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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-06-15
4 Tragedy.

DASvILLE, Va, June Sin Stokes
county last Thursday night Frank
Baker, deputy sheriff, was shot
and killed by Jesse Smith, for whom
he had q warrant of arrest. The
deputy sheriff, accompanied by a
posse, went to James III. Smiths
house in the night time to effect
Jesse's arrest. About daybreak the
posse surrounded the house and
knocked at the door. After consid-
cradle delay the door was opened
by John Smith, and as it was open
ed Jesse, in his night clothes and
wearing q long-eared bonnet, passed
out by another door, accompanied
by his mother and sister. VI Aen
they reached the yard they found
themselves surrounded by the posse.
The women returned to the house,
but Jesse ran through the posse to
escape. AS he ran several shots
were fired at him, but without eff
feet. When he reached the point
where Deputy Sheriff Baker had
posted himself the latter tried to IN
tercept him. jesse thereupon shot
Baker through the body and made
good his escape. Baker died in an
hour, Jesse Smith is represented as
a very desperate man, who has pre-
vious to this murder shot several
other men, and he belongs to a fam
lily of desperadoes. a reward of
500 has been offered for his arrest
by the county authorities, and APP
plication has been made to the Gov
ernor to offer a further reward of
S5OO
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Cyclone i'm Kansas.

ABILENE, Kan, June 10.-A storm
accompanied by rain and hail struck
the Solomon Valley last evening at
. o'clock. At Belo.t a great deal OF
glass was broken out of the windows,
but the fury of the cyclone was
greatest at Solomon City, where
nearly all the glass was broken from
the north windows and a number of
houses destroyed, but no lives lost.
-Four miles northwest Dennis Nor
gan and sister were instantly killed
and their house totally destroyed.
At Bennington, on the valley road,
a farmer named rockingham, his
wife and hired hand were instantly
killed. In the same vicinity three
stone houses were blown down, but
the inmates were in the cellar and
escaped fatal injuries. Hailstones
came dswn very thick, and some of
them were larger than walnuts and
contained in the centre small peb-
bles The cyclone did not extend
as far east as Abilene, but the rain
and hail came down for about 20
minutes at q lively rate and the
damage to window glass was con-
siderable. The cyclone was funnel
shaped, small at the end down
ward, and at times as it moved on
its onward course, the heavy top
would careen over toward the east
and large jets shoot out in every di-
rection. The storm lasted about
one hour. The damage to houses
and crops Is heavy.
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An Explosion.

PoTTsvILLE, June 10.-A terrible
boiler explosion occurred here to-
day at Atkins d Bros, Fishback
rolling mill. The explosion of the
boiler was caused by leakage, orders
were given yesterday to draw fires
that it might be repaired which was
disregarded. The explosion was
preceded bys a kissing noise, and
in moment the explosion followed.
The shock was felt mostly in direc-
tion Of the girder mill in which a
boiler was located and a part of ma
chinery which it supplied steam for.
Twelve men were injured, three OF
whom cannot live. Daniel Moran
was found near his furnace, writh-
ing in agony and horribly scalded
and injured from the top of his
head to his heels. James O'Neil
scalded about the hands, face and
breast He is supposed to have in
hailed some of the steam which may
prove serious; Lewis Blankenham,
cut about the back and badly scald-
ed; jeremiah Reed, severely scald-
Ell about the face and breast J..
Williams, back scalded and other
wise injured; Henry Lousberger,
scalded about head; Edward Con-
nelly, scalded about head and neck.
Several others whose names could
not be ascertained were scalded and
otherwise injured from flying mis-
sles. Every attention was shown
the injured men by physicians in
attendance. The responsibility for
the explosion can only be deter
mined by investigation which will
be made at once.
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CtLLINGS.

Gov. PLAIsTED, of Maine, has or
dered special election of a Repre-
sentative in Congress to be held in
the Second District of that State.
September II, to fill the vacancy
caused by the election of Mr.. FRYE to
the United States Senate.
j. MOORE & SoN, of London, Aber-
deem and Saville, have just purchas-
ed ground on the Brandywine river,
in Wilmington, Del, for the erection
OF large cannery. They will run q
private line of ocean steamers TO Div
between that city and London to
supply their trade. Most of the raw
material will be taken from the pen
insula.
MANY farmers in the eastern coun.
ties of Pennsylvania will, to great
extent, iorego grain-raising this year
for the purpose of occupying their
land with tobacco, which, even if
the crop is partial failure and
prices should fall below what they
are now, will pay much better than
wheat or corn, in the raising of
which there is less profit than in any.
crop now harvested in this state.
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Ohio Republicans.

