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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-08-04
by Women.

PErR0LIA. July 2S.-A very sensational
horsewhipping occuered at Millerstown last
evening about : O'Clock. in which Peter \.
Rattigan, editor and proprietor of the Heruid,
and also the present Postmaster, figured as
the victim. Rattigan, under the head of
Butler items, has been rejecting quite severe
ly on the members of the Christian Temper
Temperance Union and those who are iden-
titled with the prohibition or Temperance
element in this county. Last week seven
coach-loads of the temperance people. among
whom were some prominent and influential
citizens, visited Rosters Park, at Slippery
Rock, and spent the day very pleasantly.
An article appeared in the Herald, Satur-
day edition giving a very uncomplimentary
description of the people composing the par
" and although dated Butler it is claimed as
Rattigsn's production. The ladies were par
ticularly selected a. targets and yesterday
evening, just prior TO the hour of closing the
postoffiee, twelve or fifteen women, armed
with whips, planted themselves near the en-
trance and awaited their victims appearance.
As soon as Rattigan stepped outside the door
they began belaboring him and only desisted
through exhaustion. Rattigan quietly stood
II and Offered no resistance. The affair has
created 10 little feeling and parties from the
town say the end is not yet, the matter hay
ing got into the hands of the sterner sex, and
a. Rattigan has innumerable friends trouble
is expected. The friends of Rattigan claim
husbands and masculine friends.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-08-04
Struggled ~Fire-Water.

BosroN, July "a red-faccd, jolly dri-
terday afternoon, and Unexpectedly revealed
a secret. He was coming up fremont street
from the North End, and, when opposite
the Common got in Il jam of truck teams,
one of which tipped oil u portion Of his load.
Among other things which fell into the
street were three wooden shipping cases fill
with eggs. The eases held forty-nine dozen
each. The cover of one ease was knocked off
and the egg went skipping over the pave
ment. Two nowsboys rushed in and began
to break and suck the eggs. \ large boy
cracked a shell and began to swallow its CON
tents, when he suddenly made a very wry
face.
Bad ?" asked IA bystander.
Nav was the reply " but it's a funny
tasting eggs Sever | seed
The other boy, after tasting one or two
eggs, turned to the crowd and said
"'Tain't an egg AT all it, nothing but
wlriskey.
OF curse there was Il scramble for the eggs
and the driver had hard work to got his box
back. When his boxes were all loaded
again. lac said he had received six eases of
eggs from a North End liquor dealer, who
told him To take them 20 The Providence de-
pot, and cautioned him To he careful and
not hatch the eggs on the way a. they
were for hotel use % Rhode Island.
Taking up one Of the eggs and breaking it
in front of the crowd, a ruddy liquid ran out,
leaving nothing but q common porcelain
shell, snch as is sold at agricultural supply
stores, for nest eggs. Instead of albumen
yoik, every egg was full of the best whiskey,
each one containing about enough for Il good
drink. They were filed through a small
hole in the big end, and the hole was closed
with waterproof cenlentai cloth of the same
color as the egg. By ciIalking the egg a lit
tie, the deception was complete.
They are going to Newport and Nara
gansett Pier, said the driver, " and I'll bet
lots of people viii eat eggs down there who
never liked them before.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-08-04
A Hoosier Maiden Whips Two
Men.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Aug. Miss Fannie
0~ppenheimer, a rather attractive young lady
who Is associate editor of the German Tfi
hume, a daily evening paper. was told this
morning by n eofh her reporters that inprop-
er use of her name had been made in a al
niture dealer, and that George Duluth, a son
in-law of Rocker, had made remarks at the
Milwaukee Saengerfest of a nature damaging
to her character.
This afternoon Miss ~oppenheimer, accom-
panied by her sister, Mrs. Augustine, called
upon Mr.. Rocker at his place of business.
When questioned about the matter he at first
denied having said anything rejecting on
the character of the lady, but finally admit
that he had said something.
He had handy uttered the word when a
whip, which had been concealed in the folds
of Miss oppenheimer's dress, began TO play
with singing forceupon his face. He vainly
tried % protect himself from the blows, but
the young lady ceased only when exhausted
from the exertion She afterwards visited
Duluth's place of business and proceeded
to administer to him a vigorous flashing.
He resisted the assault, and Miss Open
heimers sister came To her assistance, and
together they gave Duluth a severe whip
ping. He succeeded. however. in disarm-
ing them, after which they eoolly walked
away, expressing themselves a. satisfied with
having done the most they could do TO pun
ish The ALLEGED slanderers.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-08-04
An Island on Fire.

