The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-05-02
News Items

The period of 30 days allowed Judge
Charles d. Long, of Michigan, to file ad-
diiioual evidence in his pension claim has
expired. As he failed, by advice Of counsel,
to submit further evidence of right to a
monthly pension Of s72 instead of $50, the
pension will doubtless be cut at once.
Belva lockwood, attorney. ex-candidate
for the Presidency on the Woman's Suffrage
ticket, says; "Woman's suffrage IS bound
to come in the natural course of events.
Three fourths Of the school teachers in Penn
sylvsnia are women, and if they are not ft
to vote how can they teach the boys to cast
ballots ?"
Martha G. Kimbsll. who because Of ser
vices on the battlefield during the war be-
came widely known and esteemed by army
officers and civilians, aud who was appoint
ed Chief Inspector of Hospitals by General
Sherman. died at her home, in Philadelphia,
on Saturday. She vas credited with being
the first person to suggest the observance of
Decoration Day.
Friday was a great day for terrible plunges
from high windows in Philsdelphia. One
woman diyed to her almost certain death
from q fifth story window; a baby climbed
from its crib al fourth-stoy window and
fell to instant death; an aged woman was
found dead beneath her third-story window
a man fell from a roof, and another from
second-story and both were badly injured.
May wheat broke all records on Tuesday
and sold on the Chicago Board of Trade at
57i, the lowest price ever recorded. IL was
the climax of the oppression that has forced
the market lower and lower during the
three last weeks. The Oldest grain trader
on the floor can remember nothing ike the
present movement, and there are some VINO
say wheat will reach fifty cents bushel or
less.
1t is rare TO compromise on the work of
Cupid, but Judge Ssdler of Cumberland
county made departure in that direction.
In the breach of promise suit of Maggie J.
Lay against Samuel Jackson, a Carlisle
farmer, the jury recently awarded $3.50
damages. Jackson asked for a new trial on
the ground of excessive damages. Judge
Sadler to-day ruled that if Miss Lay will
accept $1,000 the new :iial viii be refused,
if not, it will be granted.
The motion for new trial of the Breck-
inridge-P Pollard breach-of promise case was
made before Judge Bradley Saturday, and
the motion was overruled. Bond was fixed
at 500 for an appeal, which Breckinridge's
counsel gave notice would be taken 10 the
Court of Appeals OF the District Of Columbia.
Mr. Breckinridge has accepted an invitation
to speak at his home in Lexington next
Saturday evening. and it will be his first ad-
dress in public since his breach of promise
trial. The invitation was rendered him by
some of his personal and political friends,
and the address will be virtually the opening
Of his campaign for reelection to Congress.
The closing session. Of the Confedera;e
veterans reunion in Birmidgham, Alabama,
on Thursday, was marked by the refusal of
the delegates TO advocate the granting Of
pension to the window Of the late jefferson
Davis, for the reason that she had taken up
her residence in New York state. Oae of
the purposes for which the Confederate
Veteran association was organized was to
secure for \ rs. Davis n pension. Efforts
were made in Virginia, North CArolins,
Georgia and Florida TO induce the legisla-
tuues Of these states 10 give her 500 apiece.
When the committee having this mstter in
charge reported it was in favor Of dropping
the whole business. They declared that
wherever they went the action of Mrs. Davis
in expatIiating herself was brought up
against them.