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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-08-18
BLOODY
Fighting With Rifles on H~ouse-tops
by Moonlight.

BELFAST. Aug. l5.-Rioting here has been
resumed. From midnight last night until
four O'Clock this morning . rifle fight was i'm
progress on the shank Hill road and theo Old
Falls road. Onepsrson was killed and many
were wounded.
The town IS seething, Sectarian strife has
REQUIRED in a deplerabie, eold-bIoeded fash
ion. Expert marksmen this morning con-
Quoted a rife-fight from rooftops, chimney,
stacks and stree corners. Immense crowds
of partisans. who carefully kept out of range,
were prepared to assist in supplying ammu-
milton and removing Ia -wollnded- The
sides were equally divided. The moon shone
brightly throughout the contest.
The Orangemen admit that one Of their
men, named MacFarlane, was killed and
that two Others were MORALLY wounded also
that there were numerous minor casualties on
their side. They claim that they killed and
wounded many Catholics, but the latter de-
ny that they sustained serious losses. Many
houses were riddled with bullets. Whenever
the military appeared the combatants shifted
their ground.
Finally, AT five o'clock. after the Riot act
had been twice read. the troops charged upon
the crowd and cleared the streets temIorari-
ly. An old man and two women, the in
mates of a house ON Conway, from which
many shots had been fired. were arrested
They stated that three men had forced an
entrance into the house and had remained
there all night firing from the roof. \ how
ing crowd escorted the prisoners to the jail.
The mob to-day repeatedly fired upon the
police. A tavern owned by a Cotholic, stu
ated in a Protestant district. was looted. The
order instructing the police to use backshot
instead of bullets has been cancelled. The
populace is sullen and menacing,
An Orange procession, while passing
through the streets of Widnes, Lancashire,
yesterday evening, was jeered at by the spec
tators. The Orangemen thereupon broke
ranks and attacked the crowd. Ont OF the
spectators was stabbed and mortally wound
ed, and two policemen and Il number of
other persons were injured.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-08-18

MR. CHAsLEs ;. WOLFE Is making an
active campaign in search of the Prohi-
bition nomination for Governor lie
turns up At a majority of the county con-
ventions, and tries 20 @enthuse those
present by the most extrsvagant predic-
tons of success, and Of the utter over
throw of the Republican party, against
which he spits out all the bile of his vim
dictiye nature. At Scranton the other
dav he talked for over two hours. He
denounced the Prohibition plank IN the
Republican platform, and predicted the
defeat Of the Republican party in the
next National campaign because of the
growing strength of the Prohibitionists,
and wound up by declaring that after
the Republicans we've defeated in the
state and Nation, the Prohibitionists
would form an invincible party that
would free the Nation from sectional bit
temess. The more this demagogue talks,
the o it becomes evident that he Is
laboring 10 run the Prohibition move
ment as a side show TO the Democratic
party in the coming campaign
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-08-18
A Fathers Fiendish Act.

EFFISGHAM, ILL, Aug. ga rumor was
circulated to-day that a horrible tragedy, fol-
lowed bv a lynching, occurred near George
town, twenty miles south of here. The
names of the parties could not be learned.
The information was that a party were
threshing grain, when a young son of the
man feeding the thresler accidentally hack
ed his fathers hand with a knife he was us
ing to cut bundles with. This so enxaged
the father that he picked his SON up and
threw him into the thresher. the boy being
literally cut to pieces. The father fled. but
was soon captured by machine hands and
neighbors and lynchedby being hanged from
the thresher into which he had thrown his
his SON.. The rumor produced quite a SEN
safian-
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-08-18
Shocking Accident at Charters.

