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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1877-07-18

Fatal Accident.

CLEVELAND, o., July lit is re-
ported that between | and 2 o'clock
this afternoon an explosion occurred
in the mines of the Brooklield Coal
Company, near Wheatield, Pa, on
the Erie and Pittsburg Railroad, be-
tween Sharon aud New Castle, Pa,
and that a considerable number of
miners lost their lives.
Later-The disaster at Wheatfeld
is not as bad as first reported. Later
news from there places the number of
dead at six. Their names are Robert
Williams, Miles Davis, John Jones.
David jenkins, Richard Jones and
John Barter. Twenty-seven men
were nearly suffocated. The coal
from the Brook6eld mine is hauled
out by a locomotive engine. This
morning managers of the mine order
ed anthracite coal to be turned in the
engine furnace, instead Of soft ccal
h~eretofor used. About IL O'Clock the
engine passed into the slope. After
being in q short time the men 10
charge of the engine became suddenly
affected by the gas from the hard
coai, causing them to fall to the
ground 10 a senseless condition. The
engineer managed to make his way
back to the mouth of the bank aud
gave the alarm, at which a large num-
Der of men rushed into the bank TO
rescue their comrades. One after an
other they passed in, but were almost
Immediately overcome by the gas.
and they too fell ~inseusible. After
several had thus fallen q gang was
organized to rescue those who went
in last, and squads of four or five pass
ed in until they came to a fallen CON-
rade, when they would take him 10
their arms and carry him out to the
open air. la this way thirty-six men
were brought out, six of whom were
dead before reaching the mouth
of the bank or died Immediately after.
Wbeatlaud is a small town on the
Erie and I'i,tsburg Railway, two
miles east of Sharon. T%elegraphie
facilities are meagre, hence Incorrect
ness of the FIRST report.
John Youn, g m Of tie injured, died
this evening.
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The Indian War.

SAN Francisco. July IA tele-
gram received to-day at military
headquarters, dated Cottonwood, the
sth says that all of ~Joseph's band
crossed Clear Water, supposed to be
heading off the Bitter Root country.
Should this be true, the fight will
prove q running one. The infantry
will prove comparatively of no effect.
Decisive work will have to be done
by cavalry.
PORTLAND, July l5.-News was
received here this evening from Wal
Ia Walls Of July l2 Governor Ter
nv arrived this morning, bringing
with him arms, ammunition. &c, suf-
icient to arm 100 men. His object
here IL to look on the situation from
q nearer standpoint. He will
doubtless raise two companies of vol
nnteers here.
The latest news says Howard Is at
Camas prairie, from Lewiston July
10. Wilmot told Howard in the
presence Of Monroe Of the manner 10
which Colonel Perry neglected the
seventeen volunteers at the time Of
the fight ON the Cottonwood. How
ard wanted the statement put in wri-
ting by the volunteer commander.
He said that he was very sorry to
learn that any officer of the army
should so refuse prompt assistance 10
such extremity He further said be
would take no prisoners. He said
he would pursue the Indians and
kill them. If it was possible. and that
he would take no prisoners. How
ard on his re,ur from Billy's cross
ing of the Salmon river, has used
great despatch 10 his movements and
marches. He is nav fully aroused
at the true situation, certainly 50 If
his talk means anything The wouu-
ded are ding well, The jackson
Company left L,pwai on the 10Th
for the front, guard ng u supply
train.
Dispatches rec .ive1 at Lewiston
on Sunday evening indicate much
al LapSai, and caution
Lewiston against an attack that
night. Strong guards were put out,
aud guns PLACED 10 the hands Of cili-
Even compercial trayelers
were freed to service. II
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The MOUNTAIN Meadow Massacre.

SPRINdPIELD, I'LL July l2-Cap-
tain John Tobin, formerly q resident
of California, late of ST. Louis, and
still later of Springfield, will be one Of
District Attorney Towards princi-
pal witnesses TO prove Brigham
Young's personal connection with
the massacre of the Gentiles. His
name is mentioned in Lees comics.
sion. He tells along story, which is,
in substance, that having gained the
confidence of Young by aiding Nor.
mon em;grants, be was appointed in
structor of The Territorial militia,
which position be resigned because
the cavalry were used as Avengers
subsequently be undertook to guide
q party OF three strong, oqtspoken
anti Norm ,ns to California, but the
party vas overtaken by a baud OF
mounted Mormons, led by brigham
Young, Jr., aad compelled to stop,
under the pretense that they were
going to CaIiflrnia To misrepresent
Mormonism They finally proceed
ed. but were continually d,gged by
the Mormpns, who at length fred
upon them as they were encamping
at night. The party were left for
dead, aud the Mormous taking their
horses rode away. Sixty hours after
wards the United States mali wagon
and y party en- route to San Bernar-
dino took them up, but two of their
number died soon after. Tobin re-
a sd 1t 10 his right eye, which
made him uearly blind. lie claims
To have important documentary evil
dence Of the plJttiugs against the
part Of Brigham Young.
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A Plot.

