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Severe Floods.

GALVESTON. September IA
special to the Nelos from Laredo
saws: "The rains for the last day or
two have caused an unprecedented
rise in the Rio Grande. ct noon to-
day the rise was eighteen feet. 1t
has since fallen one foot. Heavy
rains have been falling to-day, and
it is expected that a greTter height
will be reached. Sheep owners are
apprehending a great loss among
their fiocks by drowning"
Numerous wash-outs are reported
on the International and Texas
Railroad. The bridge over a creek
near here, on the Rio Grande and
Pecos Railroad, is gone, and the
road bed is badly damaged. Last
night, Just after the Montery train
on the Mexican National Railroad
had crossed the bridge over the Rio
Grande, large portion of the struct-
ure WIS washed away. Several
houses on the Mexican side of the
river are inundated. A large derrick
on tower erected in the river by
the ferry company, and which with
stood last years rise, has been car
ried off. Trains are all delayed. The
damage on the Texas and Mexican
road for one hundred miles east is
very heavy.
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Attempted Train Robbery.

ROCKFORD, ILL.,, Sept. Ga bold
attempt ives made at an early hour
this morning to wreck the passenger
train on the Chicago and North west
ern Road due in this city at 2.15
o'clock. Conductor Redfern states
that as the train was nearing Turner
Junction the locomotive ran into
three ties placed across the track,
the cow-catchers knocking off two
ofthe sleepers and breaking the third
into pieces. The collision caused
quite sensation among the large
number of passengers on board, and
had the obstruction been placed on
the rails securely the train would
have been wrecked and hundreds of
lives lost. The work was evidently
done by tramns, who had planned
to wreck the train and rob the pas
sengers during the confusion which
would undoubtedly have ensued.
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The HAGUE, September 7.-Tele-
graphic communication with Su-
matra being disturbed, no news has
yet been received from the Lampong
expedition, which left Batavia last
Monday. The expedition is not ex-
peeted to return to Batavia for four
DAYS.
The following dispatch has been
received at the Navy Department,
Washington, from Commander
Barker: "The United States steam
er Enterprise is at Batavia, where
she was directed to go for the pur-
poe ofinvesting theresult of the re-
cent volcanic eruption in that vicin-
ity The Enterprise arrived on the
4th inst. The Princess and Great
Channels are safe. In the Avex
Bezee Channel all the lights are out
except the Java head. Dutch cruis-
ers warn vessels"
The official report on the recent
disaster is not yet published. The
number of natives killed at Bantam
Batavia and Lampong is estimated
at 10000. The number of Euro
peans lost is unknown. The garri-
son and the Dutch President at
Felokbetong were saved. Terrible
distress prevails at Felokbetongue,
as it is unapproachable by the sea,
owing to the bay being filled with
banks of pumice stone. The tele-
graph line from Batavia to Felok-
betong was destroyed.
A telegram from Batavia says
famine is completing the havoc there.
1t IS now certainly known the steam
er Batavia passed through the Sunda
Straits, showing they are avigable.
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A killing Frost.

MILWAUKEE, September 9.-Dis-
patches from the western and por-
tions of the Northern part of the
State report great damage to the
sorghum and other crops by frost,
which visited those sections on
Friday night. The proximity of the
lake, a cloudy sky and high winds
prevented damage along the shore IN
this vicinity. Throughout Eau
Clair county the corn crop suffered
severely, and reports from Menomo-
nee and Kenosha indicate great
damage to the corn and all other
perishable crops. Light frosts occur
red also in Southern Wisconsin.
MINNEAPOLIS, September 9.-Re-
ports have been received from Steele
county to the effect that frost last
night destroyed the entire corn crop
of that county. Ice formed through
out .he county to the thickness of a
dinner plate on tubs and barrels.
Such heavy frost so early in the
year was never before known in this
section.
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HUNTERS POINT, n. Y, Septem-
Der about 2 o'clock this NOR
ming a fire was discovered in an
outbuilding of Long Beach Hotel.
The building was used as a laundry
aud contained sleeping apartments
for the Berlin Band all but one OF
whom escaped with their lives.
Several were almost suffo-
Gated, and had to be carried out to
prevent the blocking up of the stair
way. One musician, Adolph Fried
rich, who got out and then went
back to save his effects was burned
to crisp. The musical instruments
and music were totally consumed,
also the bathing pavilion and laundry
The origin OF the fire is unknown.
The hotel was crowded, and the
guests rushed madly from their
rooms some having no time to stop
and get any other coverings than
their night clothes. Although there
were many invalids in the hotel
none of them were lost, but the res
cue of several was accomplished
with great difficulty.
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Shooting a Prisoner in CHAINS.

