The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1892-05-11
Personal and General.

Personal and General.
Murierer Keck, confined in the Allentown
Pa jail, IS not permitted TO eat with knife
OF fork. owing 10 his suicidal threats
A Democratic politician in GeOrgiawas ~
Gently kicked in the mouth By horse A
horse shoe hung upoves such al entrance
ought 10 certainly bring good luck
The United States Grand jury in Pitts
barEh Saturday found true bills against the
Rev William h Din, the ciearheld bank
President, for embezzlement
The largest shipment of apples ever made
from the United States left Portland recent
ly on the steamship Labrador, which carried
more than 1900 barrels Of fine fruit TO Eng
land.
Hon Charles Emory Smith. Un:ted States
minister to Russia. formally rendered bis
resig nation to the President to-day in order
TO resume his journalistic duties in PhiIadel-
phia.
One Of the chiefs recently convicted Of
completely in the choysng rebellion. China.
was sentenced to be slowly sliced 10 death.
and the awful punishment was indicted in
pitiless manner.
Great excitement has been oocasiOned by
the discovery ofa very profitable deposit Of
gold bearing gravel in Gochland county,
Va One nugget found weighs 50 penny
weights.
An appropriation Of 5000 for the improve
ment of Salt River. IN Kentucky, was offered
in the House Friday by Mr. Csrruth, in the
interest Of defeated Presidential candidates"
as he suggested.
The peoplein the southern portion Of Ian
caster county were awakened, at 4.SO O'Clock
Friday morning, by a shock supposed 10
have been an earthquake. The disturbance
last but few seconds
Joseph Keys. who five years ago murdered
his wife al Brownsville, Franklin county
was captured Monday night BY officers at
southampton station, between ShiPpensburg
and Chsmbersburg. and lodged in jail at
Chamsbersburg-
The president Thursday signed the Chinese
Exclusion bill The attorney general said
there was some doubt as TO whether the for
mer Law did not expire that to-day, and this
opinion caused the president to sign it at
once
The shortest political convention on rec
ord an eight minute ofair-Th thursday
nominated Quay as one of the delegates to
the Republican national convent on. Il
was held at New Castle and was composed
Of delegates from Butler, Beaver, Mercer
and Lawrence counties.
I. T. Wilson at San Antonia, Texas, was
shot dead in his cell by the woman be Sian
deTed- She slipped into the jail unseen and
followed Jailer Williams, who was taking
the prisoner his dinner. On reaching the
cage, she sent bullet through the prison
ers brain. killing him instantly.
The Shonk VS. Reynolds contested elec-
ton case from Pennsylvania was again post
Poned Saturday by the House Committee on
Elections, and it was decided 20 vote on it
this Tuesday. The seat may be declared
vacant and q new election ordered. Mr..
Reynolds, the contestant, not pressing bis
own right to the seat
Harry and George Cato of Philadelphia,
and Ed. Williams of Washington county,
inmates Of the Huntingdon reformatory,
who were ringleaders in the recent disorders
and assaults on guards in that institution.
were convicted Monday before Judge Furst
on charges of assault with intent to kill, and
will be sentenced TO the Western peniten entia-
Y-
Mr.. William Seitz, Sharpsburg hatcher,
has a rooster with two horns on each side of
his head. The rooster is about the ordinary
size Of the common kind among chickens
The horns are each about Il inch long, and
have grown from the head between the eyes
and the comb somewhat forward from the
ears
Aner hearing all the evidence addueed in
support Of q new trial on behalf Of Frank
Almy the motion was refused and Almy sen
tenced 10 be hanged on the third Tuesday Of
May 1898 Almy's life has been unsealed,
and he has cleared up the mystery surround
ing his career By confessing that he is indeed
George Abbott, the outlaw who had commit
ted crimes enough before he murdered
Christie Warden to insure his imprisonment
for life
The prisoners in the jail at ST. Joseph,
No, awaiting trial on the charge Of murder
are greatly exercised By the fact that Judge
Parker, OF Fort Smith, Ark, who has sen
tenced 73 murderers 10 death, IS to take the
place Of Judge WOodson, who is very ILL.,
When Miller, the murderer of merchant
Smith, Of Nashville, heard the news. bis
face blanehed, and he was seized with an
sgue of fright. AL in all. the fright amongst
the prisoners is something unprecedented.
Edward Denver is dying in the hospital
at Johnstown, from the effects Of poison put
in bis beer. II IS supposed, by young man
who is Denver's rival for ;he band Of q
pretty girl Denver went out with several
friends few nights ago and they drank
several glasses of beer. In the morning Den
yer was found on the floor by the landlady
with whom he boarded. The doctors said
he had drunk poison, but the dose was too
big to kill
Dr.. Garrison of Wheeling having been con-
yicted Of murdered in the second degree. and
new trisl being granted, the point was
raised that he could not be tried for a degrSe
higher than the one in which he was con-
vic;ed, on the ground that man cannot be
twice placed in jeopardy Of his life for the