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Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-05-30
won ANOTHER MANS WIFE.
Bret Harte's Son Must Pay AN Injured Hus-
band $4,000.


band $4,000.
n. Y. World, May "a.
A Sheriff's jury, over which Gen,
Sickles presided, yesterday found a ver-
dict of $4,000 against Francis K. Harte,
a son of Bret Harte, in suit instituted
by James ]. Smith for the alienation of
the affections of his wife, Eline B. Smith.
The suit had been tried previously in the
Supreme Court, where judgment had been
in favor of the husband by default, the
Court ordering damages to be assessed by
the Sheriff's jury. He sued for $40, 900,
and the verdict was for the full amount
claimed.
Mr.. and Mrs. Smith were married in
1879, and lived together until 1888. They
have two children, for the possession of
whom Mr., Smith has been fighting legally
ever since they were spirited away by his
wife. Mr., Smiths application to confirm
the report of referee, who recommends
that the children be given to him, was
Argued before Judge Lawrence yesterday.
The dicision was reserved. These pro-
ceedings were referred to before the
Sheriff's jury when 1t began its inquiry
late in the afternoon.
Mr.. Smith is real. estate dealer, and
several of his business friends testihed
how happily he and his wife lived to-
gether prior to the separation. Fhe trouble
seems to have dated from the time the
family went to board with Mrs. Detley,
in Pittsfeld, Mass, where young Harte
was a guest. Mrs. Detley testified that
Harte's attentions to Mrs. Smith became
so marked that it caused comment among
the guests and compelled her to speak to
him. When she upbraided him for his
conduct Harte told her that he was
obliged to leave Block Island because a
married lady fell in love with him,
Laura 5. Kerrison testified that Harte
and Mrs. Smith live together at Rockland
Lake. She was a nurse in the Smith
family, and when Harte and Mrs. Smith
went abroad togetl er in November, 1888,
Mrs. Smith placed the children in her
charge and told her not to tell any one
where they were.
Mr. Smith said that he had demonstrated
with his wife. He is cripple, and says
that he experienced mental anguish and
passed slevpless nights. He did not learn
of his wife's departure for Europe with
Harte until long after they had gone. He
made every effort to ascertain the where
abouts of his children and, after spending
about $500 for detectives, succeeded in
locating them. Then he began the pro-
ceedings to get possession of them.
Emma Cobun, witness for Harte,
testified that Mrs Smith had told her she
was tired of living with her husband and
would have to leave him. Harte did not
put in an appearance. The jury was out
but n few minutes
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-05-30
Liquor Debate in the Senate.

WASHINGTON, May 26-The Senate
again discussed the original package bill
yesterday, but failed to reach vote.
Blair asserted that the usually dignifed
body was in no condition TO decide a
temperance question. The constitutional
points of the measure were argued at
length.
Senator Blair, from the Committee on
Education and Labor, reported favorably,
with some amendments. The House bill
for the appointment by the President of a
commission of five persons TO be selected
solely with reference to their personal
fitness and capacity for an honest, i'm,
partial and thorough investigation of the
liquor traffic.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-05-30
WOULD KILL AN ARMY.
A Dynamite Gun Weighing %. 500 Pounds
Explodes Into "A Thousand Pieces,

A Dynamite Gun Weighing %, 800 Pounds
Explodes Into Thousand Pieces,
PRRRYyILLE, n. Y, May 2S.-A large
number of people from all over Central
New York came here by the special and
regular midday trains yesterday to wit
ness the public experiment of the Doctor
Justin dynamite gun. The cannon was
fired at p. NJ. and exploded into tLou-
sand pieces. Nobody was hurt, but there
were many narrow. escapes. Huge
masses of iron were thrown hundreds of
feet A piece of the cannon, measuring
about four feet through, came flying
through the air and landed within q few
feet of Syracuse Herald correspondent,
who was watching the proceedings from
behind tree. Another large piece went
in the opposite direction, tearing large
chunk from the counter of temporary
refreshment stand about five hundred feet
away. The keeper of the stand was in
side, hut the missile grazed his head and
scattered the contents of the stand. 1t is
said the dynamite did not explode the
guu, but the charge of powder. Among
the visitors who arrived this afternoon
were Lieutenant Commander Washburn
Maynard and Lieutenant Davidson,
of the Navy, and Commander Theodore
F. Jewell, of the U. S. Naval Station,
Newport. The cannon used weighed
23,500 pounds. The bore is twelve feet
long and nine inches in diameter, The
targent was bluff about one-third of a
mile from the gun. DIR. Justin and his
assistants this morning loaded the six
shells with dynamite. Two of the shells
were charged with eighteen pounds each
of dynamite and four had twenty-five
pounds each. Young Wing, represent
ing the Chinese Governm ent, was here
during the day.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-05-30
Opposed to Compulsory Education.