CLEVELAND, June 8. = Senator
Sherman was elected permanent
chairman Of the Republican State
Convention. The platform adopted
endorses the administration of Pres
ident Garfield and of Governor Fos-
ter, congratulating the latter on his
successful refunding of the state bebt
at a rate less than three and quar-
ter per cert. interest. The temper
ance plank is as follows: THAT
public interests require that theg
eral assembly should submit to a
vote Of the people such amendments
to the constitution of the state rela-
tive to the manufacture, sale and
use OF intoxicating liquors as shall
leave the whole matter to legisla-
ton" Charles Foster was renomi-
mated for Governor by acclamation :;
j. G. Richards, of Jefferson county,
was nominated for Lieutenant Gov
ernor; George Paul was nominated
for member of board of public
works by acclamation Joseph Tur-
neT was nominated for treasurer by
acclamation: Nicholas Longworth.
for judge of the supreme court, and
George X. Nash nominated for at
torney general by acclamation. The
convention adjourned sine die.
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MONTREAL, June l0.-News comes
from st. Henri village, which adj
ioins Montreal, Of a terrible dyna-
mite explosion Some lads from
school were PLAYING yesterday near
the depot at which the Grand Trunk
track curves into Montreal city.
They discovered upon the track
what appeared to be sardine box,
and at once pounced upon it as a
treasure. They tried to take the
Id from the box and failed. They
then made Il hole in the lid and
found u powdered yellow substance
inside. One of the lads, f. Lam
bert By name, placed the box upon
a large stone, while with another
he tried to batter open the lid. At
the first stroke there occurred ter
rible explosion, the lad was picked
up with his left thigh shattered and
in a dying condition. Philip Bias
and Napoleon Moisau were knocked
to the ground and stunned. Bias
was severely cut in the breast. Moi
sau has severe flesh wound in the
right leg, while he is also externally
wounded in the. abdomen and SUI
fers rom internal injuries. Perrault
escaped without scratch, but the
sudden shock has unsettled his rea-
son and he is a raving maniac
Several other children playing near
by were injured slightly. That any
escaped with their lives seems .
miracle, as the explosion shook ali
the houses in the village. The au-
thorities have set about an investi-
CATION into the presence of such an
internal machine on the railway
track.
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Terrible Storm.

DEADwooD, d. T., June Ga ter
rife hail and wind storm passed
over this city this afternoon, doing
great damage. Hail stones of the
size of hens eggs fell for over two
hours. One stone measured twenty
two inches in circumference. The
whirwind struck in Deadwood
gulch, near the confluence of White
wood and Deadwood gulches, COM
pletely destroying four houses, kill
ing one woman, the wife of John
Wolcott, of st. Louis, and seriously
injuring Mrs. Thomas and her two
children. Hundreds OF trees on the
hillside were uprooted and hurled
in some instances a distance of five
hundred feet. Telegraph poles were
torn up for distance of nearly n
mile. The whirlwind separated be-
fore reaching the thickly settled part
OF the town, otherwise the damage
would have been very great.
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Result of the Late Rains.

WILLIAMsPoRT, June 10. = The
lumbermen are highly excited here
over the rise in the river and the
prospect that a large number of logs
will be lost. Owing to the contin-
ued heavy rains up the river the
stream has been steadily rising, and
at ten o'clock last night it was 13
feet and coming up slowly. The
sheer attached to the main boom
gave way under the heavy pressure
of logs that came upon it, and at
least twenty million feet of logs
passed down and went over the
dam. 1t is estimated that about
s millions of feet were caught in the
boom opposite the centre Of The city
and the restpassed down the stream.
Hopes are entertained that they
will be caught at Sunbury. The
greatest cause of apprehension here
is that the boom above the Linden
railroad bridge will give way if the
water gets two feet higher, in which
case at least forty million feet of
logs will be lost. All the precau-
tions possible are being taken, but
it is out OF the power of the lumber
men to avert the disaster if the wa
ter reaches the stage mentioned.
Many of the logs escaping were
among the most valuable that have
come down the river this season,
and the owners talk of towing them
back should they be stopped as close
to the city as Sunbury.
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Rebeilious Students.

