The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1893-03-15
News Items.
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The New York police have raided all tie
pool rooms in that city.
Governor Hogg Of Texas Is only 80 years
Of age. but weighs SIS pounds.
A Chicago ordinance says no more build
ings shall be over I3O feet high.
Widespread and destructive prairie fires are
raging in The vicinity of Plainville, Kansas.
Every member Of the Cleveland Cabinet is
Presbyterian. Nearly all OF Harfison's s
Secretaries are of the same faith.
The trustees Of the Governor Mckinley
estate have agreed to receive voluntary
contributions for the relief ofthe estate.
Mrs. James Cantwell. the wife ofa pros
porous farmer Of Bell Haven, Del, gave
birth to quadruplets, all boys. on Friday.
Applications for post offices are coming in
at the Office of the Fourth Assistant Post
master General at the rate of over 1000 a
day.
Five men were seriously and three fatally
hurt by an explosion of fire damp in a mine
near Connellsville at an early hour Monday
morning.
Mrs. John Smith, 80 years Of age, Of King
ston, Ontario, is cutting new set Of teeth.
Already they are five in number and sound
and white.
The legislature of Maine has adopted a
resolution asking the family of James G..
Blaine to remove the remains of the dead
statesman to that State.
More than four thousand miners in the
eastern part Of Pennsylvania are out of en-
ployment owing to the high water. Many
of the mines being flooded.
A dispatch from Shanghai says: A fam
inc prevails throughout the northern part OF
the Province OF shen-si. Men are selling
their wives and children for food.
A bust of Phiilis wheatley, an educated
African woman, who lived century ago in
New England, will be made for the Worlds
Fair by Miss Edmonia Lewis, of Paris, a
negro sculptor.
Sherman Arp (cOloredl was hanged al
Centre, Ala, a, l O'Clock Friday, for the
murder of a farmer named Hohue, splitting
his head open with an ak. Arp sold his
body few days ago to the doctors by the
pound. getting sl2 As for it.
Jim Keene stands to win or lose sl00O0,-
| 600 on the Chicago Board of Trade. AS
the deal now stands" says the article, sit is
a toss up whether he wins out or makes
another huge contribution to the experience
fund charged against Chicago wheat.
Senator PETER has wired the acceptance of
an invitation 10 attend a convention in Pitts
! burgh, March l6 to form new political par
| ty. The convention viii be held in Lafay-
ette Hall, where the Republican party was
| brought into being. The three great prince
Piles of the new party will be: The recogni-
ton ofChrist in government, women's rights
and prohibition.
Tie Grand Jury of Armstrong county has
returned true bills against Sprague, Ryan,
Kroner, aud DR.. Wyckoff, charging the first
three with burglary, and all four with the
murder of William c. Shaelfer, at Leech-
burg, on February 2Ist. Dr.. Wyckoff was
also indicted for keeping a gambling house.
All of the prisoners will likely be brought to
trial this week.
Postmaster General Bissell is accredited
with the announcement that no local busi-
ness men need apply for post offices under
his administration. He objects to commits
sioning local business men as postmasters,
for the reason that the actual duties are per
formed by irresponsible and often incompe-
teat clerks and substitutes. Postmasters
under Mr. BisSell must promise to devote
their entire time TO the work and personally
keep strict office hours.
Judge Butler, in the United States District
Court, at Philadelphia Friday sentenced J.
F. Miller, formerly a bookkeeper in the
First National Bank Of Columbia, Pa, who
embezzled between s. 900 and 5000 Of the
banks money. TO pay the costs of prosecu-
tion and to undergo an imprisonment Of five
years. in the Eastern Penitentiary. Miller,
il will be remembered, fed to Australia and
Bombay, India, and afterwards returned to
this country, where he pleaded guilty 10 his
crime