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Killed His Brothers. Wife.

SHARON, Pa, May 3l.-About o'clock
last night Samuel Clark. prominent citizen
and Manager for Kimberly's Mills. was by
some friends taken home in an intoxicated
condition and laid on the floor. His wife
aud Mrs. William II. Davis, a neighbor,
who had been sitting on the porch together,
were called about 10 o'clock by Mrs Jane
Clark, Samuel's brothers wife, who lived
about 100 yards distant on the same lot, to
come over. They accepted theinvitation and
sat in the kitchen, lunch having been pro-
duced. After they had been sitting there
about ten minutes the kitchen door was
burst open, and there stood Samuel Clark,
with nothing on but his shirt, and reyol-
yer i'll his hand. He instantly fired, and the
women all ran, the visitors leaving the house
and Mrs. Jane Clark hurriedly fleeing into
the bathroom. The murderer then went
home and to bed, not knowing anything of
his criminal act. James Clark was sent for
and upon reaching home about midnight
searched the house, the last room being the
bedroom, where he found his wife lying
across the threshold cold in death She had
been dead two hours The other women
did not know that she had been shot, but
thought that she had been frightened and
had gone to some neighbors house. Clark
was in bed when arrested. A post-mortem
examination showed that the bullet went in
between the second and third ribs, through
the lower lung and the heart, and came out
at the left side between the seventh and
eighth ribs. The murderer is u wealthy
man.
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Mr.. Blaine has written the following let
ter to Mr. Whitelaw Reid, editor of the New
York Tribune
Since my return TO Paris from Southern
Italy on the Sth inst have learned (what
did not before believe) that my name may
yet be presented to the National Convention
as a candidate for the Presidential nomina-
ton of the Republican party. A single
phrase of my letter of January 18th, from
Florence (which was decisive of everything
| had the personal power to decide, has
been treated by many of my most valued
friends as not absolutely conclusive in ulti-
mate and possible contingencies. On the
other hand, friends equally as devoted and
disinterested have construed my letter-as it
should be construed-to be an unconditional
Withholding of my name from the National
Convention. They have consequently given
their support TO eminent gentlemen who are
candidates for the Chicago nomination some
OF whom would not, | am sure. have con-
sented TO assume that position if had de-
sired to represent the party in the Presiden-
tial contest of 1883. If / should now, by
speech or by silence. by commission or omis-
sion, permit my name in any event to come
proach of being uncandid with those who
have always been candid with me. | speak
therefore because am not willing to remain
in doubtful attitude. / am not willing to
be the cause of misleading a single man
among the millions who have given me their
suffrages and their confidence | am not
willing that even one of my faithful suppor-
tiers in the past should think me capable of
paltering in a double sense with my words
Assuming that the Presidential nomination
could by any possible chance be offered me,
| could not accept it without leaving in the
minds of thousands of these men the i'm
preston that had not been free from indi
rection, and therefore, could not accept it at
all. The misrepresentation of malice have
no weight, but the just displeasure of friends
could not patiently endure
Republican victory, the prospects of which
grow brighter every day, can be imperiled
only by lack of unity in the council or by an
acrimonious contest over men. The issue of
protection is intellectually stronger and great
er than any man, for it concerns the poster
ity of the present and of generations yet to
come. Were il possible for every voter Of
the Republic to see for himself the condition
and recompense of labor in Europe the party
of free trade in the United States would not
receive the support of one wage worker be-
tween the two oceans. 1t may not be direct
ly in our power as philanthropists to elevate
the European laborer, but it will be a lasting
stigma upon our craftsmanship if we permit
the American laborer to be forced down to
the Europeaa level, and in the end the re-
wards of labor everywhere will be advanced
if we steadily refuse TO lower the standard at
home.
Yours very sincerely,
Taur- q RFar<r
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1888-06-06

The office Of Lieutenant General Of the
United States Army was created for
Washington in May, l79s, and on March
5. 1899. it was abolished when he became
President. In the year lS41 General
Scott was made brevet Lieutenant Gen
eral, in recognition of his services during
the war with Mexico In the early part
of 1864 the grade of Lieutenant General
was revived by act Of Congress, and Gen.
eral Grant was Immediately appointed
by President Lincoln 10 fill the Office.
When Grant was made General, July %,
1866, upon the creation Of that Office,
General Sherman was promoted to the
office Of Lieutenant General and when
General Grant, on March ), 1869, became
President, Lieutenant General Sherman
and Sheridan was promoted TO that of
Lieutenant General. on November !,
1885. General Sherman retired and Lieu
tenant General Sheridan took command
of the army. The act of Congress Of July,
1870, provided that the offices Of General
and Lieutenant General should continue
until a vacancy occurred and no longer.
The grade of General ceased with the re-
tirement Of General Sherman, and that
Of Lieutenant General will expire with
the death or retirement of General Sher-
idan.
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General Sheridan.

