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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-07-01
COwhiding a Girl.

WATERLOO, Iowa, June 21.-Miss
Shaffer, a girl II years old, and a
school teacher at Clarksville, recent
ly incurred the enmity of family
named Farney. On Tuesday even
ing, as she was returning from
school, she was met by Mrs Farney
and her daughter. The mother seiz.
ed Miss Shaffer and held her while
the daughter beat her over the back
and shoulders with a rawAide. The
beating was continued for sever
nj minutes. Finally Miss Shaffer
escaped and made her way home
with the blood running down oyer
her clothes from the wounds made
by the whip. A physician who ex-
amined Miss Shatfer pronounces
her breast and back in fearful con-
dition and she is suffering from ner-
vous prostration. Mrs. Farney and
her daughter have been arrested.
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kentucky vendettas.

LOUISVILLE, June 26.-A gentle
man Just returned from the noun.
tains of Eastern Kentucky says a
most alarming condition of affairs
exists in that section of the state
No less than four armed bands are
hunting each other like wild beasts
over the mountains. Last week
Talt Hall, a desperado, and one o.
his followers named Johnson shot
and killed Frank Sayer in his owr
doorway because he objected to
Halls intimacy with his (Sayer's)
wife. At the Coroner's inquest The
following day Hall. the murderer
took exception to the selection o
Claiborne Jones as a juryman
Jones resented this, and the two go'
their friends and fought in an oper
field. Two of the Hall faction were
killed and several wounded
The gentleman reports that II
Letcher county, during the session
of court on June s, Lincoln Banks
noted desperate, was shot anc
killed by James Frazier, a merchant
of Whitesbury, Ky. Banks will
his drunken gang, was trying Il
take possession of Fraziers stor'
when he was killed.
A murder is also reported from
Harlan county, which occurred Jun'
II. John and Dick Gross waylait
and shot George Burkhart, thell
brother-in-law, last October. Th'
intended victim recovered, ant
meeting John Gross last Wednesda,
shot and killed him. All of tn
above desperadoes are still at larg'
and ready and ambitious for blood
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Clasped I'm Death.

NORTH SALEM, Ind, June %
Just before the Indianapolis, Deca
tur and Springfield Railroad enters
this town is a long piece of trestle-
work, over which the road crosses
Duck creek. Last night as the st.
Louis express came upon the tres
tie the engineer saw three women
on the track. He at once reversed
his engine and applied the air-brakes
The shrill shrek of the whistle
warned the women of their danger
and at the same time fear seemed to
paralyze them. In an instant the
engine crushed in upon them, throw.
ing them off the trestle to the ground
below.
Just before they were struck the
engineer saw two Of them CLASP
hands, and when their dead bodie:
were picked up they were still clas
ped in death. The third woman
was still alive, but SO badly injured
that her recovery is exceedingly
doubtful, She was unconscious
but letters found upon her person
show that she is Mrs. Sarah Wilson
of indianapolis, and that the tive
dead girls were her daughters.
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yellow Fever Vessels at Quarantine

WASHINGTON. d. G., June 25.-
The Marine Hospital Bureau has
been officially informed of the arri-
val of the Norwegian ship Nat. from
Cienfuegos, at the Delaware Break
water Quarantine with two cases of
yellow fever on board, and of the
arrival of the schooner Peter G..
Schultz from Mobile to Philadelphia
at the Cape Charles Quarantine with
suspicious cases of fevor on board,
from which the captain had died.
The patients on the Nat were remov-
ed to the Quarantine Hospital and
the vessel disinfected. The captain
of the Schultz has been buried on
Fishermen's Island until his re-
mains can safely be removed to his
home in New York. The sick
were removed to the hospital. The
vessel will be detained for disinfec-
ton
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-07-01

GOVERNOR PArTIsoN has affixed
his signature TO the new marriage
law, and it will go into operation on
the LIST day of October next.
On anG after that date, no person
can be joined in marriage in Penn
sylvania without first obtaining a
license from the Clerk OF the Or
phans' Court of the county in which
the marriage is to take place, and
any minister or officer who shall
marry persons without such license
will he fined sl00.
Minors can be married under the
new law by filing the consent Of
their parents or guardians with the
Clerk of the Court, properly ac-
knowledged before notary or otheI
officer, which will warrant the issue
of the license.
Informal marriages may be enter
ed into under the new law. as ir
the past, by the mere agreement o
parties, but all such marriages mus
be hrst authorized by license ISSUED
on application of the parties to th'
contract.
The fee ixea by law for the Ii
cense lie City cents. to- be paid to th'
clerk issuing il.
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EiopiDg ON a L Locomotive.

