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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-05-03

OK Friday last tie principal off,
GERS of the National Guard of Penn
salvation, met at Lewistown and
made the final arrangements for the
holding of the grand encampment.
The announcement heretofore made
that the cncampment would CON-
mence on the 18th of August, was
reconsidered in consequence of the
Juniata Valley camp meeting having
previously fixed upon the 18th OF
that month for its commencement,
and Saturday, August 9Th, substitu-
ted, on which day the troops will
take the positions assigned them.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-05-03
The Indians Burn Gualleysvilic and
Kill Forty White Men.

CHICAGO, April 26.-Aspecial from
Lordsburg, New Mexico, says: A re-
liable report has been received there
to the effect that the town of Gual-
leysville has been sacked by In
dams and thirty five or forty whites
.massacred. The hostile party num-
bered one hundred and seventy-five.
Gen. Forsyth took the trail at once
and is now in pursuit. Mckenzie
is said to be on his way to join
Forsyth and take command in per-
son. Four wounded soldiers have
been broughtin. They are Sergeant
Marley, of Company c, Sixth Cav
airy. and Privates Leonard, Downey
and Sullivan, of the Fourth. More
ly has since died. Over eighty per-
sons are known to have been killed
since the outbreak week ago.
One hundred and fifty head of stock
have been killed or captured and
So, 900 worth of property destroyed.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-05-03
Hanged by an Indiana Mob.

CINCINNATI, o.. April pa Spe.
cial dispatch to the Tmes-Star from
Greensburg, Ind, says: "A mob ol
fifty masked men at 6 o'clock this
morning called on the jailer, and by
choking him tried to get the keys ol
the Jail, but failed. They then
Knocked in the Jail door, took out
0. NJ. Garrett, hung him to a maple
tree ten feet from the Jail, and left
after placing placard on the body,
reading: This is greeting to the Jen-
nidgs County Jury Grrett had been
acquitted in Jennings county OF
completely in the assassination of
Mr.. Walton by a negro named Frazer,
and after acquittal had been arrested
on another charge. There are fears
that the mob will next hang Frazer
and Mrs. Walton.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-05-03
a Steamer Explodes.

kINGsvILLE, S. G., April 2S.-The
steamer Marion, employed in the
Wateree l;iver, exploded one Of her
boilers between II and l2 o'clock to-
day. 1t had on board a picnic party,
thirty-five or forty III number Miss
Minnie Henry was instantly killed
Misses Matte and Mamie Henry
are missing and are supposed to
have been drowned. Miss Lizzie
Henry was badly hurt, and is not
expected OF live. J. C. Eason was
hurt, and is not expected to recover.
William Trimble was badly scalded.
Miss Minnie Bates had an arm bro
ken, ahd sustained other serious in
juries. Arnold Stiles is missing.
and is supposed to have been drown
ed. Tom Richardson( colored), one
of the crew, was drowned, John
Williams, another of the crew, was
badly hurt.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-05-03
Swept by u Tornado.

WILMINGTON, n. c., April "a. 4.-Ad-
vices from Arunswick and Pender
counties in this state, received to-
day, give particulars of terrible
tornado that occurred Saturday after
noon, which caused great destruc-
ton. Commencing on the Green
Swamp in Brunswick county, and
extending a width of 200 yards, it
travelled across the Wilmington, Co.
lumbia and Augusta Railroad in a
northerly direction and across the
Cape Fear river into Pender county,
telling everything in the track and
making perfect lane through the
woods and fields. One church, two
saw mills, several dwellings and
large number Of buildings were de
stroyed. One child was killed and
two adults are known to he serious
ly injured.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-05-03
Lny ching at Minneapolis.

