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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-04-08

These two rules, Il Will he observed,
cover the whole duties of the conven-
ton, namely: to count and declare the
vote east at the preceding primary, and
elect officers of the County Committee
for the ensuing year.
These are simple duties, easily dis
charged, and presumably afford no oc-
casion for political excitement or inter
ference by parties not members OF the
convention, yet the court room was
filled by whooping, bowling crowd,
composed largely of Democrats and so
called Independents, who interfered
with the business OF the convention
with the evident intent of influencing
and bulldozing its members in the
transaction of their legitimate business.
Be it remembered that this was simply
a meeting OF Committeeman or Return
Judges, in which no one had voice
hut duly accredited members, and yet
F. J. Kooser, J. G. 0gie and j. A. Berk-
ev, none of whom were members of the
body, egged on by their noisy follow
ers. persisted, time and again, in adj
dressing the convention, and interfe-
ring with and delaying il in the dis
charge of its duties, frequently inter
rupting the proceedings and interiect-
ing remarks in reply TO suggestions of
members of the convention. Would
any of these gentlemen presume to
claim that they had any rights in this
convention, except as mere spectators,
or attempt in any way to justify their
conduct? The fact that Mr.. kooser
had been a successful candidate at the
preceding primary in no way justified
his interference with or appearance on
the floor of the convention. As TO the
irrepressible Ogle and Berkey, their
zeal is known to exceed their discretion
at all times. The whole aim and object
of the row appeared to centre on the
congressional nomination and the selec-
ton of chairman. NJ. ii. Hartzell,
Capt. w. II. Sanner, Hon. w. ii. Mil
Ter, and other successful candidates,
whose nomination is equivalent TO an
election, they not having to submit
their claims to a district conference,
were present with their friends as quiet
spectators, aud in no way intruding
themselves upon the convention.
We reiterate the fact that never in
the political history of the county was
there so disgraceful a proceeding wit
messed. All rules of decency and deco
rum were so fiagrantly violated as to
disgust all well disposed citizens pres
ent, regardless of their political affilia-
tions. No excuse, no defense, no apol-
ogv can be Offered i'm justification OF
this unseemly conduct, and it will re
main as blot upon the good name and
fair fame of the Republican party OF
the county. As is apparent, the aim
and object of these disgraceful proceed
ings failed, yet they are none the less
to be censured, denounced and remem'
bered in the future.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-04-08
Tossed Her Baby From a Window.

NEW YORK, April S.-Crazed by drink,
Mrs. Annie Hayes. living on the third
floor of Harlem tenement, threw her
baby boy out of the window to-day. The
child fell on the ledge of the show win
dow on the ground floor. 4 sign pro-
iecting above the window prevented it
from rolling off, and although it had
fallen ten feet, the baby was apparently
net hurt.
Before the baby could be taken from
its perch the mother threw herself from
the third-story window. but her skirts
caught on a shutter which had just been
opened by the occupant of a second
story room, who was reaching for the
baby, and she was suspended in the air.
After the baby had been rescued the
woman's skirts were cut loose, and she
was hauled in the adjoining window. She
said she wanted to get the baby christen-
ed. and had dropped him into the font
and jumped after him TO expedite mat
ters. She was apparently not injured by
her experience, and had to be bound, be-
cause of her struggles, while being re-
moved to the hospital.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-04-08
Important TO Pensioners.

Rulings of the last Administration are
reversed in decision rendered April lst
oy Assistant Secretary Of the interior
Reynolds in pension case having a
bearing favorable to a large number of
claims now on file.
The ruling holds that where a widow
and minor children under sixteen years
of age survive soldier the children may,
after attaining the age of sixteen, and
where the mother concurs, thereafter,
without payment to her Of any part of the
pension, apply in their own right and re-
ceive the same pension as the father
would have been entitled to had he been
totally disabled. This pension is to COM
mence from the date of his death and 10
continue until they respectively arrive at
the age of sixteen years.
This holding entities those whose rights
to apply did not accrue until after they
had passed their sixteenth year, To be pen
stoned as though their rights had accru-
ed while under the age of sixteen, as
held by the Department year ago, and
hence not subject to any litigation.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-04-08
Holmes Tells Il All.

