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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-02-14

CiScISSATr, February 11.-Prom-
inent business men here, who are
not sensational, say Tonight that
the damage from the overflow of the
Ohio in Cincinnati, Newport aud
Covfngton, will amount to millions
of dollars. Tie stage ai Z O'Clock to-
night was sixty-one feet eight inches
hlph aud rising nearly two inches
hourly. Thousands OF people crowd
all the bridges watching the floods.
A rise Of three feet more is expected.
All the transportation wagons III the
city are employed in removing goods
from danger. The water through
which they pass in going to the sus-
pension bridge is over their axies.
Passengers between Covington and
Cincinnati are compelled Ia cross
the water at the Cincinnati approach
To the suspension bridge In boats or
vehicles. At the present rate of the
rise the passage to the bridge in We
hicles will soon be impossible. The
steam ferry and street railroad con-
nection between here and the Ken
lucky side, is cut off entirely. The
Cincinnati approach To the Newport
bridge was free at 8 o'clock, but in
danger. La Newport the military
barracks are flooded, aud nearly two
square miles of the city is under
water. People have been taking
coal and provisions in boats nearly
all day to the inhabitants, delivering
through the second and third story
windows. All houses and factories
on the river front in Covington are
flooded, and water is in the second
stories of them. Nearly ten miles of
the river front at Cincinnati is under
water. The food extends on Vine
to second and on Pearl streets. Gel.
lars are filling along the landing.
The flood is up to the second and
third stories of many buildings. The
roof OF a big wharf boat viewed from
the suspension bridge looks nearly as
high as the roofs of five story houses.
Ca the public landing all railway
freight business and nearly all ex-
press business west and north has
been stopped. The Ohio and Mis-
sissippi transfer passengers by ON
nibus. four miles down the river and
thence by steamer, making connec-
tion with Aurora. The Cincinnati,
Indianapolis. ST. Louis and Chicago,
uses the Cincinnati, Hamilton and
DAYTON lines to reach its own line in
Indiana. The Cincinnati, Washing
ton and Baltimore go out from the
Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton
depot. If the present rate OF rise
continues all these lines will have to
transfer at Cummonsville tomorrow
morning. The little Miami division
of the Pittsburg, Cincinnatie and ST.
Louis aud all roads south of the
Ohio river remain intact and are
likely to continue so Ate O'Clock
the gas work were submerged and
there is only enough gas to last
through the night. fhe water sup
ply is also IN danger, only one en-
CINE at the pumping station being
able II work. The rise will probably
continue "a hours.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-02-14
Coke Ovens Banked.

UNIoNrowS, February 9.-The
employees of the Chicago and Con-
n~elsville Coke Company were sur
prised to-day to discover placards
notify ing them Of production in wages.
They nave quit work. The company
claim that they are paving higher
wages than the average rates and
they are determined TO equalize.
They operate two hundred aud
eighty-four ovens and ship most of
their product to the Joliet Steel
works, which have been idle for soine
weeks. The officers of the coke COM
pahy say they can operate only a
IA lew e at most, even If the men
accept the reduction. 1t is under
stood there will he a general reduc-
ton on February 10Th at nearly all
the coke works south of Connells-
Vile. One other company nave al
ready notified their men and the hal
ance will soon follow suit. The re
duction will he twelve and a half
per cent. ON common l~alrOrers, who
make from sl.25 to S1.60 per day /;
twelve and a hall per cent. on coke
drawers, who make from 81 80 la
sl.75 per day, aud fifteen per cent.
on miners, VINO make from $3.50 tn
80 per day. The reduction will at
feet about twenty-five hundred coke
ovens and as many men. In other
parts of the coke regions quite u
number ofovens have been banked,
while all that are running are max
ing seventy-two instead Of f~orty-eight
hour coke.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-02-14

SAN FRANCISCO, February "a
despatch from Seattle, W. l., SAYS /:
rhe steamer Gem left this port.tilis
morning loaded with hay and other
freight Tor Port Gamble, Seabec aud
and Union City. -Four of her pas
sengers called at Fort Madison, aud
In the afternoon she started for Port
Gamble. When five Or six miles
out, smoke was observed TO be issu-
ing from the hay, aud the boat vfas
a. oace headed for the shore. After
flashing the wheel, a lie boat was
got into the water. but in three mip-
a,ss went adrift. Ali but the ex.
lre..ae forward part of the boat was
NOW a asass OF flames, and the Chi
nese cook saa Two deck hands show
ed the remaining boat lato the wa
ter aud jumped Tor 1t, bat they fell
into the waller and were Drowned. 4
passenger named F. G. Viorry. q
tearcher at the Skohornish Indian
Reservation, called 10 bis wife to
follow him and he would save her.
plunged into the sound and was
drowned, His wife followed him.
but sank III a moment and gas not
seen aiterward.
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Dishonesty from Dissipation.