ST.. PAUL, MINI, April 2S.-Aboui
one o'clock this morning a party OF
masked men appeared at the Jail in
Minneapolis and demanded the sur
render to them of Frank McManus,
a tramp, who brutally mutilated the
four-year-eld child, Nina Spear, yes
terday. The Sheriff was made a pris-
oner by the mob, and refused to
divulge the whereabouts of MeMan-
us. The mob then made a thorough
search of the Jail, breaking open
every cell until McManus was found.
The latter was taken to the house OF
his victim, where he was fully iden-
titled. Without further ceremony
the mob took McManus to large
tree in front ofthe High School build
ing, and hanged him from the limbs
at a quarter past four this morning.
McManus conf, =sed his horrible
crime. He was a tramp, 26 years
old, al d came from Boston
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-05-03

w. w. KERR, ESQ, a Democratic
LAWYER of Philadelphia, was employ
ed by Attorney General Brewster
and sent to South Carolina to help
try the election cases in that State.
After several weeks sojourn in
Charleston in the discharge of his
duty Mr.. Kerr has returned to Phil
adelphia, utterly disgusted with the
wavs of his Southern brethren.
Mr.. Kerr claims that he has been
Democrat all his life and is one yet,
but thinks that if the condition of
affairs he found existing in South
Carolina extends throughout the
South, that it is time the North un-
derstands that the embers of rebel
lion still shoulder in the Southern
heart He says that it is impossible
to obtain a fair trial Of any political
cases in that State owing to the OBJ
stacles placed in the way by the
State and other local authorities.
Because he did his duty and dared
to insist that a Democrat who was
caught stutfing a ballot box should
be punished like any other rascal
he was grossly insulted, and the
windows of the hotel where he was
staying were smashed in the night
time by a mob. He SAYS there are
nearly one hundred cases of fraud
at the polls still to be tried, and
from the evidence there should be
convictions in all of them.n He
makes this public profession of his
change of faith: "When l was first
summoned to South Carolina /
T" did not believe in the stories told
"about ballot-box stufiing, but after
carefully examining the evidence
al was satisfied that the public did
"not know half the truth. | am a
Democrat, and firm believer in
" Democratic principles, but ] can
mot see how we are to be benefited
"or be successful if we are to coun-
tenance perjury and crime carried
son under the pretence of aiding
"the Democratic party" It has
been customary for Democratic
newspapers to charge that the state
ments of fraud and intimidation of
Republican voters at the elections
in the South were all manufactured.
and their party friends in Congress
are to-day voting in favor of retain
ing in their seats members who have
no claim to them other than they
obtained them through fraud, and
hold them because the courts are
powerless to punish the wrongs
done. In the face Of the testimony
of Mr.. Kerr, lawyer of high char
acter and a Democrat of the strictest
sect, We feel somewhat curious to
see what answer the Democratic
press has to make.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-05-03

CHICAGO, April 28.-The Ameri-
can Express Company and Govern
ment officials seen by the Associated
Press reporter agree on the following
as the facts in the matter of the lost
packaee Of jewels imported and
Slipped in bond to the Elgin Watch
Company. The case was delivered
here as reeeipted at New York by
the Express Company and taken BY
the Government and express em
plcye in wagon direct to the bond
ed warehouse. There were three
separate invoices on the package.
and in order to get at them the ex-
aminer had to open il II was of
old boards which had been used be-
fore and had nail holes in them.
The box was not strong one, and
was boudd with wooden hoops. In
it we're two wooden boxes contain
ing watch jewels from London. The
missing one contained Swiss jewels.
The Government appraiser is of the
opinion that the missing package
was either not included in the
consignment at London, or that
it was taken'out on board the ship.
Which is correct can only be deter
mined Liter investigation in London.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-05-03
The Famine in Canada.

