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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1898
Page
7
Rescue Ride Pursues Indian Camp After Scalping Attack
In July 1873 a wagon party is attacked by mounted Indians. William Rogamond is scalped but survives. his wife Rosamond is captured. A rescue party led by Bow Legs rides out from a ranch, tracking 16 horsemen across the Platte divide to pursue the captors and recover the wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Platte
Julesburg
Denver
William Rogamond
Rosamond
Bow Legs
Pony Express
Platte
Crow Creek
Pursuit and assault scene near Crow Creek camp
The narrator recounts chasing four survivors who fled on ponies toward Crow Creek. Indians camped along the stream, a quick riverine assault followed with revolvers and carbines. Nine attackers escaped, seven ponies and several saddles captured. Rosamond survives a scalp attack, later healing. The tale includes the wife’s grief and recovery, then shifts to unrelated notes on ear care, local hotel, and business ads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crow Creek
Crow Creek Valley
Bow Lega
Rosamond
Springfield
Winchester
Ministers at Freeport Kittanning Presbytery session
The Kittanning Presbytery met in Freeport for its spring session with Rev. J W Dunbar delivering the opening sermon and Rev. J Logan Sample offering the opening prayer. Moderated by Rev. J S Helm for six months, with Rev. L B Wylie as clerk, and several members dismissed to other presbyteries. An ordination sermon by Rev. Sample and a trial sermon by Rev. H A Davis were heard, and Davis later installed at Goheenville Concord. The next meeting will be June 21 at Goheenville, with broad church attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kittanning
The
Presbyterian Church
Freeport
J. W. Dunbar
Elderton
J. Logan Sample
J. S. Helm
Leechburg
L. BR. Wylie
Penn Run
J. A
A. W. Emmons
Homer City
H. A. Davis
Pittsburg
Sample
Davis
Goheenville
Concord
Armstrong County
Gobeenville
Own Bankers Feats and a Narrow Bank Robbery End
George Hiles of Wood county built wealth from mills stores and pine lands becoming a multi millionaire and twice keeping money in four barrels in back room as his own banker. A river man tried to rob the bank but was knocked down in seconds leaving him with broken ribs teeth missing and sight lost. Hiles died in Milwaukee two years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Hiles
Wood County
Hiles
Chicago Times-Herald
Milwaukee
Dexterville
Mr. Hiles
Dolar
Tiver
Lippmann Describes Color Photography With One Exposure
Professor Gabriel Lippmann outlined a color photography method at the Royal Photographic Society in London. A transparent grainless film is exposed with a mercury mirror behind the plate to create stationary light waves, imprinting colored interference hues that are fixed and resistant to light.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Royal Photographic Society
London
Gabriel Lippman
Warer
M. Lippman
Free offer claims lungs cure by New York chemist
Eminent New York chemist T A Slocum offers three free bottles of his New Discoveries to readers afflicted with consumption and bronchial diseases. He states his treatment cures chest and lung ailments and asks sufferers to write from Indiana Progress for trial bottles, noting gratitude letters from worldwide lab records.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
T. A. Slocum
Indiana
Science Daily
M. D
Pine Street
Tug Inmrana
A Sufferer Relieved From the Press
Miss Jerusha McKinney of 50 South Centre Street Columbus Ohio shares a detailed testimony about illness lasting years. She describes excruciating pains sleepless nights and a catarrhal condition finally relieved by Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. She credits the pills with restoring health sleep and vitality and endorses them for women with similar troubles. The pills cost 58 cents per box or six boxes for 2 50 and are sold by druggists or directly by mail from the Dr Williams Medicine Company Schenectady NY.
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Columbus
Ohio
Dr. Williams
Pliyaciens
Dr Williams
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