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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-06-02
MORE FIGHTING IN CRETE.

AN INsURGENT ATTACK on HIERAPETRA-
TWENTY CHRISTIANS REPORTED KILLED
Canea, Crete. June Last night the insur-
gents furlously attacked Hierapetra' Inc
French and Italian warships bombardec the
positions of the assaila ats causing considerapse
loss to the insurgents.
Vienna June 1.-The "Neue Freie Presse
publishes a dispatch from Canea, Crete. to-day.
SAYING thai fighting occurred yesterday. near
Canea between Bashi BazoukS ana the chris
tian insurgents and that twenty Christians
were killed
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-06-02
NAY POSTPONE THE SUGAR SCHEDOLh.
REPUBLICANS DESIRE TO REACH AN AGREE
MENr BEFORE TAKING 1T UP.

Washington June 1.-There Is some talk among
Reprblican members OF the Finance Committee Oh
nostponing consideration Of the sugar schedule or
the Tariff bill until all the other schedules are as
nosel o.. There are still differences OF opinion as
20 tho ratios 10 he fixed on sugar Members OF the
committee say that II these differences can be ad-
iusted before the schedule is reached it probably
will be taken up in its order, but as there are only
two schedules to be considered before sugar Is
reached they admi. the possible necessity for some
pos ponement. -, ,,.,,,...,
II is the established policy Of the Republican
managers MT to go into the Senate on any article
nort OF the rate recommended. and THIS rule VII!
apply the order in which the sugar scheduie VIII
70 taken
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-06-02
LAWYER ARRESTED AT A MUSIC HALL.

D,obord q Andrews lawyer. thrty-one years
-, ,,ho gave his address as No. As West Thirty
G,,h.st was arrested and locked up last night In
w. West Thirtieth-st. police station. charged
with disordcrly conduct. with several OF MS
frotrds he occupied n box at Weber & fieldss
,,t ,,au Tb,v drank heavily and toward the
nd NJ tbe pcrformancc became bolsterous. II Is
olIcccd Tho party In the next box complained TO
~ ~ ',,nap,pcrs and Andrews was elected from the
theotre liz an usher. When taken outside he was
,,mrr"od over 10 an officer who took him TO the
.n,1nn An hour later "A couple OF his friends:
So HccIined 10 give their names. appeared and
secured his release on bail
THE REST possible cure for Headache IL iar-
.a,,is goItzer Anerlent Sold everywhere.-tAuVt
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-06-02
CONGRESSMAN COLSEN'S BROTHER SHOT

Aiddlesboro KY June John G. Colson. Re-
publican nominee for County Judge of Bell County
and brother OF Congressman d. g. Colsen, OF
the XIth Kentucky District was sht sho, ana nca sca
Tonight DUgan fled, but YVES captured after
kkisrnish. Excitement runs hlgh
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-06-02
SENATOR oUAYs son SUED FOR LIBEL.

pttsburg, June L-Statements placing damages
q, 500 900 each have been fled by State Senators
,vtltom Finn and &. L. Magce In their libel suits
against Richard Quay on OF Senator NJ s. Quay:
This afternoon counsel for Mr. Quay hled pleas OF
NOT guilty In each OF the cases
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-06-02
CHICAGO LIABLE FOR DAHAGES-

TT MUST PAY FOR PROPERTY BURNED DURING
THE DEBS RIOTS.
cbicaeo J,ne Judge Grosscup Of the Federal
Court. to-day upheld the liability Of the city oi
Chicago for damages railroad property by reason
Of the strike of 1894 The question was before MN
on a demurrer OF the city to the suit OF the fehh-
sylvania Company for $4,000 damages at the
Rrihton Park wards fire on the night of July 6, 1884,
and a suit OF the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley COM
panv for the destruction of $4,000 of property at
One-hundred "a nd hrd-st. on the same night Inc
demurrer was dismissed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-06-02
CAB SMASHED BY 4 CABLE-CAR
THE DRIVER KNOCKED FROM HIS SEAT AND his
SHOULDER BROKEN.

A cable-car struck n cab at Forty-fourth-st. ana
Broadway shortly after midnight last night demol-
ished the vehicle injured the horse that drew IL and
knocked the driver. Patrick OBrien, OF NO +s2
Third-ave.. off his seat. lie was rolled under the
car platform and dragged several feet
Many people were leaving Olympia az the time.
and they crowded about the demolished cab and
watched O'Brien's body being pulled from the wreck
His right shoulder broken and his body was
bruised i'm many places An ambulance took him &c
Roosevelt Hospital No arrest was made
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-06-02
SPECIAL JUBILEE AnBASSADohS.