ST. JOINS N. F, April 2s.-Late
advices from Labrador give a
gloomy account of affairs along that
coast. In some harbors not an arti-
ele of food can be purchased, and the
people are reduced to a verge of
starvation. On February 8, young
man named Sparks, living near the
Forteau Lighthouse, left home to
visit his father, who resided three
hundred yards away. He lost his
way in the great depth of snow, and
was found by search party exhaus-
ted and helpless. Both of his legs
were frozen, and had to be amputat-
ed. When his rescuers took him
home they found his wife and child
frozen to death in their miserable
abode.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-05-03


PITTSBURGH, April 27.-A de-
spatch from Neshannock, Mercer
County, says that alta mass-meeting
held there to-day Of the coal miners
Of the Shenango Valley it was re-
solved to continue work at the pres
ent prices until the 29th instant,
and after that date to cease mining
until such time as the late reduction,
of ten cents per ton is restored.
There are l 800 miners in the She
mango Valley In the Pittsburgh
district 1000 are now on strike.
Should the Ohio miners strike on
Monday, which they have resolved
to do unless their former wages are
restored. 10000 more will be added
to the above.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-05-03
Railroad Accident.

CoLUMBUs, o., April ga Carbon
Hill special says: "At $50 P. NJ, as
a local freight was goingsouth hon the
Sand Run fork of Monday creek, on
the Columbus, Hooking Valley and
Toledo Railroad, a trestle gave way,
dropping the engine into the Sand
Run. W.R. Driyalden, the engineer,
and his son Charles. the fireman,
were instantly killed, and James
Hilcs, the head brakeman, had both
legs broken and other injuries. He
will not recover. The engine is en-
tirely submerged, and the engineer
and fireman are both held under
water by the wreck.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-05-03

A Murderer Cheats the Callows.


CLEVELAND, April Pa special
to the Herald from Canton says that
about sunrise this morning William
Stull, the Georgetown murderer, was
cornered in the woods near Frank
lin, fourteen miles southeast of Can
ton, BY the sheriff of Columbiana
county and posse of deputies who
have been following him since Sun
day. Finding escape impossible,
Stull drew the revolver with which
be murdered Mrs. Sommers and
fired two shots into his head in rap
id succession. killing himselfinstant-
ly. The excitement in Stark and
Columbiana counties is intense.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-05-03

The Democratic party scarcely
knows what TO howl about. Wat
terson says free trade, Voorhees, says
tariff, and Pacific coast Democrats
say Chinese expulsion is the great
plank of the coming platform. 1t
really seems as if there is but one
plank upon which the masses of the
party can tread firmly, and that is
free whisky. The Republicans have
made the country prosperous and
rich, and given such stability to
every enterprise and established
such wise systems in all financial
matters as to be beyond the reach Of
the criticisms of mere politicians.
Just what better could be expected
from a Democratic administration
is difficult to see. The dangers of
such a change no reasonable and
thinking man viii doubt.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-05-03


Ii will be remembered that one
Hallet Kilbourne, who was a wit.
ness before an investigating com.
mittee of Congress, in 1876, refused
to produce certain books demanded
by the Committee, and was adjudg-
ed to be in contempt and ordered
into the custody of the Sergeant-at-
Arms and held in custody for forty
five days. After his discharge by
the court, on a writ of habeas cesSas,
he brought an action for false i'm
prisonment against John c. Thomp-
son, the Sergeant-at-Arms, which
case was decided last week by a
verdict of 100000 in favor of Xii
bourne against Thompson. If the
verdict stands good, Congress viii in
common fairness have TO appropri-
ate a sum of money TO indemnify
Thompson, who, as its officer. sim
ply obeyed instructions
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-05-03
Lynching in Cuinrado.

LAKE CRY, COL, April pa
hundred masked men entered the
Jail early this morning overpowered
the guards and took james Brown
and George Belts from their cells
and hanged them to bridge a short
distance from town. They died
making no remark of any kind.
Their crime was the killing of Sher-
ifi Camphell Yesterday while he wa.
atteinp Ing 10 arrest them.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-05-03
Another Nihilist Pict Discovered.