LANCASTER, june S.-The troubles
at the Normal School at Millers-
vile, in this county, eliminated to-
day when $50 of the students form
ed in line, headed by a band of mu-
sic, and marched to this city. The
students acted as an escort to Joseph
w. Coates, who was yesterday ex-
PEELED from the school for repeating
the reading of paper before the
literary society, which, after its first
reading, had been declared to be
offensive by the Principal.
The faculty, at meeting held
yesterday, severely centured all who
were engaged in fomenting insubor-
dination in the school, and threaten
ing with expulsion those who did
not obey the rules.
The students hired hall at Mil
lersville last night, and seventy of
them at meeting then held deter
mined to Withdraw from the school.
Their baggage was sent to this city
this morning, and the students fol-
lowed in procession. The faculty
issued an order that any student
going to Lancaster this morning
should be expelled; but it did not
have the desired effect, and further
trouble and many cxpulsions are
eypecte1
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Outrages Unpunished.


BosroN, June S.--A special dis
patch from New Bedford, Mass,
says that numerous outrages have
occurred near Westport and Little
Compton and Tiyerton, r. l. several
parties having had hay stacks burn
ed and cattle poisoned. A short
time ago the well of Edward How
land was poisoned, resulting in the
death Of a boy and the severe illness
of three other persons. Lately other
parties have lost horses and cattle
by poison. 1t is stated that the
people are afraid to testify against
the party suspected, who has not
yet beer arrested.
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Fcats Of Strength.

ST. LOUIS, June THE Turner'S
festival was formally opened on
Sunday at the fair grounds with an
elaborate programme, consisting of
pupils turningif for premiums. The
notable features were the high leap
ing of Herman Koehler, OF Milwau-
kee, five feet seven inches; the run
ning-board leaping OF Z. Wolf and
E. Boyers, OF New York, nineteen
feet four inches and nineteen feet
two inches respectively; the stone
throwing of Alfred Weir, of Atchison,
Kan. twenty-one feet ten inches, and
Frederick Holtz, Milwaukee, twenty
one feet two inches. The stone
thrown weighed thirty-seven and
one-half pounds. The prizes will
not be awarded until the grand pic
mic at Forest Park on Tuesday.
There were probably thirty thousand
people on the ground during the
day. In the evening there were So
cial gatherings at all the Turnverean
halls in the city. The Turning pro-
gramme was continued at the fair
grounds yesterday. About one hum
dred Turnvereins are represented
from different parts of the country
by about two thousand Turner's.
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Ku-Klux Outragcs.

Sr. LOUIS, June IA special dis
patch from Little Rock, Ark. to the
Republican says: "Ku-klux outrages
are reported from Perryville, some
sixty miles west of this place. Let
tiers have been received by l.. NJ.
Harris, Judge of the County and
Probate Courts, and other promi-
nent citizens, warning them to
leave the country, or fire and gun
powder would be used against them.
On Sunday night an attempt was
made TO destroy the town by fire.
The newspaper office was ignited,
but the citizens extinguished the
flames and drove the incendiaries
away before they had fired other
houses. Intense excitement pre-
walls and blood will probably be
shed, as the citizens are resolved to
crush the outlaws at all hazards
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SPRINGFIELD, Mass, June Sc.
D. Kidder, thirty-fye years old, a
well known resident and travelling
salesman for Boston dry goods
house, was murdered at 10 o'clock
last night, by his half-brother,
Dwight, aged seventeen. Dwight
became very angry two or three
days ago because Charles said it
was gross carelcssness Of him to let
their sick father 90 out on the street,
and they had since had words about
it. Last night Dwight called at
Charles house and asked him if he
was ready to take back his words.
Charles told him to go home, and
tried to push him from the door,
when the boy drew a pistol and
shot Charles through the heart.
The lad ran away, but will proba-
bly be caught.
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$i5,OO0,00O PAID.

