The Somerset Herald. EDWAl'.I) S'VI.!.. IMilor and l,p.prici.or Antral 1". "' REPUBLICANNOMINATIONS. COUNTY. PK SH F.KIKF, RPSH . M MlU.KN. ..rMiddleet-eekTw-p. FR lTii'THOV-TAIiY. DANIK1. J. H i:NKIi. of Somerset V-ir. FOR RKt.ISTF.K AND RtKI)KO. JAXJJ I. SWANK, of t'oiicruaugh Twp. FOR TKKASCKF.R. ;K(. J. HI.ACK, ejf Me-yer-dale ISor. FOR OtMMlSSI'iN'KIiS, DAVID K. WA'.NKR, ofSImdeTwp. OWUNiE M. NF.FF, of Somerset Hot. for i"ooit imi'sk dirkc-Tor. JACOli M. FIKK. of S.iriH-il Twp. FOR AFPIToRS GAP.UIEI. CHtI), of Somerset Twp. SAMVKI. I". SIIOI.F.R. of Som.-rs.-t Twp. FOR COKoNEIt, FRANK W'l.F. of Meyersdale Bor. Hox. Sami ki. J. Rasdaij. dee-lares Ktie rifically that the I resident ial liee is not buzzing in his Ismne-t. Ma, Henry S. Ivks, the broker who wanted to, I tut didn't Imy the B. AO. railroad, liar? lnste-d. . Mis liabiliti'- amount to only frWWl- Sthi-iiks A. IMwkv twya that Klaitie an. I KainhiU will 1 nominee of the ne xt Ke-publi.-an National Convention. Of course Stephen known all alxiiit it. Kevti kv's endorsement of the Pre-si-dent is. to nay the l.-ast of it, not a very enthusiastic one-. Tin' i-oiintry is anx iously awaiting the (arli-de-WatU-rson lla nation. The I'rohiliition iiii-stiou must lie pret ty hot in Tennessee, h-u a srlnsi U-acli-er in driven away from the house in which he taught aii'l an anti-I'roliiliilion-ist installed in his piaee.by a inoh. The railroad disaster at Venuillion riv er ix the most horrible one in the annals of thin country, ami theterriUe suspicion is training ground that it was oe-ra-sioiied by the ad of criminal intent on plunder. What do the manufacturer and work-ingiiie-n think of tlie ( VvelaiiiMarlitdc- thin method of reducing the surplus by kei-jr.ng the tax on w hiskey and tobacco, and Hum oomju'l a reduction of dutioson iniairtsl fon-ign falirii-s? SoMKof'otir sanguine I lemocratic con t'tiirariet had a brief season of rejoic ing over their victory in Kentucky. They are, now busily employed tryiiijr to ex-trae-t comfort from the adage that " enough in a-s goes! as a feast." Osicof the significant features of tin lute Kentucky contest isthat JJradley.the Republican candidate for inventor, ed alamt 1 -". vote-s, or 7.000 more than w ere rant for Maine, while I'.uckner, I em-oe-rat, reevived about 13."i.tHK), or 7,000 let than were pi veil to Cleveland. "Thhkk is little reason for I leniix-rutic . hunts-ring,'' aava the I Vim K-r.it ic Wash ington 7', and jtruvef it by adding that out of a xnsible .Vt.FU fourth-class post masterships, 47,'.f.i2 have thus far been piven to I k-mocruta. The remainder an ho undi-sirable, at) to emoluments, that lk-inocrut don't apply for them. Washington news gatherers say that it is deliniU'ly determined that the Presi dent will leave the capital the last week in SeptemlKT, and pi directly to St. IMiis and from theiwv "sw inj:arounl the cir cle," taking in Chicago, Milwaukee, Mad ison, St. I'aul, MinueaHilis, Omaha, Kan sas City, Memphis, Nashville and At lanta. Sim k ienuany h:ixailopteil the protec tive jmlicy, wa-s, which were at the loweot msible point in that country, have steadily advanced. Yet, the Ik-mo-cratic lealers, in the face of ibis fact, are tn-inu to is-rsnade the lalKirin-' men of this country that they will Is- ls-liefitted bv abolishinir the protective fcatun-s of our taritf. That the iltvlaration of the Ohiolk--lttncra-y atrainst protection, was inspired bv the National Administration can scarce tie doubted, sinif Mr. Cleveland's otvans an' warning their journalistic brethn-n that they " had U-tter Is- care ful how thev en-lorse the National Ad ministration in one column and coiideinn the tliio platform in another." Senator Yhoi:iim exptvssi-s his satis faction with the pnigress which the Ad ministration has made in removing Re- publiams from otlice in Indiana. He knows of but one Presidential pft otlii-e in the Suite that is not now tilled by I k-mocrat, and if a Republican lie left in any third-class post otlice in Indiana it is liccause no IV-mocrat was w illing to take iU While every other nation upon the glolie is tidgcting alsmt how to raise mon ey to pay its interiM ami keep up apiear ances, -.he I nitel States is mainly Isrther sl with the question w hat to do w ith tiie millions of surplus in the treasury. This is one of the inheritances of licpuhlicun financiering. :ut it is U-tter than the collapsed treasury Kcihlicans found w hen they took ch.-ir-- of the Vation'saf faim. t tKFM I al returns from all but fourcoun ties in Kentucky with est i ma to 1 returns from these, show that the vote polled at the late election exceeds by nearly lO.lKK) the vote cast at the lust Iresidcntial elect ion, and that (ieneral Buckner has only a lieggarly majority of S.-t-Vt over all, on the largi-st vote ever cast in the State. This prove that a wonderful revolution lias taken place in the jiolitinil sentiment of Kentucky, and that she is preparing to take position in the liepublican ranks. Mivh ado was nude the other day at the White House on the presentation to President Cleveland of a series of resolu tions passed by the National Yeteran As sociation of Ik-s Moines, Iowa, assuming to voice the sentiment of 10,HI0 ox-Union soldiers of that State. When it is un derstood that the resolutions were gotten ifp by a local Ik-ni.H-r.itic organiuitioit of ex-aoldiers, numbering exaily forty-one iiiein I re, it w ill lie seen to -w hat extent they represent the views of the great bulk of low a veterans. UMTKH STATB. SexaTOB KlIIOl.EHKW.KK, of Virginia, is in an ugly scrajK. On Thunlay last a clietit of his, w ho was on trial for larceny was adjudged insane by tlie jury. This incensed tlie S-nator very much and he is accused of w riting a pla card and hiring s boy to haul his client through the town, the latter displaying tlie placard on w hich was w rittoe: '-.Verdict, Bill Jones not guily, but insane: Jury iuMtne. lawyers insane. Court in sane in the main." The court was inter rupted by Ua noise accompanying this display; an order was iasued to Kiddle berger to apiwar before the court, where, after a hearing, he was adjudged guilty of roitt-ni4 and fitted f L'V He tin n d-ne-l the eottrt and was committed to jail for five days- At midnights mob of lift persons broke into the jail and released the Senator. The court w ill of course vindicate it dignity and iU authority, and the end is tfrt yet This is a pnrry sjic-taclc pn-xeiited to the cmnty. A iawyer and a Uw-maker, defying ami holding up to ridicule and contempt a judfr for administering the law, and then availing himself of mob law to escape me consequent of his bad conduct. Mil Watteksox assures the friends of the IWident that the laU- cle-ton in Kentucky w as "devoid of earnestness on the part of the ItemocratH, and yet, so large a vote was never befont cast in me State, the incn-ase lieing nearly lO.OtK) over the vote of 1SS4. In the I k nio crats iiolled l.tt.til 5 votes and e!e-ted Proctor Knott (iovernor by a majority of 4A"A. this vear they polleil alsiut l-J.V'HX) and their majority will hardly reach 6,(H. These figures effectually disjmse of the pretext that the result is due to Iemo- (ratic apathy. The 1'hiladeiphia lUn,rd is honest if it is not politic. It insist that the Allen- tow n convention shall not play the hypo crite, by endorsing Cleveland and pro fessing to favor profc-ction. It further in sists that, the President and the great mass of the party are in favor of adopting the Ohio tariff resolution w hich suit the IVmiK-raU and displease, the ii-publi- cans, and that "an ho nest party is al ways ready to declare 1U real principles. In this latter declaration we fully agree with the ll.ctr'l, and we would welcome a straightforward ami nonesi enunciation of principles, and a square stand up light ou the question of Protection, just for the fun of showing how deep we coulil bury l'ree Trade in IViinsylvania. The Ik-mocratic anti-Pr.it--ioiiist jour nals at- getting nervous as the next ses sion ot nmgrcss oraws nigu, ' meagre Ik-ims ratic majority ofsitt-n in the Ibus!. Nothing but the severest party discipline can hold the jmrty up to the line of " Tariff for Revenue only," and -.1:. :.l ft... TlurrUliiirvr Va- wvmiiu;i. v W.rf shaking the parlv lash in the fa, of Mr. Randall and his fellow Prt?