The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1895-11-20
Items Of Interest.

Senator Sherman is confined 10 his
home in Washington, by severe cold
and intermittent fever.
Masked men broke up a Mormon meet
ing at White Post, Pike County, Ky,
who had previously been warned not to
attempt 10 preach their doctrine in that
section, and rode them on rails dis
tanee of nearly a mile to the West Nir-
ginia side of Tug river.
The General Missionary Conference
of the Methodist Episcopal Church met
in Denver, Colorado, Thursday aud de-
cided to appropriate Sl.Ooo,0o0 for mis-
sions next year, A. per cent. for home
and % per cent. for foreign missions.
Thursday was Pennsylvania Day at
the Atlanta Exposition Justice Green
presided at the exercises at the State
Building. and addresses were made by
Governor Hastings, Mayor King, OF
Atlanta, Lieutenant Governor Lyon,
Justice Williams and Others
Abner Barkalow and William Blrner,
residing near Shippensburg, Pa, had
been enemies for years, but on Tuesday
they were reconciled. After talking for
a time the subject of the old grudgs came
up and soon they began to fight. BIrner
was badly stabbed in the shoulder. He
got possession of the knife, and stabbed
Barkalow in the abdomen. The latter
will probably die.
Daniel Defenbaugh, Albert Mosier,
and Lawrence johnson, Road Super
visors of German township, Fayette
county, were arrested on Saturday on the
peculiar charge of persistent and willful
neglect of duty. II is charged that they
have refused to repair certain roads
which arc in bad repair. The case il the
first Of the kind in the county and the
result will be watched with keen interest.
The payment of bet upon the result
Of the election in Maryland has brought
Robert Gibson, prominent young drug
gist, of Shepherdstown, Nd, into con-
siderable notorioty. By the terms Of the
wager. he was compelled to insert an ad-
vertisement for wife in local paper,
describing his personal appearance and
enumerating his possessions, and now
each mail brings him letters from young
ladies who are anxious to shake off single
hlessedness.
There is much comment at Sharpsville,
Pa, over the death of Mrs. Margaret
Hallinbaugh, as it is common suspicion
that i. resulted from the lack OF medical
attention. She was firm believer in
Christian Science as a cure for all dis
eases, and, although she was sick for sew
eral weeks, she refused to have a doctor
called until it was too late 10 do anything
effectual for her. When physicians were
summoned they diagnosed her case as
pneumonia.
Twenty-eight years ago the wife OF
William II. Garrecht, a well-to-do resi-
dent of Lancaster, was divorced from him
on the ground OF dcsertion. The truani
husband returned to Lancaster and mar
ried another woman; she died, and hi
married again, deserving his third wifi
after seven weeks. They reunited, bi
deserted her again, and after seven year
of litigation she secured divorce. Gar
recht met his first wife, they made ur
and remarriage has just resulted.
James Gardner, aged sixty-five, ans
, Mary Lynch. aged thirty-two years, il
WilliamspOrt, Pa, on Tuesday, applied
for license 10 wed. They had beer
married iiiteen years ago, hut lost theii
certificate a short time afterward. Thi
fact has ever been source of mucl
worriment to Mary, and on Tuesda.
she prevailed upon James to be remar
ried. They got the license. as there
no law to prevent husband and wifi
. from marrying rs often rs they please.