BRADFORD, February l1.-Fort the
past seven months the till of the
railroad depot, at Duke Centre, has
been systematically robbed of small
sums, but the fact was not made
known to the officials until very re-
Gently. Z. Z. Persons, the station
agent, made up the deficiency from
tune to time out of his own pocket,
and bent his energies to fastening
the guilt upon the thief SD indispu-
tably that when the dsnOuemsat
came, the company would have no
reason to impugn The management
of the station business. Having ar
rived at a satisfactory conclusion,
he elected the services of Detective
Wilmoth, who worked up the case,
and yesterday arrested two railroad
telegraph operators on "A charge OF
larceny. These were p. b. Cramer,
of the Duke Centre Depot. and 4.
G. barton, in theenploy Of the Short
Line M KinZua.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-02-14
Two Prisoners trscape

PITTsBERGH, February ~ When
one OF the keepers at the County
Workhonse made his round about
eleven O'Clock Yesterday he discov.
cred that the cell hut recentlv occu-
pied by James Dugan and james
Ray was empty. An alarm was Civ
en-, hut a thorough search of the
premises failed TO reveal the absent
men, aGd the officers were forced to
the cnnelu-ian dat the men had Sic
ceeded III scaling the walls and thus
escaped. Yesterday being sanaav
the prisoners were in their cells ALI
day, and the usual guard on the
waits was relieved for the dav. which
accounts for the late discovery of the
escape of the prisoners. Dngan was
committed on November I4th. under
a sentence of three wears. having
been convicted in this county on q
charge of larceny from the person.
Raw WIS serving a sentence Of two
wears. having been convicted on
October 8. 1881. st the Court Of
Quarter SESSIONS of this county. on
a charge of larceny. No arrest have
vet been made
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PITTSBURGH, Pa, Feb. l2.-Very
unpleasant scenes occurred yester-
day at the funeral of Madison b.
Ward. Mr. Ward had married ii
woman who was Objectionable To his
family. and a week before his death
lac w.is removed from her care to his
fathers residence. Ii is not known
that LIS wife WAS positively forbid
den 10 attend the funeral, but it
seems she was expected % remain
away. She refused To do SO. and
yesterday afternoon. shortly before
the time for the funeral cortege 10
strart, drove up To the house where
her husbands body lay and de-
manded Ambulance. After the
door closed on her a stormy scene
is said to have taken place. But
the wife was persistent, and not
only remained in the room with her
husbands body, but was the first to
follow it out, aud ordered the driver
of her Carriage 10 follow immediate
IL behind the hearse. This caused
another scene, and the undertaken
in charge finally notified the driver
that he would be arrested if he did
not fall back TO NTH place. 1t was
found necessary to summon an otf
Ger and empower him to arrest the
driver of the widows carriage ii he
should disregard the request to take
iftn place, before the order was
nhnNrd
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Fights With Apaches,

TUcs0S, February 10-Rellable
information has been received o ftwo
fights with Apaches on the south
side of the Papigoehie river, in the
foot bills of the Sierra Madre Moun-
tains, in chihuahua. The fights
We're between Apaches and citizen
soldiers of the town of Temosachi
aud surrounding district. Last fall
Governor Luis Terrazas authorized
the people of that section to organize
a company of citizen soldiers to pur-
sue, fight. capture, kill and scalp
marauding Apaches. On January
26 the company surprised camp of
Apaches. A fight, short and quick
ensued, in which twelve Indian
scalps were taken. Thirty-three In
dams, including men. women and
children, wer made prisoners, and
fifty horses, with saddles and brides,
and thirty eight pack horses, loaded
with provisions and equipments,
were captured. 1t appeared to the
citizen soldiers, from the large guam
tity of provisions, arms and amnu-
milton captured, that a large band of
Warrior belonging to the captured
party was temporarily absent, and
consequently a hurried march was
begun to reach Temosachi in safety
with the prisoners and supplies.
The citizens were overtaken by "A su
perior number of Apache warriors.
who attacked the company savagely.
The citizens fought desperately. and
finally succeeded in holding all the
prisoners, but lost six of their own
men and had a few wounded. The
citizens took four scalps. and the
Indians recovered ten of the thirty
eight loaded horses. The company
reached Tenosachi, 3I5 miles west.
on the right bank of the Papigochie
river. with sixteen scalps. twenty
eight old and young prisoners, the
wal horses aud twenty eight animals
loaded with provisions and arms.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-02-14
la a Storm

