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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-01-09
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.-Hon. Jere
Murphy, of Iowa, will tomorrow
offer resolution defending the pow.
ers and status of Congress on the
alchoholic liquor tariff.
The resolution is to the effect that
the liquor traffic belongs to munich
pal or losal government and does
not fall within the scope OF powers
inherent in the Federal Government
by virtue of the Constitution that
Congress can only deal with the
subject, say to lay and collect reve
nues, and that any attempt at sump-
tuary legislation by Congress is in
the nature of an infringement on the
personal liberty of the citizen.
The Judge says he intends to put
members on record on this subject
before the thing is over, and thinks
the Committee on the Alcoholic Lii
quor Traffic will report the resolution
TO the House. If so the OHIO dele
CATION will have 4 chance to explain
the result of the late election in
that State.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-01-09
A Dynamite Ficnd.

ASHLAND, January Patrick
Curley placed a large piece of dyna-
mite, last night, under an clubhouse
adjoining the dwelling Of John Cos
tello and ignited it. The shock
destroyed the clubhouse and badly
shattered the dwelling. Costello's
son, ii young man of about twenty
six years of age, was lying in bed at
the time, having Just recovered
from a long illness. The shock
occasioned by the explosion depri-
we'd him of his reason, and it is fear
ed he cannot live. Curley confessed
that he was the culprit, and he was
placed under $1,000 bail and held
to answer charges preferred by the
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and
Iron company. the owners of the
property. Being unable to obtain
bail, he was committed to Jail.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-01-09
Snow Bound Stock Train.

CHICAGO, January 4.-Eleven
miles southwest of the stock yards
on the wabash road stands stock
train with twenty cars of famishing
freezing live stock. The train was
showed under and stalled on Tues
day night, since which time it is be
lieved the animals have been with
out food and water. A rescuing
party drove within three miles OF
the belated train, then abandoned
their siedges and walked the remain
der. Although several engines have
been sent town the train could not
be reached. The party has returned
several of whom were badly frost
bitten. The rescuing party succeed
ed in reaching the snow bound train
late this afternoon. OF the twenty
cars of live stock all were cattle save
two or three cars of hogs. Some OF
the cattle were found frozen. 9th
ers were partly frozen and immedi-
ately killed The exact number
thus killed is not ascertained. The
remainder of tho cattle were fed and
cared for by the railroad company,
who are making every effort to
bring them through. Another large
force of men were sent out to dav
and offered fifty cents an hour.
Arriving near the train they refused
to go to work. They could rot see
ten PAGES ahead for the immense
DRIFTS of snow, and returned nearly
frozen. The hogs are not suffering
badly as there happened to be a car
ofcorn next to them which the com
pany used. They will bring the train
into the yards tomorrow. Extraor-
dinary efforts to this end will be
made.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-01-09
n Youthful Couple.

ALLENTOWN, January 2.-The
upper ssction of Lehigh county,
near the Berks line, is considerably
exercised over the elopement of tSo
rather youthful persons. o. J..
Smith is handsome youth, sixteen
years Of age. Amanda Klaze, that
was, is plump, pretty lass of thir-
teen. The children were frequently
seen together at church and Sunday
school, and Smith seemed very much
devoted TO the girl. They agreed to
get married, but, fearing parental
objection would be made and thwart
their plan, they quietly departed in
the direction of Steinville. Their
disappearance caused commotion.
as did their return after an absence
OF few days. When pressed for an
explanation of their conduct, they
informed the girls parents that they
had been made man and wife, and
then they presented the marriage
certificate. The parents were start
led. but accepted the situation with
good grace.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-01-09
Complains Against Himself.

LEAvEywoRrH, January 4.-John
Byrne has appeared before the
United States Commissioner and
entered complaint against himself
for collusion in defrauding the
Government out of 800 while he
was 8 member ofthe Ninth Infantry
y. s. A., in 1863. In his final ac-
count there was $50 in clothing and
money due him, and he and the
company clerk raised the amouat
to 1882. The matter, he says, weigh
ed on his conscience, and be now
wants to confess and get pardon.
The CAGE will probably 60 to Pres
ident Arthur.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-01-09
Paying the Death Penalty.

