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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-03-11

Having bought from a retiring mer.
chant in Phiadelphia his entire line
of Embroidery Silks. Crochets and
Wash, in spools and skeins. As this
is not in our line We will sell it LOW
TO close out. Turkey Red Marking
Cotton and Crochet Cotton in all COL
ors. Also a large stock of Ribbons
in all styles and colors. Misses and
Ladies' Hose Supporters.
Also from a New York manufac.
turer, who failed, lot of Brocadef
Skirts, which We will sell for far less
than you can have them made.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-03-11
WANTS.

yXvANTED.-A YOUNG MAN as stenog.
w raphcr and Typewriter; also to do
general Office work moderate salary but good
chance for advancement if he can give salts
faction Address, stating age, salary wanted
and last employer, TYPEWRITER, care OF
Gazette. marIo st
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-03-11


BALTIMORE. Mar. 11.-Flour firm. Wheat
dull spot $50. bid; May S11saS1A South
ern wheat by sample 9Oa91; do on grade
944.aS94. Corn qniet; spot and Mar 261e
a265s; April 26ala267s; May 27l2a279s
steamer mixed 25a254.; southern white
corn 2G1a bid; do yellow 26a26l9. Oats
firm; No white 24a25; No mixed do 22
ABB. Rye dull; No 2 nearby 39laa4O; No
2 Western 401a. Hay quiet Cotle quiet
at 9l2. Sugar quiet; granulated $4.45.
CHICAGO, Mar. 11.-Wheat-May 74ta
741s July 71asa714h Sept 6914 Corn
May 24El; July 251sa254l; Sept 262s.
Pork-May So 321D; July SIS 40 lard
May $4 10; July 81 90 Sep 81 so. Ribs
May 81 37A; July 81 Az. Wheat
opened weak, declining 1hc from yesterday 8
close, within the first few minutes. Corn
opened easy on lower cables.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-03-11

To Cure Cold in One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Table S. All
Druggists refund the money if it fails TO
cure. 20 cents. Sold by CHARLES g. ENNoN
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-03-11
Prices as Follows {:

l lot of $1.75 Skirts will be sold at CSC.
!! lot Of $3.50 Skirts will be sold at 81 79
l lot of "a Skirts will be sold at S2.9S.
They are lined with good quality
Rustling and faced with Velvcteen
Ending Now is your chance to got
one of these great bargains before
they are all sold.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-03-11

BALTIMORE. Mar II Virgins IS, new
73s73t..
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-03-11

D EDUCTIoN IN FRUIT JARs.-Masons
1N Pints 6Oc per dozen; Quarts Soc, and
Half Gallons soc, at
7 q NuRURN,S
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-03-11

DANNER HAMS, small sizes, and of su
ID perior quality, for sale by
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-03-11

DLAIN COLORS, Green, Garnet and Blacf
4 CASHMERE, one yard wide, formerly
25c, now 19c yard, at
4. C. SLAYMAKER'S.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-03-11

rE1RY A BOTTLE OF LIGHTNING HOL
Il DROPS. Price 25 cents.
WAKEFIELD 4 HALL
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-03-11

DRowN's CAMPHoRATED LAVENDER
- SALTS. Price 25c.
E. 8. LEADBEATER & SONS.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-03-11

NECKTIEe, pretty assortment for
IN spring wear, at
A. C. SLAYMAKER's.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-03-11

- BARRELS NEW DRIED APPLES for
= sale at &c per pound by
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-03-11

CII.K MCFFLERs, all prices at
~ A. C. SLAYMAKERE.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-03-11

DXTRA FINE BLACK TEA just received
IL by ]. @. MTLRURN.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-03-11

7 OoK HERE! A csn of reslly good Sugar
IL Com for &c st
MILBURN'S.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-03-11
Table Linen and Towels.

l piece Table Linen, was 4Oc, now CSC.
piece Table Linen, was soc, now 3Oc.
1 piece Table Linen, was 6Oc now 35c
We have fow moro of those great
bargain Table Cloths, of which We
made mention in our last advertise
mont.
2!a yards long Table Cloth AMI 1 dozeu
Napkins to match for 81 65.
yards long Table Clcth and l dozen
Napkins TO match for $175.
20 dozen Huck Towels, were 25c, now 15c.
20 dozen Huck Towels, were 12lac now
10c.
25 dozen Huck Towels, were Zoe, now Sc.
Also job lot in q Turkish Towel which
sold at 25c, 40 inches long, We will sell at
lac.
We have another lot of those soc Herms
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-03-11

NEW CLEANED CURRANTS and RAILS
&c. NILBURN.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-03-11

THERMOMETERS AND BAROMETERS,
Z (combincd.) Price 25c.
E.s LEADBEATER & SONS.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-03-11

r EINERS PATENT FLESH BRUSHES
~ Price soc and 81.
g I.E4nREATEp & SONS
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-08-11
Tests Kentucky's chivalry.

