Somerset County Miscellaneous Newspaper Articles |
The Somerset Fire. PITTSBURG, PENN., May 10.—A special dispatch says that the fire in Somerset, Penn. Destroyed six squares in the heart of the town, embracing one-third of the area of the place and two-thirds of its entire value. The buildings destroyed included three hotels, every business house, store and shop but one, both banking—houses, both printing-offices, the lawyers’ offices, the Post Office, two churches, the Masonic and Odd-Fellows’ Halls, the telegraph and express offices, and over thirty private dwellings. Fifty families are rendered homeless. The total of the losses is estimated at $1,000,000; the insurance, $75,000. This morning, at 4 o’clock, three boilers exploded in James Wood. Sons & Co.’s iron-mill, at Sawmill Run. A fireman named Charles Marchant was instantly killed. The boilers were nearly new, and had not been used yesterday. Source: The New York Times, New York, May 11, 1872 - transcribed by Terri Griffiths |
SOMERSET, (Penn) March 20. – It becomes our painful duty to record the circumstances of a most melancholy occurrence, which took place at the house of Henry Hieple, Innkeeper, about half a mile east of this place, on Wednesday night the 12th instant. Reuben Long, a native of Southampton township, in this county, a blacksmith by trade, had for some time past been ill of a fever, at Mr. Heiple’s house, where he was an inmate. About twelve o’clock of that night, he complained that he was dry; Mr. H. attended in the room, and poured him out some tea, which stood on the stove in the room; when Mr. H. told him he had some tea ready for him, he turned himself round in the bed towards Mr. H. and smiled and again resumed his former posture in the bed, Mr. H. stand-with his back to the stove, and facing the bed. Long then in a moment sprang from the bed, and struck Mr. Heiple a violent blow, immediately below his right breast. Mr. H. was, some moments recovering from the shock, when he discovered that Long was stabbing himself with a penknife, which he did by piercing himself just below the pit of the stomach, and cutting from thence downwards right and left from the same point, until his bowels came out—another young man who then entered the room and laid hold of him, received a stab, but the thickness of his clothes prevented its entered his body. Mr. H. by this time discovered, from the flowing of blood, that he himself was stabbed in the breast. Long expired on Friday last, and was buried on Saturday near town. James Johnson, Esq. the coroner of the county, held an inquest on the body, who after the examination, returned a verdict of suicide, during a fit of insanity. It is doubtful whether Mr. Heiple will recover. Date: April 10, 1817 Transcribed by Terri Griffiths |
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From the Public Ledger, dated January 11, 1844: Destruction By Fire – Major Wm Kennedy’s grist and clover mills at Bedminster (Somerset county) were burnt on Christmas night, with a large stock of grain. The Somerset Whig intimates that it was the work of an incendiary, and estimates the loss at $5,000 – no insurance. (Contributed by Denise Burge) |
Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania) January 11, 1826 |
Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania) June 28, 1826 |
Republican Compiler, Gettysburg, PA, August 20 1828 |