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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1879-02-26

WASHINGTON, February LII is
probably generally remembered that
some wears sgo-in lsI3-Coogress
passed a law providing for the erec-
lion Df durable hesdstcDes orar the
graves q the regular and volunteer
forces Of the United States whose re-
mains are istefrsd in the national
military cemeteries Tais IA has
been carried out, aud tie graves Of
the uati as dead 10 these cemeteries
are 0 permanently marked ut the
Instance of the War Department
Congress has recsatly authorized the
erection Of similar h~eadstoues over
the graves Of the Uaion soldiers who
are buried 10 private or village Gene
teries. This will be done as soon US
the necessary arrangements can be
made 10 the meantime the Quarter
master General az Washington wlil
AT once proceed to collect the neees-
sary Information a. 10 where these
heSdstonus are required All per
sons having any Knowledge of The
burial places Of soldiers 10 private
cemeteries whose graves are marked,
are requested to COMMUNICATE the
facs 70 sss Quartems sIer General
Similar Information is desired Of par
ties iG charge Of snch cemeteries.
Of course, i, Is nut intended to foruish
headStones for graves over which
monuments have already been erect-
ed by relatives or friends of The
deceased.
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NEW YORK, Feb.-A private letter
from st. Petersburg, dated Jan. 81,
gives a sad picture of the desolsilon
aud alarm caused by the spread of
the black pest. The writer says il
has spread in the 5ohtherp provinces
Of Russia at a rapid rate. Fhous-
ands upon thousands have died with
IL within the last Ave days. The
victims, when taken, live only about
TWO hours, and turn as black VII over
as q negro. ALI the physicians or
dered to the care of the sick have
died within twenty-four hours after
their arrival. The eorpses are burn
ed, and 50 are the houses 10 which
the people died. Whole towns have
been laid waste during the past few
days. The government has placed q
Gordon Of soldiers around the Infected
provinces, SO that the people cannot
get oat aud spread the disease. Any
who attempi to leave and break
through the Gordon are shot dead on
the spot. All reports Of It's spread
are suppressed, but the worst Of all
is that nobody can get ont of the
Empire. The Austrian aud German
Governments have placed y double
Of soldiers along all the trout
iers, preventing all persons from eL-
their territory from Russia. j
believe the Government is doing all
its power TO prevent the disease
from spreading. IL is much Worse
Iban the yellow fever was intbe South
asst sunpes.
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Fire in AN orphans. Home.

COLUMBUS, February l6-At I
O'Clock this morning, q fire was dis
covered 10 the basement Of the Ad-
miaisJraIlon BaildiDg at The Soldiers
Orphans Home near Xenia, Ohio,
snd owing to the poor facilities for
exiinguishirg Gres, and the distance
of the building from The town, the
flames were under full Roadway be-
fore the engines arrived The 600
children at the Home had just finish
ed breakfast in the main building and
returned to their cottages when the
Gre made it's appearance 10 the hrsl
story. Owing TO the dense smoke
which quickly filed the rooms, the
widest confusion prevailed among
The teachers, who vainiy sought to
felarn to their rooms 10 the third
story TO save their personal property.
Several members of the Legislature
who were visiting the Institution
narrowly escaped with their lives
Senator Richards ard wife escaped
by dropping from y SECOND stoTy
window into blankets held by men
be'ow. Senator Sabiu and wife,
Representative odds and Mrs Ford,
wife of the steward, ED them
selves by leaping from second story
windows to the porch below. from
which they dropped to the ground 10
safety, la two hours the eoIire build
ing aud contents were destroyed, ~
Guiding the personal properly Of the
teachers and officers. No lives were
lost, aud no serious accidents are
reported. The less to the State by
the IRE will reach about $4,000.
upon which there is DO Insurance
the origin of the fire is unknown.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1879-02-26
The Crime of IA Despof.


LONDON, February 20 -Startling
Intelligence has been received from
Mandalsy, capital Of independent
Barmsh. The King Of Burmah, has,
for some time, cherished a deep hoe
tIlity against certain OF bis mobiles,
especially against Princes Thouse and
Meksra. The kiog himself is az
orthodox aud devoted Buddhist, and
largely under the influence Of eccie-
siastical advisors. He is extremely
jealous and secretive disposition. aud
for soma months past appears to have
cherished q belief that the princes in
question were plotting against him.
Fiuslly sainmoning bis privy council,
which consists Of four persons, he
demanded that he Prices and their
whole households should be executed.
As the will of the monarch in Bur
nab is supreme, The order was given
and the massacre took place. The
two princes aud eighly-six Of their
relations were slain immediately
The details of the massacre are de-
seribed as horrible 10 the extreme.
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Inserne. neysnne cnanges.