ONE NAMED BY THE oUEE% OF SPAIN AND An
OTHER BY THE POPE.
London June 1.-The Queen Regent Of Spaic WIZ
sord tho DuEe Of Solomayor. and the Pop Mon
signor Sambucetti as their Ambassadors EXtrdordi-
nary at the Diamond Jubilee
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-06-02
CABLE-CAR HITS 4 HORSECAR.

THE DRIVER AND CONDUCTOR INJURED. AND
THE THIRD-AvE ROAD BLOCKED
FOR AN HOUR
While a cable-car OF the Third-ave road was
bound south early last evening strand In the
cable broke and twisted itself around the grip so
that the got beyond the control OF Henry
Burke. the gripman. The strand In the cable
caught the grip short distance north OF Grand-st.
and the reached Grand-st. II struck the rear
end OF Grand-st car going west throwing me
driver and the conductor from their platforms
Two windows in the horsecar were broken. There
were only few passengers In the car az t.e time
Of the accident, and none OF them were hurt The
driver and conductor, who thrown from the
car were slightly injured. II required an hour to
sentanglc the broken strand OF the cable from the
grip and for that time the downtown track of the
cable road was Stocked.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-06-02

ROcKWOOD'S Photographs OF Children beat the
worldl Sc ptr Dozen l,iio Broadway, near 4oth'-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-06-02
IMPERIAL GERMAN BREW.

Real old fashioned lager beer. brewcd and bottled
by Beadleston u Woerz. 29l West l0th-st. N. \.
-(Advt.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-06-02

The effort secure legislation to permit iorinai
and legal consolidation of the companies IN the
former Chicago Gas Trust has been long one put
al last il has succeeded 1t Is stated that the Govern
or of Illinois has expressed his intention OF signing
the Consolidation bill and also the so-cal'ed 'FRONT.'
age bill both of which have now passed botn houses
of the LEGISLATURE The Consolidation bill explains
itself The Frontage bill applies TO the opening Of
streets in Chicago and makes it necessary 10 OBTAIN
the consent of The of one-half OF tnc prop
erty each block before street can De torn up
TO Jay mains. This measure will prevent the dupcd-
tiOn by new onDOsilion companies OF the mains OF
the present companies. The stocks OF the cOmpa-
nies in the old trust. which declared Invalid;
are he'd by a trust company, and its receipts issued
in place of them dealt in on the New ork
Stock Exchange. a large part OF the receipts
probably majority are owned in NCW-l ork 1he
new consolidated company will issue IT'S stock in
exchange for the outstanding receipts, and the stocks
of the old companies will be cancelled. Dividends at
the rate OF per cent year are at present paid
on the receipts On the Stock Exchange the re-
ceipis which c.osed on Saturday at SSas, opened
Yesterday at S3a, and closed at sii5. which was
the hishcs; price Of the day, and also the highest
nrice OF the year The dealings in the receipts were
larger than in anything else on the list except the
stock Of the Chicago Burlington and quincy Rail
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-06-02

DON'T USE A PEN? Use No. HaEamond
Typewriter. lG5 and l67 Broadway.-Advt
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-06-02
THE CHICAGO GAS TRUSTS BILLS.
ONLY THE GOVERNORS SIGNATURE NOW NEEDED
TO MAKE THEM LAWS.

Springfield H.. June 1.-The Senate DiIl author-
izing the consolidation of the companies lorihlhs
rho Chicago Gas Trust passed the House to-day,
50 to 81. Much pressure to obtain veto VIII uh-
doub,edly be brought TO bear on Governor TANNER:
The Gas Frontage bill another fayorite measur m as S
This bill had already passed the senate aild only
needs the Governors signature 10 become id"'
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-08-11
Queen yictoria,. Coronation Oath.