PITTSBURGH, August ia horrible acct
worker named John Cummins. occurred this
morning at the works of Anderson, DePuy
x Co.. at CHARTERS. Mr.. Cummins had just
come To the mill, and was employed as a
greaser ut the train of rolls. Thu train had
been started, but the water pipes which were
used to cool the rolls and the couplings We're
clogged up in some way or other. and Cum
minis took a stick and commenced hammer
ing ON the pipe to start the flow of water.
No one was near the rolls at the time and it
is not known just what happened, but il Is
supposed that the end of the stick caught in
the couplings, drawing Cummins into them.
He went in headforemost. The space be-
tween the couplings is about 5-inches.
Through this the body of Cummins was
drawn, crushing the body in a frightful man
ner. and COMPRISING it into a thin mass of
flesh. Then when the body passed through,
the feet caught under the couplings and he
was Drawn back. By this time the ether
workmen caught sight of the unfortunate
man, and in an instant the rolls were stop
ped. The body was taken out and the Cor
oner was notified. An inquest was held at
noon to-day and a verdict in accordance
with the above facts was rendered. Cum
minis was IA married man and was about
s~eventy-five years of age.
The accident was one of the most shocking
ones in the city for some time, and raised
considerable excitement at CHARTERS. The
body, after being taken out of the rolls, was
removed TO an undertakes. Ii was crushed
beyond all semblance of humanity.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-08-18
Terrible Fall From a Roof.

READING, Pa, August l0.-Jerome Seiders,
aged 80 years, fell this morning from the
roof of the new st. Luke's church in this
city, now being erected by his father, Jerc-
miah Seiders, contractor. He was engaged
in fixing a hoist. when his hold broke, and
he fell a distance of 10 feet. He rolled over
the edge of the roof and descended with
frightful velocity to the roof Of the second
story residence next door. Here he struck
ON the edge, bounded off again and fell ON a
bench. on which lay a heap of carpet, in the
yard. He struck on his side, and the bench
was splintered by the force of his fall. 1t is
thought the carpet saved his life. He was
picked up in an unconscious condition, hav-
ing sustained severe internal injuries and II
frightful cash on the side OF his head.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-08-18
A Vessel of Death.

EVANSVILLE Ind, Aug. l5.-Township
Trustee Spreget was notified yesterday that
his services were wanted at the river. He
was directed TO a small family boat lying
near the w~aterworks. TIL craft was a non
deScript vessel and bore evidences of hard
usage. Its bow was STAYED and nearly the
entire roof blown off. The cabin of the boat
was about ten feet long and twelve wide.and
in this miserable. cooped-up box were twelve
persons whose every appearance was all evil
dence of pinching and gaunt poverty.
Holoweyed. emaciated and with scarcely
a rag of covering they lay upon the bare.
dark floor Of the boat huddlei together, and
all contending with that dread malarial fe-
yer. In the midst Of them lay the dead
body of AN aged woman. partially decom-
posed. Over this a piece of rag carpet had
been thrown. the living occupants being too
i'll to move the body. The Trustee at once
sent for a patrol wagon and removes the
sufferers 10 the hospital and then AN inquest
was held, a verdict of death from malarial
fever being rendered.
George Rush, one of the occupants of thu
boat, was seen at the hospital tonight. He
was very i'll, but ablet to give a clear narrative
of the terrible and siekening experience 10
which they had been subjected. The story,
almost beyond PARALLEL. was as follows:
Until three weeks ago, George and John
Bush, brothers, were farmers in Meade coun-
", Kentucky, about twelve miles from the
mouth of the salt River. Their land was
poor, and it was with much difficulty that
they obtained sufficient food to keep the
wolf from the door. They finally became
disheartened and determined TO try to better
their condition further West. To this end
they constructed a small boat, and on sun
day, July p. both families. consisting of the
two brothers, their wives, and nine children,
thirteen in all, together with their little be-
~longings, embarked in the boat and started
on their terrible trip down the river.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-08-18
Swallowed His Teeth.

