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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30
Separated Eighty Years.

ApnAIx, Mich, Sept 2s.-Charles Ben
nett and his sister, Mrs. Lucy Townsend
were united to-day after separation OF
30 years, In 1916. Bennett's step-mother
ordered him out of her house in a small
New York village and he started away
on a career of adventure. finally settling
in Monroe, this state. a. retired sea
captain. He lost all track of his family
until last week.
His sister, il happened, married and
came West, settling down at Clayton.
Mich. A newspaper item, giving
sketch of the old captains life attracted
the sisters attention, aud mutual friend
was the means of bringing the aged
couple together after so many years.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30

just what J7li grains of silver wouid
prove TO be worth. Manufactures would
close Business houses would fail.
Banks would be raided. The unem-
ployed would he numbered by millions.
The farmers would find few purchasers
for their products. Want and famine
would pervade the land.
Business interests, reaching from the
richest banker TO thepoorest paid la5orer,
require the removal of all doubt about
the meaning of dollar.
No man should be trusted even with an
unimportant nomination who does not
recognize that the value of dollar is now
measured by 2S.22 grains of gold, and who
is not willing openly TO declare his pur-
pose to keep il there.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30

satisfied with the delsasement oi the
currency; the platform on which ne Is
running is not confined TO that one
thing as a remedy for the alleged evils
and misfortunes of the times. de rs
the leader of movement that involves
infinite possibilities of mischief what
eyer his personal motives and purposes
may be. he is not superior TO the forces
behind him, and can not expect TO con-
troll them. They are nothing II not
revolutionary. The spirit by which
they are animated is one of general
hostility to existing methods and instl-
tutions. They are sewers of wind who
want to reap the whirlwind. Its easy
10 see that free silver is only a symp-
tom, and that the real disease lies deeper
and includes far more perilous condi-
tions than those which relate strictly
to the currency.
We are accustomed to think that such
sn occurrence as the French Revolution
is impossible ina our country. This may
be true. and yet there are certain traits
and qualities of human nature which
are never entirely subdued by civiliza
ton, and which are the same in all
countries. We have passed safely
through several severe tests of our abil-
ity TO avert social and political combus-
ton, but we have never before had just
such a situation as the present one td
face. A great party is seeking control
of the Government 10y appeals to PREF
udice and passion, to mercenary and
insurrectionary instincts. 1t aims &c
array classes against one another in
violent way, and TO substitute emotion
and excitement for intelligent and TEN
perate discussion. Possibly our com
Portable theory that political explosive
are comparatively harmless when per
mitted to have free action, and that th'
influences of reason and patriotism ar
a sufficient protection against anarchy
is correct, but at the same time, Their
is room for doubt, and it is best not t.
be too certain where there is so mucl
at stake. The part of wisdom is to lool
at the matter soberly, and with a du'
sense of the obligation that rests upol
all good citizens to see that seditiou
and destructive forces do not gain as
tendency in our affairs.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30

\ POLL of 500 Methodist ministers in
Ohio did not reveal one who favored
the Chicago platform or the election of
Bryan. Some of the number are life
long Democrats. and will act with the
party again when the coin debasers are
shaken out of ID.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30
Bryan Gives Up the East.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2i.-The branch
headquarters here of the Bryan Demo-
cratic National Committee have been
closed. The sign over a part of the old
Wormely building-"Headqu of
Democratic National Committee'-wiIl
be taken down and the space made va
cant by the department of the regulars"
will be allotted TO the Populists and the
Silver League. This is a gloomy ending
of an attempt to emphasize the national
character of the Popocratic appeal by
placing tho headquarters well into the
..elemy's country"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30

WILLIAM +. CURTIS, who was sent
so Mexico to ascertain the effect of the
free coinage OF silver in that country,
siss made very important discovery,
and lac tells about it very entertainingly
I'm the Chicago Record. He says that
Senator Stewart, the great Popocrat
and free silver advocate, owns the con-
trolling Interest IN the largest silver
Bnine in Mexico, and that the profits
from the mine are over a hundred thou
sand dollars a year after all the expenses
are paid. At this rate Stewards profits
would be al least fifty thousand dollars.
No woRder that distinguished old Pop
ocrat i for free silver. 1t means big
money 10 him. But how sly he was
about keeping il quiet.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30

TIE greatest danger in the present
political situation, says the St Louis
Globe-Democrat, is not free silver. That
Is serious enough Of itself to justify all
cautious and patriotic citizens ia voting
against the party which is advocating
the adoption Of such a policy; but it
does not by any means represent tie
worst that is likely to happen in the
event Of Bryan's election. The ele-
megts that be represents will not be
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30
stung 70 Death by Bees.

