The Somerset Herald. XDWaJU) 8CULL1 Editor and Proprietor. EDKEttDAT ..OCTOBER , W Republican Ticket. STATES. FOB STATE TREASCREB, MATTHEW S UX AT, Of BenTW County. COUNTV. FOR POOR HOUSE DIRECTOR. JOHN C. BARBOir, of Soowreet Towwhlp. FOR JTRT COJUHSSIONEK, 1RWIM a. CT'STEK, of SoeMratt Townablp. Now fob Quay and victory ! Voir for Quay, Barron tod Custer. Close up the ranks. Vote the whole ticket. What "offensive partisans" those Ohio Republicans are ! Did our Democratic friends hear anything drop in Ohio f Now that Ohio has had her say what do you think of it ? The crose-road post office could not save the Democracy in Ohio. Ohio points the way. New York will follow next month. Ta ta, Cleveland. Pen xsYLV akia can do better than Ohio and not half try. But let us all try and we can do twice as well. They didn't know that John Sherman was loaded when they were cavorting around him howling "bloody shirt." Don't be led into voting against any Republican on your ticket Philson, the Democratic candidate, has no claims on Republican votes. Senator Don Cameron who has been in Southern California for his health during the past four months, is expected to return the 1st of No vember. It is said that Cleveland attribu tes the result in Ohio to local questions and is unconcerned. If we remember aright Hancock pro nounced the tariff a local question. There will be no more October elections in Ohio. All parties join ed last week in voting for a Consti tutional amendment which puts that State in the November column. Has the fear that another Demo cratic paper is to be started at Mey ersdale anything to do with the flop of the Commercial t A Democratic paper might divide the local patron age, eh f The Ohio Democrats monkeyed with a buz saw, when they induced the Prohibitionists to run a separate ticket, as it drew about as largely from their party as it did from the Republican. Spelling schools are to be the fashionable amusement "out west" among the country lads and lasses this winter. It is not much credit to be a good speller but very dis creditable not to spell well. The Meyersdale Commercial, (Democratic) sayi that all the Bar ron votes can be put in a quart measure. So they can, and a quart measure full of Republican votes is enough to snow Philson under. Now that the election in Ohio is over, the sporting fraternity of Cin cinnati are anxiously looking for an editorial fight or foot race, between Johnny McLean of the Inquirer and Murat Haletead of the Commer rial. The email pox has brought tem porary financial ruin to the city of Montreal The bigoted French Canadians are bitterly hostile to vaccination. The disease is increas ing and spreading as the weather becomes colder, and the city is shunned as a pest house. The Ohio Democrats, under the lead of Johnny McLean, are making desperate efforts to defeat the will of the people and steal a majority in the Legislature, thus securing the defeat of Senator Sherman. In a number of strong Republican pre cincts it is charged that they have corrupted the election officers ; that these officers have been induced to omit a date here and a signature there, so that the poll might be thrown out on technical errors and the people of the precinct disfran chised. It is not strange that this should occur in a State where a Democratic President pardons a notorious corrupter of the ballot. It is probably thought that if Cleve land will pardon one scoundrel for fraud against the ballot, he will par don another. The result of the election in Ohio, while a surprise on account of the overwhelming majority, was noth ing but the legitimate outcome of the course of the Republicans of that State. Their State Convention1 adopted a down-right, square-toed, all-wool and yard-wide, old fash ioned platform. Senator Sherman made the campaign squarely on that platform. Every Democrat and Mugwump in the country raised the cry of "bloody shirt" azainst It, but the Senator, conscious of the right eousness of his cause and having faith in the love of right and justice of the men of Ohio, pursued the even tenor of his way to his magnificent victory. , The prohibition candidate for Governor showed nnexplainable virulence toward the Republican party and its candidates. This was all the more dangerous because the Republicans of Ohio are naturally I prohibitionists. Many of them were at first inclined to go with the third party, but when the question of principle came up, when the issue was fairly joined between Sherman and McLean for United States Sena tor, when the old Sulwart warriors came to the front with the old Stal wart battle cry of a "free ballot and a fair count" there were few Repub licans who hesitated to stand by the old party. ; ;, The result of the Ohio victory will have a telling effect on the States that vote in November. In New York, Massachusetts and Iowa the platforms on the Southern question are substantially the same as was the Ohio platform. It is a fight all along the line for old fashioned Re publicanism ; and the victory in Ohio means not only a victory in New York, but an adyance to the battle line on which so many bril liant Republican victories have been won in the past, and on which fu ture