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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-03-19

THE old adage that you must go
abroad TO hear news about home, " is
well exemplified by the following
paragraph which we clip from the
Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette of
Saturday last:
The reporter had pleasant chat with ex-
Congressman CofirOth about politics. He
was of the opinion that James G. Blaine was
the strongest Presidential candidate in
Pennsylvania. In Somerset the admirers Of
Arthur are hard al work trying 10 capture
everything in the line of delegates, but the
Blaine people are about setting up two
strong candidates in that district against
them Among the Democrats of Somerset
Randall j. the favorite. As 10 the negro
question. Mr. Cotfroth was not inclined 10
believe it would be any more Of an issue
than it usually is
As COffroth is a restless intriguer,
andis always in the confidence of
those who seek to impair the unity
of the Republican party in this
county, he may know in advance of
some plot to run a double set of del
egates for the purpose of dividing
the Republican ranks, but when he
undertakes to assert that the ad-
mirers of Arthur are attempting TO
capture the delegates, ae either will
fully lies, or maliciously repeats a
story with which he has been cram
med, for the purpose of mischief
We think we know something of
the sentiments of the Republicans of
this county, and we have yet to hear
of the first Arthur man within its
borders. Therefore it is a bold lie to
say the Arthur men are trying to
capture the delegates, and, moreover,
we are well assured that Messrs
Livengood and Cover, the only can
didates for delegates before the peo-
pie, are both Blaine men.
Coffroth, however, appears to have
talked quite as loosely about his own
party when he asserted that Randall
is the favorite here, for the Democrat,
which we take it. speaks by author
ity, has been diligently booming the
"old ticket If he wasn't so noted
a teetotaier, We would think the Gen
eral had been looking on the wine
when it was red, if he made such ri
diculous statements to the reporter.
At ali events, there is not q word of
truth, so far as we know, in this
news about home, by the way of
Pittsburgh.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-03-19

THAT Bob" Lincoln will be the
next Vice President of these United
States seems to be already settled.
His boom comes from all parts OF
the country, is spontaneous from
the people, and daily swells as it
rolls along. 1t has come to stay,
his name is coupled for the second
place, with all the Presidential can
didates except Logan, and nothing
but the nomination of the latter,
who is from the same State, can in
terfere with the peoples desire for
Lincoln's nomination as Vice Presi-
dent.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-03-19
Murdered by her Mother

CANTON, O., March 1G.-On JAN
II, 1867, Christian Kett, a pretty
girl of IS years, was murdered at ae-
home in Oak Street in this city. and
no clue was discovered to the mu--
der until yesterday, when her broth
er made known a deathbed comics
sion that his own mother had made
three weeks ago. The murdered gIr.
had gone to call on friend and re-
turned an hour later than she bad
calculated upon, when her mother,
In a tit of passion, seized an axe
handle and struck her on the head.
crushing in the skull. Appalled, 81;
her crime, the woman smeareI TIE
girls face with gunpowderaUJ alter
wards deported herself IN such .
manner as to entirely elude deta-
ton. Mental torture drove her tHu
the scene Of her crime aud size
roamed through various Western
cities, finally returning here severn.
years ago.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-03-19
Burial OF n Giantess.

New YORK, March 15.-The bur
ial OF Mrs. Arthur Reid, who was
known professionally as Jennie
Waldron, the giantess took place to-
day. Her remains were removed az
an early hour from an undertakes
shop on the Bowery to the new
Union Baptist Church in Green
Point. The coffin containing the
body was placed in front of the pull
pit and was surrounded by a large
number of floral offerings. The
coffin was three and half feet wide
three feet deep and six feet long.
A crowd of curiosity seekers sur
rounded the edifice. A large assem-
bly, was present at the services,
which were conducted by the pastor
the Rev. d. c. Hughes. The hus-
band, father uncles, cousins and
other relatives of the unfortunate
girl, many of whom had the appear
ance of well-te-do people, were pres
ent. A long procession accompan-
led the remains to the GEM
etery of the EverpreenS.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-03-19
Another Fearful Explosion.