WASHINGTON, June. 1.-The House to-day
passed the Senate bill to revive the rank OF
general of the army for the benefit of Gener-
al Sheridan. The first business taken up was
the Senate bill TO authorize the Fort Smith
& Choctaw Bridge Company to construct a
bridge over the Potea river near Fort Smith,
Ark, which was passed
Mr.. Spinola. of New York, then renewed
his efforts to have the Senate bill passed to
revive the rank of general of the army for
the benefit of Lieutenant General Sheridan,
but Mr.. Kilgore, of Texas, again objected
Mr. Randall suggested that the bill might
be passed Monday under a suspension OF
the rules, and it was laid over.
Mr.. Mills. of Texas. rising in his place
asked in the name ofihe confederate soldier.
living and dead, that the House consider the
Sheridan bill, but Mr.. Kilgore persisted in
his objections
Mr.. spinola, of New, York, again sought
10 bring the Sheridan bill before the House
by asking consent to report ii back from ths
Committee on Military Affairs. II had beer
referred to that committee after the preced
ing failure.
Mr.. kiigore was indnced TO withdraw hi.
objection so far as to allow the report to b
made. but Mr., Oates, Of Alabama, prompt,
renewed it.
The Republicans. desiring to force the i'm
mediate consideration of the Sheridan bill
resortsd TO dilatory tactics, and finally tn,
objeciors gave way and the bill was taker
up and passed
AT las p. m. the Senate bill to revive th,
grade of general Of the army was signed by
the speaker Of the House and the presidin,
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1888-06-06

The platform of the Third Party Pro-
bibitionists. adopted by the Indianapolis
convention. is recognition Of the justice
of the claim Of the older parties that
there are other questions besides prohi-
bition before the country. There is prob
ably as much principle in this platform
as there was in the platform of 1884,
with more concessions to policy. -Four
wears ago the prohibition leaders scoffed
at those who regarded economic and Il
nancial questions Of any importance
whatever. and at every public meeting
addressed by third party orators since
that time the tariff has been held up to
ridicule and made the subject of jokes.
And vet in the indianapolis platform the
tariff. the internal revenue, and the mon
ey question are even given as much space
as the woman suffrage question. Does
this mean that the third party is gravlta-
ting toward the policy lines of the older
parties?
The uncompromising fiat-footed decla-
rations of the indianapolis platform are /:
In favor of absolute prohibition (:
against licensing or regulating the liquor
traffic; in favor of the abolition of the
internal revenue system; against polyga-
nv against trusts or combinations of
capital to control and to increase the cost
of products and in favor of restricting
immigration.
The plank on woman suffrage is a COM
promise or a straddle on the main ques-
ton, with an educational restrictive
clause as to the general principle of suf-
frage, and the declaration on the tariff as
at first adopted was unadulterated free
tradeism, and as amended declares in fa-
vor Of both free trade and protection.
The resolution was thrown in simply TO
catch votes, and, as bit of jugglery,
would do credit TO a Democratic conven-
ton distrlstful Of its own constituency.
There is nowhere in the platform a re-
spectful reference TO the soldiers who
fought the battles of the Union, no rec
ognition whatever of their existence or
of their services, no condemnation of
election frauds practiced by the party in
power, no expression of sympathy for
the freedmen. and no word Of comment
on the policy of the present administra-
ton. On this platform the third party
goes to the country.
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AFTER BLAINE, Wno.-t'nder the above
heading the New York TiniBuat publishes
a lengthy editorial, which closes as fol-
lows:
Its desperate battle Tor change Of tar
if toward free trade principles has prov
ed beyond 4 question the determination
of the Democratic party to break down
and destroy protection of American in
dus,ry as FAR and as fast as it can. The
very issue which Mr.. Blaine tried TO
make the country realize is now forced
upon the country, in all its breadth and
in all its sharpness, by the conduct of the
Democratic party when invested with
power obtained by false pretenses.
The Toijune bellows that Mr. Blaine is
right-that the issue, and the Republican
party as the embodiment Of American
convictions on that issue, will be found
stronger than any man, however popu.
lar. Any candidate whose position is
such that he can draw to himself the
votes Of those who agree with the Re.
publican party on that broad and Vita
issue win be elected by vote so decisive
that its meaning viii never be question
ed. There are such candidates, NOR,
than one. the Tribune believes, and the
nomination of either of them ought tc
be and with reasonable management will
he equivalent TO an election. Because
Mr.. Blaine's nomination would have
made this issue more definite and cleal
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Three Men Blown Up.