victories depend. Is its issue of the 8th. inst the Meyersdale Commercial withdrew the names of the Republican county candidates for Director of the Poor nd Auditor, which it had been car rying at the head of its columns since June last,and supplanted them with the name ot Samuel Philson, the regular Democratic candidate for Director of the Poor, whose election it is urging upon the people. In at tempted justification of this course the Commercial alleges that Barron and Custer, the Republican candi dates, were not nominated in ac cordance with the rules of the party, that Barron was and continued to be. up until last year, a bitter Dem ocrat, that being posseseed of valu able property be became involved and is now in debt, and is therefore not entitled to, and is unworthy the support of Republicans. Against CuBter nothing is alleged, except the irregularity of his candidacy. Against these charges we submit the followinir plain statement of facts: In 18S4 Mr. Barron was a candidate at the primary election for this same office, and came within a few votes ot securing the nomi nation. During that canvass, which was a heated one, the Commercial had nothing to urge, uttered no word of warning to the Republican voters as to his party loyality, personal in tegrity or financial standing. This year Mr. Barron again offered him self as a candidate,and as he and Mr. Custer were the only persons who offeredas candidates the county committee, deeming it useless to hold an election when but two can' didates without opposition were be fore the voters, published the follow ing card : To the lieiwhlican Voters of Somer- fet County. You will please take notice that the time fixed by rule o. JfJ of the party, governing the announcement of candidates lor nomination caving expired, and there being no opposi tion for the several offices, the Coun ty Committee have therefore declar the following named persons (being the onlv persons to offer) as the nominees of the Republican party for the following named offices : Poor House Director, John C Barron, Somerset Twp. Jury Commissioner, Irwin C. Custer, Somerset Twp. Delegate to State Convention, Legislative, M. R. Adams, Garrett. W. H. Sanner, Somerset. . Senatorial, W. B. Frease, Somerset. L. C. Colborn, J. R. Scott, Secretary. Chairman. This action of the County Com. mittee was acquiesced in, so far as we have knowledge, by the Repub licans of the county; the Commercial placed the ticket at its head, and is to-day ostensibly urging the election of Colonel Quay, in whose nomina tion the above named delegates par ticipated, and thereby endorses and confirms the action of the commit tee. That Mr. Barron was a Democrat many years since is not denied, but we are well assured that he voted tor Abraham Lincoln at his second election, and we have positive knowledge of the fact for his con-! stant custom has been to get his ticket from the editor of the Herald ; that he voted for Grant, Hayes, Garfield and Blaine, and all the in termediate Republican State and County tickets. Can the editor of the Commercial show so long and so clear a Republican record ? Mr. Bairon's private financial af fairs have nothing to do with his candidacy, but we happen to be ac quainted with them in a profession al way, and they are entirely creditable to him. He is the owner of a very valuable farm ; a few years since he involved himself in debt making very valuable improve ments ; during the la6t financial cri sis his creditors became clamorous ; to avoid tbe sacrifice of his property at a forced sale he made an assign ment ; within a brief period he bor rowed a couple of thousand dollars, wiped out all his other debts, re sumed control of his property and has labored so hard and intelligent ly as to be able to pay one-half of the money he borrowed, and is to day worth five times the amount of1 his obligations. Caa the editor of the Commercial show so clear a fi nancial record? Now, how does Mr. Barron stand as a candidate ? He is a Republi can of long standing, consistent and true to the party of bis adoption, He offered himself as a candidate and stood ready to go before bis fel low Republicans against all comers. Having no opponents the County Committee declared him tbe nomi nee. Suppose the Committee was wrong; admit that it exceeded its powers; is Mr. Barron to blame? Is he responsible for its action? He Btood ready to submit to the test of an election. If one had been held he would have been nominated by unanimous vote, because be had not an opponent So was it with Mr. Custer. - He had no opposition and would have been unanimously nominated. Suppose an extreme case. Sup pose that in the absence of all nom inations these two men are merely volunteer candidates. Why should they not be supported by Republi cans in preference to the Democrat ic nominees? What claims have Mr. Philson or Mr. Hay on Repub licans? Did either of them ever cast a Republican vote or support a Republican neighbor at the polls ? Barron is a toil-stained, hard-handed farmer, Custer an energetic, labori oui mechanic. Mr. Philson is an opulent banker, who has made his wealth off the necessities of others. Is wealth a passport to office, that the