58. i.;?",v The Somerset Herald.) EDWARD HCULL, Editor and Proprietor. WEDNESDAY. Aupnutt, liW. A famine in threatened which has few terror. It is a famine of cars in oonneetiou with handling the big rrojx f tin' west. Itv the announcement of her candi dacy for governor of Kansas, Mr. Lease again tdaees herself in a posi tion for public discussion. Oklahoma will come up smiling this year with a crop t.f 12"i,MI lades of cotton. Our territories are keeping near the head of the prosperity column. Tiik silvcritcs in "ehra.ska say they are too busy to attend free silver con ventions. There is nothing like work for curing the misc hief Kilau finds for idle hands. tioi.u has gone to a premium of 125 iu Mexico, where silver Ls the standard and a favored product. Professors of silver have stopped pointing to Mexico as an object lesson. The ropocrats feel blue in Iowa, tired iu Kentucky and useless in Mas sachusetts. It is only in Ohio that they are claiming everything as they dance around a lar'L Tmk olice detriment of Chicago has decided that poker is not a gam bling game. Their next claim should le that old Kentucky whisky is not an intoxicating drink. Til k effects of the new tariff bill is already apparent. Reports from every section of the rauntry show an imme diate and perceptible renewal ofbusi ih'ss activity and manufacturing. We are sending locomotives to Afri ca and Asia, steel to England and In dia, war-hijH tn Japan, and something to every p irt of the glolo. American enterprise has couiUered the world. The announcement of a warm wave from the west is immediately followed by a rise in the price of wheat Per haps some enterprising Ioocrat will discover tliat mercury is a lietter guide than silver. Silver has taken a drop. This is but natural, considering the many voes it has on hand to drown. llryan's at tempted resurrection f its dead issues was probably the direct incentive to its present downward step. Tiikkk will lie a hot campaign in Ohio this year. The Republicans are juite confident and so are the Demo crats. It will be a battle of the giants; but the iassage of the Dingley tariff bill will greatly aid the Republicans. Ex-Swketakv Carlisle and Mr. Henry Wattersoii are going to take the stump for sound money in the Ken tucky campaign, and things are going to be lively in the Illne irass State be fore those e-tol November days come round. The first blood has been shed iu the mining strike, and there is likely to lie more trouble liefore the thing is over. Meu out of work, on short rations, and with dark prostects ahead of them are apt to itecome desperate. How much letter it would be for them to change their minds, take up their picks again and go hack to work. The sugar trust scare which the Democratic and Populistic orators and newspapers emitted on the passage of the Dingley bill is heard no longer. It has become jurftctly apiarent now to tli!se who have made any study of the matter that the new law wijies out the advantages which the sugar trust had under the Wilson law. The Republican party is a business party. It passed th tariff bill more uickly afur the inauguration of Pres ident McKinley than any party ever did after a presidential inauguration since the time of Washington, and it would have made it a law much sooner 1 sit for the delay made by the Demo crat in the senate. If the new tariff bill does not pro- nu sufficient revenue to meet current ecju-n-ies during its first few mouths, everyli-nly will know that it is due to the enormous importations of the pat three months, much of which would have lieeu pre veil ted but for the fact that the opposition delayed action on t lie tariff bill by prolonged discussion in the senate. KvF.itvTHi.vo seems to lie moving in the iuterest of the American farmer. Not only are foreign crojis light but now comes the news that the Austra lians are losing their sheep from star vation, and are slaughtering them for their pelts as rapidly as ossible, thus tutting off one of the important wool supplies of the world. Australia's wool product last year was til'i.UUQ.OOO pound., or nearly three tittle that of lb I'liited State. I kks gave good advice to the utrik lug miners in warning them of the erils to their cause of drinking, and advising strict temperance aa a means of keeping both their heads and pas sions cool till after the strike is settled. If all the principles on which he is to found hi social Utopia were as sound as Uiis, people might legin to have Home trust in his plan. It is lobe hop ed Mie miners will tolluw his sensible advice iu this matter. The rumor that Cameron will be a candidate against Quay for I'uited States Senator is an id le one and scarce ly deserves a passing notice. Had Cameron desired to remain in the senate he could readily have doue so. Tliat the Rusiness Men's Ieague, f I'iiiladel phia, will oppose the re-elect iou of Sen ator tjuay is juite prolwible, but just who their candidate will be is proble matical. It may be Governor Hast ings, but in uo event will it be ex-Sen ator Cameron. Cameron is not a fool by any means. Cuxr.L KnEn Grant has resigned from the Police Ifciard of New York for reasons that are entirely crediUble to his manhood and judgment. Tl ie t-oard has inaugurated a system h ich is the very essence