MACON, GA, Jan. 4.-Jim Crum-
mildly, colored, was hanged at East
man to-day, for the murder of JAS.
A. Mitchell last September. When
Sheriff Rlwlins and his assistants
went to take Crummidy from his
cell they found knife in his hand.
The prisoner made desperate effort
to kill the sheriffs assistants and
wounded two of them slightly. He
was seized by both hands, but by a
powerful effort he wrenched his
right arm around and inflicted a
terrible wound in his throat, from
which blood flowed profusely, caus.
ing him to become unconscious. At
a few minutes before 3 O'Clock he
was carried to the scsffuld on a
stretcher, and supported over the
drop until it fell. Death was in
A large crowd was
present.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-01-09
Laborers Killed.

SUNBURY, December 29.-Passen-
gers who arrived here last night on
the midnight express on the Penn
sylvania Railroad, brought the par
ticulars of a railroad catastrophe
that occurred on a link of the Van
derbilt Railroad system, a few miles
from Heating. Six Italians were in
stantly killed and seven others seri-
ously injured while returning to
their work from the railroad shan
ties, where Christmas had been
spent. Heating, the nearest village,
has no telegraph office, and the
news of the accident was brought
here by a special train, which came
for six collins in which to put the
bodies of the unfortunate men. Col.
Joseph Granius, one of the contract
ors engaged in building the new
road, ordered engineer James Walsh
of Remove, to push two gondolas to
a certain point on the road. The
train was moving at speed ofnine
miles an hour.
Without a seconds notice the car
on which the Italians were broke in
two, was doubled up and completely
demolished.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-01-09
Explosion Of Fire Damn.

SCRANTON, January Am explo-
sion of fire damp at the Oxford COL
liery of the Delaware, Laekawanna
and Western company, in the Hyde
Park quarter of the city, occurred
at ! o'clock yesterday afternoon.
tearing out the lining of the hoist
ing shafts and the new air shafts,
and cutting of communication
with fourteen msn Eh9 were in the
mine. Within an hour men desasg-
dsd 10 Q bucket and found all alive.
Three were seriously burned, how
ever, aud the injuries Of one OF them
are probably fatal. The Others are
more or less severely injured. The
cause of the explosion is not known.
The names of those most seriously
injured are John Hopkins, John
Jones and William Morgan.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-01-09

The hottest fight of the day is
being waged among the Democrats
of Ohio. Senator Pendleton. who is
up for reelection, was indiscrete
enough. during the last session of
Congress, to identify himself with
the advocates of civil service reform,
and as the doctrine Of his party is,
Ito the victors belong the spoils, +"
they naturally and bitterly denounce
his attempted innovation en- their
cherished creed. Columbus is
swarming with Democratic spoils-
men the fight is rancerous and per-
sonal, and it looks as if Payne, (his
opponent,) would be nominated by
a large majority, if Mr.. Pendleton
permits his name to go before the
caucus.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-01-09
Running Away With His Wife.

SHENANDOAH. January 2-There
is considerable excitement here over
the elopement of NJ. Ii. Kehler, one
of the leading grocery merchants.
with his former wife, a daughter of
J. W. Johnson, Il well to do contrac-
tor and builder and member of the
present school board. The RUNAWAY
drove in cutter in the direction of
Pottsville, hut returned in time to
lake the 1855 afternoon train for
Philadelphia Eight or nine years
ago, when hardly out of their teens
they were married. Tney soon sep
Grated, however, and Mr.. Kehier
paid his wife, through her parents
81 900, in settlement of all claims
She retained her child, beautiful
little girl. Mrs Kehler went % her
fathers house and Mr.. Keller lived
with his parents. Both famii es
lived on Main street, next door to
each other. During the several
years they were separated, although
seeing each other every day, they
did not speak.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-01-09
A River disaster.