Republican farmers and laborers of this county should drop their fel low toilers, and rush to the support of a banker never in sympathy with them, and nominated because of his straight-laced Democracy? We have no tear of the result, but we urge upon all true Republicans to turn out, and by their votes for Barron and Custer secure the elec tion of two worthy members of the party, and rebuke the ComvxerciaVs attempt to betray them into the hands of the enemy. The Meyersdale Commercial has returned to the place from whence it came. Like a sow to its wallow, a dog to its vomit, it has returned to the bosom of the Democratic party. It has not only thrown out the Re publican county ticket from its col umns, but it has replaced it with a portion of the Democratic ticket the election of which it advocates, while it attempts to cloak its treach ery and dipguise its ulterior purpose by still keeping up the name of Col. Quay, who will be elected by a ma jority of many thousands, and whom it could not injure by doing its dirty best against him. On taking down the Republican ticket it grossly, ma liciously and falsely assaults the po litical and personal character of John C. Barron and further attempts to sustain its position by denying the existence of a County Commit tee, or any rights or power to its Chairman. Of the personal charac ter of Louther A Smith, ostensible editor of the Commercial, we have nothing at present to say, but his assault upon the political character of tbe Republican candidate, whom he attempts to dishonor, invites and demands a comparison with his own political and public career. It is an undisputed fact, we be lieve, that before tbe war Smith was a Democrat. After the war he be came connected with the Independ ent, published at Salisbury, a pro fessedly neutral paper, with Demo cratic tendencies. This paper was afterward moved to Meyersdale and he obtained control of it, where it miserably perished for want of pat ronage, and by reason of misman agement Subsequently the Mey ersdale Commercial was established by a syndicate of business men as an advertising medium, with the understanding that it was to be a non-political sheet, and Smith was placed in control of it. After a pe riod of time he apparently conceiv ed that it would be a stroke of fi nancial policy to become Republi can for revenue, and, presto I neu trality was dropped, and to the dis may of its Democratic stockholders the Commercial was launched upon the political ocean as a Republican journal. During the campaign of 1878 its editor made a poor mouth, complained of pinching penury, and through the intercession of friends, the Republican State Com mittee was induced to forward him two hundred dollars to sustain his paper. He then demanded and re ceived a full share of the printing the County officials had under con trol and became a persistent beggar of official patronage. So grasping did he grow that in 1SS3, without the consent of the Commissioners, who had previously refused it to him,he published the 'Annual State ment" and presented a bill for $90, which the Commissioners refused to pay, whereupon he sued them be fore a Justice at Meyersdale, put the County 10 the expense of their at tendance to defeud the suit, and when the Justice gave judgment against him took an appeal and en tered it ou the docket in the Pro thonotary'e office, but failing to bulldoze the Commissioners he let judgment be taken against him for the costs, which to-day remains up on the record unsatisned. Having, in 1882, devoted all the energies ot himself and his paper to the defeat of General Beaver and the district and county tickets, and in assisting to place the present Democratic State authorities in power, he in 1SS4, was refused recognition by the County Committee and theChairman declined to furnish him the cards of tbe candidates at the primary election to be paid for as advertise ments. Thereupon he published a list of the candidates, announcing conspicuously that he did so Tret of coM.n Some months afterward he presented a bill to the Chairman for 1223.00, but subsequently accept ed $150.00 in payment for what he published without permission and over and over again announced be did it "free of cost" In Jane last, he published the card of Chairman Scott announcing the adoption by the Committee of Messrs. Barron and Custer as the Republican candidates, placed their names at tbe usual place in his pa per, and on July 1st presented a bill to Chairman Scott for $19.00, which was paid, being the first time with in our knowledge that a paper in this county was paid for carrying 1 1 its party ticket at tbe bead of its columns. In January last be put in a bid which was accepted by the Prothonotary, for printing the j "Court Calendar" at 75 cents per . page, but by increasing the number of pages over and above those con templated in the proposals-, he has contrived to swell hiss bill and con sequently the amount drawn from the County Treasury, thus again proving that he is not the careful watch-dog of the people's money he claims to be when his own pocket is to be the recipient of county funds. For the truth of each and every one of these assertions we have the doc umentary