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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24

MANCHESTER, June 18.-A terrible
explosion Of hrs-damp occurred
this uornine 1t u Clifton Hall
Gallery, near This city. There wees
$50 mea ct work in ths mine at tie
dine, 10 Of whom have tssn rss-
cued alive and 10 dead. About 100
are still entombed, and it is feare d
that they are either suffocated or
burned TO death. Great excitement
prevails, and the usual heartrending
scenes are being enacted about tho
entrance to the pit. Wives, mothers,
and relatives are collected in throngs
crying, shrieking, and imploring
God to save the loved ones entomb-
ed below.
The cages used by the exploring
parties got stuck in descending the
shaft, and delayed them fully two
hours. When they got TO the bot
tom they were unable to reach the
imperiled miners.
The rescued men say that at the
time of the explosion they rushed
to the bottom Of the main shaft and
barely got there with their lives.
They were entirely ignorant of the
fate Of those they left behind.
LONDON June 19.--The latest dis
patch from Manchester states that
204 miners have been recovered
alive from the Clifton Colliery. that
twenty-five bodies have been taken
out and that 122 men are still mis-
sing. The work of exploring is i'm
peded BY bad ventilation.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24
Closed out for Cold Cash.

CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 19.-Hen-
ry Sauerbier, wife and baby, arrived
here from Logan. Ohio, and put up
at the Empire House. Yesterday a
burly Irishu.an, also from Logan,
put in an appearance and had a
with Sauerbier. The re-
suit of the meeting was the sale of
Sauerbier's wife and baby to Mac
Farland. The price paid was 500.
Sauerbier hung out at first and wan
ted more money, but MacFarland
refused to raise his bid. Tonight
MacFarland. the woman and the in
fant returned to Logan, while Sauer-
bier took a train for Chicago. The
deal was genuine one, and is
vouched for by the landlord of the
hotel, who heard the trade talked
over and saw the written agree
ment.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24
Tho Cholera In Spain.

MADRID, June 17.-There were
four fresh cases of cholera here yes
terday. and two deaths. Between
the 10th of May and the 18th OF
June there we're seventy.fve cases
here, and during the same period
there were forty-five deaths. In the
city of Valencia during the past
twelve hours there were four new
cases aud three deaths. Senor Ro-
nero y Robledo, Minister of the In
terror, declared in the Cortes last
evening that the suspicious cases"
in Madrid were beyond doubt cases
of cholera and of the Asiatic type.
Yesterday in Castellon de la Plana
there we're 5S new cases and 2S
deaths. In the city of Valencia II
new cases and Z deaths were report
ed, while the whole province of Va
lencia had a total of 146 cases and
8S deaths. In the city of Murcia
there were SO new cases and Al
deaths. In the province of Murcia
the new cases aggregated III and
the deaths "a. In Aranjuez. a town
of New CASTLE, twenty eight miles
south southwest from Madrid, there
was one case of cholera yesterday.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24

SOME weeks ago it was announc-
ed that Meade, the residuary legatee
of the Copiah County. Mississippi,
political butchers, was invited to
vacate the office to which he was
appointed BY President Cleveland.
The Democratic press of that State
protested, and Meade still holds the
Office. The sentiment of Southern
Democrats in regard to assassination
as q political necessity may be judg.
ed BY the following dispatch from
New Orleans TO the Chicago Tribune;
The news that the administra.
ton had called upon Mr.. Meade
tie newly appointed postmaster al
Hazlehurst. to resign, on account ol
his participation in the public meet,
ings to juetify the killing of Prem.
tice Matthews, a Republican. at the
State election in 1883, has sent 9
cold chill through the pine-tops ol
Copiah county. Congressman Barks.
dale, in whose district is Copiah, and
Who urged Meade's appointment
has notified him not TO resign, and
hes called on the President to sus.
pend action until Meade is served
with the specifications of the chare.
20 against him. A prominent Ms.
sissippian to-day denounced the I'D.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24