PETERSBURG, Va, March 13.-The
News special says: 'Intelligence has
Just been receiver here Of a terrible
explosion in the coal mines of the
Southwest Virginia Improvement
Company at Pocahontas, Tazewell
county, this State, which occurred
this morning at one o'clock. There
were one hundred and fifty men In
the mine at the time of the explo-
sion, not one of whom is believed to
have escaped. Those who were not
killed outright by the terrible force
of the explosion. most likely perish
ed from the after-damp.
THE work of destruction was not
confined entirely to the interior of
the mines, but houses 300 to 300
feet removed from the mines were
overturned, and in several instances
entirely etnolished. The large ven
tilatur of the Southwestern Improve
ment Company was blown to atoms,
and the mines cannot be entered
until another is constructed for the
purpose of freeing the atmosphere
of the suffocating fumes. An ex-
ploring party subsequently entered
the mine a short distance and
brought out six bodies frightfully
mutilated."
RICHMOND, Va, March 13.-The
mine in which the disaster occurred
is known as the Flat Top mine, and
is situated IL the northeast portion
of Tazeweil county, at the base OF
the Flat Top mountains, which di-
vide that section of Virginia from
West Virgenia. The company work
ing the mine is nominally known as
the Southwest Virginia Improve
ment Company, but the mine Is
really under the control Of the Nor
folk and Western Railroad Compa-
ny. who have Il branch road, known
as the New River division, running
frem New River to Pocahontas,
about sixty miles. John c. Ilsey,
of Pennsylvania, is president of the
improvement Company, and Will
lam a. Lathrop is superintendent OF
the mine, which is comparatively
new, having been in active operation
but little over year From five to
six hundred hands were employed,
and large quantity of coal was be
ing taken out.
PETERSBURG, Va, March 13.-The
latest intelligence concerning the
explosion in the Pocahontas mines
is to the effect that about $50 men
were killed, and that the accident
was caused by the men going too far
into the mines with their lamps. All
the machinery IS reported as total
wreck. Efforts are being made TO
recover the bodies. hut in conse-
quence OF the after damp very little
progress can be made. a relief train
with physicians and a force of work
men on board has gone to the scene
of the accident from here. A dis
patch bas been received mere asking
that safety laEaps be sent to Poca-
hontas at once to facilitate the work
of recovering the bodies. The scenes
in the vicinity of the disaster are
heartrending in the extreme.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-03-19

4 FEW months since there occur
red a lockout at Pittsburg among
the window glass blowers. A party
of them confiding in the declara-
tions of the free trade advocates, en-
igrated to Belgium in search of bet
ter wages. For a short time they
found some work at fair pay, bat
about the time they had got into
the hang OF the thing, the manufact-
urers reduced the wages ten per
cent. and the deluded workmen have
returned home. In the meantime
the price of window glass increased
fifty-fve per cent. bv reason of the
stoppags of the factories, and thus
proved that it is competition, not
free trade, that reduces prices.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-03-19
A Warning

WASHINGTON, March l5.-The Sc
cret Service Division of the Treasury
Department reports that it believes
certain counterleiters are concerting
measures simultaneously to pass
upon the public. especially in the
cities of the South and West, c0un
terfeit dollar silver certificates. a
sample of the same has just been re-
ceived at the office of the Secret Ser
vice Division.
The issue is of the series of 1850;
James Giliillan, Treasurer of the
United States. The paper is thick,
greasy and stiff. The note is one
eighth of an inch shorter than the
genuine. There is no distributed
fiber or parallel silk threads in the
paper as in the genuine. The words
''Silver certificate" appear in panels
twice in the upper border on the
face of the note. In the panel to the
left in the counterfeit, the letters n,
st" and "f, in the word Certificate,
are engraved wrong side UP.
In the counterfeit there are nc
periods dividing the initials in "B
X. Bruce" on the lower left corner
The check. letter &C" is without tbs
accompanying number, and in IN,
name "Gilfillan,' only the first I
is dotted. On the back Of the note
the word Taxes" is plainly spell
"Tares, and the word engraved
is spelt "Engravod." The color o
the seal is brick-red it should bt
verging on brown.
The foregoing salient points, l
carefully noted, will protect the pub
lie, while the note should not de
ceive careful handlers of money, es
| pecially when the geometrie lath'
work is examined yet, among TIM
hurried and careless, because 1t /
fair in appearance, it may work grea
danger.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-03-19

