The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-06-08
circular to the Consuls, repeating bis assur-
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circular to the Consuls, repeating bis assur-
ances That the European residents are safe. is,.
A sEaIous riot occurred in the outskirts of
Chicsgo on the night Of June 1. The Joliet
Iron and Steel Works, doing business in Chi
cago, and whose 'longshoremen had struck, has
been taking party of colored men from Joliet
to Chicago ON . train each morning and return-
ing them at night. On the evening in question
when the train, with car attached containing
these colored men, stopped at a small station,
about . hundred men boarded it, Q captured the
engineer, and began an attack on the car con-
tanning the workmen. Three colored men were
horribly beaten, one fatally, and the others
dispersed. During the firing, Judge Pillsbury,
OF Pontiac, who was passenger on the train
was strnck in the groin by a bullet and very
ba'ily wounded. e5 b. e.asirs ci-a
Mr. o A. PORTER, President of the North
Chicago Rolling Mills, the greatest corporation
in the Northwest, says "My anxiety about
thd per:ed from October to May arises from
this !: there might be such thing as
famine even in this great, rich country. These
long-continued cold rains are very damag-
ing, and are causing railroad men to
wear very anxious faces. The railroad men
know what effect these storms are having.
They watch the whole crop-bearing Northwest,
and instead of increasing their facilities for
handling an immense crop, they are curtailing
expenses. Now you can see, with a small crop
and with the present light supplies of all the
necessaries Of life and their exceptionally high
prices, what would happen next winter.''
The New York Herald publishes letters from
Senator JONES' of Nevada ex-senator Platt
and five other Stalwarts, to ex-senator Conk-
ling, relative to a conference held at Vice
President Arthur's house last summer, to
urge Mr.. Conkling to be q candidate for
reelection, and to visit the Legislature at
Albany in that interest. General Sharpe was
at the council, and the letters all agree in
showing that he, who now says that he did not
urge Mr.. Conkling at all, was particularly
fervid in advising that he should stand for
reelection, and go to Albany to manage his
canvass. 1t will be remembered what indigna-
ton was stirred up throughout the country by
the report that such q council had been held.
The New York Tribune now takes President
Arthur to task for having denied at the time
the alleged meeting was held.
A DESCENDANT of Thomas Jefferson protests
from Monticello. He writes: "More than a
young men of genius and devoted friends,
Thomas Jefferson and Dabney Carr, sought
the solitude of the wooded sides of then
unnamed little mountain, and week after week
during their college vacation studied together at
the foot Of a certain oak. So attached did they
become to the spot that mutual promise was
made that the one who died first sh ould be
buried by the other at the foot of this favored
froo Ia <1rndr Taff u1,<
away at the time of his friends death, found
him already buried on his return; but, true to
his promise, removed his body, and placed it
at the foot of the tree, whose arms now stretch
over the graves Of the two friends, undivided
in death as they were in life."
MOST fendsh murder is reported from
New York. Charles Seibard, cigar maker,
was slightly jealous of his wife. aged nineteen
years, but without sufficient cause. He and
Mrs. Seibard both worked for a living. At
noon, as usual, both were home at dinner, and
Seibard showed great affection for his wife,
even both eating out of the same plate on
this occasion. The wife was about to put
on her hat to 60 back to her after
noon's task, when Seibard gave her some
money and asked her to get quart of beer.
While she went to the beer shop he drew q
new revolver of twenty-five caliber from his
pocket and showed it to Mrs. Kadletz, with
whom they boarded. He took aim slowly
and fired the bullet through slat of the
window blinds. To the landlady's exclama-
ton of surprise he answered, " I wanted to see
how it would shoot" His wife came in pres
entity, ami he asked her, "Do you want to
see me shoot p Before she could reply he
sent another bullet through the window.
''Put it away" she said, "the 4th of July is
. long way off yet" The three persons in
the room drank their beer together. The man
then quietly put fresh cartridges in the pistol.
Mrs. Seibard rose again to 60, and her husband
asked, Do you want to see me shoot you2" "
"Yes," she answered, with smile, think
ing he was joking. Without another word
he raised the pistol and fired twice
rapidly, shooting his wife in the breast above
and below the heart. Seibard seized his hat
and ran after his wife. She did not scream,
although he fired third time as she was going
from the third floor to the room of a Mrs.
Carpen, on the ground floor. She fell at the
entrance. and died in o few minutes.