BosToN, Aug. l5.-Yesterday a remark
able surgical operation was performed at the
Massachusetts General Hospital by DIR.
Maurice II. Richardson, of this city. About
a year ago John Mccarthy swallowed a set
of artificial teeth. The passage of food to
the stomach was almost wholly prevented,
the patient grew emaeiated and weak, and
it became evident that unless relief was had
he must soon die. DIR. Richardson made a
transverse cut in the left side of the abdo-
men. through which the mans stomach was
drawn out, and then cut open, when by the
insertion of his arm 10 the elbow, DR.. Rich
ardson was able to reach and remove the
teeth, The internal opening was then closed
with fine silk and the stomach replaced, the
external cut being also closed with stitches.
The whole operation was complete in forty
five minutes. The patienti is doing well, and
his complete recovery is now co nsidered
little less than certain.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-08-18
A Cold RIooded Assassination.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. August IA cold
blooded murder was perpetrated at Rockford,
in Kent county. this morning. which has
thrown the town into great excitement, and
lynching is freely talked of. The murderer,
John Boyd. being ON a heavy drunk all
night, stole a breech-loading revolver from a
harness shop, Went TO the residence of viii
liam b. Johnson, a most prominent citizen,
called him 10 the door and deliberately shot
him through the heart, killing him instant
ly. Boyd bears a bad name. but is of a
good family. After the shooting he ccolly
walked down the street. threatening all he
met and Dragging Of what he had done. He
also attempted to shoot two other citizens.
He il undo arrest. awaiting investigation.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-08-18
Each Thought The other Dead.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, August l6.-James
Starnes. who returned to this city last week
with a pretty young wife after AN absence of
thirty years in California, believing his first
wife dead, only to find the latter alive, is in
an unfortunate predictament. He has two
wives and dosen't know what 10 do with one
of them. Both Starnes and his first wife
believed each other dead as he had gone west
to seek a home for his family and was never
heard from. Neither could he learn a word
concerning his wife, and she never received
his letter or 81 600 which he sent her.
Starnes was married in 1s40 and the couple
were devoted to each other. Now that he
has found her alive and that she has re
manned true To her troth plighted forty-six
years ago, his old love has been rekindled.
and yet he loves the young wife whom he
brought from California and who fairly wor-
ships her aged husband. They are all living
in he same house at present, but the state
of affairs cannot last long, as the wives, who
at first were affec tionate towards each
other, are becoming very jealous. Thu hus-
band cannot decide which wife will have
exclusive claim to his affections. The two
baby boys whom he left when he went West
now nave families. while by his second wife
he has a four year old girl.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-08-18
Explosion of an Oil Well Boiler

WASHINGTON, Pa, August l4-Late this
afternoon a new boiler at the Coast Il Sons
oil well. ON the W. W. Smith farm exploded
with terrific force. The boiler was split in
two parts, and one of them was blown two
thousand feet away. the other being thrown
fully three hundred yards. The boiler house
was scattered in fragments all over the farm.
Three tank builders standing near got the
full force of the explosion. One of them
named John Bryan. of East Brady, was in
stantly killed, while Conrad Shupe and
John White are horribly scalded and in a
serious condition. Ii is imEossibleso ascer-
tain whether the explosion was caused by
low water or high pressure.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-08-18
The Western Storms

EVANSVILLE, lyD, Aug. ia cyclone
struck Ncwburg, u village fifteen miles above
here, last night and created great damage to
property. Roofs were blown of, trees up
rooted, and Bethel's Touring mill partly de
stroyed. One large barn was lifted from its
foundation, carried 100 yards and deposited
in the river.
WABASH, Ind, Aug. l5-One of the heav-
lest wind and rain storms which has ever
visited the Upper Wabash Valley swept over
this county late on Friday night, blowing
down hundreds of trees, destroying timber
and fences, and in many cases uprooting and
breaking off whole fields of corn. TIE loss
on the corn crop is very severe, many farm
ers having lost all. Rain fell in torrents, and
the streams are bank full.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-08-18

FoRT HOWARD, Wis, Aug. 13.-Reports
aggerated. Fort Howard and Green Bay are
enyeloped in dense smoke. and all around
the outskirts of the town can be seen the
flames as they burst from the distant woods.
ces and grass along the tracks are either
burned or are now burning. North of Little
Greek is a large cranberry swamp in which
the bushes are all on fire and burning fierce
ly. One of the most peculiar effects of the
fire is the action of the animals, which seem
to be apprehensive of some great danger.
The cattle and horses huddle together, for
getting to feed. and stamp the ground res
lively. Around Green Bay the damage has
been heavy. but the greatest loss has been
suffered in the 0conto region. Last Monday
night the fire reached Depere and burned
%fiffy-one buildings, including a church and
several stores, The fires, according to the
latest reports, are rapidly dying out, and I'M
less a gale of wind shouAa spring up will
probably cause little more damage.
EAU SLAIRE. Wis, Aug. 13.-The superior
regions are well burnt over, but fires have
broken out afresh in a number of localities
ON the upper Chippewa since Tuesday, and
are raging fearfully. The settlements are
few in that direction, and the loss will be
confined to standing pine and hemlock. On
Yellow River. forty miles northeast of here.
the fires have lone irreparable damage.
Hurlbut Brothers of this city narrowly e.
capped with the loss of their mill and a Z guam
tity of lumber. The fires are having their
W way hut men are now stationed at the
logging camps and the hay marshes to save
that property if possible.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-08-18
U. S. Minister Hopkins Dead.