of degradation, aud t oionej Grant has protested airainst HU colleagues held that it was neces ry in order to catch the sinners to nake their detective commit the sin with upen-ee ptfd, and Colonel Grant refused to Ik; a party to any such de mmU. In this exhibition Of DUD. line aud cleau-oiindeduess wa .fiud the son of the father. O0TEKK0E SMITES IlTTESTIOaTIHO COlOt ITTEES. Senator Critcafield'f Sill Apprercd. The Oovernor used his veto ax with out mercy when he came to consider the t)ills making appropriations for the ex penses of the various investigating com mittees appointed by tne Iegislature. Thwe committees were created ly reso lutions passed by loth houses and signed by the Governor, and therefore had the force of law, and it is only right and just that the actual expenses of the members serving upon them should be paid, but the practice of piling up imaginary ex pense bills based upon the 20 cents a mile rate for travel is wrong, and was a proper subject for correction by the Gov ernor. In the bill for the payment of the expenses of the committee to investigate the bituminous coal fields, the items of tTjd.00 for Henry I. Saylor, of Montgom ery, and fcTiSMW for Alfred D. Milleison.of Cumberland county, were vetoed, as were also the items of ?.li30 for W. 11. MeriJeth, of Armstrong; filT.ai for II. P. Haines, of York; $212.30 for Jacob Rob erts, Jr., of Luzerne; $iii;l0 for II. 1. IHinlap, of Philadelphia and SI77..10 for J. C. CamplK.'!l, of Westmoreland, of the Anthracite Committee. ofthooleo investigation committee the only bills approved by the Governor wero those of the chairman, Geo. D. Ilosack, of Allegheny, which was ?17, and that of Senator Critchfield of this county, which was f 103.M. The bills of members of this committee which were disapproved were fi&t.OO for James Scho field, of Centre; fXCLOO for F. I. Turner, of Armstrong; fUl.oO for Walter T. Mer rick, or Tioga; fW).0 for John J. Oogle, of Schuylkill; and St'fTfiO for William Teas, of Montgomery. This committee made six trips to Tittsburg during the legislative session and a reasonable bill was to lie expected, but evidently the Governor could see no reason for so much difference in the amounts of these bills as ther.' is between that of Mr. Sehofield, which is the highest, and that of Senator Critchfield, which is the lowest. In ap proving the accounts of Messrs. Hossack and Critchfield the iovemor says: "Two members of the committee render bills smaller in amount, shown to he actual cash disbursements for necessary expen ses id the conduct of the investigation. and I have therefore approved theiu with other unobjectionable items." Hastings' Veto Ax. Governor Hastings Friday disposed of the last of the batch of bills left him as a legacy by the last legislature, then started at once iu a carriago for Ilclle- foute. The Mercantile Tax bill, looked upon as one of the chief revenue-raising meas ures, was vetoed. One of the objections the Governor found was that he doubted its constitutionality and felt mire that it would provoke no end of litigation. It would opiose the Constitutional provis ion that all Uxes must be uniform, since under it the small merchant would pay a higher percentage of tax than the larger, the volume of sales beiug the basis. Beside these features the Gov ernor found that the bill made no dis tinction between the wholesale dealer who handles a large quantity of goods at a small margin and the retail dealer who does the same amount of business at a much greater profit. Another closing act of the Governor that will meet general approval was the cutting out of the General Appropriation bill or large sums of money voted by the House and Senate to hangers-on it would be improper to call them employ ees who were given places with exces sive pay attached, which were not only unne!ssary, Imt contrary to law. Others were voted salaries in excess of what the law allowed them, and these, too, were cut out. The extent to which this prac tice was carried on may be juged from the fact that ),4-V) was lopped otf the al leged expense bill ot the Senate, and $:,l4 from that of the House. Not penny of this is taken otf ou account of salaries in excess of the value of services rendered, nor because men who draw fat pay never went near the place where they were supposed to be employed by the Slate, but hired substitutes at one-fourth their salary, they meanwhile attending to their customary vocation. These re ductions, the Governor states, "represent the amount appropriated for such ollicers and employees as are not authorized by law." The Governor also vetoed the Simon Klectric bill, and in doing so thus ex plains its purpose: "The proposition contained iu the bill is that if a corpora tion be created tor the purpose or estab lishing an electric-light plant in a certain city, and such corporation makes appli cation to the municipal authorities for leave to occupy its streets with poles or coudu its, and such leave is granted by ordinance or otherwise, the right of the municipality to light its own streets and furnish light to its own inhabitants is thereby forever forfeited, except upon the condition of either purchasing all ex isting light plants by contract, or, upon failure to agree, to condemn the same and