The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-09-26
Eevs Itenis.

Eevs Iten,s.
The total fire loss in the United States
for August amounts 20 $40, AZ, 800.
The first snow of the season fell al
Omaha Neb.. Friday, and was followed
by heavy rainstorm.
Colonel Casey is called the corn king
of Henry County. Ky. He owns 1850
acres of corn, and has been figuring on
81, 800 bushels.
PostlnasterJ. c. Little disemboweled
himself with knife at Mayilower, Mo-,
10 avoid arrest for opening registered
letter.
Allen w. Thurman, Jr., son of the
"old Roman" has been chosen chair
man of the State Democratic Executive
Committee in Ohio.
Governor-elect Woodbury. and Lien-
tenant t-Governor-elect Mansur, of Yer
mont, have each an empty sleeve. Each
man left his arm in Virginia some 30
years ago.
a feud ended near Kennedy, Tex,
in the killing of Bill Bosworth, Sam
Bradley and an unknown old man, and
in the arrest of the shooters, Il. Ii. Bur
ris, Foster and Theodore Butler.
Butch Heading, one of three prisoners
escaping from Jail at Abba, Ia, was
fatally shot, as was also Sheriff Lambert
sons son. The two other prisoners were
wounded and recaptured.
W. c. Owens has been declared 10y the
Democratic committee of the Ashland
district to be the regular nominee for
congress. \ protest from Breckenridge
was read at the meeting but was not
agreed to. All the members were present.
Owens's plurality was figured at 30
votes.
Lord Rosebery says that as soon as the
story of his sleeplessness got into the
newspapers, after he entered Gladstone's
cabinet, he was deluged with cures. One
of the first, and what seemed to him the
easiest, was 10 sip before going 10 bed IA
tumbler of hot water. He tried il, and
since has had no further trouble OF the
kind.
The mattress factory of Stumph Bro
thers, in Washington, ID. c., was burn
ed Tuesday. Six employees were burn
ed TO death. Four others were driven
10 the roof by the flames and jumped
from there to the street. All were badly
injured, one fatally. Several other
buildings were damaged.
Rev. Samuel W. Wakefield of West
Newton, who is in attendance at the Pitts
burg conference i'm Sewickley, enjoys the
distinction of being the oldest minister in
the world. He is now in his 96th year and
still takes an active interest in the affairs
of the church. He has gained distinction
as preacher and as an author.
The postoffice department has changed
| the name of the postofliec at Appomattox,
Va, to Surrender" the county seat hav-
/ ing been moved from where Lee and Grant
met and named Appomattcx. The change
of postoffice name was made TO avoid
confusion, and postal officials say the new
name was suggested by the Virginia
authorities themselves.
other Connellsville citizens who were re-
Gently convicted ofuulawful assembling
in connection with riots in the coke re-
gion, We're called up for sentence Tuesday
| before Judge Ewing. in Uniontown, was
sentenced TO pay fine of 500 and costs of
prosecution. The other defendants were
| fined in proportion 10 their ability to pay.
l.r5 Il.
to Marietta in particular. 1t is thought
Marietta will lose the postoflice as re-
suit of his connection with the trouble
All records for long distance heliograph
signaling have been broken by the United
States Army Signal Corps, message
having been sent by sun flashes from Mt.
Uncompaghre. Col, TO Mt. Ellen, Utah,
lS3 miles, by Captain Glassford, Chief
Signal Officer, L. ;. ~, Department of
the Colorado, and his assistants. The best
! former record was I6j miles. Mirrors
eight inches square were used in transmit
ting the message, which was read by the
Signal Corps on Mt. Ellen, then flashed
by heliOgraph 90 miles to Thompsons,
Utah, and from there sent by telegraph to
Washington.
Colonel James Young. Pennsylvania's
Farm King, is nothing if not progressive
His men have recently completed stone
wall ! ,i25 feet long, five feet high, four
feet thick, and containing l,ll2 perches of
stone, along his tract of about twenty
acres of land lying between the PcnnsyI-
vania railroad and canal near Middle
town. The stones were taken from Sun
set farm, east of Royalton. The improve
ment gave eight men work for twenty
two days. The wall replaces an unsigh;-
ly rail fence. Unsightly things don't re-
main long about the Young premises.
The Colonel is making preparations 10
build several walls in the near future at
the Oak Lane farm.
At Trimble. Tenn, on Wednesday,
James Harber and others were sitting in
| front Of a grocery store, when Robert
Jellom drew sun-glass from his pocket
| and focused its lens OH IIarbcrs un-
covered head. The glass did more than
was expected. The concentrated rays
did not reach Iiarber's scalp, but sudden
| " his head was mass of flames, caused
by the ignition of the bay rum OH the hair,
he having just come from a barber shop.
| When his head caught fire he started TO
run, but Frank Gordon caught and held
him while others extinguished the blaze
w::h their hats and handkerchief. He
would doubtless have killed the joker on
| the spot had he not been restrained by
friends. Yesterday he brought suit
against Jellew for si5,o0. Physicians
say Harber's head will never he adorned
with another suit of hair. Jellew is quite
wealthy.
On Deck This Week.