CHICAGO. Aug. Among the late arrivals
in the river last night was the Canadian
steam-barge Isaac May. with Il load of cedar
posts, poles and ties from the Manitoulin
Islands. ON the Canadian side of Lake Huron.
The crew of the steam-barge told a distress
ing tale. Two weeks ago the vessel arrived
al the island with her tow consisting of the
harges Muskoka. Severn and Wabansia, and
proceeded to take on board the cargo await
lug her on the dock. She had partially load
ell, when reports came from the lumber
camps in the interior that the woods were ON
fire. No rain had fallen for weeks and ev-
erything was as dry a. finder. 50 that a high
wind which sprang up famed the flames in
10 fierce fury and II was but a short time
before the entire island was enveloped in
flames, Lumber camps were burned by the
score and their frightened occupants fled to
the vessels lying in the harbor.
The scene from the vessel a. told by a spec
tator was grand beyond description The
flames shot into the air for hundreds Of feet
and turned nigh. into day, while the heat
was 80 intense that the vessels were Obliged
To leave their moorings and push out into
the lake. The noise was deafening, and
amid all the din and confusion thousands OF
birds fiuttered around their homes. until
tired with their constant flight. they drop
ped into the lake or fell into the flames.
Deer and bears rushed from the woods To-
gether and threw themselves into the cool
ing waters of the lake.
For five days the flames held their sway
before the lumbermen could return TO the
island and finish loading the vessels, which
on last Monday weighed anchor aud started
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-08-04
South PENIS Hopes.

David H.. Hostetter sat in the Hotel la
fayetle last evening and though he objected
To an interview on the score OF intense heat
said, in the ~parentheses between the waves
OF his fan, that be was surf Of a favorable
decision in the Supreme Cont in the South
Pennsylvania Railroad injunction affair in
November.
"Ail work is suspended, of course, and
there is a great loss Of money occ asioned
thereby"
"Wil there be any effort made in the way
Of r-iress-to get even. as it weregn
We'll, | don't know of any. except that
Wen complete the road, and then vel get
even in a very decided way. How l. bust
ness in Pittsburg2 did you say Well. there
is a great deal of business. especially il iron.
although there Is not much money in it.
There has been more iron pipe manufacture
this season than ever before.
Natural gas i booming. There are at
least 100000 acres of ~gas-producing land
leased by the various companies, though the
composition Is 50 great that the consumer
is getting ali the benefit of it. Ii has been
into Wheeling. W. Va, s~teubenviile. Younes-
town and other nearby places. House
holders are using it everywhere. and the
Cambria Iron Works have lately introduced
IL into their mills. "-Ph7a. Press.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-08-04

ONE hundred years 2 on Thursday
last John Scull issued the initial number
of the Pittsburg Gd,en.. The Pittsburg
Of that day was a small frontier village,
without a post office or mail facilities of
any kind, the principal means Of trans
portation between it and the eastern
part of the State being by ~pack-horses,
and il evinced no little pluck and enter
prize for thst period, to establish this the
first paper published west Of the Alleghe-
nv mountains. For more than thirty
two years this pioneer journalist of the
west continued 10 publish the Gdzate,
and had the qualification of seeing this
child Of his brain grow and prosper and
extend its usefulness with the growth
and prosperity of the frontier village
which he had made his home. Pittsburg
il now a city world renowned for its man
ufacturing industries and the skill of its
artisans, and as it has grown, and devel-
oped. and advanced on its onward march
to wealth and greatness, the Gazette has
kept even step in progress, and has advo-
Gated. and heralded, and stimulated its
prosperity.
1t was eminently fitting therefore, that
the GGseae on Thursday last-the oenten-
NAL of its birth-should mark the era
by issuing an edition Of twenty-four
pages. filed with illustrations and letter
press, concentrating the early history
of Pittsburg and of Western Pennsylva-
MIA. and recording the wonderful growth
and improvement of the city, and Of
Pittsburg journalism during the century
of Its existence.
This centennial number Of the Gazette
does great credit 10 the ability, enterprise
and taste of its present energetic proprie-
tors, and shows hat age has not stalled
nor dimmed its lustre. II enters upon its
second century with a lusty vigor that
betokens many days of further useful
ness and prosperity, and it has with it
the heartiest good wishes of the oldest
living descendant of its venerated foun-
l.r
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-08-04
A Boys Hard Ride.