A despatch from Milan, Michigan, says
that James Morrells engaged i'm a desper-
ate battle with bees on Thursday of last
week and was stung 10 death.
In driving past his hives one of the
wheels of the wagon struck the platform
and the hive were overturned. The horses
ran away when the bees attacked them
and Morrell was thrown out. Although 8
robust man, he was powerless against the
insects. He battled with them for some
time but at last, overcome by theil
stings, sank TO the ground unconscious
He was removed to his home and every
effort made to save him, but he died in
side of an hour, the doctors say, from the
result of the poison inoculated by the
stings of the bees.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30
A Plague of Bugs.

CHICAGO, Sept. 2S.-A swarm of black
beetles has descended upon this city, en-
tirely eclipsing all previous plaques OF
sand flies which have visited the place.
The creatures were about one and one
half inches long and oval in shape.
They fell almost in showers in some OF
the most brilliantly lighted streets, per-
ishing by myriads under the wheels OF
vehicles. They fell so thickly that people
could not prevent them from slipping
unawares down their necks and the un-
usual visitation caused much discomfort.
1t is belived that the bugs belonged to
rare species, as none like them had
been seen before.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30
Orange Judd Farmer.

United States, 81. England, 81, Germany,
-, France, 70. Can any one doubt that
the bottom has been reached? All history
seems to indicate that the coming years
are to see an upward trend to values,
with prosperity and civilization that
will put the past to shame. Let US do
our best and have faith.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30

THAT Arkansas crumb of comfort
seems 10 have been swept away by the
revised figures. Latest returns show
that Jones, Democrat, has a plurality
Of 45, 2s4, loss OF over 5000 votes from
lS9f. while the Republican vote has in
creased s3 ner cent.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30

The fact that there is not silver
country in the world in which labor is
paid one-half the average wages paid
in the United States, and in which the
money when received viii buy one
half as much as il will buy here, furn-
ishes q complete answer to Bryan's
speeches, so far as the workingmen art
..oa.arnaa
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30

BRYAN Democrats and the Populists
have divided electoral tickets in 50
many Northern States that Sewall's
election in November is a mathemat-
ical impossibility. Yet Bryan ignores
Watson, though every week strength
ems the Georgian in the Bryan pro-
--ranaDae
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30

KENTUCKY went Republican last
wear. and the conditions which caused
her 10 do so still exist, with the differ
ence only that the Democrats were
stronger then than they are this year.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30

J. J.PARDoN ALrGELD, Ben Pitchfork
Tillman, Carl Hoboe Brown, Sound
Money Coxey and Bloody Brides
Waite are a beautiful quintette of spa
triots" to champion the cause of good
government and national honor,
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30
The Solid Truth.

(From Hoke Smiths Speech at the New York
Reform Club Sound Currency Dinner, May
10, 1895.
Ifa President and Congress were elect
ed in November committed to the free
and unlimited coinage of 37ll grains of
silver into dollars nearly six months
would pass before they could be inaugu-
rated. and six months more before the
proposed legislation could become law.
During that time creditors would seek to
protect themselves against being paid in
dollars worth only about thirteen grains
of gold, and they would endeavor to
make collections before the unlini.ss-l
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30

MAINE is a state of small farmers
Probably no other state in the Union
has as many small farmers in proper
tion to the total number. These men
have been heard on the subjects of free
trade and free silver.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30

CHAIRMAN JOKES arOuses ones adj
miration for his nerve when he says
that his confidence in Bryan's election
has been literally forced upon him. He
didn't want to believe ii, but he simply
had to.-Springfield Republican.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30

