The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1900-06-06
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j Have your shoes repaired by 3. W.
4 usrvey. at Kantners Shoe Store
Farmers say that all indications point
There being ashort,grsss crop this year.
Mechanics are employed erec ing q
8 ,.o5some new brick stable for Attorney
d va. H. Roppel.
4 There will be enough Somerset conn
s.ns il Harrisburg to-day and to-mor-
4 "a 70 crowd the Dauphin county coEr:
d ro5m.
: ysu can buy the Cyclone Adjustable
rsa5sr. or the Hsllocks Success Weeder
y = lanes B. Holderbaum for seven dol
= Can be seen at warehouse in rear
j q hardware store.
wothers lose their dread for ''thAt ter
q s5la second summer when they have
4 n Fowler's Extract OF Wild Strawberry
/, the house. Natures specific for bowel
! ,omplsints of every sort
lanes J. Coogan, president Of the bor-
4 ,ogb of Manhattan, and noted Demo-
81 .-'tie leader of New York, has contribut-
a 81 Slun,utt 70 Tue bOAhtSioNAS -f0stc---
s ,,ouittee, conditioned that the gin shall
n ! rescinded if William J. Bryan is not
Il rsnominated.
y Ata meeting OF the miners Of the Penn
q Cas- Coal Company, held at Irwin Friday,
av IS decided to erect a public drinking
q ssn-siu in memory OF the late Superin-
s dent John F. Wolf The fountain
i rill be Of special design and is expected
:, cost in the neighborhood of 5000
C. Dougerty, a Jeanette druggist,
"a, made to pay $62 50 damages in suit
{ t-ought by Charles McPherson.at at Green's
lorg Pa. The plaintiff claimed damages
sr the serious illness Of child which it
vss claimed resulted from the negligent
\ and improper filling Of a prescription at
!. the defendants pharmacy.
Wm. f. Waters, a minor, has secured
verdict Of $4,000 damages against the
atlantic refining company, in the Phila-
5slpbia court. The company, II was con-
tended. through neglect left can Of acid
remain in a dangerous locality, and by
an explosion which occurred permanent
" blinded the boy.
Contractor Harold is having more q
,s.s officially in securing laborers t.
work on the sewers. He says that tn
sgerage Pennsylvania day laborer viii
not work in a deep trench, no matter
what wages he can earn. A majority OF
/ the seventy men at work in the trenches
are Italians, brought here direct from
New York. They throw the earth five
and six feet above their heads ten hours
day without complaining.
Bya vote of 4S3 to 2ss the Methodist
general conference in session at Chicago
Isst week, abolished the time limit Of
pastorates, thus finally disposing of one
of the most important questions before
the great Methodist body and doing away
with one of the fundamental features Of
the itinerant system of the denomination.
Hereafter preachers will be appointed an
naaliy 10y the bishops, with no limit On
the years a pastor may serve one congre-
CATION except the limit imposed by his
own ability and popularity.
Earle MARQUIS, q jeweler of Freport, q
wears old, committed suicide by shooting
himseif in the left temple with 81 cali
her revolver. 1t is assumed from the
notes he left behind that it was in fit OF
d.spondency over a love affair. He left
letter bidding his mother goodbye; /;
one 10 his sister, Bessie, telling her never
10 fall in love, and one to Miss Gussie
Morrison, telling her he was almost crazy
and was going to leave this world. he
locked his store went TO the inter-county
bridge and shot himself Tuesday.
A short time ago President Mckinley
sat for a photograph. which he has pro-
nounced the best ever secured. A copy
Of this portrait, in cOlors, with facsimile
Of the Presidents signature, on picture,
will be given free with every copy Of the
great Philadelphia Sunday Press next
Sunday June To- 1t is souvenir every
one is certain to prize, both because of its
merit as a work of art and its timeliness,
10 view of the fact that Mckinley is cer-
tain TO be renominsted at the National
Convention week after next. The size Of
the picture is II by 20 inches, and every
one will be perfect. The demand will be
great; hence it will be well 20 order next
Sundays Press early.
Harry J. Hannah, alias "Blinkey." Of
Johnstown, who shot aud killed John
Craig Of Allegheny, on May 25 Of last
year, was sentenced by Judge Doty
Thursday to pay fine of 81 and costs Of
the prosecution and be confined in the
penitentiary for period of six years and
five months. According to arrangement
perfected last week Hannah was brought
into court Thursday and pleaded gull
ty to the murder of Craig. He told
the story of the killing as nearly as be
could recollect The prosecution offered
no evidence against the prisoner, and
upon the completion of the defendants
story Of the crime the Judge fixed upon
second degree.
p A. Smith and C. o. Jones, who were
arrested at Pittsburg, on May 5tb, as
suspicious persons, by a police officer
who saw them in pawn shop trying TO
dispose Of a lot Of jewelry, and were af-
ierwsrds sent to the workhouse for thirty
days, were released from that institution
Saturday, when they were Immediately
arrested on a charge of burglary on in
formation Of jeweler A. n. Dorm, of Con-
H. 1nce, and brought here to jail. A few
days before their arrest at Pittsburg. it is
alleged Smith and Jones broke into the
store Of Dorm and stole ten or twelve
watches and & lot of fjeweiry. The watches
we're found in their possession.
Memorial Day was observed in the
usual appropriate manner by the citizens
q this place and vicinity. A crowd of
perhaps one thousand people assembled
IN front Of r. p. CGmmins Post g. A. r.
headquarters at 10 O'Clock Wednesday
morning aud viewed the procession of
school children, bands of music and vet
eraR soldiers as il wends6 its way TO the
village cemetery. At the cemetery. the
Grand Army ritual was read, AFTER which
sIimely patriotic address was delivered
By Rev. Hiram King. Hon. A. J. Col
born, who had agreed to deliver the ad-
dress, was unable to do 50 on account Of
sickness. At the conclusion of the ser
vices the veteran soldiers and children
visited the graves Of the sleeping heroes
aud covered them with flowers.
A matter of very urgent importance at
lhis time, when the contractor is pushing
| ahead with The work of putting down
sewerage and cellar drainage pipes, is for
property owners 20 arrange TO make curb
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