The Somerset Herald.
KDWARD SCULL, Editor and mprletor.
This year's corn crop promises to lie
out- of the largest iu the history of the
country, an.l it will pay off enough
mortage ti pat an eml to theexiten-e
.f ihe Topultst iinrty.
Ax cxchaiiire says tli-re is not a State
north of Mason & PixonV linethat the
lMno rats-oiiM rry if tlie eIt-tioii
f.ir President were held this year. It
might lie added that the Democratic
States south of that line are getting
mighty soaroe.
The American Uihle Society has cir
culated l,!i1s,C74 copies of the Script
ures during the jiast year, and they
wi-iii to have served as an effei-tive an
tidote to iK iiKH-ratic folly in all parts
of the country.
A kahmkr who recently homestead
sl m the Chcjenne river, near Sniith
ville, S. D-, has ju-t appli1! to the
I ii ited States IaikI Ort'uv at Itapid
City fr penuisjiion to make entry on
another forty acres of laud, because,
lie says, the recent heavy rains have
washed forty acres of his original entry
into the river.
Skxatok P-UH'E has contributed
?-".,( iW to fun1 h ls 'ing raised
to reilet-ni Edjrewood, the home of Kate
Chase, from her creditors, which is
sunirising in view of the fact that he
isn't at all likelv to have a vote in the
next Ohio Iji-gWature.
Ti ik exact political division of the
next House ly States is as follows:
Ueputdican, 'Jit; lVnioTatic, 11; equal-
lv divided 'J; free silver, 1; no itiajon
ty, 1. It will lie seen, therefore, that
the Republicans have amide strength
for the election of a President in the
iniprolmble event of that duty devol
ving 111111 the House.
We lieg to assure "our friends, the
enemy," tliat t!ie Republieansof Penn
sylvania are simply able to settle for
themselves, without any outside sug
gestions, the little ditliculties that they
are now engaged in adjusting. They
liave an exasjierating way of settling
their differences Ufore election day,
liaven't they? A". ". Trihutu:
The IViiiocrats, who liave lieen dili
gently asserting for some time past,
that the financial issue would lie the
principal question in the ranipaign of
1 and that the tariff quest ion would
play but an insignificant part, are
v'tiining to sing another tune since
the Siuthem States are lustily kicking
'free silver coinage" iu the rilis.
Ax exchanire wants to know "what
R pulli-ans are going to do aliout it?"
Well, they cannot do as they desire as
long as (i rover Cleveland is President
but as soon as he is relieved they will,
by a judicious protection law, increase
the revenues over the expenditures; W-
rin agiiin to pay the National del, in
Mead of issuing lionds, and will declare
for bimetallism.
CoUixel Watteksox talks plain
enousih to lie easily understood. He
says: "The record of the I Vmocracy
from ls;l to isiC, is a history of one
blunder following another in almost
unbroken sucvssion," ami that what
st needs is a new set of leaders with the
iiurage of their convictions, "not
noisy zealots, drunk upon the verlxisi-
tvof their own rhetoric."
One of the largest watermelons ever
grown iu theSmth passed through thi
city yesterday via Adams Kxpress, con-
siirned to 'Uovernor William McKin-
lcy. State House, Columbus, OhiV
Tlie melon, in the parlance of the
ftrect, was a "lieaut," weighing eighty
wvcii ounds, and measuring nearly
two feet and a half iu length. It was
M-nt fr in Albany, !a. C1riinifi
J'ijiiirr.
Senator John: SiiEKMANsavs: "No,
I am not a candidate for the Prcsiden
y, and if all the people of the United
States should join together and offer it
to me I would not accept the jiosition.
I am too old. No man of 72 has the
right to undertake the work and re
sponsibility which come to the chief
executive of the I'nited Stales. It is a
lisitioii of wear and tear, and it should
liave a younger man."
We are pleased to note that Hon,
Joseph (.'. S. Rlackburn has cooled off
to such an extent that be is able to dis
cuss the financial question in the fol
lowing calm, dispassionate and con-x-rvatlve
manner: "If I was running
Iiell, and bad the VourU i--J,iirnol,
77;iand W managers, editors and
rejsirters sent to me, I would turn the
t her inmates loose, lct they lie con
taminated." 'uJiijift'i l'ltft.
Tiikke is no doubt that times are
improving, and that business is gem-rally
lietter, but the United States Treas
ury during July has thus far paid out a
million per day more than it has tak
en in. We have a "tariff for revenue
i:ily" which fails to raise the revenue,
itnd it looks very much as if the gov
ernment will lie compelled to resort to
a further issue of bonds to keep the pt
iKiiling during the present fiscal year.
While the President is fishing and the
Secretary of the Treasury is stumping
Kentucky in favor of his financial
views, the National debt is steadily in
ereasing.
To provide for the transiiortation of
Cie huge crop of corn now in sight.
the managers of the leading railway
line have, af'cr gathering statisth-s,
agreed to meet within a few days, to
devise wavs and nieaus to move it to
the eastern and foreign markets.
STH-cial pains have liccii taken by the
railway managers to get alslute facts
and it is announced that the yield, if
ii. ithing hapjK-ns to injure the crop,
will Ik? 21r),(M,0-'M bushels. This is
the largest crop of corn, by 2,KA000
bu-!iels, ever raised in this country.
It would appear as if this cuonnous
product would so overstock the market
u to play havoc with prices, but it is
alleged that already agreements have
b.-cn made for the largest export of
-orn in the history of this country. If
the railroad managers are not devived
in their exjiectations, it wi 1 give em
ployment to all the rolling stock for
M-vt-ral months to move this huge mass
f yellow grain to the sea coast.