evidence. Said we not well that he was a Republican for revenue only? Moreover, during the few years this paper has profess ed the Republican faith it has been a thorn in the flesh of the party. It has been a kicker, a brawler, a ma ligner of steadfast Republicans, and its every effort has been to create disorganization in the ranks of the party, for the benefit of the Democ racy. Oa the theory that "you cannot touch pitch and remain undefiled," we have for a long period refused to notice its persistent and untruthful assaults upon the Herald. We felt that this journal had character suf ficient to treat with silent contempt its puny assaults, and we knew that, allowed sufficient rope, the Commer cial would hang itself. Somewhat sooner than we anticipated, it has committed felo de sc. Without a decent excuse, without a plausible ... , 11 reason, it has unmassea ana gone back to the Democracy. We bid it adieu, with the single remark that our contempt would have restrained us from the distasteful task of ex posing its venality and hypocrisy, had not the welfare of our party, loyalty to its candidates, and a deep sense of public duty impelled us thereto. Any man who can here after be imposed upon by its pre tence of Republicanism or its profes sions of honesty and reform, is sim ply to be pitied. During the pendency of the pros ecutions or rather persecution of the Poor Directors and County Au ditors, we deemed it neither decent nor right to discuss the question or attempt to create public sentiment among citizens of the county, from whom the jurors to pass upon the cases were to be selected. Now that the cases have been passed upon by the proper judicial tribunal, it is due the fair fame of the county, the good name of the parties prosecuted, and the requirements of common honesty and fairness that the truth, together with the results following, should be laid before the citizen tax payers of the county. For a year or two the Meyersdale Commercial has been venomously pursuing the Directors of the Poor, and laboring to impair public con fidence in the honesty of their offi cial conduct Some months since it procured a petition to be present ed to the Court praying the appoint ment of a committee of investiga tion. The prayer of the petitioner (S. P. Snyder) was granted, and a committee appointed, who made an exhaustive and laborious investiga- tion, and filed a report that was pub lished in all the papers of the coun ty. On its face, this report set forth that about $2,000 had within the last four years been improperly ex pended, or not accounted for. Im mediately the Commercial launched forth charges of corruption, embez zlement and theft against the Di rectors, and by its clamor not only got the impression abroad through out the State that they were thieves, but labored to create that impression on the minds of the citizens of the county. Nay, it went further, and in sinuated that the other journals of the county were "standing in" with the wrong-doers, because they would not join in the crusade against men who, for integrity, and morality and eyery manly virtue, stand a head and shoulders higher in the com munity thau does the editor of the Commercial. But this was not sufficient to glut the simulated zeal of this self-constituted custodian of the honor as well as the funds of the county, and in hot haste he employed counsel and despite the remonstrance of one or more of the investigating commit tee, who assured him they were sat isfied that the Directors were entire ly honest, but mistaken in their con struction of the law caused fifteen criminal prosecutions to be brought against the Directors and two against the County Auditors, and still threat en to institute further proceedings. The cases came on for trial at the last term of court Five against the Directors for taking illegal fees were tried, and in each of them the juries rendered' verdicts of "not guilty" Two others against Directors An keny and Korns for being concerned in public contracts were also tried, and verdicts of " not guilty " were also rendered bv the juries. Under directions of the Court, and with consent of counsel, verdicts of " no1 guilty " were entered without the for mality of jury trials: aa to the re maining eight cases against the Di rectors, and the two cases against the Auditors, -' were summarily kicked out of Court at the cost of the countyrocrimlnar offense being alleged in the bill of indictment Thus ended the great criminal cases which were to put money into the coffers of the Commereial through the medium of a subscription large ly swollen by, grateful taxpayers whom it had saved from being rob bed, and over which that paper has kept up a deafening rub-a-dub-dub for several months past Now, let the taxpayers look at the other side of the question, and see what the action of this malignant fool and bogus reformer has cost them : Paid Com tall to' of InreetbraUoa 323.78 tteoord ooei. . 