CHICAGO, May 20.-A large meeting of
Germt Lutherans was held in Central
Music Hall, last night, to protest against
the Compulsory Education law of this
State. Speeches were made in English
and German, in which suggestions of po-
litical action against those who favored
this law were received with much favor.
A resolution was passed calling on Gov
ernor Fifer to include in his call for a
SPECIAL session of the State Legislature, to
take action on Worlds Fair matters, the
subject of the repeal of this law, also.
The object of this was to eliminate this
question from the next State political
campaign.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-05-30
The Democrat.
FRIDAY, MAY 80. 1890.
ACCUSED HIMSELF FALSELY.
And was Sentenced to the Western Peniten-
tiary-Strange Case of Nicholas Parel.

And was Sentenced to the Western Peniten-
tiary-S,range Case of Nicholas Parel.
Last weak there died at the Western
Penitentiary an Irishman who had his
tory. lis was sentenced to the peniten-
tiary under Il name of Nicholas Parel,
but his real name was Herman FitZger-
aid, and he was the son of a wel-to do
farmer in Ireland. Last spring he drifted
into Perry county, Pa, and afterward
fell in love with the the ninteeen year old
daug hter of his employer. Their court
ship was clandestiDe, as both feared the
farmer would disapprove of the match.
But they could not keep their love hidden
for any leugth of time. Among those
who noticed the attachment were several
neighboring swains who had cast their
nets for the heart and hand of Fitzgcrald's
fiance, and who had all made water hauls.
They began to sneer at Fitzgerald for his
presumption in aspiring TO a marriage
which they thought was far above him.
One day he met two of his tormentors
on the highway, and a sneer from them
sent all the Irish blood in his veins to his
hoad. He knocked one of them down
and the other felled him with u stone.
The two then jumped on him and gave
him an unmerciful beating. Notwlth-
standing the odds, he felt that he was
forever disgraced by permit ing the two
men to defeat him so easily. He was
afraid to face his sweetheart, thinking
that she would chaff him about the fight,
30 he turned his face sadly away from his
employers home and left the girl he loved
without saying even farewell to her. He
had no money and he started to tramp
through the country in search of work IN
some retired place where he could forget
the joys and sorrows of his Perry county
career. He stopped at farm house and
heard the owner talking about couple of
mysterious f'es in that neighborhood a
shore time before. He was discouraged
and concocted the idea of getting up a
story of him being the incendiaIy,
not knowing that arson was peni-
Tertiary crime. Assuming the name
of Nicholas Parel, he accompanied the
farmer to the home of the Justice of the
Peace, where she made full "confes-
sion," which he had already prepared in
his mind. He was sent TO the Juniata
county Jail, where he awaited the next
term of court. At his trial he entered a
plea of guilty, ind when The court SEN
fenced him to ten years and six months
at hard labor in the Western Penitentiary
he was speechless. He realized too late
that arson was very serious crime.
When the Sheriff led him back to jail he
broke down completely, and he confessed
the deceit he had practiced. He SAID he
never thought for an instant that he would
be imprisoned longer than six months, or
he would have never made the confession
of barn burning. His only motive, he
said, was to get out of the way temnorar-
lily of his Perry county friends.
His friends in Perry county were called
on and efforts made to have him par
doned, but before it could be done he died
of typhoid fever.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-05-30
What Paresis Is.