ST Louis. Mo-, July I2-Later
advices from WsynesvilIe, Mo, say /:
Late yesterday afternoon, counsel
for the train wreckers moved for a
continuance, which Judge Hill grant
ed. This will take the trial over to
the first Monday in September. An
other. the sixth man, has been in
dic;ed for completely 10 the murder
and ~wreeking of the train. His name
has not TRANSFERRED vet. but his arrest
viii be Effected in a day or two. 1t
Is said there were ten men Engaged
In the diabolical deed, and th IT it
will be proved on the trial. They
bad clubs in readiness to brain those
who were hurt too badly to rup, and
intended to shoe; all who attemp d
to escape. The bodies were to tie
piled in the wreck. the torch apyIlsd,
and all evidences Of the crime were
expected to be destroyed by the
flames.
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Hanged for Murder.

HARRISBURG, Pa, July IL
Frank Wilson, colored, who murder
ed John B. Rudy, in Harrisburg, in
June, 1876, was executed in the Jail
here this morning. His spiritual adj
visers were with him until II O'Clock
last night. Wilson partook of a
light breakfast at $50 this morning,
having rested very little during the
night. At 1918 the condemned,
accompanied by his spiritual adj
%visers. mounted the scaffoid, when
Rev. Mr.. Clark offered up a prayer
in his behalf, in which Wilson fire.
quently joined. At the conclusion Of
the prayer the Sheriff asked him
whether be had any thing TIC say,
and being answered 10 the negative,
the rope and cap were adjusted. The
drop fell at 1920 His neck was
broken, and his struggles were very
brief Life was pronounced extinct
at 1910. Wilson confessed his
crime some DAYS sinre
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The Track.

MILWAUKEE, Wis, July "A
special dispatch from Pensaukee,
Wis, SAYS a terrible whirlwind
struck that town on Sunday night,
leaving but three houses standing.
The Gardner house, a large hotel,
was wholly demolished /; residences,
saw mills. fences, etc, were swept
away. Six persons are known to
have been killed and twenty wound
ed. Five persons are missing includ-
ing some of the guests at the hotel.
The losses are heavy. The storm
tore up large trees as though they
had been weeds, and wbirled them
in the air like feathers. 1t is feared
that further reports will show addi-
tional casulties.
EVANSVILLE, Wis July "A ter
rifle tornado swept everything before
it on Sunday hight. The storm at
Pensaukee station, 25 miles north Of
Green Bay, on the Chicago and
North Western railroad, destroyed
the Gardner house, the largest brick
hotel and summer resort 10 northern
Wisconsin. Eight persons are known
to have been killed and two are miss
in. Other buildings were blown to
pieces. The place is a total wreck.
A say mill, single mill, the school
house. a store aud fifteen or twenty
other buildings were blown down. A
powerful gust of wind raised the
railroad depot from its foundation
and threw it across the track prevent
ing passage Of the Green Bay train
for two hours. The bridge was mis-
placed and damaged. The steam tug
Spray and 9 schooner were totally
wrecked.
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rnc Rensain. OF Gen. cus,sr.

BISMARCK, DAKOTA, July IL
CJI. VI. Sheridan, who went with an
escort TO the scene ofLhe Custar mas :
sacre, on the Little Big Horn. re-
Gently, f,r the purpose of having re-
moved the remains Of GensrIi Cus,aT
and the officers whe fell with him in
the massacre has returned to this
poist by the s.eamer John G. Fetch
er with the remains of Gustav and
those of the other officers. AT the
time it was proposed to rem1v the
victims Of the massacre the father OF
q officer (Lieut C~rittenden) OBJ
.jected to the removal Of his sons
body, saying he wished his remains
to lie on the field where be fell. Gen.
Custar's remains, 10 accordance with
bis wishes, will be borne to West
Point, while the others will be bu-
ried in the National Cemetery at
Fort Leavenwurth.
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News comes from Harrisburg that