LOUISVILLE. KY, August 6.-The un-
ling the DESTROYER Of his home and hap
piness may not apply so leniently in the
ease of Kentucky wife who has acted
on similar impulse. The people of this
section are eagerly discussing the killing
of Miss Sallie Hooker at the hands of
Mrs. Lee Combs, of Red Bird Creek,
Clay county, for alleged intimacy with
Mrs. Combs husband. The tragedy oc-
Cured soon afler Judge Faulkner's de-
cision that a man who killed his wife's
parsmonr should be acquitted i'm the
Courts of the State.
Frank y. Parsons, Commonwealth At
torney for Louisville says: "In the case
of a woman taking the life of another
woman, ruiner of her home and happi-
ness as she may be, the situation is far
different from that of a man under simi-
lar circumstances, and a verdict might
be obtained against her.
''rhe woman who commits such a
crime will be socially condemned, es-
pecially by her own sex. Her happiness
is probably ruined forever. but the posi-
tion of herself aud her children is in no
way injured by the transgression of her
husband. Her sex and the chivalrous
feelings inspired by il demand that
she should not commit deed of blood y
General opinion in the case of Mrs.
Combs. however, would favor her acqnit-
txl
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-08-11
Cracksmen Run a Hotel.

ALTOONA, Pa, August 5.-About :
o'clock this morning Anton Seuz, propri-
etor of the East End Hotel, heard a blast
of dynamite fired by burglars who were
working on his safe. SEM ran to the
stairway. but was driven back by re-
volver shot.
The shot aroused every one in the
hotel, bat the daring robber stood on
guard at the bottom of the staircase and
held proprietor and guests at bay until
his companions had fired two more
charges at the safe and burst it open.
The burglars then seized the valuables
and fled.
Meanwhile Mr.. SEM bad alarmed the
neighborhood. j. w. Bloom, citizen
living near by, seized his revolver and
ran to the rescue. When the burglars
ran from the hotel he fired three times
after them. The last shot struck one of
the fugitives, who staggered and would
have fallen had not one of his compan-
ions caught him and assisted him to run.
The third burglar, seeing this, turned
and engaged in duel with Bloom, both
behind telephone poles in the darkness,
after which the former made his escape.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-08-11
Twelve Day Excursion TO Old Point Com
fort, Norfolk, and Virginia Beach
via Pennsylvania Railroad.

The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has arranged for two twelve-day excur-
sions to the above named points, To leave
Pittsburg August II and p. Round-trip
tickets via Philadelphia and the Cape
Charles route, good going only on trains
leaving Pittsburg at s:5s a. M, 4:30 and
STOP. IN; via Baltimore and the Bay
Line or the Chesapeake and Richmond
Steamboat Line, or via Washington and
the Norfolk and Washington Steamboat
Line, good going only on trains leaving
Pittsburg at 500 a. IN. and 500 p. m,
will be sold at rate of sl2.0o from Pitts
burg, East Liberty, Uniontown, Con-
nellsville, and Scottdale.
These tickets will be good to return at
any time within twelve days, and will be
valid for return passage on any regular
train except the Pennsylvania Limited.
For detailed information address or
apply to Thomas +. Watt, Passenger
Agent, Western District, 800 Fifth Ave
nue., Pittsburg, Pa
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-08-11
Won derful Results in Eye Surgery.