LuRAY, Va, June 2S.-Alexander
Watson, a farmer, eloped on loco
motive last night with Berthe Adams,
daughter of Charles Adams, another
farmer. Watson had vainly sought
the consent of the girls parents and
when they locked the girl up in her
room he arranged to elope with her.
He went to the house this morning
about two o'clock and scaled lad
der to his sweetheart's window. She
had previously informed him that
her parents had carried out Of the
ropm all her clothing and Watson
had started with an entire costume
for her use. He lost it on the way
and the girl was compelled to wrap
blanket around her night-dre9 for
the journey. Watsons brother-in-
law, an engineer on the Shenandoah
Valley Railroad, had his engine at
q water station near by, and the f1y-
ing couple Immediately drove there.
They were married this morning In
Luray Caverns. -
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Grant Doing Wen.

MOUNT McGREGoR, June Is
General Grants nightly six drops Of
morphia was divided into two doses
last night, and the result was that
he had the best night he has had
for many weeks. A thunderstorm
continued until noon, and the Gen
eral did not rise until, it had ceas-
ed. During the night or morning
his voice was so clear Dr. Douglas
had, from his room, heard the Cen
eral talking with bis nurse, and at
IL o'clock today it had been quite
audible. Though l went to his
room once or twice in the night,
did not touch his throat until this
morning" said the doctor. The lit
tie attention needed he furnished
himself. The General was not dress
ed until about 2 p. NJ. He remark
ed that he might as we'll rest in his
room, for when up aud about he
often spoke in response to inquiries
or remarks and SO hurt his throat.
/ Through the afternoon General
Grant was out of doors nearly two
hours, but went inside the cottage
when rain began falling again be-
tween and 6 O'Clock. A pile OF
burning logs in the fireplace dispel-
led and chill of dampness- At this
time DIR. Douglas, as matter oi
curiosity, tried the Generals tenn.
perature and found it normal at 9S
His pulse was ~. There had been
little or no coughing during the day
the mucous secretions and expector'
alton having subsidized.
4 At9 O'Clock General Grant wa:
composed for the night. Soon aftel
DIR. Douglas said that he had found
his throat remarkably clear. There
had been no coughing during the
evening. "and," said, the physian
"if i can judge anything by indica
tons, we are to have good night
The indications are just as favora
BILE as last night. The day has no
only been one of quiet, but also on'
of actual rest"
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Grand Parade Of the Grand Army Of
Tho Republic.

PORTLAND, Me-. June 23-The
second day of the National Encamp-
ment Of the Grand Army of tho Re
public was as beautiful a day as
could be desired for the great pro-
cession. The streets through which
the procession passed were gty with
bunting and thronged with people.
At II o'clock the signal gun for start
ing the procession was fired, and the
great line moved forward without
confusion.
Not until the procession had pas
sed given point was it made ap-
parent how great is the number OF
Grand Army men now here. 1t had
been calculated that it would re-
quire two hours for the procession to
pass, but instead of that it occupied
more than three.
The most careful estimate of the
number of men in line placed the
figures at 25,000, of which number
10000 wore the uniform of the Grand
Army of the Republic. 1t appears
that some of the commanders in sew
eral of the departments had beer
overlooked in the instruction as t.
their positions in the parade, ant
those who were thus neglected, aftel
wandering about for time, anc
finding no place assigned for them
gave up the idea of joining in tn
procession, and took favorable posi-
tions for watching the marching o
their comrades. Entire Posts o
many of the departments. including
a number from the West, and ever
in the Department of Maine,did no
participate in the parade, and be
cause of this neglect it is calculated
that more than 5000 members Q
Posts did not parade.
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IT is within the memory OF al
most every newspaper reader, that a
couple of years since, the Internal
Revenue system was perseverlngly
assaulted by the Democrats for es-
tablishing, as they asserted, a sys-
tenn of spying into the private con-
duct and business affairs of citizens.
1t now appears that, notwithstand-
ing their professed disgust at the
espionage of the revenue system, a
large portion of the Democratic par,
ty is engaged at present in hunting
up charges against Republicans in
office, with the object of furnishing
excuses for their removal; the accus'
ed, moreover, being offered no op,
portunity to deny, or to defend
against the secret charges thus
made. The indecency of this pri.
vate spy system is in marked con
trast with the loud professions o
Indignation formerly put forth by
the sensitive democracy.
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General Grants Condition.