Moscow, April 30.-A man named
Koboseif Bogdanowitsch recently
submitted to the authorities plan
for the illumination of the Krelnlin
with electric light. Inquiries were
instituted and it was discovered the
intention was to blow up the whole
Kremlin during the festivities at
attending the coronation of the Gar.
At the mans residence there were
found a number of peasants caps
and crowns which wire filled with
explosive materials. 1t is supposed
these caps we're intended to be
thrown into the air in greetings to
the Gar and that in falling to the
ground their contents would ex-
plode with the effect of bombs.
Bogdanowitsch and three hundred
Nihilists were arrested
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-05-03

DURING the late war it was fire.
quently declared by Republican
journals that the time would come
when the Northern Democrats would
claim that their party had all favor
ed a vigorous policy for the suppress
sion of the rebellion. For years
past this prediction has been fre-
quently verified, but never so signal
ly as when in the House on Monday
of last week Democratic members
speaking for themselves and their
Constituents, actually claimed to
have done the greater part of the
work in putting down the rebellion.
In this ridiculous assertion they re-
ceived aid and comfort from ex-
Governor Andy Curtin-now a Dem
ocratic member of Congress-who
declared that the Democrats had
been as loyal as the Republicans
during the war, and that all had
been loyal in Pennsylvania; but the
Ex-Governor was suddenly brought
to grief by Brumm, of Schuylkill,
asking him whether he he'd not sent
troops into Schuylkill county in
1863 to put down the Fishing
Creek Rebellion" and Mr.. Miller
reminding him that when Lees
army was invading Pennsylvania,
Democratic convention then in
session in Harrisburg, was declaring
the war a failure and advising a
cessation of hostilities on apy terms.
This is not the first time that Cur
tins defective memory has got him
into hot water, and he suddenly
subsidized while smile of contempt
was on every manly face. Of course
such discussions are Improbable
now. but is well that truth should
be vindicated occasionally.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-05-03

THE question of the admission OF
Dakota as a State has become a
mere party one, the Democrats OPP
posing it for no better reason than
because it would add two more Re.
publican Senators, thus changing the
political complexion of that body,
and add Republican State to the
electoral vote for the next President
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-05-03
The Real Name OF . wretch.

BosroS, April 2S-The fiend Nc
Manus, who was lynchei at Mime
apolis, Minn., for the brutal assault,
on Nina Speer, a four-year-old daugh.
ter Of Jason Speer, turns out to be
one Timothy Crowley, ofSouth Bos.
ton. A special of the Herald, from
Minneapolis, states that the villain
confessed his guilt and tried to ex.
cuse the crime by saying that he
was drunk at the time. At last ac-
counts his body was dangling to y
tses- The child was horribly mutt
lated with knife, Crowley was 2S
vears old.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-05-03
A Gang of fPhalideIphia Thieves Cap.
tured.

LANCASTER, Pa, April 24.-George
Watkins, William Clark and Edward
c. Beck, of Philadelphia, supposed
to be professional burglars, entered
the house OF Joshua Root, at Wit
mer. this county, this morning and
robbed the premises of $500. The
neighbors gave chase, firing upon
the thieves, and, after wounding
Clark in the neck, captured the en-
tire party.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-05-03

GENERAL BAILY, State Treasurer
elect, has announced the following
named persons as his selections for
the various positions in the Treas
ury Department: Cashier, Captain
4. c. Mutt, uniontown, Fayette
county; Approval Clerk, II. c.
Greenwalt, Franklin county Coun-
ty Clerk, John S. Holmes, Pitts
burgh; Appropriation Clerk. John
+. Stott, Chester county; Messenger,
George a. Cornelius. Philadelphia ;
Watchman, f. II. Stackpole, Mifflin
county; Fireman, George A. Smith,
Lancaster.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-05-03
GLEANINGS.

EVERY man who has personal
grievance in politics endeavors to
vault into popular favor by striving
to prove that partisanship means
corruption, when, if the truth were
known, it could be shown that such
men became agrieved because they
failed or were thwarted in some
vilely laid partisan plan.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-05-03
A Cylone in Kentucky.

