The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1891-08-19

1.'ssrbsnrn's Hardware Store, Somerset
lanes K. Polk. widow Of President
:, ~ II her home in Nashville, Tenn
4. day.
6nest line of pict ures and mOuldings
somerset at Pritts & Kantner's BOOK
8 re.
-st nd ofsoft eorns, apply cotton wool
ss5 in castor oil. Bind it on win
a D. Of soft linen.
,radlss, single and double all si1es' 0o,O- a,.
.bapes. Yes. Devlin's for them 10
bad St. JohnstoEn.
D..,b,, are 80 low in price that shippers
a lain Of not being able to pay the freight
4 Them and make any proht-
,b, G Whittier Is reported to be in
;c,I condition at his home in Danvers-
! nexs Of Lowelrs death affected him
s<sAtly.
cent for Hammond typewriter A gooo
~ fo- an active man. Address Thom-
: Hs,nuopd li6 south 9th ST. PhilAdel-
u a.
o,s OCCASIONALLY reads of the discovery oi
i ,s,rif.a remains Of human beings Is
- he taken as indicating that there may
70 been those in days Of yore VINO sue
,.5ed in making themselves SOLID.
t.,srsi,g roon. books, tut
L. fuel and light, at Franklin College New
4 ,bens Ohio. for SIS a week. AutehoAnoe
sbsdrupled. Catalogue free
The Cambria Iron company is iscontemplA'-
{. rebuilding the wire works destroyed II
: Jobustown food. The new works Siil
!, q 100000 and will give employ neh'
4 80 men. Work on the building will be-
. in few days.
Farming. grazing, mineral or hmoer
,5s for sale cheap, in the booming state Oh
Va. Special inducements TO those oesiI
70 homes. Write Whist you want
DUNCAN McREA, Real Estate Agt-
Kingwood, w. Va
This Is a scrap oflaw that may not ee
r,;lisr 10 very many: "A finder ofproP-
~ Is compelled to make dilligent inquiry
: the owner thereof, and to restore the
.me If on finding such property, he al
Ismpts 10 conceal such fact, be may be prose
tied for larceny.
A veritable curiosity has been captured IN
f-ica. It is an elephant larger thAn 'hs
anented Jumbo, pes-green in coior' truhA'
- and has tusks that branch out some
hing ike the horns Of deer. 1t Is IN 'ns
.osses.ion of a native king who viii MOI
part with it.
Horace Hays is the possessor Of hen thAl
deserves to wear the ribbon. She has raiseo
three broods Of chickens; the hrst l9i th'
seeopd l6 and the third 13. Six of the irs'
( brood are already laying eggs and one o.
item has laid thirteen eggs--LigoE'sf Ee'''
The dining-roOm girls of the ArAndAler
one of the leading hotels at Bedford mAreh
"a in a body-thirty-fve-to the proprietor
"wednesday noon, and told him the guests
Who were numerous, would have to he4E
/. themselves unless their wages were rsised
. Their pay was incressd.
MARYLAND farmer has q new way o
making hay. He uses his self-binder' gAth
ers the shesves into shocks, after being left
stand a few days. hauls it to the barn. be
claims that the hay, when harvested IN TIM
manner, is just as good and made with mueI
less trouble and expense.
Charles Dudley Warner has collected and
arranged 8 score or more Of those delightful
short essays with which be has from time t'
time opened the Editors Drawer OF Har
p,r's lfagasins. and Harper & Brothers vii
very soon publish the same in dainty vol
ume. entitled. As We Were Saying" i
will be appropriately illustrated by d. W
McYicar and Others.
The house st Appomsttox, Va, in whiei
4 General Lee surrended to General Grant
was sold few days ago for $4,000. It va
the property Of the Rsglin heirs. The psrtie
purchasing il, it Is said, are representative o
5 the Grand Army Of the Republic and il is be
8 lieved thst the organization intends 10 holc
sn annual encampment at the historic spo
IS several hundred acres Of land in the VI
einity has been purchased by the same par
ties that bought the house.
The Baltimore & Ohio's new line TO Chi
cago via the Pittsburgh & Western was open
ed for travel on Sunday between Pittsburgi
and Chicago. The Inauguration Of the neV
4 line was eminenlly successful. The mrs
& passenger train from Chicago arrived Il
Pittsburgh exactly on time II is not e1
pected that through passenger trains viii b
run between New York and Chicago owe
the Pittsburgh Division before new sehed
uie Is made out. which viii be in October
'Itis not strange at all" says the Phila
delphia Pres. that the biggest engine In N
world IS exercising its ponderous strength
in Pennsylvania. The President as il
called. Is constantly at work pumping waite
from the zinc mines at Friedensyille, Lehigl
eJanty. Its enormous power is that of 800
horses, or as 1t is computed. OF 5000 men
In the same county there is still preserved
Hokendsnqua the first engine ever used i
Iehigh and set up AZ Allentown BY E
sSger in 1855.
Secretary Dan Demon ofDistrict ?, Unite
Nine Workers, Is in the Aeyersdale coz
regions investigating some complaints fror
the miners regarding the COmpany store
The oo4l firms are charged with p7esentin
irUn-clad agreements to their men, Thic
stipulstes that their employes must max
their purchases at the Company stores, an
also 70 accsP. monthly pay. The nen bav
Reused, according TO decision recently 81
4 rived 81, and now claim that the Companis
are disehsrging the men who have refuses
They were refused reinstatement and II
matter was reported to the district Official
. Secretary Lennon viii make 4 thorough II
vestigati0n, and fight is among the prob'
oiliiies, Is President White of that distrii
recently declared that the Company siol
aud the monthly payday win have 10 g
even at the expense Of fight.
Twenty-four years ago Samuel S. Hu
stabbed 70 death Conductor Charles Psrke
Of the Johnstown accommodation, in 3 figl
al Nineyeh. BE was promptly arrested ar
As 2spnOnPtly .ried and convicted Of murd
in the second degree, and sentenced to Il
yszrs in the Western PenifensiAry and ~
iine Of g cents He WAS taken 10 the pc
served bis sentence and was released, zft
which be returned TO his home. where
has since lived undisturbed On Friday,
talking aoout the murder and the circar