WyASDorTE, MIcH. June l-At 645 this
morning the boiler in the plate mill of the
Eureka Iron & Steel Works exploded with
trightful force, wrecking the entire building
The killed are Terry Mccoy, about sky
years old, an employe of the mill for thirty
years, who was night watchman and who
leaves widow and five children Patrick
Finn, twenty-five years of age and unmar-
ried George Green, .thirty-two years old and
married.
number were seriously injured. Had
the explosion occurred half an hour later.
there would have been at least one hundred
men at work, beside many women and chill
dren who are always there at that hour with
breakfasts for the men,
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than any other nomination possible, II
was preferred by majority of the dele
gates chosen TO the convention. In look
ing beyond the name Of Mr.. Blaine these
delegates win not forget the principles
which made him their first choice.
Elf there are candidates before the con
rcntion whose nomination would seem
TO anybody TO mean an abandonment or
abatement of Republican convictions on
this vital issue, it is reasonable to expect
that the convention will take care not to
nominate either of them. Among the
candidates who do fully, unequivocaily
and unquestionably represent the con-
victions ofthe party, the convention Will
strive 10 choose the man who VIII COM
mand the strongest support in the doubt
full States. Everybody Is wiser than
ANYBODY" and the councils Of able and
earnest Republicans at Chicago ought
to be so calm, so patriotic and so wise as
to deserve and command greater conf
dence than the personal choice of even
the most sagacious individual.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1888-06-06

THE nomination of General Clinton b.
Fisk as the Presidential candidate Of the
Prohibitionists was foregone conclusion.
lie is certainly the most popular man
identified with the party, and in consid-
Grafton Of his high character and his dis
inclination TO enter politics, the only way
10 nominate him was by acclamation.
His nomination means that there will be
more courtesy carried into the third party
campaign than was exhibited by ex-
Governor 1t. John. The latter seemed
10 regard his nomination by the third
party simply as an excuse for attacking
the Republican party or as means of
revenging himself on old political enc
mics.
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CHICAGO, June 2--Robert II. Bell yester-
day slipped up behind George X Murray
and cut off his ear with pocket knife. A
warrant was issued for his arrest and he was
captured tonight He gave bail in the sum Of
81 600 for trial. The motive for the mayhem
according to the police, is jealousy. hurry
and Mrs. Bell, who is handsome woman.
were friendly, had gone together to theatres,
parties and out driving. Bell gave it out
that he was going to kill Murray on sight
Murry went 10 see Lawyer Judah about it
and was'advised to get out a peace warrant
bat neglected it, Yesterday he called to see
Mr. Judah again, but found him out. II
was while writing note TO the attorney in
the cigar store ef the Adams Express build
ing that Bell stepped up TO him, pulled his
ear out with his left hand and deity sliced
the member marking the the man for life.
The penalty for mayhem is twenty years in
the peniten,iary. Mr.. Murray was seen this
afternoon in his rooms at the Hotel Grace.
Said he:
Mrs. Bell and | were friends when she
WIS u littlc girl lWO lfOutil- dt-U tiict ltT
on the street. | called at her house, and
twice we had luncheons together. met
her, perhaps half dozen times. Well. Bell
came around to my office and raised terri
BILE row there and wrote letters to my wife
and her father. ! thought there was ten
dency TO blackmail in them. He was anx-
ious to have my wife get divorce from me.
/ finally telegraphed her to meet him and
hear what he had to say. She came on from
Iowa and saw him. She refused to believe
that | had been untrue. Yesterday he met
me on the street and demanded that should
go with him to see his brother. ] told him
I'd see him OF his brother, but | wouldn't
go alone with those two men. He said
"You have got to go, or I'll shoot you,'
told him he might shoot, I was going
to have friend, and We went into the
Adams Express building after Mr.. Judah.
" Do you have 10 90 up in the elevator? p"
he asked. 1 told him | did.
well. you're not going TO give me the
slip that way"
Well, got card and was writing note
when | heard grinding, crashing noise in
my ear. turned to see what it was and
saw him running out. Then felt pain and
the blood began to spurt. I'd lots rather
have been shot than mutiated in this sneak
ing way. An Apache couldn't have done
worse. If they catch this fellow, I'll put
him through to the fullest extent of the
law.
Mr.. Murray is general travelling agent for
a corset manufacturing firm.
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WAsHISGToS, d. c., May 30.-The Depart
men; of Agriculture has been making some
investigations Of the wages of farm labor 1t
finds that in Pennsylvania there are 2l3, SO
farms of which i5s, ,220 are cultivated by the
owners. OF the farms cultivated by tenants.
l7,0i9 are on cash rental and 2s, ,273 worked
on shares. Pennsylvania has great variety
of share contracts, allowing the tenant one
half, two-thirds, and even three-fourshs OF
the produce, according to the value and pro-
ductiyeness of the lands and its equipments
0ne-third is the the usual proportion for Ia
Dor only. In some cases the tenant is re-
quired TO pay half the taxes.
The average wages per month by the year
are, without board. s2224; with board, sl4.-
80. Day wages in harvest time without
board, 81 with board sl.13. Day wages
of ordinary farm labor, without board, 81 .lC
with board, 81 cents.
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The Charges Against Melville w.
Fuller.

