The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-06-08

messed by hundreds, but owing to the terrible
sea it was impossible to render any assistance.
Ar VIRGINIA C1rY, New, two brave men VEN
tured in boat into the Alta drift in search of
the seven imprisoned miners, and lost their
lives. Subsequently man, protected from
the heat and gas by a helmet, went in and sue
ceeded in finding the prisoners, who we're un-
injured.
The Executive Committee Of the Western
Wrapping Paper Association met at Chicago,
at the fremont House, and ordered shut
down of all straw and rag wrapping paper
mills for two weeks, beginning June Is The
Association controls all the mills west Of Penn
sylvania.
A CoNsrANrINoPLE dispatch says the Soudan
insurrection is spreading. The prophet has
not been killed, as has been reported, but has
been victorious, having captured several towns.
At Senaar he massacred eleven hundred per-
sons and forced the Europeans to become Mo
hammedans.
Prominent English and Canadian capitalists
held meeting in Chicago few days ago, the
object being negotiations for the purchase of
twenty-five million acres of land granted the
Canadian Railroad. A company has been
formed with SIS, 600, 900 capital. immigration
is to be encouraged.
In St. Louis the gamblers made an attempt
to file a petition in the Criminal Court but
neither the Judge Of the Court nor the Circuit
Attorney would receive it. The petition asks
for general continuance of eight hundred odd
indictments against them, promising to either
leave town or give up the gambling business if
this is done.
Mr.. FRED. D. MUssEY, Private Secretary to
Governor Foster, of Ohio, and Miss Annie,
second daughter Of the Governor, were mar
ried at the First Church, Columbus, Ohio,
June 1. The bride was the recipient of hand
some present from Mrs. Garfield, wife Of the
late President. Mr.. and Mrs. Mussey left for
trip to Europe.
A PITTsBUne special says: "The date set by
the Amalgamated Association of Iron and
Steel-workers for the great strike has arrived,
and June 1st witnessed the putting out of fires
thousand five hundred m sn have been thrown
out Of employment. Five mills are reported as
having signed the SCALE"
| AT THE State Convention of the Maine
Greenbackers the platform laid down by the
| st. Louis National Convention was indorsed
and q resolution indorsing the course of Gov
ernor Plaisted was postponed. Solon Chase
| was nominated for Governor, and VIM. T.
Eaton, Eben O'Gary, B. K. Kellock, and D. b
Averill for Congress at Large.
JUS band Of renegade Apaches were surprised
| by Mexican troops, under General Fueron, on
| the 25th ult., and were badly whipped. Thirty
| seven Indians were killed and ten taken prison.
ers. The entire camp outfit including fifty
| head of cattle, was captured. The Mexicans
| lost one officer and eight men killed, and two
| officers and twelve men wounded.
PRESIDENT Potter, of the North Chicago
| Rolling Mills, the best known and most infu-
| ential iron man in the Northwest, says, con-
| trary to the claim Of certain less influential
| men there, that the iron business is in o
position to advance wages, and that it is not in
| position to shut down proftably. His
| statement has created better feeling in that
| vicinity.
REPORTS from the cotton region of the
Southwest are to the effect that . cold spring
has caused the young plants to die to such an
extent as to render the stands, as q rule, i'm
perfect. Replanting as often as two or three
times has been common. In Arkansas the cut
worm did considerable damage, but the cool
| weather made general the injury which by the
worm was only partial. There is decrease of
| acreage.
SOME days ago Mr.. G. W. Morgan, of Polk
County, Florida. was fired upon by parties in
| ambush, and seriously wounded. He was
taken to his house, where he was confined to bed
| by his wounds. few days after person,
| with his face covered by . handkerchief, en-
tered Morgan's room, placed pistol in the
| helpless mans face, fred, and killed him
instantly. The assassin escaped without being
| identified.
DISPATCH from Rome reports the death Of
General Garibaldi at 6 p. M, June 9. Had he
| lived until July 4 he would have entered upon
| his seventy-sixth year. He was . native Of
Nice. Like his contemporary iberator, Kos
suth, Garibaldi lived to see many Of his hopes
| for the betterment of his country realized. The
| deceased was an author Of some repute. he
wrote number of novels, a little poetry and
an interesting autobiography.
INSTRUCTIONS are issued to the expedition
about to begin the search for Leigh Smith, the
Arctic voyager. Russian subjects are instructed
to furnish all assistance in their power. Prof.
Nordenskjold thinks it not improbable that
Smith may be found to have taken refuge in
the house built by him CNordenskjold) on the
north coast of spizbergen. Three vessels will
| cooperate in the search for the Ezra and her
boats. The first starts June 40.
SANDY MArTHEws, colored, who murdered
Essick Polk, colored, twelve miles north Of
Memphis, Tennessee last October, was hanged
in the County Jail yard, at that place, few
days since. The execution was witnessed by
fully six thousand people, majority Of whom
were colored. The condemned man made q
k1arr in
the killing, and implored his hearers to repent
of their sins and go with him to heaven. His
neck was broken by the fall.
A PASSENGER train ON the Chicago, Burling-
ton and Quincy Railroad struck broken
rail near Fredericksville, Illinois, over
turning three coaches and causing q
general wreck. Over thirty passengers
were injured, but no lives were lost. L.
E. Marshick and bride, of Keokuk, who were
on their bridal tour were on the train. Mr..
Marshick sustained severe injuries about the
head and shoulder, and Mrs. Marshick's face
was badly cut up. They returned to Keoluk.
THE one hundred and twenty eight graves Of
Union soldiers massacred by Quantrell and his
band of guerillas during the war, were deco
rated at Baxter Springs, Kansas, with imposing
ceremonies. There was large gathering OF
the grave of General Zachary Taylor at the old
family homestead, near Louisville, for the
purpose Of decorating the tomb Of the hero OF
the Mexican War. General Ekin, U. s. A., wal
orator of the day. Hon. Geo. M Robeson was
the Decoration Day orator at Washington, and
Colonel Robert g. Ingersoll, ut New York.
AT ABOUT three o'clock ON the morning ol
Saturday, June 8, an Ashland masked moi
took George Ellis, murderer, from the Boyt
Co. Jail at Catlettsburg, KY, carried him to ths
brick-yard in Ashland, near the site Of tht
Gibbons house, and hung him on q sycamore
limb. Ellis was one Of the murderers Of tn,
Gibbons family. The mob went to Catletts
| b..rr n al train, vrbia I,nohhinn