SOME people think that it requires
no money to carry on a political
campaign, and others assert that all
the money raised is used for bribery
and corruption. 1t may cause these
unsophisticated people some aston
ishment to learn that, those immac-
ulate reformers, the Committee OF
One Hundred, expended 100000 last
month, in a futile attempt to defeat
the regular Republican candidate
for Mayor in the city of Philadelphia.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-03-19

tions, still it will serve as a pointer
to public opinion, so far as tits thus
expressed.
If this county was entitled to a
delegate to the National Convention,
then an expression of opinion by
the voters of the county would be
competent instructions; but as each
of the four counties in the district
has a voice in choosing the delegates,
the sentiment of the whole four,
must be looked to by them.
This demand for a vote as to can
didates, is. we apprehend, born of a
doubt. that has been labcriously
worked up, that delegates may be
induced, unless bound by instruc-
tions, to vote for candidates not de-
sired by the people. This is almost
an assumption that the delegate
would play the knave or fool. As del
egates are no longer chosen by the
State Convention, but by districts,
they are directly answerable to their
constituents, and he would be feel
indeed, who would misrepresent the
people directly delegating him the
power to act for them. 1t has never
been the habit Of the Republicans o
this county to instruct their dele
gates, either to District, State or Ma
tionai conventions, and we believe
they have never had reason to com
plain of betrayal of trust by any
former delegates, and, in our opin
ion. this born demand for votin:
instructions, is not begotten o
wholesome party zeal.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-03-19

IT was telegraphed from New
York last week, that Hon. J. ID.
Cameron had arrived from Europe,
and straightway the Independent
journals raised howl that the SEN
ator had come home to boss the Sc
lection OF delegates to Chicago. II
the veritable "old Nick" with hoof,
horn and tail, had paid them a visit
in person, and announced his inten-
ton to run the Chicago Convention,
and carry off to Hades all who op-
posed him, these worthy gentlemen
could not have been more hysterical
in their pretestation. Happily for
their peace Of mind, and the 'preser-
vatIon of the country, it was not the
sanguinary Don but another gen
tleman of the same name that had
landed. There is not now so pun
gent smell of sulphur in the at,
mosphere, but there is a score oI
sheepish looking editors stalking
around, humming: 20, no; ] never
mention him"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-03-19
Destructive Cyclone.

CHATTANOOGA, March 13-A de-
sTuctive cyclone passed near 6sa-
tersville, Alabama, last night. II. :.
Hess and Mrs. John Tidmore and
Mrs. Frank Farmer were severely Il-
lured. About thirty houses were
blown to atoms. The storm left tae
earth after devasting nearly Ten
miles.
\ Starkville, Miss, dispatch says
Whiteield, Is miles west, suile-eL
seriously by the cyclone OF the
11th. Dan Thomas, farmer a-.
barns, stables. cabins, fencing and D
large rumber Of COWS. Some COWS
were blown quarter of @ mile
Many others suffer a great loss.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-03-19
Living With HIS Neck Broke.

MINNEAPOLIS, March ia ira
peze performer named LeHaine,
said to be from Chicago. met with
probably a fatal accident tonight at
the Pence Opera-house. \ row of
iron rings on ropes were hanging
from an iron bar attached to the
ceiling. lie Haine's task was to
place his feet in these rings, head
downward, and pass across the stage
and back. While in the midst of
the act. tonight, the rope holding
one of the rings broke letting him
fall adistance of % feet. He struck
on his head on the front row of seats
nearest the stage, and was picked
up insensible. The audience, small
in numbers, was paraiyzed tor an
instant, and then made 2 rush for
the doors, but in the panic no one
was injured. 1t is now learned that
LIE Haine fractured his skull from a
point above the left eye over the
crown to the back Of the head, and
also broke his neck.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-03-19

New York World { Dem If Ar
thur does not stand a chance of car
rying New York because of the bit
ter hatred between the half-breeds
and Stalwarts, how can Blaine be
certain of carrying New York in the
face of the bitter hatred between the
Stalwarts and balf-breeds? ? And if it
is sure to be tweedledum when u
Stalwart runs, why is it not certain
to be tweedledee when a hali-breed
runs2
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-03-19
Fire in East st. Louis.