IliKC of the deiks in the Natkma
Rank of Alumna, w hich was looted last
w inter, have bwn indicted by the United
StaNs, Court ill 1-rie, Isit the boss rascal
of them all, the cashier, has not yet bell
ciughL He is the fellow who can tell
what became of the money thai wassloleu.
WKDMOAT ,u,y IS9S
The Founder of Trtt School.
TJ,o arti. le Dublixhed in Thr Timr on
Sunday last on the life and character of
ThaddeiiE Stevens, and the accompany
ing editorial in which Mr. Steven an
spoken of as "the founder of the free
nvKteiu incur Mtaie," uas mir-.
uiiicli attention, and the lone-disputed i-
t.ue as to hether HepreseutaUve Stevens
or tJovernor Wolf was most euliUcd to
be regarded as the founder of our tree
l.ol avHtein. has been revived, lue
following letter presents the claim made
ir the friends of Uovernor W olf that lie is
entitleil to the greater credit for the in
auguration of our beneficent school sys
tem :
To the Editor of Tlie Times.
T 1 1 ft ul.ilwimte ehanter nnblishetl in tlie
Sunday V.W present in the leading fixt
ures in the lite oi 1 naoueiis .-Mrvnn. .
leread with lsorbiiig interest by every
friend of education tiirougliout the t oni
uioiiuealth. i iil. oil ,ine deferen.-e as to the etiito-
r;itht -he was the founder of the free
school system of on r state," public opin
ion seems to lie ilivnto.1 lietween ioe iu
i.,.,...rwl -lmi,minrmof free schools in days
of vore the "lireat Coinuioner" and IJov-
ernor (.Jeorge v olf.
It was the latter, it is claimed ny many
educators, who was the first public othcuil
that took the liold but then unpopular
stand to recommend in a message to the
Iyegislature the adoption ot a iree scuoui
svstem in Pennsylvania. That governor
u'irnnailw founder and Mr. Stevens
the advocate would wrhaii be the proper
solution to the question.
J. V . II AKX1MI.V
Implanon. July li-
It would lie most unjust tieorgc V olf
to attempt to detract in any degree from
the credit he merits for his participation
in the establishment of free education in
Pennsylvania. Considering his race and
political environment, his support of the
free school system was one or tne mosi
heroic acts ever exhibited by a public
officer in Pennsylvania. He was of the
sturdy old (iennan stock in Northeastern
Pennsylvania in which the opposition to
the free school system very largely domi
nated, and he joined in the support of tlie
Hvstem with the full knowledge of the
fact that he must thereby alienate a large
number of his devoted personal friends
and political followers.
It was quite probable that t.ovcrnor
W'olf sacrificed his own election to a third
term in the tJuliernatorial office to his
sunixirt of the free schools. He had liecii
elected Governor in IKS, and re-elected
in lmt iu ISM, after the adoption of
the school system, bis nomination for a
third term causod a split in the Demo
cratic partv, and the nomination of Mr.
Muhlenlierg, of Ilerks, as a bolting Demo
cratic competitor. Uovernor Hitter, the
anti-Masonic candidate for Governor, w as
thus elected bv the divided Democratic
vote, and one of the greatest causes of the
revolt against Wolf was his support of the
free school system. A man who thus sac
rificed his political career for a great
principle cannot be too highly honored.
but it is none the less true that Governor
Wolf was not the author ot the free school
svstem in Pennsylvania.
The great champion of free schools long
liefore any bill had lieen presented to the
Legislature was Thaddeus Stevens. He
was its advocate when Governor Wolf
did not regard it with favor, and although
he was not the author of the free school
bill a- originally pasted, it is only just to
say that he was the founder of the free
school system in Pennsylvania. He Uas
the leader of leaders in that contest, and
it was his efforts and his eloquence and
his u in hum ted maintenance of the right in
the face of obloquy and defeat that grad
ually rallied sincere and able men to the
cause and finally brought Governor Wolf
into the support of the measure. Thus
while Thaddeus Stevens may Is? justly
stvled the author and founder of our free
school system, it is only just to accord t
Governor Wolf even a higher measure oi
praise for his heroic action in accepting
the cause that overwhelmed hiiu in his
then most promising political career. He
never recovered from the defeat of ISM,
and died in poverty not many years there
after. 1'lt il'H Mph in Timtx.
Qtaj'i latest Hove.
Senator M. S. Quay has written a lette
to John Grijip, chairmtn of the Republi
can committee of Allegheny county, a
ing that the Republican committee be
ailed together to fix a date for a primary
contest, for the purpose of voting on the
names of B. F. Gilkesoii and M. S. Quay,
as candidates for the State chairmanship,
The letter was written oil Saturday last.
at Beaver. It follows;
Dear Sir: The delegittes from Alle
gheny county to the next Republican
State convention w ere elected previous t
the development of the controversy ove
tho chairmanship of the State committee.
which is now attracting some attention
I ateiuie that they are disjxised to rctlect
the .ntiuieia of their respei-tive district
upon that qinoilioii. There seems to W a
difference- of opinion amongst the Ite-
publp-ans of your county, as to w net her
H. V. Gilkesoii or I am the U-ilerqualitiei:
tor this chairmanship, and in o,k r that
there may lie an opportunity for au bx
iiressioii of the poitular will which will
i list m-t and guide your deli-gules, I have
the honor to request that you call to
gether your committee lor the purpose :
suhu: jtthiiJ the names of 11. F. Gilkesoi
and M.S. ijuaytothc K puUi.-an voters
of Allegheny county as candidates for the
chairmanship of the State committee, at
primaries to lie held lor tne purxse oi
taking that vote.
