The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-04-27
ADDITIONAL NEWS.
THE Kentucky Legislature has adjourned

TIE Kentucky Legislature has adjourned.
1T SEEMS that Ex-Secretary Blaine thinks Mr.
Shipherd is somewhat Of liar.
DARwIN's remains will rest in Westminster
Abbey, close to those of Sir Isaac Newton.
TIE trial Of the persons accused of the
responsibility of the Ring Theatre fire, Vienna,
is in progress.
Our of 400 Cincinnati saloonists who violated
the Smith Sunday closing law, orders OF arrest
were issued for thirty-four.
LATEST report of the cyclone at Monticello,
Mississippi, puts the number of persons killed
at fifteen, and wounded, thirty.
THE steamer City of Sanford, from Sanford
to Jacksonville, Florida, burned and nine per-
sons are known to have perished-probably
more.
Mrs. SoMERs, living near North Germantown,
Tuscarawas County, Ohio, was shot twice and
fatally wounded by tramp whons she refused
to give work.
EAU CLAIRE, Wisconsin, has met with
disastrous confagration. -Four blocks ON the
west side of the river, Including the business
portion of the town, burned-sixty-fv five build
ings in all. The aggregate loss is estimated ut
$25O,000.
MRS. JENNIE DIXON, wife Of Barrett Dixon,
commercial travler of st. Louis, aged twenty
eight years, and mother Of three children and
of respectable connections, has left her family
to run away with boy not now seventeen
years of age son of "bucket-shop proprie-
tor named F. B. Curtis.
The Supreme Court of Indiana has decided
that the law which provides for the payment
of hundred dollars to soldiers who enlisted
in counties whore bonds had been issued for
the payment of bounties, is unconstitutional.
This decision wipes out all claims for county
bounties in that State.
ONE of the Texas and Pacific Railroad train
robbers has been captured and is supposed to
be mortally wounded. He is the son of re-
spectacle farmer living near the scene of the
robbery, and was shot in fight with Texas
Rangers. 1t is thought that the entire gang
will be bagged, as about thirty Rangers have
got on the trail and are securing the country.
Ex-SEcRETARY BLAINE has been before the
House Foreign Affairs Committee. His testi-
mony was, in general terms, sweeping denial
of Shepherds statements as to his relations
and conversations with Blaine when Secretary.
Mr.. Blaine characterized Shepherds CORES
pondence as stuff hardly fit for the waste bas-
ket, and said that as it came to the Depart
ment as routine matter that the chief clerk
would not bother the Secretary with such stuff.
Blaine's testimony, together with that of VIM.
Henry Hurlburt, pretty well disposes of Ship
herd. Blaine produced letters from Senator
Blair, Boutwell, and others, TO whom Shipherd
referred, also denying Shepherds statements,
especially those with reference to the alleged
offer of $3.50, 900 to the late Minister Hurlbut-
OSCAR NJ. GARRETT, acquitted in Jennings
County, Indiana, of completely in the murder
of John M. Walton, near st. Paul, and rear
rested on the charge of arson, was taken from
the jail at Greensburg and lynched by fifty
masked men. The mob went to the. Jail at an
early hour in the morning, and ringing the
bell, Toothman, the jailor, opened the door.
On opening the door he was confronted and
seized by the mob. They demanded the keys
of the JAIL Toothman refused. They then
dragged him along with them through the hall,
and up the stairs to the second floor, where
they put a rope around his neck, with the evil
dentpurposeof of enforcing their demand if neces-
sary. For some reason Garrett was confined
very insecurey in the residence part of the Jail,
in cell usually occupied by female prisoners.
The Iynchers were now close to the door of this
cell. Garrett having been reused by the noise,
and probably not knowing what it meant, called
out, and his voice was recognized. There was
cry Of Here heis, the damned hound.p A single
blow from sledge-hammer, carried by one OF
the party, suficed to burst open the cell door.
Garrett had always had the reputation of being
man of cool and desperate courage, and sur
prised and outnumbered as he was, would no
doubt, had he been armed, have made bloody
work for his captors. As it was, he foorec
the first man that entered with a chair !;
but three or four men were upon
him in moment. He was dragged
struggling and calling on Toothman for help,
out of the cell and down the stairs head fore
most into the hall below. Some one was heard
to call for rope, which was produced and
placed round the neck of the doomed man. He
was heard to exclaim twice: know you
I know you'll" That was all. After that the
work of death went forward with terrible
dispatch. Three men were detailed to guard
Toothman. Garrett was roughly dragged along
the floor and out Of the door by the rope
round his neck, as If he hand been dog, and
that was the last his jailer saw of him alive
man named Peck, who was sleeping up stairs in
the Jail residence, saw what was done outside
from his window. Garrett was laid upon the
pavement under tree, just in front of the Jail
door. man wearing spurs, such as are used
in climbing telegraph poles, climbed the tree.
The body was then raised to . sufficient height,
the rope securely fastened around the body of
the tree, and the work was done. The whole
party then left, going westward in the direction
of st. Paul, some walking and some riding in
two spring wagons.