The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1893-02-15

The jury Saturday convicted Carl Mold
and Henry Bauer of being engaged with
Alexander Bergman in the plot to assassin
ate H. c. Frick. They accepted the verdict
with the mock air CT martyrs The extreme
penalty for the crime they engaged in is
seven years imprisonment. Bauer and
Mold we're also guilty OF conspiracy, and for
that crime penalty of two years imprison-
ment and fine is attached.
February's rain and sun have snapped the
ice feiters from hundred creeks and rivers,
and these burdened with the melted SHOWS
OF many hills are sweeping seaward, 'eaving
in their wake great devastation. In all parts
of Pennsylvania and New Jersey streams
have overfiown their banks, bridges have
been shaken and destroyed, roads piled full
Office, fences swept away, meadow fields
submerged and grain crops ruined by ice
and sediment In Trenton 200 houses are
under water, and in towns along the Schuyl-
Kill people fed for their lives.
A man who gave his name as DR. Hall.
and hailing from Fayette county, turned up
at Kingwood, W. Va, last week and an
nonuoed that he would preach in one Of the
churches there. He preached and then
vent home with a farmer who was a mem
Der Of his audience. Hall left the next
morning and took with him some valuable
trinkeis that belonged to his host He was
captured the following morning. II is said
that Halls true name is Rivers. and that be
, is wanted for stealing a watch and cutting
other cspers at Markley ysbnrg.
The case of Hugh O'Donnell, the first
chairman Of Homestead's famous Advisory
COMMITTEES, was called for trial before Judge
Stowe at Pittsburgh, Monday morning.
Especial interest will be attached to this
trial, owing TO o'Donnelrs prominence in
the Homestead afray, and to the fact that
in his case line of defence other than the
alibi usedin the two former trials viii he
followed 0'Donnell was a leading figure
all through the strike, aud for this reason
the Identification OF him will not be 50
difficult as the others. He will probably
show that be was on the bank as q peace
maker.
The County Insane Asylum, four miles
from Dover, y. d., was burned Friday night
and forty-four lives were lost. When Watch
man William Cheeyey made his 10 O'Clock
rounds in the Asylum, be found fire coming
out OF the cell occupied by Mrs. Lafamitane
and gave the alarm. William Driscoll, the
keeper, with his family, lived in the build
ing, and be at once broke the locks of the
fily-four cells and tried to get the inmates
out. Then he got his wife and two children
out Ofthe forty-eight only four escaped.
They were William Twombly. Rose Sander
son, William paly, and Frank Donshon.
The latter walked two miles in q binding
snow storm, with only his shirt on, to Viii
liam Hornes house, where he was taken
care Of
A lengthy protest, reoiting numerous a.
legged sins of commission and omission on
the part OF Blair county poor directors, was
fled with the county auditors last week by
NJ. A. Young. who is acting as attorney for
several citizens.
Among the allegations against the direc-
tors are the erection Of unnecessary build
ings at unreasonable expense; letting pri-
vate contracts for the heating and furnish
ing of the new aims house without adver-
tising. as required By law and the furnishing
of goods and materials to the aims house by |
individual directors.
Attorney Young charges that the direct |
OTIS have illegally squsndered over $4,000 |
and he served notice on the county treasurer |
not 10 honor the drafts of the directors pend |
ing investigation. Tbs county auditors |
have not yet indicated what course they will |
pursue.
p The house in which Mr.. Blaine died was
once a fashionable boarding house, and &C
commodated such celebrated men as John
C Calhoun, who boarded thers during his |
terms as secretary of war and vice president;
Henry Clay, who lived there while secretary
OF State in the administration of John Quin- /
ey Adams, and even President Polk. who /
occupied apartments in it while repairs were
being made 10 the executive mansion. His |
rooms we're the same as those occupied by |
Mr. Blaine in his last illness. The Wash
ingion club, an organization Of gay young |
men Of the capital, next secured possession.
Ca February %. 1883, Francis Barton Key,
son Of the author Of the "Star Spangled |
Banner, and then district attorney for the |
District Of Columbia, was shot on the |
threshold by General Daniel E. sickles, at |
that time member Of congress from New |
York. Key was hurryipg from the club
house to answer the signal of flutteripg |
handkerchief displayed in Mrs sickles' win
dow when the wronged husband shot him
through the heart.
In the early part Of President Iincolns |
administration Secretary of State William /
II. Seward took The house 1t was in a room |
on the second door where be lay. confined |
to his bed from an accident while driving,
when bis assassination was attempted by
member OF the band Of conspira;ors 20 /
which John Wilkes Booth, who shot Presi- /
dent Lincoln, belonged. Mr.. Seward was
stabbed several times, and his son. Frederick 4
W. Seward, who came to his assistance. to-
day carries scar on his head received from
the same knife. The government rented
the house afler the war, and then for num-
Der of years it stood vacant. Il had served I
as the Office Of the oommissary general OF /
subsistence for several years, when it was
again vacated, snd SIR. Blaine rented il. He
msde many alterations. especially in the
second door, around which the grexsome
memories seemed TO him TO hover
The Blaines tock possession Of the house
Of evil omen in the fall of 1889. Two
months lster Mrs. Blsine's sister, Miss Stan
wool, died then Mr.. Blaine's only brother,
Major Blaine next Mr.. BIaine's eldest
daughter, Mrs coDPingez: then his eldest
and favorite sou. Walker Blaine, and finally
his second son, Emmons.