1M.OT Pneeeatore bill (filed) 3w2 i& DUruri Jnreretwodayi at 2,pdy... tto.oo Trar Jurun 4 day at J 08 per day i.u i dem oaiocra fear dan and Stenotfrnptiur. r-.oo Talesmen.. Total 12W.0 For this large sum of money which the county is compelled to pay, the taxpayers get absolutely ; tothing ; and the Commercial while it has the m alignant satisfaction of having put ; the defendants to some cost, is slap ped in the face with verdicts of "Not Guilty" by the honest and consci entious jurors whom it labored to prejudice in advance of the trials, and has the fees of its private coun sel to pay out of its own coffers; for, to their credit be it said, not a sin gle citizen responded to its begging appeal for financial aid to carry on its private prosecutions. A few words more in further ex planation.' The Act of Assembly of 1845 under which our Poor Houbc was incorporated fixes the compen sation of the Directors at $20 per annum; a subsequent act fixed it at $50 per annum: but for many years the Directors have construed this compensation to mean only for their services at the House and farm, and have charged in addition for their services and expenses while visiting "out door" paupers, and the chil dren of paupers under their official care. There has been no conceal ment about this matter, no attempt at fraud.as every'annual statement" published in the county papers set forth this additional chirge, as reference thereto will show. There is also a further Act of Assembly about the construc tion of which leading members of the Bar differ,which would give the Directors $100; but in the late trial the Court ruled that it did not re peal the former Act, by which the Directors were bound. Now, by going to the records, and their public statements, the money which they drew in excess of $50 under a mistaken view ot the law, could have been easily ascertained, a "stated case" could have been made up and submitted to the Court. Jndge Baer would bave de cided that $50 was the limit of their compensation, the additional pay would have been refunded, and it would not have cost the county a cent. Another thing. While the report of the Committee was in strict accordai.ee with the facts as they came to their knowledge, yet it was necessj.rily a one-sided investi gation, and was confined to the four years ending with the last annual statement. Thus there was an ap parent deficiency on account ofuion- ies owing, not then paid in, which have since been received and ac counted tor, and thus the apparent deficiency found by the Committee is measurably wiped out. In short, after raking tbe county with a fine tooth comb in search ol evidence to justify the shameful vil ification of these officials, and pro cure their conviction as criminals. nothing was discovered to justify a fair and upright man in commenc ing criminal proceedings. And when the Defendants went upon the stand and under oath, told their simple straightforward stories, there was not a spectator in the Court room who did not agree with the jurors in their verdict of "Not Guil ty." Col. Quay's Campaign. Philadelphia, Oct. 13. Chair man Cooper, at the Republican State headquarters, keeps his corps of assistances bard at work. Candi date Quay is expected to reach the city in a day or two and will give personal supervision to some ot the details of the campaign. Gen. James A. Beaver will take an active part during the last week of the canvass. Under direction of Chairman Leeds he will visit and make speeches in nearly every ward in the city, accompanied or preced ed by Col A. Wilson Norri, District Attorney Graham, City Solicitor Warwick and other party orators. The first of this particular series of meetings will be held on Saturday evening, the 24th inst. Murder in uuzerne. Hazei.ton, Pa., Oct. 1G. Between 8 and 9 o'clock last night a terrible tragedy was committed at Seyberts ville, a small village nint miles from here. Four tramps entered a small house some distance back from the main road, in which lived two bach elor brothers, John and William Kester, aged respectively 50 and 54 years, .nd demanded a large sum of money which was known t be se creted about the house. The Res- ton refused to reveal where their money waa hidden, and the tramps then bound them hand and foot and beat their braind out with a heavy club. After committing the mur der they fled, and have not yet been arrested. Prog ma of I be Cholera. London. Oct 15. There were fifty- one new cases of cholera and thirty five deaths from the disease reported yesterday in Palermo. During yes terday 211 new cases ot cholera and 104 deaths from the disease were re ported throughout Spain. Sixteen deaths from cholera occurred at Tu nis during the past fortnight Nine hundred Mecca pilgrims are expect ed to arrive to-morrow. They will have to undergo a five days' quaran tine before they enter the city. Four Time Sentenced to Death Salt Lake City, October 15. Frederick Hohl, after his fourth con viction of murder in the first degree, was called up for sentence to-day. He declared he had nothing to say. save that he is not guilty. The law gives him the choice ot modes ot death between being hanged or shot He chose tbe latter. Tbe Judge then sentenced him to be shot to death on the 24th of next month. Shipment of Indian Wheat. London. Oct. 15. The fall of ex- changes and the low price of silvr r ! There have been fifteen deaths witb are stimulating exportation ot wheat j in the last ten days. In