PITrsBURG. January 2.-Shortly
after midnight the two boats j. n.
Bnnton and John T. Case lett the
city with tows for the lower ports.
Their progress was slow owing to the
ice and strong current. When Da-
Wis Island was reached the boats lost
control of the tows, and swung
against the south pier. Three OF the
coal boats sank at once, and the Case
drifted to the head of Neville Island.
where she lodged.
The Bunton was not so fortunate.
The shock of the collision threw the
fire from under her boilers, and IN
two minutes she was burning In a
dozen places and a scene OF the ut
most confusion followed. The crew
numbering twenty men, became pan
ic stricken, and several jumped
overheard. Midway between the
dam and Neville Island the boat
careened and went down in shallow
water. The Case, net having been
injured, put out a yawl and succeed
ed In picking up sixteen of the Bun
tons crew. Shortly afterward the
body of Engineer Underwood was
picked up. There are three men
still missing. Their names are Frank
Young and AIois Beyingten deck
hands, and Gustavus Attenhautf,
cook. They are all young and un-
married. Engineer Underwood
leaves wife and five children.
The steamer Bunton is total loss.
She was owned by Walton IL Co., of
this city, and was valued at S25,000.
The loaded coal boats which sunk
were valued at S25, 600
The accident is attributed to the
neglect to haye the Governments sig
mails lighted. Signals are required to
be on he lock wall and dam. II
this precaution had not been neglec-
ted the pilots would have had no
difficulty In holding their tow
between the lights.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-01-09

a VOICE is coming up from the
south ia favor of Protection, and the
startled Democrats are beginning to
lend a listening ear. They scent the
danger in 8 divided south, and are
quietly mederating their free trade
demands. Manufactures are pro.
crossing with giant strides in several
southern States, and the voters will
not assent willingly to their sacrifice.
Several of the ablest Democratic
papers in Alabama, Mississippi, Ten
nessee, Louisiana, North Carolina
and Virginia have declared their be-
lief that their States cannot be car
RED by the Democracy on q iree
trade platform. Hence these back
ward steps.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-01-09


IT is rather entertaining in these
times, when American agriculture
has attained prodigious proportions
under the influence of twenty four
years of the Republican protective
tariff policy, to find free traders af-
fecting to sympathize.with the farm
ing and planting interests of this
country on account of the alleged
absence of protection for our nation
al agriculture. But they do not un-
dertake to show how they propose
TO protect American breadstuffs,
provisions, live stock or cotton.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-01-09
CLAY AID WEBSTER ON THE
PROPOsITCOS Or BLAINE.

We ecommend to the friends of Mr..
Blaine's proposition of National
Taxation for State purposes, some
opinions of men who Will be reog-
nized by everybody az among the
greatest statesmen this country ever
produced. Henry Clay said, see
Clay's Works. Vol. 6, page 233:
There is then. repeat, no power
or authority in the general Govern
ment to lay and collect taxes in or
der TO distributethe proceeds among
the States. Such $ financial pro-
ject, ifany administration were mad
enough to adopt it, would be q "a.
grant usurpative"
Daniel Webster in his speech Of
May 81, 1886, said:
There would be insuperable OBJ
Jecticns, in my opinion, to q settled
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-01-09

In Massachusetts it is provided
by law that, no person can be licens-
ed to sell liquor within given dis
tance Of a public school, and now,
Rev. L. L. Hale, under his own sig.
nature, charges that in Boston local
school committees closed schools
TO give an opportunity to license
liquor sellers. He alleges that. by the
opportune closing Of one school for
a few days, eleven saloon keepers
obtained licenses, and then the
school was opened again.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-01-09

THE new Chairman of the House
Committee on Pensions is Captain
Hewitt, of Alabama. His military
title was conferred by the confeders-
cy, and he won his spurs at Chick
amauga fighting against the Union.
That is just the right sort of a man,
from Democratic point of view, to
dole out pensions to crippled soldiers
and the widows and orphans of their
dead comrades in arms. The Car
sle-Morrison team could not have
done anything more truly Demo
cratic,
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-01-09
Frozen to Death.

