The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1893-09-27
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Anew tri,l for Henry Heist, convicted
of numbering Emanuel Noun, near Gsitys-
burg, was denied and he was sentenced 10
be hanged
BY the will Of the late L D. Shoemaker.
Of Hilkesharre, nearly all Of his 5000 600
estate will be divided amcng his six chill
dren.
The President on Tuesday nominated
William B. Hornblower, of New York, TO be
Associate Justice Of the Supreme Court of
the United States, vice Samuel Blaichford,
deceased
With ever sixty souls on board the
Haitian gunboat Alexandra fonndered of
Cspe Piburon, on the south west coast Of
Haiti, on September 6, and only one Belgian
marine, named Pierre Jardin, survives to
/ tell the tale.
Henry s Cochran, weigh clerk in Phila-
delphia mint, has confessed that be IS the
thief who stole the thirty bars ofgold bullion
from the vaults. About 10000 worth OF
the yellow metal bas been recovered, and
it is expec ed the government will lose
nothing by Cochran's disenesty.
In Cumberland County, Pa, when a man
gets pension and knows no other use than
70 spend it for whisky, the court has an in
QUESTION made, and, if hey find that he is a
babitual drnnkard, committee is appointed
TO take charge of his affairs, and receive bis
pension and make disposition Of for the
pensioner and his family.
A bride of only three weeks, Mrs. Harvey
StOrk, of Adamstown, Lancaster county Pa,
died several days ago. Before the funeral
ceremonies began the grie: stricken husband
bad the body of bis bride dressed in her
wedding gown and placed in rocking chair.
A photographed had been engaged previous
ly, and he took her picture.
William Lancaster, son Of Constable Polk
Lancaster Of Brownsville, Pa, IS having q
dear experience in the Western Penitentiary.
He is just eomplelinge term of six years
and eleven months for barn burning in
Washington county aud six months for
attempting to break prison, and viii soon
enter upon a term Of seven years for as
sanlting one of the keepers.
James P. Gifin, a sporting character Of
Pittsburgh, who came there from Washing
ton some three years ago with about So
00O and had spent $4,000 of it, was muir
dered and robbed Of the other thousand in
Washington County, Tuesday night He
had been in Pittsburgh shortly before and
had shown Eis NV 10 friends there
telling them lie vs. sJ--s 70 Steybenville to
buy a saloon.
Governor Psttison has received a letter
from Executive Commissioner Farquhar, OF
the State Worlds Fair Commission, stating
that the Pennsylvania state building has
been accepted by the Chicago naval school
in preference to the New York building.
which was rendered with donation Of s.
coo in cash. The trustees Of the navaI
school examined both buildings and decided
in favor Of the Pennsylvania.
With their hands hacked with a hatchet
and their bodies bIackenei and burned by
tlAtAA DAaA4Ai- ttNs AAAE AEt-aaA4> u lEtl
Samuel NJ Rightly and his wife were found
in their smoking home Sunday morning.
They were the victims Of an airocious double
murder and a paliry 500 stolen from Under
the pillow Of the dead Tegeals the motive
for the iendish crime. Who the muderer IS
has not been determined. Rightly was s
years old and his wife, Lena. was two
years younger They resided alone in
Northampton township, two miles east of
RiehboTo Buek Ks County.
4 dispatch from Tyrone says: The sequs
TO the tragic suicide Of eneral Robert Al
Mccoy II days ago was the failure Friday
ofthe big coal firm of Mccoy, L!ylrwi;gli &
Co, the most extensive biiuminous operators
in this section Of the State. For 10 years
previous to his death, & eneral Mccoy had
been cashier OF the Blair County Banking
Company, and to-day that firm called for a
settlement Of heavy loans made to the Gen
eral, the head of the coal company. This
crash reveals what is supposed TO have been.
the real reason for General McCoy's suicide
At the time of his death be was supposed to
have property worth 10000 clear ofall
debt, but the secret of the coming failure was
not then out, and perhaps he alone knew it. |