WASHINGTON, Feb. lS-The In
ternal Revenue bill, which passed
the Senate to-day by decided ma
jority with important amendments,
became almost a party question. The
Republicans voting Tor ii were thUse
from tobacco-growing States aud the
Pacific slope, who it appears bad
agreed to do so with the understand
ing that the Democrats should help
the anti-Chinese bill; which they did
last week. The bill reduces the tax
on tobacco from twenty FIVE cents to
sixteen cents, snd on snuff from thir-
ty-two cents to sixteen cents, by
which, the Commissioner SAYS to-
night, the government will lose nine
aud q quarter millions annually in
The tax on matches is re-
moved entirely, by WHICH the gov
erDment will lose two and three
quarter millions. The tax on saw
ings-bank deposits is abolished, and
exemptions made in taxing
other banks, by which three quarters
Of q million will be lost. The Com
missioner says the bill will reduce
the revenues nearly thirteen millions
annually. The bill contains a hun
dred pages, and embraces q revision
Of all laws affecting the machinery of
revenue collection. There are very
iew important points OF difference be
,ween the Senate and House, and a
Conference COMMITTEES will readily
them, end no doubt the bill
viii become q law, unless vetoed,
which is not thought probable.
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Brought tn Light.
a. S.

CINCINNATI, Feb. ls-A special
dispatch says that Isaac Newland, .
country merchant, living near + rt
Wayne, Ind, started home from
Fort Wayne o evening in Septeu-
Der, 1876, getting off the cars at
New Haven, the nearest station to
his horne, His body was found next
morning in alDnely piece of woods
near New Haven. He had been bru-
tally murdered for The money Known
10 be on big person wie0 be left
Fort Wayne. No trace Of the mur-
derer was found until last night,
when q courttzan named Mary Dur
rer, confessed that Perry Tracy, John
Garmeyer and herself murdered
Eewland and robbed bis body Of
IS.
They drove out in q carriage and
headed him of after be left the train.
Garmeyer is dead and Tracy is serv-
ing out a life sentence for numbering
James O'Brien. Mary also states
that The same persons murdered a
woman named Lizzie Early 4 yea $
ago; she having ine1rred their WRATH
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BISMARCK, ID T., Feb 2G-Bfevet
Colouei Il c. aad Lieut.. Fe Sibley,
OF General Niles regiment. and Nor
ris CabD, Of Evansville. lad with az
escort Of seven meu. were surprised
hs four bIack-mssked road agents on
,he Yellowstone. Five Of The mill
tary party were 10 aanbulsnce snd
I've were on horseback. i~eisusely
fJllowing IN the rear. They were
moving along through q snow storm
As he smhuiaDce diyed iato one Of
the Characteristic cooieys CT the
country The travellers we're covered
with four Winchester fiies. The
boys threw up their hands and got
out. While the captain OF toe rob
beers kept the drop on the capilves,
the oiher agents vent through their
pockets. TIE two officers lost $500
and Cain 81 500 Calm is a Ger
map, snd be groaaed andibiy when
the robbers OF the plains got into bis
red travelling bag. The sgenis dis
dsiaially refused 20 receive The oh
cers' guild watches. They didH't
want them damn things" When
The cavalrymen Of the party came
gailoping up he agents quickly run
Itbe ambulance fellows back and
placed D Of the Yellowstone quart
ellie on guard. The gsllopers rode
INTO tie trap, ard were soon on the
ground hoioing up their hands. AT
Ter delivering their change, the rob
bers made tbe military stack their
guns and leave unsvmed Oae Of the
| soldiers returned to Fort keogh aud
a detachment was started 10 pursuit.
One Of the robbers has been arrested,
but not lyuehed. TIE other three
are locking for a whole regiment.
james Brady aud Frank Hennen,
Two freigbseFs, were killed by Indians
on the lib instant, on the Fort
Pierre route, about City miles from
Rapid City. Brady was killed IL
%staniiy. aannaa succeeded ia reach
lag 8 ranoh t@o miles distant from
the cen Of attack, where ne died 3
few hours later. The Indians mutt
lated Brady's body aud set IRE TO his
! eiefh;ag
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California.

