The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-01-24
News Items.

4 for their bread. will be driven from the city
Mrs. Anna Austin has been elected Mayor
Of Pleasanton, Kan, by a msjority of in
total vote Of 53s, of which women cast 1913.
Amer three years silence. Rev. Benjamin
Baldwin, Methodist clergyman, confesses
to killing William Henshaw, Of Richmond,
Ind, his rival in love.
Miss Lizzie Sewhouse, aged %, of cul-
pepper. Va, committed suicide by shooting
herself because she once refused TO marry
man who has now become rich.
Governor Pa,tison has respited Charles
SaIyards, the Carlisle murderer, until
Thursday, March 1, in order that bis case
may again be broCght before the Board Of
Pardons.
The report of Cyrus t Fox, of the State
Horticultural Society, which was read at
the society's meeting in Harrisburg on Wed
nesday, showed that the fruit crop in Penn
sylvania in 1898 was failure.
Secretary Norton saws that sO.OOOOOO peo
pie live on the 6,OOO 900 farms in this conn
try. According to that there are nearly
as many people Who live on farms as there
are people who dwell in cities and towns
Sixty three delegates from Philadelphia
to the Republican State Conventio at Har-
risburg. on May 23d next, held caucus
Saturday afternoon, and endorsed the Gu
bernsiorial candidacy ofGeneral D II. Has
tiDgs.
Ephraim Bull, the original producer of
the Concord grape, is dying at his home in
Concord, Mass, from injuries received last
autumn by a fall from ladder. Though 81
years old, he was active until the injury
overlook him.
By ssking to have the jury Polled, ex-Sen-
ator Sabin, Of Minnesota, saved himself
Thursday, from paying $4,000, as awarded
to H. H. Porter. On being polled, two jury
men said they had not agreed on the verdict
Judge Grosscup sent them back to deliber-
ate further The jury failed TO agree and
were finally discharged.
An express train on the Kansas City, st
Joseph and Council Bluffs Railway was held
I'D at Rays Landing, one mile north of St.
Joseph, Missouri, soon after midnight
Thursday morning, and the express packag-
es. supposed to contain $1,000, taken. The
passengers were intimidated bya lively fu-
sillade. but none of them were disturbed.
Mrs. John l. Livingstone, residing near
Angleton. Ind, On the county line, threw
off her stomach fnIl-grown mouse Thurs
day evening. She had not been feeling well.
She took an emetic. and the mouse made its
appearance How the mouse gained access
to the woman's stomach is mystery. Sue
thinks that while she was asleep the little
animal ran down her throat.
Henry D. Shaw, alias Joseph Howell, and
Hiram Bates. alias Lewis L1dlum, bunco
men who are wanted in many parts Of the
country. we're, Saturday, in Philadelphia,
identified by D. " shively, Of Nj. Pleasant
toEnship, westmorelsnd county, as the
men who bancoed Mr.. Trauger OF that
place, ont of $500 last Novemb Der. They
were each held in 50 500 bail.
arrived at New York Wednesday, from Rot
terdam, reported that, on the 14;h inst, her
chief officer, J. Meyer, and five men were
drowned By the capsizing of life boat, in
which they had gone TO the assistance Of
the Gloucester schooner Maggie / Wells,
which was in a sinking condition. The
schooner was finally lost sight Of in heavy
snow squan.
A 9-year old girl of s.. townsville, New
York, died. Saturday, in a peculiar manner.
She had been i'll for some time, and finally
she oougbed up an animal about Eve inches
long, resembling lizard, and with a thick
membrane running around its middle The
child died from ex haustion. The anims !
had clearly formed head, eyes. tongue and
body. Il IS believed 70 have been killed in
removing it from the child's throat.
When 1t comes 10 business activity Chica-
20 has got right to boast The annual re-
port Of the board of trade Of that city Just
issued sets forth tina; during the year Just
closed there were shipped from that city
10000 600 bushels Of grain, 100000 bar
rels Of -four e56 10000 pounds of pork
product and I,257, ,O00,OO0 pounds Of beef
and beef product, sggregating a value of
not less than 25o,O0oO00. Probably no city
in the world can beat that.
The closing OF the Meadyille Savings
Bank, last week. was the cause Of a start
ling affair Miss Lucy Jobe and her sister
Minnie called at the residence of Cyrus
Kitchen, prssiden; of the bank, aud, accord
/ ing to the story related by Mrs. Kitchen,
demanded $500 on deposit in the bank to
the credit OF their father. Mrs. Kitchen
stated that one Of the girls seized her and,
bolding a revolver TO her head, threa tened
to blow her brains ont If the money xas not
produced Immediately. The girls we re ar
rested, but say they did not use a revolver.
John Cunningham aud bis son-in-law,
a man named Bookamire, Of Indiana coun-
.y, Pa, went hunting last Thursday. They
| failed to return Friday and searching par
;y was started to hunt for them. Early
Sunday morning the dead body Of Cunning
ham was found He had evidently been
murdered. When be went on the trip he
was known to have $3.50 with him HIS
clothing had plainly been rified and there
was not cent on his person. His pocket
book was found in the woods turned wrolg
side ont. As no trace has been found Of
Bookamire. 50 spicion rests on him. No
clue has yet been foGnd as to his wherea-