In reply Chairutau Urijm wrote as fol
lows:
Dear Sir: Tn answer to yourcoiinuu
ideation, which I received this morning,
I desire to sav your reouest is of such
nature that it will require time and con
sideration to decide, I w ill let you know
nv -iHic!usioti in a few days.
A Great "Hopoer-BoMr.'
Winona, Minn., July !!. Prof. Lug
ger, the Slate Kntomologist, has in op
eration In the Bed Kiver ahey and in
Chicago and Pine counties four hundred
"hoppcr-d'isers.' The ' hopper-doser" is
a machine alsiut eight f?t long and two
feet wide. It i made tin the plan f
dnstuin of tin, and sits on three runners,
on which it is pulled over the stubble by
a team of horses. At the rear of the pan
there is a trough the entire length of the
machine, in which there is an inferior
grade of coal oil, while at the bick of the
machine there is a sheet of envas. The
grasshoppers jump into the pan to get out
of its way. Those that fall into the oil
are immersgd in the fluid, and die atom,
while those that are merely touched by
the oil may live two or three minutes.
The canvas at the liack of the machine
prevents the grasshoppers from jumping
clear over it. They strike against the
canvas and fall into the oil.
It costs the State SbO.", to make each of
these machines. They can le made by
any tinsmith, and are given to the farmers
in grasshopier-iiifested communities.
Prof. Lugger claims that with his four
hundred machines he kills off from NM
to bushels of grasshoppers every
dav.
Indian Km tacre Arenged.
Pocatei.la. Ida., July 22. It is claim
ed that the news of the conflict lietween
settlers in the Jackson Hole country and
Indians has Is-en suppressed and that
at least four Indians were killed. White
Bear, captain of the Indian li.-e, hris
admitted that he to k care of the Ridics
of the Indians. Agent Teters, it is said.
will rc-iue-it tht the Seventh infantry,
from Fort Russell, at Cheyenne, or tin
Kighth cavalry, from Boise, lie sent to
the pla-e of trouble.
J. C. Ho;it, a ranchman, says the In
dians had killed a while man, his wife
and child, and that the settlers killed six
Indians.
Tried for Stealing One Cent.
I'ittsiu ro. I'a., July 20. one of the
most insignificant Court cases ever known
here came liefore Judge White to-day.
C. II. Weber, aged H, was sued by the
Presbyterian Sunday School on the
south side, on a eliarge of larceny. It
was claimed he stole the contents of the
contribution box, and he was convitted.
The amount he took was just one cent.
The Judge suspended sentence on pay
ment of the co.sU.
Feart for Their Safety.
linvEi Col.. July 21. It is feared
here that a party of Princeton students
have fallen into the haads o! tne liannocn
Nearly two weeks ago the
students forming the geological expedi
tion went through I mon pass ami b
dnce
lelccTams have l-ccii received uere
for
them without rinding any means of
de-
livprv. Thev were on their way
to
- - . .
National iark and were due on their
return trip about the end of July. They
are in a dangerous country and if they
r alive the fact remains that the
gov
great eminent has recently stirred to great
util ity, as orders were received
yes-
terdav at Fort Washakie for the send
ing
of ii exnedition of troops.
There are onlv'forty-three men at
the
...-t .! il,i .li( ion cannot be i
very
formidable, but it is the liest the army
van do. KeportM from jacKson s noie
say that there are fully SK Indians as
sembled there. Another reiMirt from
Kort Washakie says that the two Ind
lian
noliee and iudires who were sent to Ja
k-
son's Hole nearly two weeks ago have
returned. They were forcibly detained
by the Bannocks and had to escape
strategy.
by
The expedition which was headed
by
Professor Hatcher lea Princeton
on
June i for the Bad Lands in search
of
geological specimen. The students w
ai'oomtianied Professor Hatcher are: L.
vho
Pease, Philadelphia; K. F. Little, jr..
New York city; Walter Moss, irenton,
N. J.; A. L. P. Dennis, New York; Talbot
Pierce, Washington; Boyer Davis, Phila
delphia; A. A. iMyer, Indiana. Penna.;
John II. Brooks. Scranton: John S-heide,
Titusville. Penna.: Alliert O. Millliank
and E. K. Bothman, New York, and
J.
Garrett, Baltimore,
148 People Drowned.
Sikkzi a, Italy, July 21. A terrible ac
cident, resulting in the loss of 1 lives.
occurred near the mouth of the Gulf of
Siiezzia about 1:30 o'clock this morning.
The steamers Ortigia and Maria I, ran
into each other, and the latter vessel was
so badly damaged that she sauk in a very
short time.
She had on board, in addition to her
crew, 17$ passengers, lsiund from Naples
for the Uiver Platte, most of whom were
emigrants. Only .'SO of these were saved.
but all but three of the 20 members of
the crew escaped.
It w as pitch dark w hen the collision
occurred. The shock was torrihla, Thfl
Ortigia struck tho Maria P. squarely on
the starboard side, and her stem pene
trated the ill-fated srfeamer a distance of
eighteen feet.
When she liacked out, a great volume
of water )mhi rod through the orifics and
the vesM'l ls'gan uluiont immediately to
settle.
Most of the passengers wru asleep in
their bunks, and were awakuned by the
crashing of the steamer's plates, deck
lieains and deck planks. They wore
pani?-striken and rushed pell-mell on
deck, where they ran hither and thither,
calling upon the saints to save them.
The blackness of the night added to
the terror of those on Ixmrd, and It Is
understood that some of the passengers,
crazed with fear, juinjied overboard.
