The Somerset reporter., 1885-12-30
GENERAL NEWS.

Probably 80, 000, 900 liz gold was shipped
from New York to London last week. AL
ready ST, 400, 900 in gold bars were shipped
Saturday on the Oregon.
The President has approved the bills
granting pension to Mrs. Grant and for
the removal of the political disabilities of
General Lawton, of Georgia.
A circular has been issued calling ma
national convention of third and fourth
class postmasters to be held in Chicago
in February, 1856. The object of the meet
ing is to discuss grievances,
The fund for monument to General
Grant In New York city now amounts to
Sill, 1923. The most remarkable contri-
button received thus far comes from
China. Ii Hung Chang, one of the most
magnificent grandees of the Central Flow
cry kingdom, has sent to the Chinese
minister at Washington three hundred
dollars. The minister has added to this
two hundred dollars as his own gift
Senator Sherman was invited by M. d.
Harter, the lately defeated anti-Sherman
candidate for State Senator, to meet Pro-
fessor Sumner, the economist and radical
free trader of Connecticut, in joint de-
bate on the tariff question at Mansfield,
Ohio. 1t was proposed in the invitation
to donate the proceeds realized from the
sale of seats, to the poor of Mansfield.
Mr.. Sherman in reply, enclosed his check
for 500 to be applied to charitable pur-
poses in Mansfield but declindd to speak.
An internal machine containing nitro.
glycerine enough to blow up the city hall
was found on the porch of Judge Lambert
Trees residence In Chicago Saturday
morning. The fuse was charred at the
end showing that it had been lighted but
had gone out. The police took the ma
chine to the lake shore and exploded 1t
there. The conclusion was terrific and
the frozen ground to the depth of six feet
was torn up. Judge Tree was the Demo-
cratic candidate for Senator In the great
| fight in the Illinois Legislature last win
ter.
conspiracy to rob and murder Z. A.
Burke, a wealthy citizen of Brockton,
Mass, which was planned by two colored
| men in dive in Boston, was unearthed
Christmas evening by detectives of the
latter city. Monday last young man
occupied a slip in the Boston saloon,
which is much frequented by colored men.
While there he overheard conversation
carried Oh by four occupants Of the ad-
joining slip. Three of the men were col
ored and one white. They talked over
various matters, among which was plot
to murder and rob Mr.. Burke. The lis
tencr notified the police who have been
keeping the conspirators under surveil-
lance ever since but have made no arrests
as yet.
The express train from Boston to New
York. which left the former city at 10. 80
Saturday night met with serious acct
dent about l6 miles on of New York.
The engine, tender and mail car went over
60-foot embankment and fell in mass
of ruins at the bottom. There were
number of clerks in the mail car but all
escaped uninjured. The fireman was
killed The train consisted of baggage
car, smoking car, ordinary passenger
coach, Mann boudoir car, and two sleep
ers, all well filed with passengers, whose
escape may be regarded as miraculous.
The cause of the accident was the plat
form of the station being taken up by the
gale and blown across the track Just as
the train came along.