The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-10-31
News Items.

Horses are so plentiful in Chill am,
Argentina that it is not uncommon fol
beggars TO ride.
General Howard, in his report of th'
Eastern department, recommends tha
the army be doubled.
Two Mormon missionaries. Freeman
and NJ Mercer, were tarred and feathereC
near Centretown, Kentucky.
Judge Macon B. Allen, the first color
ed man admitted To the Bar in the United
States, died in Washington, ID. C., OF
Monday evening.
Three stores at Greensburg, Pa. owned
by Altman Bros, were closed 10y the
sheriff on the suit of III. Rosenthal, oi
Pittsburg.
Donald f. Dufton, lawyer of Ebens-
burg, Pa, was mistaken for burglar 10y
some Hungarians at Lilly station and
probably fatally shot.
John JOY, convicted in San Francisco
for robbing man of five dollars, was
sentenced on Saturday, under the
habitual criminal act, 10 life imprison-
ment.
Slavs from Connellsville, Pa, are going
10 Arkansas To become farmers. The
Slavonic Colonization Company, of Pitts
burg, has purchased 1900 acres for them
there.
Mrs. Barger, residing at Curtin. Pa,
and a widow of soldier in the War OF
lsl2, is lG2 years old, having just cele-
brated her birthday She has son 81
years old and more than 100 descend
ants.
The inventory of the estate of Second
Nice-President p. &. Hanford, of the Ma
tiOnal Linseed Oil Company, who killed
himself at Chicago about three months
ago. reveals the fact that the suicide was
largely in holdings in silver mines in
Colorado and Idaho and in the Harrison
international Telephone Company. His
stock in Western mines il scheduled at
sS,5l6.Ga, in the Telephone Company and
other institutions at S7,O0,0O0, and in the
Love Electric Traction Company at ~,
G30,0oo. Mr.. Hanford's suicide was mys-
terious one. as his family relations were
happy, and his business apparently in a
prosperous condition.
President, or Dictator, Hippolyte. OF
Haiti, has physically thrashed his Min
lister of War. This is the news that comes
direct from Port au Prince, Haiti. The
Dictator and his Chief Warrior quarreled
AT the palace a day or two ago about some
matter Of government. Hippolyte doesn't
believe in red tape. \ request for the
resignation of the War Minister would
have been in order, bat the Dictator con
cluded he would run little war of his
own, with the Minister in ii, 50 he went
at the latter, hand TO hand. The dusky
Cabinet officer. despite his beUicose title,
was no match for the Dictator who whip
ped him 50 thoroughly that the Minister
of War was confined TO bed and there he
still remains, badly injured official.
In a charge 10 the grand jury at Har-
risburg Judge Mcpherson laid down the
law of chance in these words: ''What is
popularity known rs a rattle is a lottery,
and 50 is the the disposing of money or
property. of any kind by the sale of
chances 4 merchant giving tickets to
his customers with articles purchased,
and afterward decides by some form of
chance by drawing lots, for example. }
which tickets shall receive prize, either
in money or i'll property of any kind, Is
guilty Of maintaining a lottery. So, too,
a lottery is maintained 10y any person
whether he is merchant or not, who sells
tickets only, and afterward decides by
chance what ticket is to receive prize.
But merchant may lawfully give tickets
To every customer, or to those only who
buy TO a certain amount. and may after
ward exchange articles in his store for n
specified number of these tickets; for in
this there is no element of chance; and a
merchant MAY also lawfully attract GUS
TONERS by offering % give certain articles
to any one who buys goods to specified
amount"