PHILADELPHIA. April A. Holmes,
the greatest murderer of modern times,
has made a confession. In il he tells
how and why he put 10 death no less than
20 men, women and children. He gives
all the facts. He writes as calmly and
cooIly and remorselessly as he murdered.
He neglects no detail. He even gives an
account Of six murders which he planned,
but was prevented from carrying them out.
1t was well known that he put IL per-
sons out of the world; so. when his con-
fession is printed. therewiil be accounts
of the violent death of nine people whose
absence from their homes and their
friends has hitherto been unexplained.
He describes in detail the murder of
the Williams sisters, of Qninlan, the jan
itor of the castle, who ''knew too much
of Pietzel, the murder for which he is to
hang, and Of the Pietzel children.
In fact. Holmes, sitting in the shadow
of the gallows, with the last hope gone,
with the time and place of his death fixed
beyond change, has given way to his
vanity as a craftsman, and has written
his life.
He. of course, cannot tell the truth, but
he has told it as nearly as possible for
man of his stripe to tell He will add
something toihe knowledge of his life,
but he will add nothing to the knowledge
of his character.
His little book will have a shelf all to
itself in the library of criminology. He
announces himself as a professional muir
derer. Each of his murders was deliber-
ately, carefully planned, executed with
calmness and precision.
He has written about them as great
scientist would write of a series OF val
liable experiments. he was profess
ional murderer He has studied muir
der as a fine art. He pursued it to earn a
living, but also for its own sake. He
used the whole of his very considerable
brain power in planning and carrying
forward very subtle murder plots, in de-
visiug new means of killing human
beings.
He ''points with pride" to his work.
lie thinks he has fairly earned immor-
tality, and he could not die without letting
the world know what a great man it has
produced.
He deliberately chose a career of crime
when he was a farm boy up in Vermont.
lie attended medical college to equip
himself for the taking of life, just as
other men go to college TO equip them
selves for the saving of life. lie was not
4 1 . I ord
He was simply a monstrous pervert,
criminal degenerate, with moral sense
exactly inverted.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-04-08
Important Decision.

Judge Mcpherson, of Dauphin county
handed down an opinion in favor of the
Pennsylvania Packing and Provision
Company, of Philadelphia, which was
defendant in a Commonwealth suit for
tax on capital stock. Counsel for the
company contended with argument re-
Gently that it was a manufacturing con-
cern and therefore exempt from taxation.
The company was chartered in 1894 for
the purpose of manufacturing hams, ba-
con. lard and other products of the
slaughter of hogs and packing and stor-
ing the same. The Court says the COM
pany was organized for manufacturing
purposes and during 1895 It's capital was
actually and exclusively employed in
carrying on manufacturing within the
State. lie holds that the Commonwealth
is not entitled to recover.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-04-08

PERHAPS the most outrageous pOliti-
cal event that has transpired in the
county since the memorable convention
of 1852 was the proceeding at the Re
Publican County Convention, or, more
properly speaking, the meeting Of Re
publican Return Judges, held in the
court house Tuesday afternoon OF las;
week
RIIe Il, Of rales governing the hold
ing of Republican primary elections Of
= mersct county, provides:
RrLE lG.-Tbe Judges OF election Of the
several pracinSts shah assemble in con-
xeution in the court honse. in the borough
al Somerset, on the Tuesday following
the election. at one O'Clock p. NJ. Of said
day, al which convention the Chairman
of the County Committee shall preside.
assisted by two Vice Presidents. elected
from the Judges present. aud four Clerks.
and after the convention shall have been
organized. the Judges shall produce the
returns from their respective precincts.
whSch shall be opened and counted, aud
the candidates having the highest number
Of votes for any office shall be declared
the nominee of the party for sHch office.
Provided. that in case there is any al
legation Of fraud in any precinct in the
sognty the result shall not be announced.
ifthe fracd alleged would affect the same.
And Rule provides:
RULE 1.-The principal officers OF the
republican party OF Somerset county shall
~ a Chairman and Chairman pro tenn.
r,f the County Committee. who snail be
elected by the Committee, whose term of
Office shall last for one year. commencing
Immediately after the final adjournment
81 the convention and continue until his
successor is elerted. aud whose residence
aad Office shall be af the county seat.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-04-08
After ouay's Documents.