several in from India. Enormous shipments 'stances whole families have been are pending. Vessels have already ! stricken down. Everr precaution is been chartered for the shipment of luu.mw wns oeiore January. "BUI WE ABE AGAIN." ... , V SWEEPING REPUBLICAN VICTORY IN OHIO. THE EEPUBLICATT TICKET HAS 18,000 PLUKALITT. "WE'UNS LICSSP YOTTXTS !" Cincinnati, Ohio, Oct. 13. The election in Ohio to-day was for Sate and county officers, for 37 Senators, and 110 Representatives of the Gen eral Assembly, and upon fouramend ments to the constitution, of chang inz the State elections from October to Nov. and one to changing the term of office for township trustees. Governor Hoadley as the Demo cratic candidate for re-election, J. B. Foraker the Republican candidate, and the Rev. A. B. Leonard the Prohibition candidate for Governor. Columbus, Ohio, Oct 13. At midnight all indications point to the election of the entire Republican State ticket by a plurality of not less than 15,000, and a majority of the State Legislature. While no positive statement can be made as to the political complexion of that body, it is more than probable that the "Republicans will have a good working majority, which will insure the election of John Sherman to the Senate. Columbus. Ohio, Oct 14,1:30 a. m. The enthusiasm is beyond any thing witnessed for years. To-night the Republicans are painting the town red ; bonfires burning and fire works exploding. The Democratic headquarters ar closed. The Prohibition vote will run up nearly 20,000. The Democrats, as heretofore predicted in these dis patches, have suffered by the third party in their strongholds and tbe organization that they fondled yes terday now receives their most bit ter curses. Columbus, Ohio, Oct. 14. The general expression and belief on all sides this morning is that tbe Re publicans have elected the full State ticket and had a good working ma jority in the Legislature. Ibis opin ion prevailed until John 11. McLean bobbed up in the Democr.itic Com mittee and not only claimed the election of the entire Legislative ticket in Cincinnati, but in addition a majority of 1,000 for Iloadlev. The Republican Committee have positive information of the election of 5'J members to the House and 17 to the Senate, without Hamilton county, aud conceding all the Dem ocrat s claim would still leave the Legislature in the hands of the Re publicans on joint ballot It now appears, and is openly charged, that the Hamilton county vote is being manipulated and held back by Mc Lean for the simple purpose ot giv ing his henchmen in some of the close counties an opportunity to count out a sufficient number of Re publicans to give the control of the Legislature with the stolen delega tion of Hamilton county. Great in- interest not to say excitement, pre vails, as the withholding of the vote shows very conclusively that a con spiracy exists not only to steal the Legislature, but the United states Senator. Cincinnati, Ohio, Oct 19. Com plete unofficial returns on the head of tbe ticket in Ohio have now been received. For Foraker S3.201 For Hoadl.y ...Si,S13 Foraker' I net plurality 17,68 Exocllent Work of Litre-Savers Trenton, Oct 15. What the for ty life-saving stations of New Jersey have accomplished since 1871 is shown in a report by Superinten dent Kimball. The events narrated cover the period between November. 1871, and Julv, 1S84. The number of wrecks and disasters were 476; value of vessels, $323,310: value of cargoes, $5,715,761 ; value of proper ty involved, $11,039,071; value of property saved, $10,251,851; value ot property lost, $3,787,220; num ber of people involved, 5 G29; num ber of persons saved, 5,582 ; number of persons lost, 47 ; number of peo plejsuccored.937 ; number of days' succor afforded, 2,904; number pt vessels totally lost, 96. This sum mary shows that the average loss of life per year for the period reported along the coast was but a fraction over 3 per cent Previous to the introduction of the present system the loss of life was so great that when Representatives Sbelton. of this State, stated on the floor of Con gress that thousands of lives were lost annually long the Jersey coast no one disputed the fact. The Kngineef Stabs tbe Conductor. Pittsburg, Oct. 14. A stabbing aflray, which will in all probabili ty result in the death of the victim, occurred there at ten o'clock this morning. William Funk, the en gineer of the gravel train on tbe Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and j Rickard Andrews, conductor of the same train, got into a dispute in Ward's saloon. They left the place and continued their quarrel on tbe pavement in front ot the saloon. Presently Funk said something that was particularly displeasing to An drews and the latter iu the heat of passion drew a knife and stabbed him. His victim reeled and as he did so Andrews plunged his knife into him several times. He then made his escape. The wounded man was removed to his home, where a physician was summoned apd dressed bis wounds. He gave it at his opinion that the man could not recover. Andrews was after wards arreted, ii f Two Seonrcea at Ktttaaaing. Pittsburgh, Oct 15. A Ki tun ning (Pa.) special reports diphtheria