The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-06-22
CURRENT NEWS.

MICHAEL DAvITT arrived in New York on the
18th inst.
SENATOR ANTHONY has been reelected in
Rhode Island.
GRAssHoPPERs are alarming the people of
Northern Dakota.
SMALLPOX is reported to have broken out in
the far Northwest.
PARIS green and lime is given as remedy
for the army worm.
NUMBER of immigrants landing at our shores
during May, 141,o35.
WISCONSIN forest fires are not near so serious
as first reports indicated.
SIXTEEN business houses were burned at
Gadsden, Ala; loss S5O.0e0.
A FIRE at Montreal destroyed property to the
value of nearly a million dollars.
The Democrats of Arkansas have nominated
Judge J. 81. Berry, for Governor.
THE losses by storm and high water at In
dianapolis are estimated at $3.50, 600.
Four hundred arrests have been made of
Sunday rioters at Alexandria, Egypt
ALL the Powers, except Turkey, will hold
conference on the Egyptian question.
THE Interior Department wants s245, 600 to
complete the work Of the tenth census.
SWEDEN has refused to increase the allowance
of the Crown Prince upon his marriage.
Miss PHGBE CoUzINs, of st. Louis, failed to
receive appointment on the Utah Commission.
ANEW YORK boy has recovered $780, 900 from
a street railroad company for the loss of a
leg.
1T rs proposed the Government shall pur-
chase the house in which President Lincoln
died.
A WOMAN and her five children were drowned
in a branch of Sugar Creek, Linn County,
Kansas.
AT XEN1A, ILL.,, Wrn. johnson, aged "a. killed
his wife, aged %, and then himself. Incom-
patibility.
THE total production of gold in the United
States for 1881, was $34, 100000; of silver,
Gas, 900, 600.
THREE Cinnamon and white foreman were
killed in a premature railroad construction
blast in Oregon.
INA mine explosion near WilkesbAre, Pa,
one man was killed aud five Of his comrades
dreadfully burned.
THE Empress of Russia has given birth to
daughter, and flags are flying at st. Petersburg
in honor of the event.
THE Supreme Court of Ohio has decided
that those who have paid taxes under the Pond
law may recover them.
AUGUST BELMONT has concluded to retire
from the turf. He sold $4,000 worth of
thoroughbreds the other day.
EUROPEANS are leaving Egypt as rapidly as
the Israelites under Moses did. There is a
large speck of war in the East.
SEVENTEEN indictments have been found
against Cleveland CO., parties implicated in
the great Missouri land frauds.
The statement comes that the number of
Europeans killed in the Sunday riot at Alexan-
dria, Egypt is not less than $50.
MAJOR J. K. WALDRoN, of Memphis, has
been acquitted Of the charge of bribery in con-
nection with the Star route cases.
JOHN HANSON, a colored man, was sold at
Louisville last week for one year for vagrancy
A city scavenger bought him for two dollars.
BYA CAR jumping the track and falling over
a trestle on West Virginia railroad, fifteen
passengers were injured, two of whom have
died.
IT IS a remarkable fact that the shrinkage in
the capital of lis railroads in the country has
amounted, in about eleven months, to $514,-
66s, ,O3S.
The bill extending indefinitely the distilled
spirits bond period has been defeated in the
United States Senate by vote of thirty-two to
twenty.
THE Malley murder trial, at New Haven, was
adjourned on the 10th inst. for several days,
on account of the death of q daughter Of Juror
| Furman.
BY TERRIBLE hail-storm in the vicinity OF
Broken Arrow, Indian Territory, crops and
other property were destroyed and several
| lives lost.
| THE biggest oil well in the world, yielding
twenty-four hundred barrels day, was strucl
at Cherry Grove, Warren County, Pa, on the
18th inst.
BOB STIoKNEY, the noted equestrian, ani
son-in-law of Old John Robinson, Snowman
is reported to have been killed near Denver
Colorado.
THE Brookfeld, Mo-, bank robbers whose ar
rest have been mentioned, have pleaded guilt,
and been sentenced to twenty-five years i'm
prisonment.
WIN. MnLIKEN, of Boston, Mass, was liter
ally torn to pieces by black bear that b,
recklessy attacked at Lake Piseco, in tn,
Adirondacks.
A ST. JOHN On. F.) dispatch states that 9
French schooner was struck by ice on the 1Ott
inst, carrying down with her her. whole crew Of
seventeen men.
LICENSE fees by commercial travellers to the
city of New Orleans, for 1881, are to be re
funded, the city ordinance having been declared
unconstitutional.
| HAILsToNEs "as large as saucers' fell a
Dubuque, Iowa, a few days ago. Many per
sons were injured and a number Of plate win
dows were broken.
A HALF-wITTED section-hand in New Mexic'
was tantalized into shooting and killing hi
boss, whereupon his companions hanged hin
in brutal manner.
The United States Senate passed the Japan
ese indemnity bill, but in such shape that tn
} House will probably refuse to concur in tn
amendments which it added.
AT JACKSON, Mich, a saloon-keeper shot
, policeman, then his (the saloon-keepers) wife
and then himself. The policeman may recover
but his eyes have been put out.
,, The labor unions of Pittsburg made gran
. demonstration few days ago, in the way of
! street parade. The number of men in line
, estimated to have been fully 81. 600.
NEWS of the massacre in Alexandria become
more horrifying every day. The latest INTEL
gence says that the number now known to hay
been killed IN the Sunday riot was $40.
Dr. HEDGES, sporting man of Newburgl
New York, has been arrested, charged with SCI
, ting up poker game on Francis P. Weed, {
that city, and beating him out Of $150,000.
FoR members of the Tariff Commission, I'll
President has nominated VIM. II. McMahol
| Of New York, and Alex. R. Boteler, of We
. Virginia, uice Wheeler and Phelps, declined.