PIsrsBuEG, July 2s.-When the New York
and Chicago limited express reached the
Union Station at 6;l5 O'Clock this morning a
boy about Is years old was discovered lying
between the truck and the bottom Of a sleep
ing ear. He had Travelled this way from
Fort WAYNE. IA distance of $50 miles. He
gave his name a. r.. A. Schell, of No. log
State street y. L. Washington, ID. C., and
told the following story
e For eight months / have been working
al Bass foundry, in Fort Wayne, as a mold
er. Yesterday a dispatch informed me that
my mother Is seriously i'll. had no money,
every cent having gone for board, 50 that
there was nothing left but 10 steal a ride. |
went 10 the station last evening AZ 9 O'Clock,
and when the bell rang for the train to start
| jumped on the front truck of the second
ear of the limited. and in a second we were
of. / sat on the brake beam. with my leg
between the frame. | kept nay arms ON top
OF the frame 10 steady myself, and my feet
were supported by the brake rod. Every
time they shut down brakes To stop | crawl
ed over the top of the frame into the middle
of the trucks and held on to the cross rods
once my feet slipped and dragged on the
ground. | then thought ! was gone, but ]
held on like grim death and managed TO get
my leg up again on the brake rod. Al
Crestline and Alliance the train stopped 10
change engines. and for an inspection OF the
trucks. When the inspectors came 10 the
truck where | was ! rolled over against the
opposite wheel and escaped detection. II
was hard riding, | can tell you, but ! would
rather travel that way than on the bumper
Of a freight train"
A purse was made up for the boy, the rail
road officials furnished him with a halffar,
ticket, and he started for his home on an
afternoon train.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-08-04
A S%ickening Story.

SAvNNAH, Ga, July S-Further particu-
lars of the murder of a child by a negress in
Tatnali county. state that the woman had
been called on To prepare a dinner for some
negro picnickers. Having no meit, and
knowing that she would lose her pay for the
dinner unless she procured some, she kill
ell a little 4-year-old colored girl which had
been left in her ear by a neighbor. She
boiled part of the body into a stew, and sery-
ed ii 10 the negroes. who seemed To like il,
though remarking ON the singular flavor Of
the meat. The remainder of the body was
put into a barrel of salt pork. When the
child's father came to take ii away the wo-
man was unable to explain the absence.
Search revealed the portion of the body in
the barrel, and the murderess then comics
ed her crime. The enraged listeners at once
dragged her to field. chained her 10 a post,
piled oiled faggots around her and set lire to
them She was soon burned To death. No
arrests have been made, but the country au-
t%liorities will investigate the affair.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-08-04
A Thousand Islands In Air.

CARTHAGE, y. Y. August Ia spectacle
which in this country greets the eye seldom
more than once in a lifetime as enjoyed by
the people of Carthage ON Thursday between
the hours of u and > P. NJ. On elevated
points about the village, looking directly
north and northwest. could be seen IN a
mirage the 81. Lawrence river and the invit-
ingand picturesque Thousand Islands. These
objects were plainly visible 10 the naked eye
a. though they were only half a mile distant.
The water, the islands. and, AT times. steam
ers plying ON the river. the village of Clay
tom, the Round Island House and the city
of Ogdensburg were plainly outlined against
the SKY. One party recognized the house of
Thomas g. Alvord. situated opposite Clay
ton, and pointed out TO bystanders points in
the vicinity by which he recognized il. This
rare spectacle was presented 10 the view of
hundreds of excited and eager persons, who
were entranced 10y il for several hours. IL
filed all unlookers with wonder and admi-
ration. The distance from Carthage to Clay
ton, the nearest point on the st. Lawrence.
il 81 miles.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-08-04
A Modern Jack Sheppard.