RALEIGH, N. c., September L
On Sunday morning last three pris-
oners escaped from the Mcdowell
County Jail, and on leaving the
building rudely pushed Mrs. Finely,
the jailer's wife aside, injuring her
slightly. The fugitives were captur-
ed the same morning and returned
to the Jail. About 10 o'clock repeat
ed pistol shots at the Jail attracted
the attention of number of citizens
who were surprised and indignant
to find the jailer, enraged by the
treatment of his wife and inhamed
by whisky, shooting one ofthe lately
escaped prisoners, negro, as ne
stood in cage chained and hand
cuffed. Four painful wounds were
inflicted none of which are danger
Gus. No one justifies or excuses the
inhuman conduct of tie jailer.
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Are Already Beaten.

WASHINGTON, September Gov
ernor Foster, of Ohio, reached Wash
ington this evening He looks as
happy as though the election of next
mouth We're won and ne is bubbling
over with confidence that it will be
carried by the Republicans. Said he
to a group of friends who gathered
around him at the Riggs House this
evening:
"You know law that makes some
other man pay part of the taxes is
popular. The Scott law we have put
in operation put two millions in the
treasury. Not a Democratic candi-
date for the Legislature dare say he
is against it now, although they all
started to run on platform whose
chief plank was opposition to 1t.
We shall carry Cuyahoga county,
where the Democrats are badly split,
and, indeed. would carry it any way.
We lost it at the last election by the
stay-at-homes in the country, so that
the city vote was not Offset by the
usual Western Reserve majorities.
We have now fair chance to carry
Cincinnati. There are fatal breaches
in the Democratic ranks, and the
operations of the Scott law did away
with the Liquor Dealers Association
as a political machine. We shall
elect Foraker beyond question, by a
handsome majority, and we are still
more certain, if anything, of getting
the Legislature. We shall, however,
carry the whole thing. Our party
is in splendid shape within itself,
while the success of the Democrats
a year ago demoralized them. The
prohibition amendments will poll a
large vote, not less than three hun
dred thousand, | think. This is the
question in our State that must be
met and settled one way or the other.
The Democrats have been put in a
ridiculous light by an effort to catch
the farmers by advocating higher
wool tariff. 1t was too transparent,
when it was shown that if the Dem
ocrats had had their own way we
should have had no protection on
wool at all. We have them on the
protection question, because the his
tory OF their whole life is against the
position they are trying now to as
sume.'
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A Wanton Murder in Cleveland.

CLEVELAND Ohio, Sept. flames
Donohue. aged twenty-five, this NOR
ming deliberately and without ap-
parent provocation shot and killed
his step-father, Michael O'Connell
aged fifty-fve. A short time before
the tragedy Donohue went to his
trunk and took from it a revolver.
His mother urged him to put the
weapon back but he threatened to
shoot her if she interfered. Then
he sat on a loung in the sitting-room
revolver in hand. Presently bis
step-father, a large man, came into
the house, saw Donohue, and. walk
ing toward him, said James give
me the pistol" Douohue immedi-
ately rose to his feet and fired bali
through O'Connell's heart. He then
lay down on the lounge, seemingly
unconcerned. O'Connell walked
few steps and fell dead. Mrs. O'Con-
nell ran screaming out doors. A po-
liceman soon arrived, but Donohue
stoutly resisted and had to be severe
ly dubbed before he could be arrest
ed
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Oat ora Car window.