MAYsvILLE, KY, April 2S.-A cy.
clone caused widespread destruction
on Tuckehoe ridge. Several large
tobacco barns were burned down
and their contents scattered. Al
Lawrence, the brick church was un-
rooted and one end blown in, and
the school house is in ruins. A two
story dwelling of Mrs. Hill was
blown to atoms and Andrew Brit
toms house turned upside down and
completely demolished. He and
his five children were more or |, SIS
hurt. Fl. Proctor's dwelling was
partly destroyed also number ol
barns and outbuildings. The storm
was the most violent ever known.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-05-03
Death ofrhe Sage OF Concord In His
10th Year.

CONCORD, Mass. April 26.-Ralpll
Waldo Emerson died at his home in
this place of pneumonia at 9o'clock
this evening. No arrangement has
yet been made for the funeral, but it
is probable that the services will be
held at the Unitarian Church in Con-
cord on Monday, and that remains
will be placed in the Sleepy Hollow
Cemetery, near Emerson's home.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-05-03

The election in Pennsylvania this
fall is for a Governor; Lieutenant
Governor, Secretary of Internal Af-
fairs, Justice Of the Supreme Court,
twenty-five State Senators for four
years, two hundred and one mem
bers of the Assembly for two years,
twenty-seven members of Congress,
and important local officers in every
conntv
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-05-03

DURING the year 1881 there was
landed in this country 720,045 for
eign emigrants. The arrivals SO far
during this year are over fifty per
cent. greater than in 1881, and indi-
cate an Immigration this year
amounting to 1,175,000 people. This
country has truly-become the refuge
of all nations.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-05-03

A DEPUTY Sheriff of Americus,
Ga, seized a mans mule for taxes
the other day. The man, whose
name was Mansion, offered to lead
the mule alongside a fence so that
the official could mount him easi'y v.
After this feat was accomplished,
Mansion tickled the mule with a
straw. and the result was ninia-
ture earthquake. The mule threw
the Sheriff and Kicked him seven
teen times before he toyched the
ground. The moral of this tale i
obvious.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-05-03
An Indian Hanged by a Mob.

SAN FRANCISCO, April. pa dis
patch from Golusa, this State, says
"On the pight of April "a an Indian
was hanged by a mob of Stony
Creek, thirty miles west of here
He had threatened the life OF one
J. NJ. Pugh, a prominent farmer
and as he had been engaged in one
murder and was a desperate charac
ter, he was taken out and hanged
He had been arrested and was in
charge of a Constable at the time"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-05-03
Supposed 10 Have Fallen from a Train

HARRIsBuRG, April "A man,
evidently a cattle drover, who had
papers on his person bearing the
name of c. L. Walmsley, was found
this morning lying in mangled
condition near the tracks of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, above the
Juniata bridge. He was unable to
give any account of himself. and
died few hours later. He had con-
siderable money about his person.
as well as a railroad ticket from St.
Louis to Baltimore. 1t is supposed
that he must have fallen from the
fast line train during the night.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-05-03

CIScINsArI. April 27.-During a
quarrel at FaiFview Ly.. on Saturday
last, William and Bradford Courts,
brothers, shot and killed James
Smith. The Courts brothers we're
taken to Jail at Brookville on Mon
day, and last night, q mob took the
prisoners from the Jail and hanged
them to a tree in the neighborhood.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-05-03
Attempt to Assasssnate vanderbiIt
and Field.

NEw York, April 29.-An at
tempt was made to-day by some
persons on the lives of William H.
Vanderbilt and Cyrus W. Field by
sending them explosives through
the msils. Fortunately the danger
Gus characsey Of the packages was
discovered en- route tc the postoffice
station. whence they were 10 be de-
livered at the residences of these
gentlemen, and SO a probable loss Of
life was prevented.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-05-03

Col. Dick, of Crawford county,
who is much talked of candidate
for Congressman-at-Large before the
coming State Convention, failed to
secure the delegates from his own
county last week-which is bad for
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-05-03

EVERY member of the present
Legislature of Alabama is a Demo
crat. This shows a most singular
unanimity of political sentiment, OF
that Democratic election officers are
very skillful counters of ballots.