New YORK, Februry ia Wash
ington dispatch quotes the extraor-
binary language Of the San Francisco
Daily Stock Report. the Oldest foam
cial paper on the Pacific coast, in
urging that a monster mass meeting
be held 10 San Francisco to demand
Of President Hayes hat be sign the
Chinese bill. The San Francisco
paper declares the people there are
broadly discussing secession irom toe
Union 10 case Hayes refuses to sign
the bill. The East, it says, has ut
terly failed to understand cur situa-
tion aud to extend that aid and SYM
patty we have a right to expect from
The slsterhood Of States. As a last
resor. We would take advantage of
The geographical lines that surround
as, the vast extent Of oil within III
boundaries, the exhanstless resources
Of wealth that are ours, and will set
up an Occidental Republic WHICH, il
it cannot rival the old republic IN its
glory Of the past, will at least be a
magnificent Of white freemeD, whose
heritage shall be preserved TO their
children and their children's children
forever.
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Fatal Collision.

SAN Francisco, Feb. l9-This
afternoon the ferry steamer III Cap.
itan and Alameda, plying between
this city and Oakland Point, collided
in mid passage. A dense fog pre-
vailed The bow Ut the I'll Capiten
struck the Alameda on the port quar-
ter, doing her no serious damage.
The port bow of the Ell Captain was
crushed in, and she filed aud sank
rapidly. The greatest terror and
confusion prevailed. Some of the
III Uapitan's passengers jumped on
ooard the Alameda aud Others sprang
into the water. La q few moments
The steamers driiIed apsrt aud lost
sight Of each other ia the fog. The
Ell Captain sank to the hurricane
deck, and drifted rapidly toward
North Point IN q strong ebh tide.
rne HarboF Commissioners tug
Governor Irwin, which was in the
vicinity, piloted by the cries of the
passengers aud The screaming OF the
y missiles, steamed at once to the
scene Of the disaster and picked up
those VINO were struggling in the
water. IL is impossible at present to
state the loss OF life. The submerg-
ed wreck of the I'll Capitan was
grappled by tugs off Meiggs' wharf,
aad Is now being lowed np to the
city front.
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Woman Arrested

Troy, \. Y Feb 1s-Mqeb er.
element has been caused here to-dav
by the arrest % Mrs Mary Bnrba1s
wife Of a we'll known %citizso. char.
cd with arson in TIE 6rst degree
Mrs Bushans had a dispute with The
owner u the house which she oeeu.
pied about rent, on Sunday night
The house was SET on Gre. a lace e.r.
tain being spriaSled vi,b kerosene
and ignited. To-day the daughter
Is years oio) Of Mrs B0rhans. when
examined by detectives, made sue,
answers as confirmed their suspi.
cioBs. Mrs Burbans confessed Al
ter arrest. tbss she set FIRE 10 ,ss
curtain Several persons were in
The building when he FIRE began. .Dd
p~arFowly escaped death Mrs. Bur.
bans is young, intelligent. and re.
preaching.
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HALIFAX, n. g., Feb, 2i.-The
heaviest snow storn known here for
i've years began late last night and
continued all day. The drifts in
some places are fifteen feet high.
business is completely suspended in
this city. There have been 20 arriv-
ais Of vessels. IL is feared that the
shipping of the coast will suffer raa-
terially. Accounts from all parts of
the province speak Of the severity of
The storm. Post roads 10 all direc-
tons are b~'oekaded and no mail COM
muDication is possible with any #.
the country towns. On the litter
Colonial rail Quebec, the train
that left Monclan early this morning
for Halifax is showed in at Anlac,
Amherst. The train hat left
here for ST John is showed in near
Dsboil station, Londonderry. There
has been 10 movement Of trains on
Windsor and Annapolis lines to-
day.
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The renftestssry for a DEM
ecratic Congressnan-