and typhoid fever raging with great severity in that place. While many cases are kept concealed, it is known that nearly one hundred persons are down wilh one of these diseases. ard the fatalities are verv numerous. being taken to prevent the spread of toe aiseages. St K Two Homicide In FajreM Comm l - , one Day. Uniontowk, Oct 18. Two more homicides were committed in Fay ette county last night making five with tbe past monin. une mmu' ago last night James Stewart shot and killed Cooper Percy at Dawson, apparently m cold blood. One week later the Italian, wise Mfi killed his companion and couein.Rocco Caseidente.near Smith field, for his money. A week ago to night Benjamin Oilman hit ally shot his brother-in-law, imam rerrj, near Connellsville, in a quarrel. Last night licy S. Tare killed Ellis Tasker with a shot-gun under the following circumstances: Tate and his wife had retired to bed ear ly at their mountain home, near Fairchance, and between 8 and 9 o'clock were aroused by the yells and curses of the two young Tasker brothers passing the house on their wav home drunk:, lne lasaere stoned the house and defied Tate to come out, threatening to kill both him and his wife. The latter had now both got up from bed,and both being visible in the dim firelight the assailants hurled a singletree, which went crushing through tie window, smashing it and striking Mrs. Tate, knocking her down. At this Tate grasped his shot gun from the corner of the room and fired through the broken window. The contents entered the left side of the younger Tasker and caused almost instant death. The victim was tak en to his home.while Tate went and gave himself up and was brought here to jail. He came to this county lrom Doddridge county, v . v a., about two years sgo. He is appar ently an inoffensive-looking man who will not harm anyone. Though not yet 21 years of age he has a wife and three children. The other killing last night oc curred about the same hour, the 6cene being in a house at the Chi cago it Connellsville Coke works near here. Yesterday was pay day at those works and the miners were having a jubilee. One Hungarian family was celebrating the birth of a young child over a keg of beer,when several colored men went to the door and tried to get in, batting the door severely. Finally one Hun garian named Mike Bedlow went ontside and drove the negroes off with a pick, striking Bob Scott with the weapon, who thereupon drew a revolver and shot twice, one ball entering Bedlow's head, killing him and the other producing slight flesh wounds on two other inmates of the house. Four of the negroes were lodged in jail this morning, but Scott was seen this afternoon head ing through the mountain towards the nearest Baltimore & Ohio rail road station, where it is supposed he will board the express to-night for his former home in Washington City. The Sheriff is in pursuit. Deaths in a Dakota Prairie Fire. Fargo, D. T.. Oct 14. The news has just reached here that the wife and child ot aeth btaunton perished in a prairie fire in Barnes county, thirty miles from here, on Saturday. The fire started from a thrashing machine on the Lessar farm, while the men had left it for dinner. Mr. Staunton, who was a distance from his house, two miles from the origin of the fire, was barely able to reach there before the flames, and thought it too late to save the buildings. He took one little child under each arm and told his wife to follow with the oldest one. Soon looking back, he saw his wife and child enveloped in dames. Mrs. Staunton perished there, and the child was so badly burned that it died the next day. The fire paited at the house and left it untouched. A few thousand bush els ot wheat and two barns were burned. At the eam time another fire, a few miles west, destroyed some 15.000 bushels of wheat on the farm of V. V. Townley, and the house and buildings of Edward C. Booth and much other property of other parties. I be total losses from tire in Barnes county this season are put at $100,000. Coffey Hanged Three Times. Crawfordsville, Isd., Oct 17. The rope broke when the drop fell with John Coffy, the hanged mur derer, yesterday. The neck was not broken, but the shock caused the blood to spurt from the wretched man a ears. He was carried back up the scaffold stairs, and while the rope was being readjusted he re gained consciousness and begged to bave the cap removed, and to be allowed to make another speech. This was refused, and the drop fell again. The rope broke a second time, but the body was caught be fore it reached tbe ground. It was lifted up and held in place by Dep uty Sheriffs while the noose was again adjusted. When tbe drop fell again the rope held, and Coffey was elowlv strangled, dying in 12 min utes. sale of Kentucky Trotting Horwes. Lexington, Ky , Oct. 14. Wood- ard's horse sale to-day was well at tended despite rain. Forty-five ani mals sold brought SI 4.00O, an aver age of over $300. The highest price ptid was $1150 for a 2-yeai old colt by Dictator, dam Jane Carlisle, by Autar, son of Almont, second dam by Brown Chief, son of Mambrino Chief. He was bought by a club of gentlemen lrom rbiladelpnia. This was the only one selling over three