The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-03-04
Items Of Interest.

Congress man-at- Large George +. HUFF
of fGreensburg, viii not be a candidate for
denomination.
The two robbers at Wichita Falls,
Texas, who on Tuesday entered bsnk
there and shot down two men, were
hanged Wednesday by mob For
while the mob talked OF burning the
robbers.
Windam Thomas Wyndham-Quin,
fourth Earl of nGnTaven and Mount
Earl, better known SIS the Earl of Dun
raven, has suffered the disgrace of being
expelled from honorary membership in
the New York Yacht club. the oldes.
organization of its kind in America.
At Des Moines, Ia. on Thursday the
| constitutional amendment resolution WAS
| brought mp IL the House and was defeat
by vote of 81 70 - \ motion 10 recon-
slider was laid on the table and then the
consideration of the resolution was indie
! finitely postponed. This settles prohi-
bit;on for five years at least in Iowa.
Adintant General Robbins has au'hor-
lied the publication ofa paragraph from
general orders 10 he issued this ~ ok.
! stating that AZ railroads had accec-3 70
the rates and time limits re4uoste the
thirtieth animal eucsmpment OF the
Grand Army Of the Republic vii bc held
al st. Paul, Mimi. the first week in
September.
\ leading Chicago dealer i'm live stock
estimates that the repeal of the reci-
| procity treaties has cost the cattle trade
Of the United States GEO, 600 head of stock
per year In the exports and a shrinkage
ofat least $50 per 100 pounds in the
price. This is another of the great wrongs
| says the Globc Dem0crat. that will he
righted As soon as the Republican party
resumes control OF the Government
Drink nothing without seeing il sign
nothing without reading it, and make
sure that it means nothing m"re than il
/ says; don't GO To law unless You are
! forced 10 and have nothing tn lose; in
any business do not wade here you
can't see the bottom ;put no dependence
in the label on dog, and count money
before you receive ii see the sack before
you buy what is in Ii, for he who buys in
the dark asks 70 be cheated.
The total vote Of the Populist party or
rather for the Populist electors. in the
| Presidential election of 1892 was I,0i0CGO
At the same election the total vote of the
| Populist party for members of the Fifty
third Congress was ,I22.6l2. At the Con-
| gressional election Of 1874 the vote of the
Populist party was I,353,95l showing an
| increase of about 10000 over the total mt
the Presidential election. During the
two years intervening the Republican
vote increased $4,000 and the Democratic
vote decreased l.010,GO0 1t is, perhaps. a
| significant fact that as the Popuiists have
! increased inu nmberS the .ProhibitioniSts
| have declined.
\ dispatch from Huntington says:
| The election officers having been elected
before the enactment of the law Of June,
1885. relative to the increase of pay of
! judges and inspectors of elections, the
/, county commissioners refused to award
! the amount of their bills. as provided by
/ the act of i.>,5. The election officers there
upon look oGt "A rude on the commission
eTs to show caase Why their bills should
! not be paid, in accordance with the new
| act. Judge Bailey decided that the petit
TONERS are entitled 10 receive pay under
the provisions ~ the law as ii stood at the
iisne cf their election, aud not under The
I act OF 1873.
Professor :stamm, ofthe Mercer schools.
/ this state, on his way home Wednesday
night, Invited a stranger 10 seat IN his
! hgGgy. - believe you have catarrh,"
said the stranger. The Professor replied
| that he had. Here Is something that
| ~iii rGlieye yol," said the fellow, hand
( ing Sianin . pinch Of snuf-like powder.
4 The Professor inhaled the powder.
/ and remembered nothing until fOunG
/ somewhat later iG a dazed condition by
/ searching party. The stranger was gone
/ AMI with him was $3.50 Of Siamn's money
and a gold watch. The victim Is living
seriously i'll from the effects Of the drug.