PowDERLY hits the nail squarely on
the head when he tells the working
man that his motto with regard 10
money should be "The best is none too
GOOD for me.n
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30

THE Bryan papers in the West should
now investigate the ship-building trust
and show how Maine is the victim,
lust as they said Vermont was of the
lnaple sugar trust.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30

~HINGs go on As they seem to
4. started off, the November vote
viii be a sure enough is TO affair.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30

THE Republicans are not yet claim
ing Texas, but they stand a better
t.hanee of carrying it than the Demo
rats do of carrying Illinois, for in
..fancp
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30

IT Is safe 20 say that one city will
give majority of over 100000 against
Bryan. Philadelphia reports total of
304.74 voters, Il gain Of nearly 1900
since last Nav.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30

THE best kind OF a sound money
Democrat is the one who proposes to
cast his vote directly for Mckinley, in
stead of wasting it on a man who can
not possibly be elected.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30

THE Republican State committee es-
innate the majority for Mckinley in
Ohio. at the November election, at
T5OOa0
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30
If Silver, Why Not Potatoes !,
From the Ncw York Tribune.

From the New York Tribune.
When the Government fixes the price
of silver at si.29 an ounce, that will fl x
the price throughout the world.-W. J..
Bryan.
Lets have the Government fix the price
of potatoes at 81 bushel- Then every
one who owns potato patch VIII be as
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30
The Evidence.

A good many people in Somerset are
using the Ci nderella Range. which is the
the best evidence of IFS merits. Sold and
guaranteed by
JAS. B. HoLDERBAuH.
Somerset, Pa.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30

Tom WArsoS is about the only anti
man who reioices over the
Maine election.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30
They Wish to Keep Him at Home.

From the Chicago Times-Herlld.
A recent poll of the precinct in which
w. J. Bryan resides at Lincoln Neb.,
gives the following result there are 292
legal voters in the precinct):
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30
Wheat Prices for Six Centuries.

! ~ IVA R1
in
DC. a bush
hen dropped
Sl.36 a hun
nd a dollar
led 75c., but
THE opening
|learly 81 in
ind going up
kge for 1881.
e declined.
ce of wheat
Ute as lSS2 in
for 1891 1.-THE
| 4 States IS;
81. Other
/ that it is
articles of
that were
n lS1l in the
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30

The secret of happiness, keep your
liver right" Burdock Blood Bitters is
natures remedy for complaints of the
liver or bowels
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30
FpUBLICAN STATE TICKET

EPUBLlCAN SlAlE 1lIhLl.
congressmen-stL Large.
cALrsHA A GROW, Of Susquehanna.
SAMUEL A. DAVENPORT, OF Erie-
Electors-at-Large.
Joseph wharton, Philadelphia
Alexander +. Patton, Clearfield-
William Witherow, Allegheny.
Peter l.. Kimberly. Mercer.
District Electors.
DR.. ]. :. Pearson i,e Henry :. freN"s''
: - a E.ndlev. lI7 Fred. II. Eaton
-,nSdasf N.vers rs. {. Brown Miller.
~. A q'.s-oarr ilQ r. II. Shindell-
Joseph H. HUddeii- - George 4 ,N"i'A'
REiiisarn r. Soley. i2l- A &. White
+ -, E-sf- - VIM y. Randolph.
+ Ifc,rx' 4. Johnson. y. f. Weriheimer-
-, ii IaDdis "a. Josiah Speer.
. Everett Warren - hoM r.; :, = ''''i'hi'
! q "a Mild. a. lsador Sohel-
: gs-ris.,, Ran y. William Schnur-
. u. W. Miller. - jos l. NAiii ''eii-
CONGRESS.
Z 7 EoosER. of Somerset Bor.
ubiect TO decision Of the District Conference
ASSEMBLY.
VM. II. MILLER, of Queinahonlng Twp
". II. SANNER, of Somerset Bor.
ASSOCIATE JUDGE
GEO. J. BLACK, of Meyersdale Bor.
SHERIFF.
NJ. II. Hartzell. of lockwood Bor.
PRoTHoNoTARY.
H BARRoN, OF Somerset Bor.
REGISTER & RECORDER.
IN. COVER, of Jenner Twp.
TREAsU URER-
WN. WINTERS, Of Somerset Twp.
COUNTY COMMISSIONER
GEO. r. KIMMEI., of Milford Twp.
GARRrEL Coon. of Somerset Twp.
POOR DIRECTOR.
JAcoB W. PECK, of Summit Twp
AUDITORS.
rnExIkH RHoADs, of Somerset Bor
!. ]. BOWMAN, Of Brothersvalley Twp
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30
,uRuCAN NATIONAL TICKET

