Flood Ravages Wheeling and Nearby Towns 1908
Floods sweep across Wheeling and river towns as high water forces evacuations. Police and the board of trade aid hundreds of destitute residents while transport and rail services struggle amid ice, submerged tracks, and halted navigation. In Mingo Junction and Steubenville districts, homes are flooded and people flee as a dike fails.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Weather Bureau
Wheeling
W. Va
Wheeling: Board of Trade
Coopera
Ion
Police Department
Donald
Edward Brooks
South Wheeling
Boon
North Wheeling
Steubenville, O
Mingo Junction
Carnegie Steel Company
Ohio
East Liverpool
Potterias
East Liverpool Tition and Light, Company
Wellsville
Smiths Ferry
Sandusky
John Miller
Charles Nutter
Sandusky River
Miller
Nutter
York Murder Feeds a Burglarized Night
York citizen, 85, found dead in bed, reportedly murdered by burglars. Reading man dies by bullet in temple. others face charges including theft, hypnotism claims, and a prison sentence amid a broad Feb 17 update across Pennsylvania communities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
York
Pai
Hackert
Siting City
Towers Hipple
Parkerford
Reading
Lewis B. Clawson
Wilkesbarré
Skgquehanna River
Murder at Prichard Sparks West Virginia Feud
Virgil Hatten, fiance of Daisy Benn, shot and killed Henry Bean during an attempt to wed Daisy Benn’s sister. Bean was killed after a confrontation at the Benn home in Prichard. Hatten surrendered to authorities following the fatal shooting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huntington W Vay
Plata
Henry Bean
Prichard
Virgil Hatten
Younng Hatten
Daisy Benn
Hatten
Benn
Elvl
Henry
Fnally Hatten
Bean
West Virginia
Prohibition Amendment Fails In West Virginia Senate
West Virginia senate rejects the prohibition amendment as 19 in favor and 11 against. A two thirds majority is required and the measure fails due to insufficient votes. Senators called for explicit votes and reasons while spectators packed the gallery in Charleston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Virginia
Senate
Charleston
W. Va
Valentine
Roll Wags
Gialora
Multifarm and Property for Sale in Indiana Pa Area
A diverse sale listing offers 126 acres in Hast Mahoning township near the Buffalo Rochester and Pittsburg Railroad with a good dwelling, outbuildings, orchard, and 75 acres available with buildings. Also a barn lot in Indiana borough with a two story frame house and a water well, from the Sarah Bowers estate. Additional items include a 20 horsepower hoisting engine, rails, mine supplies, pumps, a mule, fuel equipment, and an oil field transfer of goods at the County Home in Indiana Pa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hast Mahoning Township
Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg
J.C. Lockart
Rossmayne, Pa
Fourth Ward
Borough of
Indiana
Philadelphia Street
Luella Sacha
Tirzah Peeler
Sarah Bowers
John H. Pierce
Stef
Erickson
New County Home
Local Institutes Program at Mechanicsburg Church
Local teachers institute planned for February 20 1908 at M B church Mechanicsburg with afternoon and evening sessions. Activities include singing and talks on The Mission of Our Schools Hygiene Thoroughness in School Work and Home Evils in Country Schools with debates on Washington versus Lincoln. Guest speakers include Rev Elias Row Rev B Ff Chillsote D M McCrea Ira Nippes J A Kelly and many others. All friends of education invited and asked to bring institute song book.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Teachers’ Institute
M. B
Mechanicsburg
America
Elias Rowand
D. McCrea
Ira Nippes
J. A. Kelly
Elizabeth Bracken
C. B. McC
Palmer
Chapman
Clyde Mécrea
Stewart
Sarumnpay Hyenma
G. Clark
Clara Rowland
George Allen
Campbell
Buchanan
Gillis McLaughlin
Nellie Rhine
Blaine Cramer
Lock and Pluck
Friends of Education
Institute
Rc, Walbece
Teachers Institute Program Recites Debates and Orations
A detailed program listing topics and speakers for the county teachers local institute at Helwood Hall on February 29 1908. It includes discussions on pupil preferences school attendance moral training mental power and correct thinking with demonstrations recitations and musical selections led by J C Glasser Elsie Smith and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Welccome
Dorothy Beaver
Ray, Sayler
Roll Qgall
Grea
Leo McConville
Tople
Mayme Shreckengost
Helen Houston
John Miley
LeRoy Martin
Misa Zelma Hull
Toplc
Jno
H. Rauk
Disto Smith
Homer Stephens
Homer Smith
J. C. Glasser
Edgar Altomus
He Henry
Brown
Deny
B, DeLancey
McGrady
County Institute
Elsie Smith
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Hugh
Williams
Naw Castle
Thomas P. Williams
United States
Wall
Altoona
Misa Mary Bannon
Kaylor
Cresson and
Clearfield
John McNellin
Miss Bannon
Cresson
Utual Reserve
New York
Mutual Renerve Life Insurance Company
Polieyhalders
Romtalttee
Racatvere
Tristate News
State Senate
Piqua
Ralph Scott
Springfeld
Scott
Mansfield Reformatory
Cincinnati
Peter Gruene
Gruener
Washington
Ben Vitkoski
Ellsworth
Jai
Scranton
James Abbott
James Creedon
Thomas Leo Ryan
Thomas Lawrence
West Finley
Hollidaysburg
T. P. Reisch
Zon Lutheran Church
Lititz
D. W. Deitrich
Warwick
Christofer Fraushaur
Zurich
Switzerland
Joe Ross
Columbus
Bryan
Harmon
Drake
Erie County
Tom L. Johnson
Cleveland
Harrisburg
Culebra
Panama Canal
H. C. Demming
Steubenville
Martha’ Cleland
James Blue
Fairmont
Marion County
Pasquale Rudero
Tomaso Uricthera
Italy
Giovano Velmonico
John Gillen
Pennsylvania
Ttta
Middletown Works
National Tube Company
Pittshore
Middletown
Pittaburg
E.owgiirh Y
Tlen’s
Orner-Webster CO
Dubois, Pa
Kinghorn School
Hazel Me Heory
W. R Loughry & CO
D. M. Caldwell & CO
Clarence Fairman
Minaic
Harry Hackman
Nora McHenry
J. ¥. Chapman
Nora Zehner
Nola Steele
McKee
J. Mack Stewart
Besay
Edna McFarland
Marie Woodward
James Simpson
C. A. Campbell
Lester Wingar
Harry Carson
Condron
Mupie
J.T. Stewart
Edith Boteford
Orrie Moore
Ezra Helman
Orrid W. Moore
Hellwood Hall
Thompson
Annie E. Vogel
United States Navy
Navy Recruiting Station
Fourth Avenue
Navy Department
Bureau of Navigation
Washington, D. C
Ira A. Myers
Earle G. Weamer
Main St
Homer City, Pa
Ray
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