The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-06-27
News Items

By is nov directory Chicago now
claims = population Of ,7Vlea.
Mrs. Lizzie Halliday, who murdered
her husband and Sarah Jane and Eleanor
McQnillan, was convicted Of murder in
the first degree at Monticello. y. y.
Erasfus wiman was Wednesday sen
fenced to i've years and six months inn
prisonment iy Justice Ingraham in the
Court of Oyer and Terminer in New
York.
The Rev. Dr. John r. Paxton has paid
his fine of $40 in New York for neglect
ing 10 record the certificate Of the secret
marriage Of Col. W. c. 7. Breckinridge
and Mrs Wing. which he performed in
April. ls8
\ cable diSpateh brings the inteili-
genoe that there has been a very severe
earthquake in the city Of Toxic. Japan.
The dispatch gave the assurance that all
the missionaries we're safe. The damage
to the Episropal mission buildings il
estimated at Sl00el.
An appeal 10 court taken by a former
board of commissioners OF Armstrong
county on =, 1875 sgrchargcd against
them by the county auditors has result
ed IN verdict against the commission
ers. That sum together with the oists
viii aggregate Si.0O9 which the eN-com-
missioners viii have 20 pay.
During the thunder storm on Thursday
morning the residence Of Andrew Snyder.
near Willow Grove. y. J.. WAS struck by
lightning. The electric current ran down
the chimney, entered "a he'd room and
tore the be,iStead, on which Mr. and Mrs
Snyder were sleeping, 20 spinterS. II
then passed ont Of the room. set the house
on fire and spent its force in the cellar.
Mr.. and Mrs. Snyder were both uninjur-
ed
VIII Roper, who was witness in
number Of Internal Revenue and White
Cap cases, was taken from his home near
Dalton, Georgia. week ago, by 1--WE
masked men. He was whipped, shot and
thrown into an abandoned copper pit,
sixty feet deep. For week Roper
managed to live. chewing roots which he
found at the bottom ofthe shalt. but when
he was discovered Monday he was near
~ dead.
Lincoln Neb.. was visited by one Of the
worst storms in its history Thursday night
starting rumors outside that Lincoln had
been destroyed. The streets were filled
with people when the storm broke. For
ten or iifteen minutes there was no rain,
but the airwas full lofeverything portable.
Papers, baskets, wooden sidewalks and
branches Of trees and dust filed the air
\ number OF large buildings were unroof-
ed. Then rain fell in torrents.
Jonathan Watson died at Clifton
Springs, New York, a few days since.
He was - years Of age and come TO Penn
sylvania in 1870 In 1859 the first oil well
was drilled on Mr.. watson's land near
TitusvilIe. Mr.. Watson sold his lands to
Eastern oil companies at fabulous prices
One farm brought Sl.O0.O0. II * said
that he drilled oil wells under spirit gnid-
anees. Dozens Of dry holes and the panic
of 1913 crippled his resources. lie died a
poor man.
\ future King OF England was born
at $50 O'Clock Saturday evening. The
Duchess of York, who Is the dau ghter-in-
law Of the Prince Of Wales, gave birth al
White Lodge to boy, who will some day
sit upon the greatest throne ON earth, if
he lives 10 mature years and the dynasty
i not overthrown by the coming ola re-
public. The even; has caused thrill of
loyal ecstasy throughout England
Crowds of cheering thousands surrounded
the bulletin boards, which announced the
joyous tidings.
The stories of the career Of the late
distinguished Henry ;. ives, Napoleon Of
Finance, put King Midas, Monte Cristo
and other gilded poteniates into the shade
in the line Of startling effects. Ives start
ed al Is. green farmers boy. on salary
Of - a week. II took him two years 10
force his salary up 20 sl0a week In less
than year after that he had scOoped in
S0,O0O. Six months later he had made
$50, ;s4, and before he was - had milk
ed" S2,Ool.O0O out of a single railroad. The
next year his assets mounted To Ssl.el0,-
O10. All this accomplished in just four
years. Then began the decline. which
ended in his death at -. Certainly all
history has failed % produce anosher such
pyroteciInic display in the financial
Tta-,.-..,,- a., thu.