-ti( mists in the follow ing style : "When iimgrcss -sinhli-s in PcviiiUr next the democratic majority in the hoiie must uniu-iiMiti a sclriue t,f tax ntluctiin. Tin- only pow.'lili- plan t.i secure unity of ac tion is liy miiitis of a inucus of the il. llio cratic n-presi-iitativcs. I tie uemocraue n-p- lew-ntaiive who will n-l'm tetit-r s:n-h a - , i i :ii i... caucus ami atn-ie ' us utoiuu n w nr n-Htit to hi- duty to Ins party nni to tin ami w ill U-'siinimarilv dealt with at the j.tlis. Mark that ! F.xcwivc t.ixatioii nmi l-snpil. If the n-puhlican pany coiitinuc-s it course of ob struct ion to miitsiiri-s of tax nsluelioii it will ls-isd out of p..,liti al exi-teie-e in lsss. If detnis-ratii- eoimn-ssiiien prove Ciitldess bv nitlllg the will of the majority of the wr ty in mngrcj-s tin y may as well miikc up their minds to pa, k up tiai: and lai''age lor a final exit from the party. The time for liarleving and wlteriiig w-ith traitors to the ln-ople s ismse is pal The lime for decision and n-o!ute aclinii has come." Colonel Henry Watterson of Kentucky adoptetl this s;iiiie summary method of reading a nttmls-r of pi-ople out of the iH-inis ratic jarty, and judging fn.ui the returns of the late election in that State he apis-ars to have overdone the matter. The 1'iU Wrought to know that the clanger ahead cannot le obviated w ith a club. How to coerce Hon. Samuel J. Randall into assenting to the revision of the Tar iff in a Free Trade sense, is the problem that is worrying the leaders of the Ad ministration forces. Some time since, it was suggested that a bill, so revising the Tariff, should W iiitriHlutisl into the next House as the Administration's bill, and that any Ik-nns-rat w ho voted against it should be read out of the party. But then came the hitch that, the fellow who was read out of the jmrty still had a vote in the House and would retain his seat for two years, despite the Administration. Now comes another prossition, that a Ik-mocratis caucus Ik- called, upon the as sembling of the next congress, that a line of policy on the question of tariff reduc tion lie adopted by the majority, and that any lnenilier who w ill refuse to enter the caucus and abide by its decision will forthwith, Is- ejected from the jurty. The same difficulty lies in the way of enforcing this proposition, as blocked the way to t he ado t ion of the former one. The Administration can neither remove j nor elect a tneinlH-r of Congress. All this j worn-in attempting to devise a plan i whereby the Free Trade majority can capture the Protection minority in the ; next House, is equivalent loan admission j that the handful of Protectionist IVmo- ! cmts hold the balance of power on that j question, and then-fore the attempt ... I scare thein into measures by futile threat of thrusting them out of the party. Mr. Randall and his fellow lk-mocr.itie tneni-l-rs,who supirt the silicy of Protection, do so in accordance w ith the w ishes and interests of tln-ir constituents, and it would lie ilitical suicide for them to submit to the dictation of the Adminis tration, or the arty majority in this matter. The suggestion to coerce them into surrendering their convictions, and the interests of the people they represent I has its value, as showing how completely Mr. Cleveland has identified himself with the Free Trade wing of his jiarty and how little regard he and it have for the wishes and interests of the people, as voiced by their representatives. Will the Allentown Convention De clare for Randall or for Cleveland ? There can be no doubt that the great Issly of the Ik-inocmtic party in the country is in harmony with President Cleveland' admin istration and with a large majority of the Ik-mocrats in the fiftieth t'ongress in regard to a suttatilial n-fcrm of the tariff as a pro gramme of irty policy and an eswiitial tMtiditiou of jtolitical HiKttss. Non-an there be any doubt that the masncs of the Nation al lk-nicx-ratic arty are heartily in symja thy with the President upon the issue which his la-publican opponents have made with him concerning the veto of the Indigent Pension bill. The Ik-mocratic platform of Ohio faithfully outlines the true policy of tlie party. If the real setitiim-nts of the Ik-miK-rats of Pennsylvania could be ex pressed they would declare for this program of Kilicy in the State Con veil turn which will met at Allentowu in the latter part of Aug- ust. Hut an atu-nit will undoubtedly lie made to stifle the voice of the Iktnocrsts nf 1 eunsylvama by processes which have Iwceti adopted since the organization of the nrty fell under Us present fatal colUrol ; and the machine-made mob from this city and a sim ilar delegation from Alleghany county, un der the control of Federal office-holders owing allegiance to Randall, will undertake to segregate the lVmocrats ( Pennsylvania fnmi the National Ik-mocratic jiarty.as they have done in former Conventions. It may lie said that in the hopeless and helpless condition into whic h i!ie lk-niocrut-ic organisation in Peiiusvlvanta has lieen I brought by lUmlalismf it matters little what j the Allentowu Convention may or may not resolve iu regard lo the wlicy of the party. Suchaph-adesi-rves no serious coiisiilcrut ion. i TIm; ludf million Ik-mncrats of the second state ofthe I'liion should not be misrepre sented by a selfish chief of faction in the councils of the (arty . They should no long er suffer themselves to be put in a lalse -sition of antagonism toward tlie National Ik-mis-ratir org-anixation and tlie policy of the Ikniocratie aihuinistnuioii of tleveianiL It is for the Iktuocrats who will assemble at AilentowD to say w hether such a humiliat ing condition of things shall be maintained. 1'nder the had of llandall tlicir party will become nothing bt-r than a Under to the ft-puhlican machine. it.&iddphia JUcurd. DOWN TO DEATH. Sixteen Crowded Cars Plunge Through a Bridge. SCENES OF FRICHTFUL MISERY. One Hundred and Eighteen Killed and More than Three Hundred Injured Some Suspicion of Foul Play. An excursion train, carrying W passen pers. Is-iind to Niagara Falls, shout midnight of Wedm-Kilay plunged through a burned bridgf near the town of OiatKWorth. I1L, on t.h1, Peoria and Western Railway. The list of dead numls-ra lit, and of the 2 woitndel it is probable that many will die. Tlierorpxesofthedjud and the persons of the injured were plundered of money and jeweler', and this fat gives rise to the sus picion that the briilge was purjKwely fired in order to cause the disaster and turnish opportunity for the robbery. isto the Awn l chasm. Chihaoo, Aug. 11 The Tint' special de spatches from Forest, 111., give the following description of tlie calmity : All the railway liorrori in the history ot this country were surpassed three miles east of Chatswortli last uighl, when an excursion truiu on the Tjledo, Peoria and Western Road dropHxl through a burning bridge and over MO wople were killeil and four times that niinilier were more or less badly injur ed. The train was couqiostd of six sleeping lars, six day coaches and thaircars and three baggam- c-ars. It was rairryiug passen- ! gi-rs, all excursionists, and was bound for Niagara Falls. The train had lieen made up all along the line of the Toledo. Peoria and j Western road, and the excursionists hailed from various iirit in Ontral Illinois, the I hulk of them: however, coming from Peoria. some of the jasn-nger came from t'auton, j:i Paso, Washington and. in fact, all stations along the line; some from as far West as Burlington and Keokuk, la. A special and cheap rate had U-eii made for the excursion and all sorts of people t.k advantage of it. When the train drew out of Peoria at S o'.-l'H'k lat evening it w;w loadeil to its utmost caacity. Everj- Is-rth inslxsh-einrs was taken, and tlie day cars carried sixty ti,ple each. The train was so heavy that two engines were hitched to it, and when it .... u . .