WAsHISGroS, April 4.-Senator Qnay's
Committee room ON Public Buildings and
Grounds was broken into last evening
and an unsuccessful attempt made to
break into his desk. The iron bolts fast
eniDg the doors at the top and bottom
were pried cut of the sockets. showing
that strong tools were employed.
1t Is believed 10y the Senator that an
attempt was made 10 get possession OF
his political papers, bnt even if the desk
had been opened the papers would not
have been obtained. as they had all been
removed to Mr. Quay's house week
ago.
Nothing else in the room was dis
turbed.
About year after the election in Isss
Senator Qnay's desk was rifled of all his
political papers it then contained, aud
they never have been recovered. They
were not important, as they were what
the Senator termed trash left over,
which might as well have been de-
stroyed-
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-04-08
Robbers Didn't Get $50, 600.


HITINsTILLE, Mass, April 4-The
bolde st attempt at bank robbery of any
magnitude that has occurred in Massa-
chusetts since the famous robbery of
the Northampton Bank was made short
ly after midnight this morning, when
four or five cracksmen vainly endeavor-
ed 10 get $4,000 which was stored i'm a
safe in the Whitinsville National Bank.
They used dynamite and nitroglycerine,
but they could not get into the safe.
The robbers. before forcing an en-
trance into the banking institution,
overpowered Joseph Beauregard. night
Waterman at the Whitinsville Cotton
Mills, after desperate encounter. They
bound and gagged him and then pro
ceeded TO the hank. With a jimmy or
large chisel, the robbers forced the outer
door and then with skeleton keys work
ed the lock on the inner door
1t was about ten minutes past o'clock
when they succeeded in getting into the
banking room. Two safes occupied po-
sitions at the far end of the counter in
the rear. BY the use of a Jimmy an
opening was made at the top of the door
of the first safe. Into this aperture
nitroglycerine was poured ard fired. The
explosion that followed WAS terrific
one, blowing one of the doors from its
hinges and shattering the other. The
contents Of the safe, consisting of books
and few unimportant papers, were
strewn about the fioor.
After securing 500 or over from the
steel box in the interior Of the shattered
safe. the robbers tackled the second safe,
which was Of 2,0O0 pounds weight.
II is estimated that il contained at least
$4,000. With their tools the outer plate
was removed and then dynamite was
used without effect. Another attempt
was made. and this time nitroglycerine
was used. but this did not work, and the
robbers finally gave up in disgust.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-04-08
Shot Down in Court.

CARTHAGE, Tenn, April 4.-R. :. Will
lians, Clerk of the Circuit Court, to-day
shot and probably fatally wounded Clar-
ence w. Garrett, lawyer of the Garth
age bar, and prominent Populist poll
tician. Williams was drinking hard and
went into the court room, where Garrett
was engaged in a case. He sat down and
waited until the court adjourned, when
he walked up to Garrett and began fir
ing. Garrett was shot three times, twice
after he had fallen to the floor.
The cause of the trouble is Carrots
statements relative to the relations al
legged to exist between Williams and his
sister-in-law. Williams is dangerously
i'll from nervous shock and both men
may die.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-04-08
OF Interest to Dairymen.