Only one loat is known to have got
away from the sinking vessel. That res
cued the majority of the crew and thirty
of the passengers.
Hieconght Killed Him.
Reaver Falls, Pa., July 22. Charles
D. Miller.'a huckster, died last night at
his h Hue on Patterson Heights from ex
cessive hiccoughing. On Wednesday
Miller was taken ill with cholera mor
bus, and on the same day he liegan hie-
coughing. Everything that medical
science or superstition could suggest was
done to relieve him. lmt all without ef
fect, and he gradually grew worse, until
death released him from his suffering.
Three years ago Miller and a neighlsir
named Boliert Dean liecame involved in
a quarrel, that had lieen started by thei
wives. Dean hit Miller over the head
with a brick, when the latter pulled
revolver and shot Dean, inflicting an in
jury from which he died the next day
Miller was badly injured, Isit after his
ro-overy he was placed on trial for mnrd
er. Public sympathy was with him
throughout the trial, and he was acquit
ted.
Two Infatuated Women.
Salt Lake, July 22. Salt Lake has de-
vclowd an elopement affair which rivals
the famous case of Alice Mitchell ami
Freda Ward. On Thursday Mrs. Bowden,
the voting and handsome wife of an
electrician, aliandoned her home, hus-
ltand and liby, and went away with
bright, good-looking 17-year-old Edith
Horn and the two t'X.k lodgings together.
They remained in seclusion and eluded
the hiisland and officers until Sunday
night, when they were hx-ated and Bow
dm forced his wife to accompany him
home. The women are completely in
ratuated with each other, and even now
declare they can n A lie kept apart. They
had made arrangements to leave the city
at midnight when discovered.
Rain Caaied a Flood.
Coxnkllsvillf, Pa., July 22. The
heaviest rain within the memory of the
oldest inhabitant visited here this even
injf. The streets were Hisslcd. Next to
the Youghiogheny rjyer here and in New
Haven over l' houses are flooded-
Thousands of mke ovens were drowned
out by the torrent of water, and at many
uiines extra pumps hail to be put to
work iu order to keep the workings from
iM'ing Hooded. At Bradford, two miles
wet of here, several houses were washed
auay. Two bridges on the Mt, Pleasant
branch uere swept away and traffic is
blocked. The damage to crops js great
m m m
Horivtipped For a Slander.
AI.TOOXA, Pa.. July --Dr. A. L. yv.
well horsewhipped a man named Musser
on the street to-day. The din-tor's fami
ly Is at present away on a visit, while he
remains at home. Saturday evening a
gentleman, his wife and another lady
c:lled at the doctor's office for profesional
advice, w hich was given, and afterward.
all the parties being musicians, an ad
journment was had to the parlor, where a
brief season of musical enjoyment was
hail. Musser, having heard the music
and knowing the doctor's family was
away from home, circulated the report
that the dis-trr was taking advantage of
the opportunity to entertain young wo
men, and the horsewhipping to-day was
the result.
Forty Keedles in her limbs.
Cincinnati, O., July 20. Nellie Thorn
as, aged is, was taken to the City Hos
pital to-night from the Convent of the
Good Shepherd. She seemed to lxs suf
fering from swollen feet, which theexam-
ining physician at first attributed to a
needle he noticed protruding from the
flesh.
Close examination disclosed other
neiilles, and on being questioned the
girl confessed that for penance she had
forced the needles into her flesh. Over
forty needles were taken from her limb
by the physicians. She said she had been
doing the iienance of her free will for
over two years.
17 ted Two Women For Armor.
By using two women as armor, a part
of Yeager's gang of horse thieves man
aged to cwape Monday from farmers
who had run them down, says a dispatch
from Kansas. The farmers found the
trail west of Wankomis and ran live
outlaws to cover in a log house. They
surrounded the house and captured the
liaudiu' horses and saddles and some
arms.
After a two-hours siege the outlaws
forced two women living there to walk
ahead of them to keep the posse from
shooting, and drawing revolvers each
made his escape to the heavy timtr,
firing a number of shots to keep the
pursuers from pressing too close. They
released the women, and, stealing horses
from farmers, made their escape.
Item of Interect.
Reading as a city will be SO years old
next year, and a golden jubilee is talked
of.
Electricity generated by the falls of
the American river at Folsotn, California,
was turned on in Sacramento, 21 miles
away, Tuesday. Only street cars were
furnished with power, but tho electrical
power will be extended to all kinds of
industrial establishments, and used for
light and heat. It is estimated that 80
per cent of the electric power generated
at Folsom will lie transmitted to Sacra
mento. Harvey Potts, a Berks county youth, is
one of those particularly dangerous luna
tics who enjoy pulling back a chair from
a person about to hit down. Miss Klla
Thomison, of Birdsboro, was his victim
at Douglassville on Wednesday. The
lower part of her body is completely par
alyzed, and If she should recover, which
is doubtful, she will proliably lie a help-
ess cripple for life.
Two boys named Conilies, aged, re
spectively, 13 and H years, have been ar
rested in Plaistow, a suburb of Loudon,
for the murder of their mother. They
stabbed her through the heart ten days
ago, since which time they have occupied
the house alone with the decomposing
body. The lioys hare been reading nov
els which made heroes of cut throats.
robbera and the like.
Notes of national banks are to be tioy-
cotted by the Knights of Labor. Grand
Master Workman Sovereign has issued a
manifesto to his organization and to the
Farmers' Alliance, People's party, reform
clubs and kindred societies, reiterating
the wrongs of the masses and calling for
a general boycott on national bank notes
in all dealings between individuals. The
boycott is to go into effect September L
Alderman Aloott, of Altoona, heard an
in.eresting civil suit Thursday, when A.