pay the value fixed therefor by viewers appointed for that purpose, or by a jury on appeal." The bill for refitting Grace Church, which was one of the chief scandals of the past winter, tid not seem to have any faults that the Governor could see, and so not a cent of the f.Vi,.V0 is cut out. But this measure is a child of the (Jovernor himself, and the usual parental blindness holds good. In connection with this same hill, another appropriation of $30, ( OO, is made for the rent of the church and for fitting it up so that it can be used for church purposes again. The "Bird Day" bills were disapproved, while the appropriation of Jlnl.Ool to Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, and the I.iapior License bills were signed. The aggregate saved to the State by all the toveinor's vetoes is f.'!,7:Si n. of this amount fl.".J,(i7 tl was taken out of the General Appropriation bill. Th Pennsylvania Eailroad's Popular Ex arsioa I the Saathora. The next excursion leaves August 12. A special train of Pullman parlor cars and day coaches will leave Pittsburg on above mentioned date at 8:55 a. ni., arriv ing at Altooua Iil5 p. ni., where stop for dinner will be made, reaching Philadel phia t25 p. in., and arriving at Atlantic City, via the I Delaware River Bridge route, at (t40 p. m., making the run from Pitulmrg to the seashore via the only all rail route in eleven hours and forty-five minutes. Passengers may also spend the night in Philadelphia, aud proceed to the shore by any regular train from Market Street Wharf or Broad Street Station the following day. Tickets will be sold from the stations at the rates named below: RaM r;fi.unc ui I 'oi.n-INville. (10 UI Hyn-Lii t.i... 7 jj Jhntm-n ft u. !tiladi-iphta.Arnve Atlantic-City. Train Uwvcs. . V a. m. 7.:ii a. iu. ) a. ni. 11.01 a. m. p. III. K.4U p. m. Tickets will also lie good on regular trains leaving Pittsburg at 4.30 and 10 p. ui., tth of which will carry sleeping cars through to Atlantic City. For detailed information in regard to rates aud time or trains apply to ticket agents, or Mi. Thomas K. Watt, District Passenger Agent, Pittslsirg. Abased By Hit Wife. John-stows. Pa.. July 21. Attorney John W. Kephart has sued for a divorce from his wife, K Kephart, The couple were married Novembers, 1SH5, yet the petition sets Airth that from November 4 the respondent began to treat him "bar barously and cruelly;" that on December 10, 1SH5, she raised a hatchet over his head, and in June, 10, she threw a pot of hot gruel at him, and, finally, that his married life was not by any means hap py. Both belong to lea-ling families, Mrs. Kephart being a daughter or F. A. Situeoiaker, one or the oldest members of the Cambria 'county bar. , Caaada't Gold Royalty. Ottawa, OnL, July ). While govern ments have been devising new moans of raising taxation and of filling their treas uries, none have ever before adopted the rational policy of retaining and working for the public benefit mineral deposits which may lie discovered within iu ter ritory. A royalty has been the furthest in this direction that has been done. As to the mines and mineral deposits them selves, they have been free to be grabbed up by every adveuturotis individual who might happen to run across them, and the utmut-t that a rich mining district has done has been to make a score or so of millionaires without otherwise adding to the general wealth. This statement may te taken as a gon- eral defense put forth by the government and its organs for the unusual step taken by the cabinet In imposing a royalty on all placer diggings in Yukon, in addition to 15 registration fee and f 100 annual as sessment, the royalty to be 10 per cent, each on claims with an output offVMor less monthly, and 20 per cent on every claim yielding above that amount yearly. Critics or the government's proceedings declare the royalty is a liarcfaccd rob bery, and that it is au imposition of the last resort of a government which, hav ing hopelessly exceeded its estimates iu the matter or expenditure, is now seeking to take advantage or the gold round up in Klondyke to rehabilitate its finances from the hard-earned findings of the miner. To-day it is aunounoed that it seems probable that the road selected by the government for the establishment of the dog train mail sen-ice to the Yukon dur ing the winter, and for the erection of the police posts, will be from the head of Lynn canal to a point west of Teslin lake. going up the White pass, thence to Fort Selkirk, and soon to Cudahy aud Klon dyke. Pension Knlei Modified. Washington, July 2. Assistant Sec retary of the Interior Davis has revised the rules governing the adjudication of pension claims under the second section of the act of June 27, 1$0, in the direction or simplifying and aiding the cases or claimants. The first rule is amended so as to read that "every application for pension should state that the same is made under said act, the dates of eulist ment and discharge,, the name or nature or the diseases, wounds or injuries by which the claiinaut is disabled, aud that they are not due to vicious habits ; pro vided however that the omission or any of these averments shall not iuvalidate the application (the intent to claim pen sion being manifest, and the declaration