Queen Victoria's Coronation Roll
is described in The Century by Florence
Hayward, who copies from the official
records the following oath signed and
subscribed by the queen on her corona
ton:
Archbishop-Madam, is your majesty
willing 10 take the oath,
The Queen-I am willing.
Archbisbop-Willy you solemnly prom
Use and swear to govern the people OF
this United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland and the dominions thereto
belonging according to the statutes in
parliament agreed on and the respective
laws and customs of the same?
The Queen-I solemnly promise so to
do.
Archbishop-Willyou to your power
cause law and justice in mercy to be
executed in all your judgments?
The Queen-I will
Archbishop-Will you to the utmost
of your power maintain the laws of God.
the true profession of the gospel and
the Protestant reformed religion estab-
lished by law? And will you maintain
and preserve inyiolably the settlement
of the united church of England and
Ireland, and the doctrine, worship. dis
cipline and government thereof, as by
law established within England and
Ireland and the territories thereunto
belonging? And will you preserve unto
the bishops and clergy Of England and
Ireland and to the churches there COM
mitted TO their charge all such rights
and privileges as by law do or shall ap-
pertain TO them or any Of them:
The Queen-Al this | promise to do.
The things which have here before
promised l will perform and keep.
So help me God. VICTORIA R.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-08-11
ELEPHANT NOT CLEVER.
The Popular Belief Contssdicted by an
English Writer.

The Popular Belief Contsadicted by an
English Writer.
The elephant Possesses very charm
ing characteristics and makes a very
pleasant companion. For one thing he
is not easily mislaid, and he is very
obedient to the slightest hint given by
his mahout
In speed he is scarcely a record break
CT, but he can get over the ground in
his shuffiing way at the rate Of Is
miles an hour, when he likes
There is one thing that he is not-he
Is not a really clever animal. I'm spite
Of all the tales in the story books to the
contrary; otherwise he would not suffer
himself to be so easily captured in the
kheddahs, the huge forest Enclosures in
to which the hunters drive the herds of
elephants for the purpose of capture.
All the actions which are apparently
spontaneous on the part of the working
elephant are really performed at the
bidding of the mahout. The driver On
his neck directs every movement by
pressure of the knee, and as the mans
knees are concealed under the elephants
ears it is very easy TO imagine that the
elephant thinks for himself
When the mahoat elects, for a change,
to sit on the saddle. or pad, be drives
with his feet, and the dullest eye can
detect how rub of the heel on the
right shoulder turns the elephant to the
left, and vice versa
After his tractability his gentleness is
the elephants most marked characteris-
tic. The mahout takes cruel advantage
Of his disposition sometimes, thrashing
him on the toe nail with a billet Of
wood, or-if free from risk of discovery
by his European master-pricking his
trCnk with a spear till blood flows
An elephant has rarely been known
to rctaliate save when il must When
that curious madness comes on him, no
one dares approach him in his pickets
IL be be taken in must, and the fact es-
cape notice, the consequences are likely
to be awkward at least
Ia suburb of Rangun an elephant
belonging 10 a firm of rice merchants
was one afternoon taken down to the
river for his usual bath after work. He
had, the mahout said, been dull" all
day and seemed out Of sorts He was in
must He signifed the fact by seizing
his mahout and tossing the astonished
man into the water; then he ran into
the ''go down" close by and, with one
squeal. dismissed some 600 coolies at
work there.
The go down was a huge palisade
shed, covering over an acre and was full
OF loose paddy (unhusked rice) and
stacks of bags and grain. For two nights
and two days that elephant enjoyed
himself among those stacks. Spearmen,
posted round the palisade wall, kept
him in, and one might have supposed 40
elephants bent on mischief had been
there instead Of one mad one. At last
he was made prisoner with the aid of
two big tuskeTs and chained up until
such time as he should recover himself.
London Sketch.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-08-11
She Had Money in Sheets.

The Boston Record prints a par a
graph about a surprise which a Boston,
shopkeeper lately experienced at the
hands of a lady customer.
Her husband is a bank president in
Newburyport. The national banks re-
ceive their bills in sheets of twelve,
which are cut after being signed. Tie
generous president gave one Of these
sheets to his wife, and she naturally
started at once for Boston.
After making some purchases i'm one
of the large stores she drew the bills
out of her pocketbook and calmly said
to the clerk: "Lend me your scissors
and will pay YOU" thereupon cut
ting off bill.
The astonished clerk at first refused
20 receive such money from so open a
manufacturer of currency, but finally
the matter was explained.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-08-11
Postal Savings Banks.

