The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1876-01-19

the read; Jay Cocko vas su~pposedto
be strong enough to carry the enter
prise to q successful cnd, and The
Ladependcst is no more to blame Tor
assisting bin. than are the deposit
ors who had their moBy in his bank
f5r losing il. should Ike to go
through the safes Of some Of the
papers that are abusing Mr.. Bowen,
and sec if | couldn't find some Of
those terrible bonds iberia. The
most Ct them had some Of that pork,
and l believe they all came honestly
BY it. The fact Is, Dir. Bowen did
what every newspaper man did, be
worked for what be believed to be q
good thing, and was paid FOR it only
what be- should have been. Il is
queer II o statesman, ike q dozen /
could mention, should have bis ex
penses paid for advocating Z scheme,
and d newspaper should not. The
fact that il failed makes no difference.
| have known quite a number Of very
excellent schemes that have failed
jay Cooke has gone, but the read
VIII vet be buil1, and Mr.. Bowen Wili
live 10 read his articles in its advoca-
cvwith much satisfaction aad delight.
Here let me say that those who are
abusing Mr.. Cooke are not doing the
incest thing IN nature. When he
was prosperous, and carrying on
. great enterprises, be was the most
popular man in America. Ii is only
since he succumbcd to circumstances
tina. would hsge crushed any one,
that he is counted differently. How
many men would have done better
than he did?
THE CARNIVAL or CRIME.
Is crime, like cholera, epidemic
liz would seem so. 0He murder
breeds another. The pistol, knife and
bludceon have been very busy from
the the day before New Year till
now, aud the police reports show no
abatement even vet. One freaz.ed
man shoots his wife, cuts the threats
Of his four children, and then kills
himself which last murder was the
only orc that the world may be
thankful for. The number Of grog-
shop homiciacs New Years y and
the night following was frightfdL.
And what is singular, it keeps up
stcadiI9. But the most
TERRIBLE MURDER.
On record was that at the Wgstmia-
ster Hotel. Saturday night. Romaine
Dillon, q wealthy and Grst-lamily
bachelor Of fifty, shot a gentleman
named Diliber in The corridor Of the
hotel. after a moments alteration,
, :bo victim dying in a few hours.
The singular thing about it is, that
the parties had no quarrol-indeed
I they scarcely knew each other. Dil-
lon was offended with Dlliiber for
walking in the corridor-understaud
they were both boarders-and had
shown bis displeasaTe all day. Meet
ing DiuiDcr that evening, be ordered
him to get out Of the corridor, which
Dilibec refused to do, Wherupon Dill
lon drew his Dcrringer and shot him
Now the facts come out. Il appears
that Dillon has been insane for years
that when he was boarding at the
Brcvoort House he was in the habit
Of qaarrcling with the boarder5 on
the most absurd prctexts, which
created such q fear Of him that the
managers were compelled to get rid
Of him. lie showed murdsrous pro-
pensitics then. but never a word was
said about il, and he went to the
Westminster Since be has killed a
man the proprietor states that this
~lunatic has been for a year in the
habit Of ordering people away from
the house thatif any IN walked in
the corridor in from. of his room be
would peremptorily order him away.
and If be declined to obey, he would
shoot at him rs co0llv as though be
were a dog. But ~ a word Of
all this was said to any one by the
proprietor. The Dillon family are
profoundly grieved that poor Dlliber
was killed, but they were always
afraid that something of the sort
would happen. They always knew
that poor Romano was crazy, ana
they kept away from him, but they
never said anything about it, for the
subject was painful to them. Of
course Dillon will bcput in 40 asy lum,
but had 1 the making Of the laws, l
should provide for the punishment Of
several other parties. The propric-
tors Of the Breevort and Westminster
hotels would go up for not putting
this mUrderous lunatic where he
could harm no ne. Then | would
send up the entire Dillon family for
not letting the world know that their
brother was crazy, and always had
been, and that it was dangerous to
have him running loose.
TIE TROUBLES or \ NILLToEAGE.
You have all beard Of Vinegar
Bittcrs" The proprietor, OF one Of
them, is q man named Walker, who
married q wife in California. In
making and selling this ho~rrible-tast-
ing medicine, Or" Walker has
amasscd q large fortune, for bis Bit
ters' tasted so badly that people sup.
posed there must be virtue in them.
Bat Or" Walkers love for Mrs
Walker did not increase as rapidly
as his lucre. in fact be got TO Ges-
pitelully using her, SO she claims.
Tie refused TO allow her money rs
she desired, and, sac further
AYERS, be Beecherized and ~squander-
ed the ducats that should have been
her comfort upon ether women. Shs
drag5 him into court, aad swears that
be is sQuGudering his fortune at the
rate Of 500 per day, and that if be
is not restrained be viii ruu il all
out. Now comes Walkers story.
He AYERS that be is not only chaste.
but fastidiously so; that Mrs. Walk
er is anaughty woman, who makes
appointments witt other ulen, and
does not in any sense live to the
agreement she made when she took
him for better or worse. And 50 the
courts have got Or" and Mrs.
Walker, and the lawyers viii have
fat picking. Both are able to pay.
aud if the profits Of Vinegar Bitsers