UNDER the pretext of super-re
fined Republicanism, the Philadel-
phia Press is practicing in this
canvass the same arts it resorted
to in 1882, when it assisted in
slaughteIing General Beaver. Its
assumed dictatorship is deservedly
drawing upon it the ridicule it in
vites and deserves. The Harrisburg
Telegraph aptly illustrates its posi-
ton by an old anecdote as follows /:
"The Philadelphia Press is like
the big Indian who lost his way in
the woods and wandered around for
q couple of days. Finally bright
thought struck him, and drawing
himself up proudly, he smote his
breast and exclaimed Indian not
lost-wigwam lost" The Press has
been shining around in the mug
wumpian underbrush for some time
and insists that the Republican par.
ty is lost. The TELEGRAPH is en-
deavoring to convince the Press
that it has strayed from the path,
but we fear it is hopeless task,
The party is not lost--the Press is
only loet in the woods"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24
A. Aere.aut's First ana FATAL Trip.

CHARLESTON, w. Va, June 19.-
This afternoon a most frightful acci-
dent happened at the circus grounds
Just prior to the opening perform
ance of Richards & Icons Circus.
Among other outdoor attractions
was balloon ascension, and as the
ropes holding the balloon were cast
off the accident occurred by the
overturning of hot-air stove used
in initiating the balloon. causing it
to catch fire. The burning balloon
shot up into the air at very rapid
rate with William Patterson, an
aeronaut, in the basket. When q
short distance up the crowd yelled
Jump" but he did not heed the
advice, and after going several hun
dred feet up the balloon collapsed
and Patterson fell to the earth life
less mass of humanity. Patterson
was % years old and resided at
Wellsville, Ohio, where he leaves a
wife and family. 1t was his first
ascension. The balloon was totally
consumed by fire.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24

ALTHOUGH the removal of General
Grant from the heat OF the city to
the mountain breezes near Saratoga
has given him little temporary re-
lief, be is growing weaker slowly but
surely, and his death is only a ques-
ton of time, and perhaps of very
brief time. His voice is entirely
gone and he is compelled to resort
to writing to communicate with his
family and physicians. The spec
tacle of the worlds greatest soldier
sitting on the veranda of his tempo
rary home, gasping for breath, and
silently and patiently, without re-
pining, awaiting the moment when
the terrible disease with which he is
suffering will close his throat and
shut out the breath of life, is the
saddest of human sights. In this,
the hour of his greatest trial, the heart
of the Nation he has served SO well
throbs in sympathy with his suffer-
ings, and views with painful emotion
the patient, silent, accomplishing
fortitude with which he faces and
awaits death.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24

The superior Court of New York
has decided that the law prohibit
ing the manufacture and sale oi
oleomsrgarine in that State is un-
constitutional. As the law passed
by our Legislature at IFS late session
was copied from the New York en-.
actment, it will doubtless meet the
same fate when our Supreme Court
gets a whack at il.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24

PorTsyILLE, June 18.-Such wide
spread alarm has been caused by
the numerous and disastrous incen-
diary fires which have occurred
here within the past week that q
special meeting of Council was held
tonight. A reward Of one thous-
and dollars for the arrest of the fire.
bugs was offered. Additional police
and fire regulations were adopted
and the employment -of detectives
as long as necessary was authorized.
During last night and early this
morning six. attempts at arson were
discovered in time TO be frustrated.
A fire at one o'clock this morning
rendered six families who lost most
Of their goods, homeless. There
have been no arrests yet.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24