The unexcelled success of DIR. Sadler
in eye surgery continues. Mr.. Samuel
NJ. Long, so widely known about Coz
nellsville, Pa, who had been blind from
cataract for some time, has been restored
to sight by the Doctor without an hours
pain. Mrs. VIM. Steiner. of Reedurban,
o., also blind, was restored without
pain and went to her work in two weeks.
Mr.. Enoch Thomas, of Atlanta, Ind.
also blind from cataract, restored with
as little discomfort, and is at work in the
rolling mill again. Mr.. A. NJ. Cunning
ham, of Ottowa, Kansas, blind in the
same way, lost one of his eyes in an un-
skillful operation in the west. In four
weeks from the time he gave the other
eye in DIR. Sadler's charge, he was back
travelling the prairies of Kansas at his
business. Mr.. Geo. Stitt, Leechburg,
Pa, now at Atlanta, Ind. had one of his
eyes gouged out of his head by bar OF
iron. leaving it permanently turned far
outward. DIR. Sadler. 1904 Penn Avenue,
Pitts burg.) replaced it in normal posi-
ton.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-08-11
Several Marvellous Escapes From Eccentric
Bolts Of Death.

WILLIAMsPoRT. Pa, August 5.-Last
nights storm in this and adjoining coun-
ties did inestimable damage, and the
lightning played some of the most re-
msrkable capers on record, even for an
element so uniformly eccentric. Miss
Sarah Adams, of near Canton, was at
work in the kitchen during the storm.
Lightning struck the house, and both
shoes were torn from Miss Adams feet.
and the rug on which she was standing
was torn in twain. Aside from a scorch
on one heel the girl escaped unhsrme1.
Near osceola, in Tioga county, light
ming struck the barn of Mrs. /. G. Hoyt.
A board about seven feet long was
plunged through the side of George Lud-
lows house, 100 feet away, and shower
of splinters covered his garden.
Barns almost innumerable were struck
and destroyed in this vicinity, two wide
ly separated droves of hogs were killed
and other ruin wrought.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-08-11
The Fall in Silver.

WASHINGTON, August 6.-"The bullion
value of the American silver dollar to-
day at the current market price of silver
is just AZ clio cents" said the director of
the mint this afternoon. "This makes
the commercial ratio between silver and
gold S6 to / instead Of 10 to l that would
be necessar V to make our silver dollars
equal i'm value to a gold dollar. From
February, ISIS, 10 November 1893, this
government has purchased under the
several purchasing acts over $4,000, 00O
fine ounces of silver. 1t cost us over
Sf64. 100000. At to-day's market price
this silver would be worth $50, 900,
and if sold at the present prices the gov
ernment would stand 10 lose something
like s304, 600, ,O0O. II would have beer a
good commercial plan for this country to
have melted down its silver dollars some
time ago and sold the bullion. 1t would
have been ahead of the deal"
81 look for silver to go still lower"
continued Mr.. Preston. Yesterday IS
market price was So cents an ounce. 1t
is my opinion that within six months the
price will be 40 cents an ounce. There
is no demand in the markets of the world
for silver. China is not buying any. ia
pan is out Of the business, since she has
gone to the gold standard and there is no
demand for silver for subsidiary coinage.
Il is true that in the bazars of India it is
traded in as merchandise, but the famine
and .he hard times over there have cut
that demand down to a minimum. Out
side OF the United States ali nations want
TO go to the gold standard. Mexico would
do it to-day, if size could, and the time
viii come when Mexico will be on the
gold standard. The United States would
have been great deal better off to-day if
she had never gone into the purchase of
silver. l maintain that if this country
were upon an absolute single standard ba-
sis. gold basis, money would be cheap
er and more plentiful. OF course, while
we practically maintain the single stand
ard. as matter of fact, we are maintain
ing parity between gold and silver, and
TO that extent are on the doubtful stand
ard. 1t is the fear of silver legislation
that is the disturbing element in the situ-
alton to-day"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-08-11
Not Half Married.

CLEARFIELD, Pa, Aug. AT Gram
plan, in this county, there are a number
OF persons uncertain whether they are
married or single. James p. FarweIl,
justice of the peace for that borough dur
ing 10 years, was defeated for reelection
last year, but the governor appointed
him a notary public. He contended that
the powers of a notary were the same as
those OF a justice. and at once made a
bid for some of the marrying. He got a
job and tied the knot. and when his re-
turn was made TO the registers Office he
WAS told that he had no power or right to
perform the marriage ceremony, but he
continued 10 do business at the old stand.
Register and Recorder Koozle wrote
the attorney general for an opinion, in
order to convince the old man of his err
Tor. The reply made plain the fact that
a notary could not legally perform the
marriage ceremony. Fsrwell was noti-
fed. and. it is supposed. he will now cut
the marriage ceremony out of his official
program. The attorney generals letter
was also published, and the persons who
had Farwell marry the m are now hust-
ling around for somebody qualified to tie
the knot legally.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-08-11