NEWS cornes from Harrisburg that
George W. G. Waddell, of Green
county, chief clerk in the Auditor
Generals Office, has been discharged
from that position Oh account OF a
generally debauched course OF life,
and because be was committed to
Jail for brutal treatment of his wife.
G. W. G. W. was I'M of the Demo-
cratic Performers" who were SO
dreadfully anxious to have the Gov
ernment regenerated and purified by
the election of Tilden, and the dis,
placement of the bad and corrupt
Republicans holding official positions.
Like most of the blatant Democratic
reformers of the day, he proves to
have been like unto a whited sepul-
chre.
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wife Murder and Lynch Law

ST. Louis. July Il-0n Friday
last Mrs. John Green, living neal Ro-
anoke, Randolph county, Mo, was
shot by her husband aud MORALLY
wounded. Green claimed that the
shooting was accidental, but Mrs.
Green declared that it was not, and
shortly afterwards died. Mrs. Green's
fIther caused the arrest of Green, and
he was taken to Huntsville for exam
i latiJn. On Monday night a party
OF about fifty men took Green from
the custody of the Sheriff and hanged
him to q tree near at hand. IL is said
that Green's intimacy with another
woman led him to murder his wife.
The Greens have left seven children.
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Amt some OF the tricks and thin
frauds of the Administration, getting
Just a leetle-me-bit too Jealous over
the Presidents policy? At the out
set it was announced as an expert
ment-an attempt to conciliate the
South by extending the olive-branch
in good faith. 1t was to be judged
by the result, and if not a success,
could be changed.
Bot now, when every indication
points to q disastrous failure, these
same superserviceable friends are de-
manding that it shall be uncoLdition-
ally endorsed, and buster and scold
and denounce those who do not agree
with them. Better go slow, gentle
men! Republieanism as a rule don't
take kindly to the pile-driving style
in experimental politics If we re-
member Alright, Andrew Johnson's
attempt to "force things" wasn't a
memorable success.
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aud the second man attempted to
follow, but the mob had those inside
shut the door, and be was at the
mercy of the crowd.
In this position, elevated above
the surging mass, be drew bis revol-
yer aud fired into them. The mob
then began to fire, when two balls
struck Hacket, and be fell to the
ground, and shortly after expired.
Police subsequently cleared she
square The crowd is watching at
the railway depot in expectation of
the Orange Young Britons' return
from Cornwall. when they would get
a warm reception 1t is just anuoun-
ced that the boys will not return IN
till to morrow morning. The city is
in a ferment. Thousands are congre-
gated about Orange Hall, and mis-
chief is feared. Trouble is expected
at the place where the Orange dinner
takes placs. The Prince of Wales
Rifles are ordered there for protec-
ton.
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rupture. Oar military forces on the
Rio Graade have already crossed to-
TO Mexican territory, IN pursuit Of
marauders from the opposite shore.
If this act of invasion should be re-
sisted by the Diaz government. war
il ineyitable. If be quietly submits.
It may be the means Of destroying
all his hopes of being sustained BY
the people of Mexico in his position
rs President. In either case. we may
have just entered upon q strife that
will increase 10 proportions.
Our existing war with the Indian
tribes in the north western territories
may be of longer continuance than
has been anticipated. Our regular
force, now in the field 10 that quarter,
is not equal 10 the task of suppress
ing the hostiles, aud must look to tire
aid of volunteers to crush the insur-
rection. Congress will certainly hes
itate to reduce the rank and file Of
the regular Army under existing cir
cumstances. 1t is true that the DEM
ocrats will be shorn of o portion of
their reform buncombe," if it be
found that the Army cannot be d.
minished 10 number !; but they will
be thwarted in many oftheir schemes,
If the Republicans in Congress will
work shoulder to shoulder" during
the coming session.
B~ooT-BLAcK ON GRANTS TRAVIS.
Jim, you told me what they
meant by giving Grant the freedom
of the city ; now tell me what they
mean by saying he's travelling in
cog"
why, look here, Bill, that puzzled
me too, and asked the old man about
it and he said my son, you are a
fool Don't you know that it is a
kind of q car that you see down on
the railroad. They have hourse cars,
and steam cars. but this what they
call q band-car and is run along by
turning a crank which turns q cog
wheel, and over there, when you
travel on them, they say for short you
are travelling IN cog. See Grant
wants to see the country, and wants
to let the people see him, and be
travels in cog, or all the same on a
hsnd-ear."
"Well, Jim, that's worse than the
freedom of the city"
DELTA.
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A,.s, ....as ,.e.~. for Hard Times.