THE Bellefonte Democratic Watch
man, veritable tiger.lilly in the
Democratic garden, has evidently
become riled at Governor Pattison's
attempt to obtain credit, by false
pretense, for conscientious economy,
and straightway explodes the follow
ing dynamite cartridge under his
Excellency's back porch:
Attorney General Cassidy has, it
is said, realized out of his position,
as chief law officer of the State, an
annual income of over seventeen
thousand dollars, while the salary
fixed by law is but $500. The
books in the Office of the Secretary
of State-Hon. w. s. Stenger-
shows that that gentleman has pock-
eted over fifteen thousand dollars
annually. although the salary of the
position, MS fixed by statute, is but
$4,000. These are the two chief Of
fees that are entirely under the con-
troll of the Executive, and if Cover
nor Pattison, who now objects to
paying the employees of the House
and Senate for the fifty days extra
time they were detained at Harris
burg. in performance of their duties,
will explain how his two chief cabi-
net officers can pocket $4,000 All.
nually more than their combined
salaries, and not violate Sec. I'd,
Art. Sd Of the Constitution, which
prohibits "ertrd compensation IL
any officer, servant, employee &c,
he will be comforting great favor
on his hosts(?) of friends all over the
commonwealth, who are just burst
ing to boom him as conscientious
and consistent ''retormer."
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24
Numbering Negro COnvicts.

COLUMBIA, S. c., June.-The re-
ports are renewed of the barbsrous
treatment of the colored convicts nt
work on the Savannah Valley Rail-
road in this State. Nine Of these
unfortunate have died recently, it is
alleged, from the effects of cruel
treatment by contractors employed
by the railroad company. A few
days ago a squad of eight convicts
was returning from work to their
camp when one of the number es.
capped. The next morning the re-
manning seven were stripped and
beaten pnmercifully and in short
timeone of them died from the effects
of his whipping. Oa another occss
iona convict saw a fellowprisoner at
tempting to file off his shackles and
did not inform on him was 30 fright
fully whipped that he has not been
able to do any work since. Another
convict was bound up with wires
and beaten until his back was left
raw from his neck down, and he is
now lying in the camp in q critical
condition. 1t is said that the con-
victs are called up at 3 O'Clock in
the morning in order to reach their
place of work, which is five or six
miles away. that they are worked
until after dark and that they do
not get back to camp until about 3
O'Clock at night. Only one hour for
rest il allowed in the day and that
at dinner time. Seven disabled con-
victs from the railroad camp arri.
we'd at the penitentiary in this city
last night. They were in deplorable
condition and were placed in the
hospital.
By order of the Governor of the
State, Superintendent Lipscomb and
Surgeon Pope of the penitentiary
have gone to the convict camp in
Abbeville County to make an official
investigation into the matter. There
is little doubt that this Investigation
will show that a sufficient cause
exists to justify the demand which
was made so emphaticallv several
months ago, upon the report Of simi-
lar brutalities, that those exhibit
tions of inhumanity to these defence
less creatures shall henceforth be
made impossible by abolishing the
system of leasing eonvicts outside
the penitentiary.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24
A Mother Rescues her Iaperilea Dab,
frsm . Darnsug BaG1aaug.

PINE GROVE, Pa, June 19.-The
dwelling of Mrs. James Howard,
located about three miles from this
place, was totally destroyed by fire
last night, including all the house
bold effects and clothing. The oc-
barely escaped with their
lives. A small child was forgotten in
one ofthe beds up-stairs until the
fire was burning fiercely, but the
mother ran back into the burning
building and rescued it. Part of its
clothing was burned from the body.
Loss. 5000; partly covered by i'm
surance in home companies. The
origin of the FIRE 10 supposed to
have been incendiary.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24

EAsroN. June 16.-About II
o'clock this morning Mrs. Henry
Sigman placed her ten months old
son on bed for bis accustomed nap.
When the mother LEFT the child vas
sound asleep. About nooh she re-
turned to make . most agonising
discovery. The little one had wax
ened and had crawled to the bottom
of the bed, which was old-fashioned,
having rungs placed perpendicular
~. Between two of these the baby
had placed its head, and at the
esspe time had left its body swing
o6 to the side. The result was its
neck was broken.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24
Kentucky Factions Unaer Arms.