President,
WILLIAM MCKINLEY, of OHIO.
Vice President.
,RRsr A. HoBART, of New jersey.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-03-02
CITY NOTES.

"Delmonicos at g. attracted fair-sized
audiences at the FrOthingham Saturday
afternoon and evening
In the estate OF John Klein, of this
city. letters testamentary We're. on sat
urday, granted to Jacob +. Klein.
There will be a months mind requiem
mass for the late Mrs. Bridget kearney,
Of Phelps street. at st. Peters cathedral
Wednesday mOrnig at o'clock. AIS,
a. break down near Boonton. Nj; re-
should have arrived at 1920 a. m. being
delayed until D. m, Saturday.
The members Of the Scranton Chess
and Checker club will meet Wednesday
night at the office Of Dentist r.. j. Pierce,
on Lackawanna avenue. to arrange for
the tournament with the Wilkes-Barre
club.
Margaret. the 1-year-old daughter of the
late Thomas Healey. of Archibald, died
yesterday morning. The funeral will take
ment will be in Archibald Catholic ceme-
terry.
Postmaster +. NJ. Vandling has received
word from Senator Quay that the bill re.
tmburstng him for the $500 worth OF
stamps stolen from the postoffice has
passed the senate and will be sent to the
house.
A Green Ridge girl who has been missing
from home for several weeks was picked
up by the police Saturday night in a place
her parents can decide what Is best to do
do with her.
Police Captain Edwards. while boarding
Providence car at the Corners Satur-
day, missed his footing and was dragged
several rods through the mud. Luckily
he escaped without anything more serious
than q spoiled uniform.
Megargee Bros. the Washington avenue
paper dealers, are distributing with their
compliments q card containing the num-
ber and location of the fire alarm boxes
Of the city. The card has a rim of tin,
making 1t handy and serviceable for car
rying in the pocket.
The filing Of the new sewer in Provi-
dence settled to such an extent yesterday.
by reason OF the rains, that Street Com
missioner kinsley felt called uporstO no-
fify the contractors. Flanaghan & O'Hara,
TO get to work Immediately to prevent
any damages which might result from
horses being driven into the trench, the
contractors being responsible for repairs
to the sewer for six months.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-03-02

fore that. when the excavations were
made for the foundations. that the well
was not discovered, for its inner side Is
not six inches from the masonry and 1t
goes down almost perpendicular.
STONE SIN INCHES THICK.
Then again, considering the large
area that had to be covered by the
stones over the mouth of it. and the
fact that they were only six inches
thick, 1t is greater surprise that the
massive granite blocks in the ap-
proaches did not break through the
covering. The stone did not reach all
the way across the opening and left the
space which dropped i'm yesterday.
A Tribune reporter visited the well
in the afternoon and afterward called
at the Platt residence, where he re-
ceived the information that it was dug
in 1856 and abandoned on not yielding
any water. They did not know that
1t was left In such a negligent condi-
tion until 1t caved yesterday. They had
intrusted 1t to be covered up when the
road was oDened up four years ago
and the ground to the east of the road
was sold for building lots.
The we'll does not endanger the foun-
dation OF the approaches, but II was ex-
tremely dangerous for pedestrians.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-03-02
TWO WICKED CONSTABLES.
They Are Charged with levying Tribute
on Keepers of hisordcrlv Houses.

