The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1893-01-18
News Items.

OraBd hign frlesl, harry > " nit@eis oi
the knights of the Golden Eagle. died at his
home in Philadelphia. one day last week.
A bill to form the new county Of Hazel
ton ou, of schuylkill and Luzern viii be
offered again at Harrisburg.
wilIiamsport. Pa. suspender factory
sent gold mounted pair Of susPenders to
Grover Cleveland and pair to Adiai F.
Stevenson.
Jesse Strickler. of Bucks county, Pa, died
on Wednesday, aged 9s years. He had yot-
ed at nineteen Presidential elections. and
had smoked on an aversge a dozen cigars
Gay for seventy-hye years.
Ex-President Rutherford B. Hayes IS Sc
riously i'll At mis- sons residence in Cieve-
land, Ohio, with neuralgia of the heart
lie has been i'll since Saturday, but the fact
was suppressed, only becoming known to-
cay.
Donald Leach, a barber of Valparaiso,
Ind has been made the defendant in an ac-
iion at Moline, H., for 5000 damages.
Rudolph ObeFmeyer alleges that his nous
tache was ruined by carelessness on the part
of the defendant in trimming.
Four of the eight negroes convicted of the
murder of DIR. Hill, were hung at Chester
town, Nd, Friday. Governor Brown COM
muted the sentence Of the four boys to life
imprisonment. The four mer hung all
protested their innocence on the gallows.
A dispatch from Greensburg to the Sun
day papers says that westmoreland coun-
ty woman, who on Friday last walked q
distance of two miles, carrying her babe in
her arms, found that the child had been
frozen 10 death, when she removed the
wrappings.
The Economic Society near Pittsburgh,
will abandon farming as Improbable, and
will dismiss about 800 laborers inside of a
month. The mills and brick yards will be
operated with improved appliances. All the
blooded stock will shortly be disposed of.
This is in accordance with Trustee Russ
plans.
Three years ago Wiikesbarre man was ar
rested while dressing for his wedding, sent
to prison, whsre he stayed until . day or
two ago, when be was liberated Oh the confes-
sion the real culprit, and met by his faithful
! aifiaDced, driven to a clergyman's house and
married. Who says the material for ro-
nance has disappeared from our prosy land.
The coal situation in nearly every city
and town on the Ohio river from Pittsburgh
10 Cairo has become really desperate one,
and several of the cities on the Mississippi
are also beginning TO send out alarming
cries. At many places it is not so much an
actual insuficiency of the supply as the in
ability to get al the stock on account Of the
fleets of coal being frozen solidly in the ice.
Daniel Heiser and wife, both mutes, liv-
ing in lonely spot by the mountain near
Milton. Pa, were awakened at midnight
Friday by smoke and flames in their room.
Hastily wrapping themselves in blankets
they rushed through the flames and escaped
to the road, carrying newly born babe.
Not having time TO save any of their CLOTH
ing the unfortunates were obliged to walk
one mile through snow and ice to the near
est farmhouse in their bare feet and night
clothes.
Rev David d. Bonsaek, at one time the
leading Dunkard preacher in Maryland
committed suicide Friday night. Last sum
mer he eloped with married woman leav.
ing wife and family. The couple remain
ed away only two weeks when they return
ed, expressed remorse and were taken back
by their respective families. The Dunkard
church, however, refused to forgive. After
long trial Bonsack was convicted, deposed
from the ministry, and recently expelled
from the church.
Renee, the big dog who made almost q
reputation during the food at Johnstown, is
dead at the age of 10 years. The animal was
noticed extensively by the newspapers for
his work as rescuer. particularly for saving
the life of Mrs. Kress. She Was washed off a
roof on which members of the family were
saoat and would certainly have drowned
had not the dog swan to her aid and seizing
her skirt ia his teeth regained the raft after
desperate struggle. Although he has been
blind and deaf for some time he has been
cared fof as tenderly as if he were human.
An explosion Wednesday in the Union
Pacific coal mine, at King, on :he Denver
and South Park division of the Union Pa
eific Railroad. resulted in the death of all
but one of 25 men at work in the fatal cham
Der. The accident was caused by what the
miners cali a windy shot," that is, the
charge of powder hal been insufficiently
tapped. The result was the instant explo-
sion of the gas in the chamber of the mine
where the men were working. The con-
cussiOn set free and circulated the black
damp and almost instantly death of the 2i
men followed. OF the victims of the disas-
Ter, p were Italians, one Scotchman and
two of them were Americans. About eight
of them were married.
strange romance was ended by the
death of Mary Refs, who for 80 years led a
lonely life because her parents f1rbad can ear
ly marriage. Her body was found Friday in
little house near Stonersville Bucks coun-
ty. She was IS years old. When girl she
fell in love with young man whom her
parents did no, admire, and they forbade a
marriage. This broke iary's heart, and
her home had no more charms for her.
she preferred to live by herself, and she re
fused TO accept the hospitality of friends or
neighbors. saying that all the world was
against her. Twenty years ago she moved
into he little stone house, and after that she
rarely saw anybody. On Monday a friend
called and offered to help her in any way,
bat tue aged lady refused aid. Her body
was discovered on her kitchen floor
and so was was found in the little
house OF the recluse.