The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1892-04-27

Students OF sgas and wonders say tnat
when robins appear early in the estscn
there win be plenty Of cherries, as hey de-
stroy Insects injurious to the fruit
Duluth elevators hage Ia store i5-2's''u'
bushels Of wheat-enough. with the 200 oo'
barrels of -four also stored there 10 feed l.
O00 0oo people three years.
Gold nuggets worth SSsT were found N
the gizzards OF nsok Of chickens recently
slain in Bat,e. Mont. Now wait and see an
English syndicate buy up all the chickens in
Montana
By the flooding of part Of The workings Of
the LviIe Coal Compauy's colliery, miles
from Minersyille, Tue stay afternoon eight
men have lost their lives and another IS in
jeopardy. Six ofthe unfortunaies are iis'-
iaus and the others are Americans
William A. Rice, maehinist employed at
the Philadelphia ard Reading shops at
Reading committed suicide Tuesday morn
ing bv taking dose Of Rough on Rats
he was engaged to be married within two
weeks.
The new census shows that the alien pop
ulation OF New York City IS S65,OOO, while
that of Kings County is 10000. In New
York City there is one alien in every i've Of
population. The total popul alton Of the
state is 6.4S3652.
Charles McCune. Is years Of age, met a
horrible death at his fathers sand works
three miles below Dawson, Fayette county
Tuesday night. BE and his father were
about the machinery and the young man in
some way got his clothing caught in the i'm
mense cog wheels and was dragged in and
crushed into pulp before his horriied faith
er could render any assistance
While burning rubbish in the lot last
Wednesday evening, a little 6-year-old
daughter Of John Turner, OF fRostTaver town
ship, was burned to death By her clothing
taking fire from the flames. She lived only
a short time and her sufferings we're almost
excruciating. No less than three children
have shared the same fate in this county
within TIE past week or two.-Greels5'Tg
Argus.
Ex-Auditor James c. Iavelle, Of Davies
county, Indiana, was Saturday sentenced to
eight years in the penitentiary for hiring
two new men to set the Court House on fire
October :, 1891. He was also convicted Of
being a defaul;er in the sum OF 1900. II
was to hide this defalcation that the attemp!
was made to burn the county records.
Jack Campbell, the king ofhofse traders
dropped dead at his home in UEiontown
Saturday evening. He was noted chsrac-
ter and was the head of regularly organiz-
ed company Of horse traders. He Travelled
all over F4yeite, Greene, Washington and
Somerset counties and made plenty Of mon
ey out of the business. Alcoholism was the
cause of his death.
The latest Bedford county sensation is the
elopement of one Adam Hofccken and Mrs
Daniel Miller. They left their home on the
18th of April, he to go to Johnstown on bus
iness, she TO visit friends in Martin sburg.
Their prolonged absence aroused suspicion
and investigation showed that they have
fled the country. IIofecker deserts wife
and two children; Mrs. Miller a husband
and six children. This is case where tar
and feathers would have genuize mission.
The sudden and unexpected death Of
Amelia B. Edwards recalls her last literary
work, PhGraohs FeRIis, a.ld E,rpigrers, which
was met with sueh popular "a ,or in this
country and in England as to obiige the
publishers, Messrs. Harper & Brothers, to
put the book to press several times for new
editions. The world Of letters and OF SCI
ence has met great loss in Miss Edwards
death. as she vas REGARDED as a leading au-
thOrity on Egyptology.
Secretary Tracy has issued an order that
hereafter none but American citizens shall
be appointed TO places in the navy yards or
in the civil forces in that department. An
Investigation made By the Secretary revealed
the fact that there are now employed at
some of the navy yards foreign draughtsmen
who have only lived in the United States
year or little more. These will now be dis
charged, and those who have been in the
country long enough to be naturalized, but
have not become citizens, must either do 20
at once or quit the service.
OF 2302l births in Chicago last year, the
fathers Of only 5,2Sj We're mericans-that
is, born in the United States-while the re-
naming l7,755 were born in foreign coun-
tries. OF the mothers of these children.
62l7 were Americans, as against 4, ,i0S Ger
mans and l pa Irish. This indicates that
the number Of men Of foreign birth who
married women born in the United States is
large. In American births the females ont
number the males, but the number Of male
immigrants is greater than the number Of
females