The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1893-07-19
News Items.


Siurgss c. Dick. membe. OF the banking
firm Of J. r Dick & Co. Of Meadville, Pa,
committed suicides at O'Clock Friday morn
ing by shooting himself in the head. He
lived but about 30 minutes after the shot.
He had been in poor health for over two
years, which condition was aggravated by &
slight run on the bank Thursday.
Hoa /. W. Hall. counsel for the Penn
sylyania railroad company. at Harrisburg
Friday, paid to State Treasurer Morrison q
check for S7o0, COZ, being tax on the capital
stock Of the company, yet there are people
who say the corporations do not bear their
share of the burden of taxation. Il was
small BIT OF paper. but there was something
very attractive about il.
Howard Maiehler, Of Easton, was nomi-
mated on Tuesday as the Democratic candi-
date for Congress TO ill the unexpired term
OF his father. the late William Mutcaler, by
the Congressional Convention of the Eighth
Pennsylvania District, which met al EasiOn.
Chairman Reeder, Of the Republican stste
Committee, Is the Republican nominee It
Is strong DemOcTs siic district.
An express train on the West Shore road
leit The rails, at NewbuTg. New York, Thurs
day. while running at the rate Of 40 miles
an hour and crashed into freight train
standing on the siding. A crowded passen-
ger car had side torn of and the trucks
pulled out Five Of the passengers were
killed and twenty-seyen injured, two proba-
bly, fatally. \ freight train left the rails At
the same place few days ago.
Twelve preachers calling themselves Re
cruits Of Heaven have set up 4 sent at Tip
ton, Ind, and hold services night and day
without intermission. They preach the ear
ly end Of the world with the fervency Of ia
natics. Hundreds flock to hear them. They
profess TO 20 into frances and peach while
in this condition. Scores OF their converts
develop the same powers, and tel wonderful
stories Of their visits to heaven aid he'll.
Thursday William Cox, aged u, his sister
Matilds, aged =, and Georgia Ward, aged y
found a pint and quart bottle lying under
tree at the roadside near Washington, Pa.
They threw stones at the bottles. When
cne Of the bottles was struck an explosion
followed that shook houses mile away. a
large hole was blown in the earth, trees and
fences were thrown down and the children
hurled many feet The bottles contained
nitro glyceriue. Will Cox was fatally hurt.
Patrick J. Gallagher and J. NJ. Davi lson,
who are serving terms in the Western Peni-
tenitary for seIfconfessed completely in the
alleged poisoning OF non-uniOn workmen in
the Homestead mill, have made another
confession in which they say they were paid
by Pinkertons 70 swear away the liberty Of
Hugh +. Dempsey and Robert J. Beatty,
both Of whom, they now assert, were inno-
cent of the crime, ofwhich they were con-
vicied. They further state that 50 far as
they know there was no poison administer
ed TO the men in the Homestead mill
A jury was impareled st Springfield, IL, /
Thursday, to determine the identity Of the
man who claims to be William Newly, Of /
White county, who was shot in the head at /
the battle Of Shiloh and was believed to /
have been buried in the trenches by his /
comrades. This man has convinced Mrs. /
Newly and her four children Of his identi- /
". Old friends and comrades Of Newly be- /
ieve this to be the man. He applied for a
pension on account Of his services as Will /
ism Newby. aud wasindicted for attempting
to obtain a pension by fraud. The govern
ment claims that be IS Daniel Benton, well 4
known in Tennessee The wife Of Daniel 4
Benton arrived there from Tennessee and /
viii testify that the defendant IS her hus-
band and the father Of her children, and not
Newby.