The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1893-07-26

Oklahoma will hold Statehood Conven-
ton at Guthrie, August s.
Murderer Charles Salyards, in jail at Carl
isle, has appealed to the public for money
with which to take his case to the Supreme
Court
Finding burglars in the Ovid (N. " post
Office. J. r. Thomas. cashier of an adjoining
bank. shot one dead and was himself twice
wounded.
Ths shooting Of Lawyer johnson at Kan
sas City uncoysrs his confession OF the mur-
der OF Sam Woods. Popnlist leader, in Ste
vens County. two years ago.
Charged with stealing satchel. a man
supposed to be j. b. Richards, chairman Of
the Texas Democratic State Committee, Ian
guishes in Cleveland police station.
Frank Wilson essayed the peacemaker's
role in fight Saturday night at Plain City,
O., over a game Of cards. and Emerly Fitz-
patrick shot and killed him, and Is now in
danger of being Iynched.
Miss Frances E. Willard is expected to re-
turn to Chicago late in September. She is
now in Lucerne. Switzerland, and is much
improved in health, but her physician will
not yet permit her to do so much even as to
dictate letter.
1t is said that the only man living whose
father fought in the battle of Concord is
Luke Smith, Of Acton, Mass. lie is little
over so years old, but remembers with the
utmost elearness the account of it given
him by his father, Solomon Smith.
Frank S. Beedleson, aone-legged bicycllst
who left San Francisco May Is to ride across
the continent on a safety bicycle, reached
New York at 7;45 O'Clock Thursday even
ing, having consumed 50 days, hours and
IS minutes in making the trip, and creating
a new record.
Special Agent f. F. Smith. of the Agri-
cultural Department, has reported that, az
ter four years Of experimenting in the Mid
die States, it has been proved that peach
yeilows cannot be prevented or cured BY fer
tilizers, and recommended that further ex-
periments be discontinued.
Patrick Gallagher. who Wednesday made
a confession under oath that Hugh Demp-
sey, the Knights of Labor leader, was inno-
cent of completely in the Homestead poison
plot, Thursday he confessed the other way
again. He sent for the authorities and de
clared that all he said Wednesday was false.
For some days at Fort Mckinney, Wy
oming, the temperature has been il2 in the
shade, while the mercury in the sun stands
100 to $50 degrees. This is the hottest wea-
ther recorded for eight years. Not drop of
rain has fallen for nine weeks and the range
is completely destroyed. Buffalo is sur
rounded by forest fires.
Advices from Washington state thar $500
pensioners have been suspended since March
4, pending an investigation into the legality
of their claims. Each pensioner thus sus-
pended is given 60 days in which to prove
his right to a pension. OF this number 2l5
have been dropped from the rolls, having
failed to pass the required examination.
At Allentown, Pa. Sunday, three broth
ers, George, Willie and Lewis Schray, aged
lS, II and 8 years respectively, sons of
George A. sehray, were sitting on the bank
Of the Lehigh river, when Willie fell into
the stream. The other brothers, in trying
to rescue him, also fell into the river As
sistance came and Willie was rescued, but
his two brothers were drowned.
a dispatch from San Francisco says Pol
iticians have not yet recovered from the sur
prise over the appointment of George c. Per
kins TO succeed Stanford in the United States
Senate. The appointment was like light
ming out of a clear sky, for no one believed
Governor Markham would pass by all the
prominent candidates to choose man who,
by general consent, was regarded as out of
the race.
The White City was deserted Sunday and
the warm sun shone upon deSclaie thor
oughfares. The Sunday closing order was
rgidly enforced, and even caterers were not
allowed inside to clean up their restaurants.
There was no trouble OF any kind from
persons wishing to enter the grounds. The
crowds outside the gates along Stony Island
avenue were small during the day and the
side shows did no business.
One night last week Dr. H. c. Hooper,
who lives near Ebensburg, started in his
sulky to drive from the borough to his home
A wheel struck an obstacle and the doctor
was thrown out He managed to get home,
badly injured. He sent his hired
man, Millard Good in the sulky to Ebens-
burg for a surgeon, and on the way the
sulky ran over a COW and Good was thrown
out and had his leg broken. Another man
got the surgeon, who now has two patients
on his hands.
Robert Wyley, one Of the best known wool
buyers of Washington and Greene counties,
says the Washington Observer, when asked
W bat the prospects of the wool markets
were, stated that his agents had bought in
the last ten days, about 25,0OO or $1,000
pounds of the best clips, paying therefor %
cents per pound. There now seems to be
nothing in sight calculated to raise the price
of the commodity, but on the contrary, it is
probable that wool will be bought in this
country this summer for IS cents. Wool
growers generally kick very hard about sell
ing their holdings for - cents, but in spite
Of that thousands of pounds can be bought
At that figure.
Sunday night the jail at Memphis, Tenn.
was broken into by several hundred men at
midnight, and Lee Walker, repulsiye black
man, aged p years, was taken out aud
strung up to telegraph pole near the bank
Of Wolf river and few hundred yards from
the Jail. Afierward his body was cremated
in the yard Of lumber firm near by. The
negro was native of North Mississippi and
bis calendar OF crimes is among the blackest
IN history. Within the past week be has
made four attempts to commit rape, two be-
ing successful, one victim being small col
bred girl three and half years old, who
vas badly lacerated, and the other a mar
ned woman of his own color.