WHEELING, January 6.-About 1
o clock this afternoon Mrs. Jane
PETERSON, a colored woman living at
Seventeenth and Wood streets, sent
her two little daughters. aged 10 and
D years, on an errand to another
colored family, living about a mile
away. The children were poorly
Clad and the mercury being about
zero, they suffered intensely, but
reached their destination in safety
oh their return tsip they became
benumhed with cold and were fonnd
lying in the street in stupor. Their
recovery is extremely problemat-
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-01-09

practice of distributing revenue
among the States. 1t would be a
strange operation of things and its
effects on our system of Government
might well be feared. | can not rec
oncile myself to the spectacle of the
States receiving their revenues, their
means even of supporting their own
Government from the Treasury of
the United States"
And yet Mr.. Blaine proposes to
do just what these eminent states
men said ought not and could not
be done.-Mercer Dispatch.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-01-09

For the first time since the war,
the Democrats last year, had a ma
jority of the Governors. They had
elected twenty-five Democrats to
thirteen Republican Governors, and
fhey have the same number this
year, having lost one in Massachs-
setts and gained one in Ohio. This,
however,. does not indicate their
strength in the coming contest.
They have accidental Governors in
Colorado, Connecticut, Kansas, Ne
vida Michigan, New Jersey, New
York, Ohio and PennsyivsSia, in
which States it is a certainty tha.
the Republicans will this year carry
q ma5ority Of the electoral votes.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-01-09

IN his report Of the Common
schools of the State. Superintendent
Higbee announces 2,227 school dis
tIicts, 1852 schools, 1886 graded
schools, 1921 school directors, l05
superintendents, $500 male teachers
and 1914 female teachers. The
average salary of male teachers per
month is s37 03; of female teachers,
$50 05. The average attendance of
pupils was 957.6S0.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-01-09
DrowQed ip q Mil Dam,

HoUGHTeS, January 2.--Thebprst-
ing of the Huron milldam, situated
one mile from here, resulted in the
loss of six lives, as follows; Charles
E. Raymond. a teller of the First
National Bank of Houghton; his
son and servant girl, and Howard
Raymond, wife and son, of the All
oaez Mine. Fifteen hundred dollars
was sGbScHbed at a meeting of the
citizens yesterday for the benefit of
Mrs Raymond and the two children
whom she heroioally saved.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-01-09
MOrmsnism Doonsed.

SALT LAKE, Utah. Jan 5.-The
monthly meeting OF the Salt Lake
Mormon priesthood was held tn,
morning. Bishop John Sharp sali
that while in w .shingten recently
be had seen enouy yh to convince nm
that no power but the AlmlgntF.
could save the NJ 'rmon people. Il
God don't p loe ,he ship would 60
down. Apos le Thatches and Kich-
ards are now on the way to Washin2
ton, the church organ says, to atten'
Utah affairs.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-01-09

President ARTHUR, having no
wife of his own, invited thir-
tv-four of the wives of members
Of the Cabinet and of members OF
Congress to assist him at his New
Years reception.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-01-09

AMONG the resolutions OF the new
wear should be one to elect a Repub-
lican President Of the United States,
and thus insure the continued and
unbounded prosperity which the
people of this country have enjoyed
for so many years. Ne sensible rea-
son can be offered for change.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-01-09
Editors Charged with Libel.

PITTsBURG, Jan. 4.-Judge White
has issued an information in crimi-
nal libel against Eugene NJ. O'Neil
and c. n. Shaw, preprietors of the
Dispatch. The article provoking the
suit appeared on December, IS, in
the publication of an interview with
Commodore W. J. Kountz, in which
the letter severely denounced the
plaintiff
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-01-09
Town Wiped Out.