-1 . h,.lf M" -" ' " " behind time, (.'hatsworth.he next station East of here, is six miles off, and the run there was mack- in seven minutes; so the I terrible momentum of those fifteen couches ' and two engines shooting through space at ! the rate of a mile a minute call Is? under stood. No slop was made at Chatsworl!i, ; and on and on the heavy train, with its liv ! imr freight, sK-d through the dark nessof the j the- night. I Three miles East of t'liatsworth is a little slough, where the railroad crosst-s a dry mil alsiut ten fe-t deej) and fifteen feet wide. Over this w as stretched an ordinary wooden trestle liridg-. and as the excursion train csiine thundering down on it what was the horror of the engineer on the front engine wheu he saw that the bridge was a-fire. Right up before his eyes leajs-d the bright tl.iines, and the next instant he was among them. There was no chance to stop. Had there Is-cn wanting it would have taken a half mile to stop that on rushing mass of wood, iron and human lives, and the train was within 1 yards of the nsl-longiied nie-MctigcTs of de.ith before they Hashed their fata! signals into the engineer's face. Hut he passed over ill sa:-ty, tile nridge fell be neath it. and it could only have been the ter rific speed of the train which saved the lives of the engineer and his fireman. PottTV I'HOi'LE INSTANTLY kll.LKI). But the next engine went down, and in stantly the deed wa-doue. Carcrashed into car, i-oaclies piled on top of one another, and in the tw inkling of an eye nearly forty peo ple found instant death and fifty more were so hurt they could not live. As for the wounded, they were everywhere. Only the sic, ping coaches escajssl. and as the startled and half-dressed passengers came tumbling out of them ihey found such a scene of death as is rarely w itnessed and such work to do that it seemed as if human hands wereutter ly inciipahle. It lacked but five minutes of midnight. Jkiwn in the ditch lay tlie second engineer. Mct'lintock, dead, and Fireman Applegate badly injured. On top were piled the three baggage cars, one on top of anoth er like a child's card house after he had swept it with his hand. Then came the six day coac hes. They were tclcscoied as cars never were In-fore, and three of them were pn-s,sl into just enough sjuc-e for one. The scv.niil car had mounted off its tracks, crash ed through the ear ahead of it. crushing the wcsslwork aside like tinilcr.and lav there ting on the t... of the seats, while every Ut.ss,.iiger m the front car was lying dead and dying underneath. Out of that iar hut four came alive. On top of the second car lay the third, and its isittom was smeared with the blood of its victims, The three other ears were not so badly crushe.1, but they were brokeu and twisted in even coiicrivaiiic wav aim even" cnisiieci I . . . . . . . liuuVr and lieam represented a crusli-d hu man frame and a broken bone. Iiistauly the air was tilled with cries of the wounded and the shrieks of those about to die. The groans of men slid the screams of women united to make an apalling sound and alsiveall could In- heard tlie agonizing cries of little children, as in some instances they luy pinned alongside their dead can-tits. And there wxs atiotla-r terrible danger vet to Is- met. The bridge was still burning and the w recked cars were lying on and around '' uereely burning emls-r,. F.verywhere I in the wreck were wounded and unhurt men i women and children, whose lives could be saved if they could begotten out. but whose i di-ath. and death in a most horrid form, was I certain if the twisted wood ofthe broken cars I caught tire. And to fight the fire there was not a drop of w ater and only some fifty able- IshIkiI men who still had presence of mind and nerve enough tc do tlK-ir duty. The only light was the light of the burning bridge And with so much of its aid the fifty men went to work to tight tlie flames. For four huur they fought like liemb, and tor four hours the victory hung in the bal ance. 9 rtOHTlM, THE TIKE WITH EARTH. Earth was the only weapon with which the foe could lie fought, and tlie attempt was made to smother u tint, there was no pick or shovel to dig it up ; no baskets or bar rows to carry it, and so desieratc were tliey that they dug their fingers down into the earth, which a lougdrouth had Iwked almost as hard as stone, and heaped the precious handftilsthits hardly won njsm the-enc-n wil ing flames, and with this earthwork, built handful bv handful, keirt liack the foe. While this was going on other brave men j crept underneath the wrecked cars, beneath the fire and the wooden beams which held as prisoners so many precious lives, and with pieces of board and sometimes their hands beat back the fiamcs when they flash ed up alongside some unfortunate wretch who, pinned down by a heavy beam, looked on helplessly while it seemed as if his death by fire was certain ; and while the fight was thus going on the earn of the workers were filled with the groan of dying men. the anguished entreaties of tlxise whose death seemed certain utile the terrible blaze could be extinguished, and tlie cries of those too badly hurt to care in what manner the end were brought about, so only it would be quick. So they dug up the earth with their hands, reckless of blood streaming out h-om bmken finger nails and heaping it up in little piles, while alt the while came the heart rending cry For Ood's sake don't let us burn to death !" But finally the victory was won, the fire was put out after four hours of endeavoring, and as its last sparks died away a light came up in the Fast to take their place and dawn came Uon a seem- of hornet. While the fight had been goiugon, men had Is vi i dying and there were not so many wounded to lake out of the wreck as there had been four hours before. But in tlie mean time, the country hail been aroused ; lielp had come from tliatsworth, Forest and Pi-r City, and as the dead were reverently Laid aloneileof ew-h other out in tlw cornfield tliere were ready hands to take them into (batsworili. while someof llie vimmled wen- tarried to Piper t:lty. One hundred and eighteen was the awful poll of the dead. while the wounded numbered four times that many. The full tale of the dead cannot. however, lie told yet Sir days. A ToWH HAI'ltA MoltOt'K. Chatsworth was tnrued into a morgue to day. Tlie Town Hall, the engine house and the depot were full of dead bodies, while ev ery house in the village has its quota of the wounded. There were over 100 corpse ly ing in ttie extemporized ni-auiiouse. i . j ... , . every man and woman was vunieo nuo an amateur but zealous nurse. Over in a hrrnber yard the noise of hammers arid sow? rang out in the air, and busy carpenters were making rough rollins to carry to tli4r homes the dead Itodiea of the excursionists, who 12 hours before had Ml their homes full of pleasurable expectations of the enjoyment they were going to have during the vacation which had begun. When the news of the disaster was first flashed over the wires, prompt aid was at one sent. lr. Steele, chief surgeon of the Toledo, Peoria and Western Bond, had come- on a special train, and with him there were two other surgeons and their assistants. From Peoria also came Drs. Martin, Baker, Fluegler and Johnson, and from every city whence the unfortunate excursionists had come their physicians and friends hurried on to help them. From Peoria hail also come delegations of the Red men and the Ancient Order of I'nited Workmen, members of both societies being on the ill-fated train, and so after 8 o'clock this morning there were plen ty of wople to do the work that needed such prompt attention. In tne lowu Hall was the main hospital, and in it anxion relatives and sorrowing friends sat aud, fanning gent ly the sufferers' faces queried the attending surgeons as they bound up their wounds and insisted that there must lie hope. Down in the deadhousfis fathers, husbands, brothers. sisters, wives and children fearfully insjs-c- ted each face as it was uncovered, and sighed as the features were unknown, or cried out in anguish when the well-known face, some times fearfully mangled, but yet recognizable was micoieaed. The entire cawity of the littie village was taxed, and kind-hearted women drove in for miles to give their geuile ministrations to the sufferers. No sooner had the wreck occurred than a