The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-06-06

Chimneys date from 1871.
A sleeping car costs $4,000.
Brick dust mortar gains favor.
England has electric bicycles.
Paris has 100000 electric lights
Electric pianos play themselves
Uncle Sam has 1885. 80 horses
Newport reports al7-pound lobster.
Austria police must be telegraphers.
Victoria is abolisbing married teachers
Modern bee keeping has reached Egypt.
Canadian fisheries yield so 100000
year.
Our gold production is ssooOOOoo a
year.
The German army has eight lady
colonies.
1t takes an orange two years to grow
and ripen.
Uncle Sam issued 1890 patents last
year.
A remarkable wedding took place in Old
Forge township, I.ackswana county, last
week, when Evan Lewis and Mrs. Margaret
LIewellyn became husband and wife. Lewis
is 81 years old and his bride is 62.
Thieves entered the stable Of Charles
Schrum near Dunbar last Friday night and
stole three ofhis horses. Schrum is team
ster. and after the day s work on Friday tied
the horses in the stable as usual. In the
morning they were gone. They were valued
at $525. There is no clue to the robbers.
Through an open switch, turned by some
designing fiend, fast Wisconsin Central
train dashed to destruction about l O'Clock
Thursday morning at Mannville. Six per-
sons were killed in the terrible crash. or
consumed in the flames that aterward swept
through the wreckage Several Of the
wounded are also likely to die.
1t is probably not widely known that
only seven cut Of the seventeen transatlantic
cables are in use-lO having given out from
various causes. Estimating the cost Of each
cable at s., ,0O0,O 600 here is an irreclaimable
investment of s3000O,OO0 safely buried
beneath the ocean at a depth ranging from
/ ieN laluOiuS 10 over i've ll-4co.
Rev. Russell H. Conwen, the noted
Baptist divine aud platform lecturer, who
took his departure for Europe Thursday,
had a remarkable send-of, over one thOus-
and of bis psrishioners having accompanied
him TO New York from Philadelphia, there
to bid him last God speed upon his journey.
1t was a unique demonstration of ahectiOnate
regard and esteem for a well beloved pastor.
The agent who brought Virginia negroes
to Fricks Standard Works at Mt. Pleasant,
Thursday had rough experience. The
wives OF the strikers caught him and tore
out most of his beard. He finally escaped
and came to town only to run into a crowd
of strikers, who gathered about him and
treated him roughly. Lawabiding people
slipped him offto the station, where he was
kept under cover until train time.
Notices have been posted in the various
parts of the Cambria Iron Companys
mechanical department that one-half Of the
employees would be suspended indefinitely
3; once. The Bessemer Steel Works and
blooming mill have also closed, laying of
500 men. About !, 400 men are employed
in the mechanical department. None Of the
stonemasons srs at work. The cause Of the
emitting down of the force is that no coke
can be obtained
NIrs. L. 5 Giant paid visit on Mon
day of last week to the spot in Ironton, No,
where the general received his commission
as brigadier general, and where, to &C m
memorate the event his cid regiment, the
Twenty-frst Illinois, erected a bronze statue
a few years ago. There also the citizens Of
Iron County have placed, by the side Of
spring at which General Grant refreshed
himself, figure of the angel OF peace, with
the inscription "Fhither an Embryo Hero
Came; He Drank, Departed, Conquered.
i wild man who is described as a man
beast, is lurking in cave in Washington
county, Ky. de is described As having
long, white hair hanging down from his
head and face as coarse as q horses mans.
with legs covered with hair, feet like those
of bear, with long claws, hands more like
feline than = human being, and with
I y
fire. He lives by stealing chickens and eggs,
and be has terrorized the neighborhood in
which be has his lair.
rancher on Yashion Island, Wash, last
fall found box which contained about 2OO
pounds of what he thought mas a fine
quality of fire proof paint floating in The
sOnnd. The paint was packed in small tin
cans and bore foreign label, and as il had
cost him nothing he painted bis house with
it, inside and out. The raaoher has since
discovered, much to his sorrow, that instead
of fre-prOOf paint he has his house covered
with about 81 900 worth ofsmuggled opium,
which was thrown overheard by Snug
glers.
The enormous searchlight which adorned
the roof of the Manufactures Building at
the Worlds Fair is to be placed in operation
al Sandy Hook daring the coming week.
The light is said to be the most powerful in
the world, being 19I 900 600 candle power
1t is asserted that newspaper can be read
ten miles distant by the beam OF light, and
that the rays may be seen 100 miles away
Vessels can be detected twenty miles distant
The lightean also be managed for telegraph
ing and signaling, and is so arranged as to
give fash lights at any desired interval. It
is claimed that the RAYS Of the light will be
visible from Philadelphia.
Max Klein, the wholesale liquor dealer
of Allegheny, appeared at an adjourned
court in Beaver 10 answer charge Of con-
tempt of court. Judge Wickham imposed
on him a fi1e Of $40 AID costs. During a
recent license court Klein is said to have
offered TO bet on the result of the granting Of
a license to the Hotel Lakel in New Brigh-
ton, and also is alleged to have made re-
marks to Henry Sepp, a Wholesale liquor
dealer of Beaver Falls, which would in
dicate that he had some occult influence
with the court in the granting of licenses.
Klein, however, denies this, and on account
of insufficient evidence lie will not be pros
ecuted further.
James Bor''1, Jr., son of Albert Berlin Of
Greensburg, met horrible death at that
place on Saturday evening, Berlin had been
at Connellsyille with his brother attending
the bicycle races. He LEFT for home on the
So South west train. Just at the east end Of