being executed in accordance with law). but such application shall be subject to amendment by means of a supplemental allidavit, in the particulars wherein it is defective; said supplemental affidavit to be read in connection with and as a part of the application itself; and, provided further, that a declaration in the terms of the act shall be su tlicient." Hulet makes esseutial modifications, and is as foU lows : "Should a wound, injury or disease not specified in the original or amendatory declaration, but discovered on medical examination, be shown to have existed at the time when the original declaration was filed, aud it is found not to be due to vicious habits, it shall be taken into ac count, the same as if formally specified in the original application, in estimating the degree of the permanent mental or physical disability to which it contributes. Should it be fouud, however, not to have existed at the time when the original ap plication was filed, but from a subsequent date prior to medical examination, the degree of the disability or the applicant lieiug below the maximum rating, may lie Increased accordingly from the date when such wound or injury was incurred or disease contracted, provided the de gree of disability from all contributory causes is thereby enhanced to a suuicent extent to justify a higher rating. Should it te found impossible to fix the exact date when such wound or injury was re ceived or disease contracted, the higher rating shall commence from the date of certificate of medical examination show ing its existence." WHITEHALL TERMINAL. Hew Entrance to New York City via B. 0. Unequaled Facilities. Whitehall Terminal, the new entrance into New York City, opened for business by the Baltimore and Ohio It. H.on Mon day, July l!h, is the most convenient station to and from all parts of New York City and Brooklyn. This terminal is at South Ferry, east of Battery, and from it, under the same roof, direct connections are made with trains or the Second, Third, Sixth and Ninth Avenue F.levated Itoads; Broadway, Coin ml sis and Islington Avenue Cable Lines; Fast and West Side Belt Liues ot horse cars; South Ferry, Staten Island Ferry, Hamilton Avenue and Thirty-ninth street (Brooklyn) Fer ry. Ask for tickets to New York via B. t O. and save incouvenieuce. Secret Told After 40 Tear. Chk-aoo, Ill.i July .11. The Journal this eveni lg publishes an interview with William F.Woods, of Chicago, purport ing to give the secret or the famous Bur de.11 murder. Dr. Harvey Burdell, a New York dentist, was assassinated in his o' fice. No. 31 Bond street, 40 years ago. Mr. Woods in his interview to-day saya that Dr. Burdell's housekeeper, Mrs. Km ma Augusta Cunningham, confessed herself the murderess, strangling the doc tor with a cord while John J. Kckel, her paramour, stabbed him with a dentist's excavator. The confession, according to Mr. Woods, was made to Mrs. Dr. James Fowler, Woh1s' grandmother aud wife of the murdered doctor's partner in dentis try. Mrs. Cunningham made a confidant of Mrs. Fowler because the latter had be friended her. Mr. Woods says the secret would not have been divulged but for recent un pleasant experiences it has cost the Woods and Fowler families in making claims to the estate of Dr. James Fowler, who died a year ago at Bordeaux, France, where be established himself as a dentist one year before the Burdell murder. The claims of the Woods and Fowlers brought out threatening letters to Mr. Woods, who was one of the mostactiveclainiants. The letters referred to made mysterious reference to the Burdell murder. Cam East For a Fortane. M Kin a, Pa August 1. Judge A. B. Quinton, a distinguished resident ofTo jieka, Kan., is in Media, having come ad the way East to lay claim to a portion of the now famous Ball estate. Several months ago someone discovered that ap parently the estate of Joseph Ball, a Phil adelpbian, who died in ISil, leaving an estate valued at nearly 2,000,000, had never lieen properly settled. It is said that a portion of it was never divided and that some or the real estate was illegally transferred. To-morrow Judge Quinton and Justice Sloan, of Media, the latter one of the claimants himself will go to Washington, D. C, to examine the books and files in the Court or Claims office, where many or the papers on which the prospe-tive heirs base their hope of sharing in the estate are on record. Judging by the way the claimants to the Ball millions have been turning up Joseph Ball must have had a good many relatives. Starting with 10 or 12 in this county, the list baa now run np to over 50, and they are still coming in from all sections of the country. The Mt Pleasant Institute. The Western Pennsylvania Classical and Scientific Institute offers exception al adtauUges as a school for the training of the young. There are seven courses of study, including Music and Art. A J00cat.h prixe. For full information write the principal, II. C. Dixon, MU rieasant, I'a. Beorening Folks Oat West. Kansas Citt, Mo., August 1. All Kan sas City and vicinity sweltered again to day through the third successive day of over 100 degrees of heat. The Govern ment Bureau report shows 100 degrees and over from 2 P. M. until after 5 o'clock this evening, the maximum being at 4 