scene of robbery commenced. Sonic liand of utisjieakable miscreants, heartless and with o i!y animal instincts, was on hand, and like the guerrillas who throng the battlc-lield the night after the con Diet and filch from the dead the money which they received for tin-ir meager pay, stealing even the bronze Hslai" and nibbing from the children of he me, fie emtilcins ol tliesr tattlers nravery. last uigiit did these human hyenas pinn ae- dead from this terrible accident, and take i-Vi-Ji the shoes whic.ii covered their feet. Who these had wretches are is unknown. I'iiether they were a band of pickpockets who accompanied the train or some robber gang who were lurking in the vicinity can not be said. The horrible suspicion, howev er, exists, and their are many who give it :-redit that the accident was a' dc-lilieratly planned case of train wrecking; that the bridge wa set on fire by miscreants who ho !ed to seize the opiortunity offered, and the fact that the bridge was so far consumed at the time the train came along, and the added fact that the train was an hour and a half late, are pointed out as evidences of a careful conspiracy. It seems hardly ucavuhle that men could be so lost to all the ordinary feelings which animate the basest of the hu man race; still men who will nib dead men; who will steal from the dying and will plunder the wounded held down by brokeu beams of a wrecked car, whose death by fire scchicil imminent, can uo anyimng which is base, and that is what these fiends iu human form did. They went into the cars when the fire was burning fiercely underneath and when the lHir wretches who were pinned there Ix-ggi-d them for God's sake to help them out, stripped them of their watches and jewelry and starched their ockets Sir money. When the dead bodies were laid out in the cornfield j these hyenas turned them over in search of their valuables, ami that the plundering was done by an organized gang was proven by the fact that this morning out in the corn field sixteen purses, all empty, were found in one heap. It was a ghastly plundering. and had the plunderers been caught this atlcrnooii they woulef surely have been lynched. A hcshand's sriciiiK. There was one incident which stood out more horrible than all of those horrible' semes, in tlie second coach was a man, his wife and little child. His name could not be learned to-day, but it is said be got on at Pe oria. Vt lien tlie accident occurred me entire f iniily was caught and held down hy broken wcsslwork. Finally, when relief came the man turned lo them friendly and feebly said: "Take out my wife first. I am afraid the child is dcael." So they first carried out the mother, and as a broken seat was taken off her crushed breast, the blessl which flowed from her lips showed how badly she w:is hurt. They carried the child a fair-headed, blue-eyed girl of 3, and laid her in the corn field dead, alongside of her dying mother. Then llu-v went back for the father and brought him out. Both his legs were bro ken, but he crawled through the cornfield to the side of his wife, and feeling her loved fe-atures in the darknes pn-sscd some brandy to her lips and asked her how she full. A lecblegnian was the only reply and the next instant she died. Tlie man felt the forms of his dead wife and child, and cried out : " My isl there is nothing more for na- to live for now," and, taking a pistol out of his pocket pulled tlie trigger. The bullet went surely through his brain, and the three dead bodies of that little family are now lying side by side in t'haue worth waiting to be identified. A Wealthy Beggar. IJoston, August 14. Mrs. Mary Smith, a disreputable ohl woman aged 7i, who for years has lieen all eye-sore Usm the streets of this city and has been arrested any num ber of times tor pilfering and eating out of garbage barrels, besides having lieen five times in the alms house, was-accidentally knocked down and nin over on Hudson St., last night by a butcher cart, and died in her garret at No. 71 Allwny street this morning. Slie was covered with rags which were alive with vermin, but wheu the health officer Ik gan to clear out her room a gold mine was struck. In the mattress was$.iti0 in money. l'ln her dress $7,500 in bills, $.'t.om) in pa per currency ill the closet, a bank-lsnjk with a credit of s,u00 in the trunk and 10,000 in Government bonds in an old dress iu the same trunk. She has uo relatives as far as known and the find creates great excitement. She had Iss-n a professional beggar from ear ly womanhood. Rice Lands Overflowed. Ciiaklbto, S. C, August 10. RejKirtt received this morning from the freshets in the rice districts indicate a total loss ofthe. crop on the Savanah river. This it is esti mated reduces the Carolina rice yield to about half a crop. Twenty thousand acres of rice an? now under water i u tlie rice sec tions of (Georgia and Carolina. In the rice district around Charleston the crop is unin jured. There will le no serious damage done here unless high easterly winds should set ill and back up salt water on the planta tions. The river at Augusta was thirty-four feet until seven o'clock this morning. It has since fallen slightly. Fred Douglass' Return. Niw York. Aug, 13. Fred Douglass re turned from Kunipe to-eliey. K very where he was accorded many courtesies, and returns with a favorable impression of the countries through which he has traveled. While in France he visited the French Senate, and as a reptw-!itative colored man of this country was conlially received andeiib-rtaincd by the French eligtiitaries. Nowhere," Mr. Ikaiglasc said, by a sin gle word, look or ge-stnre was disapproval expressed ot my color, the kinks in my hair, and I hare had a most pleasant and agreeable time during my stay abroad."' A BIO PITTSBURG FIRE. The Heart of the Creat City Is De vastated by Flames. Prmsrwi, Aug. lZ-Thirty thousand people stocsl helplessly by for three hours last night and witnessed the destruction of three of the most valuable buildings is I'ittsiiurg, Ms sonic Hall, Samuel Hamilton's Music- Halt and Schmidt A Friday 's liquor store. Tl alarm was sou:iled from the box at Fifth avenue and Smithri -ld street at 9:30 o'clock, and all the engines in the district were on the scene in less than 10 minutes. The fire was found to be burning in the basemen! of thai part of Masonic Hall occupied by Hen ry Holtzman, upholsterer and furniture deal er, and originated from some extvlsi or stove therein. A dense volume of smoke was tlie first evidenae of the magnitude of tlie work Uiat greeted the firemen. There were no early indications of stubtioniness and the firemen sent several st renins of water into the base ment, exjiecting usual results. Still the volumes of smoke issued from every crevice. In 13 minutes a blaze of dark lurid fire shot out into the darkness in the store room of CaniplieU fc Dick. Iu a few momenta a .stream of water broke the plate glass win dows on its way to quench the advancing fire. The stream was powerless lo check it, however, and another and another followed it, hut the flames had found the shelves burdened with light calicoes, muslins and cotton goods and was devouring them re gardless of the many efforts of the firemen to drown them out. A VAST SHEET Or FLAWS. The interior ofthe great store room, filled as it was with articles of a cumbustible na ture, was soon a sheet os seething names and for a half hour t he combined, efforts of the "firemen, front and rear, were powerless to extinguished it. Meantime the fire hail extended to the buildings in the rear of Masonic Hall. An other alarm was sent in followed by another till every engine in the c ity was on the ground and an apul was sent to Allegheny for assistance. Onc-el he (lames had broken through the floor of the first story they had little difficul ty in extending to the second floor, and in a few minutes both fioors were burning at the same time. Shortly before 11 o'clock they found an approach to the roof through the medium or the elevator Hume. In 10 uiin utes more the top ofthe building was aflame and the hook and ladder truck was unlim-Is-red and brought into requisition. A doz en men mounted to the roof and took iosi