RAwLINs. F-bru Try s The coach
when left Pacific Springs on the
Sweetvater Stage Liue last week was
caught In a storm ol Friday. The
coach was abandoned and the party
started back on fnot To the station.
The driver, \ J Stewart, was found
frozen To death standing in the
snow, and I omas Scott, Superin-
tendent. was found standing straight
up in the snow frozen 50 that ne
could mol move. He will lose his
hands ard iert. ". Y. Stark. a pas
senger, has not Yet been found. They
were out three days and nights.
Another stage driver WAS badly fro
zen. He reports two feet of snow on
a level and the cattle starving. This
stage line runs from Green River on
the Union Pacific Railway To Fort
Washakie, Wyoming. through the
South Ptss of the Rocky Mount.
aims.
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A Block Burned.

NASHVILLE, February AT an
early hour this morning a tire origi-
mated in a stable on Front street,
spread to the adjoining buildings
until nearly the entire block bound
ed by Front, Broad, Market and
Wharf streets was in ruins. The
buildings DESTROYED were occupied
by Diehl & Lord, ale bottlers, the
capital warehouse, Dudley Brothers
IL Upscomb; S. Lowenstein, hide
and produce dealers (; Lowenstein Il
Hirst, Aliens livery stable, W.
Weitzei's machine shop, b G. Woods
foundry and Rryon Bros, grocers.
A falling wal! seriously injured two
tiremen. Over forty horses were
burned in the livery stable. The
Capital warehouse was full of cotton
and tobacco. all Of which was de-
siroyed. The loss is $4,000.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-02-14

WasHISsTo>. Feb. S.-The Treas
urv reguialinns governing the di-.ri
button OF standard silver dollars and
the law authorizing the issue of 81 :
yer certificates ar., being used by
New York And Boston banks % OBJ
tain the transfer vf large amounts Of
money from our city to another
WITHOUT expefss. 10 themselves, but
WITH considerable cost to thu Govern
ment for transportation charges.
The Of doing this is to de-
post currency in the sub Treasury
in one CITY and obtain an order FOL
standard silver dollars to be sent to
the correspondent III the other city
from the Mint. aud tie correspond
ert. immediately upon receipt Ut the
cola. presents it Ia the sub rrelsur,
in his city and asks for silver e'r
tiicates. Severad million dollars
have been transferred in this way
recently, costing the Government
several thousand dollars. without
l%essening the number of silver dol
lars in the Treasury. but with the
effect of completely Cutting the
vaults oftae New York sub Treasury
with them.
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Disappearance of n Revenue stamp
Plate.

WASHINGTON, Feb. S.-A commit
tee consisting of Mr.. C. +. Coon, of
the Loan Division OF the Treasury /;
Charles Neal, of the Registers Office,
and MIR. Lamasure, IF the Bureau
of Engraving and Printing, ha sheen
appointed by the Secretary of the
Treasury 30 Investigate the circum
stances attending the loss of a nu-
neral stamp figure one), used in
printing tints ON internal revenue
stamps, which has been missing from
the Bureau Of Engraving and Print.
ing since January 81 last. The com
mittee is to determine where the re
spnnslbilItv rests. aud whether the
loss l. OF sufficient importaneet TO dis
cotinue the Use uf the set of Numerals
t. which the lost stamp belongs. 1t
Is exptc ed that the committee will
report III IA lew days.
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The President in Peril.

