The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-02-26
Items OF Interest.

Gladstone has declined the offer of an
American magazine publisher for an ar
ticle on arbitration at 81 a word.
\ bill has been introduced in congress
TO give all ex-soldiers 10 of age, who
served in the civil or Mexican war, s2l
month.
Henry Michlm, one of the largest cat
tie owners in Idaho, died there, few
days ago. lie had G0,00o head aud
range 20 miles long and GO miles wide.
Deceased was native of Marchand, In
diana county, and had no heirs, except
brother living in Ohio.
Harry Howard, an old New York vol
Unteer fireman, who died recently, gave
his entire estate, valued at 5000, TO
the woman who refused 10 marry him 90
years ago.
The agricultural appropriation bill
passed by the House ON Thursday carried
with it a mandatory order on Secretary
Morton to distribute $4,000 worth of
seeds.
Another Blae Book on Armenia has
been published At London, the dispatches
covering the period between September
}, 1856, aud February II, 1895. II contains
a table prepared hy 4 committee Of
delegates from the Embassies of the SIX
Powers, showing that the total number of
persons massacred. concerning whose
| fate accurate information has heen OBJ
tanned, is 25,oO0.
At Sunday mornings service in the
First Methodist Episcopal church, at
Pottstown, Rev stephen II. Evans,
pastor, who had inst risen from a bed OF
sickness, was unable TO finish well be-
gun sermon on the Healing Power Of
Christ" and was obliged TO quit in the
middle of his discourse. Mrs. Annie
Wihenmeyer, the famed army nurse Of
war times, stepped upon the platform and
taking up the thread of his theme finish
ed it in a most eloquent manner.
Eight ear loads of dynamite blew up
at Viedendorp, in the South African
Republic. One hundred people were
killed and three times that many were
injured. Buildings were wrecked and
thousands of people have been rendered
homeless. Great heaps of mangled hu-
man bodies present a horrible sight.
The hospitals are filled with the injured.
4 popular subscription OF nearly half u
million dollars has been raised for the
relief of tie injured and homeless.
William Iams, who figured 50 pro-
nl;nentiy during the Homestead riots OF
lS:2, was fatally shot in fight with q
fellow boarder in Baltimore lodging
house on Wednesday. ianls was the
chief actor IN one OF the most exciting
incidents that ever occurred in the
history of the National Guard Of Pennsyl-
vania. When he expressed his gratifica-
ton at the effort to murder III. c. FTick,
Colonel Streator ordered him to apologize
He refused, and Col. S;reator ordered
him to be strung up by the thumbs, had
his head shaved and drummed him out
of camp. Mai. Gen. Snowdon confirmed
the action of Streator.
Emanuel Ritenour, charged with tn,
murder of his wife, was found guilty o
simple manslaughter and recommended
To the mercy OF the court 10y W eStuiore
land county jury, on Tuesday. II Is sait
that Madison Bowser, Of Jeanette, ont
o. the jurors, declared during the trial O
the case that he would rot sooner than
hang the defendant. lie will be prose
outed for having violated his oath. Tn,
story ofthe Riten0gr tragedy, briefly. i
that the defendant went home on th'
evening of August 2Sth and found hi
wife absent. They lived at Ruifsdale
| She returned soon after his arrival anf
explained that she had gone TO q neigh
bor to procure some eaiables. Ritenoul
was jealous and prohibited her from
visiting that house. They quarreiad
and, taking Winchester rifle, it is al
legei, he shot her dead.