Secretary of Agriculture Edge is
collecting data for bulletin to be is
sued by the department on food rations
in dairies. He has addressed a circular
letter to the leading dairymen of the state
asking them for the exact weight of each
kind of food in daily use in their dairies,
whether feeding for milk or for butter
and the effects resulting from change of
feed. Mr.. Edge Will employ an expert
to calculate each ration, compare it with
a properly balanced ration and note the
surplus or deficiency ON either side of
the ration. The information derived
from the replies to these letters will be so
arranged that dairymen may be able TO
compare their different rations and note
where changes may be made 10 an advan-
tage to the feeder.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-04-08
Sick stomach means sick man

Sick stomach means sick man Tor
woman.
Why not be well ?
Sick stomach comes from poor food,
poor nourishment means poor health,
poor comfort. Shaker Digestive Cordial
nrustns health and well stomach.
If we could examine our stomach we
would understand why il is that so little
will put il ont of order.
But, unless we are doctors, we never
see our stomach. We only feel it. We
would feel it less if we took Shaker Di-
gestive Cordial.
Shaker Digestive Cordial makes your
stomach digest all the nourishing food
you eat, relieves all the symptoms of in
digestion, acts as a tonic and soon makes
you well and strong again.
The more you take, the less you will
feel of your stomach.
At druggists. Trial bottle ten cents.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-04-08

4 DISPATCH from indianapolis says:
The Indiana Republicans will soon
throw off all disguise and declare their
purpose to support Harrison at the st.
Louis convention should his name be
suggested 10y the delegation of any other
state, and il is understood that they
have been advised that such a presenta-
ton will be made in the convention.
For two weeks past some of the party
managers have been in correspondence
with Republicans in several states, and
the letters received in reply to inquiries
uniformly express the sentiment that
Harrison can be nominated if his Indi-
ana friends will show a desire for his
nomination.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-04-08

THE agents of the pure food depart
ment of the Department of Agriculture
in this State ought to go for the manu-
facturer of adulterated articles, and
thus protect the retailer, who is igno-
rant of the fact that the goods he buys
to sell again are not pure. Arresting
the retailer Is all right, but he should
be made acquainted with the fact that
he Is not selling pure goods, and warn
ed not TO sell any more. If this were
done, the chances are that no retailer
would disregard the warning, and the
selling of impure food would at once
cease. The dealer only knows what he
Is told concerning the impurity of what
he sells. 1t is quite probable that the
law will be amended in some way to
protect the innocent dealer.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-04-08
r.an.y,vanis.s Arbor Day.

Friday, April 10, and Friday, "A. have
been designated i'm a proclamation issued
by Governor Hastings as arbor days.
The selection of either of these days is
LEFT to the choice of the people in the va
rious sections of the commonwealth to
the end that that day may be selected
which is deemed most favorable on ac-
count of climatic conditions.
The proclamation states that although
Pennsylvania was once wholly covered
with dense growth of valuable timber,
to-day scarcely one-fourth Of that area
remains that the timber supply has
fallen off to such an extent that the COM
monwealth is unable to produce the tim
Der required for its Inhabitants. OF the
regions, which. when timbered, were a
source of wealth to their owners and to
the state, not less than 2, 10000 acres are
unfit for agricultural purposes.
Most of this vast area has little or no
mineral wealth and is now an unsightly
and practically abandoned territory.
Fires sweep over it year after year, de-
stroying the younger growth and burn
ing out the fertility of the soil So that this
area is passing into the condition of a
desert, becoming poorer each successive
year. Governor Hastings says it is not
only possi BILE, but also practical, to re-
store the forests upon this desert waste,
which would reproducing "A crop of great
value to the state and would restore the
fertility of the soil, would save the riv-
ers and streams by the beneficial infiu-
ence of the forest and aid in furnishing
homes and support the doubling popula-
ton in this commonwealth in genera
tions TO come.
"As it was once a necessity TO remove
the trees in order to obtain ground to
plant grain," adds Governor Hastings,
land for other purposes of civilization. it
appears that this necessity produced a
tree-destroying insect which should be
counteracted as speedily as possible.
This is the first generation of the COM
monwealth ever brought face To face with
the danger and disasters of timberless
country.
ITO change the current of national
thought from tree-destroying TO the tree
protecting policy, 10 add to the beauty of
our mountains and valleys, to ornament
the grounds of our free schools and other
educational Institutions, to add comfort
to the traveller on public highways, to
preserve the shores and banks of our
rivers and smaller streams are objects
worthy Of the intelligent attention of our
citizens"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-04-08
Any Nan Would See Ghosts Under These
Circumstances

