The Somerset reporter., 1893-03-02

( lust as messages are licked.
( The public schools OF Oconee, H. have
closed also revival services at the VI f.
/ Church on account of the prevalence Of a
malignant type of diphtheria, six deaths
having occurred within the last few
days
- \ block Of q dwelling houses were de-
stgoyed by fire ia Windsor Terrace Flat
bush. suburb of Brooklyn, y. Y. last
week All the inmates escaped without
injury
The will Of the late Oliver Burr jen
nings. of New Nork, whose summer resi-
dcace = IN Fairfield. Conn, was filed in
Fairfield Saturday and the entire estate.
amounting 10 fully 10000, 700, is lett 10
the family
Funeral services over the body OF
Rufus Hatca were held SUNDAY 1t IL,
late home AT Spuytcn Dayyh, y. y Many
friends Of the lead dnaucler, who kaeR
him when he was Il power on Nall
street. attended the service
Henry 4 Bauer aud Carl Kuold. the
Anarchist convicted in Pittsbugg Of being
accessories OF Berkinan n tho shooting Of
Chairman II = Prick Of the Carnegie
Steel Company wert sentenced SATURDAY
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ern Peniteuuary.
Peter r + smith, paying teller Of
the First Nauionu Bank OF Vii
mington. Del, selfcunfessed
empezzler to the amount of $40, 800 and
he Is now IN charge of the United states
marshal lie has been taking money for
the past fifteen years.
Intense cold prevails in Germany and
eastern Europe. In st. Petersburg the
mercury Is 30 degrees Fahrenheit below
zero In the province Of kalonRa, central
Russia, twelve children returning from
school were ovcrtaken by a snowstorn
and frozen to death in The highway
john ". Mackay, the san Francisco
millionaire, was shot in the back Satur
day IN that city by an old crazy man
named Rippey, who then shot himself
twice in the head. inlictng fatal inlnr-
les Mackay is not seriously hurt Nn
cause can be assigned for the act.
A. c Beckwith, Democrat, of Evanston,
the wealthiest man in Wyoming, will be
Uuited states Senator for the next two
years His selection to that Office has
been announced by Gov Osborn. 1t be-
came necessary to appoint on account OF
the Legislature adjourning without elect
ing
Three men occupying a room in
Chicago boarding house were overcome
by coal gas ON Sunday night. One
died before medical aid could be sum-
moued and the other two were restored
to partial consciousness but both will
probably die The men were quarry
laborers.
The delegates of the Intercollegiate
Athletic association of Columbia College
have been instructed to make every effort
to defeat the amendment proposed by
Yale restricting the competitors to under
graduates. The unanimous opinion of
the student body OF Columbia is opposed
TO such move.
The postofiice at Bath Beach, J.. l.. was
entered by burglars some time Thurs
day night; the safe blown open and its
contents of stamps and cash, amounting
to about S 900 carried of. There Is no
clue to the robbers The postofiice was
robbed OF 81. 100 i'll similar manner last
fall, but the burglars were never cap
tured.
Gov. Flower of New York has
concluded not to interfere at present
with the sentence OF the court in the case
of james Hughes, the master-workma II
of the Clothing Cutters branch OF tho
Knights of Labor, who is serving SEN
tencs of one year for the crime Of extor-
ton in the Monroe county penitsntiary.
The offense WAS committed during the
last cloak maker's strike in Rochester.
The brother of Miss Carrie Herrick
Of Boston, who eloped with Lawyer
W. w. Gooch, has returned from a fruC-
less trip to New York, where he had
gone with the avowad purpose of killing
Mr.. Gooch. 1t is reported that the cou-
pie have sailed for Europe, and the young
man is making preparations to follow
them there
The jubilee presents OF money
already received by the Pope amount
to 1000, 600 francs. Several off
rials at the Vatican have been arrested
for having sold tickets of admission to
st. Peters on the occasion of the cclebra
ton of mass by the Pope. The tickets
were sold in direct defiance of orders that
admission should be free
Julia Van Wagner, so years old,
was burned to death last week
night at her sons house. 1t
is supposed that after lighting the lamp
she accidentally pulled it from the man
tlepiece. The oil leaking from the lamp
ignited her clothing. She WAS the
mother of Mrs. Dudley Buck, wife of the
well known Brooklyn composer and musi-
clan
Mrs. Jessie G. Randall, Of Ballston,
N. Y, who eloped January 10 with
Herman Proskorwitz, alias Williams, and
who was arrested last week i'll Buffalo,
was arraigned before Justice MaXon on n
charge of abandoning her two young
children. She pleaded not guilty and
was held in $500 bail for the April Grand
Jury The woman appeared dazed and
made no statement.
The Nebraska State Legislature
has passed joint resolution deelar-
ing that the States in the great interior
basin should unite in building "A RAILROAD
from Galveston to the Dakotas. The
resolution recites the benefits of such II
railroad. which it is estimated will cost
s2i, 900. 600, and it proposes To secure
funds by levying tax of five cents per
acre on the lards of the States
Mrs Rhodu Shortridge has been ar
rested ut Newcastle. Ind, tor