B. Gregory obtained judgment from Jon
as Stetler, proprietor of the Meadville
House, Bellwood, for 20.24. Gregory,
who is a carpenter, had done repairing at
the Meadville House. Stetler told Greg
ory to sign a receipt for the full amount
of the bill, aliout fort, and he would pay
him. Gregory did so, but Stetler paid
him only about $24, claiming as an offset
against the remaining 2S a book account
for liquor which Gregory had bought
from time to time. Attorney Fletcher
appeared for the plaintiff and claimed
judgment on the ground that a liquor bill
pou)d not by law offset a bill for labor.
A phenomenon in the form of a 9-year
old negro girl has boun diivojoped at So
ciety Hill, S. C. For a week the child
has conducted a series of revival meet
ings and the effect of her preaching is
wonderful. She is without an education
ami duvcocd her strange powers not
ioro than ten days ago. At first she
preached ony to the negroes, but now
white people are flocking to hear her and
the w hole country aliout is in a state of
great excitement. She quotes scripture
by the chapters, unos good language and
shows amazing insight into the frailties
of humanity. A number of conversions
are rejiorted from hor work.
Exennlon to Atlantic City and Other Sea
thert Beteru.
Before deciding where you will spend
your summer vacation, consult the dates
tif the B. A O.'s series ot trips to tho At
lantic Coast resorts. Round trip tickets
are sold at remarkably low rates, making
it (stMsible to spend a week or ten days by
the sea at a trifling cost
The next excursion of the series is an
nouneed for Thursday, July 2"th, when
the admirable arrangements of the pre
vious excursion will be carried out. The
tickets will be sold for all trains of the
21th, valid for return trip twelve days,
including day of sale, allowing a stop
off at Washington on the return Journey.
Similar excursions are auuouuced fur
August 8th and 22d.
We give l?low a list of stations In this
vicinity, showing time of trains and rates
of fare:
Uockwood 10.77am 12 l'.a m9 00
Johnstown.... 7 1 a HI 1 fcililil a
Somerset S (', " S .Vi III
Mcyersdnle 11 17 " t! 47 a in S ."l
II vimI Hum vi p m 1 34 s m
Cumberland 12 ."d " 2 tt " 7o0
Pullman Parlor Cars will lie attached
to the morning train and Sleeping Cars
to the night train.
Tickets will lie sold from other stations
at eorresjondingly low rates.
For more detailed information apply to
nearest B. A O. Agent
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contributes to the united icrformance of
these functions, than the renowned tonic
and regulator. Hosteller's Stomach Bit
ters. The result of its use is a sjieedy
gain in strength, together with the agree
able consciousness that the tenure of life
is being strengthened that one is laying
up a store of vitality against the unavoid
able draughts which old age makes upon
the system. The fortifying influence of
the Bitters constitute it a reliable safe
guard against malaria, rheumatism and
kidney trouble. Appetite and sleep im
prove through its use, and it protects the
system from the effects of cold and damp
Ef ant and Weit Break Jail.
M I kelintow n. Pa., July 21. Frank
Evans and Joseph West, claiming to lie
respectively from Philadelphia and Chi
cago, w-ho are charged with the Hertzlcr
burglary at Port Royal last April, broke
jail to-day and have not been recaptured,
They sawed tiff the window bars and used
the bed clothes for ropes by which to
reach the pavement The flight was
quickly discovered, Isit the men reached
the railroad, and it is thought lxiarded
passenger Uain. Parker, the third mem
ber of the gang, mad.e a desperate attempt
to eseajie during the confusion following
tho discovery, but he was sulidued. A
supposed confederate of the fugitives was
arrested and imprisoned.
Tha rjbbary of I'll H irtzler si jra oc
curred on the morning of April 2"ith.
Every approach was guarded by a burg
lar alarm but the thieves entered the cellar
and cut their way through the floor. Tho
safe was blown open and cash and se
curities aggregating over ffll.OuO in value
were taken.
Xuical Instruments.
Is there anything in the line of musi
cal instruments, music books, sheet mu
sic or sewing machines you want? Then
write A. I. Ellis
2 Morgantown Street, Uniontown Pa
for catalogues.
Get our catalogue of 10c music.
Murdered Kan's Wealth.
Mikelintown, Pa., July 19. The Su
preme Court in Philadelphia handed
down an opinion yesterday in the cele
brated Carpenter case, from Juniata coun
ty, affecting the right of a murderer to
inherit property from the man he killed.
James B. Carpenter was hanged hero for
the murder of his father aliout a year ago.
His mother, Hetty Carpenter, was con
victed of being an accessory after the feet
and was sentenced to serve two years in
the ieuiteuliary. Young Carpenter and
his mother made an assignment of their
interest to J. N. Keller, V. H. Sponslcr
and J. C. Bucher, attorneys, whom they
had engaged to defend them. The value
of the estate was f 1,400. The collateral
heirs of James Carpenter, the murdered
man, opposed this. They contended that
James It. and Hetty Carpenter were pre
vented by reason of their crime from in
heriting the roerty. The Supreme
Court decides that young Carpenter
could inherit his father's wealtli, although
he killed him to get it
Eczema in any part of the body is in
stantly relieved and permanently cured
by iKian's Ointment the sovereign reino-
dy for all itchiness of the skin.
Bain, Wind and Hail Storms.
