The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1898-01-12

NEWS Items.
Senator Quay says that he will not
move his home from Beaver.
The steamboat Percy Kelsey, exploded
at Piasburg, Saturday, killing six men.
The introduction Of mechanical slate
pickers in the mines in the anthracite re-
gion will throw 1000 boys out of employ
ment.
a tablespoonful Of extract Of birch that
Elmer Haines, OF williamsport, swal-
lowed to relieve cramps, caused his
death.
Mary Morgan, pretty and refined, de-
spite a rapid life. lies in ST. Louis hos
pital re overing from her twelfth attempt
at suicide.
Captain Skinner may not after all be a
candidate for Superintendent Of the In
dustrial School for Soldiers Orphans at
Scotland.
Four negroes were lynched last week
in the vicinity of Borden, Ark. Two
were charged with indecent assault and
the others with murder.
The Nebraska Supreme Court has af-
firmed the sentence Of ex-State Treasurer
BARLEY TO twenty years Imprisonment
for embezzling s7;Sj,OOO.
The Seminole Indians Indian Terri
tory threaten 10 go on the war path TO
avenge the burning to death Of two Of
their tribe by a mob.
Ellen Harris. six year-old child, at
Harrisburg. y. C.. swallowed a thimble
recently, which was located 10y means Of
y rays and successfully removed.
Galveston, Texas, has a wheat block
ade. All of the elevators are filled and
thousands of cars are standing al the
wharfs waiting 70 be unloaded.
500 counterfeit silver certificates have
appeared in the east. They are said To be
such perfect imitation that only experts
can tell them from genuine notes.
William Putnam and Paris johnson
were found frozen TO death near Coulee
City, Wash. They had lost their way and
wandered in a circle for nearly 100 miles.
Major Moses P. Handy, one of the best
known newspaper writersi in the country,
and Chief cf the Bureau of Publicity at
the Worlds Fair, died on Saturday, at
Augusta. Ga.
Saturday night mob broke into the
jail at Colfax, Washington, and secured a
prisoner named Marshall, accused Of
murder. and took him to a tree in the Jail
yrard a. here ha .t-a1 Ir-nahrT
Marcus MeGeisey and Palmer Simp-
SOD, two Seminole Indians, who a few
days ago murdered Mrs. james simmons,
were burned at the stake in the Seminole
Nation, on Friday night, 10y an okiaho-
ma mob.
The warden of the Allegheny county
prison, in his annual report, submitted
last week, shows that it is possible to
keep convicts for 81 cents a day. Least
wise that is all it cost to feed the 5000
persons who were entertained by him
during 1907.
Frank Diehl, a prominent resident of
Portage, Cambria county, committed
suicide Saturday afternoon at that place
by hanging himself with a piece of wire.
He had been helping his brothers store
away some baled hay in the barn and
while they were absent he took piece Of
wire from around one Of the bales, tied it
To a rafter, and hanged himself
Anthony Cradle was Instantly killed
by William Matthews, Sunday morning
at Vanderbilt, Faye;te county. Cradle
was recently released from the peniten-
tiary and comilg home about O'Clock in
the morning discovered Cradle, no had
married his wife while he was in prison,
emptied the contents OF his revolver into !
his body.
Miss Julia Cling, twin sister Of Catha- !
rine Cling, the victim Of Harry Hayward, !
has lost her suit against the travellers Ac- |
eideut Insurance Company to recover the !
face ofan accident policy on her sisters /
life, which was tried at Minneapolis, |
MINI. Judge McGee held that the muir 1
der was not an accident and that Miss /
Cling was not killed in defending her own
life.
The now famous grill room at Prince
on Inn is open, and the students find il
,asy to refresh themselves there, despite
he trustees embargo. Although the
upper elassmen recognize the ofici or
Ter. they cleverly get over the difficulty
~ basing their right to enter the grill on
he last word Of the seciion-.no student
hall frequent." They say they merely
drop in" occasionally.
Biehsrd Morgan, just from Dawson
,ity, throws new light on the food siiua-
ion there and also en- the general coudi-
ions aud present necessities Of the camp.
Heat, he says. IS now a drug and worth
'ut 80 to 10 cents, chiefly because large
-erds Of mO0se and carib1o have lately
'assed the district aud have been slaught-
red 10y the wholesale, one hunting party
ringing in as many as fifty or more.