The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1893-07-12

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Ex-Presldent Harrison is sciourning st
Cape Nay.
Because he had no work. John Christian
hanged himselfin front OF his sweetheart
door in Boston.
A ssOO.0O0 FIRE visited Fe'rolis, Butler
county, Pa, ON the 4th. when an entire
block Of buildings were consumed.
Joseph L Curtis. ex-sheriT of Brooke
county, W Va, has disappeared from Vel
lersbnrg. short in his accounts $4,000.
Mrs. Ellen Pollock, of New York, has Sc
cured a verdict Of $500 against her father
in-law for alternating her husbands alice
tions.
Eli Davis. an old soldier, died or Saturday
from lockjaw caused by the bite OF cat at
West Chester. He suffered only short
time
Advices from China state that 10000 per.
sons have perished in floods and under fall
ing houses in Maningfor, and at least 1000
on the banks of the walling River
4 Missouri law permitting the sale to the
highest bidder at public auction OF the time
and labor of vagrants has been declared un-
constitutional by the supreme court ofthat
state
The Kentucky Legislature, after being in
session 5Sl days, adjourned sine die on Mon
day. The cost to the state was SG00.c00 and
hereafter sessions will be limited by law to
so days.
Miss Julia Force, OF Atlanta. Ca. who
murdered her two sisters, so that she
would be hanged and disgrace her brother, -
as she said, has been found not guilty. She
Is insane and will be sent to an asylum.
While wofkmen were digging a cellar in
North Braddock the other day they found
two cannon balls, each weighing six pounds.
They are relics ofthe defeat of General Brad
dock in l775, and will be placed in the Car
negie library at Braddock.
Moses Williams, colo-ed, lives on a farm
about five miles esa Of Fayetteville, Texas.
He is 55 years old, but no one would take
him TO be more than about 80. He was
married twice, and had born to him IS
children. BY the first wife be had % chill
dren-thnee boys and twenty girls-and by
his second p children boy and - girls.
He says he has about 40 grandchildren.
William r. Trone, young silk weaver Of
Allentown, Pa, did not take kindly to the
idea Of marrying girl whom he was engag-
ed to wed in two weeks and so be threw him
self in the Lehigh Canal. His body was
found floating in the water Saturday morn
ing. His parents had no knowledge Of his
whereabouts until the body was brought to
their home that afternoon.
A special from Royalton, OLio, says
James Kirkland, meat dealer, - years old.
on Monday saw his 3year-old daughter
Barbara standing where she would be caught
by the falling ruins of an undermined build
ing. He sprang toward her throwing her
upon the ground, leaned over her and re-
ceived the full force of the falling bricks
upon bis head and back. The little girl
escaped without serious injury, but the faith
er was instantly killed.
Tuesday night, a gang Of four thieve
forced an entrance into the general store Of
II. H. Riddle, at LockPort. Westmoreland
county, but before they had succeeded in
getting any plunder Mr.. Riddle, who lives
in the same building, heard them and raised
an alarm, when the quartette beat a hasty
retreat. In departing they opened fire upon
Mr.. Riddle, who returned it, shooting one Of
them in the shoulder. They, however, all
escaped.
Alice and Ella Fishell, sisters. of Latrobe,
who have been employed as domestics at
Mrs. AleKander's, No. Il Anderson street.
Allegheny, were arrested Friday by detect
i've Steele, Of Pittsburgh, for stealing $50.
The money belonged to John Aguew. who
left it under his pillow, where it was found
by the girls and divided equally They
were starting for Latrobe when arrested and
committed in default of bail for court. The
girls ran away from very respectable parents
after attempting suicide.