LANCASTER. July 2s.-An ingenious at
tempt at jail-breaking was frustrated in the
Lancaster county Prison last evening. Lor-
ing V. Cawley, 20 years old, was sentenced
in December. 1854. To two years and six
months Imprisonment for shooting Mamie
Benson, u l5-year-old girl, in this city, be-
cause She would not marry him.
Cawley has been working in the warp
room. and when the prison officers went
there for the purpose of putting the prison
ers back into their cells Cawley was missing.
After "A long search he was found concealed
in a narrow passage between the arch of the
main corridor and the root. He had a rope
made of carpet with which he intended
scaling the walls that night.
on his person were eight keys, of various
sizes. a small spirit lamp. a heavy paddock
and a match-safe. How ne got there is a
mystery He wore three shirts, two pairs of
pantaloons and three pairs of stockings, and
was almost suifocated under the roof. His
pockets contained a newspaper scrap on the
Handbook of Burglary, and another from
the Po'ioe Neies. describing a burglars outfit.
He evidently meant TO turn burglar.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-08-04
Dying in their Icy Prison.

ST.. JoHN. July @.-The schooner Bar
nett has pun in here, bringing the latest news
from the Labrador coast. For nearly two
weeks She was blockaded i'll York Harbor,
forty miles east OF Northeast River. by ice.
She brings five families. who had reached
that point from Sandwich Bay, over 100
miles inland. IN slelges drawn by ponies, on
which they subsisied after their arrival,
York Harhor Is crowded with fugitives. but
these came from the southern coast, and
know nothing of their northern ~neishhors.
On July - two DAYS snow storm buried
eastern Labrador, cutting off NJ communi-
CATION with its population o f15oG0 persons.
The snow has closed all the trails. The re
lief vessels will now 90 direct 10 York Bay
10 relieve the sufferers there first.
\ White Bay despatch says that whalers
report that Hudson Bay straight is again
frozen over, which is an unprecedented oc-
currence At tins season. The report that the
temperature is 100 below zero is, however
denied. 1t has not gone lower than 1O0
above. The cold results from immense
masses of Arctic ice along the coast, and il
does not extend beyond 30 miles from the
sea. Up To date ~ survivors have arrived
here. The number that have died is esliIna-
ted al $500. Since Saturday an east wind
has blown of the banks, increasing the firm
ness of the coast ice.
1t is reported that a large number of arctic
bears, driven south by the scarcity Of food,
are devastating the country. What little is
left of food is seized by the bears.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-08-04
Natural Gas SuppIants Coal.

PITTSBURGH, July &.-In his testimony
before United States Commissioner McCand-
less in a suit for damages to-day, General SUI
pcrintendent T.. A. Gillespie, OF the Phila-
delphia Natural Gas Company, said As
near as we can ascertain, there are displaced
daily in The city Of Pittsburgh, 10000 BUSH
els of coal by the use ofnatural gas. ! should
think there were from $4,000 to 10000 o n
of coal used daily in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
and the surrounding towns at the time Of
the introduction of natural gas in Pittsburgh
In 1888 one or two mills in this city conn
menced using the new fuel, and since then
the consumption has gradually increased in
such a degree that al the companies engaged
in the business have been kept busy having
pipe to supply the demand and there are
several thousand dwellings without this fuel.
IN my judgment there will practically be no
Goa used in this city within two years, for
the reason that gas is the cheaper fuel, very
much cleaner, and more convenient in every
way"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-08-04

THE President is reported as still hest
tating about approving the act taxing
oleOmargarine, and very properly, too, in
our opinion. The arguments in behalf
of the bin are that ~oleomargarine is in
furious TO public health. and that its sale
Injuries the dairy interests. If the first
assertion be true, its manufacture should
be prohibited, and there should DE heavy
penalties provided for the punishment
Of its sale under false pretenses. But. as
Senator Butler remarked. IF il is right
totax bogus butter ii isrighi to tax bogus
wine" or for that matter, any other bo-
gus article. If il is right to protect dairy
interests by special act Of Congress. the
rule cannot be stopped there, and special
legislation viii be insisted upon for pno-
lection against every bogus article pro-
duced in the country.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-08-04
A Dead Man Held the Reins.