Mt. McGREGoR, n. Y, June 25.-
The day has been spent by General
Grant practically out of doors.
With DR.. Shrady and the family be
passed the afternoon upon the piaz-
"a of the cottage. The General wrote
much in a conversational way. nota
little of the writing having reference
to himself and his treatment. Dur
ing the present week the efforts OF
the doctors have been calculated to
build up the patients strength thus
this afternoon he stated that within
two weeks he has increased his food
two eggs per day, with 50-per cent.
more beef per diem. He is aware
that his weight is decreasing, and he
has on that account taken some IN
terest in the plan to renew bis
strength. He does not, however
force food upon himself as medi-
cine he Graves it now, whereas III
the early part of his convalescenct
he accepted food as a duty imposed
by the physicians.
The General himself said to-day
he felt that be was tiding along
about the same as yesterday but TIA
the time went slow and wearily. H'
watches the progress Of his illness
and notes the changes of treatmen
or conditions. He is himself able t.
touch the affected and painful parts
of his thoat with cocaine, but he Il
unable to cleanse the parts of accum
ulated mucus. He has learned, how
ever and to-day remarked the fact
that the cocaine is powerless to ALA,
the pains in the throat until the Sc
cretions of mucus shall first hav'
been washed away.
As to the immediate cause OF dis
comfort, the patient stated last even
{ ingstated that his greatest difficult.
, at present was with his breath. l
is believed that the General cal
scarcely breathe through the nasa
passages, owing to accumulations Q
, mucous secretions in the back par
of the head. General Grant full
8 appreciates the fact that he coul'
not sleep without the use of mol
phine and knows to a nicely th
E quantity is given him nightly.
After 10 O'Clock tonight ID
r Douglas said the General woulo
without douot pass as quiet a nigh
as any since coming here.
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Stabbed at q Ploughing Bee.

SCRANTON, June ga plough
ing bee on the farm of George Myers.
in Newton township, yesterday al
ternoon eliminated in murder.
Among those present at the bee
were Michael Finn and George Reed,
farmers living in the vicinity, and
who have hated each other most
heartily for some time. Reed par
took freely of the applejack which
was circulated among the farmers.
and when he was in a fighting mode
he provoked quarrel with Finn.
A farm hand employed by Myers
named Mitchell Padden interfered
and separated the eombatants. As
soon as peace was restored Padden
returned to his plough and Reed
went home for long, sharp knife,
armed with which he stole up be
hind Padden and stabbed him three
times in the back. producing three
! frightful wounds. Padden fell bleed
ing in the furrow and was carried
unconscious to the house of Farmer
Myers. where he still fingers. Hi:
death is hourly expected.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-07-01

DESvER, June 25.-The alterca-
ton between the Indians and cow-
boys on Beaver Creek, sixty miles
west of Durango, began on Saturday
in A dispute about horses, which
the Indians tried to steal. The
cowboys free into tepee, killing
three bucks, asquaw and a papoose.
At 10 o'clock that night Indians at.
tackled the hruse Of Genther, in the
Montezuma Valley, twenty miles
distant. Thel set it on fire aud
when he trid to extinguish they
poured seven bullets into his body
and shot his wife in the shoulder
She got the sx children out of the
house and hio in the bushes. Then,
carrying her hfant in her arms and
leading another child by the hand,
her other chillren following as best
they could. Ms. Genther wandered
all night through the sage brush.
barefooted AMI in her nighlclothes
Finally, near morning, she reached
neighbor's puse. Mrs. Gsnrher,
at last accouns, was in a very critl-
cal condition.
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colners Captured.