figures, J. D. Vaughan, of Rich mond. Ind., paid $690 for a yearling colt by Red Wilkes. A Dictator colt sold for even $600. Four others sold for $500 or more, seven from $400 to $500, and seven more -from $300 to $400. Ao Eagle Captures and Kill a Child Toronto, Oct. 17. This after noon while the wife of Jean Baptist Romily, residing 10 miles from here, accompanied by her 2-ycar old child was feeding her fowls, a large bald headed eagle swooped down and bore the little one off in its talons. The neighbors turned out with shot guns, but the only effect of their fire was to accelerate the exgle's fight. The bird alighted on the top of a barn a mile away. The neighbors had got pretty close by this time, and succeeded in frightening the eagle away. The child's body was recovered.but life was extinct,a hole being made in its skull and a- por tion of tbe brain devoured by the bird. . ' Fell Six Hundred et. Wilkes barre, Oct 15. At the Dodson Mine of the Plymouth Coal Company, at Plymouth, this after noon, Ober Williams, a doortender, age fifteen, fell to tbe bottom ot the shaft, a depth of 600 feet His body was mangled beyond recognition and had to be brought to the sur face in a sack. JK' - . Copyright lSXS.I.!. M. Woc.ll .Sc fkn. ,We will sell you a handsome Dress Overcoat, EQUAL TQ At $13.00, $13.50, $14.00, Isomer line lrom lb,uu to $,'i.ui. Depend upon it, we do exactly wnat we say every timr, are particularly anxious that our ability to please should L. M. WOOLF & S0I, CLOTHIERS AND FURNISHERS, JOHNSTOWN. IP.A. LOUTH ER'S JDttXTG- STOEE. Xr-A-Iisr STREET, This Model Irng Stora is rapldlj pie n Search, of jFKESH iViSTD PUKE DRUGS, MEDICINES, DYE STUFFS, SPONGES. TOIXET ARTICLES, SUPPORTERS, &c. &c. THE DOCTOR GIVES PERSOSAL ATTENTION TO THE COMPulSDISG 0t PHYSICIANS' PRESCRIPTiOSS AID FAMILY RECEIPTS, GREAT CARE BE1SG TAKEX TO ISC O.SLV FRESH ASO PL RE AMU US. SPECTACLES,'EYE-GLASSES. And a Full Line of Optical such a large assortment all can be suited. The Finest Brands of Cigar Always on hand. It is goods to intending purchasers, whether they buy from us o: elsewhere. J. M. BARGAINS! GRAND CLOSING OUT SALE! In order to reduce my Stock sell all goods on hand at COST, from now until December 1st. latches, Clocks, Jewelry and Silverware CALL AND EXAMINE. THE W. H. WOOD, NO. S BAER BLOCK, SOMERSET, PA- J. H. BORLAND, WHOLESALE AUCTIONEER Manufacturer's A-ent BOOTS, SHOES, RUBBERS. 723 and 725 Liberty Street, (HEAD OF WOOD,) PITTSBURGH, PENN'A REOI'LAR AtniOV SALW GOODS AT FArT'RT PRN'1 Every Bl II a. n. AT PBIVATE ALa JT'Mail orders receive Prompt and Careful attention. I sell goods 20 to 25 per cent, lower than the Jobbing Trjj and deliver either direct from house in Pittsburgh, and ran in my line, that it will pay them to call on me before their purchases. As my stock Anri vafi hnva a sample. My FALL STYLES are the handsomest and text r-.si by any dealer in the IT. S. My specialties are SOLID LEATHW HONEST DEALING. Iam the OXLY RUBBER A0EU PITTSBURGH, and offer this full LYCOMING. MS YES, CAN & NATIONAL RUBBER COMPANrS GOOI$, a Pfj citnnot be met by Jobbers ; besides, I alwavs have a full line o'. as well as Job Lots of Rubbers, at 10 to 20 per cent below the mf' . 1 1 . ... i w .... . . . fait ui-. uinuuaru, nrsi-quainy goons, i Pell I .1- i - . i - r ' t- T ximo iuu uiigreex hi me u o. i pen a men s eai - , j; Bal i Double Sole, SOLID LEATHER, that you can K81' & ? J end for Sample of both of above. Sole agent for JOH.N" ML'N CO S " SOLAR TIP " SHOES. ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. Eiuw of Maiy Bmroett, dee'd, Ut of Jam tMtUri ot uminlnntloa on tho obore Mtato hTlo tMn trrantod to tho amlert Icood bj tho propor author It j, outlet , hereby given to nil poraool Indebted to laid eute to uti Immedi ate payment, and tboeo hartn; claims acatniltne 1 preeent them duly authenticated for etltemest on Sal onlay, the 14th of November, 1KS6, t the lata reeldenea ol said decease!, la Jenner Uwnthlp. HENKY F. BARRETT, oot Admin bnratur. THE VITAL QUESTION Wlere SMI I Fiircliase mj Ovgrccat ? . To further delay the purely your Overcoat becomes impost and now let us help you to am the above question. We "jellyouagood.stro,. and serviceable Man s Overcoat c $2.50, $3.50, $.',.00, 5-6 00 X $;.;0. We will sellyou afjj Stylish, DRESS OVERCOAT, (Well Made and Trimmed r $7.00, $8.00, $3.50, $9.00 or J? Wr will eoYI '-k- a i " Globe Casimere, Black Diagonal ' Fancv Cheviot O $10.50, $11.00, $11.50, liOol1 S12.50. 01 CUSTOM MADE, $14.50 or $15, and a still hani SOMERSET, FA.. tocsraing a Grsat ra73rl:3 ttIA ?: PERFUMES, TRUSSE Goods always on hand. Froin always a pleasure to display or I LOUTHER, M. D. BARGAINS for the Christmas Holidays, I PRICES WILL ASTONISH or CARPETS AND OIL US the ractory, or from my nsnrp Afprr hnnta h.indlins S001" is always very full ol the best J shoe in .vien Wst ,i . . . - i rt i r f -., TYiG . I . EDITOR'S NOTICh. - -i I At an Orphan.' Co-rt k,H t S,r on tDe win uejr ui xun, - k, j tion of (be mode In tbe bon.l '0fj I ami among thoae k,eily "f1 f ' 5J 3 la hereby iven that he will Alia InhliriUlaTOI IDJ MUW . .''I , UM. at hie ofe I r f 1
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