WASHINGTON, August 1.-THE Snu says
A cable message received from Sierra Leone
by a gentleman of this city announces the
Resident and Consul General from the Unit
ed States to Liberia. No particulars are
given. He arrived at Monrovia ON Decem-
Der 9th last, and wrote hopefully of the pros
poets of the Republic Mr.. Hopkins was of
unmixed African blood. born a slave some
forty years ago, and on graduating from Au-
burn Theological Seminary became an ear
nest laborer for the elevation of his race and
the redemption Of Africa.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-08-18

EVERY Republican voter in the county
should see to it that he is properly regis
tered before the first day Of September
This duty should not be put off but
should be attended TO at nee The cleo
ton this year is very important, and
should arouse the Interest Of every Re
publican voter in the county. See TO IT
friends, that every voter il properly reg
istered. We want 10 make the old county
count for al she is worth in November
next.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-08-18
Combat with Knives.

CHATTANOOGA, TENN, Aug. IA terrible
triple tragedy secured at Graysyille, on the
line of the Cincinnati Southern railway.
twenty miles from this city. last night.
Rev. +. NJ. Bandy and ohn Davis, the latter
a prominent farmer, had adificulty over the
attention of Davis to Bandy's daughter. The
youdg lady's brother attempted to whip Da-
Wis, and the latter beat him to death, crush
ing his skull with a stone AT this jnncture
the minister drew a knife and attacked Da-
Wis Both men fought with knives, and
each was mortally wounded Bandy is dead
and Davis dying All the parties are well
known.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-08-18

THE President has kicked Hesiden.
whom he appointed a brief year since TO
please the Mugwnmps. GU of the Custom
House in New York. and appointed Dam
lei Magone collector in his stead. Daniel
is a rip-snorting Democratic NIX inc
politician, and his appointment is due
and timely notice 30 the Mugwumps that
the President is done with sentimental
politics, and that in future his appoint
ments will be placed where they will do
the most good towards securing his re
nomination.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-08-18

New YoRK. August ls.-Dr. Frank H.
Hamilton, who became wen known 70 the
country at large five years ago as one Of the
distinguished surgeons attending President
Garfield during his lingering Illness, died
here this morning, aged Is years. DIR. Ham,
ilion has been i'll for some time pad, and his
death resulted from the general failure Of his
system to take nufriment. He was a native
of Vermont, and graduated from the Medi-
cal Department Of the University of Penn
syivania in 1888.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-08-18
A Big Load of saw-Iogs.

SEATTLE, Aug. l2-The biggest load of
saw-logs ever hauled over q road in Wash
ington Territory recently arrived at Seattle.
There were 10 logs ranging from "a to 10
feet in length. The longest ones are intend
ed for vessels masts, and one has a diamete
of SO inches and another AZ inches in the
middle. The latter contains 1900 feet of
lumber, and the total measurement is about
100000 feet. Their gross weight is about
$4,000 pounds, and they are to be shipped
to the Atlantic coast
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-08-18
A Town WhirIed away by a Storm

FoRT FEoGH, VI. T.. August 1.-THE new
town Of Lusk, in Northern Wyoming. was
swept out of existence by a storm on sun
day. 1t contained several hundred inhabi-
tants, and was built of tents and Temporary
structures of boards. Tents. boards and
canvas were wrenehei from their mooring-
and whirle,i away. Yards of canvas were
scattered everywhere along the ~neighboring
foot bills and even far up among the noun
ruinS
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-08-18
Development Of Hyarophobia.

