The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1895-12-11
Items of Interest.
= George Augustus Sala, the famous Eng
lish journalist. died Sunday.

George Augustus Sala, the famous Eng
lish journalist, died Sunday.
A corps of Baltimore and Ohio engi
neeTs is making a survey for branch
line to the summit OF Maryland Heights,
Harpers Ferry, where the railroad COM
pany proposes establishingapark erecting
hotel and making improvements To the
extent of sl,Oo0,OO.
A new edition of the Bible has been
printed, which contains pictures of negro
angels, and was gotten out 10y shrewd
Yankee at u cost of sl.J0 each, and he sells
them 10 the Southern negroes for s. apiece
ON the installment plan, demanding $50
on deliyery.-Bolfoa Ne,cS.
John Gallagher, who killed James
Welsh at dance in Scottdale on the
night of August 10, 1895, and who was
put on trial for his life in Greensburg,
has been found guilty of murder in the
second degree. Application was made
for new trial.
A dispatch from Greensburg says a
large gray wolf has been discovered on
Chestnut Ridge. Saturday night John
Ross and Edward Nicely were given a
lively chase by the animal. The children
in the farm districts are not permitted to
go to school, and the elders scarcely ven
ture out after nightfall.
For many years there has dwelt in
the churchyard at Buckingham, Bucks
County, an aged tinker. He has lived
among the tombstones unmOlested, hav-
ing little shanty in one corner of the
incl0sure. Last week the tinker was ar
rested on a charge of using obscene Ian
TO keep the peace.
Elmer, small settlement in Potter
County, near the Tioga County line, was
the scene ofa murder Thursday morn
ing. Thomas Hall became involved in 4
quarrel with his wife's sister, and shot
her, blowing her head almost entirely OF
He was taken to COudersport and lodged
in the county Jail. The verdict Of the
Coroner's jury is equivalent to murder IN
the first degree.
a meeting was recently held at Broad
Top City. Huntingdon County, for the
purpose of forming an association 10 build
a monument over the grave of Thomas
White, who was member of the band
who threw the tea overheard from Brit
ish ships in the harbOr of Boston in De-
cember, l773. White, after serving in
the Revolutionary Army, came to Penn
sylvania, and was buried on Broad Top
Mountain. The association is preparing
to solicit funds to accomplish its work.
John Miller, of Venango county, aged
seventy-one years, has sold his young
wife to Captain John Lyter, G. 4. r.
man, with the following agreement: -,
the undersigned, John Miller, party of
the first part, do hereby agree with
John Lyter, party of the second part,
to give to the party of the second part
one Martha, my wife, the consideration
to be as follows: John Lyter is to pay
me in cash $40, also a good suit OF clothes,
valued at S2j, jug of the best whisky,
two hound pups and fishing tackle worth
S2G.-
The Empire Express, on the New York
Central Railroad, now holds the worlds
record as the fastest regular passenger
| train. At Batavia Wednesday il encount-
cred a snowstorin, and, fearing that this
might cause delay, the engineer let out a
few more notches of the throttle. He
had eighteen minutes i'm which to make
the 10 63-lG0 miles between Grimesviiie
and Buffalo, and he made it in thirteen
minutes, arriving in Buffalo at 4:I0,
ahead of time. The fast time, the eighty
one miles between Syracuse and Roches-
ter, was made In eighty minutes.