WASHINGTON, Feb 20-Il appears
probable from inf ,rmas'on received
here that Hull, tie Democratic Cor
gressmsa elect from the second dis
tricl Of Florida, has a hoe prospect
f'r a residence in the peoitentiaFy.
He il indicted for fraudulently nl,er-
Jog bis own returns 80 as to give him
self a majority over bis competitor,
Bisbee. and the clerk of Bevard Co,
who was Indicted for completely witb
Hull, bas already been convicted aud
sentenced &c the p%enitensiary This
case was tried 6rst a. q test, aad a.
be was readily found guilty. there
appears to be small chance for the
principal, Hull, to escsoe. Senator
Conover, who was a candidate for
The lower House Of Congress at the
last election, SAYS the Democrats
adopted a rule for exclusion of votes
by which they secured q majori,y Of
he Legislature. and the same rBle
was applied 10 ease of Congressional
Candidates until they found il would
send him to Congress. Then they
changed the rule and defeated him.
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Mug is 90 small! that IT the ED o. s0s
wear be can scarce record shy gain
or saving, and YET il amounts to
millions OF dolIars in the aggregate
10 the Government, which must be
levied on some other articles which
are not lnxaries. No tax viii eyes
be popular, but zone a ever be
levied SO truly insignificant, that u
the consumer can afford the tobacco
be will never feel toe tax. The tax
on whiskey aud tobacco Is entirely
lust. aad is not unreasonable, as Is
proved bg their steady consumption
The producer charges his price plus
the tax, and pays lbet TAX over TO
the Government, but be gets i from
the purchaser, and consumers oil h's
product, and yet 1t is tbe producer
and mot lie u that has pre-
vailed on Congress to throw away
millions o~frevenue because he expects
TO pocket the amour Of The
reduction, By which the con
sumer viii not be benefited Il io;a
If Congress does not know that no
nation can live, that goes on steadily
increasing it expenses and diminish
ing It's revenues, it is high time that
its successors were chosen from .
class Of men able TO comprehend q
plain and business proposition.
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OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
CFrom cur Regular Correspondent
WAsuIyeroy. Feb. p. 1919.

WASHINGTON, Feb. q, 1879.
The Senate has struck cut Of the
army appropriation bill all the Sec
tions relating TO the reorganizatiop
Of the army, This p@lesses the staff
officers generally.
The iest war elaim upon which
General Bragg, Of Wisconsin,, made
his celebrated speech, was defeated
10 the House by a vote of 1881 to 1914.
The Southern members have no good
blood for Bragg.
Senator Zach. Chandler bad quite
q long talk with the President on Sat-
urday, after which be took bis seat
10 the Senate. He occupies the same
seat that be did when 10 the Senate,
several years ago.
IL ia said o bill will be passed yet
this season for the free interchange
of gold, silver, and legal tenders, al
the request OF the holder by the
Treasury Department in New York
Secretary Sherman is understood
to he 10 favor Of this measure.
The examinations by the Senate
Committee on agriculture show by
the evidence of u large number OF
buvers of cattle fer expiration,
among whom have testified is Sam
uel Brown, of Pittsburg, that there
is no cattle disease in this country,
letters read from the cattle regions
of Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, Texas,
and Nebraska, show toe came healthy
condition.
This pleuro-pneumonia cattle dis
ease has prevailed, il seems, only 90
Long Issnl, and whore by isolation,
il is being stamped out.
Tire large Centennial safe" on ex
hibition at the late Centennial Exhi-
hition, at Philadelphia. containing
autographs, photographs, sc, Of the
distinguished men of the country 10
1915. was closed on Saturday, Feb
22od. at noon in the S~taiasFF Hall
of the Capitol, in the presence Of q
large number Of people. The safe is
to remain closed for 100 years and is
then to be opened.
Despite the bad weather Washing
toms birthday wes celebrated here
with more spirit than for msny years
The departments Of government were
closed By direction OF the President.
and the stars and stripes laid By
and the old Centennial flung to the
breeze. The FIRE department paraded
the streets aud the military let loose
with q "boom."
Boom" is q good word il signifies
here ssalwartism. You should have
heard 1t "boom" when Matt Carpen.
ter and General Logan arrived here
last week.
In my next letter my wife promises
to give the latest fashions worn in
Washington, for the information Of
our old Somerset county friends, and
| will close this by giving you the
prices of 8 few articles on Saturday
Beef surloin 20 CTS porter. house
90 "a 20 cents Lamb. lSta % cts
Veal, I2f@2octs. Pork, I0@i2cts,;
Lard. S(9l0cts.
Apples, 20(G40cts. per peck.
Butter, P~biladelphis print, 45(d50
cents per pound. Western creamery.
35cts. New York, 30(035cts. ; roll,
25G30cts. /; Eggs, l5@2Octs. per
dozen.
Irish potatoes, 5000 cents per
peck.
Chickens, b0@75cts. per Fair.
PICKET.
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Chicago. Feb 2I-The daily
Commercial Bulletin has sdsices
from one hundred and five principal
points ia the Norshwes. regarding
packing operations aud stocks en-
naod. These points have packed
$500 600 hags 10 date, aod the essi
snatss for the season are 6 3d. goo
fhe packing at points Dot reporssd Is
estimated a 555 600, making the ag-
gregaie packing OF the West 7 445.-
600. The decrease ia average weight
Is estimated al ten pounds, which
will reduce the aggregate packing to
T,l35.000 hogs OF last years average
weight. Tue yield CT lard varies
considerably, and will probably not
show much, if any, reduction from
last year. The stock on hands al he
points which have packed 6.0s3, 0U0
hogs, is reported at 2sI 600 barrels
mess pork. ~ 900 barrels other kinds
of pork. 81 ooo. 900 pounds hams,
80 600. 900 pounds shoulders, 200,-
0O0, 900. pounds sides. In The aggfe-
gaze .qual TO the product of 2,575.-
600 hogs.
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DETROIT AieH February u-Io
his speech last night 20 The Renob
hcsa caucus. which nomioased him
for Senator, Z4eberish CAaoSls-
said II had the honor Of haviag
little sometbiog to do Nth the else
linn ef 1876 II was an election :.
enc side II fraud aud violence .,5
without al exception-aad ] say
deliberately aud af.er mature ea6sis
erstios-lha the greatest fraud :,
nv judgment, that ever vas seen -
the earth vas Samaei j Tiidsn a.
] have said. ! ran that ca bpsiru h.
certain extent ! was Chairman 90
the committee, and thew sowlsS
fraud fraud. fraud There was frana
bot il wes 90 the other side Noa
| wish 70 say with regard 10 tb.,
campaign, as have said over a,S
over again, that | never did a tbi,g
wrote a liae, seat a dispatch. eifbs,
cipher or ia the Esglish language \.
10 sny other way, that | would no,
be glad to see ia print tomorrow
morning in 81 the Democratic ma.
pers Of these United States"
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THE Washington correspondent OF
the Baltimore Sun (DemocraueJ
does not regard the future OF the
Democratic party in the Senate hope
fqlly. He says: AFTER the 4th oil
March the well disciplined and able
baud of Republicans in the Senate,
veterans ia legislative training and
in parliamentary knowledge, led by
such masters as Edmunds, Conkiing.
Blaine. and others, gill be sbsolyed
of all responsibility for lsglslstion-
They become the fault-fnders, az the
Democrats have been for so many
years, and that they will make II
warm for the Democratic majority
none can doubt"
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a Conspiracy of RnFsiars.

