The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1893-06-14
News Items.
Cleveland writes with tiny stub pen.


Cleveland writes with tiny stub pen.
Edwin Booth. the great tragedian. died in
his rooms at the Players Club. New York
City, last Wednesday.
Monday the President appointed Henry
Alvin Hall, T. s. Attorney for the Western
District Of Pennsylvania Mr. Halls ap-
poiniment is another distinctive Harriiy
victory.
The salaries paid to persons in the civil
service of the United States amount to
SsOO0.000 annually This amount pays the
wages of 10000 persons. The average is
$500 year.
Governor TiIlman. OF South Carolina win
open his State saloons at a. m. and close
them al p. m. He expects TO make half a
million dollars year for the State in the sa
loon business.
Ms Proctor, the widow OF the late Rich
ard A. Proctor, the famous astronomer and
the principal assistant in his professional
work, has been appointed curator Of the
Proctor Observatory at San Diego, Cal.
Harriet Beecher Stowe is living her child
hood over again, cutting out paper dolls, and
singing the old time songs and hymns and
nursery ballads. Her health seems TO grow
better as her mind loses itself
A Greensburg cat has given birth to five
kittens, four Of which are joined together.
Each of these kittens has a well-formed
head and three feet, two in front and one
behind. The one hind foot is lost where the
four kittens join and merge into one.
Orrin sperry, ex-treasurer of Chatauqua
county, New York, who nine years ago ap-
propriated $4,000 of the county's money
and then made good his escape, walked into
District Attorney Woodward's Office, James
town, and gave himself up Friday evening.
Charles Richmond, aged 80 years, of
Springfield, Illinois, was killed near Trenton,
New Jersey, on Monday, by the fall OF a
parachute. He had ascended in a balloon
to a height of 1900 feet, and the parachute
failed to act. He fell into pond and was
drowned.
The trial of Lizzie Borden for the murder
OF her father and stepmother has been oc-
cupying the attention of the Court at New
Bedford, Mass, the past week. 1t will take
at least three weeks to conclude the testi-
moDy. All the evidence so far submitted |
has been in favor Of the defendant.
George Frederick MeAfoose and Mrs Car
oline Cochran were married in Indiana, Pa, |
Friday. The couple have long been promi-
nent residents of Grant township. The |
grom is y years old and feeble almost to
helplessness. The bride is 6S. Each of the |
parties have been previously married.
Russell Sage. Friday, won the suit brought
against him by former clerk W. r. Laidlaw
for $4,000 damages for injuries received in
the financier's office at the time the crank
exploded dynamite with such terrible effect,
in Dec. 1891. Laidlaw claimed that Sage
had held him in front of him in order 10
protect himself
A dispatch from PottStown, Pa. says -
The cut and web worms are causing de
struction to the corn in this section. Two
thirds OF a field of acres belonging 10
Edward G. Miller, of Warwick township,
county, had 10 be replanted because
Of the damage caused by them. In some
fields every stalk was destroyed. The fields
Of Frank Wynn and Davis Bitler suffered
in a similar manner. The worm is about
half an inch lorg, and cuts the corn of
belox the ground, and then imbeds itself
in a cocoon.
The Federal Court in Chicago on thurs
day decided 10 grant the injunction prayed
for by United States District Attorney
on the part Of the Government,
to restrain the local Directory from opening
the Worlds Fair gates on Sunday. Judges
Woods and Jenkins favored the closing of
the gates, while Judge Grosscup held the
contrary opinion. Counsel for the Worlds
Fair Directory asked for an sppeal TO the
Appellate Court. Chief Justice Fuller dis
solved the Injunction until Wednesday and
p, coo people visited the Fair Sunday.
The State board of health has sent out
circular from its Office in the internal affairs
building, to prepare the people for possible
INVASION of cholera. A supervising inspect
,r will be appointed in each county TO watch
he railroads, especially immigrant trains, TO
the sanitary condition of the towns
and cities, and the character and source Of
water supplies. If case of cholera is dis
covered the inspector will telegraph the
10ard of health at once and isolate the pa
lent. He will see that the regulations with
egard TO quarantine and disiniection are
tricily adhered to. While on duty in the
presence of cholera the inspectors will be al !
owed five dollars per day.