Chicago, July 2s.-Samuel ID. Newton had
delivered milk along West Twelfth street for
years. His horse and wagon were familiar
objects going frum door To door. The horse
knew the route rs well as his master. This
morning when the horse stopped at the house
of his customers his master did no; descend
from his seat a. usual. The old horse, after
remaining a few moments near the curb
without seeing his driver, woGld start of
again and stop at the next customers. A
policeman halloed TO Newton, but no atten-
ton was paid Ia him. Coming up to the
horse he stopped him.
There sat Newton as usual, lines in hand
and looking straight ahead. His eyes were
open and his face pale. Thinking the man
sick the policeman shook him. and he sell
backward among his cans. He was dead,
having passed away quietly while going over
his route. Heart disease is the supposed
cause of death.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-08-04
A CHURCH BLOWN UP.

Sr. CLAIR, Pa. July 3f.-The front of the
blown u by d%ynamiters about 3o'ciock
this morning. This II the last of a series of
outrages, the outcome Of the active fight
made by the Law aud Order Society against
violations of the liquor law. Their protests
against many illegally kept saloons resulted
in the revocation Of the licenses. This was
followed eight months ago by the partial
destruction of +. w. Lewis store and resi-
dence and the narrow escape of his family
from death by Il dynamite explosion. Then
the society retalisted by sending Daniel
Walker to Jail for selling without a license
He was an old nan, quite wealthy and WIZ
el the only hotel in town. He was i'll when
he went to Jail. His family was visiting in
England. and the imprisonment hastened
his death. which occurred three weeks ago,
four days after his release.
This morning the church which Lewis T..
J. Jones, George W. kerier and James p.
Kelly. the most active Law and order men
attended and which until two weeks ago had
for its pastor Rev. William Owens, who had
the reputation of being the i~nstigator Of all
the society work, was blown up. The build
ing stands ON the corner of from and Carroll
etreets and has q seating capacity of about
five hundred. II is a low, frame struc-
ture and was erected fifteen year. ago. ow-
ems was Its pastor for three years. The cause
Of his resignation i not known. He did not
have another call and their was no serious
trouble in the congregation. He lett imme-
diately after resigning for Lancaster county,
where he is visiting relatives. The congre-
CATION have kept up the services regularly.
The usual Friday night service was 'Shit-
ted last night. Announcements were made
this afternoon that the services would be re-
stunned tomorrow
About half-past twelve a man was seen
with a lantern in the rear of the church, but
nothing was thought of il particularly, and
no one was informed of it until after the ex-
plosion. Just before three O'Clock men were
heard running from the scene of the explo-
sion by another party, but this did not ex-
cite suspicion. An old gentleman named
Koch, unable to sleep N account of the heat,
was kneeling al his bedroom window and
saw a light, like the lighted end ola cigar,
near the church door, and a few seconds la
ter suddenly was thrown on his back by the
shock of a terrific explosion.
The whole town was aroused and in a few
moments the neighborhood was swarming
with people. The dynamite with u lighted
fuse attached. had been put in a chink under
the ront doorstep. Fortunately, the chink
opened into the cellar, which is large and
roomy, and where the worst force of the ex-
plosion was lost in vacant space. The front
and windows. the vestibule and the
rear pews were shattered. There was not a
building in the ~neighborhood but had AT
least half a dozen panes of glass broken.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-08-04
A Coffin Struck by Lightning.

OTTAWA. July 29.-Buring a terrific thun-
derstorm which passed over this district last
night an appalling tragedy was enacted in a
cottage belonging to Joseph Gorderreau,
about eight miles from here. Gorderreau's
aunt had died the previous day, and last
night several friends assembled to console
the bereaved relatives. Lamentations gave
way to hilarity. which seems TO have driven
away all thoughts of the storm which was
raging outside. While the mirth was at its
height a bolt of lightning descended the
chimney, and, striking the coffin, which was
near the fireplace, broke il open. Two young
men, Eugene Gareau and Francis Y Bauvin
were instantly killed.
The electric fluid then made Il circuit Of
the chamber, causing the half-dozen other
occupants of the room 10 faint with the
shock. II was many hours before any Of
them recovered, and consequently it was not
until late this afternoon that the particulars
of the tragedy became known.