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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.
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2 a 3
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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
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3.
:y. -vLil MADE
r32rv FROM
.1 CD I I IT
sr r si aj
JUICES.
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