The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-01-22
Items of Interest.

The Democratic national convention
will he held AT Chicago July :.
The U. :. senate has ordered that so
be paid for portrait of the late Allen q.
Thurman. of Ohio.
The Turkish government has issued an
order forbidding the Red Cross society
from distributing relief in Armenia.
Because despondent over her family's
poverty. Mrs. Joseph Hiidebrand pois-
onej her eight children and hanged
herself TO a rafler at Marysville, Kan.
Out of herd of forty-siX COWS be-
longing to Congressman Grout, of Yer
mont, thirty-six were killed for tuber-
culosis the other day.
Maryland ana Kentucky have both
Republican governors, and if Tennessee
had the governor she elected, there would
be three Republican governors of south
ern states.
The National Women's Christian
Temperance Union Committee has de-
cided TO hold the next annual conven-
ton in San Francisco, Cal.
Ex-Judge Lyman Trumbull, who was
conspicuous in the early history of the
Republican party, has been talked of as
| the Populist candidate for President. He
has made public declaration that he
would not consent to run.
Judge Ehrgood, on Monday announced
in license court at Lebanon, that here
n ~ or Tho sar,-i,cr ,f r-aa Iup.bac IN, SaIoopS
shall be a sufficient reason for the for
feiting Of the license. He also severely
denounced the practice of rushing the
! growler,' or selling beer in large vessels.
State Chairman III. ID. Patton has issued
a call for holding the Prohibition state
convention at Philadelphia on May 6, for
the purpose of nominating two Con
gresSmen at-Large, - Presidential
electors and 80 delegates to the national
convention at Pittsburg on May q.
The Yellow river is styled the ''Sor-
row of China" Daring the last CEN
tury it has changed its course twenty
two times, and now flows into the sea
through a mouth 200 miles distant from
that of 100 years ago. II is estimated
that its floods in the present century
have cost China IL, $4,000 of lives.
The legislatures of several states voted
for United States Senator on Tuesday. In
Ohio, Joseph b. Foraker, Republican,
was elected to succeed Calvin :. Brice,
Democrat. William Allison was elected
TO succeed himself in Iowa. Wellington
led in the balloting in Maryland, and
Congressman Money was ahead in Miss
issippi. Kentucky will begin to vote
next Tuesday.
The Baltimore Grand jury in its re-
cent report says: There Is in the city
jail 4 whipping post, erected for the es-
pecial purpose of innicting punishment
on wife-besters. This post has not been
used for a long lime, hut the jury are
of the opinion that were such punish
ment oitener inflicted there would bc
but few eases of wife beating, instead OF,
as at present, the many which were
brought before this body
Joe II. Dove, his wife, and seven grown
sons and daughters live on farm TeaI
Jonesboro, Tenn. The man and wife
lived together for thirty years peacesbly
until recently, when proceedings fof di
yorce were entered by the woman. Tho
Court granted the divorce, but ordered
the property divided equally between
them. All the family were present wheT
: the Commissioners arrived to divide th'
property. \ fight started between TIVE
of the boys and all were engaged in i
within few minutes, revoivers being
used. \ young daughter was killed, anC
the father and one son named VIII wer'
fatally wounded
, The Christian Endeavorers believe tina
they have converted Robert G. Ingersol
to their religious faith. Word has com
to them from Kalamazoo, Mich. teliin;
them they have succeeded. The People
: church, which he said on Friday nigh
: he would willingly join, is not regarde'
As orthodox by members of the Cath
: Ollie, Episcopal or Evangelical churches
but it is such a long step nearer the or
thodox standpoint than Colonel lnger
soils agnosticism that the declaration
was taken to mean all that his hearer
! wished IL to mean.