The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1893-07-05
News items.


A New York woman wants divorce be-
cause berhusband stuffed cayenne pepper
in her mouth
The Democratic State committee has ds
cided to hold the State convention At Har-
risburg September 10Th.
The great Yale Harvard eight cared boat
race between Yale and Harvard was won BY
Yale in the presence of 50 600 people at New
London. Conn. Friday.
Fo-ty-two States and 7o.eo0 members were
represented IN the annual session Of the su-
prene Castle the Knights Of the Golden
EssIe. which met at Baltimore last week.
Lizzie Borden, Of Fall River, Mass, who
was last week acquitted Of the charge Of
muriering her father and mother viii sal
with her sister in a short time for an extend
ed tour Of Europe.
Abram Lynch, brakeman on the Clear
field and Cambria railroad. while shifting
cars near the Ebensburg station Thursday
morning, Was thrown in front OF moving
car and had his head cut OF.
Assistant Secretary Reynolds. Of the In
terror Department. has decided thar women
who superin;ended the diet Of sick and
wounded soldiers during the war, are entitled
to pensions under the provisions OF the sct
of August ). ls92.
Dr. Nansen sailed for the Arctic regions
last Saturday, and Lieutenant Peary expects
70 follow him in about week If they
should come upon the Pole simultaneously
they had better divide it. Half a pole is
better than none.
Conditions Of peach orchards in Pennsyl-
vania, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland
are now of character to warrant the anti
ciPa;ion that the crop viii be more than an
average in the three latter states. while in
the former it will be fair in yield aud supe-
nor in quality.
A terrific electrical storm passed over
Wheeling West Virginia. Rain and hail
fell in torrents for fully two hours Two
hundred telephones were burned out. Every
one Of the 50 inmates oft the county infirma-
" were Prosirated by shock Of lightning
which struck tree near the building.
John I. Paul, prominent Indiana insur-
ance sgent, fell from two-sioFy window at
Rochesters Mills Wednesday night and sus-
tanned compound fracture Of the collar
bone and other injuries which may prove
fatal. Panl was a slsep-walker and vas in
such a condition at the time Of the accident.
George Sonntag, the train roboer, whose
brother now is badly wounded at Fresno,
California, and who is himself in Folsom
Prison for life, headed desperate break Of
convicts this afternoon, which resulted in
bis own dangerous wounding, the death of
three conyicts and the wounding OF four
Others.
The first large shipment of hay from the
United States to France viii Do made in a
few days. The German steamer FIeiburg.
1.90S tons burden, has been chartered for
the purpose, and will carry a fun cargo.
This viii be the first full cargo Of hay ever
sent from an Atlantic port to Europe. A
small shipment of 100 tons was sent from
Baltimore two weeks agO.
That Chicago is the Metropolis OF America
is the claim made by a newspaper of that
city. il said that within the legal limits Of
the city there lives at this time permanent
resident population Of nearly 100000 souls
that Chicagos population is about 10000
larger than New York, and that Chicago
has entered into swift competition with
London and Paris for still higher honors.
The fireman Of a fast freight train on the
Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore
railroad observed Wednesday night that the /
engineer did not slack up in rounding the
curve near Chester. and clambered up into I
the cab to see what the trouble was. He
made the startling discovery tha; The ensin- !
eer, Ebenezer Craig. was dead Al his post; /
The fireman quickly reversed the engine and
brought it 10 astand-s:ill in front Of the /
Chester station. When the train stopped a (
few miles north Craig was apparently all
right.
Silver mining and smelling in Colorado |
will cease. This decision was reached AZ a /
meeting of all the leading mine owners and !
managers Of the State held at Denver. Thurs /
day afternoon. The mines cannot be opera
ted at the present price, and to stop further !
loss all operations will come to a standstnl |
and 2j.O00 to $1,000 men be thrown out Of !
employment. There was a large attendance |
at the meeting. Ex Governor J. b. Grant, of
the Omaha and Grant smelter, the largest
concern OF its kind in the world. was the
chairman