The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1898-01-19
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School Directors will hold its annual COZ
vention in Harrisburg Feb. Q
The Directors Of the Poor Of Yoik
County viii erect an asylum for the care
Of the county's INDECENT insane.
The Indiana Supreme Court has decid-
ed that life Insurance policies are not tax
able under the present Indiana tax Law.
Centre County farmers will try 70 grow
peaches More than 10000 trees have
been planted during the past six
months.
The Centre County Fire Insurance
Company, at Bellefonte. conducted by
Patrons Of Husbandry, has g. 10000 in
surazce in force.
Onnesrly every block in japanese cities
is public oven where. for a small feg
housewives may have their dinners and
suppers cooked for them.
Logan Carlisle, chief clerk OF the Treas
ury Department under the administra-
ton of his father, John G. Carlisle, died
in New York, on Sunday. He was Ss
years OF age.
The girl wife Of General Cassius Clay.
of Kentucky, has returned TO him, after a
three weeks stay at the home Of her sis
ter. The old man cried like child when
he found her in his house again.
a resident of Atlanta, Ca. was so mad, 4
when on Sunday his wife became the 4
mother OF a boy baby that he swore he 4
would never look upon the ehild's face. 4
His desire for daughter had become I
mania with him.
vandals at WiIliamsport, Md, have
been destroying monuments in the village
cemetery. As some of the tombstones 1
destroyed were those marking the graves |
Of Union soldiers it is said that the gov
ernment will undertake to discover and |
punish the guilty parties.
1t has been decided at Wilkesbarre that |
Jail Warden Boland's contract with the
county commissioners to receive 30 cents
a day for feeding Jail prisoners is not ex-
orbitant. County Controller Lloyd had
claimed that cents day was sufficient
and refused 10 pay the bills.
Hon. Benjamin Butterworth, United
States Commissioner of Patents, died at
Thomasyille, Ga, where he had been i'll
for several weeks, on Sunday afternoon.
Death was caused by an attack of pneu-
monia. Mr.. BGtterwOrth was a native
of Ohio and for long period of years had
been prominent in national politics.
The town Of Indiana, which had lieen-
ses granted last year for the first time in
several years, will have one dry month
at least this spring. Judge White has
announced that he will not decide license
applications until the lst Of next April.
! Those granted last year date from March
/ lst; hence a month will intervene with
no license, no matter how the decision
may ultimately be.
Judge Yerks of Bucks county last week
sentenced a gang Of four burglars TO terms
| of imprisonment in the Eastern Peniten-
/ tiary aggregating 81 years. Charles Ar
mold, alias ChauDcey Arnold, the leader
of the gang, tainted when his sentence Of
thirty years was pronounced. James
Williams was sentenced 10 twenty-seven
years, Lafayette Young to Is years and
Charles Harris to l6 years.
Senator Marum, of Woodward, Oklaho-
ma, wealthy lawyer and ranchman, who
recently became noted all over the West
because during three days argument
in the Oklahoma Supreme Court he kept
the letter containing an answerto his pro-
pOsal Of marriage in his pocket unopened
for fear the reply would be unfavorable
! l.
he would lose the case, was married
Thursday night to Miss Walton, of Ter
ril.
The excitement caused by the diseOv-
cry of oil flowing from the ground on the
Bothel farm, near EdgewOod, Indiana
county, has not abated in the least, bat is
rather on the increase. Doubling persons
are fewer in number in the community,
and interest in the matter is Of a more
solid nature than that manifested at first.
The oil continues to flow almost as strong
as ever. Some Standard Oil Company
men have been at the field. The oil has
been examined by experienced men,
who. it is said, pronounce it crude of
high grade.
Mrs. Lncille Lane, youngest daughter
of Senator Blackburn, of Kentucky, shot
herself in her apartments at Washing
ton, d. c., hotel Saturday night Accord
ing to the statement given ont by the
family the shooting was accidental. Mrs.
Lane, it is said, opened bureau drawer
to get a handkerchief and picked up
handful of gloves and laces which had
been tossed together in the drawer.
Under this fluffy mass was a tiny pistol,
a gift from Mrs. Lanes father It caught
in a piece of lace and was discharged,
the ball penetrating her left breast, max
ing dangerous wound.
One Ofthe ugliest and most brutal look
ing tramps that ever disgraced the coun-
try walked into the public School at
Whitney, Westnoreland county, on
Thursday, and. compelling Miss Fausold,
the teacher, 10 take a seat with the pupils,
and cautioning all 10 remain quiet on
pain of death, began 70 deliver a lecture.
Two men on the road happened to see the
fellow go into the school, and they follow
ed him for fear he would do some harm.
He showed fight and the men had to give
the Weary Wraggles a thrashing ard
throw him out of the school into a mud
puddle He then made of. Some of the
smaller pupils were frightened almost to
death.