The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-05-04
CURRENT NEWS.

CURRENT NEWS.
CnuMPs, steward of the White House, has
resigned.
INDIAN Warriors are threatening settlement
in New Mexico.
ST.. LOUIS work-house inmate was last week
beaten to death by guard.
GEN. SKoBELEFF is seriously III with acute
inflammation Of the lungs.
LIEUTENANT DANENHowER and party have
arrived, all well, at Moscow.
SENATOR Hills physician says he will not
survive more than six months.
The Governor General has put stop to the
expulsion Of Jews from Russia.
ANOTHER lunatic has been arrested for threat
ening the life of Queen Victoria.
LOUISVILLE policeman shot and killed a
man who attacked him with hatchet.
THE explosion of boiler at Elmira, N. Y,
killed two men and injured several others.
MICHAEL O'CoNNER, ('Cincinnatus,"O the
widely-known song and dance man, is dead.
soc1ALIsT1c parade was prevented in New
York by 800 policemen being placed on duty.
ALoNDoN dispatch reports a ship ashore at
Swanage, England, and all on board drowned.
MRS. Scov1LLE, sister Of the assassin, lee
tured to slim audience in New York the other
night.
TIE Republican Convention Of Tennessee
unanimously renominated Governor Alvin
Hawkins.
A MOB attacked Chinese house at Martinez,
Cal, throwing the inmates out Of window.
probably fatally ipjuring two.
The verdict for 800, 900 in the Kilbourne
case, at Washington, has been set aside, on the
ground Of excessive damages.
THREE more Of the robbers who went
through the Texas Pacific train at Ranger a
few nights ago have been captured.
THE President has instructed General Nc
Dowell to adopt vigorous measures for bringing
about peace with the Apache Indians.
The first new wheat Of the season Zone hun
dred sacks) arrived at st. Louis April 20, from
johnson County, Ark, and sold for $3.50.
The number of Government pensioners on
the roll in September /, 1881, was 269, S51, the
annual value of whose pensions was s2s, ,2es, :
469.
THE burning of the houses of Jews has COM
menced in Russia. At Kamenetz many houses
and shops were burned, entailing loss Of 500, :
900 rubles.
SruLL, the assassin who shot Mrs. Somers,
near North Germantown, Ohio, was arrested,
but before he surrendered shot himself fatally
in the head.
WHILE playing "Jesse James," youth
named Dufoe shot and killed a playmate
named Harry Wildman, at Glenwood, Mill
County, Iowa.
JOHN E. FULTON obtained $500 of W. B.
Carey, of Kansas City, under the representation
that he was Oscar Wilde's agent and desired a
business partner.
AN ANTI-CH1NEsE Convention at San Fran.
cisco, adopted plan of action, including the
organization Of q league, to remove Chinese
from the Pacific Coast by force.
A LONDON dispatch says Bradlaugh has
brought suit against the Assistant Sergeant-at
Arms of the House Of Commons for ejectine
him from the lobby last session.
JOHN L. SULLIVAN, the champion prize
fighter, has been sentenced to three months
imprisonment in the Boston Work house for al
assault and battery committed in q saloon row
The safe of the burned steamer Colder
| City has been recovered at Presidents Islant
with its valuable contents in good order. l
was recovered by Diver Graham in eightee1
| feet of water.
REV. M. KoEHLER, German Lutheran minis
| ter of Manistee, Mich, has been severely finet
in Court for sending through the mails Insult
ing communications to his wife, from whom b
has separated.
violence. Brutes who 60 about the countr
ravishing children, are summarily and justl
dealt with. Such fendishness must be effect
lively estopped.
THE poorer class of Jews arc said to be mar
rying in Odessa at the rate Of one hundred an
fifty couples per day. They imagine that
they marry land will be given them free i
America or Palestine.
TIE title to 1900 farms, or about 13O, 90
acres, in Hardin County, Ohio, occupied fc
upwards of fifty years, is being contested b
Virginia claimants before the Land Commil
sioner in Washington.
MISS PHOEBE CoUzrNs, the "pretty lady Law
YER" Of st. Louis, is q hopeful candidate fc
the Utah Commission Board. Why pretty Nil
Phoebe desires to 60 into the secrets Of polyt
amy is more than any one knows.
AnBoR DAY was celebrated in Cincinnati b
the Forestry Congress by the planting of Sc,
ersl groves in Eden Park. The weather wa
delightful, and it is estimated that fully thirt,
five thousand people witnessed the exercises.
A SOCIETY called the Ohio State Mutua
Liquor Dealers Protective Association has beel
organized in Cincinnati. Its purpose is +
protect the liquor trade in general and test th
constitutionaliy of the Pond bill in particular
IT Is reported that Senators Brown and Hill
Of Georgia, are talking of resignins on accoun
of ill health, in which event Governor Colquit
will fill one vacancy with Judge M. J. Craw
ford, of the Supreme Bench, the other wit
General Henry R. Jackson, Of Savannah.
FIGHT occurred at STEMS Peak, N. NJ
between Indians and Captain Upper, Of th
Sixth Cavalry, and his Indian scouts. Four {
the latter are reported killed, and two privat
soldiers. It is claimed that six OF the hostile
were killed.
STEAMBOAT with . picnic party on boar
exploded her boiler near Kingsville, 8. c., xii
ing seven persons and injuring many other
The killed were: Minnie, Matte and Mann
Henry, Lizzie Henny, ]. O. Eason, Anvil Still,
and Thomas Richardson.
A GREENFIELD Pa.) boy shot and kille
his brother in the woods, carried the body hon
and hid it in the barn, where 1t was found aft,
several days by some children at play. II
living boy denied all knowledge Of the wher
, abouts Of his brother, and has since lost b
mind.
/
JOE BURTON, Richard Bates and Pleasal
Adams (all colored), were hanged at Greenvill
s. c., for arson. Each delivered . short tai
saying he was ready to die and confident
going right to heaven. Edward Peters vi
hanged at Sweetsburg, Quebec, for murderir
his adopted child.
A DESTRUCTIVE cyclone passed through Lew
} and Mason counties, Kentucky, April 2
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