DESPITE the continued fall in the
price OF silver, western farmers are
scrambliDg for ears with which to
transport their grain for which they
are getting large prices. The thous-
snds Of cars which have been lying
idle in car shops and upon the side
tracks since 1898 are everyone OF them
now being pressed into service, and
thousands OF Others are demanded and
cannot be had, while the prices for the
grain which they are to transport have
greatly advanced, while silver has
steadily fallen. or course there is no
real significance in these two concur
rent events, but Bryan would have
had us believe last fall that wheat and
silver rose and fell together.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-08-11

ONLY five months have passed since
the Inauguration of President MeHin-
ley, yet he has called congress togeth-
er, the promised tariff bill has been
placed upon the statute books, an in
ternational bimetallic commission has
secured assurances Of an international
conference TO be held in the United
States, and the secretary of the treas
ury is now engaged in shaping up a
system which shall give the promised
revision Of the currency, assuring such
laws as will keep every dollar of the
currency as good as gold. This is in
extreme contrast with the conditions
under the Democratic administration
four years ago, and the prospects be-
fore the country now are in equally
striking contrast with those which con
fronted the suffering people in the first
year OF President Cleveland's admins
tration.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-08-11

MEXICO's financial calamity, which
is due solely to the fact that her none.
tary standard is silver, arouses the
sympathy of the United States. That
eountry's situation, however, has les.
son for us which even the most obtuse
Of 6,50O,0OO of PopOcrats ought to
grasp. Bryan's election would have
brought a convulson to the United
States which would have exceeded
Mexico's in intensity in the degree
that the volume of our domestic and
foreign trade and investments surpa.s
e. hers. The best days work the
American people ever did was done on
November 5, 1895, when they smashed
Organism.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-08-11
The Spanish Premier Murdered by an
Anarchist.

Madrid, Aug. s-Senor Canovas del
Castillo. prime minister of Spain, was as
sassinated to-day at Santa AGae''a by an
anarchist. The murderer fired three
shots, two of which struck the premier in
the forehead and another in the chest.
The wounded man tell dying at the feet
of his wife, who was with him, lingering
in agony for an hour, aud then passing
away with the cry of Long live Spain
which were the last words upon his lips.
He died at ) o'clock.
Santa Agueda is noted for its baths.
| The place is between San Sebastian, the
| summer residence of the Spanish court.
at yittoria, the capital of the province OF
Alava, about 30 miles south of Bilbao.
Queen Regent Christina and the young
King Alfonso are now at San Sebastian.
The premier had been with them there,
| and left last Thursday to take a course OF
three weeks at tho Santa Agueda baths,
| after which he expected to return TO San
Sebastian 10 meet United States Minister
Woodford when that gentleman should
be officially received by the Queen
| Regent.
The assassin was Immediately arrested.
lie is Neapolitan and gives the name OF
Rinaldi. but it is believed that this is an
assumed name and that his real name is
Michele Angino Golli.
The murderer declares that he killed
Senior Canovas ''in accomplishment of a
| just vengeance" and that the deed is the
| outcome of a vast anarchist conspiracy.
lie is believed TO have arrived at Santa
Agueda the same day as the premier, and
he was frequently seen lurking in the
passages of the bathing establishment in
a suspicious manner.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-08-11
Nearly a Million Pensioners.


WASHINGTON, ID. c., August The
pension roll of the United States has al
most reached the million mark. Com
missioner Evans has just issued a state
ment showing that at the beginning of
the fiscal year the pensioners numbered
Just aS3, ,52s, an increase of ESQ for the
past year. During that year 5O,l0l new
pensions were granted and SgI persons
were restored to the rolls. Old age aud
disease, however. are working great in
roads into the lists, for there were 81, $50
deaths during the year. Other sources of
loss were 1874 from remarriage of widows;
1915 orphans attained majority; 26si fail
ures to claim pensions and 1850 losses
from unrecorded causes.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-08-11
sin, Sickness and weather.

