The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1893-03-29
News Items.


that the choJers has got hold on several
cities and many villages. In stavropoi the
fresh cases in The last week have numbered
on the average fifteen daily. and the deaths
between seven and eight
The postofioe at Irwin. westmoreland
county. was robbed At an early hour Sunday
| morning. Over 500 worth of stamps, $50
in money, and ten registered letters, contents
unknown, were taken. The thieves cracked
the safe and wrecked the building to con-
siderable extent.
II is alleged that Antonio Desosa, on
wager Of IS, Saturday evening. in the Com
mercial Hotel Restanran; at Harrisburg. ate
lis soft boiled eggs and 30 hard-boiled
eggs, two sandwiches and 81 raw oysters.
These be washed down with 2l beers. He
Pocketed his money and said be felt first
rate.
Work is in progress on 279 buildings, TO be
used as hotels, in the immediate neighbof-
hood Of the Worlds Fair grounds. These
structures are Of wood, brick or stone, and
viii contain a total of 33945 rooms. They
will cost nearly $4,sO0.OO0. With this
abundance eofaccommodatiorIs, of tits believed
that hotel rates will not be excessive.
The -four mill and elevators in Ltchfeld,
in Illinois, owned by Kehler Bros. were de-
stroyed on Tuesday A fire started in the
mill and was followed by an explosion OF
-four dust. The mill was blown to pices and
many business houses and dwellings in the
village we're wrecked. One person vas
killed and manp injured, but none, it is
thought, fatally The loss is placed at
$4,000.
Col Elliott F. Shepard, editor of the New
York Aaa aud Express, died suddenly Friday
afternoon. He believed himself to be suffer
ing from stone in the bladder. and desired
that an operation be performed TO learn the
truth. To this end ether was administered
by his physicians, and he had scarcely be
gan to inhaIe the drug when the doctors no.
ticed signs Of collapse. Resioratives were
applied, but in vain.
A cyclone swept over North Mississippi
and West Tennessee Thursday afternoon,
] 4N&lf AAlt AAAAo III AAo NahC- A0hAN1 -1A1o-9-
sippi, was entirely destroyed, and several
people are are reported killed and injured.
/ The telegraph wires are down in all direct
ions. Trainmen oIthe Kansas City, Memphis
& Birmingham Railroad report that Kelley,
Miss, was wiped Off the face of the earth,
not soul being left to tell the tale.
Judge Brnbaker, Of Lancaster county, Pa,
who was elected last year on the ann-fee-
| grabbing issue, refused last week to confirm
a large number of accounts presented by the
Register, Prothonotary and Orphans Court,
declaring the fees exorbitant. "If the mem
bers of the Bar, he stated, cannot stop this
| evil and file exceptions TO the confirmation
OF accounts containing illegal fees, / shall
come to their relief and request them 10 do
So"
Sam Jones, the Evangelist, has been
knocking Satan right and left, in his char
scteristio style, at Gainesville, Ga. He has
| Church, as slanderer. Sam says there ARE
times in the lives of preachers when patience
ceases 10 be a virtue, and when the old
Adam would insist on defending himself
after the manner prescribed by John l.
sullivan" Both men are said 10 De armed,
and hostile meeting is possible.
A funny bill with funny penalties is that
proposed by Representative Sikorsky in the
Minnesota legislature against the unfastidi-
Gus Chinese. It prohibits Cinnamon here
after from wearing their shirts outside of
their pants and requiring them to dress
the same as other citizens" A violation of
the act is to be punished by fine OF from 81
to $40 and by forfeiture of pigtail. rIe bill
was referred to the Comm ttee on Health
and Sanitation.
The government of Spain, through the
State Department, has officially rendered to
the United States as gift the reproduced
flagship of Columbus, the Santa Maria, now
in the Gulf Of Moxico en- route to this coun-
try 10 participate in the naval review and
form part of the Spanish exhibit at Chica-
go. The ceremonies of presentation will
take place near the close of the Exposition.
1t is the intention TO bring the Santa Maria
to Washington for permanent exhibition.
A dispatch from London says the young
German Emperor has taken personal inter
est in the management Of church affairs, and
by imperial announcement has decided bow
long sermons shall last, OF late ministers
have been preaching only about fifteen min
u.es, bat the Emperor has declared
that even this was too long, and ordered
that al the Inauguration ofNazareth Church,
which was made solemn ceremonial event,
the sermon should not last more than six
minutes. So hereafter six-minute sermons
will be the rule.
An attempt to kill King Humbert was
made Saturday evening by one Berardi as
the King was returning from the Villa
Borghese, where he had been spending the
day. The missile thrown by the would-be
assassin missed its mark. and, before a sec
ond attempt upon the Kings life could be
made, several persons rushed upon the as
/ sailant and held him fast. There were a
1 great many people on the street at the time,
[ and as soon as the facts of the case became
]
! The assailsnt was promptly taken in hand
/ by the police and conveyed to prison other
wise be would in all probability have bten
killed by the angry multitude. He is said
/ to be religious fanatic.
The greatest eater in England is dead, and
incidentsllythere disappears from the ranks
ofthe nobility a strange and grotesque figure
| Tue late Duke Of Bedford, who leaves b.
hind him an estate of 100000 900, was prac-
| tically, recluse, and though so enormous
/ ly rich, great miser. His one absorbing
thought was to pile up further hOards, and
! find new possibilities of retrenchment. Dur
I ing the last few years he had become physi-
! eally almost a monstrosity, through indul-
gence in most gluttonous appetite This
made him very corpulent, and this in tuIn
compelled sedentary habits. which tended
to increase his size He ate one acquaint-
ance says, like wolf. he was reputed to
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