" Paresis," said a physician last night,
as he lighted cigar and told patient
that smoking was dangerous vice, is
a disease OF which men, particularly men
of affairs, are very much afraid. 1t is a
h lpeless disease, and physicians have
never been able to cure it. The fear
that it excites is due to the fact that it is a
malady that men measure as it grows from
day to day. Paresis, is popularity known as
softenmg of the BRAN, but it is quite the
reverse. The brain hardens and con-
tracts. The popular idea that this awful
malady is due to eXcesses of an i'm.
proper sort is altogether wrong. The
great cause is worry, overwork, too con-
slant application of the brain along the
one idea that is dominant in the United
States a desire to grow rich. | saw an
article in the newspapers not long ago
that stated that the man of undisciplined
mentality, the elf.made man, IN fact, the
man whose brain was not trained and the
working of whose brain was not system
atized by good education, was more
susceptible to paresis than any other type
of man, and it has been my observation
that this man is true. Men who cannot
stand success, men who, to use a popular
vulgalism, have the swelled head,' fall
quicker than others. Yes, it is true that
no newspaper man has died of paresis. =
Cincinnati Commercial.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-05-30
MARRIED

OHNSTON-BRADLEY.- AT the office of the
onciating Justice, irwin Rutledge, ESQ. I'm the
Fifth ward, City Of JohnstOwn, Mr. ANDREW
Johnston and Sarah Bradley, both residents
OF said city, on THURSDAY, May %, 1890.
AY-GILPATRICK.-A the residence of
Mr. j. b. Junkins, at Nineveh station, West
moreland county, Pa, on Tuesday. Nav "
1880, by Rev. S. B. Laverty, assisted by Rev
a. b. Kendall, Mr.. James Murray and Miss
Laura j. fitzpatrick, both OF Nineveh.
RAMER-HAYNES.-O Thursday evening
May ~. 1890, at the residence Of the BRIDES
lather, NO. 80 Haynes street, South Side. by
REV. II L. Chapman, ID. d., Mr.. John w. Cramer
and Miss Florence Haynes, both OF JOhnstown.
Pa,
DELANEY-WA the First Baptist
Church In THIS city, Thursday, May % 1890
by Rev. A. j. Furman, Mr. Thomas X. Delaney
and Miss Mary j. watkins, both OF Johnstown.
IGII-SHOMO.-Thu May 22. 1890 at the
residence OF the Reformed pastor No. lSt SOM
erset street, Oy Rev: w. II. Bates, Mr. Wesley
JOhnstOwn.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-05-30
-Four Young Fiends.

HAMILTON, o., May 29.-The lady man.
ayers of the Western Female Seminary
some time ago forbade Il e students of
Miami University to visit the girls of the
seminary. On Tuesday evening three OF
the female teachers drove to Oxford to at
tend Methodist Church social When
the social was over their $500 horse and
carriage were missing. The horse was
found yesterday morning. dead and fear
fully mutilated. Four Miami University
boys have confessed to President War
field (who refuses to give their names)
that they did the work.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-05-30

Narrow EscanP.


Our versatile constable, Mr.. p. II.
Miller, reports havi g had a very narrow
escape from the electric fluid Tuesday.
He was driving along the road in dog
cart, when bolt of lightning struck a
tree close to him. The shock seemed to
paralYze his horse, and as he puts it, al
most bending the poor brute double.
But the horse being very spirited, soon
recovered, and started off at lightning
speed, throwing Mr.. Miller out of the cart
and dragging him quite a distance, and
finally getting away from HIM. When
the constable got himself and senses to.
gether he found his injuries to consist of
few surface bruises and a considerable
quantity of mother earth distributed over
his anatomy.
AS lightning conductor he says he is
not success, and that Is how he accounts
for the horse escaping so easily.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-05-30
Like One Come Back From DeatI.


Athens Banner.
Last week Miss Polly Lunsford Of
GaGdistowu,. Union county, aged sixteen
years, was taken suddenly i'll, and DIR.
Jones of this city was summoned to her
bedside. He pronounced her illness due
from cold and exposure, and told the
mother of the young lady that there was
little chance for her daughters recovery.
For three days the young lady grew
worse, and on Tuesday morning she to all
appearances died. The neighbors and
friends of the family had gathered in, and
the body of the dead girl was prepared
for burial. Her arms were crossed over
her breast and her eyelids closed. No
color of life was visible in her cheeks.
Her hands and face were cold, as If dead.
Her pulse had ceased to beat The coffin
was sent for.
But as the motLer and friends of the
deceased sat around her inanimate form
and mourned her as dead, she suddenly
returned to life, Unaided she arose from
her bed and went to the water bucket
and drank a glass OF water. Then she
asked her mother and brother to kneel
with her in prayer, which they did, to-
gether with all those present. The girl
made fervent prayer, asking God to
direct her mother and. brother in the
paths Of right. After the prayer she sang
and talked with her mother for about an
hour, when she told those about her that
she was going to die-that she felt the
death angels touch. Hardly bad she
uttered the words than she fell back
upon her pillow and expired. Those
about her were astonished the mother
was loath to have her daughter buried,
thinking that she might yet be in trance
and return to life. But she was really dead
this time, and on Wednesday evening
was buried,
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-05-30
Died ON HIS ChiId's Grave.

