The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1895-01-16
Items OF Interest.

Odt of l59 applicants for licenses in
Clearlield county, Penna, Judge Gordon
granted ninety-iive.
To keep the mines going, the Howells
company officials, at MasSillon, o., are
driving the mules themselves.
Two passenger coaches were overturned
and Baggagemaster WOodGie was severe
~ injured in collision at Counciisville.
salem. ohio. thinks it he's a suicide
club, two men having killed themselves
within two weeks, and another attempted
it,
Between 5000 and 1000 men on the great
trolly lines in brooklyn, over score in
number, struck for higher wages Non
day.
Orders were issued on Saturday 10y
the Baltimore * Ohio Railroad Company
to close their shops at Correllsville unti
February |.
The miners Of Luzerno County viii
petition the Legislature - have the two
weeks pay bill so amended that pen
atty viii 60 with its violation.
Exposure during the blizzard VIII cause
Nicholas Geibel, Of Massil!on. o., to lose
his arms and possibly his ears and toes.
lie went 35 hours without receiving any
attention.
\ cat scratched the face Of samuel
Wright at Youngstown, -, Monday
morning while he slept, and saved him
from being cremated in his burning
house.
Anonymous letters, threatening death
by shooting. have been received by Dr.
Thomas G.. Fox, ex-Prothono,ary WI
liam III. Ulrich and Lawyer Frank J.
Shaiiner, of Lebanon.
During the last two months Govcrncr-
elect Hastings received over S.o1O ap-
plications iorofiice. Though tae governor
elect has only twenty-five places on his
staff nj his disposal. yet 0rthe>e positions
alone he has over 90 applications.
The Short agricultural and crelmerv
courses i'll the Pennsylvania State College.
Centre County, opened THURSDAY, with
forty-oight students, representing nine
teen counties ofthis State, and thc States
of New York, New Jersey, and ohio.
Among the students is Hon. tmos II.
Mylin, Auditor-G r-Gcneral-eiect OF Penn
sylyania.
Ponsion-AgeHt Skinner i aholt 20 pre-
pa:e circular Of instructions !G fpuuh-
class postmasters as 20 the execution Of
pension .nuchegs. \ recent scl give, this
class of Po-tmasters the rigat q execute
these vouchers, bat many ofthcm seem TO
be ignorant OF the purport OF the law and
allowed their assistants TO do the work,
which is clearly Illegal.
Owing 70 the prevalence Of scarlet fever
in Beaver, the Board ofEduc.;iion aaS de-
cidcd 10 continue the Christians vacation
Of the Public Schools one week longer,
and did not resume yesterday. H. was
intended. Several new cases of the fever
are reported. and one of the patients has
died. Every precaution iS being taken
20 prevent the spread OF the disease.
To extort money from Maurice ioar, =
Rockford, H., farmer, three masked men.
who entered his house Friday night.
pounded him fer time, aud held his feet
on hot stove. lie still kept silent, and
they stretched him on store until the
pain was so great that he could no longer
endure it. Then he told where hc had
S45 secretcd. and after securing this they
made their escape.
White Deer Township, Union County.
was the scene OF an awful tragedy Fri day
morning, Wesley Pawling having Sho; hi,
wife and child and then hanged himself.
PawIing was a weli-tp ID farther and lived
about mile west OF New Columbia. Al
abont o'clock yesterday morning he
went to the house Of his mother in law, a
half-mile distant and babe heraccompany
him back home To witness "a grand
shooting match. This she did, and upon
their arrival ut the Pawling homestead,
ne took from his pocket revolver and
shot his four weeks old child dead and
then shot his wife. bat il is thought not
fatally. He then went quickly to- the
barn and hanged himself. jealousy j.
assigned rs the cause of the young mans
rash act. Pawling was son Of the late
B. :. Pawling and was married few
years ago In Miss Ella Bohr.