The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1892-04-20
Personal and oaneral.


Iowa viii be the thirty fourth State to
adopt the Australian ballot system
The license Court judges of Philadelphia
Friday last granted .Sss licenses, an in
crease Of 1856 over last year
The donkey is the longest lived smoug
domestic animals, another point Of resemo-
lance to the Democratic party.
An English doctor has traced the infiuen-
"a in many cases to infected postage stamps
or letters from diseased persons.
The last of the % miners entombed in
the Danbar Hill Mine. June I6, 1891, was
taken out on Tuesday.
The ex -Confeierates in the Senate opposed
the appropriation for the entertainment of
the Grand Army Of the Republic at Wash
ngton.
While hunting for eggs in the barn, Mrs.
Aaron Wade. Eden township, Lancaster
county, broke her leg. then her husband
died and all her children are III with scarlet
fever.
Miss Bette Fieishmann. of Cincinnati,
daughter of millionaire manufacturer, has
broken her engagements with Count Lo-
goibetti, of Hungary, because be refused TO
become an American citizen.
A corr dealer at Taganrog, a seaport town
on the north shore of the Sea of Azof has
been sentenced to a months imprisonment
for selling to the starving peasants corn
with which earth had been mixed.
After four months Of married bliss Mrs.
Baker. Of staun,on, Va, is now hunting her
husband. who has eloped with one Of her
daughters, while Bakers son ran away with
the other. Before going, Baker got his viie's
money. on pretext.
A young man named Dyke dreamed a
few nights ago that in certain spot near
Marshall, No. he would find buried treas
ure. He dug, and sure enough found a
slab, under which, walled in by rock, he
discovered the skeletons Of four men, sup
posed to be those OF Indians who died be-
fore the country was settled. Though it
didn't net him much, the dream was a sharp
one.
Governor Mckinley wired Roger q. Mills
bis hearty congratulations on his election to
the United States Senate. and received the
following reply:
Eg Dear G0reTl0T:
Ny sincere thanks to the Republican Gov
ernor of Ohio for bis congratulations on my
election to the Senate. have
touched the highest round which Is possible
90 -.
whenever it is TO be crowned by a Rspubli-
can hope it may be you
Ex Senator William NJ Eyarts is threat
ened with blindness. That wss the state
Ineni made at his home Monday by his con,
Sherman Eya-ts. For the pas: year Mr..
Eyarts has been suffering with an impair
ment Of his vision, due apparently to weak
ness OF the optic nerve He has been prac-
tically unable to read for all that time
My fathers eyesight, /" said Sherman Ey-
arts. SIS certainly falling. and he has been
told by oculists that il time be may be to-
tally blind"
William Mair, the man who ooolly light
ed match and shot his wife to death in bed
/ Al " Lecilhs, heSt y 4iSluia pa tue boiE-
ing Of April >, was captured et . O'Clock
Wednesday evening, after brief but eXcit-
ing chase, about three miles east of the city
A telephone message was received at Pitts
burgh police headquarters that man was
acting in a very insane way on the grave oi
Mrs. Mair, and three officers who went out
found Mair leaving the cemetery. He ran
till exhausted and hen surrendered. He Is
In iail.