George B. Roberts, President, and
Edmund Smith, Second Vice Presi-
dent, of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company, accompanied by Mr..
Isaac Hinckiey, President Of the.
Philadelphia, Wilmington & Balti-
more Railroad Company, visited
New York yesterday and paidto the
Boston Committee q. stockholders
some sl5,000,000-tAe amount of
money due on the Philadelphia,
Wilmington q Baltimore Railroad
stock bought by the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company. They bought
the stock in two certificates, one Of
1871 1903 shares and the other II, ,116
shares. The stock was sold for $3.50
a share, amounting to S16,693, 200.
About s1,000,000 of this amount is
due stockholders living in Philadel-
phia, and that amount of money
will remain in Philadelphia. The
balance, about s15,000,000, has
been deposited in the National Bank
of Commerce, whence it will be dis
tributed TO the 200 stockholders.
The money was not due until
July /, but the present financial
condition of the Penna., road was
such that it was thought wise to an
ticipate the payment. Subscrip-
tions to the allotment of new stock
authorized at the last annual meet
ing, together with the late heavy
earnings and the surplus on hand
June 1, furnished the necessary
funds. Besides these $15,000,000
worth of stock the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company has distributed
since June /, S2,500,0G0 among its
stockholders in the shape Of divi-
dends. 1t is believed that no part
of the ten million loan recently sold
will be used in the payment for the
stock.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany will not take formal possess
ion of the Philadelphia, Whining
ton & Baltimore road, however,
until July 1, when both roads will
be operated under the same general
management. The road will be
brought under the Pennsylvania
system as separate division.
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The Gray and the B'nc.

CHATTANOOGA, June 6.-An organ
ization of ex-Confedcrate soldiers
has been effected here, Colonel J. B.
Cooke, President; Hon. ID. M. Key,
Captain J. A. Caldwell, Vice Presi-
dents; Major J. C. Connor, Secreta-
ry. Every ex-Confederate soldier in
this vicinity approached has joined
the organization, the purpose OF
which is to tender a reception to
the Army of the Cumberland. which
has reunion here next September,
the first time the society has met in
the South. 1t is the programme of
the ex-Confederate soldiers to have
present on the occasion the most
prominent of the living Confederate
Generals and several thousand ex-
Confederate soldiers from the South
ern States. The citizen soldiers are
to be invited and many will be here.
The formal reception will take
place on the battle fields of Chatta-
nooga or at the National Cemetery in
this city. The action of the ex-Con-
federate soldiers has caused much
enthusiasm and their plans will be
successfully carried out.
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The domes of all the great church,
es in st. Petersburg, Moscow and
other large Russian towns are plated
with gold nearly one quarter OF an
inch thick. The new Church of the
Savior, dedicated and opened in
Moscow last August, represents a
value of fully s15,000,000.
SENATOR HoAR, of Massachusetts,,
has purchased the rock at the base
of Mount Wachusett, in Princeton, on
which Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, of
Lancaster, his grcat-grandmother,
was ransomed from the Indians, and
has enclosed it with an iron fence.
An appropriate inscription has been
cut on the stone.
DURING the parade of Barnum's
menagerie and circus in Salem,
Mass, last Friday, the six horses
drawing the big glass cage that held
forty serpeats of various sizes, be-
came unmanageable and ran away.
The cage was smashed and the
streets strewn with a medley of ana
condas, boa-constrictors and other
reptiles. There was a general stam-
pede of the immense throng of spec
tators, even the unterrified small boy
seeking refuge up lamp posts and
trees. The keepers succeeded, how
ever, in recapturing the scaly mon
sters without injury or loss.
WONDERFUL are the feats of jour
nalism which the telegraph has
made possible. In reporting the re-
suit of the race at Derby, England,
which was won by the American
horse Iroquois, the New York TsIe-
gram accomplished the following,
which seems to almost border on the
impossible: "The horses got away
at 10:21.5 New York time. Iroquos
passed winning-post at 10:23.55 New
York time. Result reached New
York 1924 New York time. Time
occupied in Transmission, seconds.
Within four minutes, absolute time,
from the moment the winners colt
passed the wire, the news was going
into the types and undergoing elec-
trotyping process in the Telegram
office, New York City, two thousand
miles away from the scene"
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Costly Cattle.