The heaviest amount in the way
oil interest and dividends upon stock
and b nd securities paid to any enc
man 10 this city, and probably in the
United States, fnot ia the world, is
paid to w. ii Vanderbilt. The
total is estimated at over 81 SEQ, 600
per quarter, or between So 009, 900
and $7.0CQ,0 600 per anhum. Of which
some s.. 0g0. 600 Is received from the
bonds and 8 ock Of the New York
gentrsl rkilrusd. So VISIT u Total in-
come is believed to be by tbp-e who
have good mean Of In awiug with
out q parallel, except in the ease Of
Mr.. Vanderbilt IS father, The eommo
dore. who at times rrnIi24d even
a larger income than 81 600, 900.
As was the case with the commc-
dore, the soa invests the dividends
and interest in the same securities,
or those equally as good, avoiding
real estate and other sources of rev
enue, nc matter how tempting for
the moment they may seem.
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BIZ reason of the folly Of the last
House, Congress was prevented from
making the necessary appropriation
to the War Department, and as a con-
sequence we are not in q condition to
cope with the Indians. 1t must be
remembered that it was the first
chance the dough-ftced Democracy
had to punish the army. and they
gladly took advantage Of it to pinch
its stomach. They owed the War
Department this snub for its vigor in
opposing q rebellion in which they
had so much at stake You know,
it is q long lane which has no turn
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IT begins to look as if Blaine's
suggestion that another slice Of Mex
leo is longed for, was not mere idle
talk. Under orders from head
quarters our troops have crossed the
Rio Grsnde into Mexican Territory,
In pursuit of marauders Who had
raided into Texas. This is an overt
act OF war, which the Government
should have thought Of several times
at least, before its preparation would
have been permitted on III Northern
frontier. But then, there is a vast
difference between meeting the forces
of John Bull, or q few battsllions of
Mexican Grcasers. The cost of q
war with Mexico would of course be
repaid by q few slices Of territory
enough say-to make two or three ad-
ditionsl States wberewith q Solid
South would be enabled to control
the Government for q generation or
two ct least.
Apart from this. it is not pleasant
to citizens proud oftheir country, to
bare it placed in the position Of a
bully. 10 q weak. though disorder
~ aeighbor. The affair is not credi-
table to ne ss . nation, and it will
bear watching iest there may be q
cat ia the meal bag.
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SPEAKING of the order lately pro-
mulgated, that two persons OF the
same family shall not be employed
or retained in the civil service in the
departments-here is a pleasant little
extract from q Washington letter:
There was an old mar who had served
for wears II the Sixth Auditors Office, who
was 80 unfortunate as TO have a son in
some other department. Both had families
who lived separately, and both were in,
valuable clerks. When it was announced
that, under the new rule, n OF them
must go. the old man chose that the ak
should fall upon himself instead Of on his
son. "But," said he sadly, ''when the
war broke out l had five brave and hand
some sons. / gave them every one to the
Union army. and no fault was found then
because OF relationship Only two OF
them came back 10 me. One fell at Get
tysburg another was left among the 'nn-
known dead in the Wilderness and the
third laid down his life at Antietam. Five
sons were not o many 10 serve the
country then"
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Yesterday a gfeAt curiosity was
placed "a our table, deer,s hear,
c5ntsiniag The fiae barb Of an arrow
Bsst Sunday Mr. Il Sharp, % Ar
c4ts, "a 81. "a i syns9o's prairie
90 a deer hunt lie saw a large )
point back. and brought it down
with his ride Taking off the hide
snd securing the heart and ether
rare bits, be started home. On ART
wing there Mrs Saary boiled the
heart, and when The meal was ready,
placed il on the table. la attempt
Ing TO cus the heart the knife struck
against something hard The lady
split the heart open... and ia the lesby
part the dint barb of an arrow was
found ltmnst have been there q
long time. as the flesh was calloused
all around it, and the scar where The
barb entered is plain TO be seen
Humb0{h Times
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A...s.sa.s.e.- s..ss