tion on the ladder, and in 1.) minutes the fire on the roof was under apparent control. Soon the Holtzman store room, adjoining the store of Campbell S Dick, was one sheet of Maine. In 10 minutes Um worth of goods were burned. T A KINO A FATAL HOLU. Again the fire obtained jssession of the nsif, and this time it refused to 1 swept off by the streams of water thrown upon it. They leaped up, and still higher, till they toak hold upon the woodwork of the u-pose-d fire-proof Hamilton building. The glass broke and they entered the building and took hold uisui the flooring, the wains coating and the timln-rs under the roof. The west wind cooled the brows of the panting firemen, hut if was an inspiration to the flames and with renewed vigor aud volume they tisk hold of the tower of the building and in a moment were flying in the winds with the flag. From the rear of the miileling a pillar of flame burst forth like a huge vol ume of water and appalhsl and disheartened the firemen for a moment. It rushed for ward aud it took hold of the tower at its base. Finally the foundation supports were bunted otf and the conical tower fell with a crash to the street 1M0 h-ct lielow. THE PATH eF wis. Meantime the flames had been working downward through the flooring ofthe build ing and at 11 o'clock the four ttpjeer floors were completely envi lo-d. the Haines issu ing from the front and rear windows at the same time. The building was furnished with ho- on every floor and efforts were made to man tlic.-m. but they proved to be im ffc-ctnal. as the flames moved so rapidly that thev drove the volunteers and firemen from the halls and out into the street. At V1:M o'clock this ' morning it IwcaiUe evident that the Schmidt A Friday building could not he saved from the power of the fire, as little volumes of flame were seen to issue from the windows at short intervals. At 1 o'clock great volumes of flame burst out of the center of the naif. This blaze came from the ventilating ami lightning flume, w hich ou this occasion served the pur)sise of a blowpipe. Kroiu the flume the lire burned steadily toward the front of the building, but was confined largely to the seventh and eighth tlcsirs. The Humilloii building is badly damaged from the fonrth to the eighth flcsirs by fire, while the entire building is seriously damag ed by water. Thesjsirks that were so ge-nerally distrib uted at midnight were carried to the Opera House, which caught lire as did also Harris theater ami other buildings cireumjacciit, but the prompt action of the people on the roofs speedily extinguished the incipient flames. At midnight the prosect of a general con flagration was so great that the exrupants of the business houses ou Isith side-s of the street made preparations to move out. Post mastcr Iirkin called in all the delivery wag ons and summoned his employes iu order to Is- n-ady to remove the mails and valuables to a place of sa My. T11F.BI-R.XEH Rril.llISilS. Masonic Hall fronts on Fifth avenue for Oil fci-t and is three stories in height. On the ground floor CampN-ll and IKck, dry gexsls merchants occupied the remaining apart ment. The second floor, out a public hall, was occupied by Canibell and luck, while the third floor was taken up with the leslge nwtus of the Masonic Onk-r. The hall pro erty line ran half way U Virgin alley, liack of it, extending to the alley, Campbell Iick owned a three story brick building, which was connected with their main stores. It stood tlush with the eastern line ofthe hall property and below it was two frame buildjngs oe-cupiesl chiefly by Italians. The Hamilton building, site and all, cost about jJDO.OnO. Of this sumover ?70.no0 was paid for the site. The block contained lot rooms, and all of them were occupied by ten ants of the most desirable character. The building was insured for $110,000. It was eight stories in height, and the most impos ing business structure in the city, facing 50 feet on Fifth avenue and exteneliug back to Virgin Alley. The Schmidt & Friday building on Fifth avenue is .50 feet front, facing on the aveuue aud cost 130,000. It has ISO rooms, of which 40 were occupied when the fire took place. Its extreme heighlh, eight stories, made the frontage look very narrow, but an examina tion of its facilities for otlice business proves it one of the most desirable and last Jeaying pniiM-rticson the avenue; its depth miming clear back to Virgin alley compensated for its apparent narrowness. A Ranchman Murdered. Chicaoo, Aug. 10. The Chicago jsilice re ceived information to-Jay of the murder of William Camhell, a big ranchman of Texas, who was robbed in this city, it is thought, of 2..)Kt a year ago in Connelly's saloon, at Harrison street and Fourth avenue. Con nelly and one Farrell were tried Sir the crime. Farrell secured a new trial and Con nelly jumpe-d bail. July Campbell ar rivesl in MePheresoti, Kan., with a herd of eonies, heading for Chicago to assist in tlie prosecution of Farrell, whose case is still (tending. He had we an employe a tender named Van Ikerun, and on the evening of the iSith the two went to a barber shop in the little town. They left together and that was tlie last seen of CamjebeU alive. His body, with one tesit ami hand burned off. was found partially consnmed nn the top of a hav sine k the next dar seven miles west of where he eampnl the night previous. The head had hten eonipMely severed from the body. No trae of Van 1 Keren was found for two days, when lie was arrested with the herd of jxmies twenty miles farther on. A number of Campbell's letters and about $3, ono were found on him. WORK OF A STORM. Many Barns Blown to Atoms by the Gale A Farmer Instantly Kill edA Ball of Fire that Scat tered Pedestrians. Cakijh.s, Attaint IL The oldest inhabi tants say they -never saw such a furious storm as swept through tin f'uinU-rl.,nd Val ley tbi- eveiiiie. Tlie w bed b!e like a hur ricane, rain fell ill great sheets, and big hail steHwrameTeelting down, cutting fruit trees and what corn was left standing after the wind hail leveled great patches of it. iliiud iligetlashes of lightning followed each other in quick succession, w hile the thunder came : in short, deafening explosions like a crush of bursting cannon.. A large amount of val- I liable pros-rty has been ilcstniyed, but the hiss ran not yet be cstimahst; Between this city and Mechanicsbiirg, a distance of nine miles, uo 1 than fen Ixirns were blown to atoms and their contents tak en up in the wind till the heavens seemed clouded with flying debris. A farmer named Rerkiieimer, who lives near Middlesex, w as caught under the falling timtiers of his barn and instantly killeil. Several buildings at tlie Indian training school were damaged, and all over the vailcy houses were unroofed and big trees pulled up like weeds. The lightning killeil live stock in several instances. The total loss will reach many thousands of dollars. SWEEI'IXU THBOt'OH EKCmSel. Reaiiikc;, August 11. This section of the country was visited alsiut 4::snthis afternoon by a wind and rain storm of unexampled fury. Fot fifteen minutes the heavens were black as night and people had to use lights to transact business. The wind blew with the violence of a whirlwind, and to-night the streets are strewn with ttprootesl trees and thousands of broken branches. Window anes were smashed, grape arlsirs demolish ed aud fences overthrown. Charles Pea cock's coal office was wrecked by a big tree crashing down upon it, ami a unmls-r of sheds and barns were unroofed. At Seventh and Penn streets a ball of fire flew from the telephone wires against a cornice, then split into a sonre of smaller electric balls and scattered the terrified pe destrians in the street la-low in every direc tion. At High's Woods .ViOieople who had gath ered for the Kcacling Psiat Club's regatta were thoroughly drenched and the races had to be abandoned. Re-ports from the country districts are to .the ef!ii:t ihat eirti, which had promised a fine crop, is level. Many hay stacks are throw n to the winds and trees and fences are down in every direction. In F-ast Heading the hurricane did over 10,000 damage. Houses owned by Allierti lleaide-ticup. Magnus Ott and