MILFORD. PA, Feb ia daring
burglary aas perpetrsted at Hollist-
e~rville, a s,usll village in Wayne Co,
Pa, during ihe night of November 8,
1878. 7. Ii. Baker, a merchant Of
the place, bad that a%fpernoun been
paid 81, 100 by e b. HOLSTER, q JUS
tiee OF the Peace, for the assignment
of Q morigege against the latter.
About midnight OF that day, after the
Baker family had retired, The barn of
Mr.. West, a neighbor, was discover
ed to be on FIRE. Baker hurriedly
dressed himself and vent TO repGer
assistance. During bis absence a
masked man entered the house,
Knocked down Mrs Baker and her
little son, and robbed the house of a
pocket book containing $3.50. The
50, 700 which the burglar was dogb5.
less after, Mr.. Baker had LEFT 10 the
keeping ola friend. Z B. Hollis
ter, George BGrnes, William A Ny
ers, and Fanny Vaugorder were sus-
pecsed of the crime, and were subse-
quenlly arrested and committed to
fiail. Myers was Charged with being
the incendiary, Miss NaegoT1er with
having given the alarm to Baker 10
order to draw him from the house to
the FIRE, ead Barnes VITA baviag
committed the burglary. IL WAS
claimed against Hollister that be
planned the crime, and paid Baker
the money at q late hour, believing
be would deposit it in bis safe in the
house.
The trial was begun Feb G, be-
fore Judge Waller, at Honesds BE.
and was concluded last Saturday
evening. The jury retired al $50,
and at G O'Clock last evening render
ed their verdict. They found Miss
yangorder and Myers guilty, bur
acquitted Burnes aud Hollister
From the beginning of the trial 1t
was believed by almost every one
that ali four would be found guilty.
Therefore, when IL was announced
that Burnes and Hoilis,er were SC
Quilted, Indignation prevailed, aud
the jurors were booted at as they
passed along the streets. The case
was the most exciting enc eve tried
before the courts Of Wayne county