ScorrDALE, Pa, June 24.-Quite a
sensation was created here by the
arrest of Robert, Zephaniah and ia
cob Wolf for passing counterfeit
coin, some of which has been going
the rounds in Scottdale. For months
past three different young men have
been buying of Maurice Jackson.
Superintendent Of the Anglo Ameri-
can Roofing Company, a metal
which very much resembles silver,
though not as heavy. Mr.. jackson
noticed two of these parties lettering
about the roofing factory late in the
evening. He wanted them to get
away, and notified the police to look
out for them They were finally ar
rested about II O'Clock last night.
There was show in town yesterday
and they, no doubt, thought it was
good time to shove off some of the
queer" One of the party when
arrested endeavored to throw away
some Of the coin. 1t consisted OF
dollars, half-dollars, quarters, five
and ten cent pieces.
This morning officers with search
warrants succeeded in finding the
dies, material and some of the spu-
rious coin. The young men hail
from Regantown. about six miles
west of Scottdale. Jacob and Zeph
are married and seem to be rather
inoffensive men. Robert is silver
smith and has full set of tools. Ht
has not been at home for some time
having been a fugitive from justice
Considerable sympathy is manifest
ed for their mother, who is very
respectable old lady. The prison
ers are held awaiting action by th'
L. S. Marshal.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-07-01
No Wheat Failure IN oresoa.

PORTLAND, June 25.-Reports Of
county assessors in sixteen counties
of Eastern Organ and Washington
Territory shov that the wheat yield
of the presentseason will be II o0O,-
600 bushels lager than the entire es-
timated wheat yield this year of
Kansas. Walawalla county alone
has $4,000 acre. yielding 100000
bushels. Grolers are now harvest
ing the spring,rop, which at fifty
cents busheI ill distribute 81, 250.-
600 in what is tnown as the Inland
Empire, the graf wheat country of
Oregon and Washington Territory.
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VIcKsBURG, Miss, June 25.-At
Goose Lake in this State, Captain
Jackson was building a bridge
across the lake. Near the centre Of
the bridge guy rope broke, letting
the heavy hammer of the pile driver
into the lake. As it fell it struck
one of the workingmen, and be dis
appeared, nor could he be found by
diving To recover the hammer a
coGer-dam was built, eleven feet Of
water pumped out, and the hammer
dug up from five feet of mud. When
recovered the lower surface was
bloody, and the body vas apparent.
ly buried beneath il. The hammer
was put in place and work was re.
sumed Search for the body was
abandoned.
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Horse Thieves Reduced iR Number

DALLAS, Tex, June 25.-The citi-
zens' posse from Texas and the In
dian Territory side of the Red river,
in the neighborhood of Delaware
bend, who have for some time been
chasing the gang of outlaws who
have been numbering and stealing
horses and stock N that section
overlook the gang, captured eight OF
them and hanged them to one tree.
They proceeded few miles further
and captured four others, whom
they Killed in a similar manner.
This news is confirmed from Bur-
lington and Gainesville. About
three weeks ago three horse thieves
were lynched. making a total of Is
dead outlaws to the credit of this
posse. Fully 20 members of the
gang have been slain since las,
spring. and half dozen good Off
GERS and citizens have lost their lives
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An Elephant nreak,ng up Circus

LAPEER. Mich, June 24.-In the
performance of a circus here yester-
day large elephant become infu-
rated and turned upon the 5000
persons assembled under the canvas.
He tore up the seats, smashed the
furniture and made havoc generally
Women tainted, children screamed,
and general stampede followed.
The enraged elephant, after clearing
out the canvas, made break for
the woods near by, and mired him
self in an adjacent swamp, After
much difficulty he was extricated,
but five bullets were shot into his
side to tame him. In the panic
many persons were hurt and much
property was lost and damaged. No
fatalities occurred.
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A Boy Hung by Il Convict.

COUNCIL BLUFFS. Ia, June 20
Last Sunday a boy named Hayes,
aged l6, living near Persia left home
on horseback to attend the contir-
nation exercises at Neola. Yester-
day tie horse returned riderless.
A party cf 100 started out and to-
day found the body hanging to ?
tree. seven miles north Of Nicola.
Both his feet and hands were tied
1t is believed that the hanging was
done by a convict who escaped from
the Harrison county Jail last Mon
dav afternoon. who, fearing that
HAYES had seen and recognized him
hanged him to prevent him from
informing the authorities OF his
whereabouts. Hundreds OF armed
men are searching for hirn y
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School Children Married.