a bill 10 establish postal savings banks
was introduced into congress at the late
session by Senator Butler, which will
probably come up for discussion at the
next regular session. Itproyides that an
account may he opened by any person,
including married women and minors,
by the deposit of an amount of not less
than fifty cents, although after the ac-
count is opened rs small an amount as
ten cents may be deposited and credited
in the pass book. In order that smaller
amounts may be saved TO be deposited a
postal savings card may be purchased
for one cent (the cost of the card 10 be
credited on the depOsitor's account,) ON
which may be attached stamps 10 the
amount Of ten cents or multiple thereof
for deposit. On every deposit amount
ing to five dollars or multiple thereof in
terest at the rate of two and one half per
cent. per annum from the first of the cal
endar month following deposit will be al
lowed, check for the same TO be drawn
by the postmaster general on demand of
the !rp0sitor payable at any postal saw
ine> bank office. Interest, however, will
not be allowed on the deposits of any one
person which may exceed five hundred
dollars in one year. nor will interest be
allowed on accounts when they exceed
the sum of one thousand dollars. After
a depDsitor has had ten dollars or more
To his credit for three months he may, il
he so desires, make application to the
postmaster-general that United States
bonds. OF the denomination of ten, fifty
or one hundred dollars according to the
amount TO his credit be issued II him in
lieu of his deposit, such bonds to bear iu-
terest at the rate of two and four-tenths
per cent. per amman and to be known a.
United States postal savings bonds.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-08-11
The Household Linen.

The demand for round table cloths
is much less than for square or oblong.
In point of durability, no bedroom
towels are equal to pure linen hucka.
back, and piece goods come i'm wide
range of width and quality.
Plain or dotted lace-trimmed white
Swiss bolster covers are much cooler
and prettier for summer use than
starched linen ones.
For various good and sufficient rea-
sons white bed dressing has never been
out OF style, despite the beauty and
popularity of colored ones; but the re-
vival of the colonial style of architect
ure and furniture and interior decora-
tions has brought white narseilles and
dinli.y hdSpreads into decided favor,
and Il ey are br ught out in many new
and eli. ctiye patterns.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-08-11
The First Malta

The first nails were undoubtedly the
sharp teeth Of various animals. Then,
it is believed. pointed fragments Of flint
followed. The first manufactured metal
nails were of bronze. The nail with
which Jael killed Sisera was a wooden
tent pin, probably pointed with iron.
Bronze nails have been found in the
Swiss lake dwellings. in several places
in France and in the valley of the Nile.
Until the present century iron nails
were forged, a blacksmith being able to
make only two or three dozen a day.
The first cut nails were made by Jere-
miah Wilkinson in Rhode Island in 1873.
The first patented nail machine was by
Perkins, 1895. and its product of 200,-
900 nails day was considered so enor-
nous that some persons deemed the re-
suit due TO supernatural agency.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-08-11
A THRILLING EXPERIENCE.
Showing What q Shotgun Can Do In q
Load of Hay.

Showing What q Shotgun Can Do In q
Load of Hay.
What was the most exciting expert
eDce / ever had?" repeated Clarence
Haight at the Olympic Gun club Il
think it occurred last summer, when ]
was hunting doves up in Sonoma coun-
ty. Now, shooting doves is not par
ticularly exciting or periloDs. but
this was one of the hottest experiences l
ever had.
81 had been travelling all day with a
big bag, and was pretty well tired out
when / struck the country road and
started for home. IL was a good four
miles walk, and l was pretty well
pleased 70 see big wagon load of hay
approaching. The rancher gave me per
mission 70 ride, 80 / scrambled up Cn
top, lay down on the sweet, new mOwn
hay and went swaying and swinging
down the road. l was just dozing of
when bangi went my shotgun. l had
forgotten to take the cartridges out Of il.
and something had pressed the trigger.
The horses gave jump, and the driver
rolled off into the ditch.
Then discovered that my gun had
set FIRE to the hay, and thought it was
about time for me 10 escape. The horses
We're tearing along the road as hard as
they could run, but / clambered for the
side Of the load and slid for the road.
The tail of my stout hunting coat
caught on the top of a sharp standard,
and there | hung 10 the careeniDg wag-
on that threatened to upset and dump a
load Of burning hay on me at every
turn of the road.
''The fire was cracking and burning
fercely, and already / could feel the
flames Still the horses ran, and still
my coat held me fast TO that seething
mass Of flames Ny trousers commenced
getting hot. and then found my coat
was on fire The next moment the loose
cartridges in my pockets commenced ex-
ploding from the heat, and then /
smelled my doves broiling
Il had just made mp my mind that
all was over, when the tail Of my coat
burned of and / was thrown into a
ditch full of wafer beside the road /
did not stop TO see what became of the
hay and the horses, nor of the Tancher,
but cut straight across that field for
home That, gentlemen, was the most
thrilling experience of my life New
York Press
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-08-11
FOREST MONSTERS.
SOME of the Giant Trees That Are Found
In California


