The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1893-08-09
News Items.


II is calculated 10 New York that $50, ,o0o,-
600 Of gold is coming this aay from Eng
land to America.
The imprisonment clause Of the Geary act
is declared unconstitutional by Federal
Judge Ross, Of California.
Already 10000 people have fled from Ma
Piles to escape cholera The official reports
Of the deaths are far below the real figures.
Within month there were s28 deaths
throughout Frsnce from cholera. Since the
middle Of May there have been eoI deaths
in Marseilles.
Inheritance Of a .0OO estate from her
father, Patrick Brennan, of Kansas City, in
duced Sister Frances Antoinette to leave the
convent forever
Death descended like flash upon party
Of nine pleasure seekers who were yachting
on Lake George \. Y. Friday night. Sew
en- Of the drowned were women.
A money belt worn by John Beverly, a
negro, saved bis life Friday when John
johnson, of Harrisburg, shot him for admir-
ing Mrs. johnson.
Knocking down her sister, Mrs Thomas
o'Nein, because she interfered in cooking,
Mrs. Allen Tierney, of Bridgeport, Conn,
poured sealding water on her, causing critic
al injuries.
Five men were killed and four badly hurt
by the explosion of the boiler OF a farm en-
giue near Newark, Ohio, Monday night. A
straws;aek was fired and the bodies Of the
dead horribly burned. Low water caused
the explosion.
Ex-Vice President Levi P Morton's i'm.
mense new barn at Eilerlee, y Y. chicken
house and outbuildings, together with one
hundred head of Jersey cattle and all farm
horses, were destroyed by fire Wednesday
morning. Loss, $4,000.
Queen Victoria has now passed the record
of Henry III, who ruled SO years and %
days, and has reigned longer ih an any Eng
lish sovereign cave George III, who ruled
from October 25, l760. to January %, 1920,
period of SO years and 81 days.
The grand jury at Memphis, Tenn, has
indicted Sheriff McLendon, Deputy Sheriff
J. A Perkins, Jailor Harold and Police Cap
iains Chaver and Hackett for failing to do
their duty in permitting Lee Walker to be
taken from the jail and lynched and burned
two weeks ago. Several of the members Of
the mob were also indicted.
Even the prisons have not escaped the bus
iness depression. Orders were issued at the
Western Penitentiary at Pittsburg, Friday,
to the effect that owing to the general dull
ness and scarcity Of orders all the factories
in the prison would work only half time az
ter that day. Brooms, mats, stockings and
chains are the principal products.
Judge Stein. in the Superior Court at Chi
cago. has decided that the Worlds Fair d.
rectors and officers, who had been directly
responsible for closing the Exposition on
Sunday, July 23i. had violated the order Of
the court, and were in conte mpt. He fined
FIVE Of the directors $1,000 each, another
500, and the Director General $3.50. An
appeal was taken.
William Ploughfeld, a farmer of Birds
boro Berks county, discovered two tramps
in his potato patch Sunday night. he at
tackled them, and after fierce fight be was
stabbed TO death John Ploughfeld, his
brother, rushed to the rescue, but was met
by one of the tramps and stabbed nine
times. He may recover, bat his wounds are
deep and in dangerous places. The murder
Gus thieves escaped.
Secretary Edge, OF the state board OF agri-
culture, says the average acre Of Pennsylva-
MIA wheat will this year give about $50
pounds of grain, while the average acre Of
hay will not give more than twice that
weight He advises farmers 10 feed their
wheat at its present price. Mr.. Edge says
that if the present dry weather continues
they must feed something in addition to pas
ture, in fact in many parts of the state they
are already feeding hay.
It has just leaked out from the archives of
the Pension Bureau that Deputy Commis-
sioner Bell, who has made numerous public
statements, severely condemning the disabil-
ity pensions OF Judge Long and Others, was
himself in The same boat with the pensioners
who are now hauled mp for his scrutiny. Up
to the Slst of May last ne drew a disability
pension OF sl2 month for "loss of teeth,
Indigestion and heart disease, alleged to be
the result Of his military service
Thinking a bed was safer than savings
institution, Mrs. Catharine Mcconnell, of
Pittsburgh, drew 81 COO out Of the bank
Monday and hid it in the mattress She was
greatly prostrated Thursday when she dis
covered that the money had been stolen dur
ing the night. 1t was the proceeds of the
sale Of her candy store. Mrs. Mcconnell is
seventy years of age. There is no doubt that
thieves loaf around banks in such times as
these, and follow distrustful depositoFs
home, by so doing being enabled TO tell
where they conceal their money which they
are afraid TO trust TO the banks.