intent to rob the express
car, but by mistake failing to get into the
car, which contained $500, 900 in silver, were
forced to flee by train men and passengers
rallying in force. The fireman was killed and
engineer and express messenger badly injured.
A DISPATCH from Richardson, Texas. says
| Brown Pierce, q farmer, three miles east of
there, going from his field to dinner, found his
wife hanging from the door-knob, and his
three children lying dead on the floor, side by
| side. The supposition is that Mrs. Pierce
strangled the children, aud then took a strong
| dose of laudanum and bluestone, after which
| she hanged herself.
1dE W D. hOuSo OOuAultbC0 " 6uulG GA
| penses Of the illness and death Of President
Garfield report bill appropriating to Mrs.
Garfield $50, 900 Qess amount paid the late
President on account Of his salary) DR.. Bliss,
| s25. 900; DR.. Agnew, $4,000; DIR. Hamilton,
| $4,000; DIR. Reyburn, SIC, 900; DIR. Boynton,
| $4,000; DIR. Susan Edison, 10000; VIM. J.
Crump, steward, $4,000, etc.
! PRESIDENT ARTHUR has sent q message to
Congress recommending an appropriation Of
| $2,020,0 900 for restoring the Mississippi River
| levees, double the amount heretofore recon-
mended for that purpose by the Mississippi
| Commissioner also, message relative to the
| proposed international Peace Congress, in
which he refers to our Congress tho propriety
of calling such an assembly.
WILLIAM SINDRAM, the New York printer
who shot his landlady in January, 1881, because
she asked him for money, has been hanged
He met his fate with fortitude, never showing
the slightest indication Of fear up to the last
moment. Luther B. Taylor was hanged at
| Corning, Ark, for the murder Ct Riley Black.
George Bohannon was hanged at Rolla, New,
for the killing of VIM. Hite in August, 1881.
THE intelligence from Odessa confirms the
| reports of outrages at Balta which were of the
| most horrible character. Two Thousand Jewish
| families were ruined. Whole streets were
wrecked. The plundering lasted two days.
| The riots almost assumed the character
| of struggle for the annihilation
Of the Jews, the assailants being
peasants from the neighborhood of the
town. uopolo, near Odessa, was also surprised
by peasants presumably under the leadership
of Nhilists. Houses of Jews were sacked and
the town partially burned.
A STORM at Montrose, Missouri, on the after
noon Of the 17th-the day before that visiting
Saline County-swept everything before it.
The school-house four miles east Of Montrose
| was blown down and all the inmates more or
less injured-two little sons of Jno. Farr
| supposed fatally. One child was blown
across twenty-acre field and lodged in an
| apple tree uninjured. Two men in an ada
cent field were blown over a hedge fence ten
feet high, and both seriously injured. The
| storm is said to have reached as far as Apple
! ton City, and blown down thirty-four houses.
At Clinton q heavy hail-storm prevailed all
the windows facing the west were broken. Hail
fell as large as goose eggs. At Holden q num-
ber of houses were blown down. Others were
badly damaged. No lives reported lost.
SAYS the New York Tribune: The unseating
| of Mr.. Cannon as the Delegate in Congress
from Utah has brought to light some interest
ing documents bearing on his record which
have been in the possession of Hon. Clinton
l.. Merriam, of this State, for several years.
Mr.. Merriam, as . member Of Congress in
| 1874 intended to use them in an effort to oust
Cannon from bis seat, but before he could
complete his plans the solid support Of the
Democrats, combined with that Of q few Re-
publicans, made the project impractible and it
was postponed. The most important Of these
documents are three afidavits by Adolph
Razin, member Of the Mormon Church, in
which he sets forth with much minuteness of
detail an interview with Cannon, in which the
latter urged him to commit murder in the in
terests of the Church.
The Cleveland (O.) House Of Refuge reports
case Of pure cussedness. Willie Gardner,
aged thirteen, and Grant Palmer, colored. aged
fourteen, were the heavy villains, and Charlie
Todd, aged eight, was to have been the victim.
Gardner and Palmer became wearied Of the
monotony of their present prison. They wanted
to be sent to a real jail where they would have
no work to do and could draw regular
rations of tobacco. To accomplish this they
plotted to kill Todd, the most diminutive boy
in the place. In the evening they secured 9
heavy iron-bar from water-closet, and took il
to bed with them. Another boy heard them
talking over their murderous plan and in
formed the watchman, and the conspiracy wal
foiled. The boys confessed, when questioned
Gardner was the leader, and Palmer was te
slay Todd by blow in the head. No malice OIL
spite work was discovered. It was pure vii
lainy.
A CYCLONE almost completely destroyed Mon
ticello, in Lawrence County, Mississippi. Onl.
three houses in the place were left standing
They were dwelling houses, on the edge of tn
Storm Ten persons were killed instantly, fiv
whites and five colored. The names of tn