In California
In the national parks and forest pre-
erycs of California the big trees are by
far the most interesting and greatest
natural features There are two varl-
eties-namely. Sequoia sempervirens,
ordinarily known as the redwood,
tae tree which has furnished most OF
the redwood lumber of commerce, and
the Sequoia gigantea, from which
comparatively small amount of similar
lumber has also been made. The Tor
mrr is the smaller variety and grows
ON the foothills along the coast The
latter attains Il considerably larger
growth. is, more strictly speaking. the
"bic tree" of California, and is seldom
found at a lower altitude than 5000
feet
Scattered along the extent Of the Sler-
"a Nevadas from north to south are
many distinct and separate groups or
groves of Sequ0ia gigantea These are
generally known by names significant
of locality. as, for instance, "Calaver-
AAlboa NV
Fresno, names of the counties in
which the groves so called are situated
The Tuolumne grove Is in the Yosemite
park, and the Mariposa near by. This
latter Is the one most frequently visited
by tourists and contains the 'Wawoha"
"a tree with hole burned in its base,
through which the stage road runs and
four horse stages are driven without
difficulty-and the Grizzly Giant
one of the largest trees in the world
The stately grandeur OF these enor-
nous and lofty trees is so impressive
that it seems quite fit and natural that
some Of the larger ones should have been
indiyidualized and honored with distin-
guished titles. Nearly every state IN
the Union and every distinguished gen.
eral OF the civil war has namesake
among them. The General Grant, " in
the General Grant park, and the Gen
eral Sheridan" of the Giant forest
Estimated in the Sequoia park are indi-
viduals of the largest size. 1t Is difficult
to determine Just which of the big trees
is the largest, but these two and the
GRIZZLY Giant'-the gnarly base of
any one Of which will exceed 80 feet in
diameter-are probably the biggest trees
yet discovered.
The trees often grow in such inacces-
sible mountain retreats that some of the
territory covered by them has never yet
been thoroughly and systematically ex-
plored Outside the lands reserved by
the government California lumber
company owns several thousand acres
Of these trees-enough to last 40 years,
cutting many millions of feet per year.
-Harper's Weekly.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-08-11

First Street Loafer-It's a shame,
Bill. TO think that any one would swim
die a poor hard working man in that
way.
Second Street Loafer-Why, what's
Jour trouble:
First Street LoafeT-Here worked
hard ior half day painting up spar
row into 4 redheaded Belgian canary,
and am blowed if the fellow sold it
to didn't give me a bad half crown for
it-LondOn Spare Moments
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-08-11
xeu Method In Public Instruction.


The promotion examination having
been abandoned, the teachers estimate
Of the pupils ability TO do advanced
work determines his promotion. As
the teachers estimate is shown On
the report, the pupil and his parents
know monthly what progress he is
making toward advanced work. In the
primary grades the teachers judsSnent
determines the record, and in the .igii-
fr grades the teachers Judgment is cor
rected by written recitations and tests
This method puts premium ON the
daily work and gives n mCderate but
continuous stimulus rather fnan an ex-
cessiye and spasmodic one. Tests given
by the principal and the superintendent
show the proper completion OF work
and are useful to direct and broaden
the instruction, but have nothing to do
with promotion. Pupils promoted pre-
maturely are returned whence they
came, and teachers become moro careful
thereafter.
Ii may be said that the teaching test
is but another name for the promotion
examination, but a moments thought
will show that there is a great differ
ence between the two. One is careful
diagnosis at frequent intervals for the
purpose of discovering the disease in its
incipiency III order to apply the proper
remedies and TO save the patient The
other is a laundering post moTtem to
learn the cause of death. Common sense
and experience unite in declaring that
every efficient teacher knows which pu-
pills are ready for advanced work better
than a superintendent can know. All
who have had experience with this plan
Of promotion agree that never before
were promotions made so satisfactorily
and never before did the teachers study
individuals so closely.-W. J. Shearer
in Atlantic.