ALLENTOWN, Sept. 5.-On the train
from Reading due here at noon to-
day, there was an officer having in
charge a deserter from the U. S,
Army. He had given the officer no
trouble and had shown no DISPOSE
ton to escape, and as a consequence
he was not handcuffed. The officer
and his prisoner sat in the smoking
car, which was full of passengers.
The train had just passed Macungie,
a station miles east of this city, and
was running at speed of about 30
miles an hour, when the prisoner
suddenly leaped out of the car win
dow. The officer and other passen-
gers expected to see him killed, but
to their surprise he picked himself
up, after turning several somersaults
and dashed off as fast as his legs
could carry him toward cornfield.
With a posse of men the officer made
a search, but after several hours the
job was abandoned, aud he is still at
large.
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Gabrielle Greeley Purchases Chap
paqua,

CHAPPAQUA, n. Y, September s.
The farm of the late Horace Gree
ley was sold at noon to-day by |.
II. Haight, Trustee, in pursuance of
a decree of the Supreme Court dated
June 4, 1888. Horace Greeley by
his will directed the sale and the di-
vision of the proceeds among his
children. Mrs. Smith, his daughter,
the executor in the will, did not fol-
low out the instructions, and after
her death Gabrielle NJ. Greeley, the
surviving daughter, brought an action
against Colonel Smith and his chill
dren to have the estate sold, as di-
rected by the will. At noon the
trustee put the property up for sale.
Only one bid was made, and Gabri-
ellie NJ. Greeley bought the estate for
$4,000. The property, with the
buildings, drainage and cultivation,
cost Horace Greeley over $4,000. 1t
comprises IS acres. A few of the
neighbor5 were present prepared to
purchase, but would not bid against
Miss Greeley. No New York parties
were present.
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Return of the President.

WASHINGTON, Sept. THE Presi-
dent arrived this morning, at 1910
o'clock, on the Washington Express,
over the Baltimore & Potomac Road,
which brought down Western and
Northern passengers. The run from
Baltimore, forty miles, was made in
forty minutes. The train consisted
of five heavily-laden cars, beside that
placed at the disposal of the Presi-
dent. At the depot Assistant-Sec-
retary-of-State Davis and some at
taches of the House met the Presi-
dent, and taking carriages, the party
were driven to the White House.
The President, as he walked through
the depot, appeared to be in excel
lent health and greatly improved by
his journey to the far West.
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Burned TO Death.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Sept. 6.-The
house of John Everts, at Riverton,
seven miles east of here, was burned
to-day. Mrs. Phoebe Haylard,
mother of Mrs. Everts, sixty-eight
years old and two children of Mrs.
Everts, boy aged four and babe,
were burned to death. Mrs. Everts
who was in the yard when the fire
was discovered rushed up stairs to
rescue her mother and children.
She was badly burned and forced to
leave them to their fate. The old
lady was very fieshy and would not
trust herself to the stairs which were
in flames, nor would she give up the
babe which she was holding TO its
mother.
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roR STATE TREAsURER:

WILLIAM LIvsEY, Allegheny Co.
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Fall of q Grand Stand.

HAvRE De GRACE, Md, Septem-
Der 6.-During an entertainment
given yesterday by John Rodgers
Post, Grand Army of the Republic,
the grand stand. on which there
were about one thousand women and
children, fell with a fearful crash.
Many were badly hurt, and several
had to be at once removed to their
homes for surgical treatment. So far
no fatal result has followed. As soon
as tine stand fell the whole crowd of
people rushed toward it, and as soon
as order was restored the wounded
were taken out and cared for. Vis-
iting Posts from Wilmington, Del,
Lancaster, Middletown, Oxford, and
Harrisburg, Pa, Baltimore, and 9TH
er places in that State, were present.
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New CUMBERLAND, September 10.
Reports from the country districts
this morning 60 to show that the
heavy frosts of last night and the
night before will prove very dam
aging to late corn. Ice was found
both nights to the thickness of win
dow glass. To what amount the
damage will approximate cannot be
determined at this time. Fruit is out
of danger, unless itshould be peach
es, and they are mostly ripe. The
gardens suffered very much, and the
tomatoes look like they had been
cooked.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-09-12

The record shows that since an
early period of the extra session, the
Republicans have urged an adjourn
ment But to every proposition of
tins kind the Governors spokesmen
Gordon, in the Senate. and Am
merman, in the House-have come
forward with the declaration that
the Governor will keep the House in
session until the crack Of doom. if
apportionment bills are not passed.
Young Mr.. Pattison may think he
is displaying the Roman firmness of
'Cld Hickory" but to the people,
he makes mighty poor show, rat
Ting around in Jackson's old shoes.
The truth is, like the fellow who
caught the tiger by the tail, the
Democrats are awful anxious to have
somebody help them let 60.
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Damage by n Locomotive.

