The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-03-31
News Items.
Mrs. Sarah !. Brown, who died recent
ly at Blooinsburg. Pa. gave all her iort'
une of $50. 900 To Methodist charities.

Mrs. Sarah !. Brown, who died recent
ly at Blooinsbnrg. Pa. gave all her Tort
une of 10000 10 Methodist charities.
State Factory Inspector James Camp
bell says that there are 10000 more peo-
pie employed in Pennsylvania now than
there were six months age.
The Tennessee legislature has passed
bill making whitecapping felony. pun
ishable by imprisonment in the peniten-
tiary for not less than three nor more than
twenty one years.
Many supervisors do do not seem to be
aware If the fact that there is law al
lowing farmers certain deduction in
their road tax when they use wagons Of
inch tire for hauling loads over one ton.
Distinct earthquake shocks were felt in
several parts of Canada, on Tuesday
evening. At Montreal, Quebec, they
lasted about fifteen seconds, and at Nor
risburg, Ontario. from thirty to fifty Sec
| onds.
Judge Martin Bell has filed his decisions
in the Blair County liquor license. Sixty
six licenses were granted, ten applica-
tious refused, and five were held over.
The successful ones were admonished to
discourage the bucket trade and to close
their bars at IL o'clock each night and
keep them closed until d O'Clock in the
morning.
Contractor NJ. C. Hite, who has done
considerable excavating about South
Fork during the past two months, depart
ed ON Monday morning, with large
force of men, for Scalp Level, where he
has the contract for the Berwind-White
| Coal Company. The Company expects
to open seven mines in that locality, and
Mr.. Hite has all the work in CHARGE
South Fork Record.
An important case has just been decid-
ed by Judge McComas of Washi ngton d.
c. IT involved the question of whether
| the heirs of suicide could collect his in
surance from the Knights Templars and
| Masons Indemnity company. IL was de-
| cided that they could not. Unusual in
terest was centered in the case and the
ruling may have an important bearing
| on all such cases in future.
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Foreman has decided that saloonkeepers
who keep bottles of cocktails ON their
shelves for sale to travellers and others
| will he obliged To pay a rectifer's license
of 500 year. The ruling will not ap-
ply to cocktails manufactured in the pres
ence of the purchaser and put up in bot
| ties to be drunk elsewhere.
The venerable but vigorous Hon.
George V. Lawrence, of Washington
county, who is nearly eighty years old,
but cree; and alert as if he was but fifly.
is in the National Capital looking afler
his fences for the Marshalship of the
| Western District. The ex-Legislator has
the Endorsement af the Governor and
other State officials. members of the Leg
islature, and members of Congress rep
resenting the Western District.
In the state senate an act was passed
finally changing the existing laws relat-
ing to holidays in the following particu-
lars: The third Tuesday of February is
made legal holiday. This is February
election day. Labor day is the first Mon
|
urday now observed. This is to conform
to laws of other states. When the 30th of
May falls on Sunday, the day succeeding,
Monday, is made Memorial day, instead
of Saturday, as under the existing law.
February II, Lincoln's birthday, is made
a legal holiday.
George and Calvin Holmes, brother $
fought a duel 30 the death near Moore's
Hill, Ind, last week. The boys were
twins, twenty y-two years old, and MEM
bers of prominent and wealthy family.
Miss Higgs, over whom they fought, is
the daughter of one of the wealthiest
families in the county. The brothers
met in the road. They quarroled and
struck each other, when Calvin drew a
revolver and fired. Several shots were
exchanged, when George dropped dead.
Calvin is wounded over the heart.
The Kentucky Court of Appeals has af-
firmed the decision of the lower Court,
giving the once famous actress-Pauline
Mark ham-S6 900 damages for a broken
leg, sustained at Louisville four yaars ago
She fell into a cellar while going from the
depot to her hotel, and the injury to her
leg was so serious that she has since been
unable to display her shapely limbs in
{ ghts on the stage. The suit was against
the city and the contractors who were do
ing the excavating for the cellar.
The finest line of Wall Paper ever seen
in the county at prices that defy compe