WAsHrSoroS, July 0-Wallsc !
w. Gordon, aeraduste Of West Point
Henry w. Neil, James Il Neil aud
Andrew p. Edwards, residents Of
Tennessee, were arrested by officers
of the Secret Service 10 1875. aad
accused Of dealingin counterfeit m ~
ey. They were indicted for c1n-
spiracy by the Grand Jury 10 Hunts
vile, Ala 10 the United States Dis
trict Court, and were tried 10 April.
1876. Elk Governor Parsons. Of Ala
bama, was app ,in.ed Special Attor-
ney to try the case tor the Govern
ment. The defendants at the trial
were represented by seven attorneys
The trial resulted 10 a disagreement,
the jury standing eleven for convic-
ton to one for aequittsl. Soon after.
]. S. Malloy. a Secret Service officer,
who was an important witness for
the Government, was asssssinated at
Blou. Springs. He was shot ia the
head, and instantly killed About
the same time Paul Boulton, who
had testified for the Government Ia
the trial, was shot at Tuscaloosa,
Ala, and killed. The case came on
for trial again in April last, and re-
suited 10 the conviction of Henry w.
Neil, the jury disagreeing as to the
other defendants A few days al
ter Thomas Maxwell, a merchant at
Tuscaloosa, who testified 10 the case.
was poisoned and died. Another
witness for the Government, named
Dill, was stabbed and killed. In
formation has just been received at
the Office of the Secret Service d.
vision that Joseph f. Davis, the
present Mayor of Tuscaloosa, Ala !,
who was an important witness in
these trials has been poisoned. Mr..
Davis was formerly a secret Service
officer, ard arrested the prisoners.
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Train Struck BY Lightning.

The Middletown ca. " Press
says: A train OF the Midland railroad,
near Walton, was struck by lightning
u few days ago. The storm was ter
rife. Crash after crash Of thunder,
with binding lightning. accompanied
by a Geluge Of rain and hail, toiI1wed
them At n time the train seemed
to DE enveloped in a sheet of electrical
lire. A fearful crash came, and in-
stantly the engine was a volume of
electricity /; balls Of FIRE encircled the
driving wheels as they revolved Eu-
gineer Sanford beheId the pbenomen-
on and inyoluntarily shut of the
steam. Nearly every person OH the
train experienced a severe shock a
large tree by the track was shatter-
ad
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A Politician Cowhtdesi.

WEST CHESTER, July l2-J. Lew
is Mccullough, a well known Demo-
cratic politician and printer of this
place, was severely cowhided by
Miss Harriet kenney, daughter Of
the proprietor of the Turks Head
Hotel, on the porch yesterday even
ing. 1t is alleged that Mccullough
while passing her some evenings ago.
insulted her. While be was convers-
ing with a gentlemen on the porch
she came out Of the sitting room and
ordered him off, and Immediately
commenced striking him with q cow
hide. He was rescued from her and
taken away. The affair has created
considerable excitement, and a law
suit will probably be the result.
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The colored citizens of South
Carolina are agitating the question
of emigration to Liberia, and it is
alleged that several thousand have
already Joined an association organ
lied for promoting and providing for
emigration.
The whites of that State are awak'
ening to the danger of thus losing
this valuable lsboring population,
and the most profuse promises of a
different state Of things, if the colored
brother will only remain" are be,
ing made. With their past expert
ence of broken promises and violated
pledges the "6arkies" are not likely
to be fooled. They know that the
South Carolinians are as prone to
lying, as the sparks are 10 fly up
wards.
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Reid and Extensive aosb.r,

BosToN. July GAN unknown
thief yesterday stole from the ,fice
of 7. B. Froihingham a trunk con.
tanning $4,000 worth of bonds, in-
Guiding o $1,000 aud one $500 rig
lstered md of the Kansas CITY. st.
j e AID Counril Bluffs Railroad /; al
SO, . certificate. for 100 shares of the
Detroit, Lansing and Northern Rail-
road Company, the latter being
drawn 10 the name Of Siiney Brooks
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sheeki"s Hallway accident.

GREESFIELp, Mass July lt.-An
extra engine aud cab ,ose running TO.
wards Greenfield. on the EItchburg
Railroad. at Wendell Station ran into
a team which was crossing the road
at that point, killing Ira Davis, Mrs.
Jonah Davis. bis mother. Mrs. Ira
Wakefield, Mrs. Eugene Brown and
Miss Nellie Lacey. Mrs. Brown lived
half an hour. the others were killed
Instantly and badly cut up. The 10.
connective was not running at very
great speed al the time.