Des Moines, Ia., July I!.. Rain, wind
and hail storms over large sections of
Iowa did much damage to crop anil
prooerty last night In tho northern part
of the State a storm swept a strip miles
wide in Palo Alto, Emmett and Kossuth
Comities, and small grain was badly
damaged. The corn will recover except
in places w here it w as 1 .eaten down by
hail; Isit the loss to small grain is great
In the middle of the storm strip w as a
section about five miles w ide in which
there was a fieri hail storm, and there
the damage to crops was immense.
In tho Eastern part of the State another
storm did almunt as much damage. It
started just east of here and swept over
the country as far as the Mississippi Riv
er and south to the State line.
At BriKiklyn there was a watersKiut
which amounted to a four-inch full of
water in aliout an hour. It covered a
wide section and the streams were flood
ed. Bridges were carried out and there
was a numlier of washouts on the rail
roads. The Rock Island suffered so ld
ly that for twenty hours, up to 6 o'clock
to-night, no through trains reached here
from the East.
ALMOST A CYCLONE.
At Keokuk the storm was almost a
cyclone, and a numlM?r of buildings were
unroofed and other damage done. There
was more or lens hail in this section of
the State, and crops are very badly in
jured. Corn will recover, in part, at least.
exeept where the hail cut it up.
The Rx k Island Denver "flyer" was
ditched near Iowa City by a washout,
and the fireman had his leg broken. The
passengers were badly shaken up but
none were seriously injured.
Will Can Eorss Kent
Portland, Ore., July 19. The West
ern Packing Company's horse meat can
ning establishment, at Linton, the only
one of the kind in existence in this coun
try, liettan operations to-day. The plant
is equipped w ith about $10,U) worth of
machinery for slaughtering, packing and
shipping meat The first liatch of horses
were shipped here from Arlington
few days ago. About ten were killed
to-day as a starter.
Railroad companies have lceii asked
to make a rate on canned horseiueat in
carload lots to the East at (I per luo.
Special rates have been quoted on live
horses from Idaho and Arizona to Port
laud, and according to this, prospects for
the market seem good.
Under Civil Service Bales.
Washington, li. C, July 18, The
President has issued an order placing
employes of all pension agencies under
the rules governing the Civil Service, or,
rather, in classified branch of the service.
The extension covers all the employes
five hundred in numlier in the pension
agencies of the country. These wore
classified on July I by the Secretary of
the Interior and their salaried equalized.
There are eighteen agencies.
The firemen in the executive depart
mcnta numlier about one hundred. They
have also been put in the classified ser
viuo. ha Is Varion Cleveland.
Rrzz.iHDs Bay, Mass., July 19. The
President and Mrs. Cleveland hae nam
ed thilitlle girl, now 12 days old, Marion
Cleveland. As in the ease of Ruth and
Esther, no middle name is given. It is
not known what induced the parents to
select this name, but it w ill lie readily re
called that it was at the charming town of
Marion, on Buzzard's Bay, where Mrs.
Cleveland spent her first summer in New
England, and where she made many
warm icrsonal friends, besides becoming
very much attached to tho plueo.
Fifty Minutes for a Divorce.
Mncni; In p.", July 20. In 50 minutes
after Mrs. Clark, wife of Rev. S. S. Clark,
who was recently asked to resign as pas
tor of the First Baptist Church, had made
application for a divon-e yesterday, had
made an answer, the case had been tried.
and the divorce granted. The Court gave
the wife "J" alimony, the custody of the
children, and Clark must pay her 25 a
monllu Clark was known as the Park
hurst of Muncie.
At Barnesville, W. Ya., while Mamie
Floyd, aged S years, was playing around
a stove, her dress took lire ami she was
burned to death. Her mother, iu at
tempting to put out the flames, was so
badly burned that she died iu a short
time.
THERE is but one
way in the world to be sure
of having the best paint, and that
is to use only a well-established
brand of strictly pure white lead,
pure linseed oil, and pure colors.
The following brands are stand
ard, "Old Dutch" process, and are
always absolutely
Strictly Pure
-White Lead
"Armstrong & McKelvy,"
" Beymer-Bataaaa,'
'Davis-Chambers'
'Tahnestock."
If you want colored pafnt, tint
any of the above strictly pure leads.
Vviih National Lead Co.'s Pure
White Lead Tinting Colors,
These colon are sold in one-pound caas, racl)
tan being sudu ict.! U tiut 2J sunds of Strictly
Pure White Leid the desired shade ; hey are iq
po tense ready-mixed paints, but a combirblioq
ff perfectly pure colors in tbe handiest form to
tint Etrntly I'ure White Lead.
Svtid us a postal card and get oar bpok op
piii ts &nj coi.T-card, free.
NATIONAL LEAD CO., N(W :k,
P.ttshnre Branrh,
German ICalHinal Baitk Building, Pittsburg.
c
HAUTAUQUA
Nursery Co.
Offer Liberal Terms to Agents-
Salary and exponsen or commlsxloti. High
Krude ts-k al low prices. Nt-w spi-ciallim.
H-d iMitulotv, etc.
Men Wanted
In fwry town. Steady work. Pay werkly
H ' B WILLIAMS. Sec'y, PORTLAND. N. Y
We want a few
,nu-n to m-11 a
LI a e
of Nursery Stock. We cannot make you rich
In a month but can give you steady employ
ment and will pay you well for it. Our prices
conviond with the times. Write for terms
and territory to
THE HAWKS NURSERY CO.,
Rochcbtcm. N.Y
Make Cows Pay.
What is the use
of keeping cows
unless you can
make money with
them? No other
business would
stand a waste of from 25 to
50 per cent, and the dairy
business wall not.. You
waste that much butter
by pan skimming. Get a
Safety Hand Separator
and save it. d2
F. H. Shabples. Wes: Chester, Fa.
. Itutland VL
P. & P.
Goods
Bought at
Ruinous Prices to be
sold out during
JUNE aBfl JULY.
