The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1892-12-15
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Brief Record of Important Events Durir
the Past Seven Days.

MS AiiAh9 an ltAAiAs
Two companies of the Fourth Regiment,
\. q. p will erect big armory at Allen.
town Pa
The Government of Switzerland has
ratified the treaty recently negotiated
with frIuce
-Mahanoy city, Pa. people will vote on
December - to adopt or reject water
works 10 cost SOS 600.
The lawyers who secured Mrs Florence
Blythe Hiuekley AN inheritance Of u 900,
0uu. will divide ii ,ooo. 900
The Mediterranean moth has appeared
in the -four mills of California. causing a
loss af thousands of dollars
The Georgia militia may disband be
cause the Legislature refuses an appro
priation for an eucampment.
DR. Philo r Hoy. one Of the best Known
physicians of Wisconsin, died suddenly at
Racine, Thursday, aged - years.
John + Calhgan. a miner in the jack
SOL mine at Homecoming, Md, WIS killed
Thursday by fall Of breast coal
1t cost William +. Russell nothing to be
reelected to the Governorship of Massa
chusetts, according to his affidavit.
Mayor j B. Atehison, of Toledo, III.
has fled from the city, being charged with
forging notes, amounting to 50, 800
White Caps are driving the negroes from
plantations owned by Hebrews i'll Amite,
Lincoln and Franklin counties, La
Col John Ryan, who fought with Sam
Houston for Texas independence died
pauper in the City Hospital at Kansas
City.
1t is now thought that no effort will be
made by the Democrats in Congress to get
New Mexico and Arizona in as States this
session.
Charged with embezzling 5000, Treas
urer Christian koonrad, of the Pittsburg
branch of the Catholic Mutual Benefit
Association, is i'll jail
Frank Kerner committed suicide in the
Berks county, Pa, Jail by hanging him
self He was serving II year sentence
for the murder of his wife.
The strike in the Maring Hart window
glass house ut Muncie Ind, whereby 300
employees were affected, has been adjusted,
and the men have returned to work
DIR. y Hale, quaek doctor from Phila-
dephia, was sentenced to Is months i'm
prisonment in London for obtaining money
from patients under false pretenses.
A $40. 900 fire occurred in the stable OF
A L. Tipin at Newark, y. J., Thursday.
The live stock was all saved, but the
building and contents were destroyed.
-Seventy-fo convicts in the Penitenti-
airy at Chester, Ill. refused to do some extra
work Thursday. and it became necessary
to place them in solitary confinement.
Near Brenham Tex, 16 persons were
hurt one fatally, in Tuesdays cyclone.
Near Denison. Tex, cattleman named
Wismer was killed by stroke of light
ming
The Secretary of War states that bal
ance of So. 132 is still due the State of
Pennsylvania for moneys expended by that
State for the Use of the United States in
1864
Dudley Devall, of Marion y. Y, and DR..
King became inoculated with poison while
attending to a sick horse. Devall died of
blood poisoning, and the doctor is ill., but
Hon. Rutherford B. Hayes was reelected
president of the National Prison Associa-
ii, and Rev. John l.. Milligan of ALE
gheny, Pa, was chosen secretary, at
Baltimore, Md
While Jacob Stout and Jonathan
Roland were helping to erect u boiler AT
the Diamond steel werks, Reading, Pa, it
fell. Stout was killed, and Roland was
fatally injured
Pension payments by the Treasury De
partment continue to increase, and so far
this month have exceeded the aggregate
receipts from internal revenue by more
than 81, 250, 600
AT Biddeford, Ne, Michael IIocter aged
10, was fatally shot by Il younger sister.
who paytully pointed a rifle that She
thought was not loaded at his head and
pulled the trigger,
By fall of roof coal in Lackawanna
colliery, at ELEPHANT, Pa, David Davis
was instantly killed and John Williams
received injuries which may prove fatal.
Both We're miners.
Joseph c, Willard and Frank McWil-
liams, both young men, are under arrest
on the charge of tlo9ding st. Paul, Mimi,
with bogus checks. Willard has made "A
partial confession
The appeal of Mrs. Deacon against the
jurisdiction of the conrt at Grasse to try
her on he charge preferred against her by
her husband, came up at AIN. and was
postponed until Feb l.
Francois, the Anarchist, charged with
the explosion in the Cafe Very. Paris, was
taken from London to Paris under close
guard his eNtradtion having been granted
byan English magistrate.
Miss Emma Van Norden, of New York,
the eldest daughter of Mr. Warner
Van Norden, president of the Bank of
North America, who is well-known in so
ciety, has joined the Salvation Army, and
is a full Pledged uniformed soldier.
Lawyer Oishe Of Buffalo. y Y. has
succeeded in obtaining pardon for Angelo
Monico who was sentenced in 1855 to II
years in Auburn prison for the murder of
Dominica Pratto in that city The ground
taken was that the shooting was entirely
accidental.
The jury in the case of Nelson f. Evans,
late director OF the Spring Garden Ma
tional bank. of Philadelphia charged
with misappropriatng the funds of the
bank. WAS out Int ten minutes when the
foreman annonl erd that they had agreed
They found Eva entity.
The Coroncrs jury in Chicago which
investit aied he death of John ii.
Cohn. the wealthy Philadelphia lawyer,
returned vcr,,i.t 10 the effect hat death
resulted from AN accidental shot fired by
his own hand There was no Testimony
to show that Coin had contemplated
suicide