The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-03-07
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News Items
DR.. Talmage has Withdrawn his resigna |
ton as pastor of Brooklyn Tabernacle.
The anti Bowman conference Of Central
Pennsylvania Evangelists, in session in
York county, report 2i6 churches under its
jurisdiction.
At Newton, Kan, Merchant F. L. Snyder |
and his wife died Saturday night of some |
mysterious poison in their coffee Their
children viii probably also die
Aner escorting his dead Newfoundland,
encased in fine caskst, from Chicago 10
Detroit b. F. Austin was refused leave to
bury the animal in the city.
The executors of Congressman William
Lilly's estate, at Manch Chunk. have paid |
$4,000 collateral inheritance tax to the |
State, he having had no direct heirs.
As Special Commissioner Of the Hawaiian
Provisional Government, F. W. Alexander
said in Omaha, Saturday, on his return trip |
from Washington /" The Provisional Gov
eminent has won the fight. Il will give the /
Queen pension and retire her, providing |
she behaves herself Annexation has been /
abandoned for the present"
In the Ohio House, yesterday. Mr.. Pax
ton introduced a bill aimed at the school |
book trust. II authorizes the School Book /
Commission TO employ competent men to
compile series Of text books and to fur |
nish them free to pupils of the public |
schools. The State has a contract with GER
tain publishers for five years, which expires |
in two years.
Judge Hazen, Of Lawrence county, refused |
Patrick Boyle, Of Harlansburg, liquor IL
cense last spring, and one day this week !
stopped al the hotel to get his dinner and |
get his horse fed When the hotel people |
learned the identity Of their guest, they not |
only refused to give him anything to eat,
bat ordered him of the premises,
ZAehariah t. White was arraigned for
sentence in Nebraska City. Neb., yesterday
for hanging Secretary-of-Agricult Morton
in effigy. The Judge said that hanging
man in efiigy is the worst insult that could
be offered. He imposed a fine Of $500 and
costs. A motion for a new trial was over
ruled. Whites attorneys will appeal to the
Supreme Court.
About % SwarthmOre College, Pb iladel-
phia, students hazed J. W Hutchinson, Jr..
young New York City lawyer, who visited
the college Sunday night TO call upon a girl
student Half Of his musische was shaved
Off and he was dragged through the mud by
the legs. He had warrants out for the arrest
of five students yesterday, but Withdrew the
charges President DeGarmo, Of the college,
asked the students to apologize to Hutchin-
son. but they said they would 90 to jail irst
Hutchinson was formerly student there.
Ex-speaker Grow has been assigned an
other seat and now sits next to George
Washington Murray, of South Carolina, the
only colored Congressman in the House.
Ardent, Free Solder and Republican, as
Mr.. Grow had been when he left the House
in 1868, it doubtless never entered his mind
that in 80 years from that time a representa-
tive Of the people he and his associates were
striving to free would be sitting as a member
and that he himself would sit beside him.
Mrs. George W. Childs yesterday sold the
famous country place, Wooton, near Phila-
delphia, 50 long owned by the late publisher. |
George W. Childs Drexel IS the purchaser, |
and the price, altough not stated, is known |
to be far beyond 100000, perhaps two and |
a-halftimes that Scores Of distinguished /
people from all parts of the world were
entertained there, and it was Mr.. Childs' fad /
to have every noted guest plant a tree
Consequently the vast grounds covering /
hundreds Of acres are in some parts forest.
On Thursday, March !. new law relative
70 the state board Of medical examiners,
went into effect. Section II of the act pro-
vides tha; from and after the first day of
March, 1894, no person shall enter upon the
practice Of medicine or surgery in the state
unless he or she has complied with the pro
visions of the act and shall exhibit 70 the |
prothonotary in the county in which he or
she desires to practice medicine or surgery
a license duly granted by the state board.
After exhibiting the license and upon the
payment of one dollar the applicant shall
be regist cred.
A legal attempt to Oust the Catholic nuns
who have been elected as teachers in the
Thirty fourth Ward Public Schools, of Pitts.
burgh, will be made by the American Ne
chanics. State Councillor Kerr, the head
of the Order in this State, says he has re-
tanned counsel 10 consider the matter. If
the attorneys advise it, Kerr will ask the
courts to declare their election void and
enjoin the School Board from paying sal
aries to the nuns out Of the city funds
He says the presence of the nuns in the
habits Of their Order is sectarian interfer-
ence, and in itself can be construed as
teaching the Catholic religion. even if the
Sisters never mention the faith.
Twelve years ago James Erisinger who
now resides near Prospect, Butler County,
was driving along the Centerville road in q
blackboard. swung underneath which was a
nitro -glyeerine torpedo. which was being
taken to an oil we'll The wheel Of the
vehicle struck a stone, which flew up and
struck the loaded torpedo. Strange to say,
Erisinger wss not killed, but one leg was
blown off Just below the knee He was
taken home and soon recovered. At the
time Of the explosion a vain search was
made for the missing leg. A day or two
ago two boys were hunting ground hogs, in
the vicinity of the place where the explosion
occurred, when they found the leg lodged in
an oak tree. It was dried and hardened but
the flesh was still on the bones. They took
the gruesome relic home, and Saturday it
was presented 10 its owner, who gave it an
appropriate burial.
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