I. F. I-otz, and the frame malt house of William I)-ps-ii were unroofiil and partly demolished. In ! the Catholic. Lutheran and He-brew Ceme teries a number of huge trees wore lorn up and hurled among the monuments and tombstones, breaking and damaging many of tlietii At Mcllose iV. Co.'s fire brick works the tall brick stack was blown down, involving a lews of seve:nil thousand dollars. seniors h-VMAi.E ABotT I.e VSTKK. UiM'As-TKa. August 11. The storm was of short duration but of considerable violence in this city and the Northern part ot the coun ty. In the city ISitnor's large ware-house, near the Heading IH-pot. was completely ltn-i-isife-d and one wall badly shattered. Sever al other houses were unroofed and a iiuinlicr of ttees blown dowu. A barn belonging to a farmer named Suavely, at Petersburg, was strui-k by lightning and consumed with con tents. In the vicinity of IVnryn Park hail fell and the rain fell iu torrents. M ich in convenience was caused by the disarrangi--nu-nt ofthe telegraph wires. Ail 'Frisco Shaken. San Fkam isc-o, August 11. The tiiant Powder Works, locate-el at West llerkeley, six miles from this city, ae-ross San Francis co IJay, exploded at 2 o'cha-k this afternoon. The force of the explosion was such that windows along the battery front ii this city were smashed, and buildings throughout the entire business portion of the city iuivcn-d to an extent that it was be lieved the city had sustained a heavy earthquake sheak. There were four shis ks, the second and third al most simultaiie-ous and occurring shortly af teT the first. The fourth slunk was felt alsiut three minutes after the third. The first occurred in the nitro glycerine or mixing house, the others in the magazines resulting from the concussion caused by tin first. The first report from the scene ofthe dis aster was to the effect that 30 Chinamen had been killed, but later reiiorts showed that only one Chinaman was fatally injured and four white men and six Chinamen were se verely injured. The werks were owned by liandinah. Xeilson .fc Co., and a number of serious ex plosions had (K-curriHl prior to this one. on Chinamen losing their lives on a former oc casion. The sbes k of the explosion to-day was felt in thikland and Alameda most se verely. Windows were shattered in the for mer places and general commotion prevailed in this city. The explosions almost threw workmen who were employed on the wharf off tlie;ir feet. The bligljt llashe-s of the light of the ex plosion were seen through the haze- by but few, but when the slns-k was felt all instinc tively looke-d over towanl the Iierkclcy shore. When the second expleision esvitrrcd the fla-di was seen by hundreds. Fastened to the Track. Lnt lsvti.LE, August 11. Adolph Vie-nc-man. who lives near West Point, Kentucky, was found liouiid on the railway track near that village at 11 o'clock last night, lie was released a few moments before a lightning express train thundered by. Vieneman is 2o years old and lives with his. mother alsiut a mile from the Salt liiver Ilridge, near which is the town of West Point. Last night he had been to the drugstore aud alsiut it o'clc s k was on hi" way home. He had just walked across the long trestle, wheu he was accosted by three men who, he thinks, were tramps. They asked him what time it was and he drew out his watch, striking a matc h to see the dial. As he diel so, oneeif the men struck him on the bock ofthe licad with a club, felling him on the ground. He was ciii( kly beaten to insensibility by the ruf fians, who then ransacked his jsicki-ts, tak ing a small sum of money, a knife, watch and finger ring. When they finished they laid him across tlie trac ks and w ith a long bridle rein tie-d his hands and feet and then fastened his head to the rail. His senses were returning and he heard the men say he was elyitig and that a train would be along directly. They scampereel off as soon as they had finished. When Vieneman recovered he began scream ing for help and filially two men who were passing nunc to his assistance, v They releas ed him only ten minutes before the train passed and earrii-d him home, where he is now in a serious condition. The Drought Ovar. riitOAiio, Aug. 11. A litflit ruin ." II here for suvr-al hours last niirht whie h had a ve ry beneficial effect in resiling the atmosphen and subduing tlie incipient prairie tires about the rity. Tlie sltowor apjieared tei be iseiier.il throtit.'tiont the Xorthi-rr) rt of the state-, and the indications are that it will hy repeat ed to-day. A des)tih from Iliibucpie, la., says aUnit two inc hes of rniu fell lust evening lliroiigli uut the whole of Xortheaslern Iowa. Corn, grain and (icistnruge are gn-.it ly lic!ied by it. A despatch from (irand lLipiiU, Mie:h., is less reassuring, however, it suysthat a heavy rainstorm vLsik-d that section last night. It came tejo late 10 benefit the crops very much though it will lessen the danger from fires. Senator Cameron In (Jhicago. Chu-auq, August 14. Senator Don f'ainer 011. aee-onipanied by ex-tJovemor Samuel T. Hotiser, of Ili lena, Monuiiia, arriveil here to-day, on their return from a trip to Alaska. Senator Cameron went Kast on tlie after nsm train, having been hastily sninmoiM-.l to Ifcrrerlr Fanus, MasB wiiere his daughter lira very ill. SHOT TO DEATH IN UTAH. A Legal Execution Near Salt Lake City. Salt Laks, Utah, August 11. Freelerie k Hopt, alias " Welcome," was shot to death iu the yard of they penitentiary four miles from this city Uwlay. The tiring party con sisteil of five men with rifles. Ir. Hamilton pinned a rosette over Hopt's heart, told him to be firm and look straight at the guns and death would quickly come. He would not be mutilated, but would be if he flinched. The condemned man showed the ttmost firmness, and said he forgave everybody, but if he had got a fair show iu the first trial he would not lie here to-day. He came out of his cell smoking a cigar and kept it in his mouth to the last. He jeose-d f ir a photo graph. He was seatisl on a rlmir upon a blanket ; sat up straight and firm. Marshall liyer gave llie word: "Keady. fire." The crack; of five rifle rang out as one. and the rigid body of the dead man retained its pose, the IsKcy falling forward and the chair fall ing over backwards and his stiff limbs rest ing on the rung as when he sat upright. Two bullets pierced the small rosette pinntsl over his heart, one a little above the other. a little below the centre. iHaith was instan taneous. The case is one of great celebrity in I'tah anil Wyoming for its atrocious circumstan ces. The murder was erommittc-d at Park City. I'tah, on the night of July 3, Inso, the victim being John F.Turner, sou of John W. Turner, sheriff of I" tab county. He had started out w-ith two teams and met Hopt, who had been in jail in Provo, the county scat of I'tah county, for drtinkeness and horse; stealing. He engageil Hopt to help to drive a team. They camped together and were joined later hy Jack Kmersou. The deed was committed about 10 in the evening with an axe. The next day Hopt and KiiM-rson started with the teams, trading eiff the grain in the wagons for whiskey, and provisions, with the dead body iu the bottom under the sacks of grain. That nighl Hopt covered the body with rocks and brush and tried to burn it. The teams were turneti eastward, ami one was sold by Hoit at Pied mont and the other at Oreeii River. Hopt took the money, and hail a gay time with whiskey and wome n at Cheyenne, until Sher iff Turner, the father of the murdered man. caught up with him and identified him. In the meantime the be sly had been found and identified. ' On the way from Cheyenne, at tin-en liiv er and at Kcho, attempts were made to lynch Hopt, but he was protectee by Sheriff Tur ner, father of the vie tilu, who hail Hopt in custody. The first trial, February 10, lssi, he was convicted, but the I'nitol States supreme I e-ourt ordered a new trail, Iss-ause the judge's instuetioiis were not reduced to w riting, as ! rcsjiiinsl by the law. The see-ond conviction I March 3, lsX'l, was re-crsed on account of I Judge Hunter's errors. The third trial, ! April 151, resulted in ceinviction, another ap peal and the I'nited Stutes supreme court again revcrscel and ordered a new trial be cause the record did not contain the charge or Judge Hunter. Pending this a-al the territorial judge refused to grant a stay of execution and Hopt was aisint to lie shot to deal h iu spite of his appeal, when Acting tioveriior Thomas granted a respite. The fourth trial was held liefore Judge Onine. September 21 to 2s, lxs5, and resulted in a conviction, :ipH-als as before, and jiielgcme-iit affirmed, lleiiiittiture reached the Third district e-ourt here June 24. 