WASHINGTON, February 6.-Miss
Mary Walker Brewster, daughter of
the Attorney General. was married
to night at the Epiphany Episcopal
Church, in this city, to Mr.. Robert
J. Doons, of Philadelphia. The
Presidents carriage, while he anu his
daughter were on their way 10 the
church, was run into by a carriage
in the rear, and the pole of the latter
broke through a panel, bnt did not
strike either of the occupants. On
his return from the church, however,
the wheels of President Arihur's ear
riage became locked with those of
several others, and finding that his
already damaged vehicle could not
be extricated without long delay, the
President abandoned it and walked
home with his daughter through the
rain. The occurrence created some
excitement, and gave rise to a num-
Der of alarming rumors as tn the
Presidents safety. The President
gave a reception to night to the dip
lomatic corps and officers of the
army and navy.
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M

READING, Feb. 12-Nine men and
women, while returning To their
homes In the country from this city
in an old stage, made a narrow es-
cape from drowning. When about
eight miles FROM this city they at
tempted TO cross a swollen stream of
water by fording. When in the
middle of the creek the current was
so strong that it upset the stage,
which fell over ON the side occupied
By the ladies, who were completely
submerged. After the women. who
were nearly drowned, were resus-
citated with the greatest difficulty,
they We're taken to the nearest farm
house. The accident occurred about
3 O'Clock, but some did moi reach
nome until 2 a. m. Some of the oc-
cupants were carried several miles
down stream before being rescued.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-02-14

The Democrats in the Legislature
are positively ashamed of McNama-
ra's outrageous proposal to jerry
mander theState, called by courtesy
an apportionment bill. They quickly
decided to bury it, but to soothe the
feelings of its able progenitor, it is
announced that it will be made the
basis Of a more carefully prepared
bib. When that bill is r~esurrected,
We venture the prediction that the
member from Bedford will not be
able to recognize his own bantling
unless it bears some peculiar birth
mark.
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ST. Louis, Feb. Sin a tenement
house this morning it Was found
that Henry Drees, "a German team
ster, bad cut his wifeis throat with
a razor and then his own The two
corpses we're discovered in the mid
die of the rooms which the family
occupied. The body Of the wife lay
on the bed, the covering of which
was soaked with blood. The man
lay ON the floor. Five little chill
dren slept in the room, one in bed
with the couple. The cause of the
tragedy is supposed to be jealousy.
Drees aud fsmily lived in the
ear of 1900 Mullaupy street He
was Il handwriting man and had
accumulated $500 saviags. He
ill-treated his wife continually aud
on one occasion she lett him. Mrs.
Drees was Il good woman and gave
her husband no cause for ins tne
jealousy. Last night the c. ul'ie re-
tired about ten O'Clock with two girls
in one bed, two boys in another and
a baby Of two wears III the same bed
with themselves. Lewis, ii years
old, was the only witness of the tr.sg-
edy.
A noise aroused him and he saw
his father cutting his mother with a
razor. Then he saw his father spring
III The air and fall down near the
stove. He then got up aud took the
baby Nina, lying III the bed with
the mothers corpse, her night clothes
soaked with her mothers blood. into
his bed. He changed the baby's
clothes and both went to sleep. This
morning when the children awoke
The floor aud bed were covered with
blood. Lewis tried to find the key
his father locked the door with last
night, but could not. and it was not
until nearly nine O'Clock, when Otto
Farnhorst, a boy of ten, came up
and called Lewis to goto school with
him, that the condition Of affairs was
discovered. Otto's mother. who liv-
ed in the lower part of the house,
then opened the door and a most
CHASTITY and bloody e was reveal
ed. Drees cut his wife's throat while
she was asleep, and there was no
struggle. The heads of both corpses
were nearly severed.
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Five Men

