The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-09-05
News Items.

News Items.
AT the reunion of the famous Buck
tail Regiment, at Kane, on Thursday,
the title of Mother of the Regiment"
was conferred upon the widow of the
late General Kane.
1t is said that seven suicides is the
normal daily average in New York and
vicinity. Facts collated prove that power
". which is usually considered prime
cause for self-murder, does not figure as
the motive in the majority or these sui
cides, for most of the persons are those in
comfortable circumstances.
Near Memphis, Tenn, recently, light
ming struck a tree under which two men
had sought refuge from the storm. Both
men were stunned, and upon regaining
consciousness it was found that the skin
of one of them had been changed to an
ebony black. All effort 10 restore the
original color has been unsuccessful.
Surprising party of ten men in his
peach orchard near Wilksbarre, Pa,
Elmer Stone covered them with gun
/
obeyed, and all were bundled into big
wagon. While stones son drove the
horse 10 the county Jail, the father sat in
the rear ready 10 shoot anyone who at
tempted 10 escape.
Hon. Galusha \. Grow, of Pennsylva-
via, has introduced in the House bill
providing that the widows of pensioners
married before the close of the late war
shall receive the same rate ofpension that
the pensioner was receiving at the time of
his death. providing that the rate of her
pension shall not be less than Sl2 per
month.
Engine No. G9i, of the l.'intie City
Railroad. made 4 remarkably fast run
several days ago between Camden and
Atlantic City. The engine was attached
10 the o'clock express. made up Of six
passenger ciaches. and though not
specially groomed for extraordinary
fast runs. covered the distance between
the two cities. Jd3 miles. in - minutes.
Louis Potter, Banker and wealthiest
citizen of Bowling Green. KY. wns mar
ried Thursday afternoon 10 Mrs. Mary
Mcclellan, aged fifty. Potter is eighty
four, and has grandchildren.
Twelve years ago he celebrated his gold
en- wedding. Two years ago his wife died.
His children have all been provided with
fortunes, and the friend who arranged the
match received a check for sl0,00.
Near Boonesboro, Clark county, KY.
Thursday, John King, Breckenridge
man, met on the highway his old friend,
George Cook Cook said tina; any woman
who went to hear Breckenridge speak was
no better that she should he. King dis
mounted from his horse. saying that his
wife had heard Breckenridge. Both drew
knives, and blood flowed freely until
Cook dropped dead, having three stabs
i'm the breast.
Farmer Wilson, who lives near the
foot of the mountains a short distance
from Connellsville, loaded some water
melons with arsenic for thieves. who were
made very sick thereby. They were
brought around all right, but were badly
frightened. Wilson also had some potato
hills fixed for the thieves, but they did
not happen to strike them. He had
placed a stick of dynamite in a number
of hills. The explosion would have been
sufficient to blow the robbers TO atoms.
Postmaster Harry Marietta and four
other citizens of Connellsville were held |
for court last week. charged with in |
citing To riot, at Connellsville, on June |
iith ias;. Their bail was fixed at 500. |
On that day Hungarian was shot and |
killed by Deputies in front Of the post |
office. one witness testified that Post |
master Marietta and the four other de- |
PENDANTS were i'm the mob oftwo thousand |
that urged the crowd to mob and shoot |
the Deputies.
The retu rms from the South Carolina |
bemocraiic primary election indicate |
that only about a two-thirds vote was
polled. The anti-Til lmanites generally |
refrained from voting, and Tillman car
ried every county with the exception of |
Charleston, Richland and Sumter. and |
probably one other. The Legislature |
viii be Overwhelmingly for him for
United States Senator, insuring Senator
Buffers defeat. Fbs conservatives viii /
probably run am independeni ticket at |
the general election i'm November.
An eieetric locomotive is in process of
construction iR the Edison works at
Schenectady. IL was tested recentiy
The method was 80 attach the electric
and a steam locomotive together end to
end and then cause them 10 engage ia
contest 10 see which would pull the other
over the track. The first test was with
small steam engine used for yard work
in switching ears. The electric engine
pulled ii about with ease. The next test
WIS with one of the largest Delaware *
Hudson freight engines. Upon first con-
tact this obtained the better of the electric
one. but only for a short time. The last
test WAS with large New York Central
freight locomotive, which the electric en-
CINE pulled about with ease.