WAMPUM, Pa, Sept. 4.-About s
O'Clock this morning an engine stand
ing on the Ashtabula and Pittsburg
Railroad at Struthers, Ohio, started
while the engineer and fireman
were in the telegraph office 1t ran
wild for about four miles, at the
speed of mile a minute. At the
Hazleton bridge it ran into engine
No. 77, to which was attached a
heavily-loaded freight train which
stopped it in its mad career. Both
engines were badly damaged, and
cars were piled up in a bad wreck.
The engineer and the fireman of
No. II jumped when they saw the
runaway locomotive dashing toward
them. The engineer hurt his arm
severely, but the fireman escaped
unhurt. The track was badly torn
up, and travel was suspended for
several hours until the debris was
removed.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-09-12
Cowboys in Chicago

CHICAGO. Sept. Z. A number oi
genuine cowboys, with the customary
accompaniments, broad brimmed
hats and buckskin garments, with
revolvers and other war-like para
phernalia prominently displayed
appeared on the streets to-day.
The Chief of Police seemed to think
they might conclude ''to take the
town" and ordered them brought in.
They came without trouble, and ex-
planned they had just arrived with a
lot of cattle. Pending the continu-
ence of their visits the police took
charge of their artillery.
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A spigot-Saying, Bung- Hole Lssipg
Governor.

W ellspsrO Agltator.
Some time ago Governor Pattison
vetoed a small appropriation to build
a decent board walk around the Cap
itol at Harrisburg, and no doubt
some people thought this signal
evidence Of his determination to see
that no public money was needless
ly expended. But now this same
Governor is encouraging the indefi-
mite continuance of a needless spec
ial session of the Legislature at an
expense of $4,000 a day. While
watching the spigot the Governor
seems to care nothing about the
open bung-hole; but it is just possi-
bic the voters may care.
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The New 2-Ceut Letter Stamps.

WASHINGTON. Sept, 6.-Metallic
red is the color of the new 2 cent
that 60 into effect October l. Con-
tractors are now fully stocked and
await requisition from the Postofiice
Department. The distribution will
be made from New York, beginning
Is, and sufficient num-
Der of new stamps will be placed in
the hands of postmasters to supply
the demands caused by the reduction
of letter rate postage October 1.
The department has not a sufficient
number of clerks at present to under
take the redemption of the Scent
stamps outstanding, and it is prob
able the matter will await Congress
sional action.
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The Storm In th e West.

CORPUS CHRISTI. Tex, Sept. o.
The damage by rains and high wa
ter in the surrounding country was
much greater than was supposed.
All the creeks west, which had been
dry the entire summer, suddenly
became raging streams 80 to 40 feet
deep, and spread across the country
sweeping everything before them.
The Texas Mexican Railway Co.
lost II bridges and culverts and sew
eral miles of track At Pera, a
station 100 miles west, the situation
is very bad. The Rio Grapde has
fallen to within a few feet of its for
mer level, but the danger tonight is
not yet over.
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Love Ending in a Fatal Duel.

LEADvILLE, Col Aug. 3l.-Yester.
day, Reddy Williams and Ed. Gun
ningham. living near Red Cliff, Bat
tie Mountain, agreed to settle their
rivalry for the hand of a young lady
by piltols. At signal each drew
anu fired. Williams fell dead at
the first shot, pierced through the
heart, and Cunningham fell shot
through the lungs. He died a few
moments later.
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Free Trade Run Mad.
Allegheny Mail.

Ahesueht MAIL
The Song of the Shirt has been re-
vived il New York, where women
are paid only four cents apiece for
machine made shirts, and from II to
10 cents for those that are made
part by hand work. They are form
ing an organization with the inten-
ton of demanding an increase of ten
per cent. on these rates. These pri-
ces look like Free trade" run mad.
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A Monastery Burned.