Lar,e lot of Ladies Stanley Shirt
"Waists just received that have
been bought to sell at 63, 77,
and 88 cents. Former price
was 90c, $1.00 and $1.25.
Elegant new line of Silk Umbrel
las, bought to sell at $1.25.
Former price was $1.60
New line of Silks for Waists at 35,
40, 50 and 75 cents.
Special prices to buyers on Lace
Curtains, all new patterns.
New line of Wash Goods just re
ceived. Dress Good., Ac, at reduced pric
es. Ladies' Capes at Lalf price.
White Goods, Laccfj Hamburg,
Gloves, Ribbons, Handkerchiefs,
Stockings, Underwear, Ac.
Gentlemen's Underwear, Shirts, at
reduced prices.
Gentlemcns' Sweaters at 22 cents.
Remnants of Carpets in Brussells
and Ingrains, at half their value.
Our Stock Is all new and bought at
way-down prices lor
June and
July
SALES.
Parker & Parker.
B. & B.
NO MISTAKE.
Never in Dry ;km1s history coulil no
much le IxHight for so little money a
NOW and HERE!
Wholesale trade for Wash ;ood i
practically over, ami our entire wholesale
stock is to lie cleared through the 'retail ,
every cane or half ra.se of these tine, ham
Home, wide 1. Ks in clioiis styles, Chev
iot tes, Plisses. I lurks. Salines, Madras
liiiitfhams. Novelties and line, handsome
woven (not printed 1, large Crinkled ;in
ghams to lie cleared at two prices
5c and 7 1-2 cents a yard.
lm) pieces assorted French Jaconnt,
Brilliants and imported tine union l.iiu n
Lawns, ali
10 cents a yard.
Tnl ..... .,11 iiim I iti.kit Ijiu iw !ktflll!i
. 'b 11111 , t. ,'l.ftV .' - - . . .
fill, choice goods
25 cents a yard.
New York Linen Stores ask -Vi to -I'i cents
for them and never reduce them, as they
are staple jjo,1s. Our way is to carry
nothing over even though we lose on it,
make wav with surplus stock in order to
show entirely new lines another season.
Over 2 ) pieces liest and finest Import
ed liimities. new, fresh jf.Mids Imught to
sell at 1") cents a yard.
50 nieces lieautiful, white ground, tine
organdies, an under-price purchase we're
selling at ... - Jio. a yard.
Finest French Organdies, 2" . aml iiii'.
ami they're selling faster than in May er
June. They're latest Paris printings, and
the handsomest Organdies ever submit-
tl even at much higher price.
Lot of Imjiorted Plaids with solid silk
bars half-inch wide iu them, lieautit'ul
colors, goods Uoulile width, -Id inch
es wide, thrown away as to price at :5 ets.
a yard.
Ijirge assortment .Vie and "V; iinp.irte.l
Dress Goods and Suitings to go at and
3T otmts a yard.
Larger sized assortments of $1.0.) an.l
?l.i Suitings at - 50.-ts a yarj.
Lot all wool Block Serge ami ltatistes,
.Til inches widd - - 2.Vts a yard.
If you can't come iu person, w rite our
Mail Order Departniont for samples,
you'll send for the goods ,H! Pai1 for
the sending.
BOGGS & BUHL,
Allegheny. Pa.
URSULINE ACADEMY.
Wlnebiddle Ave, near Penn, Httshurs, Pa.
Boarding and Day School for Young Ladles.
Conducted by the tTrauline Jfua .
Complete course f Kngiish anil Krvncli
private lesson in music, iiiKlruinentiil and
vocal; Krvncu, ISeniuin. dniwiim, painting
and eliv-utioii. Kor terms apply ,,,e '-
muv. The school will open .Monday, hcpi. wn.
PENNSYLVANIA
COLLEGE WOMEN.
PITTSBURG. PA.
Twi'litv-nixth Annual Session ts-j-lns Sep.
temls-r IS. lit't. location beautiful luallli
ful. Supcrloropportunitics ottered in every
department. Address,
MISS R. JENNIE DE VORE. Pres.
STEEL ROOFING
and SIDING.
(SaeadrTB,a Patc.t.)
Lightning;, Fir and Storm ProcL
Rend for I Tkc Prnn Trail TtMrtnc aaal f.rra
caUtl..ir I culuK la- i U.I i. t'bila., fa.,
: Facts About :
FURNITURE
We can inform the trade ami puMic at
large that we have come out victori
ous in our deal with the furniture
manufacturer! of Michigan. We got
all we asked for in the way or lar
gains, consHUi'iitly all we expected,
what more do we want? Wconly w ant
the trade to know that our line is bet
ter in every respect now than ever be
fore ami that wr are going to contin
ue selling Furniture on a very low
ltttMS.
$25 and $28.00 win buy a solid
Oak Suit for the lied room, containing
six pieces, made ami fniLhel in the
very latest styles.
$18 and $20.00 takes from our floor
a nice suit, either in Antique or Im
itation Walnut finish.
$28 and $30.00 pay. for a nice over
stuffed or wood-frame suit for the par
lor, upholstered in Itrocatello, .Silk,
Tapestry and Plush.
$15 and $20.00 takes one of the
same style suita upholstered in Tap
estry. $1.80, $1.90, $2.00.
ers Itllh century finish very orna-
mental for the porch.
$9 and $15.00 buys a solid Oak Si,le
board. C. H.
606 Main Cross Street,
Somerset, - Pa.