NEW YORK, April Enlightened by
what he claims was a procession Of
ghosts, 'iustave Breneisen last June left
Williamsburg and tramped through the
west and south. He had jast married
widow, who bad lost three previous hus-
bands Yesterday he returned and was
arrested
The woman had three children, one by
each of her three dead husbands. The
day Breneisen married her he learned
that her first husband hanged himself.
her second was crushed to death and her
third died suddenly of heart disease.
Breneisen says that not long afterward
he was sitting with his new family when
he suddenly saw the ghosts of his three
predecessors pass rapidly before his eyes,
so he fled from the city. He had not
been back many hours yesterday when
Court Officer Short arrested him on
charge of abandonment.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-04-08

II event of the retirement of Senator
Quay as Chairman of the Republican
State Committee the Republican State
Convention, which meets in Harris
burg on the 23rd inst, will do well to
promote Mr.. Frank Willing Leach,
Chairman of the Executive Committee,
to that responsible position. Mr.. Leach
has demonstrated on former occasions
that he is one of the best organizers in
the country and possesses executive
ability of rare quality. His election As
Chairman of the State Committee
would be especially gratifying TO the
interior counties for the reason that he
has, since his advent in politics. kept
in close touch with the Republican
sentiment of the farming communities.
Mr. Leach would make an excellent
and creditable State Chairman.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-04-08

THE HERALD reiterates its declara-
ton made in its last issue that il favors
the nomination in the district confer
ence Of Mr.. f. ]. Kooser for Congress,
Notwithstanding the fact that his ma
jority obtained at the recent primary
was largely augmented by Democratic
votes. 1t, however, in the vindication
of truth, is impelled to expose the un-
iustifiable conduct of himself and his
friends at the meeting of the Republi-
can Return Judges.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-04-08

No sooner were the results of Satur-
days primary known than the pro-
fessed friends of +. J. Kooser set to
work TO capture the County Committee
and elect man OF their own kidney
Chairman. Runners were sent to the
four corners of the county, every pre-
cinet was invaded, and every effort was
made to influence the members of the
Committee to vote for the candidate
slated by this select band. Democrats
aud so-ealled Independent Republicans
worked hand in hand. One of the
Democratic leaders in this unhoiy alli-
ance loudly proclaimed on the public
streets shortly before the assembling of
the convention: ''We'-e got a majority
of the committee captured, - and evinc-
ed willingness TO back his claim by a
bet of fifteen dollars to five.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-04-08
Poor Indeed.

There are degrees and kinds of poverty,
just as there are differences of opinion
among those who compute and measure
poverty and riches by different stand
ards. Some men deem themselves poor
because they are less rich than others,
again there are comparatively poor
people who are satisfied with a compel.
ence. There is a kind of poverty for
which no amount of wealth can compen-
safe, namely, poverty of bodily stamina,
evinced by nervousness and derange-
ment of the functions of digestion, bilious
secretion and the bowels. To restore
vigor upon permanent basis there is
one remedy that fully covers the require
ments, fills the bill,r and this is
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. BY restor-
ing digestion, giving healthful impulse
10 the action of the bowels and liver and
tranquillizing the nerves, it fulfills the
condition necessary 10 "A resumption of
strength by the system. IL also over
comes malaria and rheumatism.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-04-08

SENATOR Andrews says there VIII be
no fight for State Chairman of the Re
publican party, and if Senator Quay
desires TO remain at the head of the o.
ganization, he can do so without any
opposition whatever. That is the opin-
ion of majority of the Republicans of
the State, who would prefer to see SEN
ator Quay remain where he is, unless
he should he nominated for President
AT It. Louis, in which event the cam
paign in this State would run itself.