P. when 10 degrees was recorded. At 7 o'clock this evening the reading was Throughout Kansas thesamo condi tions prevailed. The reports as to the condition of the corn crop are very gloomy. Hot winds are general throughout the Stite and in the Southern and Western parts where rain has been needed Kir many days farmers are losing hope. Several locali ties in the Southern part of the State re port that farmers are cutting their corn in older to preserve it for foddor. Married His Lost Sister. London, July 29. Henry Lee, a tailor. aged 55 years, committed suicide in Lon don the other day upon learning that he had inadvertently married his sister. The story as revealed at the irspicst takes the record In romance. Iee's sis ter was sold by her parents in her infan cy to the Golden Iees, a trilie of Gypsies, and was subsequently transferred from tribe to tribe, until her identity was prac tically lost. Meantime, according to Lee's confes sion liefore his death, he had, when 15 years old, slabbed a woman to death by his father's command, and afterward learned that the woman he bad killed was his own mother. The murder was committed on Epsom Down. Lee met his sister, who was a widow, last Octo ber, and married her in November. The identity of bis wife was revealed to Lee a fortnight ago by Gypsies, who furnished proof or their revelations. From Blindness to Active Business in Twenty-Eight Days. One year ago Mr. A. M. Cunningham, Ottawa, Kansas, round himself blind in one eye from cataract and the other fail ing rapidly, lie had the one operated upon by an occulist in St. Joe, Mo., re sulting in a painful confinement and a totally blind eye. The other was now too blind to do business. He then came to PittsUirg for the expross purpose of placing himself under the skillful care of Dr. Sadler, mi Penn avenue, whose rep utation for success in cntanu-t has ex tend ed throughout the leugtb and breadth of the I'uited States. The result in this case added another laurel to the doctor's cred it. Mr. C. never having had any pain cither with the operat iou or after it Iu throe weeks he could read the finest print, and in four weeks was out on the prairies of Kansas selling reapers. The dix-tor has lost but three cases out of the last 113 of all ages a percentage cer tainly worthy of consideration. No sea son of the year more favorable than uow Beanion at Everett. The committee in charge of tho ar rangements for the fourth annual reun ion of the one Hundred and Thirty third Kcgimeut, Pennsylvania Volun teers, which, as already announced, will le held at Everett, Bedford county, on Friday, September 17, 1!C, makes the following announcement: "The members of Companies C and K, who have the matter in charge, are anx ious to make this one of the most success ful reunious that have been held by the regimeut. They urge all of the survivors who can possibly do so to be present. The ravages of time are fast thinning our ranks, and we will not have many more opportunities of meeting and exchanging greetings with our comrades. Let us then make an especial effort to be pres ent at this reunion of our grand old organization. It is expected that nearly all of the surviving ollicers of the regi ment will be present." Ballet For a Benefactor. Hoi.i.iDAVsRriui, Pa., July 2ft. An un known tramp who was given a ride by Huckster Crawford Black, of Claysburg, to help him along through the Ant Hill woods near here to-day, murderously shot his benefactor through the head three times and plundered Black's pock ets and wagon aud escaped. Black is still unconscious. A posse is scouring Brush Mountain for the would-be mur derer. Black, as has since been reported, grappled with his assailant, and iu their struggles both fell from the wagon just as another team came along. The mur derer, seeing that bis chances of further robbery were frustrated, jumped to his feet and fled through the woods. The newcomers assisted Black to his feet and brought him to this place, where his in juries were dressed and be was sent to his home. He was able to give a good description of the roblier, and is likely to recover. Bidgeviei Camp Meeting, wood. Fa. Hear Mill- For the annual camp meeting to lie held at Kidegview Park, Pa., August 7 to lii, iMfC, the Pennsylvania Kailroad Com pany will sell excursion tickets at re duced rates from Altoona, Pittslsirg, Fairehance, Freeport, and intermediate slat ions, to Millwood, August 5 to in clusive, gootl to return until Augast IK, 197, inclusive. Arrangements have also lieen made for the stopping of a large nu miter or trains at Kidgeview during the continuance or the camp, and the run ning or special trains on Sunday, August 15, from Conemaugh, Fairehance, Trail g er, and Indiana. For lime of these trains consult ticket agents or large posters. He Killed Seventeen Men. Williamson, W. Va., July 21. The notorious outlaw, "Cap" Hatfield, leader or the Hatfield-McCoy feud, where'n 40 relatives of the principals were killed, escaped from the jail here to-day. He was serving a sentence for so-called "in voluntary manslaughter." Captain Hatfield is credited with the killing or seventeen men. The trouble which had as its sequel Hatfield's incar ceration was an election day fight last November, as a result or which he killed