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Newspaper
Harrisburg Telegraph
Location
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1914
Page
8
William Abel, 38, was hanged at Moyamensing Prison as Philadelphia switches to electrocution under a new law at the Western Penitentiary. He was the last to die by hanging before the death penalty change took effect.
The Public Service Commission heard Pleas ant View residents A K Thomas and others over gas mains extension by Harrisburg Gas Co. George F Lamb and J H Minds of Philadelphia represented parties. Separate filings included Charles B Keefer seeking station heat at Dauphin county station and protests on Pennsylvania Railroad signals. The commission continued Philadelphia Electric Co hearings with expert witnesses and debated delaying proposed rate increases for Wynnewood citizens. State College resident Edward M Frear complains of State Centre Electric lighting and Don Jaime of Bourbon’s appeal to partisans amid war. An Austrian arrest of Don Jaime was reported with a Paris dispatch. a mass escape attempt by prisoners at a concentration camp near Lancaster was halted by guards.
Delegates rallied despite a looming influence from former President Taft as George W. Breenine opened the gathering. The Telegraph dispatch from Chicago notes Taft’s presence overshadowing the Progressive camp and hints at Republican candidacy implications.
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