The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1893-04-12
News Items.

The great new Mormon Temple, in Salt
lake City, Utah, was dedicated Thursday
The site was selected in 1871. and ground
broken and the cornerstone laid in 1853
The cost of the building. as near as can be
ascertained, will be slightly in excess of
s. 10000. It's anticipated that the cere-
monies win extend over q period of four
teen days. The services were secret
Postmaster General Bissell recently defin-
ed offensive partisanship on the part Of
postmaster as follows .'(D Que who would
turn his Office into political headquarters /;
(2l one who would manipulate the mails in
the ;utsrest Of his party 80 one who would
collect and solicit funds for the use Of his
party, and "a one who would use the posi-
ton to cOerce patrons Of the cfiice into vo-
ting as be wished"
Judge William Lochren, who is to succeed
General Raum as Commissioner of Pensions
is a well-knoBn jurist and a man with =
good military record He was born in Yer
mont fifty seven years ago and went to Min
nesota in 1857. At the breaking out of the
war be enlisted in the First Minnesota Regi-
ment His service during the war was Sc
we're. eliminating at Gettysburg, where his
regiment made the famous charge that
checked Pickett's onslaught.
The discovery Of the murderers Of Francis
n Bowie, the rich planter at Malboro, Md,
is due TO the religious scruple of the wife Of
Pinknsy, one of the alleged assassins. She
was questioned on Good Friday and told
that If she lied on that day her soul would
surely be lost She is Catholic. Though
at first she denied all knowledge. she finally
burst into tears. and acknowledged that she
threw the murdered mans watch into
neighbo1ing stream al her husband request.
The watch was recovered and the chain of
evidence is now complete.
At three O'Clock Thursday afternoon
daring jail delivery took place at Huntington
in which Robert Dearmitt, charged with
rape and Edward Corie, who shot his sweet
heart at Rockhill, escaped, making the
fourth successful escape of prisoners in four
months. A timely alarm prevented the es-
cape Of the other prisoners who had access
to the corridors. The jail was in charge of
young domestic in the sherifTs family at the
time. The last grand jury recommended
that the county commissioners should re-
pair the holes that had been made in the
floors by the prisoners who had previously
escaped, but the commissioners refused TO
DO this and it was through these openings
that the prisoners to-day gained their liber-
~.
At a meeting Of the board of directors of
the Philadelphia and Reading railroad COM
pany Saturday, the resignation of President
Mcleod was accepted and Joseph S. Harris
chosen to fiji the vacancy.
Coroner johnson, of Washington, Pa,
will hold an inqust Monday at Lucyvill over
the remains OF Smith Person, aged thirteen
years, who was stabbed last Tuesday
By Thomas Perks, aged eleven
years. Pearson died yesterday from the
effects Of the wound Tuesday Perks and
his sister were picking up coal, when Pear
son came along and took some oft. This
started fight, in which several boys took
part, and during its progress the cuttirg was
done. The youthful murderer is out on 500
bail, bat will probably be placed in Jail.
The State Department. on Thursday, receiv-
ed a cablegram from Minister Hicks. at Ii
ma, Peru, stating that mob attacked,
Masonic lodge, sacked the building and
burned the fixtures that incidentally the
United States Consulate was invaded, fur
nishings destroyed and the acting Consular
Agent shot in the foot. A squad of Peru
Wan police looked on without interfering
with the work Of the mob After consulta-
ton with President Cleveland Secretary
Gresham sent telegram to Minister Hicks,
telling him to protest against the failure Of
the authorities to afford protection for the
Consulate, and, if the facts are well establish
ed, 10 ask an expression Of regret, prompt
prosecution Of the guilty parties, and repsra-
ton for injury TO American property or per
sons.
The reported outbreak of contagious dis
eases among cattle near Mt Pleasant, West
AlpAEaaAA AAao D1eA lAfNot4t0tC1 "
Secretary Edge, ofthe state board of agricul-
ture. An animal, which was practically
dyingfwas selected for post mortem which
however, failed TO reveal any specific disease
Of an organ. An examination of the rest
Of the herd revealed the fact that they were
literally covered with parasites, which, in
connection with improper food, were the
causes Of the deaths which had occurred in
the herd. The state officers recommended
that the barn and shedding be thoroughly
cleansed and washed with lime and carbolic
acid and that the animals be washed with
weak solution Of tobacco water and carbolic
aeid mixed with whale oil soap, which if
properly done and supplemented by proper
nutritious food, Secretary Edge says, will
save the remainder of the herd.