a man named Kutherford and the latler's nephew, Anderson Chambers, au elec tion inspector, who got in the way of a bullet during the shooting. Kutherford accused Hatfield of alienat ing his wife's affections eight years be fore. Kutherford emptied his revolver, doing no more damage than clipping one of "Csp" Hatfield's ears and nicking his neck, when the latter fired and killed Kothcrfbrd. Rutherford's nephew pur sued Hatfield until be emptied his revol ver, when the old man turned and sent a bullet through him. killing him In- iil.iilta Cereal Coffee Drinkers BEWARE! If you have been deceived and tried one of the cheap bran substitutes now on the market, claiming to be the original and to have great food value, and you got a pound of poorly roasted bran for your 25c. and a poor, weak, sickish drink (what can you expect from bran), don't lie discouraged but try GRAIN-O. It is made from solid grain, nicely browned and 3 pounds for 25c. Grain-O takes the place of coffee at 1 the pri.-e. Get a pack eof f our g roc er to-day. Bally 'Bound the Flag. The thirty-first annual encampment of theG. A. It. will lie held August 2td, iu the City of Buffalo. President McKinley, Members of the Cabinet and Diplomatic Corps, the Gov ernors of various stales and their staffs, will lie prraeut, and an nlhusiaslic re ception will lie given the Veterans. Tickets at one rare for the round trip will tie sold by the Baltimore A- Ohio K. It. from all stations on its lines east of the Ohio Kiver for all trains August 21st, 22d and 2kl, valid for return until August SUt. For further information, call on or aJ- i dress nearest B. Jt O. agent. The Only One To Stand the Test Kev. William Copp, whose father was a physician for over fifty years, in New Jersey, and who himself pjient many years preparing for the practice of medicine, but subse quently entered the ministry of the M. E. Church, writes: "I am glad to testify that I have had analyzed all the sarsaparilla prepara tions known in the trade, but AYER'S Vjtys the only one of liiciu inai, tuuiu recommend as a blood-purifier. 1 have riven away hundreds of bottles of it, as I consider it the safest as well as the ls?st to 1 had." Wm. Corr, Tastor M. E. Church, Jackson, Minn. : 051Y WORLD'S FAIR 'Sarsaparilla When In doubt, ask for Ayer's Pills Put Their Clothes in Pawn. York, Aug. 1. Young men who hire teams from Liveryman Flemming have frequently made it a habit to return them with the information that they have no money and will pay for their use later. Mr. Flemming wearied of that excuse and early this morning took drastic measures to put an end to it, On the pre vious evening two young men named John Shepp and William Grentzler, from Pleasureville, a town five miles from York, had hired a team to attend a rural festival and on the way back to town a collapse bs)k place. The wrecked team was brought to York and within a square of the livery the horse was unhitched and started off for the stable. The plan of the men was to gontly de camp, but a brawny employe of Mr. Fleuiming came umu the scene and sternly insisted upon payment lieing made. The men wont with him to the Flemming stable and as no better com promise could be devised, agreed to leave their clothes as security for payment a week hence. Mr. Flouiming and his hired man ai-cordingly dismiss! thorn ami at two o'clock in tho morning, barehead ed aud Uirefooted, like sloop-walkers, they made their way out of town with no other apparel upon them than their un derclothing and a shirt. Famous Springs at Deer Park. A million and a half galloiisof tho pur est water on earth, is the daily out-put or the famo.n Bailing Springs in Garrett county, Maryland. In order that noth ing can contaminate the Springs, one hundred acres of laud surrounding it, are fciio diii. In addition, a wire building cn -rs tho Springs, so that leaves cannot fall into the water. It is from these ex traordinary Springs that Deer Park Ho tel receives its water supply, the water lieiug piped direct to the hotel. The medical fraternity now concede that in the matter of health, the question of pure -alcr ktands at the head and front. No summer resort combines so many health ful features. The air is wonderfully pure and invigorating; cool nights, with abso lutely no mosquitoes; the finest cuisine, with perfect sanitary arraiig'-mcuts, make1 Deer Park Hotel the ideal re sort. Celluloid Comb Takes Fire. Kansas City, Mo., July 20. Madeline Teas, the little daughter of Charles II. Teas, general agent of the Wells-Fargo Kx press company, was the victim last night of a peculiar accident. She was combing her hair with a celluloid comb, when Mr. Teas was attracted by a Hare of bluish light and the child's screams. He ran to her assistance and round her holding the comb, which was burning briskly. The comb was thrown into a bathtub, but not until the child's hand had been severely burned. It is suppos ed that the friction or drawing the comb through the child's hair caused combus tion. There was no lamp or artificial light or any kind within several feet of the girl. A Wasp in Her Bonnet. Bristol, Pa., July 2a Buckingham, in this county, has a striking and genu ine case of a "bee in the bonnet," or, at least, or a wasp there. While Mrs. Charles Buck man was