The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-10-27

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week.
Major David Bsyacd. Of PittsSurg. l.
spending his annual vacation among hI.
Somer~ef friends.
Harry. the fifteen-year-old son Of John
A. Grcff, Of Berlin, fell under a wagon
one day last week and sustained three
broken rihs.
During the past two weeks Messrs
Enoch Plough and Moses Weaver have
shipped between five and six hundred
sheep TO the New York market.
Rev. Hiram King will conduct religious
services in the Lavansville Reformed
Church at 10 a. m, and in the Somerset
church at p. M, next Sunday.
An Italian, who says his name is Tony
White. was lodged in Jail Monday charg-
ed with surety of the peace. Tony halls
| from the new coal fields of Scalp Level.
4 correspondent writing from Hays
| Mills, Brothersyalley township, says that
Mr.. Joseph Pritts, of that place, recently
lost his pocket book containing sIs5 in
bank notes.
. Letters addressed To the following
named persons remain uncalled for at the
postoffice: Butler, Mrs. Mary f.; Har-
ris Clyde; Inhoff, A. B.; Msrgor, w. NJ.
| (2); Shank. Bessie.
Eliza, wife of editor Samuel Tracy, of
the Canton, y. Y. Repository, died at her
home in that city on Friday last, aged
about fiffy-six years. Deceased's maiden
name was Conrad, and she formerly re-
sided at Berlin and in this place.
Communion services will be held in
the Lutheran Church, at Friedens, at
1880 o'clock next Sunday morning, Oct.
Slst, and on the Sunday following, Nov.
9TH, at the same hour at Willis Church.
Rev. J. J. Welch will officiate on both
occasions.
The one-year old child of Mr.. and Mrs.
John q. Sanner died on Sunday at the
home of its parents in Allegheny, Pa.
The remains were brought here Monday
morning for interment, the funeral tax
ing place from the home of Mrs. Sanner's
sister-Mrs. ii. S. Kimmel.
Weaver & Plough, on Monday purchas-
ed match team of sorrel heavy draft
horses from Messrs. Harrison Gohn and
Nelson Baker. The horses are perfect
matches weighing together 900 pounds,
with only > pounds difference in weight
between them.
Register and Recorder Cover prides
himself on the artistic ability displayed
in transcribing the plan of the new town
of Windber on the county records. Mr..
Cover is a proficient manipulation of the
pen, as all who have examined the work
referred to will bear witness.
Mr.. J. Willis Pisel and Miss Nellie V.
Rhoads, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles f. Rhoads, will be united in
marriage at two o'clock this afternoon at
the home of tine brides parents. The
high contracting parties are among Som
erset's most popular young people.
Robert T. Lincoln and Norman b.
Ream are the executors of George NJ.
Pullman. the palace car magnate, who
died a week ago in Chicago. Mr.. Ream
Is a native of Lower Turkeyioot town.
Ship and is a mnlti-millionaire. The
Pullman estate is estimated at s25, ,OO0, 900.
The appeal of s. ID. Livengood in re
assigned estate of the North Savage Fire
Brick Company from the Common Pleas
Curt of this county, has been denied by
tae Supreme Court at appellants cost.
The appeal of Josiah Boyts in the same
estate was also denied at the cost ofsp-
pellaut.
The Berwind-White Coal Company, on
Friday awarded TO keenan, & Co., the
contract for the proposed water works for
the new town of Windber. The contract
includes the construction of reservoir
and the laying of several miles Of pipes.
The bid was $1,000. the work to be COM
pleted by January | 1895.
Henry Long and Edward Jones, two of
Somerset's "crack Shots bagged three
plump young wild turkeys and one doz-
en- grey squirrels last Wednesday. in the
mountain east of Sand Patch. On tie
J. A. Dunlap, of Shanksville, shot a
white wild turkey, near his home.
Mr. W. III. Gross. former prominent
citizen of Middlecreek township, now Of
Findley, g., is visiting among his Somer-
set county friends. Mr.. Gross is an ar
dent admirer of Mark Hanna, and be-
lieves that he will win out" at the cleo
tion next Tuesday, when a legislature TO
elect Hanna's successor in the United
States Senate viii be chosen.
James L. Pugh, Esq, trustee for the
sale OF the real estate of John Hicks
and /. NJ. Hicks. both deceased, Monday
sold the homestead of the former TO DIR.
Snyder Louther, of Stoyestown, who will
locate here in the near future and con-
tinue the practice Of medicine. The
property sold includes a brick double
house end frame office building, on Main
street.
While five workmen were riding
through Sand Patch tunnel one day last
week on hand car they coliided with a
freight train and all were more or less
injured. Michael O'Donnell was the only
one who was seriously hurt, however,
and he was sent to the Cottage Hospital,
at Connellsville, with both legs broken.
He is 10 years old aud unmarried.
In note asking to have the address of
his paper changed from Enders, Dauphiu
county. TO Jersey Shore, Lycoming cOun-
", Rev. II. II. Flick, who was recently
unanimously chosen to fill the Lutheran
charge at that place, extends an invita-
ton to the editors of the HERALD to join
him on hunting and fishing trip. He
says bass and squirrels are plenty in that
neighborhood.
Miss Mary, eldest daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. II. c. Beerits, was stricken with
facial paralysis, one day last week, the
entire left side of her face being affected.
Miss Beerits is only seventeen years Of
age and there is every reason TO believe
that the afIiiction is only temporary.
Her general health is excellent and local
physicians are Inable to account for her
having been stricken.
a dispatch from Cumberland, Md,
says that Milton Andrews. of L rsina, was
almost killed in that place on Thursday
by a gang of tramps. He bought the
tramps keg of beer and while they were
drinking il they knocked him down,
robbed him, and after beating him into a
iifeless condition, were about TO throw
him into the canal, when they were sur
prised by officers ami five ofthem were
arrested. Andrews is lying in serious