Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-07-11
Mysterious Murder,


this part of Pennsylvania. On Monday
morning last, the body of a respectable
looking, neatly -dl essed, man was found
lying alongside the track of the Penn
sylvania Railroad, near North Fork,
Cambria county. An examination of
the corpse disclosed the fact that the
man had been stabbed in no less than
half a dozen places, either one Of the
wounds being of nature sufficient to
have caused death. A number Of pa
pers were found in the pockets in the
clothing Of the murdered man, from
which it was conjectured that his name
was Roger Bush, and that his place of
residence was Cincinnati, 0. The re-
mains, at the instance of the Guardian
OF the Poor, were taken in charge by
John Block, u Johnstown undertaken,
and buried ut Summerhill the same at
ternoon. On Wednesday afternoon an
unknown, closely-veiled, and hand
somely-dressed woman, who travelled
ON Pennsylvania Railroad pass. ar
rived in Summerhill. Calling upon
the proper authorities, she stated the
victim to be O cousin Of hers, and by
her orders the body was disinterred.
Meanwhile the mysterious visitor pro-
ceeded to Pittsburg, and procured from
Superintendent Robert Pitcairn, of the
Western Division of the Pennsylvania
Railroad, free transportation for the
body to Philadelphia, and on Thursday
returned to Summerhill and had the
coffin shipped to that city, accompany
ing it thither on the mail train, which
left Johnstown yesterday friday
morning. While the strange woman
was perfecting her arrangements for the
removal of the body she was not ques.
toned in any way, as it was thought
the part she took in the transaction was
all right, but since the removal of the
body it is remembered by the people
Of Summerhill that she evinced q
marked disinclination to speak of the
dead mans identity, while what little
information she did give was unsatis-
factory, if not contradictory. These
facts have led to the belief that mis-.
take was made in not requiring the
woman to establish her relationship
with the deceased, for horrible sus-
picion is taking possession of the minds
Of all conversant with the affair, that
she was either connected with the MUIR
der in some way, or was the paid agent
Of some Philadelphia medical college,
and took this method of procuring a
subject for dissection. The mystery
involving the murder, and the mystic
rious spiriting away of the corpse Of the
victim, have created sensation in this
region that will not be quieted for q
long time.-Cim. Gazette Of May 10.
The WORD "SNoB. OF words which
have two clearly distinct senses in both
countries, the commonly used, but yet
slangish and not very pleasant, snob is
an example. Snob crept gradually into
vogue in England among the gentry as
recognized, but permitted, slang word
for low-born, vulgar, base mechan.
ical" person. This sense it retained, ex-
clusively 1 believe, until the appearance
in PUNCH of Thackeray's Snob Papers,
before which time it was not used and
was almost unknown in this country.
In those humorous and savagely satlr-
ical papers Thackeray applied the word
to all vulgarly pretentions persons,
wealth; and this sort Of snob, he said,
was scattered freely through all classes
of society in all countries. "There are
snobs in China" he remarked. Had he
seen Dickens book plate with its crest,
knowing Dickens origin and early
habits of life, he would have called that
snobbish. In this sense the word came
rapidly into vogue in the United States.
Here it has, in New York at least, been
subjected to yet another modification
in certain circles, where it is used to
mean person who somewhat preten
tiously affects the society of persons of
condition and northumberland Grant
White, in Atlantic.