The Somerset reporter., 1885-03-11
NescsU Notes.

Ia Great Brian ssl 800 DO0 Il inve.,ef
ln street railways
The sentence If he murderer Lee
/" ii1-e stt mp'cd execution Al Exeter
E3giand. Monday, pfoye1 such iaAur.
hss been Committed To life imprisonment
1ne mail car aud tn- ea.ire mail fer New
I9rk were burned a. one of the accident
on 'be virginia Midland Railway, Thurs
dsy Night.
A riot was cau,ed at Kensiugton, Penn
sylYania, iart night BY strikers who aLLack-
cd i0ur people who had gooe To work.
T1e Minnesota Legislature has passed 4
ne" penal code restoring the death peDal-
". III" lat hanging here topk pisc- In
300, the punishment Tor mufIer being
"t-efslionarJ "I:n The court.
t. n1'ip1h sen4te voted $500 90 10
sabsi1tz- he Pacific Mail Steamship cum
patty.
The rryro1e steamer Woodbury.. Captain
ID aue, II Jnday assisted the steamer X 4tah.
diu 10 breaking ne ie- em largo 81 B~lf4-i.
and st iowed .eycfai rcas1aers vut y me
ice.
Ben BJtler and John L. Sullivan meet 10
Bosi on, 90 the first Tuesday 10 next April.
Mr. ). l.. sullivan has applied for a d.
Fofce IRON her Noted husband, and has en-
ployed q n. Butler far her counsel.
Governor R5Die signed the death war.
rants Of Carmen SaUtore aud Raf4ele Ca
pone, who murdered 4 man near Bangor a
year ago flr sHali .uIn If money, 70 be
hanged al ThomastoD, April 3D..
The strike of carpet weavers of Lowell
Manufacturing Company Is broken. Brus
HeAEeF. l6lh fbi. af >,
and voted to accept The reduced wages
aud 90 to work. O:ner workmen TOOK
similar action.
The owner Of the National Theatre esti-
nste- his loss on th- building ct 100000:
furniture, scenery, etc. $4,000; INSURANCE
$4,000. L)tta, the actress, /, i said.
o.r-- $50, 100 Of tn thestre stock. LIS
ter WaLack'- company were playiug and
TIE losses VI Ibe company are estimated a,
$4,000.
Judge Robert Lagsp, Republican, of
Whiteside>, dropped dead at the head Of
the HJu-e s,aiIs asst "Wednesday, a. he was
on his way 70 the chamber, Vi heart ais
ca-e.
Tie people Of Mal.aw4umkeag are great
ly surprised oy at order cip,ing the MaiDe
Ceutral machine hops there, and dischar.-
iBg tie men. NJ Iea-on Is assigned ,or
the II, n. The sock in the machine
shops there will be rene, ed to Wutervi.le
10 short tine. A uum5er Of men Will BE-
thrown out vi emp oi men'. and the town
viii greatly ieel the los. the tr.t shoo
Sas Quilt there fourteen years ago.
negro in Monroe county, Ala. adopted
navel mean, Of revenge tn. other ri hi
He had oeen forbidden oy colOrei woman
TO visit her daughter, and 10 avenge him
sell thought he would burn the old woman
lite. He loaded his gun with lat meat
and slipped up To her house al eight
o Goes ia the evening and fired on her
The LOAD TOOK effect N the calf Of her leg
tearing away all the flesh from it, The
doctors think the limb viii have 10 b. am
putated. Tae negro wa arrested.
An interesting discovery bearing rpon
the history of Greek art has just been made
at Atheus. 10 the course Of excavations
,rouud the AcropoliS the foundations Of
the Propy lal have been laid bare. Among
them have been discovered number OF
beds or vtrauda-, butt of tufa, which
were evidently existing N the spot when
he Propy lac was being erected about 43O
B. c., and aere built into the foundations
Some of them are in 4 state of perfect
preservation and retain still quite fresh the
painliu with which they were originally
decorated. The co.ors employed were blue
red and yellow.
The steamboat City OF Worcester, led
llest Of seven steanpo9t> to New York
rue>day morning through a barrow char
aei N the ice at the entrance tn tn Sound
channel, through which boats pass and
which is only wide enough for one boa.
The ice on either side i forming heavier
very hour and extends from CITY Island to
Ricker's Island. The narrow channel be-
tween these solid banks of ice is about ten
miles 10 Length and only kept open by The
constant passage 81 boats. Should there
~ another cod snap it is probable that the
channel will fr, ez- up and al navigation be
closed.
The progress of tobacco culture in North
Carolina has been MARKED by steady i'm
provemrut in The financial condition n the
farmers, whose profits range from Sl00 t.
500 scrc. and in the rapid development
of all other Interests; in fact tobacco has
prov d a bonanza to the whole Sta'e
Over fifty toNacco factories were er.cte
IN that Sta'- curing 1854, ami many others
IL ! said, witl be haitt during the present
year.
A couple of philadelphia visitors to the
Nv Orleans Exposition were seen ezamin
ins and almiring the Liberty B Il the 9th,
er day. They had never ,een the old rrlic
before, ard they said they were glad they
had visited Ills show
Treasurer Sargent reports that the re-
cept> OF Washington county the past wear
We're Sll,4ls I'll in excess of expenditures.
THIS i IN 'st satisfactory I'm ucill show
ing. Washington county has 10 funded OF
II Eating dent