CHIHCAHUA, Mexico, February 8
On Sunday afternoon about 2UU
absolute characters, who had often
gwen trouble, attacked the store be
longing to Penos Altos Mining Com
pany. The employees resisted, and
Manuel Anshon, a clerk, was killed.
buchan Hepburn, the principal
member of tie company, went to
the store to quiet the tumult, adj
dressing the attacking party in con-
ciilatory language; but finding his
moderation met with only insults he
hurried back 10 his house. Just as
he entered the door he was shot
dead. -Four hours later a fsht en-
SUED between the employees and
rutiidns, four men being killed.
Aid being summoned from adj
joining towns, the authorities and
citizens turned out en masse aud
captured i've of the ruffians, among
them, Hepburu's murderer. They
We're tried and executed on Monday.
Hepburn was wealthy and mad liz
vested much money In Chihuahua.
Order Is now restored and the iaI
thorlties are pursuing the criminals
Ia the mountains.
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PrrsBURG, February S.-Ail the
lower parts of Pittsburg aud Allie
enemy are flooded and nearly all the
manufacturing establishments on
the river banks were compelled Ia
suspend operations. The IRE WAS
principally out of the Monongahela
river aud Notwithstanding the rapid
ity with which the waters advanced
but little damage wac done. This
was owing To the fact that the Hood
in the Allegheny OF Monday had
swept away all insecure property
and that valuable goods stored in
cellars had been removed at that
time and not put back. The rail
ways suffered 10 some extent, but
not 50 much az Vas expected, aud
local and through trains are running
AZ usual. The water Is now recediDg
and no further trouble is apprehend-
ed.
CATAwIssA, February S.-The ice
gorge which formed in the North
Branch at Wilkesbarre yesterday
remains firm. The water is 10 feet
high and rising. The flats between
that city and Kingston are covered
with Is feet of water aud ali low
lands are submerged. The residents
along the river front are prepared f.
act at u moments warning. All pas
senger trains on the new Pennsyl'
vauia railroad, which extends from
here to WJkesbarre, are abandoned
and 30 tick It's have been sod since
yesterday, the road bed being COW
cred with water aud gorged with ice
several feet deep Ia a number OF
places. The river here is but five
feet high. The weather is below
freezing, and this will no boubt pre-
vent gorges breaking.
New YORK, February S.-A spec.
ial from Pomeroy, Ohio, SAYS: Our
city is completely under water, and
the entire people have been com
PEELED To seek safety on the hill tops.
The waters of the Ohio have reached
a point higher than has been known
before, and are still rising. The peo.
pile are filled with apprehension. and
the most serious results are anticipa.
ted. The weather Is cold, and there
Is much suffering, especially among
the poorer Glasses. So suddenly did
the waters come upon the town thai
business men had no time to move
goods to IA place OF safety. twenty
eight salt works are under water
entailing a loss of 100000 barrels %
salt The rolling mills are closed
and all other business is entirely sus
pended. Similar reports come frou
all along the river. The JoUraal anC
other newspaper buildings have beer
washed out. NJ mails have beef
received,
PITrsBURG, February Sat ter
O'Clock to night the river is steadil,
receding, with twenty four feet q
water III the Monongahela and til,
same in the Allegheny. The bottom
lands are still submerged, hut at tn,
rate the water are falling the river,
will be within their banks by morn
ing. The damage by the inundatior
in this vicinity will reach s100.0OO
while "A like amount will be required
to cover the loss up the Mononga
/ hala
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Amending the whiskey Revenue Law.

WAsHINGroN, Feb. S-The Speak
er laid before the House To day a
communication from Mr.. IL. A..
French, Acting Secretary of the
Treasury. urging the necessity OF
such an amendment of the pending
Internal Revenue bill as will provide
that Section 1893 of the Revised
Statutes he amended by adding the
following; And any package of.
distilled spirits shall be forfeited to
the United States if such spirits shall
be found 10 differ in proof from the
proof indicated by the marks and
stamps thereon, unless such differ
ences shall be occasioned by lapse of
time, the conditions under which
the spirits have been stored or kept.
or by other natural causes" The
letter urges the necessity Of action
in the matter by the present Con-
gress. 1t was duly referred.
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TIE bill introduced into our State
Legislature looking to the creation
OF an intermediate court Of appeals,
Is, in our jujgmeni, a step in the
right direction, and if satisfactory
10 it's details, should become a law.
There is no doubt that the increas
ing volume of business is common
surately increasing litigation, and
that the Supreme Court of the State
is over-burdened with cases, and
Justice, because of delay, is measur.
ably denied the people. An inter
mediate court of appeals, with fixed
and limited jurisdiction, would
greatly relieve the court of last re.
sort, and It's decisions. which become
the fixed law Of the State, would be
reached with greater deliberatior
than is possible with its crowded
locket.
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Numbering an Inoffensive Farmer.


WHITE HAVEN, February IL
john Wallace, All old man aged
sixty four years, was brutality muir
dtred this afternoon at his farm
near this place, by six tranps
Fine traInps were walking along
the road leading from White Ha-
ven. and passing Wallace's farm,
several OF them spoke To him. They
then Jumped the fence, and went to
his barn. The old man followed,
hut the Irinlps rushed upon him
and chioked him To death. They
then fed.
Waslace's wife canning out to the
barn, WAS Mortified on finding the
~llfrlers body OF her husband. Two
of the tramps have been captured,
but the Others succecqled III making
their escape. Wallace was a we'll
known farmer, aud was esteemed BY
the entire community as a quiet
aud peaceabIe c~iiiz-I.. A large re-
ward is offered for the capture of
tie remainder of the gang.