17, and on June 24 the court reset the time for execu tion em August 11. Hopt having been given his choice Is-tweeti hanging and shooting, as ' the law of I'tah provides, cho-e to be shot to death, al.cl this final scene came of the bili ous case. Four Masked Men. San Fkancisco, Aug. 12. The west Isiund pa-sengi-rexpre-sstrainon the Southern Pacif ic Railroad was run off a switch near Papago, about 1.5 miles east of Tun-on, Arizona last night, by four nuiskesl men. The engine wxs ditched and the express car robbed of alsiut isi.'siO. The robbery eiee-urred at the same; oint where the westbound express was roblied ill April last. On the track beyond where the-train was brought to a standstill the robU-rs hail fastened three toriiedis-s to warn the engineer, and compel him to slop his train. The plan to turn the switch ami ditch the engine was evidently thought of later. As soon as the train went into the ditch one ofthe roblsrs. who was ttion the bank, commenced firing a Winchester rifle-. He shot twice through the slccier, and twice through the expre-ss car. They went to t he mail car ami made the men e-omi- out ami gel in the express cur. They onlered the messenger to ime out, but be would not open the disir. They then blew the door open with a giant cartridge, and forced the mail age nt to go to the car ahead. Two of the robliers then went in and one of them held IJoute Agent (iault and the mail agent in one end of the cur, while the other covered Smith, the messen ger, with u revolver, and made him ojeu the safe and put the money iu a sack. They hit him over the hcud with a revolver once hut did not injure him much. A complete description of the roblN-rs has he-en obtained, and tln-y are believed to la the same who roblied the train in April. The railway company and express com pany have each offered il.ooo for the arrest of the robls-rs. The train was not making full siieVd, and the ditching of the engine ami the following cur kept the force- of the shoe-k from the ios-s-ng-r couches. Another engine was set out from Tuscan immediate ly and the train was hauled into that place. Fought The Tarantulas. j Lami-ico. Mei., Aug. Id. The nirtiiailars I ol'a deadly duel ls-lween Se-nor Vie-toria. a j milling sjat-ulator. and Seiior IVdr-jsci, a ship i on ncr, have just mine out. j A lew wet-ks asro the two met at a ball ; given hen: by one of the e-hief ladies if the Swinish sc-ie-ty. The gentle-met, while I heated with wine, quarreled in tlie presence of the lady whom they lioth admired. Senor I Victoria clialli-ngeel Senor I'edraso. The latter aewpted the challenge and stipulated that the duel must take place in a dark room As he had the choice of wins he demand" ed thai he and Victoria enter the room, in which was to la- placed all the tarantulas of the most poisonous kind that could Ix pni cuivd. According to agreement tliey would devote theirenergies to killing the spiders in stead of fighting each other. Xeithe-r was to leave the room until all the the spiders were killed. I'edraso, it is thought, experte-d that Vie toria would never oitpt tlie weapons. But Victoria decliiu-d to biiek down and the duel was fought. All that is known aliotit it is that it was fought iu a room .as dark as a dungeon. Xo one at Tainpie-o suspected the truth. When the door was opened both men were found on t!ic!lirile-.nl, surround ed by ilead mid living horrible spiders. In spite of the efforts of friends to hush it up, ugly rumors of the truth leakeel out. An investigation was promised, but friends in terfcreil and nothing has elonc been ulaiut it. , I A Lancaster County Cone. Postmaster Keamxu Ang. l'l. Daniel Foley, posttnas-te-rat Denver, Lancaster Count y,- has been niissing since last Thursday. On that day he drove to this city, remained over night, sold his home and buggy and disoppearesl. His family and cn-ditors are anxious to know his w lierealsiuts. Foley is alsiut 37 years if age and was in the rattle bnsincss. He was a Democrat of influence around Denver and was rewanled with the post oltlee. His daughter attends to the dutie-9 of the position. Foley's disapja-aram-e is supposed to be due 10 financial troubles. Death Came Instead of Beauty. Warre. Aug. 10. The substance ofthe venlieH of the Corcmer's jury in the case of 1 Miss Sadie Foster who died under suspicions ! rin uiiistamws last Sunday morning, is that she came lo her death by taking an over dose of arsenic ker the purpose of beau trying her complexion. Somerset Lumber Yard. ELIAS CUNNINGHAM, Maxi r Acrcar.it and lo.il.nc W uoii-.ii.r.K Kviaii kk ,r LUMBER AND BUILDING MATERIALS. Hard and So tt ."Woods. OAK, POi'LAR, SIMNiiS. PICKETS. MOfU'IXteA. ASH. WALMT. FIXSlRlNt,, SASH. STAIK KAILS, CIIF.RR5', YELLOW PIXE, SHIMiLI-X Pools BAI.l'STKRS. CHESTXt'T, WHITE PINE, LATH. HI.ISPS, NKWELposTs A fieneral Line of all gnules of Lumber and BulMing Material and Roofing S1.uk k,.pt n Sl Ai-s), inn furnish anjnhiiiir in the line of csir Uishiew ti order will, rvetnni e-lenanptni-ss. me-b as Hrackc-ts. tfclcf-sizci work, cete'. Office and Yard Opposite S. & C. R. R. Station, Somerset, Pa. STO P A.T T.I-IE si-ia.ife;r house Patriot Street, SOMERSET, PA. , I wish to call the attention of the Traveling Public to the fact Tht the SH AFFKR Hi U SE in c-leserte the station than eitlie-r of trie enh-r hmrk That the sKAKFKK II' U SE is a i-ourenii-nl to all Imsim-. parts uf town as the nil.,. That the- SHAEEtK Hi il SE offers as GOOD ACCOMMOI l.VTIOXS as any other innix :n -..ni. That the SHAKFKR HOl'SE rmpr'.e-ior will ejHtlGE YOU UESS f 0 bODGIJSG than any either hotisi- in Senn, ( That the SHAFFER He USE is a le-mperane-e house-. That the SH AFFER llol'SE is the fanners' hmi-s-. That the S1I FFER Hill'SK is tlie trave-le-rs' house-. Farmers anil eMhers visitiinr esir town will do well t.y tip,iinet ihv Sli KFER He it -e E. W. SIIAFFKU, Afril C .C.-::ni. J. KLEE & CO., Manufacturers of MEN'S, YOUTHS' BOYS' AND CHILDREN CLOTHING, Of Tina aai Hsdiua Grades, at tha Very Closest Prices. tbSO. J. KLEE & GO'S. SUPERIOR WOiKIJMQ f ANTS, - Every Pair Guaranteed Not to Rip. 1X5? os- 62S and 630, Broadway, New York "JJ 811 LIBERTY STREET. PITTSBURGH. Horrors of a Wreck. XiMiAi.Es, Akiz.. Ana. 0. T!ie sloop Sam, eiliteeii tons register, owneel anil e-oinnian-eleel by Aliraliatn Ilakanm, lefl Mulejo ,111 tlie mot-niii-; of July Jo loacle-d witli tan-liark atici having cm tsuir! the- captain, his wile-, their c hil.ln 11 ami tiies-rs, Mr. Halle iin-rin-tenili-lit of the l!a!tiniore copper liiine-s at Santa Ilosalia. ami a i-rew of live men. lie twecn San l'cclru and Martinc-z in the irulf of t'ulitornia the vessel was stnie-k ley n heavy sin f and capsized. All 011 Isiard perisliesi except the captain and four sailors, w ho sav- ; ed tlie-niselves by i liinliini; on the lsttom of the cu-sized ImhiI. 1 In the second day ul'ter flit- accident the de-ad Ins lies of the captain's wife and children ruse to the surlae-e and were eaten by sharks while the husband and father looked 011 tin- wonderful si;lit with horror. On July .'tn two of tlie sailors lie canie crazy unci said they were iuiiiif asiiore and immediately pluni,'i-d overlsianl. Tliey 110 seHiner struck water tnan the sharks de voured them. Tlie captain, one sailor and a small boy re mained 011 the Isittom of the vessel foreii;hl days siistaiiiitu: lile by i-atcbiii; turtles that would come mar tlieui and suckitn; their blood. They were- rusciK-tl ill a pitiable con dition hy the fishing sloop, Uut'ogio and af terwards traifl'ernsl to the e-omany's steam er Vi-rriiPin. which was sent in se-atvh ofthe Saraand arrived at tiuayanias Sunday nit;iit. The- captain of the Sara is menially and physically a wres-k. lie says there was an other small sloop near his vessel iu the same gale. It is supo-e"l she went clown with all on lioard. In Wild West Tents. Ii.ni-on. Aug. in. IS11IK1I0 Hill t'isly and Nate Salisbury gave an original bn-aki'a-t to Hon. Simon 1 'ameron on the Indian plan yesterday morning. It was an Indian ril-re-a-st breatlasl and besides the chief ptiests, Me-ssrs. Ijiwrt-nce Jc-re-me. Cbatiniv M. Pe-js-w. Mttrat Haistc-a-l, S-nafor Ilawlc-y, Jus tin Me-t'arty, and a score of other notables were present. Tiie breakfast pre-t-ared in the Wild West m:irUis-. and grilled riles were servesl iu the hotiielit-t kind of platters and e-ateti Indian t'a.