nomination has been postponed by the Sem
ate Judiciary Committee for a week. A Mr..
Dunlcvy, of Chicago, alleges that the Clerk
of Court and Mr.. Fuller were Jury Commits
sioners in 1881. and that the latter drew a
jury before which case, in which he himself
was heavily interested, was tried. The re-
suit, according TO Dunlevy, was verdict
for Fuller and the consequent recovery of a
large and valuable tract of swamp land. The
committee has telegraphed for transcript of
the records, and will await its receipt.
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officer Of the Senate. aud sent TO the Presi
dent II is expected that the bill will be sign
ed and the appointment sent 10 the Senate
early this afternoon and that an immediate
secret session will ensue to confirm the nom
nation
The commission viii be simultaneously
prepared, and as soon as a telegram reaches
the White House announcing the confirma-
ton Of the appointment the commission and
accompanying documents will be sent by
the President by special messenger to Gener-
al Sheridan's home.
The lack of favorable tidings from Gen.
eral Sheridan inspired the somewhat unusu-
al efforts to-day on the part of his friends in
Congress, TO give expression to the public adj
miration and respect for the warrior The
bill. which passed the Senate day before yes
tertlay and passed the House this morning.
reviving the rank of general of the army for
his benefit. was not permitted to take the
usual course. but under The personal super
vision of Senator Hawley. Chairman of the
Senate Committee on Military Affairs, il was
engrossed within half an hour of its passage
aud taken by the Senator in person TO the
President.
SIGNED, CONFIRMED AND ACKNOWLEDGED.
WASHINGTON, June 1.-The President has
signed the bill 10 revive the rank of gen.
eral in the army and has sent the nomina-
ton of Philip Sheridan to the Senate for
that position.
234 p m.-The Senate has confirmed the
appointment of Lieutenant General Sheridan
to oe general. and dispatch has been sent
TO the President, notifying him of the SEN
ate's action.
AT 3:45 p. m. General Sheridan signed the
following formal acceptance of his commits
sion as general of the army:
HEADQUARTERS ARMY L. s.,
WASHINGTON, June !.
Hon. Secretary of War-Dear Sir: | have
the homer to acknowledge the receipt of my
commission as general of the army, to which
position the President has to-day appointed
me. hereby accept the same.
p H. SHERIDAN,
General.
The signature was written with lead
pencil in large and perfectly legible hand.
Soon after receipt Of his commission Gen
eral Sheridan took the oath of office and di-
rected the issuance of the following general
order, being his first official act in his ca
pacity as general:
GENERAL 0RDER 81
WASHINGTON, June 1.
1. The following named officers are ap
pointed aides-de-camp on the staff of the
general of the army without the rank of Col
onel. to date from this day Major Michael
Sheridan, Assistant Adjutant; Captain STAN
FORD C. Kellogg, Fifth cavalry Captain STAN
hope Z. Blunt, Ordinance Department.
.. In addition to his duties as aide-de-
camp, Colonel Blunt will continue to per-
form the duty of inspector of rifle practice at
headquarters of the army.
BY Command of
GENERAL SHERIDAN.
r. c. DRrM
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Shot Down in a COURTROOM.