LOUISVILLE, KY, June 16.-A gen.
tleman just returned from Knott
county. KY, reports that the Hall
and Jones faction are under arms,
and an engagement between them
is imminent at any moment. The
Hall party numbers thirty -one and
the jones gang eighteen, and all are
armed with Winchester rifles ard
defy arrest from any and every
source. Monday OF last week, on
Beaver creek, Perry Sherwood and
Bill Hawk, the latter one Of the
most noted and bloodthirsty desper-
ADDE'S in the mountains, were way
laid, shot and killed by ambushed
enemies. They both belonged to the
Hall faction.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24

INDIANAPOLIS, June 19.-Frank
Whitney and Charles Daniels, con-
victed burglars, were arra:gned in
the Criminal Court yesterday.
Judge Norton asked Whitney if he
had anything to say why sentence
should not be pronounced. The
prisoner sprang to his feet, abused
the Court with a volley of profanity,
and then, tearing away from the
bailiff, hurled a pair of handouts
at the Judge. The missile passed
over the Judges head, shattered a
heavy plate glass. Whitney turned
fiercely upon the police. and had to
be soundly beaten before he was
subdued. His friends in the court
room pressed into the prisoners box,
and the officers were finally compel
led to draw their revolvers. The
two men were handcuffed and taken
to Michigan City prison.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, June 17.-Wal-
ter s. Amos. aged Is. attempted to
walk across field belonging To
Rush & Bro, adjoining this city,
when . man named John Mosier,
who was ploughing. called to him tn
atop. The boy did SO. when Mosier
deliberately walked to within five
feet Of him and shot him in the
back with shotgun. ipaicting a
wound large enough to admit a
mans closed hand. Mosier vent
on with his plowing until arrested
this afternoon. He appears to be
perfectly sane and says that he was
justified in shooting because the bog
had no business 70 cross the land.
Amos vss the only support Of Z
widowed mother.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24

Ohio in regard to the liquor laws.
Two years ago it won power by
promising the saloon keepers to an
null the Scott law, which imposed a
heavy license on the sale of liquors.
The farmers, however, kicked against
this, as it threw the burden Of tax
alton on them, and the party lead
ers called a halt. Finally they had
the law declared unconstitutional, and
then, with the fear of taxpayers be-
fore their eyes, they have refused
to pay back the 100000 in the
Treasury which was collected under
the unconstitutional law. Such
crookedness is enough 10 shame the
devil.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24
Casualties During the Late War.

WAsHINGroN, d. c., June 17.-Ad.
jutant General Drum has completed
list of casualties in the Federal
army during the late war. The ag-
gregate number of deaths is shown
to have been 359, ,496. Of these &c..
49S occurred among Union soldiers
held as prisoners of war. The total
number of troops reported as fur
nished by the various calls was q
772,408. Some of the returns were
duplicated, and it is estimated that
the actual number was about 2,5OO,-
coo -
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24

PrrrsBuRc, Pa. June ia Post
Sharon (Pa). special says: Thomas
O'Day, aged So years, was shot and
killed by his son John aged 81 years,
this evening about 6 o'clock. John
had been drinking heavily, and, re-
turning home with shotgun, kill
ed the family cat. His father rep
rimanded him, when he picked up
the gun and shot him in the abdo-
men. Death was almost instanta.
neous. John was arrested and lodg-
ed in Jail. When he realized what
he had done he tried to commit
suicide, but was frustrated in the at
tempt by his brother.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24

Hon. GEORGE JENKs, of Jefferson
County, has accepted the appoint,
ment Of Assistant Secretary of the
Interior, rendered him by Secretary
Lamar. Mr.. jerks is one of the
ablest lawyers in western Pennsyl-
vania. The position he was ap-
pointed to was created by the last
Congress.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24

SAReEANr MASON, who was i'm
prisoned and lionized for attempting
TO shoot Guiteau while in prison, and
for whose wife and child Betty and
the baby quite handsome sum of
money was raised. has become a
drunkard and is in prison for theft.
Betty" is suing for a divorce on ac-
count of his cruel treatment of her
and the baby.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24