Two minions of the law who are
charged with levying tribute on pro-
prietors or disorderly houses, will have
their alleged blackmaiing exposed in
court. They are James Clark, con-
stable OF the Eighteenth ward, and p.
u. Ryan. deputy constable of the
Twelfth ward.
ohe night last week a man went be-
fore Alderman Millar and told him that
he had engaged Clark and Ryan to re-
cover $ll7 which he had lost in a disor-
derly house: that they had secured the
money IRON the proprietress, who paid
II out of her own pocket rather than
have any trouble, and that the con-
stables refused to turn the money over
TO him, thinking that he would not dare
to make any fuss about the matter.
AS the alderman had on that same
day received a complaint from a wo-
man upon whom these same two wor-
thies had preyed he did not hesitate to
issue warrant and dispatch an officer
to bring them in. They have not been
!. located as yer, but 1t Is expected that
they will be today.
THE ALDERMAN'S MOTIVE.
When they are arraigned, Alderman
Millar intends to have them also prose-
cuted for blackmail. His motive is not,
he explains, to discourage legal prose-
cution of such places, but he Is deter
mined that blackmailing persecution
shall not be carried on in his bailiwick,
at least.
He says he will not lack witnesses.
An attorney came to his Office the other
day and complained of Ryan and Clark
having woman named Lottie Smith
dragged down to the Sixth ward before
Alderman Millett and held for court.
The constables, the attorney said, af-
terwards offered to settle the case. In
this case, as in others in which they are
implicated, one swears out the informa-
tion and the other serves the warrant.
Some time ago they had Lou Shannon
and Lii Henry before Alderman Millett
and Clara Weichel, Of Drug Store"
fame, and Cora Oliver, Of Center street.
also suffered from their attentions 1t
is needless to say that Clark and Ryan
did not prosecute any Of their charges
in court.
WAS THE ALDERMAN DRUNK?
The Smith woman. whose house Is at
1O7 Lackawanna avenue, says that the
alderman before whom she was given
a hearing acted as IL he was drunk, and
as women of this sort generally know
the difference between drunkenness
and sunstrOke, the alderman may have
more to explain than his failure to make
returns Of the cases brought by his
patrons.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-03-02
AN OLD WE'LL DISCOVERED.
1t Is Close to the Roaring Brook Bridge
Abutment.

Forty years ago well forty feet deep
and ten feet in diameter was dug on
the Platt homestead, but 1t gave no
water and was abandoned the same
summer. For a while the family used
1t as an overflow from the cistern and
il was also turned to account as a
place of ice storage: but a year or SO
after 1t was dug, 1t was covered over
with a large fiagstone six inches thick.
and 1t remained forgotten and unused
until yesterday about noon.
Some one passing up Platt place OBJ
served an opening, resembling the seq
ment of circle. in the side walk which
runs along the masonry of the ap-
proach to the Roaring Brook bridge.
His curiosity was attracted, for the
cavity in the street was not an Ordin-
airy one. As he peered down into the
depth he was convinced that sub
terranean cavern had been formed be-
meath the bridge approach by the water
of the rains of the last three days.
He communicated his discovery to
others and in an hour the place was
lined with people, anxious to view the
havoc, which they had been led to be-
lleve was wrought by the elements with
the great structure that cost SO much
Of the Taxpayers money. Many gazed
ruefully at the bridge and the massive
iron and stone work and wondered If
all or large part of both would have
to be rebuilt.
MAYOR ON THE SCENE.
Mayor Connell heard the news and
visited the scene. He saw that the
hole opened into an old we'll and real
izing the danger that 1t would be to
the travelling public passing that way,
If It were left unguarded. he ordered
Chief of Police Simpson to detail an
officer to the spot.
Patrolman McHale went on guard at
2 o'clock and remained until a night
patrolman relieved him. Street Com
missioner Kinsley was notified and he
sent two men, a dirt wagon and team
Of horses to I'LL II up. but the men saw
that they could not accomplish the
result if they worked a week and they
contented themselves with fencing the
opening in by means of plank laid on
terra Gotta sewer pipes stood erect.
That. with the policeman on guard
will serve to keep travellers from tum-
bling in until today, when the street
commissioner will get a force to work
sufficient to fill Il up. There Is about
ten feet of water in 1t now that will
have to be bailed out before any at
tempt is made to throw I'm dirt and
stones.
What is remarkable and astonishing
about It Is that while the stone masOns
were building the approaches, and be-