ST. LOUIS, March 12.-Just be-
fore dark tonight a disastrous fire
visited East St. Louis. 1t originated
in a barber shop on the levee, spread
from there 10 a lot of other frame
dwellings and then crossed the track
Of the Chicago and Alton company
until it reached advance Elevator
A. This was a mOnster wooden struc-
ture, containing 800, coo bushels of
No. : mixed corn, $1,000 bushels of
oats and 10000 bushels of wheat.
This stock burned like so much oil
and a grand illumination was the
result. The people of East st Lou
is have no fire engine or firemen and
as the flames advanced they sent
over to the Chief of the St. Louis
fire department, asking him to come
to their aid. The St. Louis laddies
arrived in time TO save Elevator 3.
A was reduced TO ashes. Seven frame
houses on the levee were also
destroyed together with about one
hundred freight cars loaded with
hay and grain. The whole loss viii
amount to nearly a million dollars
Elevator A was vained Mt S250,0O0
and was insured for 10000, in one
hundred different COMPANIES.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-03-19
THAr great Democratic head-li

THAr great Democratic headlight
-Wstterson, of the Louisville Cour-
ier-Jowndl, knows what he wants,
and doesn't hesitate to talk right
out He says: I'VE demand tar
III for revenue orly," and he explains
what he means as follows: "The
tariff is the one line on which par
A'tiss may divide. The Republicans
-'are motectionists or nothing. The
Democrats are free traders or moth
sing
The Democrats knows that what
Mr.. watterson says is true, but they
are too cewardly to acknowledge it,
and hope to gull the people by
platform which means anything or
nothing, according to localities.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-03-19
Alleged Frauds.

PoTTsyILLE, March I2.-Thomas
Close was arrested at his home at
Gilberton to-day, and lodged in Jail
here. in default of 81 900 bail to an
swer charges of fraud. Close was a
member of the Cass Township School
Board in 1882. He and his col.
leagues expended thousands of dol
lars more than the possible income
of the district, increased the debt un-
lawfully, and, withal, failed TO pay
the teachers. His colleagues have
all given the bail required, and will
answer at the next term of court.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-03-19

THE Democratic papers are all
gleefully copying an article which
appeared in the New York Sun,
showing that Mr.. Tilden contributed
more money than anybody else to
the Democratic campaign fund in
1880. There is nothing that SO
warns the cookies of the heart Of the
average Democratic politician, to-
wards candidate, as this one, and
it NAV account for the vigorous boom
the old man is now enjoying.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-03-19
High Water.

New ORLEANS, March 11.-The
Picagunes Vicksburg special says
that the steamer Headlight arrived
to-day from Williams Landing, Sun
flower river, $50 miles above here.
The officers report the water at that
point within an inch of the highest
reached last year. All the lands from
Williams down to Fozonia, a dis
tance of sixty miles, are under wa
ter. At Fozonia the water is rising
four inches per day. There now
seems to be no doubt but that the
greater portion of Yazoo, Sharkey,
SuEhower, Bolivar and Coahoma
counties, and a large portion of
Issequena county, will be overflow
ed
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-03-19
Foot and Mouth Disease inIowa

BURLINGTON, March ia spe-
cial from Wapello, Louisa county.
says; Seventy head of cattle are
affected with disease which j, con
fined to the hind feet. The mouths
are all right and the cattle eat well.
Opinion differs as to its nature.
Some claim it is the result of free
zlng others believe tits the foot and
mouth disease. Another special
says: Physicians pronounced the
cattle disease near Wapella the foot
and mouth plague. Three of the
animals have died.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-03-19
A Whales Value.

NEW LONDON, March 12.-Captain
Roche, of the schooner Lizzie p.
Simmons, now at Cumberland Inlet,
reports that in November. 1882, they
captured a whale which yielded l6S
barrels Of oil and $500 pounds of
bone. The bone has just been sold
in Peterhead, Scotland, for 81 IS per
pound, the highest price ever paid.
Between $4,000 and $4,000 was
realized from the single whale.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-03-19

MONTGOMERY, March 1O-Ne"s
has reached here of difficulty be-
tween Mrs. Hughes and her sister
Miss Harwell, in Coffee county, iH
which the latter killed the former
Mrs. Hughes aad her husband sePi-
rated some years ago, Hughes lI-
lawfully living with the sister. lie
died few months ago, and the WIG
ow took possession OF what Iiiils
property he left. The sister v54'
after some cattle, and the troupi5
arose in which Mrs. Hughes was ia-
tally stabbed.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-03-19
Figures on the Chicago Hog.