BELrIMoRE, Sept. 6.-St. Joseph's
Passionist Monastery, three miles
west of this city, on the Frederic
turnpike, was destroyed by fire at a
late hour last night. The monastery
was three story and mansard struc-
ture, built of granate, but all the
partitions were of wood, so that the
fire could not be controlled. A
church adjoining, in process OF con-
struction, was also considerably
damaged. The fire originated from
IA timers pot, left ON the roof by
workmen. The dammage is from
$4,000 to S25, 900. upon which their
is said to he partial insurance.
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Accident to an Adventurous Lord.

CHICAGO, Sept. Especial despatch
reparts that Lord Headly, who ac-
companied the hatch excursion to
the Yellowstone, wen. into the will
derness in search of game, accom-
panied by two experienced hunters.
A report reached the hotel at Man,
moth Hot Springs yesterday that
Lord Headley had sustained injuries
by slipping a precipice while pursu-
ing game. A party was sent out and
brought his lordship to the hotel last
night. His injuries, though painful
are not serious.
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The Niagara OF the West.

BUTrE, NJ. T., Sept "A syndi-
cate of capitalists Yesterday complet-
ed the purchase of a large tract OF
land Immediately surrounding Great
Falls on the Snake River,
Idaho. The falls are surrounded by
some of the grandest scenery in the
world. The syndicate will build a
mammoth hotel put q steamer or the
river, and endeavor to make it the
Niagara of the West.
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CHAIRMAN COOPER opened the Re-
publican csmpaign among our
neighbors at Bedford on Tuesday
evening of last week, and judging
from the savage way the Gazette goes
Tor his scalp, must have made a tell
ing speech and done effective work
Uncle John Cessna presided at the
meeting and gave the Democrats a
raking fire. He was followed bv
Senators McFarlane, Cooper and
Longenecker. An excursion train
was run from Everett, and the crowd
was large and enthusiastic.
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FAILING to dragoOn the Republican
members of the Legislature into as
senting TO their demands in the mat
ter of the apportionment of the
State, the Democrats have resorted,
indirectly, to bribery. The expert
ment now being tiled is, to make the
pay of the members depend upon the
passage Of an apportionment law
satisfactory to the Executive. The
spokesmen Of the Governor have
openly announced that no appro-
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Railroad Accident.

CHICAGO, September 4.-The Iater
Oeean's Springfield, H.. dispatch
says: Company A of the 9Th Regi-
ment of Infantry, State Militia, while
returning to GRANVILLE from the en-,
campment of the ID Brigade, met
with a dreadful accident on the St.
Louis and Evansville Railroad be-
tween Carmi and GRANVILLE. The
train ran through bunch of cattle
and ran over some ofthem. The car
in which the members of the COM
pany were was overturned, killing
nine and wounding fifteen men. No
further particulars are given"
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FRANK JAMES, the murderer and
robber, who for years terrorized the
people of several Western States, and
for whose arrest, dead or alive. a re.
ward was offered, has just been ac-
quilted by a Missouri Jury. The
gentlemen of the jury" must have
been Democrats, who followed the
injunction of the New York Sun. to
turn the rascals out"
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If 1t wasn't for the waste of $4,000
per day, it wouldn't matter a blue
button to the people of this State.
whether there is an apportionment
made or not. 1t matters to the pol
iticians, to the bosses, to the fellows
that run the Democratic machine
but not to the people. The State is
very well districted as it is, and the
peoples only concern is the robbery
OF the Treasury, and the keeping of
the Democratic rascals out.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-09-12

IT is reported from Washington,
that Assistant Postmaster General.
Hatton, recently sat down in his
chair on which was a box of parlor
matches, and now he takes his meals
off the mantelpiece in solemn ST.
lanoa
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Railroad Merger.

HARRISBURG, Pa, September T.
Articles of merger for the Harrisburg
and Western and South Pennsylva-
MIA Railroads were filed in the Office
of the Secretary of State this NOR
ming. This is the result of the stock
holders meeting held in this city
yesterday, and is move in the in
terest Of the Vanderbilt line
to PittsbuFg.
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Our s3,O0O-a-day Legislature
meets and adjourns from day to
day, without rendering the least val
ue for the money it pockets, and on
Tuesday last, the Democrats in eau
Gus resolved to keep it upuntil they
forced the Republicans into allowing
them to have their own sweet will