The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-08-22

essuIpzgs ct fise or. 4 iiii '-s-'s tt-ts I've
bees retar1c.i - ssasssslas.- e..
Ar a.esnie r Texas ever prevails
asssanr cattle ia Neianso e'unty, Pa,
and several bead haye died.
Eaemies l1rned 5erry Rsughman's
: harm near tfeeenshars. Pa. The iaslaing
Ms star=i wiih grabs. ard i.le JOS
slaeznl= 70 s2ca.
II dsyhrssk ThuFSiey, saHto c-serlo,
ri.o s., -7-ieiiy ,nlir.l -.-cl President i'r-
not. - Lsons, Ga san laT- Sane - LAST,
was s,aheaasd-
THE city q New Noris. in ehiah shere
ds-eh in iS5 only 5i9sl uatifc-'aprn
va.crs T. 77.esa eigii-b9ra voicr-, Hoy
reports l@ts1 native voters e. -l-oee
Hatus4ii1el Foreigners.
One hundred members oftho army of
tue Comns0nweai were released rom the
house 81 correction Baltimore, sunday
. morning and were starled for Cin.'uHaii
over the Baltimore ard Ohio railrssd.
I The men agrce1t 70 leave the -.a1e Il given
their liberty.
I The Now York Evening World prints
a list osIG9 men aud women residing IN
tla. si,y who viii have q Pay "a inoone
I tax Of from sl0lQ O. SiIs.6l1. II putt Nfs-
{ He.fy Green at the head 81 fhe women
ard William Waldorf As.or II tAe head
ostaa mems list
'flie iosn of Hahbard, o., Is IN lad
wey. The Mayor j. in jail. hivins been
arrested for gross insoxicstion, and the
/ CITY Marsnal Is keeping hin company
hecau-o Of his refusal to obey the orders
ofsfse Common Council. The population
j much wrought un over the situation.
Having mistaken bis wife at the bed
room window fsr bnrglar during
Shower before daylight Thursday morn
+ ing Il Ealainazo0. Mich, young Farmer
Frank Prute01s. who was aroused IN bed,
shot her through the heart with his
revolver. Eeforc she sank TO the floor,
dead. she exclaimed. Prank. son have
shot u.c!'' ..Tl.e husband Is o-azad wi.h
eriefa; his mistake.
At C,lumlas, o., John Verdon,
1 penitentiary convict fsom Cincinnati.
dropped dead from heart disease sunday.
lie predicted the day and the hour Of his
death. When he was received nj the
{ prison he wrote This prediction on a slip
Of paper, which was gived 10 another
convic; to keep. The paper was exam
ined to-day and found to be exactly
true.
Al. Hnl, one Of the best known Demo-
cratic politicians iu Fayette county. COM
miitei suieide sunday morning AZ his
home near Vanderbilt, five miles west Of
I Conuellsyille, 10y shooting himself
through the head. lie had been in poor
health for some time. and worry over
{ that Is supposed to have been the cause.
/ Resent political iiSappointmcnts are als0
thought 20 have had something 10 do with
his act.
Let any farmer haul load on rough
and muddy roGd. and then estimate the
cost for his time. team and wear Of
vehicle during the period he Is engaged
at such work, comparing the resalt with
( the snlsll additional lax he would have
I % pay for better road, and the pr0ba-
bility i that he viii favor an increased
ts--> sittA NtAte- Arti-- itt N-iittf = ttiiii-
ing and the lack OF, good roads will be
severely felt.
Private john Allen, of Tupelo. Miss.
i entitled 70 the hon0rs ola prophe5, for
Z he predicted lc a.tion of the House up
on the Tariff hiIl with scientific accuracy.
on Jhe 18th ofJuly / asked him il the
House would agree Co the senate BIZ.
'-sF l.y, OF course we viii, was the reply;
1--WE are going O. raise hell until oar wind
gives ot.- ana then We wiz lie doau and
let tine Senate step ON oar neek-'--WI-
iiasa +. Curiis in ,lio Chicago Reo.rl.
Daniel Harshharger committed suicide
early Thursday morning a thc residence
oi his aged parents. als1at 81 miic east ef
Gcistown. Cambria county. The deed
was committed in "A little bail ling thai is
iisei as . carpenter shop, which adjoins
his fathers home. Ilaushbarger placed
a moose arounI his neck and then fired "a
bullet from n y calibre revolver into tine
len side his head. thus shooting and
hanging himself almost "a the same time.
The deceased was about - years old.
Three prisoners walked out Of the
Huntington County J.iil Thurs lIy night.
scaled the onter Sall and escaped. The
ingitives are John Beatty. Roieri Deamitt
aud John Spooneyharger. Beatsy, who
hai acted in the capacity - turnkey.
although "a prisoner, carried oT the jail
and e.li keys with him. and the services
of the locGi police Were needed to giiarl
against the escape OF the other prs lneg~,
who had T. De huGdled together in the
main corridor. Ten prisoners have e.
eapel from sheriff Oaks within year
and a half
said Professor Charles Eliot Norton, at
the Bryant centenary: ..The !,arebell
ii1.ls Eta the rhythm Of SCOTS delight
itll verse the dafIodil dances to Words
woTth's tune; the lark sing, Sial5eS-
nclre's Hark h.Ts = at Heavens gate;
the nightingale never ceases To lament for
her poets uatimeiy death in Keats: and
! as Burns has made the mountain daisy.
: has Bryant made the fringed gcntim
his own. And rs long as wild duck
shall cross tie crimson sky of evening in
his hight, 81 long slall Bryani's memory
fioat heavenword with IT,"
The department. Of internal af-iirs has
pre pared 4 speciai report FROM the records
o. twenty-ono representative cpaniies
which shows with much certainty the
Percentage vhich assessed valuation
bear, To actual valuation ol real cs,l,e in
the s;ate. The report shonid be Of greet
aid 30 the next legislature in framing q
tax bill which viii bear efuitably on
corporations and the ovacrs Of real estate.
For the purpose Of making the report ~
accurate a. possible competent men were
sent into the conuties, and taking ihe
selling AMI buying price Of land ~ tho
best basis ob;ainahla, compared those
figures with tllc assessed valnstions.
some startling results were secured. The
report says tina; the law requiring the
assessor to tx the assessment Of property
with reference 10 its actual value is a
dead letter, and that the rates Of assess
nent are eighty per cent, below the ac-
tul valuation. Many disparities are
found to exist in the same assessment
district. \ property worth Sl0.O00 i as
sessed nj Ss,0Fl while in another district
uf the same county property worth S.0,-
go Is assessed for Si,00a. one man i re-
quired 20 pay twice as much tax as
another.