The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1893-09-27
Items of Interest.

No less than 1900 children resumed
their studies in the public schools Of Phiia-
delPhia, when they re-OpeDed for the fall
term.
10 the competitive dr.iI belEeea the re-
| speciive companies Of Knights Of the Mystic
Caain, Johnssown, Wednesday, Company c.
York, won the first prize Of Sl00. The state
castle, in annual session there, elected off,
esrs loF the yess.
The Commissioners Of Allss she8y county
hare appealed 20 Secretary Hagrity for de-
cision regarding the heaTrsngemsut Of the bal
lot and the pss.y rights OF the Citizens Al
liaaos, 0i 'la, county. 50 they may sonfora
% tie uniform usage Of the state.
James Faltoa. OF bis farm near S,sxarts-
town, Yc-k county. Notwithstanding the
uafayora5le season.. raised 2oO bushels Of
Pride Of the West potatoes to the acre. One
OF these potatoes weighed two and half
pounds and they generally are Of unusually
large size.
The board Of examiners Of the Carlisle
bar have refused the application of Miss "a a
G. Kast, Of Carlisle, 70 register as law stu
dent on the grounds that the rules Of the
courts Of Cumberland county DO not admit
women 10 practice law. The application
viii b. appealed 10 court by Senator Lloyd
The Pennsylvania state building at the
Worlds Fair will be transferred 20 the Chi
ea-0 naval academy al the close Of the expo
sition. /, is believed that the building can
Be lifted from its present foundations and
moved to the lake front for $1,000. The
Illinois naval reserve will use the building
as an aFmory and viii probably purchase
the furniture. =
Ex-Jadse Ejzard Campbell, Of Union
town, Prohibition candidate for Judge in the
Fayeue- Greene district, has declared that
Secretary Hoke Smith pension rulings are
right, aud, further. that if be is elected judge
he will grant every applicant who complied
with the law license. The Grand Army
Of the Republic post, of which be is a mem-
Der. is considerably sgitated oger his pen
sion views.
Enoch Miner, Of Bullskin township Fay
cite county, digs every Sunday night on the
farm Of Elias ChTistner in quest Of three
crooks Of gold, which his wife dreamed, the
night before she died, could be found in
certain place. Mrs Miner dreamed that her
uncle. Emanuel Sleasman. had buried the
treasure, 5000 OF $1,000 on the farm a
quarter Of a century ago. None Of it has
yet been found.
A big copperhead snake atta~ked Samuel
Blouse, boy living at Rocky. York eoun-
". The lad evaded the first stroke Of the
deadly serpent. but the second time the
poison-laien fangs were sunk deep into his
hand. Heroically young Blouse tried %
destroy the Effects Of his awful encounter
By sucking oui the poison, but this expert
meut failed The boy is still living but his
recovery is doubtful.
The secrec agents Of the pension bureau
have been at work in the Pit;sburg district
for several weeks gathering data upon which
10 institute criminal proceedings against a
large number OF persons alleged 10 have
been drawing pensions fraudulently. Seye-
raj clerks in the department have been sub
Pelaed to appear in the United States Court
against a pension attorney who is alleged to
have collected Illegal fsss.