MERCER, Cal, May 29.-The body of
Frank NJ. Ostrander, ex-District Attorney
of Mercer county, was found by his
child's grave in the cemetery yesterday.
He had quarrelcd with his wife on Mon
dayt and went to drug store, where he
purchased laudanum. He went to the
cemetery yesterday, and after watering
the flowers on his child's grave, lay down
and committed suicide.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-05-30

Visiting Priests at St. CoIumba's Church
Father Farran, pastor of st. Columba's
Church, Sixteenth ward, requests us to
announce that the visiting Priests
expected at his church will arrive on to-
morrow friday evening to enable the
members of that congregation to prepare
for holy communion at the high mass on
Saturday morning at 8 o'clock.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-05-30
Subscriptions for Disabled Fireman.

Subscriptions are being taken up for
the relief of Mr.. Queer Seymour, who
lives in the lower end of Roxbury. Just
above the Eighth ward. Mr.. Seymour
formerly was employed as a fireman for
the Johnson Company. While at that
employment about six months ago a
disease set in on one of his arms, soon
totally disabling that member. He
has a wife and family depending upon
him, and their situation is certainly not
encouraging. Considerable money has
already been raised, and more will likely
be, as the case is a worthy one.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-05-30
HEAD FIRST INTO A WELL.
A boy Climbs Out of One Forty-Five Feet
Deep.

Deep.
A lively fourteen-year-old lad named
Jones, of the country town of Preston,
Conn, had an experience the other day,
the memory of which will abide with him.
In the rear of his home, near the She
tucket river, is very deep well, the
curbing of which is of seamless ctions
of big drain tile smoothly dove-tailed to-
gcther. In leaning over the well curb to
recover his jacknife, which had fallen on
the edge of the well, he lost his balance
and, like plummet. plunged head first
down the dark cylinder. 1t is forty-five
feet to the water and fourteen feet farther
to the bottom.
The boy caught the we'll rope, broke it,
and boy and rope went to the bottom in
an instant. Then he came TO the surface,
and, being an expert swimmer, easily
kept himself afloat. He called lor help,
but evidently his voice barely scared to
the surface of The earth. He swan
around the sides of his perpendicular
prison a few times, and the desperate
nature of his condition was apparent.
But he was pluckY. If he kept on swim.
ming, he reasoned, he VIZ uld soon be ex-
hausted, and sink.
So he managed to fix his head and
shoulders against one side of the well and
his feet against the opposite one, and in
that position rested several moments. He
gazed upward. The tall shaft narrowed
lik tunnel above, and at the top was
capped by round segment of blue sky,
which seemed immensely far away. The
boy decided to make the effort to climb to
the top of the well. The we'll tile is very
wide, but the boy was barefoot, and his
muscular toes and fingers stuck to the
curb like the feelers of aleeeh. He began
to crawl upward. Up he went slowly
and without a slip, until he was within
a foot or two of the shaft, and then sud
denly his clutch slipped,an second time
he shot down the wall, going to the bot
tom.
He came to the surface of the water
quickly, and after moments rest again
began his toilsome upward climb and
again, when within ID foot of the top, he
lost his hold and plunged again to its
bottom. A third time he essayed the
feat, and that time was successful. He
pulled himself out of the shaft, stepped
over the well curb, and fell GREATNESS and
exhausted on the ground. The flesh had
been stripped from his fingers by the cut
ting grain of the drain tile, and his finger
nails were worn to the qucks.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-05-30
stephen B. Elkins's Ninsty-roon Castle.

