The Somerset reporter., 1893-03-09
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The Wisconsin House has passed bill
abolishing days Of grace.
The Caution, Pa. post office was broken
into and robbed last week.
The business portion of Goldthwaite,
Tex, has been wiped out by fire.
Binghamton. \ Y Is authorized to
expend S25, 900 for city hospital
The Technical College in Rio de Janeiro
was burned to the ground Tuesday.
-Ex- Mayor Carter H. Harrison WIS nomi-
mated again last week by the Democrats
for mayor OF Chicago.
DR. Nathan Wright, one Of Lynn. Mass.
oldest and most respected residents died
"Wednesday, ngci 81
The next meeting Of the View York
State encampment OF Odd Fellows will
be held at Newburgh.
hon Henry + sherman. Of Cleveland,
died aboard the steamship Lain when
three days ont from NeN York.
The German Government will send the
corvette Empress Augusta and the cruiser
Siedler to the naval review at New York.
The President has appointed four young
ment to cadttships at large ia the naval
academy. Tney are sons Of naval officers
1t is now known that the defalcation
of Assistant Cashier Rtdwiue, of he eiate
city National bank, Of Atlanta, Ga, will
foot up So 600
A fire in Bdrlow's waste mill at Fall
River Mass. on the night OF VI irch /. did
% 900 damage Ia tne stock of baled
waste Insured
-rhe Yale Grey went to the regular
train ing table Feb g. which is the
earliest record of beginning dieting for
the annual race at New London
john W Mitchell, the New York burg
lar, who ha, lately been going through
houses in NcwarG, y. j., has been sen
tenced TO ten years III state prison.
A French vessel of war has TIA "a pos
session OF X rguclen, otherwise known "a
the Isle of DISSOLUTION, in the Indian
Ocean. The island is said to nave beds of
coal.
Rev. b T. Roberts, the senior OF the
three general supcrnteudents OF the FIR t
Methodist church of the I'm ted Stttes
is dead at Cattarausus. \. Y, aged 80
years
A friend Of ex-Muister Phelps is au-
thority for the statement that Mr. Phelps
would decline the position Of Minister
to England it again offered it 10y Presi-
dent Cleveland
In the Dominion House of Commons
last week SIR Jol II hnmson sad that
Canada hal apt eutored ANY protest
against the acQuisition OF Hawaii by the
United States.
The issue of standard silver dollars
from the mint> and treasury offices dur
iug he week ended Feb p, 1893, was
Sob. $50, for the corresponding period OF
lsy3, s3HL0ls
Frederick lIaittinger, II commercial
traveller for Il large English firm, lost al
his money at the Monte Carlo c1suo at
Nice aud Monday of last week shot himself
d tad with revolver.
President Harrison gave audience
Tues lay to Ministers Ildentjens
frpn liayt and Canevaro from Peru. The
/ r scntdtious were made by Acling Sec
rotary Of State Wharton.
A hot blast furnace in the Riverside
Works at RrnWoo !, W Va. WAS blown
up Tuesday and four inca were seriously
burned, one having his eyes burned out
j. not expected to recover.
the N.ddletown Is ~ Street Railroad
end Power company has been iHcotppr-
ittcd TO build and operate "A street sur aca
railroad through the streets of Middle
town, length live miles; capital 800 900
The statement that one OF the pro-
visions OF the new Franchise Canadian
treaty STIMULATES for II subvrntion on the
.,f e limo of 81 az
between French port and the dominion
is not correct
At "A London auction rare
edition of "Eplstola Christofori Coloni,"
printed in Rome in 1888, was bought for
3l5 pounds. Tins work is believed to
have been the first printed account OF the
discovery of America.
Chief of Police John Bondeld, of
Chicago, has asked the Police
Board of this city, to send to the
Worlds Fair two of New York's repre-
sentative policemen. The commission
ers did not consider it advisable.
Typographical Union No. t. of New
York city appointed committee to
visit President Cleveland and protest
against the appointment of C. E. Edwards
If Wilmington, Del, as public printer.
Edwards, they say is an old and bitter
opponent of organized labor
At the annual meeting in New York
OF the Grant Mouun snt associa-
tio-. the report Of President Horace
Porter shows that "a sufficient amount
ha, been raised for the completion Of the
monument 1t IL believed that the work
will be finished in the autumn OF 1870.
Vice President AdIai f. Stew
r,lson arrived in Washington on
IL special train over the Ralti-
more & Ohio railroad Tuesday evening
He was accompanied by members of
his fan,ily, "A number Of friends and the
Illinois Democratic club of Bloomington,
comprising the escort Of honor
The Phila lclphia & Allentown Elec-
jric Trdnk Railway compuy has
been granted charter At the
tate Department. capital $l,0oo,
40 The line will extend from Allen
own to Philadelphia and touch at All
the prncipt! points between The two
cities, iucluling South Bethlehem, Coop
erstown and other places.