IT looks as if the anything to
beat Quay" movement, in which c.
L. Magee of Pittsburg and the Phila-
delphia Press were co-laborers has
died a borning. The Press of Satur-
day last in an article headed "The
Magee movement dead" says: :
"when he left Philadelphia last night
on the 1905 the Magee movement
in Philadelphia for delegates to the
State Convention was also vanish
ing. There has been a topping Of
political structures 80 for as the
Smith-Lane-Magee architectural
combination is concerned Appar-
emily, the McManes-Leeds-D
movement, that is said to be for
Quay, will have no opposition in
the selecting of the delegates. The
Press as usual wriggles out of the
wreck, and shoulders the future on
its ally Magee.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24

ST. LOUIS. June 17.-Reports from
the Indian Territory state that Will
liam Williamson, Peter Moon and
George Morgan members of gang
OF desperadoes and horse-thieves,
were overtaken yesterday near Heal
ton by a vigilance committee and
hanged to tree. Other members
Of the gang are being pursued and
will be similarly dealt with il
caught.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24

HoNKERs, n. Y, June 16.-Last
nirht . watchman at one of the car
pek mills hoGo discovered two glass
jan ccnnected with burning fuse,
in : doorway. He seized the fhse,
PIT out the Ere threw the jars in
ne ash pan. covered them with
ashes and then gave an alarm. The
jars were taken to the police station
and examined to-day by Messrs-
O'Brien and Clarke, the aqueduct con-
tractors, who say that one jar con-
tanned four pounds Of dynamite,
enough to blow up half the CITY.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24

So FAR, the President has found
no use for the old "wheel horses" OF
the party, that have become ring
boned and spawned pulling in the
party traces. With followed eyes,
stiffened limbs and projecting bones
they are hobbling around the po-
litical boneyard, where they soon
will surely lie.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24
A Burglars Dassardly Crime,

BUFFALO, June 17.-Mrs. w. F,
Holmes, of jamestown was seized
last night i'll her house by an un-
known man, who compelled her to
tell the whereabouts of her money,
of which he secured $50. He then
bound and gagged her and attempt-
ed to burn the house. Her son dis.
covered the FIRE and with help sue
seeded in putting out the flames.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24

CHICAGO, June IA Times dis
patch from Parsons, Kansas. says
there is now making its Way in that
vicinity ascourge equal TO the grass.
hoppeF. Large fields Of corn, stand.
ing on IN average eight inches high,
looking fresh s1d grssa il The morn
ing. before nighe become withsred.
Examinatioo 1iDslosss in each hill
. myriad Of worss, saaGing tron
an inch and = au1rte AsUa = enc
eighth Of an ineh = 1ssgth. Ap-
parently they booouDe ooopletsly
distributed ovsf . LID, thsa com-
mencp simaltaneously 70 work, and
within = vsgy shest time the whole
field i dsvastatod. Nearly every
pieoe Of corn y infsstsd. Tie worm
is termed By The farmsss the vet
worm.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24

Many anscrupulous dsaiass may
Asll YOU they have remedies for
'Cooshs and Gelds, equal 10 merit
sad in every respeee just - good ~
the old reliable Dr.. BosankOs Cough
and Lung Syrup. snd unleas you in
sist upon this remedy and will take
no other. you are liable to Be great
lv deceived. Price 30 cents and
s1M: Sold By c. n. Boyd, Drug
gist, Somerset, Pa.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24

The Philadelphia Press is howl
ing that "apportionment" will be
the leading issue in the coming cam
paign. What in the world has a
State Treasurer to DO with ap-
portionment? Most people know
that it is the Legislature and not the
Treasurer upon whom that duty is
devolved by the Constitution.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24

The late Legislature passed an
amendment to the Constitution abol-
ishing the poll tax as qualification
for voting. As this amendment how
ever, must be passed by the next
Legislature, and then be ratified by
a vote of the people before il be-
comes part Of the Constitution OF
the State, the tax win have to be as
sessed and paid until these require
meets are complied with.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-06-24

SIMULTANEOUSLY with the an
nouncement that Secretary Man.
ming has caused the discharge OF
three hundred Internal Revenue
employees since March 20th, comes
the Commissioner report of a large
falling off in the revenue. Is the
whisky ring getting in its work..