The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1892-05-04
Personal and General.

May Is among the best months Of the year
10 hang on 10 your winter fiannels." They
cost less than doctor bills
The colored leaders Of the various States
have issued circular fixing May SIS; day
Of fasting and praying among their people as
a remedy for the evils of lynohings, burn-
ings. and mObbings from which they suffer
The circular asks what shall be done opre-
vent these crimes against them.
one day last week, Judge Finletter Of Phil
adelphia imposed sentence Of forty years
Imprisonment upon Charles Elliott PnTnell,
negro wis committed series Of robberies
in that city and suburbs, among others the
house Of First Vice. President Thomson of
the Pennsylvania railroad at Merion, and
the residence Of Miss DsbonnviIIe of South
Sixteenth street
An elevator inspector Saturday morning
accidentally dropped lighted candle upon
pile Of waste paper in the elevator shaft Of
the Household Credit Company, Eighth and
Liberty streets. and before the firemeH got
control Of the flames they had lickdu $500,
900 Of property and caused a dreadful panic
among 100 girls working in one of the burn
ed buildings.
Sixty men ten months work and $50 coo
have produced for the new marble residence
of William X Vanderbilt at Newport. the
finest bronze doors ever made for a private
residenbc The doors and their framework
are p feet wide and iG feet in height, and
weigh more than ten tons. Each door
weighs over one ton and half yet, 50
nicely are they balanced. child can move
them.
Commissioner Simonds will include with
the patent Office exhibit at the Worlds fair
Abraham Lincoln's model ofa device for lift-
ing vessels over shoals, patented May p,
lsi9, together with the model accompanying
an application for patent for propeller for
vessels, filed by B. T. Montgomery in 1864.
Montgomery was colored man who claim
ed TO have been the body servant Of Jeifer-
son Davis The model Was made by him
aud is Of superior workmanship.
Minneapolis is expecting 500 000 people to
attend the National Republican Convention.
About lO,000 can crowd into the hall. Each
delegate will have for distribution four tick
cts besides his own, the main committee
each ten tickets for distribution. Mr. Clark
son in the SiI,e Register says: "There are
900 applications from Iowa Republicans for
my ten tickets" The tickets will be print
ed for three sessions daily. and by dividing
them up, large number can bepermitted TO
look in once.
The trials Of l)yers never cease, as VIII
liam a Best ofSouth Bethlehem, Pa, could
testify. He is young man, and brought
suit against James E. Null, Bethlehem
township farmer. for $40 alleged tobe due him
for wages. At the trial Saturday Null pre-
sented bill against Best for $3.50, which
Null claims is the amount of feed consumed
by Best's horse, while its owner was court
ing Miss Jennie Null, the farmers bu1om
daughter. The young man has repeatedly
/ visited the Mall home since he ceased work
/ ing for the farmer. Jennie to-day testified
that her lovers horse was stabbed and fed a,
eyey trip.
Wm. Astor, the Millionaire New Yorker,
died at Paris last Wednesday. The cause Of
his death was heart failure, superindaced by
worrying over the affairs of his daughter,
Mrs. J. Coleman Drayton, who has gained
such notOrieiy in connection with the BOr-
rowe scandal. Next to his nephew William
Waldorf Astor, and probably Jay Gould,
William Ast0r was the richest citizen Of
I America His wealth was recently estima-
ted at between S50,0000OO and $80,eO0,0o0,
the greater part of which is invested in New
York resi- estate Il is not known how the
property of Mr.. Astor will be devided among
his children, but the chief heir viii be John
Jabob Astor, who married Miss Willing, of
PHILADELPHIA.