The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-01-03
News Items

Miss Lizzie Winier hanged herself TO q
raf.er znd died at Pouersyiiie, Butler
county. She was rich bat brooded over
/ her mothers death.
The Peniergast jury was out just one hour
when they brought in a verdict Of guilty,
and fixing the penalty at death for the mur-
/ de-of Carter Harrison.
Mrs. Wm Thompson, Of St. Joseph, No
made desperate attempt at suicide, Mon
day night, by swallowing large dose Of
corrosive subIimate. She viii die. She made
the attempt because she did not receive 2
Christmas present.
With the date set for the Corbett- Mitchell
! fight only a little over three weeks Of, it is
still uncertain where It viii take place. Both
men are a. last in Florida, out they have
been arrested and placed under $500 bonds
in order to test the Florida laws on prize
Sighting.
Alta business mems meeting in Denver,
Friday, called to demonstrate with the Gov
ernor FOR calling al extra session Of the
State Legislature, Governor Waite said
4 The people should not look tamely upon
the insults heapei upon them BY the Ad
ministrstion. l am in favor OF fighting for
free and unlimited coinage, no; alone all
summer. but until he'll freezes over"
A Norr.stown dispatch says: While driT-
ing the minister 10 the faneral Of Theodora
Gugert, al Wayne, Joseph Hayden went in
sane. He drove so rapidly that be landed
the preacher at the cemetery long before the
rest of the procession reached it. He re
peated his performance on the way home,
aad then It was discovered that Hayden was
crazy. He was sent to an asylum.
Francis J. Dawes, the wealthy C6icsgo
brewer, received word al New Orleans, sat.
urdsy, that his child was dying in Chicago
and char;eTing an Illinois Central train, the
tracks were cleared, and MT. Dawes and his
I wife were Ehirled over one thousand miles
al the rae Of mile a minute. de paid
about 5000 for the trip and broke all rec
ords between New Orleans and Chicago
making the run in 25I hours.
r. G. Dunn & Cos weekly review Of
trade under the caption The year 1898, p
says
Starting with the largest trade ever known,
I mills crowded with work and all other bus
iness stimulated by high hopes, the year
/ lS93 has proved, in sudden shrinkage OF
trade, II commercial disasters and depres-
sions Of industries the worst for fifty years.
Whether the final results OF the panic OF
1857 were relatively more severe the scanty
records Of that time DO not clearly show.
The year closes with prices of many pro-
/ duets the lowest ever known, with millions
of workers seeking in vain for work and
/ with charity labOring to keep back suffering
and starvation in all our cities.
A Slippery Rock, Lawrence county, far
mer, named Sampson Getholz, on the night
before Christmas, attempted TO personate
santa Claus By making real bona "a.
-Tighty" passage down the chimney of his
3 house TO the surprise Of his family he
was, however, much surprised himself to
ind that his corporation was too bulky 70
pass narrow space above The centre Of the
chimney, where be found himself bound to
make known his unpleasant predieament BY
calls iOl hep. his family did not recognize
his voice, coming as il did from me unac.
custone3 locality, aud fed from The house
in terror and alarmed the nsighboTs, By
whose kindly and timely aid he was rescued
from his unpleasant and dangerous predica-
ment i is reasonable to suppose this one
man, s. lesst, viii not De tempted 10 play
that pieee' again.