washing clothes on Wednesday she hung her siinlMiniiet on the fence for a moment. When she replaced the Utnnet on her head there seemed to be coals of fire in it, and there was buzzing enough for a-tual Ilaines. Almost frenzied with pain, the woman tore off her Unmet, to find that it con tained a large and very active wasp. She had been stung in several places, aud since then her head and face have swollen greatly, aud her eyes are swollen shut. A Boy's Deadly Surgery. Galeto.x, Pa., July 29. While F.lden Atkinson, aged 15 years, of Hebron tow u ship, was hunting woodchucks yesterday he lay down to peer into a hole. His rille was discharged, the bullet plough ing into his head above the ear. Tho younger brother filled the wound full of buckwheat Hour to stop its bleeding and then attempted to cut out the bullet with a razor. When Dr. Iteese arrived he found the wounded boy almost dead. Tho wound had been seriously inteiisiicd by the brother's amateur surgery. Binder Twine! Farmers Look Here! We have just received a carload of bin Uer twine from one of the liest manufact urers. (Quality guaranteed. I will sell while this car lasts at follow ing prices for cash : Sisal, per pound. Standard, per pound, Manilla, per pound. If charged or in less than bales, t, cts " cts. li cts. 1 i-ent per pound advance. Twine open for inspection at our tdoie. J. B. Hol.llKKBAl'Sf, Somerset, Pa. A Feline Freak. Wilmixotox, Aug. 2. One of the strangest freaks in the feline order is to be seen at the residence of Samuel Il ili- onowitz's, 202 Monroe street. UiImiiio witz's cat gave birth to a litter of kittens on Thursday, two or which were not dif ferent from other cats. But the remain der of them possess only a hind leg apiece and their bodies are joined together. Al though there are four heads, four eyes and four tails they are all fastened to the ono Issly, being joined at the hind legs. He Looked Like McKinley. Wasiiimotox, D. C, July 20. John L. Bittinger, tho St. Joseph editor to-day nominated to be Consul at Montreal.owes his distinction to a series of singular in cidents which occurred in Missouri sev eral years ago. Mr. McKinley was stump ing the State and Mr. Bittinger was a member of the escorting party. There is a strong personal resemblance between the two men. The fatiguing labor r in cessant speech-making brought Mr. Mc Kinley to the verge or collapse. It was decided that Mr. Bittinger should take his place. This was done with great suc cess. As a result or this substitute work Mr. McKinley always bad au unusually warm reeling for the oil: or. 1 Wl Jos. Home & Co. ur July Clearnn'-e Sale, as such, is over, Isit not tho selluig. Tlm clearance is pretty well effcted, but not entirely. Odds and ends and rich little tid-bits horn and there, at one-third, otie-h.tif and one-quarter value still remain from tho banquet ot bargains. A few of them are mentioned here: French Printed Swisses, all lw:i7 gisxls, new ami fresh. Foulard and Ho nil patterns, ., .TV.-, and 40c gissls at 10 cents a yard. l.ono yards of 27-inch Plain Black Jap. Silks, dollar a yard quality, at Go cents a yard. 21 inch Black Pongoe Silks, 21 inch Black Brocaded tiros Grains and Pluck Fancy Armures, GKcents a yard. 1,I0 yards of Fancy Taffetas, in check aud broche effects; these in elude some of the prettiest patterns of the season and aro f l.io a yard qualities, at ri0 cents a yard. Shirt Waist These aro the finer kinds in both cotton and silk. Wo are selling ten dollar Silk Waists for &.. Kcgtilur three dollar Madras Shirt Waists are selling for JiiM. Dollar Waists for jOc, ami many at2oc aud good ones too, which formerly were excellent sellers at 75c 525-527 PENN AVE-, PITTSBURG. Your Grocer is the man to help you economize. Why? YMir Grocery Bill is tho largest and most impoit.'tnt itom of expense, how to reduce it, therefore, is the vita! question We can lessen the cost of your bill w ith out decreasing the amount or quality of the gtssls. How? We are prepared to lul; yoii be cause of a lull; and sun-cssbil l n-intss i-areer, combined with the best facilities, such as a )art;e store, complete slock uud a Jierfect delivery syKteni. Our Stock of FANCY & STAPLE GROCCRIES Is Unsurpassed. Summer 5pecialtics ur hnP f "um' ,,i0r "pccwltics- com prise the best branJd of rootl-t on the market : such a? Ileinz's Key stone Condiments, Marviu'd Fancy Cakes and Crackers, tjueen Olives, Jordan Shelled Almonds, Shelled Peanuts, alon with a full and com plete line of Fancy Confectioner ies, which are always kept FRESH. We also carry a full line ol Smokers articles, consistiug of an up-todatc line of Piles, Smoking Tobacco, Ac. Our S sOlt V flM t PAAtltJ Flour Room. NNMM9M arC a'iraJ3 stocked with the best brands and we high ly recommend them 'World's Fair Souvenier," King's Best," Porter's Doss," and we call sjiccial atten tion to our lates-t brand, '-Gold Heart," which U taking a big load over the sales of other brands. Give it a trial ! r-mntno- 0 f Is near at hard Season 9 supply your wants with Mason's Jars, Jelly Glasses, Gum Rings Ac. Highest prices paid for Country Produce. Goods, delivered promptly and free of charge. Rc.