BAY CRY, August i6-One week ,o,
Ethbert Nicholson agei i. had a finger biz
ten by a pet dog aid the dog died II h,l
exhibited uninis,akahi, signs of hydrupho-
bia. No attention was paid to the wound
until last night. The Young man had ~
tired. apparently in his usual health. fut
soon awakened the family with his barkinc
and growing. Physicians were summoned
and at once pronounced the case hyeiropbo
bia. His paroxysms were - violent AMI
desperate be had to b. eliIan,forms~l.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-08-18

WTrHINa few weeks past James Gordon
Bennett, editor of the New York Herald.
has been tried in England and fined the
round sun of $4,000 for a libel, printed
in New York and circulated in England.
suppose the Court had also imprisoned
Bennett, would your Uncle Sans Secre-
tary of State have been found shaking
his fist under Johnny Bulls nose as he
is now doing under that of Mexico's
President? Ifnot, why not2 The cases
of Bennett and Cutting would then have
been precisely similar.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-08-18
WHiSkEY SOURS.


Ina speech AT Lakeside. Ohio. the ~eloouep
and earnest temperance advocate ]. Ellen
Foster said:
am opposed to the Prohibition party
because consider il a delusion and a snare,
and Think il a great hindrance TO temper.
ance work.
The third party would hurt prohibition
in Kansas and Iowa Il there was enough If
II.
The third party did nothing TO secure
prohib'aon IN Georgia. The people down
There don't believe in il.
The third party did not secure prohibi-
ton IN Iowa The people did it.
The third party is doing prohibition
more harm than the sdherents Of high Ii
cense."
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Four rramps Cremated.

Rel WING, MINI. August 13.-lheldon
Il Co.'S elevator at Eggleston, was burned
saturday night. The burning debris fell
upon the railway track and the up freight
train was thrown frDm the track after the
engine had passed and II ears, loaded with
merchandise, machinery and ties, were burn
ed. Ofnine tramps who were in a box ear,
four were burned To death, three seriously
injured and two escaped unhurt. The name
of one of these burned was ascertained-R.
w. Martin. of Illinois.
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TERMS:

Ten per cent. on day OF sale one-third Of bal
ancc on confirmation Of sale One-thirl on The IL
Of April. 1877 and one-third in one year from LAY
Of sale. with Interest.
JACOB kOONIZ,
Aug H. AdmiuiStnator of ". Il. II. Lohr. decd
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Robbers Kill a Whole Family.

MtRIcoPA, Arizona, Aug-2-Bernard Mar
tin of Weaver, Arizona, with his wife and
two children. Started on July 70 for Erie. Pa.
on Il visit. Not being heard from, search
WAS made, which resulted yesterday in find
ing the charred remains of the entire family
between Vulture Mine and Phoenix. Martin
is known to nave had $1,000 with him, reali-
zed from the sale of his ranch. He was way
laid by robbers, the entire family waz muir
dered, and their bodies were burned to cover
the crime
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-08-18

The struggle among leading Democrats
for the apparently barren Guhernatorial
nomination in to-day's convention al
Harrisburg is accounted for in this way.
II is hoped that the Prohibitionis,s will
so disrupt the Republican ranks that the
Democratic candidate viii slip in, and
that the fact of his carrying the great
State Of PENNSYLVANIA will make him the
Presidential nominee in 1883. IL isplay-
ing the game pretty fine, but the Presi-
dency is the g~littering bauble that is
squirting on the Democratic candidates
for Governor in the Harrisburg Conyen-
ton
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-08-18
He Scents the storm from Altar

BURLINGTON. Iowa, August 12-The mete-
~orologist. Prof Foster. says that one of the
greatest storm periods of 1855 will begin on
August rs and continue till the 9th, during
which the great drought will be completely
brokenby heavy rains. hail and tornadoes. \
tropical hurricane will prevail on the south
east Atlantic coast between the 10th and 10Th
These storms will be general, and Iowa,
Illinois, the New England States, eastern
Canada. and Labrador will be in the danger
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Barn Burned.

LANCASTER. August PA large barn OF
f.. {. Musselman. al Strasburg, was burned
last night with out-buildings and contents,
including several head of cattle and all the
seasons crops. Loss 800; partially insur-
ed Supposed %incendiary origin.
LANCASTER Aug. l4@Search in the ruins
of the Musselman barn. destroyed by fire at
Strssburg, this county, disclosed the presence
OF hip bones and other human remains. +.
Alexander, a dissipated character of the
borough. was seen 10 90 in the direction of
the barn shortly before the fire. and as he
has not been seen since, the remains diseoy-
cred are believed to be his, and that he set
fire to the barn while trying to light his
min.