-.liion. I'be party was exi-eeclingly ineiry, w;es a grand suee-es, and is tiie talk ofthe town. The seirhcsof Mr. I'hauney M. He-w and Mr. Ijwn-nev Jerome were very happy, and the: hitter's re mark that lie and Mr. IH-k.-w wen- in Im dciii on similar errands raising le-ans con -vul-H-d the company with l:tiiiite-r. Simon t 'ainenni was in almost Isiyish spirits, ami cnjoyesl the atliiir immen--ely. . Shot His Mother-in-law. Omaiiv. Xi-b., Aug. !. Ilinim S iioem over. ofjlrownsviile. t lib stale, shot his n-otb-er-in-law, last night, in a wate-r-meloti atch tiude-r the impression that she was a skunk. For weeks past his melon patch an 1 cornfield have sutfered I'mni depre-eiaiii-ns uf ihe small Isty an-1 he dceidcsl to !.:v f.r him. Iist night, arme-il w ith a slmt gu 1 and having his dot;, he waited for the enemy. Alsiut lo o'clcs-k an object apear in the con, an. I slowlv nppn-uc be-d. The ! e!i g sprang at it and suddenly retn.it.--l. J T..is convinctsl Se-hesiiiove.-r that the itilmde-r 1 w.k a skunk, anil as it came within tiring j distance he lirecl. Springing to the place whe-rt the victim fell, be found that he h:ul slot his lilothi-r-in-law. aged 7o years. Attemptto Wreck a Passenger Train Xkkkiski. (,'itv. Neb., Atig. 11. A n irt itasjtt-t reached here of a fiernelisb attempt at traiii-wns-king on the Itiirliiigton ,llc Mis souri Kiver road at a place fen miles we-st of this city last night. As a passenger train was crossing a trestle-bridge across a dei-p ravine the wcsslwork was dise-overed to lie on fin- An investigation disclosed the fact tli it the stringers anil bracea in a shaky con dition. The train was unusually light, and this alone pn-vented a fearful catastrophe. m-tn-tiveH are working up the ill alter. A Horrible Story. Mexico, Mo., August 14. Ann Itransiele r, r.ilotvd, I. ft her two chiiclix-n, aged five years and ten tiHinths, in an s by 10 n'iu close ly shut up yeste-nhiy while she went to a neigh bor's house to S-nd the day. At night when the room was opened a horrible sight presented it.-s-lf. The older child was almost sulTiK.iitcd, and the younger was in the. throe-s of ele-ath, A portion of the flesh of the breast ami stomach had lee.-n eaten away by the older child, who was almost starved. The mother is urn li-r arrest, as llie younger child will die. Because He is a Prohibitionist. Nashville. Ten.. Aug. lo. Willis McDe-r-mon. a sclnsel U-.icber, near (iabatlia Jae-k-9on eoiiuty, fciund his se-hesd hoti.se guanled by a mob yesterday morning, w ho refused him admission, :m the gr cm I 111 it hew.es a prohibitionist. MclH-rtiKin then oened another school h.mse ; anti-prohibitionists in-tailed another learher. and llie pupils di vided according to the parenU' views on the question. PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE, Gettysburg, Pa. FOUNDED IN 1832 I I-arire- FarMhy. Two full c-emrses nr stii.iv-t'tii.:i-al rtnit Se-ienltlir. Sjc-rml einri-- ijt'll il. iaitiiie-iils. eejenutim- mi.l irt'uni'.:,. Three lame bc.i'eliiiKS. Libraries '." -i' v..i ii::r.. Kxcw-ium. liw. Aee-essitile by fi'ijm-liT Kailr-neii Hants. Ixealiell. en the 'HA T i I.KKi Kl.j' i! c;,-tt-sliiry ns-t plef,srt,u an-l he-nniiv. t-Ki-'. PAK'xTi'KV 1-kPARTMESr, in neiwai,. t,.i. f nif . Irtsys afiil yoiinir men (re-nenni( liiri -:.i. 11. -hs ,ir folieite. inciler the sjiei-iai e-ire "f thr l'riiii-ial. and two a.-s.ilaii!s, re-i.liiiif c ii.'i lietll- lie Ihe rsiililmc. l-'ull te-nn iik-iis Sei-triu. Iters. 1-ssT. 1-iTC alllltnitie-e. iii.ir''-s H. W. il. KNIi.HT. 1 I. Pni'tent nr lil'HF.K U BI KIll.KU A M . (ieltylmrie:, fa. pTinrijHel A Fishing Vessel Sunk. Ottaw , 'XT., August l.V A tre-fif h-man who arrived he re to-ehiy from 1 m t 0:1 he-, mi the shcireof New Hrunswic k. states 1 11.1t -'ie night alscitt t L-ht days ago be was cw ii by two Iciiid n-Mirts, but thinking tin v nvr--als of tlnuiiler. went to r-Iee p a-ai:i. X- x: clay be- w.ls tu'd by two tishermcll lli.it il! nporls were those- uf cannon tired In a aua dian cruiser at an Auierii-.tn ti.-iiiitir vt-rl. which s;uik inimi-diatcly with aii "ii l.mri The li-he-rmen say they witne-scii the aiLr. The leie-Liniph ois-rator at IIiict.MH lie suv. some tiring was heard, but the- -op!r ul n--t know what it was. and be la-licves tin- -i-ty to he- false. The oll'n ias ,,( the Is pannieiit f Ki-iier-ie-s i-i-Iic-iile tliestateinent as a pure- inv-n-tioti. t hTw v, int.. Aug l". Ke-iianliiiL-tin n-ort- ol' ihe tiring upon and sinking i an Amerii-an fisher e-ratt. the tittawa .litnii. the leading t'overnment urg-aii. ta: !" night : ' This forms the biirirc-t pn-inei:t.it-ed lie ofthe se-ason. Major Tiltoit. hii I-i:-sbeiwn c-opics of the di-patch. e h.irj' 1,-r.-l thein as lalsehoeMU. When i-.illisl !i(--i t was engageil in the considerate- ai t it'Ti::i. a telegram authorizing the t'.illc, t. ,r uf ' toms at Saiiris to fnniish Amerii-jn li-lni ve-els hiiliieward iHiitnd with -upi!-- sciili-ei-nt for the return vnvac. Death of John Clay. Lkmm.tox. August lo. Ji-hit 1 cv. tie only n-uiaining seen of Ib-nry i i.iy. -Iit his farm ne-ar this city at 1 oVI- -k m !-:-usual lietiith. going home, and ail r linnuz went eiiit to -uis'rintcud n-pair : a pfiijip Whiie giving iiistiie-tious to t lo- werkiui-'i I'c fe ll dea l without any pri-m-'iiiti' -In art die-a-e. Mr. lay was i7 ye ars oM. He had tv c-hildn-ll. He was inarrieil a!siit tc-.iT' ye-ars :igo to ids nephew's e 1. n -w nel Irwin. Col. Irwin wxs killed :ir the lit tle of I'ej-ryvilie while in i-ouim ' "f 1 t oiiti-denite re-giuieiit. .loiin l.i bill lew of the char.ie-teristi- s .-I ii 1 lu-trioiis fattier, la-itig a plain l'.ir'ii--r. ii---ting nint h of bis time to rii-ifig Tfftr.ii'j-reii horses. He 'ecaiiie a utholic iweiity '"' agi . Fire at West Newton. I'lrrsHrKeitl. August 11. W.rl was re-ivesl here to-day of the total diMrii' ti" the M.irkle p:i-r mills, n.-ar We-t Ne-atmi. this moniing at i o'cl- V The fire is siioiatsesl to hav.-1-' " '"J-'11' by sHiulane-tus combustion, a-- .i :ll'il within the mill and spread with gnu' T ! ity. The mills wen-Iis ated at Mill ."' few miles from West Newton, ami t!" ing no tire dc'iurtiiii-ut. it was iiiip" ''''' '" suve the pm-rty. The mills an- a totai I'" and the lowest estimate- of the aiii'-nm in'"' vesl in the tin; isio.iioo, iiiti lii- ii tl-r it-l'i.ooo insiirince. Rlddleberger Again Jailed. Viw-HKffTttK. V.. August i:..srit' Kid.lle larger, after lieing n-se-msl fr-.m P where be- was committed for ioii'iM' court, returned by advie-e of bi trieti't will try the law to see if hf has 1'"" ,"U' fully ituprisotieel. Judge- Newrnan. '"' cotiiniitted him. says he will n- i"' dozed by Kicldle-la-rl-er or his fri.-tft- t will send him to jail again. ,"'v' r""r 1 " Inigh U-e says he will act on the '- '" ' begets more official information. K" '"""" lawyers say JucU:e Newman had liiil .i'"lH,r' ity to commit tin-Senator fc.r n"'' nll't Death of an Early Settler. STBrnRMViLi.it, P.. Aug. 1" At this morning Samiie-I Archer, a pie-mrr re-r dent of this vicinity, died at the re.i-1.-"""' his son. W. J. An her. in Hn-k '"""''' Va. He was l-rn ill lanonsluir. l'- -17!4. and lias n-si.h-el ,.pite this my plaei- of his denith, since be was ' -" "' Thn-esoii- iciin ive him. Iu the when the Ju.lg.-s ,,f eoiirts were ap-i"' the (eovernor, he tilled that -iti--" county. He has niiiii.nitis r-:ai:es frieiiifce in and arniind 1-itt-burgh. Hi ni-ra! will thake place on Wcliwlay ns ing.
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