CHICAGO, March 13. - Howard
White & Co.'S Commercial Bulletin,
shows the number of hogs killed
here during the last II months was
$4,000, against 4,559,000 last
year; total receipts of hogs, live and
dressed, 100000; number of cattle
slaughtered during the past II
months, $4,000, of which 100000
head were required for the dressed
beef interest.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-03-19
n Prize Fight IN a Boat

New YORK. March 16.--A prize
fight for $500 a side was fought
to-day on a barge, which was to"sd
out into the East river, to escape The
vigilance of the police. The prince
pals were Tom Hogan and jim Harf
who are both from Green Point
Four bloody rounds were fought
during which both mea received Sc
we're punishment. Four Of Barr
teeth were knocked out on the first
round and in the fourth he was
knocked senseless against the rope5
and the fight was given to Hogan
Barr was taken to Brooklyn where
he was attended by physician.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-03-19

AT the opening Of Congress the
Democratic members we're pranclng
around, head and tail up, shouting
for a free trade Speaker. They elect
ed their Speaker, and to-day there
are indications that they will fail in
passing a bill reducing the duties
twenty per cent. Did they hear
anything drap," that they so sud-
denly abandoned the other eighty
per cent. reduction they proposed ?
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-03-19
Another Blizzard.

MINNEAPOLIS, March 1.-THE
most severe blizzard of the season is
raging. Travel of all kinds is susr
pended and people are keeping in
doors. Specials from various points
in Minnesota and Dakota state that
the storm is severe everywhere. The
trains on various railroads are either
many hours late or abandoned. In
the neighborhood of St. Vincent the
snow in places has drifted twenty
feet deep. As yet there are no re-
ports of disaster.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-03-19

Boston Herald Ind. } If the man.
aging politicians in charge of the
two old parties wish to see such
political breakup as has not occur
red since 1856, or 81, let them NOM
mate Mr.. Blaine on one side and
Mr.. Tilden on the other, or Mr..
Randall and John A. Logan. Give
these conditions, and new party
would form itself in a day.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-03-19

SAMUEL J. TmDEN and James q.
Blaine both say positively, that they
are not candidates, but the friends
Of both are vigorously working for
them. on the assumption that no
man will refuse a nomination for
President, if rendered to him, and
we rather guess they are right.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-03-19
Man and Wife Refused Burial.

PATTERSON, March 11.-Bishop
WIgger refused to allow the funeral
OF William Hayden and his wife
who died here on Friday lastto take
place from the church, because of
the fact that the Haydens had DISC
beyed an order of the Bishop, issued
over three years ago, prohibiting the
sale OF liquor on Sunday.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-03-19
The Dynamite scare.

LONDON, March I3.-An explosion
occurred last night in hotel at Fu,-
ham. a suburb of London, believed
to he another Fenian dynamite out
rage. A box containing six pack
ages, apparently cartridges, was
found on the premises. One man
was blown to pieces.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-03-19
A Terrible Cyclone.

STARKvILLE, March ia terri
BILE cyclone passed through thi0 coun-
ty yesterday, destroying timber and
blowing down houses, barns. etc. At
Streets Mills. daughter of Ossian
Gillespie was fatally injured and a
Mrs. Grier was instantly..killed.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-03-19

THE bill restoring Fitz John Porter
to the army passed the Senate last
week It's now in the hands of the
President, and on his action depends
the fate of the disgraced General.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-03-19
The Saow blockade in Maine

PHILLIPS, Maine, March 11.-The
railroads. are now raising the third
snow blockade in two weeks and
IN, 1mere has been no mail since Friday.
Inc snow Is four feet deep on the
ieVel n mere, and no trains can reach
rarmington before Wednesday.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-03-19

Findlay Ohio Jefersonian (Re-
publican): No ticket would gain a
more cordial support from the Re-
publicans of Ohio than James G.
Blaine for President, and Robert T.
Lincoln for Vice President. That
ticket would carry Ohio, sweep the
country, and make victory certain /;
and a better combination cannot be
named.