The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-10-03

News Items.
Charles p. Jordan. a cousin of General
Caster, has been weiaed, Indian fashion,
TO a beautiful Woman, Queen ofthc Sioux,
near the Pine Ridge Agency.
After being mystcriSusly absent from
home two years and legally declared
dead and his estate of S,Go,00o distrib-
uted among his heirs, DR.. Il. f. lyman,
Of Modesto, Cal, has been seen alive at
Reno, Nev.
During lively discussion i'm the School
Board of Warwick township, Chester
County. recently, two of the directors
engaged in a fight Before the other
members could interfere one of them had
his ear bitten OH.
A Chicago Il Great Western passenger
train was saved from plunging through "a
burned bridge between Dundel and La
mont. by 7-year-old girl, living half a
mile away. On hearing the approach of
the train she ran beyond the curve and
| tagged it with her red apron.
President Cleveland on Thursday made
proclamation of amnesty and pardon To
| all persons who have been convicted of
| polygamy under the teachings of the
| Mormon church. The president was
satisfied by the evidence that the mem oers
and adherents of said church are now
living in obedience to the laws.
Grant Calvin and Anna NJ. Speelman,
who hail from York Springs, had hear
ing before United States Commissioner
| Wolfe at Harrisburg, Thursday, ON n
charge of using the mails for fraudulent
purposes. They conducted bogus matri-
monial advertising agency and caught the
unwary. They have been held for trial.
The Brazilian rebels, actuated by a
desire Ia avenge recent cruelties, are
assembling in the mountain regions
near the frontier Of Uruguay. 1t
is now known that after Saraiva's
death the commander of the Government
forces cut the ears from his head, and,
after packing them i'm salt, sent them to
Governor Castillo.
Governor Pattison has appointad John
J. Curley. a well known Philadelphia
newspaper reporter, recorder of deeds for
Philadelphia, to succeed the late Thomas
Green, who died recently from illness
contracted while at Pittsburg attending
the national encampment of the Grand
Army Mr.. Curley's commission expires
the first Monday of January, 1896. The
salary of the Office is $1,000 year.
4 fairhaired youth offs, Ralph Conklin,
went to Mt. Sterling, ILL.,, on Tuesday,
from his fathers farm with a stolen horse
and a mask on his face, and at the point
of pistol, compelled cashier Milstead,
in the Bloomfield Skiles bank, to hand to
him Sfll. The boy then remounted his
stolen horse and shot at Constable Snod-
grass and others who pursed him. He
was Knocked down with a brick and
captured and the plumber was recovered.
Wednesday morning a wreck occurred
on the Baltimore * Ohio Railroad, near
Cherry Run, Nd, in which six cars were
derailed and brakeman named Michael
Sharon was seriously injured. The
mother of the unfortunate man, hearing
of her sons accident, started for the scene,
and had proceeded but a short distance
when, in trying to get out of the way of a
west-bound freight, she stepped upon the
eastern track, and, not noticing a train
approaching her on that track, was struck
and instantly killed.
Investigation has developed the fact
that j. Il. Caven, the general agent of the
Valley railway, who was murdered Tues
day at Cleveland, o., led dual life His
family and friends believed that he was
man of high moral standing. He is now
known To have had mistress several
months ago on a shady street near where
his body was found. There is no doubt
that there is a woman in the ease, and the
police are working on the theory that
Cavon was murdered by a jealous husband
or lover. Caven was a former prominent
resident of Connellsville.
Mayor Pingree's, of Detroit, Mich,
famous potato patch scheme, by which
several hundred acres of unimproved
property in the suburbs were last sum-
mer planted with potatoes, has yielded
li,00Q bushels of the vegetables, worth
5000. which are 10 be applied to the re-
lief of the eity's poor, As the total invest
ment for seed, labor in plowing and
planting, etc, was but 800, there seems
70 be good margin of profit for the poor
i'm the scheme. So successful has been
the plan that there il now serious talk of
making it permanent.
Few people know how many stripes in
the flag are red and how many are white.
The fact is that the red stripes number
seven and the white number six. Nearly
all the detail of the official flag are really
fixed 10y law. Besides the designation as
10 the number and color of the stripes it
is decreed that the flag shall be three
times as long as il is wide and that the
union shall be level with the sixth stripe
and shall be one-third the length of the
flag. There shall be a star in the union
FOR every state. The position that the
star shall take, has never been determin-
cd by law. The war department ar
ranges that.
Rev. :. b. Stupp, a minister of the
Evangelical Lutheran Church, at Ber-
wick, Pa, has began suit for damages
for the death of his wife against Oscar
Lang. Mr.. Stupp says in his bill of com
plaint ON October l3, 1891, he went with
Lang to a field adjoining his premises to
hunt for birds. Lang had a hammerless
gun, and on returning from the field for
breakfast, Mr.. Supp alleges Lang hand
led the gun so carelessly that il was
discharged and Mrs. Stupp, who was in
the kitchen, received the full charge in
her breast. As a result of the injury she
died on July Id, 1895. Mr.. Supp says he
has been LEFT with five small children,
between the ages OFFS and IL years, and
that the accident which deprived him of
his wife Was due solely to the negligence
Of Lang.
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