Mrs. A. B. UIIL.
Having completed the repairs and
the enlargement of
My : :
Store
by annexing tLe adjoining rooms,
formerly occupied by Mr. Frank
Shivler, I am now fitting it np
with .
NEW GOODS
and will be able to much better
serve mv fiiends than heretofore.
: My Stock :
: will comprise :
: : a complete : :
Dry Goods Store,
A complete - - -
LADIES'
FURNISHING
GOODS STORK
And a complete - -
MILLINERY
STORE. - - -
Ladies' and Children's
WRAPS,
AND
Children's Outfit
A srecialty.
Mrs.
A. E. UHL
Stenger's.
Unloading our shelves, and Counter Sale
now oin on. It is not for profit, but
to make room and convert our sur
plus stock of seasonable goods into
caslu
We want to
make a clean sweep
of all our
VASH GOODS.
We are determined to sell, if prices will
sell them. Take notice of the nice
line Creiions w e offer at
10 cents,
Ami goods are thirty
inches wide. We have a fair goisl
line of liimities. You can buy them now
at 10 cents a yard.
Jaconet Plissa, tho most popular Wash
(roods of the season. We have about
twenty pieces left and will give you
your choice of any of them now at
12 1-2 cents,
Just half value for them.
Imitation Swivel Ginghams,
Small lot of them left. We will close
out balance at
12 1-2 cents.
WROTH
JOHN STE1EB,
MAIN STREET.
Johnstown,
Pa.
2 Car Load Vehicles
Just arrival, th" lirif-t and niont
Phaeton., Spring Wagons, Spindl? Wagon.- and Dog CarN.
liave M i l- Ics Willi spring-) oi very ili--Tipt;.,w,
and at prices buir than ever btfoie
hoard of
Brewster Side-Bar Spring.
Coil
Concord - - -Dexter
Queen - -American
Queen
Ferry Queen -
And the improved End Spring, the best spring ever nscl
- A fine lot of Double and Sinirle Ilarue.-.-s Saddles
Dusters, Whip, etc. Have a full line of
JTA.R.JN-E WAGO
Heavy
Call and sec Utc greatest display of Vehicle.- in Souser.-i.-t Oiuur?
todav at
E. L
IMMENSE.
Patriot St.,
The New Capello Rance.
WE ?ell the XEW CArELLO RANGE, guaranteed the Jar. -;
Kange of iu clas. on the market. It lu3 very large ci, ; V..
eiif, heavy grate?, linings and tops. Dating and IIo;i.-i:;,.' .,
tlie highest as thou.-and.-i of daily users ean testify. If ..u
the be.-t buy a
USTIE W CAPELLO.
: : AL0 A FULL LINE OF
GRANITE, COPPER & TINWARE
Milk Cans, Screen Doors and Window?. Ice Cream Freez-T?.
Gasoline Stoves. Call and see us. le.-pec;fui!v.
P. A.
JAMES B. HOLDEItCAUJr, Somerset, Pi
Great Inducements
Goods reduced in price in every lir
Dry Goods, Carpets, Oil Cloths, Lace Curtain
Ladies7 Coats, &c. Xow is the time to buy;
save moncv and iret soinethintr crood.
SJAMES
CLINTON STREET,
Farming
-!
BY THE
BUCKEYI
i
'.! :! .i
The 35i:cky
Cut? a T foot swath if necessary;
:-:-rt AisV-l . ' A ; :trT? - A:
i: .- i b'A. r-vT-rr''V-ty '',
and will stand more service than any other make of nui a- '
THE BUCKEYE BANNER BINDEI
No canvass elevators on thi? machine. I? low down and will '-r
trtain on the steepest hillside without tippimr over. Jn?t t :1'
for a small fanr.
TIIK liUCKEYE TOAVJE
The latest model of these celebrated machine? i? ad"iitted I y ail
the most complete machine ever made, tut a Iluckoe a:
will liave the best.
Nothk Anltiimn. Mi!lT .t Co., .f Akron, i Hii.. aro th. invfiit.ir :H1 JJ;:"'
en of the Ktiiiiiii' l!n-5i-ye nun lim-. I'.n. lv im-:ins l ilii'. ;"' '!
o.'VitinI iuii i-.ill-'.l tlie Uiu kcye, lmt i.i:nlt in .".nie iUit tw " a' "u
on it tin y are not the g-ruiiiie.
"Golden Farmer" self-dump Hay Rake and ' Banner" SprS"'
Harrows always cn hand.
Blndinn Twine iR,st 2uulity Hmkeye r.inilinTw inPalwavHoii ".u
J rM oriit-. Fu.':nin im l iiii-i:t.- of all kimK
A. J. GROWALL. i;ockwx!''
complete line of Hu;,.
n
u
u
n
-
or Light.
WAItKHOOMS,
Somerset, Pa,
SCMELL,
SOMERSET, P;
There is
a Reason.
"!if-rs; ;;ixt mat'ii;t!, mr J'-;;
;i:k! u kurtil if tlie w,:it- f v.- !
fc.t-j.H-r nn-all iv-o-S'-ary ; nu.kv ::t- i.. $
The Cinderella Stoves and EUrs
an- riKitlf to in-t fvrry rv-iuin m :.-
ctKnmy ini'i Jtinlili!y.
Mud.- hi all ryl-4 n! yl.'-. v. : ": A
NONE BETTER-FC M AS S00D
QUINN,-
-JOHNSTOWN P
Made Eas)
USE OF-
MACHINES
Fr:uniIvss 15 in tier.
is the lightest drat:; has (Vvivr:-
SIMPSON"
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