The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-03-21
News Items.


Peoples Party has issued a call for the State
convention of that party to be held in Har-
risburg, May Ist.
Ellsworth Walker, farmer near Indians,
Pa, Friday night while standing before
CRATE was taken i'll and fell head foremost IN
to the flames. He died from his burns
The bill 20 give women the right to vote
for members ofthe Board OF Education was
defeated in the Ohio Legislature Thursday |
lacking six votes of a constitutional ma
jority.
GOV. Flower has signed the Greater New
York bill, which means thai the question |
whether New York and Brooklyn shall be
consolidated is to be decided by a vote OF
the people Of both cities and suburbs.
An Anarchist was blown to pieces by
the explosion Of a bomb be was carrying in
the Church Of the Madeline in Paris on
Thursday. No one else was hart. The
church was crowded. and had the fiend's
intentions been carried out many deaths
would have resulted.
Rhode Island will elect Governor on the
first Wednesday OF April. Other States will
elect Governors on the following dates Ore
gon, Juns fth; Alabama, August 9th;
Arkansas, September 3rd; Vermont, Sep
tember 4th Maine. September 10Th Georgia,
October 3rd. Nineteen other States will
elect Governors in November.
James Watt, an aged farmer living near
Toronto, o., has been found dead and
horribly burned in the embers Of a brush
heap FIRE. He LEFT home to visit a son
residing few miles distant. II is sup
posed that he stopped to throw brush on
the FIRE, was stricken with paralysis and fell
into the flames.
A dispatch from Carlisle, Pa, says People
in the southern end OF this county are
wrought up over the passing Of what was
thought to be mad dog. Three children,
eight hogs and four dogs were bitten before
the dog was killed. One of the children is
believed to be dying from the effects Of the
bite. Nearly all the animals that were bit
ten have been shot.
Governor Waite, of Colorado, on Thurs
day called out the militia to enforce his
order removing from Office two members Of
the Board of Fire and Police in Denver.
The police resisted and entrenched them
selves in the City Hall. Matters reached
such a stage that Gen. McCoOk was called
upon 10 preserve the peace and he sent troops
from Fort Logan for that purpose. Arbitra-
ton is now pending.
Saturday night Joseph Bender, German
brewer, and William Mccormick, Of Al
toona, engaged in a fight, during which Nc
Cornick struck Bender on the forehead
with a stone At the time, Bender did not
suffer much from the effects Of the blow, but
/ on Tuesday be became unconscious. and was
taken to the hospital, whore he died from a
fracture Of the skull Sunday evening
Mccormick was captured and jailed.
The Is year-old son Of Robert J. Evan,
OF Lancaster, Pa, left bis bed one night
last week, and in his night dress opened the
door. climbed on a balcony rail and let him
self down on the roof Of an adj Jining
kitchen. He swung himself clear OF the
roof of this building and clutehei the limb
Of a tree Then he slid TO the ground and
scaled fence, entering the premises of
neighbor. He raped loudly on the neigh
bors door, awakening the family. He was
sound asleep and almost frozen when taken
into the house.
A dispatch from Boise, Idaho. says that
| the Indian Creek Reservoir broke about
noon Thursday and a mighty wall Of water
came sweeping down the creek, bearing on
| its bosom houses, barns. farming utensils
/ 1--we stock. etc. At Namps fifty houses at
least are ruined and many families are with
out shelter. Two men were drowned while
attemptingitO save property. The cause of
| the disaster was the sudden turn of the
weather coupled with heavy rains, which
caused rapid melting Of the snow in the
mountains. The reservoir covered five hum
dred acres.
By the will of an old lady who recently
died near Emporium, Pa, Pastor William
R. MacNeil. of the Baptist Church and
formerly of West Chester, has been left
$4,000 farm near Bridge,on, y, j, and his
granddaughter has been bequeathed about
s25,OOO worth Of property in addition. II
all came about by his picking upa pair OF
spectacles which this old lady had dropped
in the mud in Jersey City, Just as he passed
her in the street, several years ago. She
was so grateful that she moved to several
places where he had pastorates, and his
granddaughter also became fayOri,e Of the
old lady.
The State of New York has brand new
statute designed to restrain the pernicious
activity Of cats. Owners of cats are now
required to take out licenses TO permit the
animals to live, and the cat which is not
worth the license fee is adjudged unworthy
Of life by the New York Legislature. Dogs
have been required for 8 long time to estab
Iish their right to existence by the payment
of tax, and now the same test is required
of cats Animals of the feline race who
have not sufficient influence with their
owners t1 induce the payment Of a license
fee, will be taken to a suitable place and
gently but firmly chloroformed.
Father Eckert the German Catholic priest
at Wesley, Iowa, indicted last week by the
grand jury for keeping nuisance and sell
ling liquor contrary 20 the prohibition law,
appeared in court, pleaded guilty and was
fined $500 and costs, the smallest fine that
could Be msde by the court. The priest
built large church some time ago, and be-
ing heavily in debt, namber of fairs and
festivals were given and baIrOom was ar
ranged in the basement, where the priest
dispensed intoxicating liquors to his thirsty
Pensioners and others. The citizens of
Wesley have made an effort at circulating
petition asking Governor Jackson to have
the fine revoked.
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