The Somerset reporter., 1888-01-04


Joseph Palizzi, TIE artist, is dead
There was a $50, 600 fire at Seymour,
Conn.
Mrs Sarah Jane Robinson is to be tried
Feb, 6.
New JERSEYS war governor, Joel Parker,
is dead.
A new national bank has been opened at
Presque Isle, Me.
The Alhambra theater at Antwerp was
destroyed by fire
Lord Randolph Churchill has gone from
St Petersburg to Moscow.
Fourteen hundred employees on the Gould
railroads are to be laid of
There was an increase OF 81, 257 900 in
the customs receipts at Boston in 1887.
The fire losses in New Hampshire for the
past year will aggregate nearly s., 600, 600.
James Hendricks, brother of the late vice
president. AMI the last of his family, is
dead,
Extensive injury is reported from Hall
fax. n s, to shipping by the Christmas
gale.
Mr.. Gladstone is said to be treating with
the Vatican for its support in the Irish con
troversy.
Hereafter the-ewlll be but one steam boat
line from Boston to Nantasket, bingham
and Hull
Mutinous Indian scouts have been sen
fenced to imprisonment for from two tC
twenty years
The London Daily News advises Fishery
Commissioner Chamberlain to make nc
more speeches.
At Dayton, Ohio, Heks beat Bandle, 76
to IS, at trap shooting; Winslow beat
Bogardus, Al to 80
Three persons were killed and from
twenty to thirty injured by the collapse Of
church in Alabama.
Hanlan, the oarsnan, is arranging for a
race next September with George Bubear,
the English champion.
The great objective, or tn irty six inch
lens of the Lick telescope was successfully
mounted at Lick university.
The Boston Police Relief association has
in its treasury, at the beginning of the new
year, balance of S22 900.
The Massachusetts supreme court over
ruled all exceptions of counsel in the cas'
of the "Lynn banner boy"
Mayor Hewitt has appointed Henry r
Beelman as corporation counsel II Nev
York to succeed Judge MOI gan j. 'Brien
!, caucus of Republican senators elect O
Massachusetts is called for w ednesda
morning in the presidents room at tn
state house.
NJ Remenyi, violnist, who is well know
in the nited States AMI who was reporte
to have lost his life in shipwreck. ha
turned up alive.
George Dickson, the colored bantam
champion, knocked out Lyman in fiv,
| lively rounds in Boston Parton is to try
his luck with the champion
Two noted Anarchists, Schroeder an
Heupt, have been arrested in Zurich. The,
were betrayed by their confederates VIII
suspected that they were spies.
Joe Kennedy has issued sweeping chal
lenge to all corners of his weight to hgh
for stakes and championship; young Bolton
of South Boston will fight him.
A wealthy tobacco merchant of New
| York, Augustus Lauterhach, was thrown
from his house at the Eighth avenue en-
trance to Central park and killed
The Prohibition state committee of 1881
| held a rousng banquet Mt fremont temple
| Boston; the committee of 1888 elected
| James II. Roberts chairman and Frank z
Dyer secretary.
The great granddaughter Of Robert Nor
ris, of Revolutionary fame, is seeking nd
mission, at the age of a. to an old ladies
home at Washington, and needs 500 to pa.
the entrance fee.
Professor Thiersch of the Leipsic univer
sity has published the opinion that, &c
cording to recent accounts from San Reno
the crown princes malady cannot be of
cancerous nature
Herr Trefort minister of public instruc
ton and ecclesiastical affairs, has sent
| letter to the Roman Catholic primate 0
Hungary advising that radical reforms b
made in priests seminares, and that tn
smaller seuinaries be abolished.