WASHINGTON, ID. c., August lis
health or morality dependent upon the
weather? officials of the Weather Bu-
reau here are now conducting careful
investigation into this interesting ques-
ton, and it is possible that in the near
future they may be able 10 issue warning
notices of the approach of disease or crime
waves.
"Iook out for typhoid, and boil your
drinking water,- may he the warning
indicated by a yellow flag, while a red
signal will probably mean: 'Beware of
quarrels; murder is in the air."
Most people have long been aware that
the weather has something to do with
their health, and many have commented
upon the well-established fact that muir
der and suicide, robbery, arson and other
crimes are more frequent at certain sea-
weather that is most likely to be followed
by the appearance of particular disease
or special variety of crime is detail
that has never yet been worked out. II is
this sort of an inquiry that Secretary of
Agriculture James Wilson has started,
and he hopes that it may result in obtain
ing information that will he of vast bene-
fit To mankind.
The idea of making this investigation
was originated by Willis l.. Moore, Chief
of the Weather Bureau, who was con-
WINGED by the results of a preliminary
series of observations that there was a
close connection between atmospheric
conditions and the physical and moral
welfare of the people. So he has assigned
DIR. Phillips, competent physician as
well as an expert meteorologist, to the
work of discovering, if possible, what
that connection is
He has provided himself with data
covering the whole of last year, and
from these facts he hopes to be able to
establish chain OF evidence that will
show, in part at least, how far the wealth
er is responsible for human ailments and
conduct.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-08-11

three of the important pledges of the
platform. Contrast this state of al
fairs with the conditions four years
ago. when banks were failing and busi-
ness houses crashing in every direction,
with Democratic president sitting
supinely in the White House and doing
nothing to improve conditions, but
planning destructive tariff and boud
issues, which only added to the debt
of thp countrv
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-08-11
Justice Fields Unique Record.

WASHINGTON, ID. c., August 7-Justice
Stephen j. Field is living for purpose
TO break the record of longevity as a
member of the United States Supreme
Court. If he lives until one week from
next Monday he will have achieved his
ambition and will resign.
Mr.. Field has a long time been DESTROYS
of sitting as member of the Supreme
Court Bench longer than the term served
by John Marshall, who WAS on the bench
"a years. On August 16 Justice Field
will have served "a years and one day.
Recently he has been quite feeble.
When the Supreme Court adjourned he
was not able to go To his circuit The
possibility OF his retirement has been an
active subject for some time. His health
was so poor during the last term of Presi-
dent Cleveland that he would have then
retired had he not been so bitterly op-
posed To the President.
Once in the consultation room he took
vow in the presence of his associates
never to permit Cleveland TO name his
successor.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-08-11

The Republican party goes straight
along redeeming its pledges. 1t prom
ised at 1t. Louis protective tariff and
has produced it. Itpromised an hon
est effort for bimeiallic conference,
and has not only made the effort, but
the effort is likely to he crowned with
SUCCESS. 1t promised currency with
every dollar as good a. gold, and It's
secretary OF the treasury is now shap-
ing up plan which will give uniform
ana safe currency, and thus redeem
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-08-11
Hastings rot a Candidate.

Governor Hastings, from his home IN
Bellefonte, authorized most emphatic
and explicit denial of the report that he
intends To announce himself soon as
candidate TO succeed MIR. Quay in the
National Senate
The Governor has been joined AT Belle
foute by Attorney General McCormick.
4 dispatch from that town states that up
on being shown the newspaper
reports of the information carried to SEN
ator Quay at Atlantic City TO the effect
that General Hastings was about to dis
close his Senatorial aspirations, the Gov
ernor said:
81 have no notion of being a candidate
for United States Senator. ! have no
plans beyond my present Office"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-08-11
Rally Round the Flag.

The thirty-first annual encampment oi
the q. A. X. will be held August sd, in
the City of Buffalo.
President Mckinley, Members of the
Cabinet and Diplomatic Corps, the Gov
ernors of various states and their stalls
will be present, and an enthusiastic re-
ception will be given the Veterans.
Tickets at one fare for the round trip
will be sold by the Baltimore IL Ohio Il.
X. from all stations on its lines east of the
Ohio River for all trains August 2lst, 22d
and 23d, valid for return until August
3lst.
For further information, call on or ad-
dress nearest Il. & O. agent.