-iicctfully yours, COOK& BEERITS. MOUNT UNION COLLEGE, ALLTANCK, OHIO- Collcjo Courses : Classical, Soiontifi?, Philosophical, Literary. Other Departments : Preparatory, Normal, Commercial, Uusie, Art, Elocution, Short-hand and Type-writing, etc. Fall Term Opens Aug. 31, Expenses Low. Send for Catalogue, IV. L DOUGLAS SO.00 1 . C Slfe Merrhants, Hanker. I-awyera, rtrvaieiana and all economical men wear W. I Domrlaa Sboea becauae they are tae best. For sale by J. D. MILLER & SONS, Agents, ROCKWOOD, PA: : GIVEN I FREE EACH MONTH (During 1897) For partlcalara send your aam and full tevet 1W, Ltd., Uudsun A lUrrkxm Sti, & piece Vil cent Irish . es-.!..iil.!e ividih fx A C l ioelc s itle ) v' 1 T"v' white grmii'ls wil'i nc:it colored tri;MS :imi llures n:ivy blue ami whites pink, bull'-, lavender the last variely of styles in gissl .iw pii cd wash goo.Ii ever oIK-red. I.::r-;c lot of 111. I 'k and 1 I " cent I .awns, I'cr-JT ales and liiuiitnM J ' light, medium and dark tllcrls stripes, tiguria ami floral designs such money's worth as will surprise every one who luvchligntes-aiid they'll save u lot of money on niv useful g'KHls. Assortment of white Krouml In rent Ameri- ' g fTQ nn liimities O 'l' ilaik colored line strip.-J -for waists, house gowns mill children's wear these are uiicqtialcd value at live cents a yd. Write for samples ami what a chance this is "lt the gsls ami prices prove it." Ask for samples of fine Dress Goods aud suitings at 25. 3o, and 50c goods that wereTocto Jl.oO-t-pkinl-iil for separate skirts and girls' fall school suits. American I)rcss(iooU 5. 10, 15. 20, 25 ilou I de width, neat styles. BOGGS & BUHL Allegheny, Pa. - "s 5i 5 " 2 2 a 3 5 7 - 2 : 3 . s 5; iw a " a- s C3 83 2: t s r - a -w 2: 3 " 2. 2 S3 r a X o CO El o o O 3 0 for Sale or Exchange for Somer set County Propcrty Ten (1M lots in various stitnirlis of the city of Johnstown. Address (Ko. C Ml'LLi'.R, Somerset, Pa. YOUR LIFE OR YOUR HOUSE Which is most valuable? You wouldn't allow your house to stand an hour un protected by insurance. Do you treat your life with the same consideration Yet your life means every thing to loved ones depen dent on you. Fire insur ance is a necessary burden. Life assurance a sacred duty. The best life assurance is the new cash guarantee policy of The Equitable Life Assurance Society. EDWARD A. WOODS, Manager. FlTISBU&GH. L. FOSDICK, General Agent, Somerset, Pa. SHOE The Style, Fit and Wear could not be Improved lur Double the "rice. "W. L. Douglas $150, $4.00 and $540 Snots art the productions of skilled workmen, from the best ma terial possible to put into shoes soli at these prices. $2.50, $2.00 and $1.75 for boys, and the W. L. Douglas $150 Police shoe, very suitable for ictier-carnm, policemen ana otners navtng much walking to do. We are constant!? adding new styles to our already fcirire variety, and there la no rea ain Why vin cannot lie suittsl. o insist on bavini! W. L. Douglas Snocs from jour dealer. We use only the best Call. Rnmia Calf (all colors), French l'atciit t'alf. reni n r.namei. 111 Mil, ric, graded to correlHud with prices of the sboea. If dralcr cauuot supply you, L DOUGLAS, Brockton, Mass. t'AIALIHillC t MXK. 4 First Prtos, each of $100 Cash. MSacond" . " $100 Pierce Special Bicjclej. 40Thiri " ta$25GoUIathei FOR Sunlight SOAP address to w Voik. WRAPPERS Why Jlulo in an old hnirirv when von I-., et a now one at alnsost your own price at j amcs B. Holderbaum V: Wn. 7yiT IT A 7 Buggies I or Road Wagon. Call and to show uiy line. J. . . - -w- ' A COOKING STOVE With a square ovc n ati.l a'.l lint lvanta gn of a rant;; without tl:e slow draft nei:try t- I'.ai X coiilrii-tio:i. CALL AND SEE THEM. -o- P. A. Schcll. 1847, Call and try a drink our lee Cold Soda. Hi " E of oi- OURSUPPLY OF FLAVORS WILL SATISFY THE MOST FASTIDIOUS. TAP THE SODA SI-RING G. W. BENFORD, MANAGER, SC .VIERSET, PA. HELLO! -HOUSEKEEPERS, IN WANT OF FURNITURE? LOOK AT THESE PRICES. A Bedroom Set for $13 00. A Parlor Set for $12 00 A Coucn for 7 00. A Lounge for A Rocking Chair for 50 cts. ('ujiUianl, TaliU-s IVlU-:ils Cliairs, m. We are in line for ''7 v itli the uiot I!at-el Um Hie nmrki t an-1 pri jan .l anJ original ilewi'jiK line :nnl ineilimn Tables ami Dining Chair-", S- li-Kianls Coiu-heM, warJroln-s, t-te. Ilium iiutlltj , iww j'l ims i i'ij .ii- in int C. H. Coffroth, C06 Min Cross Street, SOMERSET, PA SNYDER'S ART STORE. We Are Offering the Het Possible lnC5tment for Your Dollars We arc p..ine in hn- the iipl of Somerset the laret ami ui(.t i-omi''' llL 15i-y-lP! ever hIiowu in i-itv, We aie K..inE to ell the MOXA KCII lUCYCl.K at fiVlW per reani "''yV V enamel. We will al have it line of t !.) A- 'iVrt-t' CI.KS at lm not buy until you have wen our w heels. e es iu several .iny. j x JAAa 7 Comprise everything t!.t ;3 'ew Stylish and l; ,-: t' when you buy from -3 ither Surrej, Phaeton, l',:: -:- examine my stock. .o tr .e B. HOLDERBAUM. - f .i.r.tt.-Il! ..f STOVES and RANGES. Thf-y ro VITHOJTAVEQm in lUkini;. '-.'' A I.atins .j ..;;-. I-r f;i t in r y !. -V-W fcjiQ i,i wml. j v irw 1897. 4 t 0. at jrojmrtini:ite iri.v. me. r-oiuil te ami lijvtiv.late line of Fur:u:'- i to show the tra.lt a larsje variety 'f ("nanilier Suitu, Parlor Suits hx:-'"-"'1 t'hiirniier-, 11 iki-ai-s, Chin 1 O o 3. :y. -vLil MADE r32rv FROM .1 CD I I IT sr r si aj JUICES. i i ) n
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