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Multi Location July 16 Events Highlight Severe Weather and Accidents
A fragmented wire service page reports numerous July 16 incidents across Pennsylvania Ohio and West Virginia including deaths from lightning in Wheeling and Canton, a horse theft wave in Darlington, tanks of oil ignited by lightning near West Finley, a missing banker located in Hungary and a proposed swearing suppression movement in Sharon. Also noted is a fatal shotgun accident near Sandy Lake and a stray bullet fatality in Wheeling while Columbus gathers to hear Taft’s presidential nomination.
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West Vitwinik
Citelavitle
Thunder Bolt
Mary
Anta Zieglol
Haar
Darlington
Darlington Township
William Craft
Hhe Meadow
Washington
Pure Oil Company
Wilson
West Finley Township
Sharon
Lret Methodist Church
Ant
Orie
Samuel Gompers
John B. Lennon
American Federation of Labor
John Mitchell
Lima
Neeley, Kerr & Co
North Fork Oil Company
William Strain
Ol City
Crawford County
Ill
Butler
Joseph Strawbridge
Mabel Jones
Thomas H. Jones
Standard
Hil-lard
Eldersville
John McCleary
McCleary
Liverpool
Amos Dawson
Ohioville
Pannsylvania
Wheeling
W. Va
Charles Snodgrass
Glenn
Columbus
Willem Warner
Missouri
Taft
Poninaton