READING. Pa, June 24.-After the
graduating exercises of the Boys
and Girls High School in the Acad
emy of Music bere to-day it leaked
out that two of the graduates, Char
les P. Hoffman and Miss Sue Z
Buckley, had been married as fal
back as April 8 last. The groom il
the son of Rev. P. P. A. Hoffman
who is without charge. and the
bride is an orphan and when she
becomes of age will have fortune
of nearly $4,000 from her fathers
estate. The groom s father perform
ed the ceremony, and the bride to
day took up her residence with the
Hoffman family. She is only seven
years of age.
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Reading Inundated by Broken Wa
er-Main

READING. Pa, June 25.-During
last night the large Waterman lead
ing from the Hampden reservoir,
one of Readings sources OF water
supply, burst, and the houses in
the vicinity for several squares were
flooded. People who slept in lower
rooms were compelled to fly for
their lives. Garden truck was wash
ed out considerably. Several mar
row escapes were made from drown
ing. The water at Its highest was
from five to eight feet deep. The
cellars and lower stories of some
forty houses were flooded. The ac-
ciden: caused great excitement.
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ScoTTDALE, Pa, June 25.-Three
brothers named Wolf we're arrested
here yesterday charged with coun-
terfeiting. When arrested they had
a large amount of spurious money
in their possession. At their home q
satchel was also found, containing
moulds for different denominations
of coin.
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The BaItim6reaud Chio m PhiIa
dslphia-

PHILADELPHIA, June 24.-The
Councils this sternoon considered
the ordinance ranting permission
to the Baltimors rsand Ohio Railroad
to enter the city 1t is estimated by
Chief Engineer douglass that it will
cost sJ.000,000 20 build the road
through the cit. After being in
session nearly four hours Select
! Council by an unanimous vote pas
sed the 0rdipano.
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shot by a stage Driver


CHAMBERsBuRG, Pa, June 23.-A
shooting aifray occurred on Monday
evening on a stage running between
McConnelisburg and .Harrisonville,
Fulton county, in which w. S. Mos
ser, fsrmer, residing in Bedford
county. whowas passenger on the
coach, was fatally shot bv Albert
Richter, tue stage Griver. Mosser is
apowerful man and Richter a hunch-
back. The cause for the shooting is
assigned to liquor. Mosser was un-
der the influence of drink and began
abusing the driver, who shot him
four times in the body. Mosser is
still living, but will die. Richter is
in Jail in McConnelsburg.
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NOTWITHSTANDING the improve
ment in his general health, it is said
that General Grant is fully aware Of
the progress of his disease, and faces
the truth with the calmness and
courage that has characterized every
event Of his life.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-07-01

THE Cleveland Leader thinks that
the Republican who is elected Gov
ernor of New York this fall, will be
a prominent stick of Presidential
timber in 1888.
Perhaps SO; but as the old adag'
goes, "lightning does not often strike
twice in the same place"
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ence tedcuee u uedr scuooi, ou
will learn in no other.n

WHILE Democrats are pressing
rebels to the front here is the ticket
Of Union soldiers presented by the
Republicans of Ohio, as arranged
by the Dayton Journal:
For Governor-Captain Foraker.
For Lieutenant Governor-Brevet
Brigadier-general Kennedy.
For Attorney General Captain
Kohler.
For State Treasurer - Private
Brown.
For Member of the Board of Pub
lie Works-Brevet Brigadier-genera
Wells Jones.
The other man on the ticket, Judge
Geo. w. McIlvaihe, was during the
war one of the most active in thu
cause of the Union and in caring
for the comforts of those in th'
| field
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-07-01

IF the telegraphic reports of the
primary elections and conventions
held in many portions of the State
during the last week be reliable, the
nomination of Col Quay for Treas
urer at the coming State Convention
ia reasonably well assured.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-07-01

The "civil service reform and
the offensive partisan " dodge are
worn SO threadbare by Cleveland's
political friends, as to excite only a
smile of derisien when mentioned.
Why not be honest about, it and fall
back on the true Democratic princi-
pie, "to the victors belong the
spoils? 1t is quite as true and as
sound in theory and practice now
as when announced by William l.
Marcy, in the days of Andrew Jack
SON