The steamship Saxon Monarch
landed q large consignment of valu-
able breeding cattle on Sunday at
New York. They were purchased
at the Warlaby farm, on the Thames,
England, by Mr.. Charles Morgan,
son Of the senior member of the
banking firm of Matthew Morgan's
Sons. The cattle belong to the
Booth stock, a celebrated English
breeding stock. Among them are
the hcifcrs Georgia, Regia and Rufa,
for which Mr.. Morgan paid 81 ,2j0
apiece; the COW Saxon Queen, cost
ing $1,000; Bright Rose and MORA,
costing $500 each; Miriam, costing
$1,000 and her calf, which was one
day old when Mr.. Morgan purchas-
ed it for $500 and one other cow for
which 1850 was paid. The bull
Royal George, costing $4,000. is
among the lot and also a number
of cows and heifers, for which less
fancy prices were paid. The cost of
the entire consignment in England
was sl4, 1850, which sum the insur-
ance, duties, and transportation
charges swell to nearly $4,000. The
cattle were shipped at Warlaby on
the steamship'Milanisne. The steam
er was wrecked on the Thames, near
Graves-end and the cattle were,
with much difficulty, transferred to
the Saxon Monarch. They were
shipped by rail to the stock farm
near Bordentown, n. j., which Mr..
Morgan has prepared for breeding
purposes and christened New-War-
laby. Mr.. Morgan has recently
come into possession Of an inherit
ance and having a decided taste for
stock-raising proposes to establish a
model breeding farm.
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The Legislature adjourned at noon
on Thursday last, and the wits of the
press, as usual, have a great deal to
say about its shortcomings. AS a
body it was not remarkable for its
dignity or decorum (the House, we
mean, but it was not neglectful of
public interests, and il was honest.
During the Senatorial contest party
fealty appeared to sit lightly on the
shoulders of some of the members.
but in the main the Republicans
stood squarely by the interests of
the party as well as those of the
State. Much legislation that will be
beneficial was enacted, and liberal,
though not extravagant appropria-
tions were made. Taken as BODY
1t contained more than the usual
average of able men, and certainly
was a large step in advance of many
OF Its predecessors. The Republi-
cans of this county have reason to
be thoroughly satisfied with the part
played by their representatives, dur
ing the entire session.
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Nitro-GIyccrinc Terrors.

4 nitro glycerine mandatory,
situated in an obscure locality near
Unionport, Westchester county, n.
Y, exploded Monday afternoon with
terrible force and shocking conse-
quences. The building, which was
a wooden structure about fifteen feet
square and story and half high,
was blown to atoms, not piece as
large as shingle remaining. The
trees in the immediate vicinity were
stripped of their branches as ef1ectu-
ally as though done with pruning
tools.
One man, an Italian, whose name
is unknown, was blown to fragments,
and another, who is supposed to
have been the proprietor, was SO
shockingly mutilated that he cannot
recover. One leg was torn off below
the knee, one arm was blown off,
and his head stove in so that his
brains oozed out.
The whole surrounding country
for miles was shaken as though by
an earthquake, terrifying hundreds
of people and giving rise to the
gravest apprehensions.
The mandatory was on the farm
of two hundred acres owned by
Benjamin Tross and leased by VIM.
Callahan. 1t was built in a low
place in the woods, nearly a quarter
of mile from the Winchester road,
and only about the same distance
from Divine's Road House at Union
port. The villagers know little or
nothing about the business carried
on there. Besides the owner or
" boss" as he is called, there were
five Italian workmen from the city
who spoke no English.
When the explosion took place
the Italian, who was torn to pieces,
and the boss were the only men
in the building. The other work
men were pumping water about ten
rods away, and, strange to say, were
not materially injured. They were
terror stricken, however, and fled
precipitately. They didn't know
what caused the explosion. They
heard the boss say, Its boiling
over," and then they saw him
emerging from the door of the build
ing apparently trying to escape,
when the explosion occurred. There
was a deafening report, a cloud OF
dust, and the whole building flew to
pieces. 1t went straight up, the
earth under and around it not being
disturbed in the least.
The Italian, who was killed out
right, presented an awful sight. His
body at the waist was cut in two,
the upper part of the trunk lying in
one place and the lower part in an
other. His head was found saveral
feet from the latter and one arm
near the former. Both legs were
torn off and denuded of nearly all
the flesh the entrails were scattered
about among the debris, and pieces
of bone and flesh were on the ground
and stuck fast on tree trunks. The
mans liver was blown up into n tree
100 yards away. The sight beggars
description.