Stephen B. EIkins's Ninety-roon Castle.
Baltimore sun.
The ninety-room house that Stephen B.
Elkins is building near the town of Ell.
kins, Randolph county, West Virginia,
will be finished about June list, 1t is one
of the finest country residences in the
South, and is at the top of high hill
about ten minutes walk from the railroad
station. In front is an extensive lawn.
Around the buiding is wall three feet
higher than the first floor. At distance
the house, with its towers, does not look
unlike European castle.
1t is an extensive three-story structure,
with shingled sides and slate roof. On
the first floor is large, hall which will be
lighted with six ornamental torcheres,
which will cost about $500 apiece. The
parlor, dining room, and library, all about
the same size, are on the same floor, and
will be fitted up luxuriousiy. The chill
dren's room is also on the same floor, but
is smaller than the other three. All the
rooms are finished in hard wood. The
fire places are massive. The walls of
some of the rooms are ador ned with hand
some paintings. On the ground
floor are the sleeping apartments,
and about half a dozen bathrooms.
The bathtubs are of solid porcelain. The
kitchen extension is two-story building.
The first floor contains the kitchen
proper. and servants dining room, and
the floor above their sleeping ami bath
rooms
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-05-30

Cambria Iron Company workmen are
constructing wooden truss foot bridge
across the old canal, just north of the P.
r. r. railroad bridge at the station. 1t
is presumed that the gate opposite the
railroad signal tower will be closed and
new one opened at the corner of the yard
next to the crossing.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-05-30

GREENsBURG, Pa, May 29.-Sllas Ben
son, brakeman ON the southwest branch
was struck by freight train near Paint.
ersville this morning and instantly killed.
His body was horribly mangled. He
leaves several children 10 mourn his
death. His wife died about a year ago.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-05-30
DIED.

ROBB.-0n Thursday evening, May go 1890. at
5;45 O'Clock, at his residence, No 7:i Morris
street, Johnstown, Pa, Mr Benjamin f. Robb,
In the 6ist year OF his sge.
Funeral arrangements later
Friday, May 49, 1890, by accident.
Chafles DAVIS, son OF Dr. w. II. Davis, OF East
Conemaugh, aged t6 years.
Funeral arrangements later.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-05-30
UDITOR,S NOTICE.-In "

A UDITOR'S NOTICE.-Tn re
IA OF the first and final account of Eben
James, committee OF Robert ]. William lunatic
And now, April 16, 1890, on motion of ,Jno. p
Linton. ESQ, the court appoints f. p Martin
Esq, Auditor, toreport distribution OF the funds
IN the handS or the accountant to and amongst
those legally entitled to the same, Per Curlam
Notice Is hereby given that will sit for the
purpose OF SAID appointment at my Office No. M,
Franklin street, JOhnStown, Pa. on WEDNES-
4. NJ, at which time and place all persons In
terested may attend or be forever de6arred from
coming in on said fund.
F. p. MARTIN, Auditor.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-05-30
] DMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE..

"a ;
"a ESTATE OF MARK DREW, DECEASED,
Letters Of Administration on the estate OF
Mark Drew, late of the City Of Johnstown, Cam
bria county, Pennsylvania, deceased having
been granted to the undersigned, all persons in
debted to said estate, are hereby notified to
make payment to me without delay, and those
having claims against the same will present
them duly authenticated for settlement.
HARRY DREW, Administrator.
Dick and Murphy Attorneys, Room No. l, Alma
Hall, JohnstOwn, Pa. may2-11td&stW
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-05-30

When Baby was sick, we gave her CaLsoria,
When she was Child, she cried for Castoria,
When she became Miss, She ciung to Castoria,
When shs had Children, she gave them Castoria
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-05-30
NOTICE. :

EXECUTORS NOTICE. = ES-
~ TATE OF JANE II. HESS, DECEASED
Letters TeStamentary on the estate of Jane
H. Hess, late OF Coopelsdale, Cambria county,
deceased, having been granted to the under
signed, all persons knowing themselves in
deOted 10 SAID estate are hereby notified TO
make immediate payment, and those having
claims against said estate are requested to pre-
sent them duly authenticated for settlement to
ID. X. II ESS, Executor.
lO9 seventeenth St, South side, Ptttburgb
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-05-30

9 A. PEDEN, SURGEON DEN
~. TIST. Office in Borders new building, on
Franklin street. All kinds OF Dental work So
itCited. nOVli