CHICAGO, June IA tremendous sensation
occurred in Judge Jamisons Court shortly
after 10 o'clock this morning. While the
docket was being called Mrs. Meckie l. Raw
son was impatiently waiting for the divorce
case of her husband. Banker Rawson, 10 be
called. Colonel II. C. Whitney, her hus-
bands attorney, was sitting at a side table
writing when the Court was suddenly start
led to hear the report of apistol, and Colonel
Whitney at once disappeared under the ta-
Bile. The shot was followed by four more in
rapid succession, and Mrs. Rawson was seen
pursuing Whitney with Smith & Wesson
3s-caiibre revolver. Mrs. Rawson succeeded
in emptying her revolver at Whitney before
she could be captured. Two of the balls hit
the lawyer, one taking effect below the groin
and the other in the left leg The wound
near the right groin will probably be fatal
Judge Jamison at once ordered Mrs. Raw
sons arrest, and she was Immediately taken
to Jail.
When the officers arrived at the Jail with
their prisoner Mrs. Rawson had every ap-
pearance of being an insane woman; her
eyes were red and bloodshot, and she COM
planned of being cold and faint. As soon as
the search had been completed she became
more composed The Jail officers refused to
allow reporters to see her.
1t is understood that Mrs Rawson has
been in a desperate state of mind since the
Appellate Court yesterday refused to grant
her solicitors fees, and said, in passing upon
the merits of her pending divorce suit, that
the testimony was overwhelmingly against
her. 1t is also understood that Mrs Rawson
claims that Lawyer Whitney trumped up
ali the testimony which went to show that
she had been guilty of infidelity.
The decision of the Appellate Court yes
terday reversed the order of Judge Shepard
in the Rawson divorce case. in which he al
lowed Mrs. Meckie l.. Rawson a large sum of
money for temporary alimony and solicit
or's fees. Mrs. Rawson thereby lost large
amount and Banker Rawson gained decid-
ed financial victory. The Rawson divorce
case attracted great deal of attention last
year, because the trouble between the bank
er and his wife led to the former being shot
by his step-son, young Lee. The husband
had, in his afiidavits in the case, cast refiec-
tons on Mrs. Rawson's character and life
previous to his marriage with her. Her son
attempted to wipe cut the insult by shooting
Rawson, and the latter had very narrow
escape from death, being terribly wounded
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Dissertation Of Decoration Day in a
Half Civilized Community In
Illinois.

STERLING, III, June 2.-Lyndon, a village
Of several hundred inhabitants about Is
miles southwest of this city, commemorated
Decoration Day in the most unique fashion.
After a sermon at the church the crowd
formed procession and marched to the
cemetery, headed by a soldiers stretcher, the
sheet bloody with the gore Of an OK or some
other beast.
Upon the streicher lay man designed to
represent dead soldier. Four old soldiers
acted as pallbearers and four young women
walked behind with sad faces. Behind this
bier walked an ederly lacy clad in black and
weeping bitterly. Following her was the
church choir, singing who Will Care for
Mother Now"
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The Tariff Bill.

WASHINGTON, June 2.-Democratic men,
hers of the Ways and Means committee are
considerably discouraged over the dilatory
manner in which the tariff bill is being con-
sidered. They say they viii permit ii to run
on as it has been running for two weeks,
when they propose to introduce a resolution
amending the rules 50 rs TO give the chair
power to rule out dilatory motions and ex-
traneous discussion and amendments pow
er similar to that given Speaker Keifer in the
Fcrty-seventh Congress.