CITY or Mexico, Jan. "A hur.
rlcane occurred on the Mexican
coast on November 4th which en-
tirely destroyed the town of Atlanta,
at the port of that name. Not a
house remained standing, ard YES
sells and launches at anchor suffered
severely.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-01-09
General Cameron's Health Improvinp

Hot SPRINeT, ARK. January a.
There Is no truth iu the speci ais
teiegraphed from here in regard 10
TIE serious il!Geas of Simon Gamer
on Who arrived last Monday, except
1he hrst days confinement to his
loom from fatigue of the journey
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-01-09

GENERAL GRANT is gradually i'm
proving. His injury is a very pain
fol one. but his physicians appre-
hend 10 further danger. Last ac-
counts say that he was ableto sit up
in an easv chair.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-01-09

Mrs. MUTT has numerous offers OF
hospitality frem P!ttsburg people IN
shape of letters inviting her to make
their houses her home during her
stay in the city in attendance upon
the approaching trial of her son for
the killing of Nicholas Lyman
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-01-09

The United States Senate consists
of 76 members, whose aggregate
wealth is said to be s1S0,000,000,
making it the richest deliberative
BODY in the werld. Four of the num-
Der are comparatively poor men, but
some of the ethers have enormous
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-01-09
Large Flour Sales.

ALBANY, January q Henry Rus
sell, commission merchant, sold over
100000 barrels of -four in 1888. 1t
is claimed that this is the largest
dealing of any commission house in
the world.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-01-09

Ar Minneapolis and at Braineard'
Minnesota, on Thursday last, the
mercury in the thermometer hovered
around thirty-fve degrees below
zero. with a promise of much colder
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-01-09

OK Thursday last Ben Butler
slammed down and out If the Guber'
material chair of Massachusetts, and
Governor-elect Robinson took pos
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-01-09

OK the first day of January the
Chicago Inter Ocean issued a quad
ruple daily consisting of twenty
eipht pages.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-01-09

DURING the last year the fees OF
the Sheriff of Philadelphia did not
more than pay the expenses OF the
office
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-01-09
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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-01-09
A BLAZING COLLEGE.
A HOLOCAUST IN A CATHOLIC IN
STITUTE.
The Mother Superior - Four Lady
Teachers and Twenty Two Girl
Pupils Burned to Death
Fearful Calamity.

ST. LOUIS, January 6.-The con-
vent fire at Belleville was a most ap-
palling horror. The alarm of fire
was first given by the watchman at
Harrison's machine works near bv.
When he reached the place. the win
dows of the third floor presented a
spectacle that was enough to send a
horrible shudder through the stout
est heart. There in their night
clothes, suddenly aroused from their
slumbers, stood in despair a large
number of the terrified inmates of
that floor. There was no chance of
rescue, and the only alternative was
the dreadful leap. Soon afterwards
volumes of smoke were seen to
spread throughout the building, fol-
lowed by loud explosions, and then
"a few took the desperate chances OF
hurting themselves through the win
dows.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-01-09
TWENTY-SEVEN VICTIMS.

The loss of life is greater than
mentioned in last nights dispatch.
Instead eff being two, the total known
deaths is twenty-seven, twenty-five
of whom are pupils and five are Sis
tiers, among the latter the Sister Su-
perior.
The bodies could only be ldenti-
fed by the clothing, or rather a por-
ton of their clothes, which had been
saturated with water and had escap-
ed the flames.
All that now remains of the fa-
nous Convent is the charred and
broken walls, and in the debris there
yet remains the bodies of several OF
the unfortunate victims. The build.
ing and furnishings were valued
from s60,0O0 to $4,000. Insured for
s25, 900.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-01-09
HEARTRENDING SCENES.

Mary Campbell a teacher, was the
first to try the almost hopeless or
deal, and as she fell to the pavement
her frail body Was hurriedly remov-
ed to the Harrison machine works,
where after few gasps she expired.
Daisy Eberman managed to crawl
through the windows of the third
floor and find a perilous position on
the cornice over the main doorway.
She there remained for quite a long
time screaming for suecor, from the
heat within and cold without. AT
last the confined flames and smoke
burst from the windows around her
and she was hurled to the ground
below, but her fall was broken by
two men who stood with outstretch-
ed arms to receive her. She was not
seriously hurt. Her escape was mi
raculous,